Roxy Music - Editions of You [1974-06-04 London]

[JohnnyLovelyMusicVid]

Lol at the audience

[801liveable]

This can be seen on "Total Recall" 90 minute retrospect of Roxy Music/Bryan Ferry 1972-85..Eddie Jobson, ticked off can't get anymore out of synthesizer..love how Bryan Ferry, moves onstage..You either get it or you don't..

[CitizenGatsby]

@801liveable I love the way he moves onstage, too. :) My favorite is his dancing around the stage during the instrumental breaks in "Pyjamarama" on Musikladen 1/23/74 (you can find it in my uploads). hehehe

Thanks for the tip about Total Recall. I see now that's an OOP VHS; never released on DVD. Too bad. I'd love to see this in better quality. Somebody needs to do a digital rebroadcast!

[801liveable]

@CitizenGatsby Bryan Ferry himself admits he does not move well on stage.At the start of Roxy Music no one stood at center stage. Ferry, said he was too insecure. It was his record company EG that persuaded him to go forth. Some rock critics said Ferry, who is well over 6' moved like the Frankenstein monster. Me and my buddy saw him a couple of times and yeah he had very weird movements. We used to call him the rubber man.But the moves were always cool. He always looks cool.

[CitizenGatsby]

@801liveable Yes, I know. :) I don't think he's as bad as Frankenstein, but I do find his awkward dancing rather endearing. LOL I've only gotten to see him live once thus far (10/14/11 Oakland). He still does his thing. Cool as hell. I had to laugh, though, when he and I both did that little hands-on-hips move at the "Ag-gra-va-ted/Spare for days" part in "Love Is the Drug" (as seen in Roxy Music's 12/25/75 appearance on LWT's Supersonic) at the same time. LOL Man, I loved that.

[801liveable]

@CitizenGatsby It's refreshing to find someone else who shares the same enthusiasm for Roxy Music as I do. Too bad there aren't more of us. I've seen Bryan Ferry/Roxy Music everytime they've been to Cleveland since 1974. Yes Bryan Ferry moves oddly on stage. 2 vivid memories. 1975. Ferry dressed in his military diggs doing Both Ends Burning as shown on U-Tube 'B-E Burning 1975 Live'. It was the same in Cleveland. Also there Roxy Music The Main Thing (live 1982). Saw that too.

[CitizenGatsby]

@801liveable Likewise! :) I wish there were more of us around, too. Bryan Ferry and Roxy Music are far too under-appreciated these days. I only just got into their music in September. When I saw the video of "Mother of Pearl" live on Musikladen, that was it! I fell in love. I wish I had gotten into Roxy and Ferry's solo work sooner. You're so lucky to have seen them so many times—esp. circa 'Country Life' and 'Siren' (♥ his uniforms on those tours mmm mmm). I'm jealous. :D

[801liveable]

@CitizenGatsby I see then you have some catching up to do, about 40 years. Of all the shows I've see solo or the band my favorite was in 1979 at the Richfield Coliseum in Cleveland. It was Roxy Music's Manifesto Tour after they got back together. The best entrance I've ever seen. Bryan Ferry, made is usual delayed appearance bopping out tall and lean with a red leather suit on. Quite a presence. I saw Ferry in Cleveland with my wife this past Oct.10th. A smooth operator he is

[CitizenGatsby]

@801liveable Indeed. haha I've been pretty well consumed with Roxy/Ferry-mania since Sept., so I'm doing fine. I have all the Roxy Music albums plus DVDs (official or not), most of Bryan Ferry's solo albums (just got 'Frantic' yesterday—amazing!), the biographies, a mint/unplayed original UK Island 7" pressing of "Pyjamarama" (I'm holding it in my profile pic), loads of Roxy and BF live recordings, etc. Glad you and your wife got to see him—yes, debonair as ever—in October, too. :)