From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V12 #258 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Wednesday, October 17 2007 Volume 12 : Number 258 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Books galore [Chandla911@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Books galore [kwil632057@aol.com] RE: [AVALON] Books galore ["Martin Stockman" ] [AVALON] Re: avalon-digest V12 #255 ["Simon Galloway" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Books galore Rex Balfour - Platinum! The Bracewell book is staggeringly good. - -----Original Message----- From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org] On Behalf Of kwil632057@aol.com Sent: 16 October 2007 11:24 To: Chandla911@aol.com; avalon@smoe.org Subject: Re: [AVALON] Books galore David Buckley: Average (his Bowie book is far better) Jonthan Rigby (Awful) Michael Bracewell (Excellent) J - -----Original Message----- From: Chandla911@aol.com To: avalon@smoe.org Sent: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11.14am Subject: [AVALON] Books galore Has anyone read all three of the following tomes on our Roxy: David Buckley, Jonthan Rigby and Michael Bracewell? I'd like to know in a nutshell precis format how they can be summarised? What are their various characteristics, strengths and failings? Is there a gold, silver and bronze place on the Olympic podium of prize-giving? I'm guessing Sassa Poulkou is in a different category...? All good things Richard Mills ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ________________________________________________________________________ Get a FREE AOL Email account with unlimited storage. Plus, share and store photos and experience exclusively recorded live music Sessions from your favourite artists. Find out more at http://info.aol.co.uk/joinnow/?ncid=548. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:45:39 EDT From: Jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Books galore And don't forget the Paul Stump book - keetch with whipped cream topping. Will need to reread the Rex Balfour after I finish the Bracewell, to see how they compare, as they're the only two authors given access to the subject matter. Jocelyn ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 12:06:38 +0000 From: Andrew Shearer Subject: RE: [AVALON] Books galore Wasn't the Rex Balfour book just a PR exercise by the Doctor though? Of course we also have the Johnny Rogan book "Style with Substance" which was quite good and was actually quite critical of Ferry (some would say gave a balanced view) and the Barry Lazall book which had less depth but gave a good overview and had some pics I'd never seen before or since.> From: Jocelynfiske@aol.com> Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 07:45:39 -0400> Subject: Re: [AVALON] Books galore> To: avalon@smoe.org> > And don't forget the Paul Stump book - keetch with whipped cream topping.> Will need to reread the Rex Balfour after I finish the Bracewell, to see how > they compare, as they're the only two authors given access to the subject > matter.> > Jocelyn > > > ___________________________________________________________________________> To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon> _________________________________________________________________ Celeb spotting  Play CelebMashup and win cool prizes https://www.celebmashup.com ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 13:11:54 +0100 From: "Simon Galloway" Subject: [AVALON] Re: avalon-digest V12 #255 > With Let's Stick Together, Ferry was covering Wilbert Harrison, as indeed > were Canned Heat, who recorded Let's Work Together, Harrison's > variation/follow up to his own song. Ferry would have first heard it in the mid 60s when Wilbert's version was released in the UK on Sue Records. Hear a clip of the original here: http://www.emusic.com/album/Wilbert-Harrison-An-Introduction-To-Wilbert-Harrison-MP3-Download/11013427.html Is that a washboard I hear? Ramshackle and delightful, sticking together even though it sounds like it'll fall apart at any second! SimonG > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2007 11:35:29 +0100 > From: > Subject: RE: [AVALON] Cover Versions: Your Views Please. > > Hard Rain - superb and much better than Dylans original. > > LST much better than Canned Heat LWT > > Just Like Tom Thumbs blues - better than Dylans > > And at the risk of ridicule - ~In the Midnight Hour - I prefer it to the > original > > If he cant write anymore I'd like to see him cover some Marvin Gaye - > especially the Whats going on era stuff > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > > ------------------------------ > > Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2007 00:58:37 +0100 > From: "GJ Fairlie" > Subject: RE: [AVALON] TAXI and (Glasgow) Herald > > Len. > > You're a bad man. Such sincerity. > > I found your original comment mildly amusing and in the light of the > response it evoked, it seemed even funnier. (Being of a Scottish > persuasion, > maybe I just understood - gosh, aren't we just so parochial?) > > However, regarding Taxi, it's a bit of a mixed bag for me: a jolt that > shocked ferry out of the wilderness years in as much that he re-appeared > and > the voice popped out the mix (albeit only for him to flatline again on > Mamouna). > > The start and end are the highlights. IPASOY and Taxi are enduring > favourites of mine. The majority decidedly pedestrian and Amazing Grace > and > All Tomorrow's Parties (to maintain the toilet theme) absolute p@#h. > Hell, Sylvain's version - impersonating Ferry - was much better! > > However, he did manage to stay away from the light and the second jolt > that > gave us ATGB brought him right back for me... > > > > ...Ferry had the cover of The Herald arts supplement today with a two page > review of the Bracewell book. > > Sky Performance was re-showing the Brewer "Profile" documentary tonight > (which means it may be re-shown in the coming week). If anyone in the UK > wishes to check, Ch270 on Sky. > > On a different thread I have given the family notice that the first album > is > going in the car CD player - groans all round. The kids have been > listening > to a lot of Bowie and are finding his early seventies stuff very > accessible > - - much more so than Roxy. Problem is I'm now sick to death of it. If I > have > to listen to them singing along to Ziggy Stardust one more time, I swear > I'll threaten them with Mamouna. But then, maybe that would be taking > things > too far! > > Regards to all. > > Graham > > (And looking forward to the annual Tron get-together which on previous > form > is exactly 11 weeks from now.) > > > > > > > - -----Original Message----- > From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org] On Behalf Of > LenThomson@HBOSplc.com > Sent: 12 October 2007 09:45 > To: avalon@smoe.org > Subject: [AVALON] TAXI > > KB > > I bow to your superior intellect, and vow never again to be so flippant. > > Regards to all, > > Len > > > > . > - > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- > - - > - ----------------------------------------- > > HBOS plc, Registered in Scotland No. SC218813. Registered Office: The > Mound, > Edinburgh EH1 1YZ. 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