roger@cornell.UUCP (04/16/85)
From: roger (Roger Hoover) Phil Manzanera/801 The following LPs were recorded by Phil Manzanera, a group of past members of Roxy Music (split June 76), and a handful of studio musicians. If you like one, you will like them all. Now that Roxy has split again, Wetton has left Asia, Random Hold seems to have disbanded a few years ago, Creme & Godley are producing videos, Dave Jarrett is teaching quantum physics, Francis Monkman is doing jingles, Simon Phillips is playing drums for about everyone (10cc, Jeff Beck, etc) one of two things will happen. Either Manzanera will get a subset of these musicians together and record some great tunes -or- these guys will go on making money doing what ever they are doing now. We can only hope that they choose to do the former. Phil Manzanera - Diamond Head (1975) Recorded December 74, January 75 Frontera, Diamond Head, Big Day, The Flex, Same Time Next Week Miss Shapiro, East of Echo, Lagrima, Alma Phil Manzanera, John Wetton, Paul Thompson, Eno, Robert Wyatt, Andy Mackay, Eddie Jobson, Doreen Chanter, Bill MacCormick, Brian Turrington, Danny Heibs, Chyke Madu, Sonny Akpan, Charles Hayword, Dave Jarrett, Iain MacDonald A subset of this group went on to record an additional album the same month in the same studio (January 75, Island Studios, London): Quiet Sun - Mainstream (1975) Sol Caliente, Trumpets with Motherhood, Bargain Classics, R.F.D Mummy was an asteroid, daddy was a small non-stick kitchen utensil, Trot, Rongwrong Charles Hayward, Dave Jarret, Phill Manzanera, Bill MacCormick, Eno 801 - 801 Live (1976) Recorded 3 September 1976 Lagrima, T.N.K., East of Asteroid (a combination of East of Echo and Mummy was an asteroid... above), Rongwrong (off mainstream), Sombre Reptiles (off Eno's Antoher Green World), Baby's on Fire (off Eno's Here Come the Warm Jets), Diamond Head, Miss Shapiro (both off Diamond Head), You Really Got Me, Third Uncle (off Eno's Taking Tiger Mountain By Strategy) Phil Manzanera, Eno, Bill MacCormick, Francis Monkman, Simon Phillips, Lloyd Watson Phil Manzanera/801 - Listen Now (1977) This LP was recorded at the same time that all of the above LPs were recorded, December 1975 through July 1977. The lineup is a combination of the linups of the above LPs with the addition of Lol Creme & Kevin Godley (recently departed from 10cc) doing some great gizmo and background vocal work. Listen Now, Flight 19 (Got some airplay), Island, Law and Order ?Que?, City of Light, Initial Speed, Postcard Love, That Falling Feeling Simon Ainley, Mel Collins, Lol Creme, Eno, Tim Finn, Kevin Godley, Eddie Jobson, Billy Livsey, Bill MacCormick, Ian MacCormick, Phil Manzanera, Dave Mattacks, Francis Monkman, Simon Phillips, Eddie Rayner, John White Phil Manzanera - K-Scope (1978) Recorded March-May 1978 Almost the same lineup as Listen Now with the addition of Ex Roxy guest John Wetton. More great tunes--comparable to Listen Now. K-Scope, Remote Control, Cuban Crisis, Hot Spot (where the neutron radiation makes the bodies glow), Numbers, Slow Motion TV, Gone Flying, N-Shift, Walking Through Heaven's Door, You Are Here Simon Phillips, Bill MacCormick, Eddie Rayner, Mel Collins, Lol Creme, Phil Manzanera, Paul Thompson, Simon Ainley, Dave Skinner, Tim Finn, Neal Finn, Kevin Godley, John Wetton, Francis Monkman Phil Manzanera - Primitive Guitars (1982) This LP is almost all guitar. Phill Manzanera guitar, that is. Much of the material on this LP does not sound at all like guitar, just as it is difficult to recognize the guitar in many of the cuts on the above LPs. This LP is performed by Manzanera with John Wetton playing bass guitar on one cut. Criollo, Caracas, La Neuva Ola, Bogota, Ritmo De Los Angeles Europe 70-1, Impossible Guitar, Big Dome, Europe 80-1
cmoore@BRL-VLD.ARPA (VLD/VMB) (04/18/85)
You mentioned "Diamond Head". Who composed that?