Eno is Eno
We face a future where almost anything could happen. Will we be crippled by global warming, weapons prolifersation and species depletion, or libribreated by space travel, world government and molecule-sized computers?
As the bloggist might say: I’ have a lot of interesting projects going’ on and I haven’t been able to update my blog lately. On automatic pilot. So writing about Eno.
Didn’t think too much of Eno really – British rock stars with one name are not top of my list. Just picked up on Roxy [circa 1975] after he left, and got the sense that he was the John Cale of the group. Arty. Discordant. Okay that is important to the ultimate course of the group’s sound but good that he went off thought I. Off with Fripp to make music that only competes well with my refrigerator’s sounds.
Came across the first Roxy Music album [‘It’s Roxy music’] a bit of a while ago. Jake bought it. This first album is really unique .. came out in 1972 when still very much was happening. It is rocking. Includes the key Roxy stuff: 2HB, Bitters End, Virginia Plain, If There Is Something. Old Brian Ferry kept trying to recut them but the first cut was the deepest. Connections flying all over the place here. Basically discovering something buried to me.
Anyway one of the most telling comments of all time is: “Be here now.” I think Ram Das Albert came up with that. I remember it best as said when I reunited once with Mike DeMark in NYC. Twas said on Bret Harte’s Brooklyn Bridge and brilliant blue sky then. I think he was telling a funny story. Anyhow, a variation on Be Here Now comes via Brian Eno, who has on the Web considered “The Long Now.” Get into now but realize it lasts. He was struck visiting an artist friend who had an insular existence in a modern studio above a dilapidated swath of borough.
Read it and you may be struck that here is a British rock star with thoughts. And Jake tells me Eno in fact calls himself Brian Eno, uses two names, thank you. [Real name is Edward Fincke.] So I vote for B.E. We are all forgiven. The long good-Bye for now. Jack
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