From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V13 #131 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Saturday, September 12 2009 Volume 13 : Number 131 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [AVALON] Mermaid O'Brien ["mark_stephens" ] [AVALON] Eddie in curved air [cor broersen ] Re: [AVALON] Mermaid O'Brien [Victor Hastings ] Re: [AVALON] Mermaid O'Brien [Alan Heaton ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 09:44:22 +0100 From: "mark_stephens" Subject: [AVALON] Mermaid O'Brien When John first told me about this story, being down on the very same Rock as Jerry Hall pictured on the Siren Cover, the vision in my head was one that has scarred me for life, picturing John in a mermaid suit in a nice shade of Blue. Having watched the film, Got to say it's a quality piece of work with some great pictures of Ferry and Jerry, Nice One John ! Regards, Mark From: Andrew Shearer Subject: [AVALON] Boys and Girls.... I suggest you go and take a look at VivaRoxyMusic.com. John - Great film, congratulations! Andrew ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 12:57:32 +0200 From: cor broersen Subject: [AVALON] Eddie in curved air Found this on the Ytube, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GDBnwqK5dM&feature=related Curved Air with Eddie Jobson. trailer-add-tribute. audio with pics. Perhaps the most under-rated album of all the seventies. Starring Eddie Jobson, late of the almost forgotten fat Grapple, Eddie was one of those very rare things, a musical genius. Barely 18, he was the most mind blowing keyboard player imaginable and as for his violin work, well. No wonder the musically inept Roxy Music snapped him up (and then Jethro, Zappa and so on). Another boy genius, Kirby (Gregory), now working in rehabilitation, was a guitarist's guitarist. Jim Russell (of Armada) was another fabulous musician, and with the glue of old timers Mike Wedgwood and Sonja to hold it all together, they pulled off a real cracker. High point is, of course, 'Metamorphosis', written by Eddie, with just amazing playing from all. Mike's Fender Precision Fretless bass really drives, and the heavy bit is just Mike, Eddie and Jim, recorded in one take with no overdubbing. Just listen to Mike and Sonja alternating leads on 'Easy', and hear Kirby's solos in that and in 2-3-2. Armin is a really cool instrumental, and the great thing is that they could do it live so well. Not only that, but they did the old Curved Air stuff better than the old Curved Air. Perhaps it didn't have quite the loose artistry of the old CA, but, by God, it rocked! This is such a good album by a bunch of kids, really: old timer Mike was just 23 and Sonja just a year or two older. The average age was 21 and they managed this, compared to the facile drivel of "new" bands. have a great weekend, Cor _________________________________________________________________ Windows werkt zelfs voor je studie http://www.windows.nl/Theme.aspx?id=2 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 05:45:53 -0700 (PDT) From: Victor Hastings Subject: Re: [AVALON] Mermaid O'Brien > When John first told me about this story, being down on the very same Rock as > Jerry Hall pictured on the Siren Cover, the vision in my head was one that has > scarred me for life, picturing John in a mermaid suit in a nice shade of > Blue. You'll probably have a similar reaction to John's next documentary about the making of "Country Life." > Having watched the film, Got to say it's a quality piece of work with some > great pictures of Ferry and Jerry, > > Nice One John ! Yes indeed. Great work. ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Fri, 11 Sep 2009 23:00:31 -0400 From: Alan Heaton Subject: Re: [AVALON] Mermaid O'Brien Wow! What an incredibly cool film! Thanks, John! This answered some questions I had about the "Siren" shoot, as well as many questions I wouldn't have even known to ask. And the original Antony Price sketches of the cover? C'mon - that's just too cool! Excellent, excellent work! Cheers, Alan On Fri, Sep 11, 2009 at 8:45 AM, Victor Hastings wrote: > > When John first told me about this story, being down on the very same > Rock as > > > Jerry Hall pictured on the Siren Cover, the vision in my head was one > that has > > scarred me for life, picturing John in a mermaid suit in a nice shade of > > Blue. > > You'll probably have a similar reaction to John's next documentary about > the making of "Country Life." > > > Having watched the film, Got to say it's a quality piece of work with > some > > great pictures of Ferry and Jerry, > > > > Nice One John ! > > Yes indeed. Great work. > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V13 #131 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest