From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #1217 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, May 9 2017 Volume 15 : Number 1217 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] We're all getting older- it's a fact..... [Simon Galloway Subject: Re: [AVALON] We're all getting older- it's a fact..... Point made loud and clear! The Roxy/Ferry market has already greatly diminished. With the exception of the first few albums and the odd interesting picture sleeve single, Roxy and Ferry's records have very little value on the collectors market. They're a charity shop staple these days, or neglected in the bargain racks of secondhand record shops. The time to capitalise on Roxy's catalogue with special editions and the like was 2001, when the interest in the band went further than the hardcore. The moment has passed. They're now no more than a minority interest, and without the guarantee of decent sales, there's little hope that we'll see the treatment the back catalogue deserves. The obvious reboot would be getting those BBC sessions officially out there, remind the music hacks of the weirdness of Roxy and how they were actually weirder than Bowie in 72/73, rehabilitate the reputation and let the word spread. Follow that up quickly with expanded reissues of the albums. An expanded Viva (that Newcastle '74 show deserves to be released in full) and a proper DVD retrospective. Or do it small scale ala XTC and King Crimson, but there are probably too many interested parties to make that financially viable. On 8 May 2017 at 09:00, olivetreepl+mark wrote: > Recent article in the Guardian about the decline in value of Elvis > memorabilia and records, really brought home to me the fact that everything > changes (weather blows hot or cold), however sacred you believe something to > be. > > https://www.theguardian.com/music/shortcuts/2017/may/07/elvis-presley-memorabilia-plummeting-in-price > > The implications of this for the Ferry/Roxy marketing engine are obvious: if > an artist with such massive appeal as Elvis can suffer a devaluation over > time, then everyone can. > > To put it really bluntly: Us core Roxy fans are all getting older and unless > someone starts re-releasing the promised back catalogue soon, there will not > be a market to support it. > > Point made? > > Mactheaxe > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > - -- http://glossoprecordclub.wordpress.com/ https://inchespersecondblog.wordpress.com/ https://www.mixcloud.com/simongmusic/ ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ End of avalon-digest V15 #1217 ****************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest