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In Reply to: Re: I'm a pretty huge fan posted by Tony on June 23, 2005 at 16:23:16:
He was out of there pretty quick....I think by the second or third Roxy Music record.Pure speculation, but i think that Bryan Ferry and his "David Bowie complex" were pretty difficult to handle. A side band called "801" was formed with Phil Manzanera and some other ex-Roxy Music folks for a short time. Eno, and his strange sounds left a big hole in my opinion.
I kind of have 2 non-ambient favs, which would be Another Green World and Before and After Science which came a little later than AGW. I guess that there are more songs on Before and After, wherein AGW has some more instrumental work. Both AGW and BaaS have Phil Collins, Busta Jones, Robert Fripp and lots of great musician guests. I also really like Music for Films a lot, - but that's instrumental and starting to approach his later ambient works. His very treated Discreet Music is probably considered the first ambient recording. It's basically a classical piece, - sorry the composer's name escapes me, - slowed down and ran through two reel to reel tape machines.
The Eno/Fripp collaboration "No Pussyfooting" is also the beginnings of "Frippertronics" an ambient recording that can be interesting, - but these days, at my last visit, it was tiresome and too repetitive.
The David Byrne/Eno collaboration of "My Life in the Bush of Ghosts" is more rhythmic and uses recorded voices, singing, preachers etc. etc. I haven't listened to it in a long time and have been meaning to re-acquire it. My rememberance when I sold it was that it was pretty repetitive as well: spending too much time per riff....It was incredibly well reviewed and labelled as revolutionary.
IMO, much of this stuff is fourth and fifth and sixth listen stuff. If you sit and focus on it, - it can be tiresome the first time through. But, - if you're out and about and doing something, the third and fourth listen, - at high volume, - can be pretty darn powerful.....
As an aside, I never got a chance to meet Eno, but my band had met several times with Opal Records, - Eno's label, - their A&R rep out of LA had sent all of our material off to Eno and I had a couple of interesting phone conversations with him. To me, being such a fan, it was a big deal. He's been a big influence on my life and work for sure.
Hope this helps... let me know if you have any other questions, or also fire me off an Email if you want to go offline...
Cheers,
if you have to ask wha-iz-it, you ain't never gonna know
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