On 08-13-97 CLARK RAY wrote to KENNETH NEWMAN... 
 
 CR> I'll keep those in mind.  Is any of Bowie's other work worth picking 
 CR> up? I have _Scary Monsters_ and like about half of it or so. 
 
        Well, there's plenty of decent Bowie but very little 
        on-topic. Care to switch this over to the CD_ECHO? 
 
 CR> Roxy Music -- Viva! Roxy Music 
 
 CR> I've been listening to this many times since I wrote that message.   I 
 CR> like it very much.  There's really no song on it that I don't like and 
 CR> some of them, like "Out of The Blue," "If There Is Something," and "In 
 CR> Every Dream Home A Heartache," 
 
        There's also a really good version of "IEDHaH" on the 
        Bryan Ferry live video that he did in Paris, I think it 
        was called _New Town_. 
 
 CR> _Avalon_, which is OK for some light jazzy kind of stuff, but it 
 CR> doesn't have the teeth that this live material does. 
 
        Roxy was better with edges IMO and over time they were 
        all smoothed down. They started out great, with David 
        O'List from the Nice on lead guitar, Eno on synth. 
        Gradually they got less and less weird, more and more 
        pop. They were still a good live band for a long time, 
        though, even if Manzanera's solos could give you permanent 
        ear damage. Speaking of which, you need a copy of Quiet 
        Sun _Mainstream_ if you haven't got one; it was a very 
        good prog band with Manzanera on guitar and the excellent 
        Bill MacCormick (Matching Mole, 801) on bass. 
 
 CR> I haven't heard any Moby Grape, and I'll guess by your description 
 CR> that I don't need to. 
 
        THere's some debate as to how wonderful they are and I'm 
        never one to insisst all agree with me, but I think 
        they're probably not very far up your alley. 
 
 KN> Kraan are a band you keep with you 
 KN> for a long time, rather than a passing infatuation. 
 
 CR> Hmm, nice to hear.  I was thinking about getting some more.  What do 
 CR> you recommend? 
 
        All of them. Kraan never put out a bad album. Even stuff 
        like the solo album by bassist Helmut Hatler _Baseball 
        Game_ is worth having (it's basically another Kraan album). 
 
        However, I usually recommend people start off on Kraan 
        with the double live album _Kraan Live_. But in general 
        buy whatever you can find, you can't go wrong. 
 
NP: Yes _Tormato_ which is a much better album than we thought it 
was at the time. 
 
                                Cheers, 
                                Kenneth 
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