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

["Jim Kauffman" <jkauff@verizon.net>]

OK, let's get some things straight here. Krautrock certainly pre-dated Eno,
but he's never downplayed his influences. By the time Can recorded Future
Days, Simon Puxley had become Can's manager (in the U.K.) as well as Eno's,
at Eno's suggestion.

>From the beginning, Eno has called himself a "non-musician". He claimed that
he merely processed the Roxy instrumentals. A year before recording "Warm
Jets" he borrowed a guitar from Cindy Smith (who had an apartment with Chris
(nee Chryssie) Hynde in the same building as Eno's). The strings were
rusted, and he refused to change them because "it sounds so much better this
way". Warm Jets was his first effort as a "musician".

Being a "non-musician" has become standard practice in these days of
sampling and ProTools.

Jim K.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: tv-owner@obbard.com [mailto:tv-owner@obbard.com] On Behalf Of Brian
> Young
> Sent: Tuesday, May 11, 2004 6:44 PM
> To: tv@obbard.com
> Subject: Re: (TV) Roxy Music / Eno Rant / Hell / Verlaine
> 
> Wow, Leo- this is the most misinformed and misguided opinion I have ever
> seen from you. Although all of the first 5 Roxy Music albums are very
> important, the first two are the most adventurous, *because* of Eno.  Can,
> a group that largely recorded in the '70's (not the '60's), was often
> mentioned by Eno, as was Cluster, Harmonia and Kraftwerk. He readily
> 'fessed up to his influences and who he admired.  Although Eno has said
> that his favorite Roxy Music album is the one after he left (Stranded),
> you can still hear his sonic influence on albums 3-5. Without him and his
> influence, I don't think Roxy would've been as highly regarded.
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