RE: heavenly/roxy music

[goddard.duncan@mtvne.com]

Title: RE: heavenly/roxy music

>>I remember an interview where Eno and Phil Manzanera were discussing the old Roxy
Music days when Eno would process Phil's guitar.  Phil used to get frustrated because
he would stop playing but he was still hearing guitar.  He said that was the reason
Eno left the band, that he [Phil] told the band "Either he goes or I go."  Eno
corrected him, "What really happened was I said I would leave unless I were allowed
to do the same thing to Bryan's voice."<<

hmm... there are as many versions of eno's departure as there were bass players in roxy's 70s lineups. I heard that eno's costumes were annoying ferry as he felt upstaged by the feather boas and so on, especially as he spent time away from the centre of the stage to bang away at the ivories himself.

anyway, eno's encyclopaedic recall is generally more trustworthy, and is supported by the subsequent appearance of sundry roxys-not-called-brian on his early solo albums. best of mates now though.

shit!
we're almost back on topic!
eno showing fripp how les paul (and others) would shove two tape decks together to create a geologically long echo effect; that all happened round about this time too.

 
I wonder how many musicians/engineers/producers discovered this idea "independently"; I had no idea what "no pussyfooting" was about the first time I wedged my two ferrographs together in 1979, I just wanted a longer delay so we could do this multiple layered looping thing with our solitary roland synth. an sh1000 in case you're interested. the first synth made in japan. one oscillator, two lfo's. makes noise a bit like a vcs3 and yes, ours had an audio input retrofitted too. I'd never heard looping before we did it ourselves. anyone else?

duncan.

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