From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #1189 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Sunday, December 25 2016 Volume 15 : Number 1189 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] BF- The Minnesota Connection [Chris Turner Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF- The Minnesota Connection Can't tell you how that pleases me, Jeff....now the circle is complete. ;) Chris On 25 December 2016 at 02:37, Jeff Barbanell wrote: > Thanks for the memories, Chris! Was pleased to see Roxy Music at Guthrie > Theater in 1979, though: > > http://www.guitars101.com/forums/f145/roxy-music-1979- > 04-14-minneapolis-mn-a > ud-flac-207824.html > > Merry Christmas! > Jeff > > -----Original Message----- > From: owner-avalon@smoe.org [mailto:owner-avalon@smoe.org] On Behalf Of > Chris Turner > Sent: Saturday, December 24, 2016 7:17 PM > To: Avalon > Subject: [AVALON] BF- The Minnesota Connection > > Here's a bit of tomfoolery I noticed a few months ago and thought I would > share with you as it's Christmas. Don't take it too seriously. > > I was pleased to see that BF was to tour the US in 2017, but disappointed > to > see that Minnesota had been left off the itinerary. In fact to my knowledge > The Commander has never played there or even visited the state. > Yet there is a strange attraction between him and The Star of the North. > It's a pretty unassuming place - .let's face it; it's cold up there. If > you've ever seen Fargo, you'll know it's snowbound and populated by a > diaspora of Vikings. But Minnesota has us its fair share of world-famous > people... > > The first is Bob Dylan. The recently-ennobled Nobel Laureate was born and > raised in Duluth on the shores of Lake Superior. Indeed it was in his home > town that he stood just feet from Buddy Holly at a concert only five days > before Holly's demise. > > Bryan Ferry made an album about Bob Dylan's music - Dylanesque - and has > used Zimmo's songs throughout his solo career. > > The second eminent Minnesotan is F Scott Fitzgerald. He was born in St > Paul, > and is often seen as the chronicler of The Jazz Age. Y'know...'The Jazz > Age..?.' > > Bryan Ferry made an album (or should that be two?) about Fitzgerald's most > famous work - The Great Gatsby - and used the title of another - Tender Is > The Night - for a song. > > Perhaps Minnesota's most famous son was the recently-departed Prince, who > was born in Minneapolis. The Purple One and BF were well-acquainted having > met in The Turks and Caicos Islands. You can read a weird story about that > here: http://bit.ly/2ieqBrh. They also met in London of course. > > Sadly Ferry didn't make a Prince-themed album (although he bloody-well > should do. He could really do some of Prince's catalogue justice. Imagine > him doing his spin on 'The Most Beautiful Girl or Cream or Sign Of The > Times > or When Doves Cry. Fill in your own choice; there are so many songs that > could work.) but his Royal Purpleness did make some of his Plectrumelectrum > album at Bryan's Studio One in London. > > The last world-renowned person from Minnesota is Grand Rapids-born Judy > Garland, and I thought this was where the connection ran out. They did both > record You Go To My Head, but it's a bit tenuous, I know. I'd all but given > up, when I realised that when Garland died, in a less that salubrious > looking flat behind Harrods in the summer of 1969, BF was living and > working > in Maida Vale, probably no more that three miles away. Small world, huh? > > Shame BF couldn't get any product out this Christmas. That promised > recording of the Albert Hall solo thing in 1974 he was working on sounded > interesting but that seems to have gone the way of so many other promising > projects. Let's hope we finally hear the debut album remaster next year to > mark the 45th anniversary. > > Have a good one! > > Chris > > > ____________________________________________________________ > _______________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #1189 ****************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest