From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V11 #160 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Thursday, July 13 2006 Volume 11 : Number 160 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Snug [Chandla911@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Snug ["Ivor Canning" ] [AVALON] Solo Artist [Bruce MacQueen ] Re: [AVALON] Solo Artist [KWil632057@aol.com] [AVALON] Test ["Colette Robertson" ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 05:32:17 EDT From: Chandla911@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Snug Rather late in the day, I have turned my Ed Harcourt fan focus towards his earlier career as bass player with the four-piece Snug. As a result, I've bought up the back catalogue I knew not existed (2-disc album and 5 singles) only to dsicover the band were managed by Phil Manzanera and Claire Singers (Expression Management) and that Manzo did also twiddle a knob or two in the studio. Not sure why I was unaware of this stage in either Harcourt's or Manzanera's career, but mightily glad to have caught up. Excellent taste, Phil, in spotting the band that contained this one-time prodigy and the now-time musical genius that is Ed Harcourt... Furthermore, I went to see James Dean Bradfield at ULU last night (with Ed Harcourt on keyboards) and, in a Twilight Zone confluence, the band arrived on stage just after the PA broadcast a cover version of Baby's On Fire (the Creepers?) and immediately after they left, we heard Roxy's More Than This... Eno, Manzo, Ferry...Ed Harcourt is never more than two steps from them all... Best wishes Richard Mills n/p Snug CD album HDK002CD ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:54:59 +0100 From: "Ivor Canning" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Snug Richard finds a bug in his rug: > Not sure why I was unaware of this stage in either Harcourt's or > Manzanera's > career Nope, me neither: http://www.manzanera.com/express2.htm http://www.manzanera.com/product2.htm (The latter page includes a reference to the previously unreleased Roxy album 'Flesh and Bold' S8^) ) As it happens, I found a copy of the Snug CD in a bargain bin a few years back. I don't think I even made it through to the end. And I listen to any old nonsense (as many folk will tell you ... S8^) ) Regards, Ivor n.p. 'The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn' (mono version) RIP Roger 'Syd' Barrett ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 17:20:28 -0400 From: Bruce MacQueen Subject: [AVALON] Solo Artist MSN has short article listing lead singers that went on to solo success and others that didn't. Bryan made the "other list". Below is the link and the excised text. http://music.msn.com/music/artistofthemonth/gosolo2 Bryan Ferry The debonair front man of legendary British proto-glam rockers Roxy Music began making solo albums while his band was still very much a going concern. Unfortunately, he just kept on making them, despite band mate resentment, critical scorn and general public indifference (with one or two notable exceptions). But where Roxy were fierce, stylish revolutionaries who breathed new life into the tired corpse of early-to-mid '70s rock, Ferry albums were curiously un-daring, offering ironic covers (his boogie band treatment of Dylan 's "A Hard Rain's A Gonna Fall " is representative, but his version of John Lennon's "Jealous Guy," issued shortly after Lennon's murder, was a minor hit), the requisite stab at standards (the "As Time Goes By " LP) and a lot of songs that simply weren't as good as the material he brought to Roxy Music. No wonder then, that the band has weathered line-up changes and break-ups, only to reunite time and time again. Best Regards, Bruce - -- "What's so funny 'bout peace, love & understanding?" Nick Lowe ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 18:05:01 EDT From: KWil632057@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Solo Artist Aside from Jealous Guy being a Roxy Music single and not a solo release, not featuring on an album as is implied and, as a number one hit single, being a major rather than a minor hit that's quite well written albeit a bit hacky. J ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 12 Jul 2006 21:46:40 +0100 From: "Colette Robertson" Subject: [AVALON] Test Colette ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V11 #160 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest