From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #1190 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Monday, December 26 2016 Volume 15 : Number 1190 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] BF- The Minnesota Connection [fvelsink ] To leave the list, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon-digest ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Sun, 25 Dec 2016 11:48:18 +0100 From: fvelsink Subject: Re: [AVALON] BF- The Minnesota Connection Shortly after His Royal Badness' death, I was looking for Prince's memories on YouTube There was a beautiful HRB live version of 'More Than This' I don't know if it was there before I was pleased, I returned several time, shame not d-loaded, it is gone now Happy Xmas you all! Frank Chris Turner schreef op 2016-12-25 09:18: > 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 ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #1190 ****************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest