From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V13 #24 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Thursday, February 12 2009 Volume 13 : Number 024 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] London [deaglerr@aol.com] [AVALON] US DVD Offer - More Than This - The Roxy Music Story [Bruce Mac] [AVALON] It's great to be back at Ronnie Scott's (longish) [jocelynfiske@] [AVALON] Manzo at Ronnie's [Chandla911@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Manzo at Ronnie's [jocelynfiske@aol.com] [AVALON] "Vulgar is sexy!" [kwil632057@aol.com] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 04:43:32 -0500 From: deaglerr@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] London HELLO1 ?I am in London & having a great time, I.E. Ronnie Scotts, Phil gig last night as others more eloquent will tell you. I have an extra ticket for MAGAZINE TtHURSDAY, NIGHT.. It also appears I hafe a second ticket for The Killers with the AMAZING Louis XIV( A personal FAVE) If interested email me off list, Regards, R deagle ________________________________________________________________________ AOL Email goes Mobile! You can now read your AOL Emails whilst on the move. Sign up for a free AOL Email account with unlimited storage today. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 06:29:39 -0500 From: Bruce MacQueen Subject: [AVALON] US DVD Offer - More Than This - The Roxy Music Story Thanks to the kindness of Dan Kelly, I am able to offer an additional branch of the Roxy Music's "More Than This - The Roxy Music Story" DVD to three folks in the United States who are willing to burn additional copies. Contact me off list with your name and address. Best Regards, Bruce - -- "What's so funny 'bout peace, love and understanding?" Nick Lowe ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:04:08 -0500 From: jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] It's great to be back at Ronnie Scott's (longish) Ladies and gentlemen Ronnie Scottbs is 50 years old this year! In celebration they shut down the venue for 6 months for a 2 million pound referb and covered decades of nicotineed stained jazz walls with a delicate shade ofb& tobacco. And then they put all the same pictures back up in exactly the same places. People who have graced the tiny Ronnie Scottbs stage with their greatness and Nat King Cole, who according to the support pianist, never actually played there but walked in and immediately walked out again. Will Phil make the hallowed walls of fame? Webre sitting debating the merits of a drag Julie Andrews Michael Jackson routine over a dodgy Peruvian beer (honestly, thatbs how our waiter sold it to us) when we suddenly notice some geezer in a black t-shirt and freshly Just For Men auburn hair has sauntered on stage. The fun thing about Phil is that he likes to rabbit. The playing takes up about and hour and twenty minutes but Phil could match it with his racconteuring. Has he been hanging around with Guy Pratt (present in the audience) too long? He leisurely tells the tale of Bill Macbs penchant for bizarre song titles, the stories behind the intros provided by Radio 4, Columbian friends and Mexican restaurant owners, how he bumped into drummer Charles Hayward at Gatwick airport after 30 years etc etc. They rattle through 3 songs from the new album and then blast into an amazing version of Diamond Head. I havenbt heard this for ages b ut am amazed that every drum beat is imprinted in my subconscious. Ibm noticing how good Charles Hayward is after having not noticing him at all at The Gibson Showcase. Then Firebird V11 and 6PM and itbs time for a traditional bjazzb break. After 10 mins theybre back but now there are two geezers in black t shirts and black Levis. Can someone please explain to me why this has become the uniform of aging rock guitarists, just as architects are still blazing black roll necks and decrepit black crushed velvet suits? But this bloke has white hair, or no hair. Itbs Dave Gilmore. Ivor and Al have gone all Cheshire cat at this point, but Philistine that I am, I can only wish that theybd reversed the guest appearances and that the mysterious sax player billed for tonight had appeared last night instead. Oh well. They play some Django Reinhardty kinda thing that I canbt remember the title of but it goes like this SFX: whistling, and a trumpetless version of Miles Davisbs Filles de Kilimanjaro. Then back to business. The big surprise of the evening though was an instrumental version of Out of The Blue with Lesek Mozterbs 90 degree stabbing, jabbing jazz fingers banging out a discordant grand piano solo in place of the violin part. He truly is an amazing player. And then a rather flat, disinterested IEDHAH with Phil on vocals running into a frantic East of Asteroid. Back for an encore but bwe donbt know any more songs!9 9 and thatbs it for the night. Phil introduced Dream Home as bthis is a song that proves Bryan Ferry can write really good lyricsb. Do you think hebs trying to tell us something? Great night out with the crew and nice to meet Mr Deagle fresh from the USA. B Jocelyn B ________________________________________________________________________ AOL Email goes Mobile! You can now read your AOL Emails whilst on the move. Sign up for a free AOL Email account with unlimited storage today. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:39:55 EST From: Chandla911@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] Manzo at Ronnie's I was never sure which date I would be attending in the three-night run at Ronnie's and so made my purchase only the week before. Phil Manzanera made much of the fact that Monday was the first time they had ever played for an audience ever, so I was very glad to have selected the 9th February (despite the month's worth of rain that fell on London in one day). In fact, Phil was *very* chatty throughout the evening which was good as it added to the intimacy of his playing in such a (relatively) small space. This may have been nerves on his part, but it just gave the feeling of being there on a very special night in front of a few friends (Bill MacCormick, who wrote Fortunately I Had One With Me - with which they opened - was present and mentioned by Phil a few times to make him squirm). The band works incredibly well, despite being put together almost by random if Phil's explanation was to be believed. He told the crowd on Monday that he was queueing last year to check in at an airport, noticed Charles Hayward a few places further forward, said it was the first time they had met in 20 years and they decided to do an album together. Having a drummer and a guitarist, Phil just invited the "best keyboard player" and the "best bass player" he knew and luckily they both said yes. They met up and contributed a composition each, plus inviting Bill to add one of his own (both Charles and Bill took the admirable but lazy way out of finding music they'd each written 40 years ago), played a few in-studio games ("Mexican Hat" is named after the receptacle into which 16 chords were placed and drawn randomly into sets of 4 for each musician to follow, for example), and found the results very pleasing. Not sure everyone in the audience felt similarly. After about 4 pieces, the people in my row all left and I was able to slide along and enjoy a perfect view of the stage. Soon the row behind me was empty also. Maybe there were tourists who expected something more Count Basie in a renown jazz club? But anyone who loved Mainstream by Quiet Sun would have been with me in loving every second of the two sets played by Phil and his mates. As well as the new album, among the other tracks they played were RongWrong from Mainstream; Diamond Head; 6PM; Out Of The Blue (instrumental) and In Every Dream Home A Heartache (where one might expect the blistering solo that features in the Roxy classic, they segue immediately into another notable Manzo solo - but I regret to say I can't bring its name to mind...anybody?). What was great about the evening, apart from the superb musicianship, was the club's overly zealous and repeated insistence that no mobiles be switched on, no cameras be used and that "table-top conversation be reduced to a minimum". What was ironic about this was that, after RongWrong, Phil claimed this was the first time it had been played to an audience since the 801 tour in 1976. Having calculated that this was 33 years ago, he said he doubted anyone present had seen 801 live. A few of us demurred and Phil asked if anyone has pictures from that tour as very few exist. When he realised none of us did, he said "It's very sad - nobody used cameras at gigs in those days". But of course, nobody was allowed to use one on Monday either. I looked out for regular faces in the crowd but recognised no-one other than Bill Mac (who was pointed out for me by Phil Mannzanera). Perhaps you guys all knew to all expect a Floydian presence the following night. Please let me via Avalon know what transpired on either of the following two nights. But I was very pleased to see their "first ever gig"... Best wishes Richard Mills ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 07:56:06 -0500 From: jocelynfiske@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Manzo at Ronnie's But I was very pleased to see their "first ever gig"... Technically it wasn't. That was the Gibson Showroom 4 song mini-gig. You'd think Phil would remember -?it was only last year! ________________________________________________________________________ AOL Email goes Mobile! You can now read your AOL Emails whilst on the move. Sign up for a free AOL Email account with unlimited storage today. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2009 08:52:17 -0500 From: kwil632057@aol.com Subject: [AVALON] "Vulgar is sexy!" http://www.200-percent.com/flash.php ________________________________________________________________________ AOL Email goes Mobile! You can now read your AOL Emails whilst on the move. 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