From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V13 #127 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Thursday, September 3 2009 Volume 13 : Number 127 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] News from Bryan's new backing band [chandla911@aol.com] Re: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry, Bottom Line New York, 1977 ["Ivor Canning" Subject: Re: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry, Bottom Line New York, 1977 David's list (no pun intended) contains a veritable cornucopia (an intentional pun but still not very funny, I'll grant you ...) of horn players: > Mel Collins - saxophone > Martin Drover - saxophone > Chris Mercer - trumpet But would I be too much of an anorak to suggest that Chris Mercer was the second sax player and Martin Drover the trumpeter ? > Jerry Hall - tiger suit and Texas holler Now appearing in her Birthday Suit (but Texas holler no doubt intact) in 'Calendar Girls' round at Martin's place. Sorry, I meant round at St Martin's Lane, London ... :) Regards, Ive n.p. Quella Vecchia Locanda - 'Il Tempo Della Gioia' ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 14:02:58 +0100 From: aove97@dsl.pipex.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry, Bottom Line New York, 1977 I *wasn't* there, alas! But I found this bit of extra detail: Chris Mercer : tenor sax Mel Collins : soprano sax XXX Guy Quoting David Neuhaus : > I was at this early show (of two) at the Bottom Line, (06/23/77) and at the > Tower Theater outside of Philly on 06/19/77. The band line up was: > > BF > Phil Manzanera > Chris Spedding > Paul Thompson > John Wetton - bass > Ann O'Dell - keyboards > Mel Collins - saxophone > Martin Drover - saxophone > Chris Mercer - trumpet > Doreen Chanter - vocals > Helen Chappelle - vocals > Jacqui Sullivan - vocals > Jerry Hall - tiger suit and Texas holler > > The support act at the Bottom Line was Talking Heads, preceding their first > album release by a few months. > > The support acts at the Tower were Johnny's Dance Band and Rough Diamond. > > Tickets were $5.00 in New York and $6.50 in Philly. Othar than sitting > through the early acts in Philly, both Ferry & Talking Heads shows were > great! > > Dave N. > Fanwood, New Jersey > > > > > > > > > On 9/1/09 6:32 PM, "Mikejhallett@aol.com" wrote: > > > In a message dated 01/09/2009 23:25:06 GMT Standard Time, Mikejhallett > > writes: > > > > Thanks for this. > > > > Is this the only recording of ' Roadrunner' by BF that anyone has heard > of? > > > > Who is playing Sax on this - is it Mel Collins anyone know? > > > > Also, first I have heard of 'You go to my Head' - Live. > > > > Mike > > Return-path: > > From: Mikejhallett@aol.com > > Full-name: Mikejhallett > > Message-ID: > > Date: Tue, 1 Sep 2009 18:25:06 EDT > > Subject: Re: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry, Bottom Line New York, 1977 > > To: Chandla911@aol.com > > MIME-Version: 1.0 > > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > > X-Mailer: AOL 9.0 VR sub 47 > > X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative by demime 0.97c-p1 > > X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain > > > > Thanks for this. > > > > Is this the only recording of ' Roadrunner' by BF that anyone has heard > of? > > > > Who is playing Sax on this - is it Mel Collins anyone know? > > > > Also, first I have heard of 'You go to my Head' - Live. > > > > Mike > > > > > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > > - -- - ------------------------------------------------- Visit Pipex Business: The homepage for UK Small Businesses Go to http://www.pipex.co.uk/business-services ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V13 #127 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest