Roxy Music - Roxy Music POLL

That seems very cool to me that BF is playing at the opening of the Bowie show.

Oh yeah, thanks for your response! I've heard he is rather a cold interview, unsurprisingly

This one is kinda entertaining:

http://pitchfork.com/features/5-10-15-20/9076-bryan-ferry/

The debonair 67-year-old former Roxy Music frontman on the music of his life: Charlie Parker, Otis Redding, Arcade Fire, Billie Holiday, Dylan, and more.

Oh snap, almost forgot, he did say he finished his new album last week! It's called "Avonmore." Out in November. Apparently Nile Rodgers and Johnny Marr on guitar, again, but there are usually a million guys on guitar. As he joked last night, it's funny to call them solo records, because they typically feature 50 different musicians.

http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/tributes-merseyside-musician-john-gustafson-7800684

x-post re Gustafson, Roxy bassist for a bit

Phil sez Roxy Music more or less officially broken up, at least inasmuch as any band on hiatus is "broken up" until it tours or records:

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/roxy-music-break-up-20141103

Sounds pretty much over, though.

listening to this album for the first time ever

It's pretty good, you heard it here first.

Aye, listen to yer man, Josh, it's no' half bad.

whoa thats crazy crut. what do you think?

it's great! crazy to think it was 1972. a lot of it sounds more like 1977. i guess the reasons for that are self-explanatory.

Because the band traveled back from the future to entertain us.

I tried searching, but I've no idea what the leading Roxy Music thread is. And the following video is probably ten times on here already, too. But god damn I just saw this OGWT video for the first time tomorrow and whoa... What a performance. Absolutely mesmerizing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G56DaSAeZfM

that seems to be the album audio.

... but the performance! Ferry's stare! Deadpan delivery! His quiff! Eno's I'm-outta-here-real-soon coolness!

I'd never seen this performance!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dZQu8q8xnfE

Yeah, it's maximum tense trebly coke Roxy at their peak.

I always thought the line in "Love is the Drug" was "I say coke, she says yes."

Ooh, I haven't seen this either, first couple minutes look amazing!

Ferry's eyebrows in this are terrifying.

I wonder if this was the tour where Wire supported them and which was such a horrible depressing experience for Wire it, indirectly, led to the dissolution of the band.

Never heard of such a tour, interesting

ferry’s got serious mr spock brows in this, wow

I was listening to "Manifesto" yesterday, and man, the bassist is killing it. Reminded me a lot of the playing on "Lexicon of Love," but I don't recognize the name of this guy or that guy (even though this guy did eventually record with a post-"Lexicon" version of ABC).

It isn't Gary Tibbs?

Alan Spenner. Played on some early Joe Cocker records and with Spooky Tooth, among many others. Died really young.

I think he was an old UK session lag who played with absolutely everyone.

This is obviously a joke, but everyone in the comments seems to be taking it seriously for some reason.
Anyway, made me laugh.

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There is no reason I necessarily should have seen this photo, but I've never seen it and think it's cool:

https://scontent-ort2-1.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.6435-9/196499509_10158402786553727_2093643259837767448_n.jpg?_nc_cat=100&ccb=1-3&_nc_sid=730e14&_nc_ohc=clEWq-ohnIUAX--wSJC&tn=ORcsky-MBznsY1T7&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-1.xx&oh=403446714dcdb53271e8d18631aed54b&oe=60E9E998

That was definitely one of my favorite Tiny Desk concerts.

Looool!

Sounding glorious tonight. Listening to the Peel Session version of If There Is Something and getting that weird timeslip feeling that this could, with some of the right drugs, been on Abbey Road and Fear of Music.

So ahead of their time. Still ahead of their time.

I'm really torn about shelling out for the tour. I've seen Ferry several times and Roxy once. I have no expectations this tour will be any better than those, but I also feel that it could be the final tour for, well, any of them, and I love them, so ...

They've been having trouble selling out here in NYC, so much that I have no doubt a lot of those seats will remain unsold, moreso than the Who show at the same venue 7 weeks ago. And if it's anything like that Who show, you could wait four hours before show time and grab a ticket for a fraction of the price.

That may be my plan. Market is oversaturated with big ticket tours right now, and not sure Roxy has what it takes to cut through the noise and fill an arena.

has the long july 1972 bbc version of "if there is something" ever been released officially? it is _so good_, one of my favorite roxy recordings ever, and they went and left it off the deluxe reish. i'd love to hear it in non-bootleg sound quality...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hqtzZaXt89A

Wow!

It it the algorithm or is there suddenly a lot of new great footage their first phase turning up now?

The upload dates are all recent, though I noticed a few being taken down so it could be re-uploads of stuff that's been out there for a while.