Roxy Music Live - S/D

The T. Rex part, a different concert performance, isn't quite as good, but also worth a viewing.

can anyone direct me to the thrill of it all cd online? i can't live without pyjamarama all of a sudden!

Is there an official release of the BBC material yet. Just listening to th e'72 In Concert show and it sounds fantastic. So surprised it hasn't come out in a legit way.
This was part of a 2cd set of various Eno era Roxy music stuff that I got torrented a few years back.
If it was possible to get it fully remastered from the masters it would be a lovely thing to have.
This did also include the first session which still has Davy O'List on pre Manzanera so that might possibly have thrown up some kind of obstacle.
There also appears to be one session missing that hasn't been rebroadcast so maybe has ceased to exist. Would think somebody must have a copy in some quality though, even if not as pristine as a BBC master.

Picked out Viva the other day, and the one-two punch of "If there's something" and "...Heartache" on that one tears the sky apart. I couldn't do anything for half an hour.

I think Roxy might be my favorite band.

that record is so fucking amazing....pyjamarama also kills

I'm sure I've mentioned this in some other Roxy thread, but Stockholm 1976, bootlegged as Why Do You Think I'm A Funky Chick? is my favorite boot, as it's song for song the show I saw them do on the Siren tour. A good portion of the video is on youtube (and maybe elsewhere?) as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G35X8XYAues

Nice! Never known this.

Turns out I mentioned it in 3 other threads! Happy to help. That Musikladen DVD referred to 10 years ago is incredible also.

Just picked up a vinyl of Viva the other day; not a superb recording but a great performance.

What a great gig! Smoother, more elegant Roxy-mode than the band killing it on Viva, but still awesome. What a fab band!

also who is the woman on the cover of Viva? Loads of info on every other album but not this one.

Always thought that's Jacqui Sullivan, one of "The Sirens" along with Doreen Chanter.

the Viva chick is one of the '75 tour backup singers...she is also in the Love is the Drug top of the pops performance (lip sync), killing in a powder blue WWII style pencil skirt suit type thing--unbelievably hot. If you don't own this, you're nuts

http://www.amazon.com/Thrill-All-Visual-History-1972-1982/dp/B000JLQT3M/ref=sr_1_1?s=movies-tv&ie=UTF8&qid=1376503308&sr=1-1&keywords=roxy+music

http://cache3.asset-cache.net/gc/102299596-english-singer-bryan-ferry-with-roxy-music-gettyimages.jpg?v=1&c=IWSAsset&k=2&d=R4V%2fQay2ANwpmCZhkZDSEtJ%2fNB9CuZA6P62eiqU%2bI8uoJC4wu0mD06oG3nrdoCtUrt32SQS0DBuf%2fOeIK6gOxg%3d%3d

eh I'll dissent. The backup singers are too zealous or perhaps mixed too zealously esp on "Both Ends Burning."

Is there an official release of the BBC material yet. Just listening to the '72 In Concert show and it sounds fantastic. So surprised it hasn't come out in a legit way.

― Stevolende, Saturday, September 29, 2012 9:26 PM (10 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

still no official release. Eno goes wonderfully over the top on a lot of these. 'First Kiss' is a good sounding boot.

http://www.discogs.com/Roxy-Music-First-Kiss/release/4454187
http://www.roxyrama.com/releases/unauthorised/cd/firstkiss.shtml

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SYgVORvXGAs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=jS_AmSNUel4&t=52

the Manifesto tour had terrific performances.

^^^ the only two times I saw Roxy were Siren and Manifesto tours. I give the nod to the former, because it was my first time, and because I can still clearly remember so many details of that show.

http://media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lyogdngZ5P1qilqg8.png

Could anyone ever be cooler?

the lady on the right is the one on the viva cover, akm

What's up with the eyepatch? The pad suggests it was more than a fashion statement.

well we know he's no stranger to danger!

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/00438/news-graphics-2008-_438878a.jpg

Reminds me of nothing more than the Nazi alternate dimension Brigadier Lethbridge-Stewart from the 1970 Doctor Who serial, Inferno.

Ferry wears the same expression on a plummeting plane that we'd see on stage.

Can anyone sort of the Musikladen appearances? I think there were 3, which tracks were performed when?

Wow didnt realise there was any pics of the plane incident

he was right about the socks

Btw the Frejus appearance from '82 is/was on BBC4, iplayer now

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hoVNmiBS65U

Fabulous. Bryan Ferry is such a weird frontman.

Was that guy ever young?

What a great band.

that is fantastic, thank you

There is a recording from Denver, 1979, which has been released under various names in the past few years, that I just heard for the first time this week, and it's incredible. It's on Apple Music as just "Denver 1979"

yeah they were on fire on the Manifesto tour. Many clips on YouTube.

loool the screen capture on that 1973 vid.

sweating pancake makeup

that is incredible, thank you

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/566943d25a5668b614270ff9/1510354687583-3BGT35UHWOUY0G872ZO9/930ee188c4f954e425100346e79f9962--classic-monsters-halloween-photos.jpg?content-type=image%2Fjpeg

That show is right before Eno left iirc.

Believe that Denver '79 show was a King Biscuit broadcast.

I didn't listen to the box set of their first album because at this point Super Deluxe box sets are burning me out, but I tried the smaller deluxe set for the second disc - half John Peel sessions, half live show from 1972 (probably a soundboard tape) - and it's pretty great! If it was a bootleg, I could see people grading the sound as an A or A-, but not surprisingly it's not on par with the professional recordings and mixes you'd expect for an official live album.

It kind of hit me that I don't own any live Roxy Music concerts from the Eno years, just a few TV one-offs. What's here isn't that long but it's worth it - Eno in particular goes wild, and he adds something remarkable and different from song-to-song. The John Peel sessions do sound like rougher, less developed versions of the songs - whether they all are, I'm not sure, but it has that feel to it, and the live concert recordings sound like a big step forward as a result.

I've heard the two-disc version, too. Most unlikely highlight: the rocked-up concert version of "The Bob".

Yeah, that was a nice surprise!

In Chicago, Roxy is part Live Nation's $80 for 4 concerts deal with no additional fees!

Direct link if interested:
https://www.livenation.com/promotion/summerslive/venue/KovZpa2M7e

Aw, crap all gone. Never mind.

I think I mentioned an old list of "100 Greatest CD's" by EW I found that I actually used as a library loan guide. IIRC Avalon was on there, so that was my first exposure to them, but the occasional Trib article and The New Rolling Stone Album Guide pointed me to the rest. IIRC The RS guide was really big on Siren and Kot preferred the two Eno albums.

In the miserable desert of the early '90s I remember these appearances (and used former ILM poster Mark Coleman's RS guide), but these are critics. I meant, like, fans. I was going to mention Velvet Goldmine but it and 10,000 Maniacs' somnolent hit cover of "More Than This," but both were too early.

I do remember Velvet Goldmine but I didn't bother seeing it for a long time due to poor word of mouth (like "too bad he couldn't use Bowie songs like he originally planned"). I didn't realize they used Roxy Music's songs, but the movie was a flop so I doubt it made that many new fans.

it's terrible

(it is better than that Stardust movie that recently came out though).

there was a daniel craig movie several years back called "Flashbacks of a Fool" which has roxy and ferry as major plot points, even dressing craig up as ferry. but it didn't do very well I suppose.

https://64.media.tumblr.com/4e9d6465fb46296ad8b916cf2da6ce80/tumblr_pa6123LPAE1wbvw5fo2_400.gif

oh I guess it was the actor who plays Craig's character when younger. anyway here you go

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8f09xX7-Kos

In the early '90s Ferry and Bowie were wiped off American radio. I heard "Jump They Say" and "I Put a Spell on You" on my college station a couple times, dat's dat.

I still heard Bowie on Chicago “classic rock” stations in the early ‘90s, but usually just “Changes” or “Suffragette City.” “Jump They Say” got heavy airplay on the northeast “alternative” station I listened to — that is, I listened to the station mainly in the hopes they’d play “Jump They Say,” and they fortunately delivered.

Heart's Filthy Lesson and I'm Afraid of Americans were legitimate alternative radio hits. Nothing much after that though (I also stopped listening to commercial radio by the late 90's, for the most part).

Tuesday's Child definitely got PR push and had a video (as did other things on Hours) but the album was so poorly received I don't recall any of it really getting much traction, and then of course Bowie stopped doing videos for Heathen, I don't think he did any for Reality, and neither of those really had 'singles' songs and radio had completely changed by then.

As for Roxy: I certainly remember Avalon on the radio at the time of release, I never know who did that song until fairly late in the 80's. My parents around 79/80/81 listened to a lot of contemporary and 'crossover country' and I swear Avalon got play on those stations so I honestly never associated it with a British band. By the time of the 90's no, I don't remember Ferry or Roxy fairing very well radiowise in the US. I was into Ferry heavily in the early 90's and was one of like three people I knew who were into that but it was an extension of interest in art rock, Japan/Sylvian/Mick Karn stuff, etc, ie we were called art fags.

Same, though I discovered Japan/Sylvian and New Pop in the '90s through Ferry.

I was a consistent college radio listener through 1999 and never once heard "Heart's..." or "I'm Afraid of Americans." Guess it depended on region.

The MuchMusic channel in Canada was still showing videos like "Mamouna" or "Thursday's Child", not in frequent rotation, but enough that I knew they existed without seeking them out.

Roxy I recall hearing (three or four or five songs) a pretty good deal on WMMR in Philly growing up. but I got into Roxy by way of Eno (though always saw "Avalon" on audiophile lists); I don't recall listening to solo Ferry until "Mamouna," and again I think that was due to Eno, who was in his imperial '90s phase and all over that album. Stuff like Sylvian I got into by way of Fripp. Bowie I likely got into by way of both, Fripp and Eno.

By the '90s I was in Chicago and recall hearing "Earthing" stuff a lot on XRT, though don't recall hearing much "Outside" stuff on the radio.

Did any of Bowie's '90s videos get much airplay? I remember getting that DVD set and thinking that I had never seen any of them before. (Which is a shame for many reasons - they clearly put in a lot of work into each of them.)

"Jump They Say" is top five Bowie videoe.

*Video

within my friendgroup roxy was kind of like a record nerd band. juts like the eno records. seeing them in the uk this tour seems like they were more like fleetwood mac are over here or something. the whole crowd knew every word from every song. also billy idol sat near me which i might have already said!

Hearing it in the wild today, I'm reminded what a different world this have been if Ferry had taken the "Don't You (Forget About Me)" assignment.

Also, re: '90s Radio & Bowie: Classic Rock radio never forgot "Fame", "Rebel Rebel" and "Let's Dance".

...and "Changes" too!

A song that was never a hit in the US was Life on Mars. It’s odd how well known it is now.

Sales figures would suggest that more Americans knew the Barbra Streisand version of "Life on Mars" until recently, as it was on her ButterFly album that charted at #13 and went gold.

Don't think Life On Mars had much recognition amongst the american general populace until a season of American Horror Story used it to death.

yes, that! it's kind of weird to see it retconned into one of his most iconic songs now but obv. the US is not the world (neither is it mars)

Hearing it in the wild today, I'm reminded what a different world this have been if Ferry had taken the "Don't You (Forget About Me)" assignment.

Yep. Ferry's top-button-buttoned-at-all-times ethos doesn't suit an arrangement meant to be bellowed.

Yeah, he's James Bond lounging by the pool at the casino (and still in a tux), not James Bond in tactical gear about to rappel down a tall building.

I still hear tons of Bowie on the radio all the time. "Changes," "Space Oddity," "Ziggy," "Suffragette City," "Let's Dance," "Modern Love," "Jean Genie," "Diamond Dogs," "Heroes," "Starman," "Young Americans," "Fame," "Ashes to Ashes," "Golden Years," "Rebel Rebel," "China Girl," "Under Pressure." Rarely "Life on Mars," sometimes "DJ" or "Scary Monsters." Pretty impressive classic rock (and beyond) showing for a guy whose fame in the US was sort of simultaneously perennial and peripheral.

IIRC Kerr came up with the “Laaaa/Lalalalaaaa…” bit himself too. I can’t remotely imagine 80s Ferry singing that (tho These Foolish Things Ferry could’ve done wonders there, I suspect).

I am a sirius XM subscriber, and I note that Berlin/Scary Monsters DB as well as Peter Gabriel from Melt on fits the "First Wave" format, i.e. new wave and major label post-punk such as the Cure, REM, Smiths, Depeche Mode, New Order et al, as well as Classic Rewind, which approximates AOR from 1978-1986… the Genesis shit/"Solsbury Hill" and DB stuff going up to Young Americans resides on "Classic vinyl"… whereas any Roxy music and Ferry solo shit at all is formatted only on First Wave…granted, that's only "Love is the Drug" and the avalon material as far as Roxy (we have agreed on this thread that that material is what Roxy amounts to as far as the mass audience in America is concerned anyway), but Ferry is purely a classic alternative artist as far as Sirius, which while a deeper experience of commercial radio than, say, IHeartRadio is still very much a product of commercial radio…

I've always wanted to start a Sirius XM thread, as I do find the fragmenting and winnowing down of commercial radio formats so that deep cuts are regularly played to be interesting…not sure if anyone else would be interested…

I really enjoyed my trial of satellite radio that came with the car. I think I might have renewed once at a discounted rate? After the rates went up fully, and dismayed by all the bullshit political stuff they broadcast, I canceled it, but I really did like all the music stations. Not sure where I would have heard most Roxy, aside from the obvious stuff. Deep Tracks channel?

they also play Roxy on Deep Tracks

First time for me seeing this great 1973 show! posted today:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6LspMHCeyCw

whoah.

holy shit

Holy shit!

lol xp

Bryan Ferry on guitar.

Eno doing some Terry Riley-esque time lag accumulator tape delay on the reel to reel for Mckay's epic if there is something breakdown...

Eno and Mckay with arms outstretched for the harmony vocals during the ending. Never thought I'd see that.

Marvelous!

"Eno and Mckay with arms outstretched for the harmony vocals during the ending. Never thought I'd see that."

without a doubt, anyone who has ever cared about Eno or Ferry/Roxy MUST see this… it is some Wicker Man/ Midsommar shit and you will be scarred for the rest of your life…

Quick notes:

- Andy Mackay's three-finger organ jabbing is almost as inspired as Ferry's.

- Ferry sweats like a farm animal

- Manzanera doesn't play a single dull note.

BADGERS COULDN'T COMPENSATE AT TWICE THE PRICE

otm

holy shit x4 or whatever

Holy shit x5

what's her name? holy shit

without a doubt, anyone who has ever cared about Eno or Ferry/Roxy MUST see this… it is some Wicker Man/ Midsommar shit and you will be scarred for the rest of your life…

i hadn't seen the complete montreux set before, really cool! have folks seen the bataclan november '72 set that's on the deluxe s/t set? it's rather rougher, on-stage grainy film with lots of cuts, but it's got a great version of "would you believe" - prob. my fave eno backing vox on record. at bataclan mackay is more highlighted. the really frustrating thing is that i would _kill_ for a complete recording of a fall '72 show in good quality. "if there is something" reached truly epic heights live - the version on _viva!_ is nearly perfunctory compared to early versions. the BBC version from august '72 (unforgivably left off the deluxe set - i'd also kill for a really good recording of that) is fine enough. i could listen to eno treat mackay and manzanera's instrumental duo for hours. anyway the fall '72 version is only 18 minutes... the only complete recording i know of is a truly abysmal fidelity recording of croydon - one of the worst-quality bootleg recordings i've heard, and i've heard a _lot_ of bootleg recordings. the music, though? chef's kiss.

Watched this last night and it’s amazing - seems like they got much less rave-up/improvisatory after this. I love how the attention of the performances are about equally divided between all the members, almost like Can. Like an outfit where MacKay, Eno and Ferry are co-leaders.

Highlights of this, other than the appearance of Manzanera's fly's eye sunglasses at the end, were the interstitial/interlude bits where everyone else stands around waiting for one or two members to finish making a glorious racket before they all start back into the songs.