The first five albums from Roxy Music in 1972 to Siren in 1975 are absolute classics. They are one of the true pioneers of classic rock music. Great video.
@@narasimha7187yes it is. Flesh + blood is the only weak album and thats subjective as Roxy's worst is still better than many bands best.Cant leave out Avalon ,drastically different " sound" but is a classic too. Long way round basically I am saying they NEVER released a " bad" album. 😊
Yes the first five for me. I bought the first album in 72 and the others on the day they were released. I used to ring the record shop's and ask if Roxy's new l.p. was in yet. Usually 2 or 3 calls that day. As soon as they said it was in I then went down to the shop and bought it. The later albums for me were not as good in anyway though obviously I still liked them. Too many session musicians for me. To be honest "Avalon" could just as well have been a Bryan Ferry solo album. A cast of thousands played on it.
I heard Brian Ferry interviewed by Terry Gross about 25 years ago. He said them that "For Your Pleasure" was his favorite Roxy album. He said it was the best realization of the vision on which the band was founded. As for myself, 30 seconds into "Do The Strand" and I was hooked. "For Your Pleasure" is an album I still listen to regularly.
I grew up with Roxy Music. My parents always had their albums or Bryan's solo albums spinning on our turntable. As I got older and got into Devo I was pleased to see Eno produced the first album. Eno is a phenomenal producer and composer. A genius. I also think Phil Manzanera deserves more credit for what a great guitarist he is. Superb.
Without doubt the only band I listen to as much (or more) now than I did in my teens and the initial run of albums are beyond brilliant. While every single member of the band deserve their props, just have to give a shout out to Phil Manzanera who is without question the most underrated guitarist of his generation and my favourite guitarist ever.
Stranded...Country Life...Roxy Music....Siren....Manifesto...Avalon...For Your Pleasure....Flesh And Blood....Viva! O ne of the best live albums ever with Paris...Supertramp....Oil On Canvas...Japan...Still...Joy Division...Live And Dangerous...Thin Lizzy....isnt music full of wonder?😊❤
I stumbled (literally) into Roxy in 1972 at Great Western Festival, whilst having something to do with Albert Hoffman had entered my head, and it changed my life for ever. In 1973 at Coventry Lanchester Polytechnic Roxy played one of the best sets I have experienced. Phenomenal. When Eno left I was devastated as I knew the band would just become another on the production line of some record company. But the live performances I experienced were pure magic. " and you blew my mind"
Great documentary. Thank you. Can I mention that Phil and Eno both created the unusual synth sounds together in the early days. Phil would be playing his guitar into Eno’s EMS synth. There’s a reason that when Eno left the band , Phil would sneak off Roxy rehearsals to go record with Eno on Eno’s first 2 solo albums. I have utmost respect for Phil’s guitar playing and Eno’s playing also. Whenever I have worked with them over the years, they always surpass themselves 🙏 Phil has produced and played and encouraged hundreds of musicians and bands over the years. Working with Eno is beautifully amazing and inspiring. Ferry is a great songwriter, but is nowhere close to Manzanera’s/ Eno’s production and overall musicality. I remember working with Brian Ferry on an album in the 90’s. It took over 6 years to complete. In the meantime, Eno and Phil had separately made great albums for other bands that kept their careers on top. On the surface is one thing. Working with these guys is completely different 🙏 Also, near in mind, both Phil and ENO were brought in as sound engineers whilst Roxy were forming. They were so much more, but Ferry’s ego struggled with their approach. Still does. Too many Roxy reunions cancelled because Ferry wanted complete control. Interestingly, when Phil, at great expense, built his Gallery studio in Chertsey in 77/78, Roxy went into phase 2 I believe.
What you say confirms everything I've heard re Phil, Eno and Bryan. You don't mention Andy M, but I'm led to believe he found Bryan increasingly difficult to work with.
Loved Roxy since Virginia Plain back in 72. My siblings and I played their albums to death. Saw them live in 74 and they were superb, especially Ferry and Thompson!
What’s interesting is that Brian, Eno and Andy went to Art schools. I’m not sure about the others but it’s a very interesting base for a band who were always pushing the envelope. What a great run the first 5 albums were as good as anyone really!
Bryan's fave albums...Olympia...In Your Mind...Another Time,Another Place...fave 3 solo songs...These Foolish Things...Slave To Love...Rhyme Or Reason....
Eno can sound like Bryan in jest. In 72 we had Rod Stewart Jethro Tull, Grand Funk. We rarely saw Roxy on the west coast. They weren't really on FM in L.A. Ten Years After ended. Bowie opened up everything with Ziggy, played Santa Monica Auditorium with the Spiders and people were finally open to new music. Excellent bootlegs of that concert were everywhere. Mott got noticed. Roxy evolved quite nicely, got inducted recently. Duran Duran, Robert Smith gave a bow. "Love is the Drug" got them on the radio in cali in 75.
I think the first 5 albums are all really good. Not much filler at all. Manifesto was pretty damn good too. Only the last two are a little weak for me but still worth hearing. Pretty perfect run
First 2 Roxy and first two Eno solo albums are are records you must hear. Phil Manzanera , also known as Targett-Adams, is a essential part of those ground breaking recordings. And best Roxy version I saw was with John Wetton.
I never realized that was the legendary Dali muse Amanda Lear! She had a great solo career and is still adored by the French. Never trust a pretty face......
I don't hear VU personally. To me early Roxy sounds like a Glam Hawkwind. The electronics, the sax. And Bryan Ferry reminds me of a well dressed Robert Calvert.
Definitely a VU influence, editions of you sounds like white light white heat,the guitar rythm especially. In the band biography its mentioned VU was an influence. In fact the goal was take the VU sound and elevate from songs about the streets to songs about glamour and jet setting crowd and romance. Ferry was a huge King Crimson and prog fan and equally huge fan of fifties crooners. Roxy is what you get when you mix all that together , so cool.
BRILLIANT BEEN A FAN OF ROXY MUSIC/BRYAN FERRY SINCE 1973 and still listen to their albums which all sound different,Eno,s first 4 albums are superb as well,as for the album covers🖕
Listen again to 2HB and hear Paul Thompson's drumming. He was much more than a tub thumper. "In Every Dream Home.." is a piece of pop art. The phasing at the end the sound of the air being released. Orgasmic. Graphic and very visual. It is essentially a modern-day retelling of Venus In Furs by the Velvet Underground. Beauty Queen shares the same pop art vision, the middle section particularly as it become a scene of a girl driving car very fast, pursued by the police....pure wish fulfilment.
@@tinmachine693 It's like a horror movie, the fade in like the punchline to a joke. The doll being punctured, deflated. Like all the narrator's aspirations to the high life, complete emptiness.
@@tinmachine693 the use of double-tracking on the line "but you blew my mind" literally splitting the mind in two. They thought of every detail of the piece.
Sex Pistols Steve Jones & Paul Cook both always loved Roxy Music so much that their pre-Pistols group before Johnny Rotten Glen Matlock joined up was named after the Roxy song ""Do The Strand""....the band was called The Strand from about 1974-1975.
All I can say is that Ferry might have wrote the lyrics. But, it was the other band members who wrote the song by their individual performances and contributions. They should have all received bigger royalties.
Yeah becuase you always see John Foxx on these type of shows lol. What would he possibly say differently ? Its very obvious that ALL the late 70s-mid 80s artists/band Roxy was a main influence. Along with Bowie,Eno,VU and Kraftwerk and some degree german band Can, you basically have all the sylistic influences in the New Wave and Alternative rock late 70s/early 80s.
Hmm, well Foxx did a bit of lovely commentary on the Bowie Berlin years show. And he's appeared on various docs on early electronic music giving his thoughts on Kraftwerk etc. The fact that Eno produced the first Ultravox! album is a good link . Also I was talking about glamour, and that is what's missing here.
I guess I am just waiting for the ultimate documentary on them. Saw them on their first reunion tour at Wembley Arena. Awesome show with Las Vegas showgirls for the finale.
Were you? Not sure what you are saying here , Roxy happened in the past you can only look at their work in " hindsite". Are you captain obvious everywhere you go?😂😊
Absolutely true. These guys are "music critics" who didn't feel it *in that time*. I was 17 when they first hit. Knocked me over AT THE TIME. I was one in a 1000 of my peers who "got it". Funnily, the NME critics of the time 72 -73 were generally non-plussed ... which proves just how unusual, innovative, shocking Roxy were.
Great video, thanks for uploading. Love the early Roxy albums, although this video could easily have extended to Siren on which I think they really completed their transition from their Art Rock origins to more mainstream Pop Rock (and it's a very fine album, almost a template for many of the New Romantics that followed in the early 80s). One of the early comments referencing them emerging in a musical world with Progressive Rock nonsense needs responding to though, and I think this also highlights a glaring omission in video - Roxy were really heirs to the Progressive scene, being not only heavily influenced, but particularly connected with King Crimson (e.g. Pete Sinfield producing their first album). John Wetton even appears as a live bassist after that band folded. I think it's a shame to omit this, because the theatrical presentation and arrangements was actually quite prevalent at the time when Roxy emerged. Don't get me wrong, Roxy had a stunning originality, but their emergences was not out of the blue, but from quite fertile artistic ground.
Strange - this seems to be about the original Roxy Music yet there's not one word from any of that line-up. Just lots of people giving their opinions - most of which weren't even born when For Your Pleasure was released. Bad isn't it.
The first album, especially Virginia Plain, didn't impress me at all. The second album "For Your Pleasure" was much better, but I really think Country Life was their peak, musically. A lot of people got impressed by their look. I always listened first.
First time i've heard of John Wingate. He really has his head up his ass. The rest of the video is sorta interesting but i'd rather just listen to live Roxy Music, such amazing stuff. Esp Manzanera and Eno, but all of it.
They seemed to have trouble keeping a full time bass guy. Graham Simpson first album,John Porter second album, John Gustafson third album to Siren. Gustafson never toured with Roxy. Pre 1979 it was John Wetton or Sal Maida live. 1979 was Alan Spenner and I believe 81-82 was Gary Tibbs live and studio. I play a little bass so these facts stick in my brain 😂
@@Bunbunfunfunthanks for the summary, I guess it’s Roxy’s equivalent to the number of drummers in Spinal Tap!? Siouxsie and the Banshees also had a similar scenario with a series of guitarists. We ought to add Rik Kenton to the list above, who played on ‘Virginia Plain’ and toured with them between the first two albums.
Yes. They are all still alive. Misleading the way the interviewees speak about them in the past tense, as if the've all long gone. I think the only former members of RM now deceased are all bassists - original bassist Graham Simpson, John Wetton and John Gustafson.
I was 16 and loved David Bowies music. I just scored Heroes. I was at my older friend Kevins talking about Bowie. He said "Bowie? If you like him that much check this out" and handed me For Your Pleasure. Before i even noticed Ferry i asked "Where the hell is all that noise coming from?" "Oh, that, that's Eno was his reply. I was completely blown away. I went home and reread the liner notes on Heroes- yep there's Eno all over it. Within 6 months i had Roxies albums, all of Enos, Jon Hassell, Harold Budd, and then i realized that he was producing two of my favorite newer bands: Taking Heads and Devo. Thanks Kevin, i would have figured it out but maybe a bit later. Imo Roxy was way ahead of Bowie until Diamond Dogs. All such great stuff.
rock "journalist" calling west coast US music "drones" sorry dude, that rock improvisation (you know, like jazz does, too) Drones were famous in NYC, Reich, Glass, Lamont young, etc. Why talk crap?/ Art bands: pretentious and bullocks, tell that to the Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, etc.
So you came here just to troll. Millions of record buyers disagree. You know what is absolute crap? Trolls commenting on a video of a band they already dont like.
Believe what you like, hold any opinion you wish. But to my ears the evidence suggests otherwise. While I think The Velvet Underground, Prince and Nick Cave are overrated, I wouldn't dismiss them as 'absolute crap'.
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The first five albums from Roxy Music in 1972 to Siren in 1975 are absolute classics. They are one of the true pioneers of classic rock music. Great video.
Excuse me but Manifesto is awesome!
@@narasimha7187yes it is. Flesh + blood is the only weak album and thats subjective as Roxy's worst is still better than many bands best.Cant leave out Avalon ,drastically different " sound" but is a classic too. Long way round basically I am saying they NEVER released a " bad" album. 😊
Definitely@@Bunbunfunfun
Yes the first five for me. I bought the first album in 72 and the others on the day they were released. I used to ring the record shop's and ask if Roxy's new l.p. was in yet. Usually 2 or 3 calls that day. As soon as they said it was in I then went down to the shop and bought it. The later albums for me were not as good in anyway though obviously I still liked them. Too many session musicians for me. To be honest "Avalon" could just as well have been a Bryan Ferry solo album. A cast of thousands played on it.
I heard Brian Ferry interviewed by Terry Gross about 25 years ago. He said them that "For Your Pleasure" was his favorite Roxy album. He said it was the best realization of the vision on which the band was founded. As for myself, 30 seconds into "Do The Strand" and I was hooked. "For Your Pleasure" is an album I still listen to regularly.
Country Life always be my favourite, but those first 4 albums are stellar
I grew up with Roxy Music. My parents always had their albums or Bryan's solo albums spinning on our turntable. As I got older and got into Devo I was pleased to see Eno produced the first album. Eno is a phenomenal producer and composer. A genius. I also think Phil Manzanera deserves more credit for what a great guitarist he is. Superb.
Phil's head is full of diamonds.
Without doubt the only band I listen to as much (or more) now than I did in my teens and the initial run of albums are beyond brilliant. While every single member of the band deserve their props, just have to give a shout out to Phil Manzanera who is without question the most underrated guitarist of his generation and my favourite guitarist ever.
Stranded...Country Life...Roxy Music....Siren....Manifesto...Avalon...For Your Pleasure....Flesh And Blood....Viva! O ne of the best live albums ever with Paris...Supertramp....Oil On Canvas...Japan...Still...Joy Division...Live And Dangerous...Thin Lizzy....isnt music full of wonder?😊❤
I stumbled (literally) into Roxy in 1972 at Great Western Festival, whilst having something to do with Albert Hoffman had entered my head, and it changed my life for ever. In 1973 at Coventry Lanchester Polytechnic Roxy played one of the best sets I have experienced. Phenomenal.
When Eno left I was devastated as I knew the band would just become another on the production line of some record company.
But the live performances I experienced were pure magic.
" and you blew my mind"
Great documentary. Thank you.
Can I mention that Phil and Eno both created the unusual synth sounds together in the early days.
Phil would be playing his guitar into Eno’s EMS synth.
There’s a reason that when Eno left the band , Phil would sneak off Roxy rehearsals to go record with Eno on Eno’s first 2 solo albums.
I have utmost respect for Phil’s guitar playing and Eno’s playing also.
Whenever I have worked with them over the years, they always surpass themselves 🙏
Phil has produced and played and encouraged hundreds of musicians and bands over the years.
Working with Eno is beautifully amazing and inspiring.
Ferry is a great songwriter, but is nowhere close to Manzanera’s/ Eno’s production and overall musicality.
I remember working with Brian Ferry on an album in the 90’s.
It took over 6 years to complete. In the meantime, Eno and Phil had separately made great albums for other bands that kept their careers on top.
On the surface is one thing.
Working with these guys is completely different 🙏
Also, near in mind, both Phil and ENO were brought in as sound engineers whilst Roxy were forming.
They were so much more, but Ferry’s ego struggled with their approach. Still does.
Too many Roxy reunions cancelled because Ferry wanted complete control.
Interestingly, when Phil, at great expense, built his Gallery studio in Chertsey in 77/78, Roxy went into phase 2 I believe.
What you say confirms everything I've heard re Phil, Eno and Bryan. You don't mention Andy M, but I'm led to believe he found Bryan increasingly difficult to work with.
@@1anhunter1 I reckon Andy new the politics and kept his head low, watching from the sidelines, maybe 🤔
They also fed AM into the VCS3 Synth. Totally wild! Great comment.
Seeing Roxy Music live in the 70's was unforgettable and life changing!
The Rolling Stones trashed their hotel rooms. Roxy Music redecorated theirs...
Loved Roxy since Virginia Plain back in 72. My siblings and I played their albums to death. Saw them live in 74 and they were superb, especially Ferry and Thompson!
The ultimate trendsetters in fashion and music, I love In Every Dream Home A Heartache, grim but great.
Great program
What’s interesting is that Brian, Eno and Andy went to Art schools. I’m not sure about the others but it’s a very interesting base for a band who were always pushing the envelope. What a great run the first 5 albums were as good as anyone really!
Eno TAUGHT in an art school.
@@bobparker8294- The Beatles were the first art school band. Lennon and Stuart Sutcliffe both went to the Liverpool College of Art.
For Your Pleasure is a Art Rock Masterpiece. PLAY LOUD!
Bryan's fave albums...Olympia...In Your Mind...Another Time,Another Place...fave 3 solo songs...These Foolish Things...Slave To Love...Rhyme Or Reason....
ornery bar stewards, they totally nailed it with fabulous image, knowing wit, and great tunes!
One of the greatest debut albums ever. Viva Roxy!
Saw them summer 1972 at the Crystal Palace Garden Party.
Eno can sound like Bryan in jest. In 72 we had Rod Stewart Jethro Tull, Grand Funk. We rarely saw Roxy on the west coast. They weren't really on FM in L.A. Ten Years After ended. Bowie opened up everything with Ziggy, played Santa Monica Auditorium with the Spiders and people were finally open to new music. Excellent bootlegs of that concert were everywhere. Mott got noticed. Roxy evolved quite nicely, got inducted recently. Duran Duran, Robert Smith gave a bow. "Love is the Drug" got them on the radio in cali in 75.
I think the first 5 albums are all really good. Not much filler at all. Manifesto was pretty damn good too. Only the last two are a little weak for me but still worth hearing. Pretty perfect run
First 2 Roxy and first two Eno solo albums are are records you must hear. Phil Manzanera , also known as Targett-Adams, is a essential part of those ground breaking recordings. And best Roxy version I saw was with John Wetton.
Funny how the guys describe the album covers - For Your Pleasure features transwoman Amanda/Alain Lear on the cover.
I never realized that was the legendary Dali muse Amanda Lear! She had a great solo career and is still adored by the French. Never trust a pretty face......
I don't hear VU personally. To me early Roxy sounds like a Glam Hawkwind. The electronics, the sax. And Bryan Ferry reminds me of a well dressed Robert Calvert.
I think Roxy was also a big influence on the Cars
Definitely a VU influence, editions of you sounds like white light white heat,the guitar rythm especially. In the band biography its mentioned VU was an influence. In fact the goal was take the VU sound and elevate from songs about the streets to songs about glamour and jet setting crowd and romance. Ferry was a huge King Crimson and prog fan and equally huge fan of fifties crooners. Roxy is what you get when you mix all that together , so cool.
@@Bunbunfunfun Ferry auditioned for King Crimson but was rejected.
@@thegreenbird795 Especially their number plates.
@@AP-sd1fl yes knew that already thats why I mentioned king crimson
BRILLIANT BEEN A FAN OF ROXY MUSIC/BRYAN FERRY SINCE 1973 and still listen to their albums which all sound different,Eno,s first 4 albums are superb as well,as for the album covers🖕
Hugs from Brazil 🎉
Listen again to 2HB and hear Paul Thompson's drumming. He was much more than a tub thumper.
"In Every Dream Home.." is a piece of pop art. The phasing at the end the sound of the air being released. Orgasmic. Graphic and very visual. It is essentially a modern-day retelling of Venus In Furs by the Velvet Underground. Beauty Queen shares the same pop art vision, the middle section particularly as it become a scene of a girl driving car very fast, pursued by the police....pure wish fulfilment.
Every dream home the only song I can think of with a fade in. Needless to say " it blew mind"
@@tinmachine693 It's like a horror movie, the fade in like the punchline to a joke. The doll being punctured, deflated. Like all the narrator's aspirations to the high life, complete emptiness.
@@tinmachine693 the use of double-tracking on the line "but you blew my mind" literally splitting the mind in two. They thought of every detail of the piece.
Was surprised to see John Wetton with them!
Yes he played on tour with them as well.
Paul Thompson is the BEST rock drummer in Rock 'n' Roll History. ( there I said it )
A Rock 'N' Roller who plays Saxophone in a style similar to Jazz musician 'Rahsaan' Roland Kirk.
Sex Pistols Steve Jones & Paul Cook both always loved Roxy Music so much that their pre-Pistols group before Johnny Rotten Glen Matlock joined up was named after the Roxy song ""Do The Strand""....the band was called The Strand from about 1974-1975.
And "Rotten" Johnny Lydon was a big fan of Can. His next band Public Image Limited is in a slightly similar trajectory as Roxy.
All I can say is that Ferry might have wrote the lyrics. But, it was the other band members who wrote the song by their individual performances and contributions. They should have all received bigger royalties.
Roxy deserve a MUCH more glamorous set of commentators than this drab lot! John Foxx would have been nice.
Yeah becuase you always see John Foxx on these type of shows lol. What would he possibly say differently ? Its very obvious that ALL the late 70s-mid 80s artists/band Roxy was a main influence. Along with Bowie,Eno,VU and Kraftwerk and some degree german band Can, you basically have all the sylistic influences in the New Wave and Alternative rock late 70s/early 80s.
Hmm, well Foxx did a bit of lovely commentary on the Bowie Berlin years show. And he's appeared on various docs on early electronic music giving his thoughts on Kraftwerk etc. The fact that Eno produced the first Ultravox! album is a good link . Also I was talking about glamour, and that is what's missing here.
@ you are not wrong. Yes a few higher profile people would have been cool
I guess I am just waiting for the ultimate documentary on them. Saw them on their first reunion tour at Wembley Arena. Awesome show with Las Vegas showgirls for the finale.
They couldn't find John Foxx to do the commentary. Apparently, he was sitting at the edge of the world.
All the interviewees on here are commenting based on hindsight. None of them were born when Virginia Plain came out.
Were you? Not sure what you are saying here , Roxy happened in the past you can only look at their work in " hindsite". Are you captain obvious everywhere you go?😂😊
Good point.
Absolutely true. These guys are "music critics" who didn't feel it *in that time*. I was 17 when they first hit. Knocked me over AT THE TIME. I was one in a 1000 of my peers who "got it". Funnily, the NME critics of the time 72 -73 were generally non-plussed ... which proves just how unusual, innovative, shocking Roxy were.
@@Bunbunfunfun
No you idiot. The listeners and critics *OF THE TIME* have full memories of it. These young pups are too distant from the reality.
Great video, thanks for uploading. Love the early Roxy albums, although this video could easily have extended to Siren on which I think they really completed their transition from their Art Rock origins to more mainstream Pop Rock (and it's a very fine album, almost a template for many of the New Romantics that followed in the early 80s).
One of the early comments referencing them emerging in a musical world with Progressive Rock nonsense needs responding to though, and I think this also highlights a glaring omission in video - Roxy were really heirs to the Progressive scene, being not only heavily influenced, but particularly connected with King Crimson (e.g. Pete Sinfield producing their first album). John Wetton even appears as a live bassist after that band folded. I think it's a shame to omit this, because the theatrical presentation and arrangements was actually quite prevalent at the time when Roxy emerged.
Don't get me wrong, Roxy had a stunning originality, but their emergences was not out of the blue, but from quite fertile artistic ground.
Was there another band at the time? I don’t remember.
Had that tiny tim tremolo...lol😊
Strange - this seems to be about the original Roxy Music yet there's not one word from any of that line-up. Just lots of people giving their opinions - most of which weren't even born when For Your Pleasure was released. Bad isn't it.
Poor hack job all round.
That's because there's no journalistic integrity in these flashy puff pieces. They get all their info from Google.
The first album, especially Virginia Plain, didn't impress me at all. The second album "For Your Pleasure" was much better, but I really think Country Life was their peak, musically.
A lot of people got impressed by their look. I always listened first.
Stranded (imho) is the 5th greatest album of all time.
I am really curious what are your other four ?
@Bunbunfunfun
Astral Weeks
Blonde On Blonde
Every Picture Tells A Story
Sticky Fingers
ABBA...ABBA...2640...FRANCESCA MICHIELIN...SIBERIA...BUNNYMEN...RUBBER SOUL...BEATLES...HOME...HOTHOUSE FLOWERS...STRANDED...ROXY MUSIC...
What's the 6th?
@davidcopson5800 Let's Get It On
I think roxy musics 3rd is there best where. A young Eddie jobson arrived and john gus on bass.
ENO = mc²
That's a relativity good comment.
@davidcopson5800 / . .theoretically. .
i’m 12 minutes into this doc and about to give up, there had been 5 ad breaks already.
Oh wow you going to be ok?
@ Yes i have . I must sound ungrateful. Great doc . thanks
@ No
@@67psych i agree with the annoying ads every 4 mins
First time i've heard of John Wingate. He really has his head up his ass. The rest of the video is sorta interesting but i'd rather just listen to live Roxy Music, such amazing stuff. Esp Manzanera and Eno, but all of it.
John Wetton should have been credited. He appears on the tracks from Country Life in the documentary.
He only did one tour as their touring bassist, not really a big deal.
He only toured once but his playing on Out of the Blue was outstanding.
@@thomasrichmond2413 of course it was he was John Wetton.
And who else has put a car reg in a song ?
TVC 15?
@@nckwlch That was an American television.
@ yes you are right. but it reads like a UK car number plate. i wonder if its available.
@@nckwlch No that's about a tv eating a girl 1976 David Bowie . CPL 593H It's on remake remodel the number plate of a 1970 Mini Mayfair
@@nckwlch You'll have to check with DVLA. A sixty-something Bowie fan has probably snapped it up by now.
12:15 Sounds like Dr Who!
Im confused on who their original bass player is/was?
They seemed to have trouble keeping a full time bass guy. Graham Simpson first album,John Porter second album, John Gustafson third album to Siren. Gustafson never toured with Roxy. Pre 1979 it was John Wetton or Sal Maida live. 1979 was Alan Spenner and I believe 81-82 was Gary Tibbs live and studio. I play a little bass so these facts stick in my brain 😂
@@BunbunfunfunThanks for your answer. I have always wondered and was going to ask the same question 😊
@@Bunbunfunfunthanks for the summary, I guess it’s Roxy’s equivalent to the number of drummers in Spinal Tap!? Siouxsie and the Banshees also had a similar scenario with a series of guitarists. We ought to add Rik Kenton to the list above, who played on ‘Virginia Plain’ and toured with them between the first two albums.
They had a new bass player every week!
@ nice catch forgot about that guy . Have read Roxy's bio book three times years ago as the band was an obsession for awhile 🤣
is Bryan ferry still alive
Yes. They are all still alive. Misleading the way the interviewees speak about them in the past tense, as if the've all long gone. I think the only former members of RM now deceased are all bassists - original bassist Graham Simpson, John Wetton and John Gustafson.
Yes bit if a Roxy bass player curse.
Sorry but _Oh Yeah_ is one of the best songs ever written.
Quite possibly the worst documentary ever made.
the young talking head talked a load of utter bollocks, it sounds as if he has never heard the band
Love how people talk about Roxy as if Bowie never existed...
Irrelevant. They were contemporaries. I doubt that either "influenced" the other.
This is a Roxy documentary
I was 16 and loved David Bowies music. I just scored Heroes. I was at my older friend Kevins talking about Bowie. He said "Bowie? If you like him that much check this out" and handed me For Your Pleasure. Before i even noticed Ferry i asked "Where the hell is all that noise coming from?" "Oh, that, that's Eno was his reply. I was completely blown away. I went home and reread the liner notes on Heroes- yep there's Eno all over it. Within 6 months i had Roxies albums, all of Enos, Jon Hassell, Harold Budd, and then i realized that he was producing two of my favorite newer bands: Taking Heads and Devo. Thanks Kevin, i would have figured it out but maybe a bit later.
Imo Roxy was way ahead of Bowie until Diamond Dogs. All such great stuff.
Maybe separating the speaking and the music would have been a good idea.
Dont get when the guy says "prog rock nonsense." Then praising Roxy music seems a contradiction
rock "journalist" calling west coast US music "drones" sorry dude, that rock improvisation (you know, like jazz does, too) Drones were famous in NYC, Reich, Glass, Lamont young, etc. Why talk crap?/ Art bands: pretentious and bullocks, tell that to the Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, etc.
With all due respect to everybody else - IMHO - after watching this I know why I never listened to them back in the day..
What a messy docu on the band this is with badly recorded live footage and badly recorded talking heads waffling on.
Roxy Music was more pretentious than any prog band ever was. Ferry like a glam Jerry Lee Lewis.
It was unlike everything else that what is around at the time because it was the absolute crap.
What?
So you came here just to troll. Millions of record buyers disagree. You know what is absolute crap? Trolls commenting on a video of a band they already dont like.
Di musica non ci capisci niente!
@@Bunbunfunfun you're right now I feel dumb
Believe what you like, hold any opinion you wish. But to my ears the evidence suggests otherwise. While I think The Velvet Underground, Prince and Nick Cave are overrated, I wouldn't dismiss them as 'absolute crap'.