Re: roxy music

[doc rossi <docittern@gmail.com>]

Thanks, Duncan.  The Editions of You take from this session is good as  
well, with BE nonchalantly flinging his tambourine stage right. No  
looping, though.

On Apr 24, 2008, at 2:42 PM, Goddard, Duncan wrote:

>>> Brian Eno did live treatments on Phil Manzanera's guitar using tape.
> Have a look at this - the solo starts after 4 minutes. Is there some  
> use
> of looping?
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t3D2JSBxjzI
>
> no. the two revox a77s were always a part of eno's stage rig during  
> his
> tenure with roxy, but they were used for tape-echo & are clearly not  
> in
> the frippertronics configuration here. he appears to be (& it sounds
> like he is) manipulating a remote varispeed on one of them at the  
> start
> of manzanera's extemporisation; the early model of a77 was a tricky
> machine to add varispeed to, & revox later changed the capstan servo  
> to
> a version with a 555 timer chip which made this easier. but I digress.
> later on in the piece, baldy brian processes the guitar through the
> VCS3.
>
> odd performance though- I thought I'd seen all the beat club  
> recordings,
> but this one is new to me. brian ferry would normally have played the
> keyboard part, here left to andy mackay by the looks of things, so  
> that
> BF can (unusually) strum a strat.
>
> d.
>
>
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