From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V12 #496 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, November 18 2008 Volume 12 : Number 496 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Firebird V11 Launch Showcase ["Ivor Canning" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Firebird V11 Launch Showcase Crikey - Andy Cooper waxes lyrical about a bona fide full-on progressive rock release from Phil Manzanera. Now we really ARE talking !! S;^) > This band rocked! Despite some howl-round probs they launched into an > amusing > little number penned by Bill from 1970/71 called 'Fortunately I Had One > With > Me'......hmmm, wonder what he meant by that?! Probably a reference to a Fuzz-Face S8^) Interesting to have it confirmed as an old Quiet Sun-era number (there are definite overtones there) ... > snippets of BBC World Service radio in it and all sorts of > other strange noises. If this is the same one used on the album as an introduction to the title track, then it's Senor Manzanewsreader's these-days-recognisable dulcet tones pretending to be a BBC World Service announcer (the clincher, for the unconvinced, is that the time is 8:01) He goes on to introduce 'Emma Wyatt' (at least I think that's what he says - though the voice in question sounds not unlike Claire Singers) reading from an anthology on the subject of the Russian Firebird myth. There's also a clip from 'Brief Encounter' (the parting scene between Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard) at the start of 'A Few Minutes' and what sounds like pianist Leszek Mozdzer talking on the intro to 'FIReEBIReD' (what is that spelling about ?) > It seems the Roxy project is still waiting for lyrics > from you know who..... :-( Frankly, with Andy and Phil both making superbly forward-looking and thoughtful music of this calibre, WHO NEEDS 'IM ? Actually, it occurred to me last week (before I saw Jocelyn's email) that both Andy's and Phil's current projects would be quite phenomenal if brought together in the spirit of the original '801' (musical technique and instinct blended) - proper 'Explorers' in more than just name ... Regards, Ivor n.p. Leszek Mozdzer plays Nirvana - no, really: http://nl.youtube.com/watch?v=KEHDhXtXAv4 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 01:22:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Chris Turner Subject: Re: [AVALON] Firebird V11 Launch Showcase I think I saw Bill on the gogglebox last week, masquarading as pseudonymous historian 'Alan MacDonald' alongside Dan Snow on an episode of 'My Family at War', part of the BBC's excellent Armistice coverage. Chris - --- On Mon, 17/11/08, Ivor Canning wrote: an amusing > > little number penned by Bill from 1970/71 called > 'Fortunately I Had One With > > Me'......hmmm, wonder what he meant by that?! ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V12 #496 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest