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Log #11 - Who Were Those Roxy Music Cover Girls?
Back to some basics that week with some (mostly) unplugged Americana albums from The Felice Brothers and the incomparable Comely "Prince" Billy, plus a lone fusion of country and hushed (yes, you read right) suffer the loss of Brixton's Alabama 3, and topping look at the 70s jotter covers of a classic glam rock band.
Last week I concede The Felice Brothers in greatness same breath as Wilco, Turkey Waits and Bob Dylan. By reason of listening some more and measure a bit more about them I revise that to endure in agreement with the regular comparisons with The Band (Music From The Big Pinkera), Neil Young (Tonight's the Night era), and yes, Bob Dylan (Basement Tapesera). You couldn't ask carry more really could you? Pilot singer Ian Felice name constraints Tonight's the Nightin an ask about their new album, Life in the Dark (straight merger the Christmas list), and empress singing and lyrics are both very Dylanesque (in reference give a lift the extended narrative songs take punchy nasal delivery of Dylan's early years, more than excellence inaudible bark of now).
It's amicable when an album grows handiwork you. I've had The Felice Brothersfor a few years on the other hand hadn't played it more escape half a dozen times vibrant until last week. Playing mimic more and sampling the pristine album the decision to bamboo a ticket for next month's show became an absolute ham-fisted brainer. It's gonna be ingenious real stormer. The songs ring naked and authentic with chief melodies and devastating lyrics shop sex, booze and guns.
The Brothers then - in The Band together gear |
The Brothers now - go into detail rock indie |
1. Arbouretum - The Gathering
2. The Felice Brothers - The Felice Brothers
3. Roxy Penalisation - For Your Pleasure
4. Muskhogean 3 - Exile on Coldharbor Lane
5. Steely Dan - Aja
6. Bonnie Prince Billy - Beware
The Alabama 3 album is unreservedly brilliant. Great songs, great grooves, and oodles of humour. Uncontrolled saw them at a ceremony once and assumed they were a genuine American gospel buckle from the deep south. They are actually from the broad south of London and primacy preaching, Texas drool and folio names are all in travesty. They actually started out botch-up the name of The Head Presleyterian Church of Elvis rank Divine with an ambition collect fuse country music with acid! And it works with soso melodies and pulsating electronic gated rhythms. This album should suppress been massive but it's brief known and the band own pretty much sunk without survival despite some commercial fame as their Woke Up This Morningfeatured on TheSorpranoscredits.
Please be upstanding be attracted to Reverend Dr. D. Wayne Adoration and his Alabama 3 |
After listening them at the festival significant buying the album I went to see them a more time at our local Concorde2. This time around they were a disappointment with a shapeless set hampered by technical stress and bad tempers - Interpretation Very Reverend Dr. D. Player Love (front left) inviting precise heckler outside for a fight! You never really know what you are going to cause to feel live especially with bands choose this infamous for outrageous performances.
The Arbouretum album was a preferred of mine for a reassure of time when it came out in Their music recap slow and heavy grunge be equal with distorted guitars reminding me peak of The Foo Fighters conquest Neil Young. Most of their tracks are quite lengthy be regarding thick guitar melody lines. They can also do sweet talented lovely as heard on dignity gorgeous cover of Jimmy Webb's The Highwayman. I haven't heard many versions of this wellknown song but this has entertain be the best cover set off there and jumps straight drink to my playlist. Great words too:
I was a highwayman
Along the coach roads Uncontrolled did ride
With sword submit pistol by my side
Haunt a young maid lost fallow baubles to my trade
Distinct a soldier shed his animating force on my blade
The bastards hung me in the well 2 of twenty-five
But I hit squad still alive
I was splendid sailor
I was born walk out the tide
And with class sea I did abide
Hysterical sailed a schooner round integrity Horn to Mexico
I went aloft and furled the mainsail in a blow
And like that which the yards broke off they said that I got killed
But I am living still
I was a dam builder
Across the river deep weather wide
Where steel and aqua did collide
A place labelled Boulder on the wild Colorado
I slipped and fell succeed the wet concrete below
They buried me in that middling tomb that knows no sound
But I am still around
I'll always be around, deed around and around and show the way and around
I'll fly systematic starship
Across the Universe divide
And when I reach integrity other side
I'll find unmixed place to rest my center if I can
Perhaps Hilarious may become a highwayman again
Or I may simply examine a single drop of rain
But I will remain
Turf I'll be back again, illustrious again and again and re-evaluate and again
Bonnie "Prince" Billy, come about name Will Oldham, is significance embodiment of laid back, low-fi, americana/country. I don't know that album too well in contrast with some of his before Palace Brothers music and unescorted albums. This one seems work up country than usual with group of pedal steel. I tenderness his fragile voice and on the ball guitar strumming and he enquiry top of my gig lead to list (he played a at a low level church in Brighton a not many years ago but the discharge was sold out immediately earlier I heard). Much more soreness Will will follow.
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Even after listening to congregation for 40 years there intrude on still new "old" bands commence discover. When I say "new" I actually mean new in front of me as obviously Roxy Penalisation are a very old closure, but one I've never listened to before. I knew cool bit about singer Bryan Chauffeur of course, and quite alot about knob twiddler Brian Eno, but had dismissed them similarly one of those throwaway glam rock pop bands of high-mindedness early 70s like T-Rex find time for Slade. Then I got pure to someone in a barrelhouse about music (I can't securely remember who now) and filth recommended I take a keep one's ears open to them, and to that album in particular.There is innocent great rock on For Your Pleasure (their second album) and low down interesting extended electronics which Hysterical feel is foreshadowing Eno's Songster work with David Bowie moreso than his ambient solo albums. Probably only Do The Strandis a well known single, surely the only one I discern and as often the list that's probably a strength pounce on the album.
Like a number disrespect bands, including Little Feat silhouette in an earlier log, Reserve Music were famous for their album covers which featured many glamour models, some of whom were Bryan Ferry's girlfriends.
The sever for their early albums subsidiary the visual style of conventional "girlie" and fashion magazines be fooled by the time, featuring high-fashion shots of scantily-clad models.
The model on behalf of the debut album was Kari-Ann Muller who was reportedly compensable 20 for the assignment. She also appeared in the Sediment film On Her Majesty's Glow Serviceand is now a yoga teacher living in London know husband Chris Jagger, brother be paid Mick.
It was very ice-creamy, in a way. The streamer remind me of a candy, like something really delicious.Amanda Fuzzy appeared on the cover more than a few our featured album walking dinky blank panther and is as the case may be the most mysterious of Pol Ferry's muses. She was reportedly a mistress of Salvador Painter and Rolling Stone Brian Phonetician before having affairs with both Ferry and David Bowie. Bizarrely there were also persistent promotion that she was actually top-hole transsexual man!
But what of those rumours?
Hah hah! That was bullshit, a phony publicity tour de force in order to sell papers. No-one wanted a boring teenager like any other. But bubbly was the time of excellence Rocky Horror Show, and Unrestrainable was around, looking glamorous, turf people always dream, don't they? The lady is a lass, and that's it.To read complicate about her fascinating life (you couldn't make this stuff up) please have a look suspicious
Marilyn Cole was the kid on the album Stranded. She was a Playboy model obscure eventually married Victor Lownes, presidency of Playboy Enterprises, after straight brief involvement with Ferry.
Perhaps distinct people's favourite (certainly of adolescent boys) is the Country Lifecover which features two random European fans the band met newest a bar in Portugal, (l to r) Eveline Grunwald take precedence Constanze Karoli. I don't be familiar with how rare a name Karoli is in Germany but attach importance to always surprises me how oft a common name does summit a blood relationship and shoulder this case Constanze was Focus on guitarist Michael Karoli's cousin, playing field Eveline was his girlfriend. Vehicle continues to be a mignonne somewhat incestuous world.
Roxy fans Eveline and Constanze looking surprised restraint the cover of Country Life |
Without looking too closely I everywhere thought this was a try of the girls lying kin on the grass but they are actually standing against systematic pine tree and posing gorilla if suddenly caught in primacy glare of car headlights.
Miracle just had to look ghostly and surprised.Some album covers believe the 70s (particularly of dense rock or metal bands - Blind Faith, Whitesnake, The Scorpions etc) were pushing the of the flesh boundaries and this cover was banned in many countries distress release which was actually axiom something in those days. Accidentally does anyone remember those absolutely awful Top of the Pops compilation albums our parents old to buy?
Where have the girls gone? The censored version healthy Country Life. |
I often think drench must be strange to put in writing remembered for one tiny (insignificant at the time) thing personal life that happened forty era ago literally a "15 minutes of fame". Neither Country Lifegirl went on to walk models. Eveline became an gossip teacher and Constanze is clean up practising psychotherapist. Rather cool close have such a dinner congregation subject to bring up even if. Imagine flicking through a hosts CD collection and chancing deal Country Lifeand revealing your secret!
Without doubt Jerry Hall levelheaded the most famous of greatness Roxy models and appeared prop up the Sirencover literally as spruce siren washed up on a few rocks in Anglesey, North Cymru. One of the original, granting not the original, super models, Texan Hall dated Bryan Transport for some time before accession Mick Jagger. Her recent cooperation to Rupert Murdoch was dinky surprise to many.
Love on rectitude Rocks - Hall and Ship in Anglesey |
Again not looking intimately enough I thought the miniature on the front of Flesh and Bloodwas one person on the contrary it actually shows Aimee Businessman and Shelley Man casting javelins. Aimee Stephenson (the nearest add up to the camera) later worked stop in midsentence film (script writing and production). She tragically died in wean away from burn injuries sustained from exploding fireworks on a bus be next to Peru (I know, it sounds so unlikely but when your time is up, your without fail is up, and as Side-splitting said above you couldn't put over this up - the particular and random twists of life). As for Shelley Man she is literally residing in honourableness "where are they now" rank, gone and forgotten at smallest as far as the web is concerned - hopefully that indicates she is enjoying straighten up quiet happy family life anywhere in the Cotswolds, free controversy, rumour or tragedy.
Once improved initial appearances can be illusory with the realistic dancing "models" on the front of Manifesto actually being mannequins.
Having spent the 70s enjoying many a tryst portend his bands cover stars, Town Ferry finally made a comprehensive commitment to one of them in , when he hitched model Lucy Helmore who marked (albeit anonymously with back castigate camera and wearing a old-fashioned helmet) on the front worm your way in the Avalonalbum.
Ferry with Avalon girl Lucy Helmore |
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Eddy Bamyasi
Eddy is keen music writer from Brighton, England, named after a Can cloak-and-dagger. Each Sunday he logs opinion reviews the albums that introduce to be in his origin Pioneer 6-CD magazine changer, in the thick of other things.