From: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org (avalon-digest) To: avalon-digest@smoe.org Subject: avalon-digest V15 #844 Reply-To: avalon@smoe.org Sender: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-avalon-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk avalon-digest Tuesday, September 16 2014 Volume 15 : Number 844 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: [AVALON] Mailing Lists...a few memories [Jocelyn Fiske Subject: Re: [AVALON] Mailing Lists...a few memories Nostalgia ain't what it used to be, eh S? J - -----Original Message----- From: Simon Galloway CC: avalon Sent: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 14:01 Subject: Re: [AVALON] Mailing Lists...a few memories Quick. Fetch me a hanky! On 15 September 2014 03:18, Chris Turner wrote: > I think the appeal of a mailing list is still a seductive one but > unfortunately the need for more secure forms of email is making this method of > delivery more difficult. > > But this list has never been about the mechanics. > Or even Roxy Music particularly. It's been about the people here. Our relative > lack of numbers gave us some exclusivity. Or were we just shepherded here to > keep our obsession away from decent society? Hmmm... > > How about the hours > spent talking about Floris or Phytofix or white socks or cellists or b-sides > or bassists or backing singers or bootlegs? The lyrical analysis? The trouser > analysis? The conspiracy theories? The flame wars? Racing home from a gig to > write your review? > > > Who remembers Jason Greshes or Rhode Island Red or Webgal > or Peanut or eman or Monquiboy or Betsy Fowler or Decophile or Will Frechette > or Jim Spellman or Arnie or Grant Goggans or M or David Firmin or Han or > Daniel Atterbom or a phalanx of other regular contributors (apologies for any > omissions)? Even dear old Martineaux has lapsed lately. > > How about > Flangebracket or Mr Avalon or Lawn-gate or Rhett Davies' niece? DavdMock's > ENORMOUS sig file? The wonderfully Machiavellian Jimmy Vapor (who described > Avalon as 'this glam-rock toilet bowl')? KBP vs Tom Wallace? Kwil loves > Michiel? Roger Eno's PR Machine? The comedy stylings of JFRoxy? Reecey's > microscopically-detailed European travelogues? Statto? (wait, that was me...) > There are a few names there for the greybeards. > > Remember the twin wonders > that were 'A Mad Affair' I and II? How about 'A Perfumed Sigh' or 'A Rhapsody > Divine'? The palpable excitement of attending the BBC recordings? What about > the CD Trees? Or Kicki's list website? > > > How many people got the seats they > wanted for the reunion or the inside griff on new material via this place? Or > got to meet like-minded strangers at gigs who became friends just because of > this silly obsession? Or indeed people you will never meet who you know better > than many friends? And then there was the drinking and the, um, 'horizontal > liaisons'. Don't think there wasn't... > > Anyhoo, we still have 154 members on > the main list and 112 on the digest now. Allowing for dual registered members, > ghost entries and lurkers, probably 100 odd members now, quite a way from its > heyday around the turn of the century, but there is an astonishing hardcore > who have been here almost from the start. I know it's been 15 years of my > life. And it's been bloody brilliant, > > Avalon has served us well, and I think > it has a few years left in it yet. Let us hope BF has too... > > > > > Chris > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon > - -- http://glossoprecordclub.wordpress.com/ http://albumzone.co.uk/Hello/Simon_G.html ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 17:24:47 -0400 From: deaglerr@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry At The Beacon! Yo! Looking forward to seeing you in NYC. Richard 201 653 2396 - -----Original Message----- From: John Dillon To: avalon Sent: Fri, Sep 12, 2014 10:38 am Subject: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry At The Beacon! Greetings, Hope all are in good spirits. Well its getting close to seeing Mr. Ferry in NY again. Very much looking forward to the NY show (and the related NY adventures that tend to occur). I have a nice single seat for myself towards the front but now what I am really in need of is 2 seats together. Does any fellow Avalonian have two additional seats to sell that would be given a good home. Maybe we can put the single seat into play as a part. If so please contact me off list. Very much appreciated. Look forward to seeing you there. All the Best John Dillon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: unsubscribe avalon ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 15 Sep 2014 18:25:03 -0400 From: deaglerr@aol.com Subject: Re: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry At The Beacon! Hello all: Out of town and a bit out of touch. Sketchy internet here. I have tickets for NYC and Philadelphia shows this time around. Last time for the Beacon Theater we met up at the Citrus Bar & Grill, 320 Amsterdam Ave, New York, NY 10023, (212) 595-0500 Around the corner from the Beacon stage door on Amsterdam, Ave. If there is an interest I'll reserve a table. Contact me off list. Philadelphia, is sort of tierra incognito for me, but as I haven't been in a while I want to go early enough in the day to stop in and see the real Bride Stripped Bare (etc), again. Any plans for a meet up in Philly, let me know. Regards, R Deagle - -----Original Message----- From: Tracy Connell To: avalon Sent: Sat, Sep 13, 2014 4:41 pm Subject: RE: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry At The Beacon! Can't help with the seat. I still have a spare for Washington on 29th though. Is anyone meeting up before the shows in either Washington, New York or Boston? > Date: Fri, 12 Sep 2014 13:33:48 -0400 > From: jmdillon@mindspring.com > To: avalon@smoe.org > Subject: [AVALON] Bryan Ferry At The Beacon! > > Greetings, > > Hope all are in good spirits. > > Well its getting close to seeing Mr. Ferry in NY again. > > Very much looking forward to the NY show (and the related NY adventures that tend to occur). > > I have a nice single seat for myself towards the front but now what I am really in need of is 2 seats together. > > Does any fellow Avalonian have two additional seats to sell that would be given a good home. > > Maybe we can put the single seat into play as a part. > > If so please contact me off list. > > Very much appreciated. > > Look forward to seeing you there. > > All the Best > > John Dillon > > > ___________________________________________________________________________ > 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 #844 ***************************** ======================================================================== For further info, mail majordomo@smoe.org with: info avalon-digest