RRANIMAL@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
to http://www.yahoogroups.com
put LOU REED in the search, and
join
rranimal@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
to chat about Lou Reed, The Rock & Roll
Animal album and tour, Berlin and other great stuff!
There is some renewed activity, so I thought I'd send
out an invite to new people and say "HI" to people
from the past. Here's the invite just sent out to new
people:
Lou Reed has signed to Sanctuary Records - the same
label that is releasing the USA version of Ian
Hunter's orchestrated DVD. With the rave reviews for
Animal's Serenade and Lou's upcoming 2005
tour of Europe it is time for Lou Reed fans to unite
like never before to sup****t this im****tant artist.
Many of these posts will appear on
lou-reed@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
- the original site started
by Jon Hinchliffe back in the 1990s. That is still
the main group - this is a supplemental group - much
like Brian****eld's lou-reedteenfanclub@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
'll also be searching the newsgroups (accessible
through Google) alt.music.velvets and
alt.music.lou-reed to post info of value here.
Ian Hunter will be appearing in New Jersey and New
York around December 10th - we are thinking of
having a get together then for anyone who wants to
say "Hi" in person. We are also planning a Velvet
Underground tribute concert outside of Boston. Stay
tune.
Sign the online petition to get Dick Wagner into the
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame. You can find it on this
group or in the L-R group.
As I'm working on my book about Lou Reed's RR Animal
Tour and the Berlin album there will be ****tions of
interviews that I've conducted - Moogy Klingman, Dinky
Dawson, Buzzy Linhart, Paul Williams (who re-mastered
some of Lou's recordings) and many others.
Hoping to be in New York on December 10, 2004 and
again March 11, 2005 - (a week after Lou's birthday).
Ian Hunter will be in New Jersey at the Stone Pony on
December 10, 2004; Patti Smith I believe is there on
the 11th.
Stay tuned!
Joe Viglione
http://joevigfirstimpressions.blogspot.com
http://www.varulven.com
P.O. Box 2392
Woburn, MA 01888
I moderate the group out of vra682001@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
I started it on webtv way back when.
Hip-0 Select has re-released Genya Ravan's duet with Lou Reed.
You can read the liner notes by yours truly!
http://www.hiposelect.com/catalogue_ravan.asp
Track Listing
1. Jerry's Pigeons
2. The Knight Ain't Long Enough
3. Do It Just For Me
4. Shot In The Heart
5. Aye Co'lorado
6. Back In My Arms Again
7. Cornered
8. The Sweetest One
9. Darling, I Need You
10. Messin Around
11. Shadowboxing
Price: $17.49
RELEASE DATE: SEPTEMBER 3RD
CD Edition limited to 5000 individually numbered copies.
The intentional and exquisite raw production of Genya Ravan's Urban
Desire explores the high voltage newly emerging in cities around the
world during the cherished "New Wave" movement in rock. Ravan's
production of The Dead Boys "Sonic Reducer" in 1977 helped spearhead
the revolution, a charge continued on this, her fifth solo disc
after previous careers with the influential jazz/pop ensemble Ten
Wheel Drive and the ground-breaking all-girl Goldie & The
Gingerbreads before that.
1978's Urban Desire is part of an im****tant trilogy of Ravan
recordings, including it's sequel - also on Hip-0 Select -
1979's ...And I Mean It and concluding with Ronnie Spector's Siren
from 1980 - as much a Genya Ravan record as it is Ronnie's.
Two Joe Droukas compositions, "Shadowboxing" and "The Sweetest One",
bring to mind The Rolling Stones' Sticky Fingers phase. In
fact, "Shadowboxing" could nearly be considered the great lost track
from the Stones 1972 masterpiece. The Droukas/Ravan team doesn't
stop there, though; for "The Knight Ain't Long Enough" is more than
a clever double-entendre, it creatively reflects Mott The Hoople
during their wonderful Brain Capers period - the moment before Bowie
got hold of them - and a style that La David emulated often.
Genya also puts dynamics in sequencing the material; "Do It Just For
Me" comes off a lot more subtly than the rocking disc-
opener, "Jerry's Pigeons." Rock's pioneering lady spins the songs
like a disc jockey; "Shot In The Heart" - as with most of the
record - adaptable for college or mainstream radio. The Lou Reed
duet on "Aye Co'lorado" is just the prescription for anyone who
wanted to demolish their stereo every time an Eagles song came on.
And to Velvet Underground fans even further, Genya does a Gospel-
meets-the-street version of John Cale's superb "Darling I Need You."
If you can envision Deep Purple asking one of the foxiest lead
singers from the '70s to come onstage to sing a Supremes tune,
you'll have a good idea of how "Back In My Arms Again" sounds with
guitars ablaze. It brings to mind the idea of Diana Ross and Janis
Joplin as vocalists in Genya's dream-team version of The Supremes -
but Janis can't and Diana won't, you'll have to indulge in Urban
Desire to fully comprehend life on the edge. Gavin Lurssen's superb
mastering will help you do just that.
(C)2004 http://www.joeviglione.com
Did You Know? Genya's first-ever single featured Spencer Davis and
Steve Winwood as backing musicians.
I did not write the liners to the ...AND I MEAN IT disc with the
Ian Hunter duet - Though you can read my reviews on
http://www.allmusic.com
http://www.hiposelect.com/catalogue_ravanaimi.asp
Track Listing
1. Pedal To The Metal
2. I Won't Sleep On The Wet Spot N More
3. Steve...
4. Stubborn Kinda Girl
5. It's Me
6. Junkman
7. Love Isn't Love
8. I'm Wired, Wired, Wired
9. Roto Root Her
10. Night Owl
Price: $17.49
RELEASE DATE: AUGUST 27TH
CD Edition limited to 5000 individually numbered copies.
Most rock history writers have their blind spots here and there,
conferring fame and prestige on certain artists and consigning
others to comparative obscurity. Sometimes, critical faves aren't
embraced as warmly by the public as they are by the writers.
Sometimes, artists are just a couple of degrees ahead of the curve
of public taste, and they never quite get their careers in sync the
way that, by all rights they should, were this a just world.
Genya Ravan hasn't gotten her due in the great book that is the
History of Rock, and it's past time that this particular wrong was
righted.
And I Mean It came out in 1979, just as the punk/new wave thing was
taking hold of the public's imagination in America, and while the
album looked kinda new wave, it was a little too eclectic to
pigeonhole her in that genre. In some ways, that was a good thing,
but in others, it left her standing at the corner of Punk Avenue and
Hard Rock Boulevard, and the great Bus of Commercial Success didn't
stop there.
But this record is ***y, it has a brilliant duet with Mott The
Hoople's Ian Hunter ("Junkman") and it kicks you-know-what.
You must at least listen to these samples to know what a treasure
you have probably missed… until now. It's three minutes of your life
you will have spent wisely.
Did You Know? Genya has a new book called Lollipop Lounge: Memoirs
Of A Rock And Roll Refugee.
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