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| From | "Michael Bennett" <mrhonorama@hotmail.com> |
| Subject | Re: Mick Ronson (was Colin Thurston is My Hero) |
| Date | Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:46:46 -0500 |
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Mick Ronson produced the demos for the tracks that ended up on Sparks' BIG
BEAT. In an interview with Ira Robbins in Trouser Press, Ron and Russell
Mael stated that these demos were much better than what got released (BIG
BEAT was Sparks' 'guitar' album -- Rupert Holmes produced it in the most
curious fashion -- it just sounds a bit off). Someday I hope these demos
surface, particularly since I presume Mick played guitar on the demos.
Mike Bennett
Record reviews and more at http://fufkin.com
>From: "Sager, Greg" <greg.sager@bankofamerica.com>
>Reply-To: audities@smoe.org
>To: audities@smoe.org
>Subject: Mick Ronson (was Colin Thurston is My Hero)
>Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 10:09:55 -0500
>
> > Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 08:00:01 -0400
> > From: "*Bill Holmes*" <bholmes_fm@msn.com>
> > To: <audities@smoe.org>
> > Subject: Re: Colin Thurston is My Hero
> > Message-ID: <BAY4-DAV112x3G5aYY600002377@hotmail.com>
> >
> > > Amazing guitar right enough but not played by Ronson on the record. He
> > had
> > > parted from Bowie by the time Heroes was recorded and it's Robert
>Fripp
> > of
> > > King Crimson who plays on the original record.
> > >
> > > Had forgotten that Ronson played with Bowie at that show. Might have
>to
> > go
> > > and dig out my video...seem to remember Spinal Tap played as well.
> >
> >
> > There's not enough Ronson anywhere, as far as I'm concerned! Although
>the
> > Best Of Bowie DVD and The Spider With The Platinum Hair
>(www.impbooks.com)
> > are helping to correct that. One of the most emotional guitarists ever,
> > can
> > rock me silly or bring me to tears with that axe of his.
> >
> > RIP, Mick - 10 years ago today.
> >
> Wow, has it really been ten years since Ronno passed? Time flies.
>
> Since everyone's talking about their favorite producers, I have to
>name Mick Ronson as one of mine. The man sure sat in a lot of producer
>chairs: Lou Reed, the Payolas, David Johanson, Ian Hunter, Morrissey, Roger
>McGuinn, Sex Gang Children, the Rich Kids, Iron City Houserockers, and
>Ellen
>Foley. A number of my favorite albums thus bear his production stamp: David
>Johanson's *In Style*, Lou Reed's *Transformer*, the Iron City
>Houserockers'
>*Have a Good Time, But Get Out Alive*, Morrissey's *Your Arsenal*, and Ian
>Hunter's *You're Never Alone with a Schizophrenic* and *Short Back 'n'
>Sides*. Ronno was also a gifted arranger, doing all of the work for David
>Bowie in that regard during the glam years in which he was Bowie's
>right-hand man; in fact, some people say that he should've gotten writing
>credits on a number of *Ziggy Stardust* era songs.
>
> His talents were not confined to playing guitars and processing
>their sound, either. Two of the most famous singles that he arranged were
>"Changes" for Bowie and "Walk On the Wild Side" for Lou Reed, and those
>aren't exactly *tour de force* guitar songs.
>
> He was the ultimate self-effacing sideman, ever willing to lend his
>prodigious and multifarious talents to whomever needed them. Rock 'n' roll
>could use more of his kind.
>
> Mick Ronson was a tremendous guitar player ... but he was a lot more
>than that. He is missed.
>
>
> Gregory Sager
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