From: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org (idealcopy-digest) To: idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Subject: idealcopy-digest V10 #456 Reply-To: idealcopy@smoe.org Sender: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-idealcopy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk idealcopy-digest Tuesday, August 26 2008 Volume 10 : Number 456 Today's Subjects: ----------------- [idealcopy] Separate the torso from the spine [Fergus Kelly Subject: [idealcopy] Separate the torso from the spine Recently finished David Sheppard's excellent biography of Brian Eno, 'On Some Faraway Beach', and I couldn't recommend it highly enough. This man has the right approach, he's really gone the distance with the research and interviews, and it makes for a compelling and satisfying read, packed with fascinating details, references, anecdotes etc., and some very good critical analysis, all written in a highly articulate, intelligent and witty way. And it's no hagiography either. Unlike one I read many years ago, called something like 'Brian Eno and the vertical colour of sound' or some such. Really dry and academic. Sheppard has, to quote the many quotes of a certain Mr. Newman, 'rescue(d)Eno from the Eno nerds'. Amongst the Colin quotes is this curiosity: "There was talk of Wire working with Brian at the turn of the '80s. I was against it for one reason - I didn't want what happened to Talking Heads to happen to us. Although working with Brian I might well have been the David Byrne character and it would be the others who felt they'd been sacked." An Eno produced studio version of Document & Eyewitness might've been interesting, perhaps favouring the nascent Dome tendencies of a certain camp... Eno Sang Lino !! Fergus http://www.roomtemperature.org http://www.asullenrelapse.blogspot.com http://www.myspace.com/ferguskellyrecordings http://www.flickr.com/photos/55867717@N00/sets/ ------------------------------ Date: Mon, 25 Aug 2008 12:58:20 -0400 From: Eric Klaver Subject: Re: [idealcopy] Separate the torso from the spine I resemble that statement. ;-) Eric On 25-Aug-08, at 12:12 PM, Fergus Kelly wrote: 'rescue(d)Eno from the Eno nerds'. ------------------------------ End of idealcopy-digest V10 #456 ********************************