(TV) Roxy Music / Eno Rant / Hell / Verlaine

["Casey, Leo J" <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV>]

Keith, 

Not flaming here, just a trip down memory lane a little rant.

I got into Roxy Music backwards when I heard "Praire Rose" from 
their Country Life album on the radio (great party-dancing song, or 
one can enjoy it as a Ferry amalgamation of Jerry Hall and the Goethe 
poem ).  The 1st time they ever played Boston was their 1974-Country 
Life Tour (they were at Boston Garden in 72 or 73 as Jethro Tull's 
warm-up act but that doesn't count).

Anyways, I was on some kind of 'stuff' when I saw during that tour at 
Boston's Orpheum Theater---incredible show. The next day morning (make that 
afternoon) I went out and bought all the their (and Ferry's solo) records.

OK, the first 2 albums and Ferry's cummerbund-ed, dissolute, 
Weltschmertz-ian,  persona-----yeah I know I sound like I'm back on 
that 'stuff'--were maybe more ground-breaking ("In Every Dreamhome 
There Is A Heartache") than their later music. But Eno's god-awful Eno keyboard/synthesizer/treatments noodling totally ruined several of 
the songs--such as "Virginia Plain" and "(Another Fine) Edition of You" .

Richard Hell and Eno actually have a fair amount in common:  
both of their original bands became infinitely better musically after 
they departed.

I also believe that Eno is one of the most overrated characters of the 20th 
century (as a producer he's ok).  Moreover, he did not actually steal, but he 
is given way, way too much credit for the "ambient sound" schtick he did 
endlessly after Roxy.

According  to some guy named Verlaine [in his 1982 Warner Brs. Dreamtime 
promotion interview], Eno was very heavily influenced by the 1960s group, 
Can---- whom he never acknowledged or gave any credit.

	Leo

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In message <B2D7C52AFC38D61181940004763B1B0A02146AFD@vntmail03.volpe.dot
.gov>, Casey, Leo J <CaseyL@VOLPE.DOT.GOV> writes
>IMHO Roxy Music.

What? They were a spent force before then! (NB this is just an
opinionated remark and not the start of a flame war!)
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