ucbesvax.turner@ucbcad.UUCP (07/18/83)
#N:ucbesvax:6200001:000:917 ucbesvax!turner Jul 17 14:19:00 1983 While idolatry is not my style, I think that any pantheon of rock gods would feature Phil Manzanera in some fairly prominent position. He is an excellent guitarist without being a "guitar hero" -- you know the kind: the phallic stage-personality. Manzanera has played with Roxy Music since the beginning, which still brings in pocket money. He has also been faithful to the most accomplished ex-Roxy, Brian Eno. He plays guitar (beautifully!) on at least the first three Eno albums (minus the Fripp/Eno duos), and has a number of solo efforts to his name. The first, "Diamond Head", has some excellent stuff (as well as some awful stuff), and one of his recent ones, "Primitive Guitars" is very listenable Latin syntho-pop. It was his work on Eno's "Taking Tiger Mountain (by strategy)" that really caught my attention. Bryan Ferry holds him back, I think. Michael Turner ucbvax!ucbesvax.turner