|   ROXY (still) RULES!!! | dude
Aug 25, 2001 7:38 AM | | Caught the Roxy Music 2001 World Tour show at the Boston Fleet Pavilion a coupla Saturdays ago. Whoa, the wife considers it her favorite concert ever & I'd put it in my top five (covering 30+ yrs). They concentrated on stuff from their first 3 albums - which left me elated. Phil Manzanera's solo on "Ladytron" was astounding, Andy McKay was massively talented on sax & oboe, Lucy Wilkin's violin solo on "Out of the Blue" matched Eddie Jobson's, the great Paul Thompson (TGPT) was just stupendous on the drumkit, & Chris Spedding was around to add spice. Bryan Ferry was pure magic. To close the show with "For Your Pleasure" with the band walking away one-by-one was an idea of pure genius. (From what I've read, we might have been lucky enough to catch the best show of the tour). Roxy proved that they are true rock royalty.
Anyone who wants to try out music's most underrated profoundly influential band should check out the massively sonicly improved HDCD compilation "The Early Years". Many tunes include Eno filtering guitar/keyboardsax/oboe sound through his early version, but mighty synth.........dude |
| I Am A New Roxy Fan... | Mary
Aug 26, 2001 5:56 AM | | Purchased their Avalon CD on Friday
night, and just love the music on
there. I haven't been able to spend
a lot of time with it but the first
spin was definitely a success.
I'll check out 'The Early Years'!
Thanks,
M |
| I Am A New Roxy Fan... | unleasHell
Aug 27, 2001 6:16 AM | | if you like "avalon", i would check out "flesh and blood" next, then the brian ferry solos: "boys and girls" and "bete noire"
these are great cds to..........
(nevermind) |
| Seconded... | DustyChalk
Aug 27, 2001 2:11 PM | | I was going to give the exact same recommendation as unleasHell, and then follow that with BarryL's "work backwards". Need to throw in _The High Road_, too -- excellent version of "Jealous Guy" on there. |
| Careful... | BarryL
Aug 27, 2001 8:13 AM | | The very early years aren't at all like Avalon. A lot fewer smooth edges. Flesh & Blood is also outstanding. You might want to work backwards by release date. |
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