Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP
Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site ucbcad.UUCP
Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!ucbcad!ucbesvax.turner
From: ucbesvax.turner@ucbcad.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.music
Subject: unsung hero? - (nf)
Message-ID: <2@ucbcad.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 18-Jul-83 07:54:19 EDT
Article-I.D.: ucbcad.2
Posted: Mon Jul 18 07:54:19 1983
Date-Received: Tue, 19-Jul-83 12:45:56 EDT
Sender: notes@ucbcad.UUCP
Organization: UC Berkeley, CAD Group
Lines: 23

#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