I went to see Bryan Ferry on his Mamouna tour in Washington, DC. As the well dressed and coiffed couple in front of me were sitting down, she turned to him and said, "You know I've never listened to him with my clothes on."
Gotta love Bryan Ferry.
Scott Pendleton
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Should add Brian had one of the best bass players in the business with him in Neil Jason
Peace,Jason
Jason Miles
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Come on! You have to mention Neil Jason on bass and the one and only Fonzi Thornton on vocals!! A great band. My only complaint is that on this tour the version of Remake Remodel was really the Roxy arrangement and not the arrangement from the Ferry solo LP "Let's STick Together which is much funkier.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gSL7JTRqpRM
Tag Gross
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The Hollywood Bowl Show sounds fantastic.
We got Bryan at the Masonic in San Francisco last year and it was a tremendous show.
I remember buying the first Roxy album at Aron's right after it came out and the cover of the album seemed to be seriously disturbing to Manny's
assistant manning the counter.
I saw Roxy with Eno at the Whisky shortly after that.
It is amazing that this music still has it's power 45 years on.
Thanks for sharing your experience with Bryan.
Best
Jim McElwee
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Great and inspiring review of one of my top 2 singers of all time….Paul Rodgers being the other one. Talking to friends some time back we talked about if you could be any singer who would it be….for me it was no choice….Bryan.
I've been a big fan of Bryan and Roxy Music since first seeing them on some UK glam music show back in the 70's. I was knocked out by Bryan and his style and I still am to this day…having seen him on his last few tours. And he always has an amazing band with him.
When I met my now wife in 2009 we shared similar tastes in music. I turned her onto the Roxy Music live disc from their last reunion tour and she was instantly smitten…but it may have been his debonair look on stage that really won her over.
Can't wait to hear what he has up his sleeve next….
Brian Helgesen
PS…at our wedding reception we had the DJ play "Avalon" a the last song of the night
Brian Helgesen
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AVALON was maybe one of the best records to have SEX to. I wonder how many babies were created on that one.
Jeffrey Naumann
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Thank you for capturing his show and art. His bands continue to be fantastic and thanks for taking us there through your writing.
Thank you,
Jim Mulhern
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Bryan Ferry is the most difficult artist I've ever worked with.
His Avalon Tour in 1983 was the first and only tour I've ever walked off of (in ten years & over nearly one hundred and fifty artists) & was my sole reason for resigning from my job in Artist Development at Warner Records.
His arrogance is unparalleled.
Still, Avalon remains one of my top ten albums.
A true example of the agony and the ecstasy.
Ted Cohen
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Yes, it was a magnificent show.
I wished I had seen you there.
His rendition of the track Avalon was one of the highlights.
His background singer nailed it.
Ritch Esra
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I saw the Avalon Tour.
I'm a drummer- it changed my musical life.
Ya gotta acknowledge Andy Newmark on drums ( not on this tour ) and the recently departed Alan Spenner on bass.
I was lucky enough to meet AN a few yrs ago and we communicate occasionally. He's a deep cat and wonderful human.
Google his discography- Sly - John Lennon etc. now theres something to delve into as a music afficianado....
best, Dale Flanigan / Cleveland
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Another great review Bob. Bryan's solo album of covers is one of the best, second only to Pin Ups. Love his cover of Don't Worry Baby. Thanks for reminding your readers of his awesomeness and relevance. Do the strand!
Jeff Sacks
PS True story: About twenty years ago, I walked into a bar around 5pm on the island of Barbados. No one was there except one guy at the bar: Bryan Ferry. We spoke for a few minutes. He was cool, unassuming and had that unmistakable look. No cell phones back then so no picture.
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Beautiful post, Bob.
My pal a Judith Owen has been opening select dates for him and said it's been amazing.
Jon Regen
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The Frank Sinatra of our era and so much more than this.
Michael Des Barres.
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Nice! Ferry blew me away nearly 30 years ago at a show I attended not because I wanted to go but because I was assigned to review it. It's still a Top 10 thrill. I avoided this tour because I didn't want to spoil that memory and some old friends were also playing that night.
Now I'm the jealous guy.
John Kendle
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Terrific Bob, pleased for you! Oh, and the song 'Avalon' was a massive hit single in Australia back in the day, very much due to the beautiful video which really complemented the song! TonyB
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Avalon is in my top albums list. Yet I rarely listen to it. Thats because it was the go to bedtime album for me and my ultimate fiancee'. Four yrs I tumbled in the hay with her with that album as background. To quote another romantic album "it was just that the time was wrong" (Dire Straits)
We ultimately established a loving friendship so there's no bitterness but that album belongs to her and that special time.
However I did revive the title track on a mix tape when I went to England in 1999 to follow the King Arthur trail from Tintagel to Glastonbury.
Cheers!
Joe Mock in PDR
P.S. oh yeah I am one of the few who saw Roxy Music with BRIAN ENO when they played the Whisky in the early 70s.
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Right on! So glad you met Bryan! Love his music!
Owen Dearing, potter
Bend, Oregon
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Avalon. One of the ten best albums ever. Thanks Bob
James Lee Stanley
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Great piece.
There's a reason Europe was always so ahead of the US on music, it's presenters were professional curators who knew the music and shared its greatness with their audience.
As a former Top 40 radio personality, I can tell you that I was never allowed to really speak to my audience, only to perform the Drake-Chenault format of Boss Radio. And even though 50 years has passed us by, radio personalities remain more stifled than ever in any attempt to properly educate their audiences about the music they play. Even more appalling is that voice tracking and computer automation has just about replaced the personality in radio; and they wonder why it's a failing industry. And who cares? Millennials do not listen to radio. Their ears and eyes are online and streaming.
If only there was one hit this year as powerful and as creative as Love Is The Drug!
Frank A. Gagliano
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And that's how I feel about you when I read these columns
Saw the show in Vancouver and fell in love once again
Magical.
Shirley Norton
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Chom Fm in Montréal played a huge amount of Ferry. My co-music director, Bobby Gale, had a thing for Brian. Ferry's bass player, Busta Cherry Jones moved here and became one of the stalwarts of a very cool night club called Nuit Magique in Old Montréal. I'd go there after finishing my 10:00 to 2:00 on air shift. Pagliaro, Nanette Workman (who backed up The Stones vocally) and many musical visitors to town would be there all night. Bowie, Murray Head, Chris de Burgh, Stones, Genesis, Floyd, etc...
We were all New Romantics and Brian's music informed the sound of a post disco Montréal vibe which was watched by the planet.
Rob Braide
P.S. By the way, greatest Ferry Playlist in the History of the world. Thanks. Listen to Busta's bass playing on Stronger Through the years. No one else was doing that back then.
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I saw him at The Beacon a couple of years ago and had the same sensation you did.
Transcendent experience. He blew me away.
And, I think I had played Avalon at least a thousand times over the years.
Thanks for bringing it all back.
John Parikhal
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Bravo Bob, saw Bryan Ferry here at the Ryman in Nashville a year ago.
Your review and analysis so spot on.
Years ago when I was growing up and living in LA saw Roxy Music at the Pasadena Civic Auditorium, April 1979. Most of the original band in tact less Eno. Was blown away by Roxy, music and show was just so cool and different. 38 years between seeing Bryan Ferry but just as great as ever!
Bill Kennedy
Nashville
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Thank you for this moving account of BF's show last night.
I was fortunate enough to have seen him this past April in Montreal.
It must have been out of this world with the Hollywood Bowl orchestra!
I always look forward to his new material.
His cover of Robert Palmer's "Johnny and Mary" is one of the most moving interpretations I've ever heard:
https://youtu.be/Din_eWjJWe0
Cheers,
Pablo
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Wow, read this entire thing completely enthralled. My introduction to Roxy Music was via a dubbed Maxell cassette that belonged to my older sister... I can still see it so clearly in my mind's eye... "AVALON" clearly written, all caps, on the spine of the cardboard insert... we were the brace-faced teenaged daughters of Korean convenience store owners, listening to Andy Mackay's slinky saxophone lines and Bryan Ferry's tuxedo-clad croon, safely ensconced in the comfort of our shared bedroom... we lived in a bungalow deep in the suburbs of Toronto... Scarborough, to be exact... wall-to-wall carpeting, flocked wall paper, bunk beds... latch-key kids left to our own devices... fantasizing... transported... to an impossibly glamorous land called Avalon... I hope he is touring this show and coming to Toronto... if so, I should totally surprise my sister with tix! Especially loved this post, thank you, Bob.
Sally Lee
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I've seen Bryan Ferry many times and a Roxy reunion once. The last time I saw Bryan was at the Civic Opera House in Chicago using his sound system. A supposedly superior acoustic venue and everyone heard the sound was muffled. My guess is he did not want to reveal how weak his voice is. He lost me at the show (though it was so great and everything was top tier).
His best show in Chicago was at the Riviera, "As Time Goes By" tour.
My intro was a cut-out of "Country Life".
A friend says she saw Roxy Music perform in St. Louis to 15 people. — Ric Graham
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One of your best....Roxy rules. But why do you go with the current streaming flow without warning when that will deny generations these kinds of special memories? Will any future Bob recollect "I remember where I was when I first streamed....."? No. The physical representation is the glue that cemented the memories.
Michael Fremer
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He is so fab.
What a great review- and so great that you and he connected!
Love his music ? love that you do too!
Regards
Amy Krakow
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Surprised they didn't hit it big in the USA they were well known and loved here in Canada. A real avant garde band back then.
Chris Chapin
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Great review, I can hear your burning. Ferry, around the time I got married, crisp white shirt and perfect black slacks hunched in like a secret fighter, willowy and winning cajoling his mike and
tearing the velvet inside Radio City Music Hall, just the perfectly-sized and sold-out venue, and yes, his music had a way of charming your life.
Ferry fans and those who'd never heard of him. Two camps, you couldn't explain it.
I was so pleased to read he is performing and so strong.
Of course you are correct, the UK has always been ahead, the ideas, the creativity, individuality, the bravery, the necessity in making fresh music
art fashion comes out of London and other worn and narrow roads of the UK..
Will watch for Ferry in New York.
Howard Stein
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You and Bryan just made me cry, Bob. Thank you.
More than this... you know, there's nothing.
sean michael dargan
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Thank you for that delicious piece of writing, Bob. It brought me back to my own meeting with Bryan Ferry, in Quebec City in 1988.
I was barely a man, living with my father and stepmother. That August night, Ferry was in town. He had been scheduled to play Le Coilsée (a large hockey arena), and in the end the show was moved to a 1348-seat theatre. Needless to say, the smaller venue was sold out, but I was determined to go. I was sitting having dinner with my dad and his lady, and she said:
- Aren't you going to a show tonight?
- Yes.
- Shouldn't you be leaving?
- Soon.
- Do you have a ticket?
- No.
- But… how do you plan to get in?
- Don't know yet.
So I went, and at the door of the venue, I ran into a friend who had already been inside. I think he worked with the label, I don't remember. Anyway, he gave me his readmission ticket. I passed the gate and I was in, smiling broadly. I then saw a wonderful show in a fantastic seat in a great sounding hall, with many of the feelings you describe, but in a young man's body on a warm summer night. Then, my friend invited me backstage, and I got to chat with the man. It was a truly enchanting evening, and I re-lived it through your writing. So thank you!
By the way, speaking of "Love Is The Drug", I've always thought that Duran Duran's DNA was based on that track.
Nicolas Maranda
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You nailed it. There is no-one like Bryan Ferry.
I missed the whole Roxy Music and early solo work of Ferry. I came
upon him in the late eighties with his Boys and Girls and Bete Noire
recordings. They were mesmerizing. You knew he had the shit hottest
musicians on those recordings.... He was always coy with the credits,
but he had the goods. Guys who rolled with Miles, Sly, Steely
Dan,guitar gods, and the crazy fusion players. Marcus Miller,
Knopfler, Gilmore, Niles, Levin, Sandborn, Newmark. The production
was pure silk. I was into the whole package.
After college I had the fortune of running across Mr. Ferry on the
streets of Minneapolis on a sunny Fall day. I am not one to approach
celebrity, I don't want to be "that guy". But, it was Bryan Ferry.
I approached him and told him I would be seeing him in concert that
evening. He couldn't have been more gracious and engaging. Standing
on the sidewalk. Bryan Ferry, his PA, and me. He looked me in the
eye, we casually talked his recordings, his setlist, his band, and his
tour. I had a ton of questions and he happily filled-in the blanks. After a few minutes, Bryan turned to his PA and said "Nigel, how about
a glossy for this young man?". Nigel pulled it from a satchel. Ferry
personalized it, handed it to me, and thanked me for the chat.
Smooth, just as I would have expected. Class A guy and one of those
moments you are so glad you had a chance to meet your hero.
Great write up Bob. I was right there with you.
Curt Olson
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Bob if you haven't seen Roxy's Live at the Apollo DVD, treat yourself, one of the best live DVD's any genre any era….maybe because it covers all of them, era's and genres!
Jimmy Steal
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Awesome night and story about Bryan Ferry!
We used to cover "virginia plain" here in Southern California and the 2 or 3 times we did it it just went over like a fart. Nobody knows that song around here. It would end and folks would just stare at us!
This summer I was on a solo 65 date tour of Europe and having a bit of an odd night in the U.K. I spontaneously started playing it and it went over huge. The next night I was asked "Are you going to do Virginia plain again?" It feels so good when you find your audience - even if my audience is found and gained by playing obscure songs from '72.
I've been forcing my band to listen to "remake/remodel" just because, well, I love it but also because of how weird it is/was. That song is 40 something years old and it's still fucking bizarre. If that was released tomorrow people would be just as freaked out by it as they were in '73!! (?)
Thanks for sharing the Roxy love.
~Bobbo
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Saw him at the Santa Barbara Bowl and it was great. Can u believe he played In Every Dream Home a Heartache? Almost mail ordered a blow up doll. I wished he played Like a Hurricane but what are you going to do?
Alan Fenton
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Avalon was amazing. Not overlooked by me. And yes, the number one album to put on with a woman you were bedding for the first time.
Mike Jasper
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Bob...I thoroughly enjoyed your thoughts on Bryan Ferry and his performance. I just returned from the Chateau and I'm reading this as if I'm still in the lounge by the turntable. Plus, I just saw Bryan Ferry in Portland, OR. Yes, he was fantastic. The Portland audience devoured him. He assembled a tight band...I was beyond impressed with his Australian sax player. Which ignited the conversation at the show, that a lot of good groups from Australia incorporated the sax in their songs (INXS, Icehouse, Men at Work). I was hoping for him to perform his single "Is Your Love Strong Enough" that I discovered during the credits of Tom Cruise film Legend. I dig that song, and I don't care what anyone thinks. I also enjoyed Judith Owen with Leland Sklar as the opener. I spent some time the day before on their tour bus, finally getting to meet Leland.
Having breakfast at 10a at Good Neighbor on Cahuenga with musician Keith Allison before I fly back to Portland. Come by!
Best,
Alex Hart
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Wow, wow, wow! Incredible.
In 1982 I was working at The Record Factory in South Sacramento. There was New Wave, there was Prince, there was early hip hop… every Tuesday the new releases came in, we couldn't wait! All of us weirdo kids working in that record store were junkies for our records. AVALON shows up, the store manager unwraps the LP, puts it on the turntable and BLAM!!!! Instant MAGIC. Stopped all of us dead in our tracks. Sure The Clash were great, with all their rough edges, style, message and attitude, BUT THIS? Refined, masterful, detailed hard work, creativity coupled with hi fidelity artistic perfection. WHAT AN AMAZING RECORD! I mean there's catching lightning in a bottle, capturing an inspired moment and things like that are great, when they are. But this AVALON record, it's a testament to laboring over the details, a testament to older artists who have learned their craft and are putting all the extra effort to go the extra mile for sound quality, for the perfect tone and feel in that perfect moment, Phil Manzara and the great, great, great Andy Newmark. Bob Clearmountain, and that genius sophisto vocal. Man those guys PUSHED TO THE LIMIT on this one! Caught lightning in a bottle one perfect, labored careful overdub at a time. The best of all worlds, like Wish You Were Here or Acting Baby. anyway, Avalon, when a record like that happens, it's a marker in time. Such a great, great record!
And you got to see the show and meet that guy. WOW! Good for you Bob Lefsetz! So cool because you obviously love his work so much. So great when the stars align like that.
Nice one!
Michael Urbano
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'Avalon' is, to me, everything you say it is. A sensational time-travelling soundtrack to so many moments.
Iconic guitar-playing by Phil Manzanera… as easily identifiable as Andy Summers.
Thanks, Bob. I love reading your newsletters.
James Stewart
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Radio City Music Hall. Spring if 1983. Roxy opened with "The Main Thing". It was friggin' transcendent.
To my eternal dismay, they didn't play "More Than This".
From the very first day I listened to it, Avalon has been a top 5 desert island disk. Always will be.
-RMQ
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Beautiful Bob.
Absolutely love your writing. And when you write so passionately about music, well, it brightens up my day.
Keep on keeping on sir
Steve Balsamo x
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What a great piece about our hero (Amsterdam loved/s Bryan Ferry). Most sexy man in my memory (born '55). The man shivered our timbers. In reading this every song mentioned plays in my head and brings me back.
Thank you!
Beppie
(Elisabeth Bakker)
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If you haven't seen it before one of the greatest interviews with anyone in recent years was this one with Bryan Ferry
http://thequietus.com/articles/16665-bryan-ferry-interview
as much about being a fan as it is an interview, I'd say you'd enjoy.
keep it up Bob!
cheers
John L.
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Bob - Bryan Ferry has been one of the more unique touring artists from the mid - '80's onwards. He never stops working, always releasing albums and touring, and (almost) always it is well worth one's attention. And what makes it unique is that he treats his early Roxy Music output with as much enthusiasm as any current material he's promoting. Imagine Bowie honouring Hunky Dory and Man Who Sold the World every time he went out. Or, U2 focusing a major part of their show on the first 3 albums etc. And not only does he do this well, he does it constantly, without fanfare, in perfect form and without a whiff of Vegas style nostalgia. A classic example of an artist devoted to working his craft.
Iain Taylor
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I can still remember the day I heard "Virginia Plain". I was working for the WEA branch in Chicago and the mailroom guy brought in a new batch of Warner promos we had just received. I'm not sure why it was the first album I put on (I thought it was "cheesy"; Warners said it was "glamorous"), but I remember playing "Virginia Plain" over and over and over. I have listened to a lot of music in my life, and there are certain artists that make an undeniable impression the very first time you hear them: Jethro Tull, Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Yes, etc. As for "Avalon", well, let's just say that if I had to pick 10 albums to take to a desert island......."Avalon" would be part of the package. Thanks for the reminder.
David Hersrud
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Hi Bob...Your thoughts on the Bryan Ferry concert were absolutely spot on! I saw him last Monday at the Mountain Winery in the SF area, and it was truly amazing. Song after song I was saying "I can't believe he's playing this!" Having seen Roxy Music and Bryan many times over the years, I was totally expecting a Roxy greatest hits list, but instead Bryan took us life-long fans on a journey that reminded us why we fell in love with Roxy Music in first place. And the audience ate it up. To hear the audience shout "Virginia Plain" in unison was to know that this was a crowd of true fans, all well aware that they were witnessing musical greatness.
Thanks for capturing the essence of what Bryan and Roxy Music have brought to music over the years, and keep reminding us of the importance of "real' music.
Bob Trygg
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Just an FYI - Bryan Ferry's main guitarist, Jacob Quist, recently released a solo, instrumental album called "Trigger." I mastered it and I have to say, it's really great. He eschews the normal "guitar hero" stuff and takes the guitar in different directions.
I met Quist after a Bryan Ferry content in Nashville and the band was wonderful. Ferry was a bit under the weather, but he put on a great show...classy and compact. Nice to know the old guys still have it...reminded me of how George Miller had to show the kids how it's done with Mad Max Fury Road.
Craig Anderton
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Great write Bob, I go to bed every night listening to one of three albums to comfortably put me to sleep
1.) Anita Baker-"Rapture"
2.) Sade-"Diamond Life"
3.) Roxy Music-"Avalon"
David Wolnik
Three Oaks, MI
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Bob- What a great read about a truly transformational singer and band! I experienced so many of those same feelings/emotions about the same songs... and more. Wish I'd seen this show but felt like I kinda did after your blog. Nearly always love your writings, but ones like these hit so close to home. Please keep up the great work... It's one of this near 60-year old guy's continued guilty pleasures!
Terence Connolly
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That is awesome.
Stuart Gunter
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I saw Bryan Ferry at the Santa Barbara Bowl. Damn. I'd only been following him for 40 years, and now was the chance.
The catalogue is so deep that he didn't even begin to skim the upper 10%. Selfishly, I was hoping for "I Thought", "Eight Miles High", Midnight Hour", "Over You" , for starters. He performed the setlist you described, and threw in "In Every Dream Home a Heartache" which is still as edgy, fresh and dangerous as Day One.
His voice has changed over the years, and the wonderful backup singers effortlessly filled the outlines of his voice.
Ferry makes the current crop of crooners look and sound homeless. Yeah, he's that good.
Larry Gassan
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"Avalon" is one of rock's high-water marks. A desert island disc to be sure...
Ricky Schultz
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We all live different timelines. See, my memories of AVALON are different. For me, up until then, Roxy Music had been an interesting curio. They were like the T-Rex prior to "Bang A Gong" (and after, for that matter) - I'd heard all about them, a few of my friends were into it, they had a sax player, which nobody had in those days - but they never made my 'essential listening list'. Until AVALON. Which was so much more accessible. And I thought it was a hit - probably because I was managing a record store in those days, and it was the only Roxy Music album I ever had to re-order more than once.
Barry Lyons / Rent A Label
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nice
Jeffrey Ainis
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I loved your enthusiasm for Bryan Ferry at the Hollywood Bowl.
I had the honor of booking Roxy Music's first concert performance in America. December 7, 1972--in Athens, Ohio. This preceded their next date--which was a far cry from Athens-- December 9th at MSG.
You can find this factoid at : Roxy Music - Tours - on VivaRoxyMusic.com
Sky Daniels
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Bob, thank you for yet another wonderful piece on Bryan Ferry. I actually subscribed to you a good many years ago over something you'd written about him and I always look forward to seeing his name in your blogs. It's difficult to convey to most of my friends in the USA how incredible he is, how important he is, but when I go overseas, it's a different story. His music has woven its way through my life and, while it's sometimes "cool" to have this seemingly exclusive connection to an artist, it's just as rewarding to know how much he affects others.
I've seen him a few times over the years, most recently here in Orlando with a much different set list (HEAVY on Roxy tunes) that included one of your all timers, "Oh Yeah"....but he still opened with "The Main Thing"....and I cannot agree with you more on how infectious that number is. Reading your encounter with him after the show reminded me of a tale I read years ago from a fan who sat next to him on a flight and ended up as Bryan's guest at the show he performed later, I can only ever hope to have such an audience with him. Thank you for sharing yours. Please keep up the great work!
Kevin Andrusia
Orlando
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Loved that blog! As I've said before, your passion for music is inspiring.
Best,
John Presnell
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Thanks for a great review Bob. It never occurred to me that Avalon never had the impact here in the US as it did in Europe. Avalon was released when I was 15 and at my most impressionable age. The album hit #1 on the Norwegian charts, and the lead single "More Than This" made it to #2. Needless to say, it is an album that had significant impact on me. Thanks again.
Even Brande
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Thanks for your Bryan Ferry note. Yes , Avalon was one the finest LPs to emerge in the early 80s.
FYI, coincidentally, last weekend, Jon Dennis wrote an interesting piece in the London Financial Times "Life of a Song" column which you may be familiar with. re. Lennon's Jealous Guy cover by Roxy Music.
Best...Diego Guirleo
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Saw this show in Pittsburgh earlier this year. Amazing! They blew the sound system with about 4 songs to go but it was still a great show and it was obvious that this guy is the real deal.
Harold Love
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A great read Bob! Not the world's greatest Ferry fan (although I have a couple of his albums) but you really managed to convey your feelings & made them relatable.
Your last two lines as well.... yes....
Stuart James Gray
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Roxy Music for many are a guilty pleasure, but man what a guilty pleaure they are!
Michael Richardson
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I forwarded this to my boss. He turned me on to Roxy Music back in uh I dunno 1976? We saw Ferry's solo "Catch a Rising Star" show in Seattle ($2 I think!) and when we heard that Roxy Music were touring together again with Eno in the band, we had to go. Unfortunately, it was in Oakland - and we had to drive all night to get there after seeing the Tom Robinson Band & the Art Ensemble of Chicago the day before (not together!) in Seattle. Long story short, I fell asleep after the opening act. But I still love that band. - John Foster, KXXO
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:)
Scott Borchetta
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I happen to be with Bryan as this came in and just showed it to him! Very happy. So sorry I missed the show. Peter Asher
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Dad really enjoyed meeting you
Glad you came
Isaac Ferry
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