tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post113734847944359803..comments2024-03-24T08:17:55.097-04:00Comments on BLOG TO COMM: Christopher Stiglianohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17107248034597839482noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-1137898364713608822006-01-21T21:52:00.000-05:002006-01-21T21:52:00.000-05:00Roxy wore their Velvets influences pretty flagrant...Roxy wore their Velvets influences pretty <EM>flagrantly</EM> if you ask me, and well into the <STRONG>COUNTRY LIFE</STRONG> period (I never did hear <STRONG>SIREN</STRONG> for some strange reason, mostly lack of money or interest). It's funny, I must admit that at first I couldn't quite hear the Velvetisms in Roxy's music (heeee---I originally didn't cozy up to the Roxy tracks I did hear though I really enjoyed Eno's early endeavors so call me a zomboid!) perhaps because the Ethel Mermanisms of a lotta their songs was showing through (plus they seemed more or less <EM>faux</EM>-punk at the time), but as my ears became more <EM><STRONG>honed</EM></STRONG> to such things, <STRONG>PLUS</STRONG> I began reading reviews where Greg Shaw would compare "Virginia Plain" to the Modern Lovers over the early Velvets (and in 1972) and I'd come across items about how Bryan Ferry would talk the VU up and down in 1971 London when nobody else <EM>cared</EM>, well, let's just say that my interests were more than <EM><STRONG>piqued</EM></STRONG>... <BR/>And believe-it-or-not, but even this far down the line I can even toss the "punk" tag around when talking about Roxy, or at least in an early-seventies punkcrit way, like when people would call Mike Heron's music "metaphysical punk rock" and it seems that the birth of the punkisms that we know and love were gestating in a number of fanzines world-wide...<BR/><BR/>I once made a comment somewhere down the line about how, in the late-seventies after reading a blurb about how the Velvets were the most <EM>influential</EM> rock band of all time (and this at the height of my Velvets-obsession, which in many ways was stronger than it is now!) I just wanted to know exactly <EM><STRONG>which groups</EM></STRONG> the author in question had in mind then go straight to the record shop in search of their platters! At the time I thought that rock music in general was rather <EM>anti</EM>-Velvets/high energy save for a few fine items only I seemingly knew about, so the quest was something that you could bet I was more than anxiously looking forward to! It seems that this far down the line I'm realizing more and more exactly how much the VU gave the extra <EM>putsch</EM> with regards to just about everything good about the late-sixties and seventies, and everything dire that came after! And call me a stick-inna-mud, but I'm <EM>still</EM> the kinda guy who palipitates wildly over the thought of some new Velvets platter (or Velvets-<EM>influenced</EM> platter) that comes down the line, though it seems that the material closer to the organism-of-it-all satiates me the most. As I've said many a time (this is for the newcomers), too many of these current Velvets wannabes leave way too much to be desired...it's like they're all having a contest to see who can become the biggest bleeding heart or something! If more bands took the energy, avant gardeness and flippant attitude of the Velvets to heart and just forgot about the rote chord changes and balladry...Christopher Stiglianohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17107248034597839482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-1137677988947119192006-01-19T08:39:00.000-05:002006-01-19T08:39:00.000-05:00This comment has been removed by a blog administrator.Christopher Stiglianohttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17107248034597839482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-1137355990284686382006-01-15T15:13:00.000-05:002006-01-15T15:13:00.000-05:00The V.U. influence is so great on the first two Ro...The V.U. influence is so great on the first two Roxy albums I don't know how anyone could NOT see it. I always saw Roxy's basic aesthetic blueprint as being the "White Light/White Heat" era V.U. backing Elvis PresleyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6910067.post-1137355072713769502006-01-15T14:57:00.000-05:002006-01-15T14:57:00.000-05:00Hi Chris,If you were pulled over it was just so I ...Hi Chris,<BR/><BR/>If you were pulled over it was just so I could say I really enjoy your blog (and the stack of well worn copies of Pfhudd and BTC I have over here at HQ is more testiomonial to said fact) No tickets, just a tip of the hat and a wish you well on your journey. Just beware of diversions that might spoil your ride...<BR/><BR/>Or to put it differently: Gimme Velvets boots, obsuro mid 70s 45s, krautrock, six-o garage, fanzine histories. I'm well aware that the world is goin' down the drain, but I don't wanna be reminded in the middle of a Von Lmo review!<BR/><BR/>If Lindsay is anti-anything, I guess he's anti-stupidity. But mostly, I think, he's just grumpy. And I'll tell you what; some of his best friends are American.<BR/><BR/>Take care,<BR/><BR/>JeroenJeroen Vedderhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12449317481543476795noreply@blogger.com