From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V12 #273 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Wednesday, November 7 2007 Volume 12 : Number 273 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Wheeltappers & Shunters ["Strandski" ] RE: [AVALON] Wheeltappers & Shunters ["Martin Stockman" Subject: [AVALON] Wheeltappers & Shunters Interesting letter in Saturday's Grauniad ... Bryan Ferry's eyes In Michel Faber's review of Michael Bracewell's book, ("The art of noise", October 27) the author is quoted as wondering "if we could look into the depths of Bryan Ferry's eyes - when he was, say, 14 years old - what might they have seen?" I knew Bryan quite well when he was 14, and I some 5 years his senior. He was in most ways quite an ordinary working-class lad, but he was quite precocious in his musical interests. Together we listened to Parker, Ellington and so on. Later that year we heard Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Gene Krupa, and Sonny Stitt live in Newcastle, and played billiards and table-tennis at the Vickers Armstrong Apprentices Club the following day. Stafford M Linsley Seaton Village, Seaham, County Durham Link to the original review here http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2199827,00.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 7 Nov 2007 07:47:18 -0000 From: "Martin Stockman" Subject: RE: [AVALON] Wheeltappers & Shunters Thanks for great post Stafford. Keep the reminiscences coming...please... Martino - -----Original Message----- From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org] On Behalf Of Strandski Sent: 06 November 2007 21:51 To: avalon@smoe.org Subject: [AVALON] Wheeltappers & Shunters Interesting letter in Saturday's Grauniad ... Bryan Ferry's eyes In Michel Faber's review of Michael Bracewell's book, ("The art of noise", October 27) the author is quoted as wondering "if we could look into the depths of Bryan Ferry's eyes - when he was, say, 14 years old - what might they have seen?" I knew Bryan quite well when he was 14, and I some 5 years his senior. He was in most ways quite an ordinary working-class lad, but he was quite precocious in his musical interests. Together we listened to Parker, Ellington and so on. Later that year we heard Ella Fitzgerald, Oscar Peterson, Gene Krupa, and Sonny Stitt live in Newcastle, and played billiards and table-tennis at the Vickers Armstrong Apprentices Club the following day. Stafford M Linsley Seaton Village, Seaham, County Durham Link to the original review here http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2199827,00.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.23/1113 - Release Date: 11/6/2007 10:04 No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.5.503 / Virus Database: 269.15.23/1113 - Release Date: 11/6/2007 10:04 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V12 #273 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest