From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V13 #79 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Saturday, May 30 2009 Volume 13 : Number 079 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Re: New CD Release [Simon Galloway Subject: Re: [AVALON] Re: New CD Release Just picking up on the Leonard Cohen thing there. He's released eleven studio albums in 37 years. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leonard_Cohen_discography Simon > > > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > > Date: Thu, 28 May 2009 09:11:06 -0400 > From: ameyersld@aol.com > Subject: [AVALON] Re: New CD Release > > ...Leonard Cohen, for example, was just in town a few weeks ago (amazingly > beautiful show, btw) and as far as I can tell has only put out FIVE studio > albums... ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 09:50:35 +0100 From: "mark_stephens" Subject: [AVALON] Island Life 50th Anniversary I went to see Yusuf / Cat Stevens at The Shepherds Bush Empire last night. A real intimate place. I am sure I have been in bigger Pub's. Stood next to Pete Waterman (pardon the name drop) when Baaba Maal came on for his encore and started singing U2's One Love. Then before anyone could blink U2 were on stage, sang the whole song and finished with Vertigo. Not bad for a warm up act! Yusuf was brilliant, the show will be on Channel 4 in June. Grabbed myself a programme and plenty of mentions about the early Roxy days, nothing you havent heard before, but nice to see a full page picture of the Country Life album and references to Roxy Music and For Your Pleasure. After Cat Stevens joined Island records 1970 selling millions of albums, Roxy must have been their most DominAnt Band until the arrival of Bob Marley? and later U2. Can't imagine why Roxy did not play a part in this celebration, maybe another time another place? A night to remember Regards, Mark ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 11:01:57 +0100 From: "Ivor Canning" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Island Life 50th Anniversary Mark Stephens remarks on Island castaways: > Can't imagine why Roxy did not play a part in this celebration, > maybe another time another place? Though I'm sure there's no deep-seated rankling, I seem to remember Chis Blackwell was less than enthused about Roxy being released through Island. Anyway, I think the EG set-up meant it was probably a somewhat different relationship from the rest of the label's roster (anyone ?) Of course Quiet Sun were famously rejected by Island originally (thanks to the far-seeing eye of Muff Winwood) ... S8^) Regards, Ive-Ell-Pee-Ess 9232 n.p. Koenji Hyakkei 'Angherr Shisspa' (Japanese Zeuhl - now how weird is THAT ?) ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 04:12:55 -0700 (PDT) From: Joel Hurd Subject: Re: [AVALON] Island Life 50th Anniversary - --- On Fri, 5/29/09, mark_stephens wrote: > I went to see Yusuf / Cat Stevens at The > Shepherds Bush Empire last night. A real > intimate place. I am sure I have been in > bigger Pub's. > Can't imagine why Roxy did not play a part > in this celebration, maybe another time > another place? > Maybe they had the good sense to distance themselves from the ordinary decent soft-spoken hypocrite Yusuf Islam, as his abhorrent (non-misquoted non-misintrepreted non-decontextualised) view on the Salman Rushdie affair still echoes despite his equivocating weak excuses and internet video cover-ups. Yusuf derailed Cat's peace train long ago, but continues to pretend to drive it. Natalie Merchant had the right idea to jump from the carriage. - - -joel http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/3639714/Letters-to-The-Sunday-Telegraph.html . ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 14:41:21 +0200 From: "Michiel van Sleen" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Island Life 50th Anniversary Ah, those artists! They sure know how to get in the limelight. We shouldn't take their comments too seriously though. For that very same Cat (in one of his first lives) also used to say: Everybody's trippin' on Banapple Gas. - ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joel Hurd" To: Sent: Friday, May 29, 2009 1:12 PM Subject: Re: [AVALON] Island Life 50th Anniversary > --- On Fri, 5/29/09, mark_stephens wrote: > >> I went to see Yusuf / Cat Stevens at The >> Shepherds Bush Empire last night. A real >> intimate place. I am sure I have been in >> bigger Pub's. >> Can't imagine why Roxy did not play a part >> in this celebration, maybe another time >> another place? >> > > Maybe they had the good sense to distance > themselves from the ordinary decent soft-spoken hypocrite Yusuf Islam, as > his > abhorrent (non-misquoted non-misintrepreted > non-decontextualised) view on the Salman > Rushdie affair still echoes despite his > equivocating weak excuses and internet video > cover-ups. > > Yusuf derailed Cat's peace train long ago, > but continues to pretend to drive it. Natalie > Merchant had the right idea to jump from the > carriage. > > - -joel > > http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/3639714/Letters-to-The-Sunday-Telegraph.html > > . > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 29 May 2009 19:36:07 +0100 From: "Colette Robertson" Subject: [AVALON] Island Life 50th Anniversary "The website focuses on 50 classic albums from the Island catalogue and features an original press review from the time of release for every album" Quite sad that Roxy Music were not included in this list of 50 albums. Cheers, Colette ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V13 #79 **************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest