I once met someone claiming to be one of his nephews in Seattle. I e-mailed some people at one of his fan sites, and apparently Brian E's got relatives all over the place.
IMHO, Eno was as just as crucial to the 70's as were the Ramones, the Clash, Iggy Pop, David Torn, etc.
"Juanita and Juan/Very clever with maracas/Are making their fortunes/selling second-hand tobaccos..."
temptfaith said:
i love brian eno's music and so many of the projects in which he has participated. recently i have been enjoying taking tiger mountain thanks to running across it in a CD store. i listened to it on cassette for years until i just didn't own a functioning cassette deck any more. there was a few year period where i went to sleep listening to "thursday afternoon". he also produced portions of my favorite jane siberry record "when i was a boy". brian eno could be politely described as fabulously talented.
for christmas i got a set of oblique strategies cards. i keep them in my studio and delve into them when i am having moral qualms with a direction a song is headed. i don't know if the musicians appreciate them, but i sure do. i recently pulled,
destroy:
nothing
the most important thing.
when a mix is totally falling apart that is powerful advice.
Thanks for the reminder about those... I just spent a while googling around and assembled a list. I stuck it in my journal...
If it's the one I think it is, I know what you mean but lacks the majesty of the master!
Yeah, it certainly can't hold a candle to even a lesser cut on, say, Another Green World, but that doesn't stop it from being a very effective homage, not to mention a wonderful, surprising closer to Murphy's album.
Recently, I was very surprised and pleased to read that Eno and Robert Fripp had done a small European tour -- their first in more than 25 years -- playing their groundbreaking brand of ambient impovisation. Somebody told me there is a CD of it out there, does anybody know anything about this?
I've always thought the two Fripp and Eno albums were brilliant and the prospect of more new stuff has me all sweaty with anticipation.
Somebody recently started a thread with links to the Oblique Strategies online. You click a button and it throws one up at random (as it's meant to work, of course).
"Given the chance,
I'll die like a baby
On some faraway beach
When the seasons over..."
Oh, I used to use that thing all the time. And I'd always be like "OH MY GOD it makes so much sense!"
It is fun, though.
TheFuckOffKid said:
Somebody recently started a thread with links to the Oblique Strategies online. You click a button and it throws one up at random (as it's meant to work, of course).
"Given the chance,
I'll die like a baby
On some faraway beach
When the seasons over..."
tellyfone
Ithaca, NY
December 2004
MAR 07, 2005 10:45 PM