BRYAN FERRY turns 70 today. Pour yourself a nice Absinthe and crank up the Roxy Music.

[Miles Archer]

[Tom Kitten]

1. Happy Birthday Bryan

Let's have a toast!



For Your Pleasure...

[ailsagirl]

2. Geez... does anyone else ever feel like Rip Van Winkle??

Where the hell have the last 40 years gone??????

[Miles Archer]

4. I know...I saw Roxy Music live at the Paramount Theater in Oakland CA.

Late 70s, don't recall the exact date. The final song / encore was Bob Dylan's "A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall," which Ferry had recorded on one of his solo albums, which featured the band playing in a hail of confetti. The whole show was as entertaining and quirky as you'd expect it to be. I would have loved to see them with Brian Eno. Eddie Jobson was a skilled musician but Eno just took a huge chunk of the band's personality with him when he left.

[ailsagirl]

5. I believe I saw the Kinks in that theater-- twice

Wow... what a show. You gotta love Ray Davies!!

[PufPuf23]

8. I saw the Kinks at Fillmore West

in 1969 or 1970 with Taj Mahal and Sha Na Na. Only cost $3.50 and you got a handbill and apples.

After that, but not prior, I was a Kinks fan.

[ailsagirl]

13. I still am, though I haven't listened to much music lately

Next time I have a long road trip, in go the CDs!!

[PufPuf23]

7. I was at a Roxy Music concert at Oakland's Paramount also

Pretty certain Roxy Music at Paramount was in 1976 (or at least the show where I attended, and the band was post-Eno)

I date my rocknroll times as: high school/post high school 67-73, with Jill xxxx as Cal undergrad 73-77, with Robin xxxx as Cal undergrad/wife 77-85, and Cal grad school 85-87. I have only gone to two rock shows since 1987: David Lindley and El Rayo X in 90? and Spirit in 94, both in Eureka bars/music clubs. I was very fortunate music-wise for time and place and freedom.

Also saw The Tubes and Oingo Boingo at the Paramount, an excellent venue.

[Miles Archer]

9. Also saw the Tubes at the Paramount...

...and during "White Punks On Dope," Fee Waybill yelled out "LADIES AND GENTLEMEN...THE LYNYRD SKYNYRD GUITAR SECTION!"

And who was that, exactly?

Tubes guitarists Bill "Sputnik" Spooner and Roger Steen, PLUS someone in a gorilla suit, PLUS...riding high on a wave of new fame from "Silk Degrees," the one and only Boz Scaggs. SHARPEST S.O.B. I have ever seen on a stage, ever. Blue pinstripe suit, white Fender Strat, just 1000% rock star.

That specific show used to be available on the Wolfgang's Vault website. Not sure if it's still out there.



Saw the Tubes two additional times at Bimbo's in San Francisco. The quality and elaborate nature of their live shows is what drove them to bankruptcy. By the time they hooked up with Todd Rundgren and started recording songs like "Sushi Girl" and "She's A Beauty," they were no longer the same band. They were chasing hits to recover from having their bank accounts cleared out. Percussionist Mingo Lewis, who joined the band around the time of their third album "Now," was not offered official membership in the band...they discouraged him from it...because they did not want him to assume any responsibility for the financial hole they'd found themselves in.

[PufPuf23]

10. I do not recall the detail except was the most polished stage show.

Saw Tubes 4 or 5 times at Long Branch on San Pablo in Berkeley in 74-75 before first album. The first time went to the Long Branch never having heard of The Tubes. I cannot recall the first song except the show started with a spotlight on a food platter cover on a table. Fee Waybill's head was under the cover and then there was mass quantities of white bread on stage that migrated to the dancers and watchers in smaller and smaller pieces. The band and shows were raw but Waybill finished every show as Quay Lewd.

Later saw them at Bill Graham shows at Winterland and Oakland Auditorium, either the Paramount or Oakland Auditorium were the last show.

Not that long ago I was trying unsuccessfully to find internet videos of Leila and the Snakes (Jane Dornacker and Pearly Gates) to show an old friend. I saw LTS once at a comedy club out near the Haight - thought standup and got a humorous rock and roll band that really got partially naked - and again Halloween 1978 at Bimbos. I knew of "Leila" from the Long Branch shows (backup singer dancer who wrote Don't Touch Me There). Also the initial Tube's keyboardist went to the Dead.

I did know or recall that about Boz Scaggs at the Paramount. Maybe the trendy chemical amusement aids? Lots going on. I saw Scaggs twice with Steve Miller Band at Fillmore West but never solo and never went to his night club.

Looking back should have enjoyed those times more, not that I did not enjoy.

[ailsagirl]

12. I hate to sound like an old fogy, but MAN, music was really something back then

Thank God we can still listen to it and not have to rely on old scratchy 45 RPMs!!

[IcyPeas]

14. The Tubes - OMG I loved the song Primetime

haven't thought of it in eons:

[IcyPeas]

3. happy birthday mr. suave

[ailsagirl]

6. Love, love, love that song!!

Thanks for posting

[Arugula Latte]

11. Thanks for all the great music, Mr. Ferry!

[shanti]

15. love this one:

bete noire is my favorite album of his.

[EX500rider]

16. let's not forget this one: