From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V12 #32 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Wednesday, February 7 2007 Volume 12 : Number 032 Today's Subjects: ----------------- RE: [AVALON] Ferry on Performance Channel ["Andy" ] [AVALON] Dylanesque ["Bryan" ] Re: [AVALON] Finger finger poppin! ["Han Snijders" ] [AVALON] you tube - Jimmy Scott - Slave to love [ Subject: RE: [AVALON] Ferry on Performance Channel Please could someone tell me the Sky channel number; it must be repeated; everything else is! - -----Original Message----- From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org] On Behalf Of GJ Fairlie Sent: 05 February 2007 23:54 To: avalon@smoe.org Subject: [AVALON] Ferry on Performance Channel This was broadcast at 10am and 10pm today. It is essentially a filmed interview by a guy called Colin Brewer - who also produced the programme. It's from 1999 after the release of ATGB - but, I think, before the tour. I haven't watched it all yet but the clips/videos shown seem to be totally out of place with the flow of conversation. Pretty ropey production. Did I gain any new insight from this? Well no prizes for guessing the answer to that. It seems to have been made for a group of ITV Channels from "oop North" Sky technology performing up to the usual standard appeared to have audio/video ever so slightly out of sync. And if true to form will crap all over the recording before I can ever get round to archiving. (This has happened twice to the Roxy TOTP2 broadcast and I lost ATGB on Artworld too) One interesting comment when asked about "loyal fans from the earliest days" Ferry said something to the effect that there are some about and they are all "tagged" which caused great hilarity with someone off camera - with Ferry and interviewer joining in. I'm sure it'll get rebroadcast - but not a channel that I'm inclined to surf on a regular basis and frankly no great miss. Cheers. Graham ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 10:26:46 +0000 From: Jane Fraser Subject: Re: [AVALON] Ferry on Performance Channel Sky Channel 271: http://www.performance-channel.com/home/ It's not scheduled to be repeated in February. Jane ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 08:38:11 -0600 (CST) From: "SIMON GALLOWAY" Subject: [AVALON] Going down south,,, > Date: Mon, 05 Feb 2007 13:08:14 -0500 > From: jocelynfiske@aol.com > Subject: Re: [AVALON] Finger finger poppin! > > But the N'aw Leans thing's in that album big style too On You Are My Sunshine especially. But that might be down to the old school jazzers he was using - Ronnie Ross and Alan Skidmore the most famous names to me, and both well versed in the New Orleans jass sound. (Yes, I meant to put jass - just ask Louis). At least he didn't go full-on Dixieland on us! And continuing the r'n'b/soul theme, Ferry continued what he'd started as a solo concern with the reformed Roxy, and I point you to Manifesto, side 2, and the New York soul/disco grooves contained within(although Ain't That So is a bit more Crusaders/West Coast smooth, and Cry Cry Cry a hark back to Otis and Stax). What worked on his solo records sat uncomfortably under the Roxy banner, but it does at least have continuity with The Bride Stripped Bare, just like parts of Siren point the way to In Your Mind. SimonG ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 15:02:23 -0000 From: "Bryan" Subject: [AVALON] Dylanesque Took a trip to my local HMV today. Wanted to order the above. The young lady who assisted me initially made the error of spelling Bryan with an "i" when entering the search request onto the computer. After, what seemed, an interminable age she found the details at which point I asked if I could order said LP on vinyl only to be told it was CD only and, to make matters even worse, was told said LP was not being released until 26.03.2007!! Suppose I'd better get onto Key Mail Order then. Bryan ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 22:04:18 +0100 From: "Han Snijders" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Finger finger poppin! Thanks Jocelyn and Simon and others for your nice comments. By using the ipod in shuffle play you can be surprised again by those old numbers. You're observation about the beginning of the numbers is the same i realised this weekend when i listened to Help me make it through the night, not everyones number one, but the intro with that bass is absolute fantatic. Overall those old numbers has got that energy that's a bit lost these days. Maybe it's his voice that works well in the ballads but has lost it's power for the more uptempo songs. And your request, Ketty lester's river of salt is coming in this week's uncovered ( I planned Taxi, a personal favorite but I keep yhat one for the future) Cheers Han > Great link Han, even if it did give me the nightmare image of Ferry > shuffling stiff-legged and crab-like in a Tina frenzy across stage! Thank > God Jagger stole that move in real life and left the grave digger's groove > to Mr F. > Now our Simon makes a very interesting observation that ATAP had the Stax > thang goin' on. I'd never really thought of it in that way, but yes, > Fingerpoppin' had the full blown r'n'b/soul 'Revue Show" sound blasting > out. > But the N'aw Leans thing's in that album big style too and of course the > theme du jour - cod reggae in those days, as opposed to the neo-Native > Indian rhythms of today. > Encouraged to slip the needle in the groove and give ATAP a full spin > after many moons, another thing struck me. > Practically every track begins with a sparse solitary instrument leading > in and it works brilliantly. There is nothing on the new album that makes > the hair on your neck (or for the 1% of you left with your original > smattering, on your head) stand up like the bass on The 'In' Crowd. And oh > for the return of the melotron. And the mad organ intro to Walk a Mile in > My Shoes is a revelation. Now that's the sneering vocal that would have > worked on Positively 4th Street (similar lyrical themes). > Thanks Han and Simon for making me revisit an album left languishing at > the back of the play cupboard for far too long. > Now Han, have you got the original Ketty Lester version of River of Salt? > > Jocelyn > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 18:09:30 -0500 From: "Theresa Fagan" Subject: [AVALON] since I can't go http://www.bryanferry.com/competition1/competition.html - --TriTri ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 6 Feb 2007 23:35:02 +0000 From: Subject: [AVALON] you tube - Jimmy Scott - Slave to love A haunting jazzy version of slave to love by Jimmy Scott on "you tube" followed by a short interview by David Byrne..Also, if you havn't seen them before a live-ish version of "what goes on" from a tv programme of the time[quite good] and a camp performance of tokyo joe from a japanese music show.... well, I havn't seen them before and they cheered me up. - ----------------------------------------- Email sent from www.ntlworld.com Virus-checked using McAfee(R) Software Visit www.ntlworld.com/security for more information ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V12 #32 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest