Surprised you didn't mention the 1981 Eno/Byrne collaboration "My Life In The Bush Of Ghosts", loosely inspired by the book of the same name by Nigerian author Amos Tutuola. I think those recordings are truly seminal Eno/Byrne material; they still stand up very well today, and I see their influences on many other artists projects that came later, in world music and especially regarding the use of sampling and looping over smoking funk grooves.
i was working at a store in nyc and a tall English guy comes in and we start talking about things, he bought nothing but before he left he asked me if i wanted to go to a show tonight and he hands me 2 tickets----Bowie at the Garden madison square, Diamond Dogs tour, 5th row center! and the lovely English gentleman was playing violin! being that close was spectacular, in my top 10 of concerts (still have my woodstock tickets)----warm jets
Inspiring to say the least. Thank you for producing this segment. You have some great nuggets of imagery and context here. Eno has and will always inspire my electronica musings as a "non-musician" producing soundscapes.
I have never been a drug user, but listening to Music for Airports gets into my entrails..... I can literally feel it physiologically as it allows my psyche to journey to great and strange places each and every time I listen to it....the notes, the pitches , the frequecies....they do something which causes me to reflect on my life from the perspective of pure honesty and reality.... it's enticingly frightening each time because I'm not sure what else I will find out about myself....
Great work on this video. You got more video captures of video of Eno than anyone did at the height of Bowie's popularity - when real music and artistic types wanted to discover even about Eno . I'm impressed as a sometime fan of Eno, who tried to find material you found but before web accessibility existed.
I saw the Talking Heads twice, they were incredible! I learned that that ,"King's Lead Hat" was an anagram for Talking Heads and knew the Eno was an absolute geniuses! 💥
The concert recorded as June 1st 1974 had nothing to do with the Velvet Underground. It was a showcase for four artists on Island Records Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Eno and Nico.
Most of the 60's young musicians in England loved American blues and jazz. It is said that the Britts kept this music alive when America was leaving it behind to fade away.
Bowie and Eno met long before 1976 and the Station to Station concerts, Bowie had been promoting Roxy in early 1972 in interviews and invited them on tour as his backing band on the 1st UK Ziggy tours in 1972.
How Brian Eno has touched my life, from my 20's... where I pretty much had "Another Green World" on repeat. To my deep dive into the Ambient music genre. I had bumped into a friend at a second hand music store about 1986 and he grabbed "Here Come the Warm Jets" tape and thrust it in my face and said "you gotta hear this". He also had me buy Roxy Music's first album. I was absolutely hooked from the gitgo. I have spent so much time in beautiful solitude and contemplation with his Ambient music in the background. His folder on my HDD is by far the deepest and most satisfying of my entire music collection.
I agree with Philip. Great job. I am a HUGE Eno fan. I am an even huger B. Ferry fan and Roxy in General. I even have Andy MaKay' s first solo album In Search of Eddie Riff.
Someone asked me who would be in my ideal rock band, and I couldn't answer, but I did know who I wanted as producer. Brian Eno was the only part of the fantasy band that wasn't going to be in the band.
Saw this since I follow Roxy Music, didn't know much about Eno but halfway thru video stopped and looked for an app I once bought because I wasn't sure if Brian Eno created it and sure enough it was.... called Bloom I loved it. I used it to help a blind TBI survivor I was a caregiver for as recreational therapy, so cool. It makes the user create ambient music❤
Good overview, but I'll pedantically note that Adrian Belew's collaborations with Bowie and Talking Heads (and with Frank Zappa, for that matter) all happened BEFORE he joined King Crimson. It was his Talking Heads work that seems to have impressed Fripp enough to ask him to join a new project that would rename itself King Crimson in 1981.
For his collaborations with David Bowie alone, he's already proven to be quintessential to the most interesting period of rock (73-83). When you try to get an idea of the scope of the man's input in so many fundamentally different bands, your head gets fuzzy facing so much talent and inventivity. Last but not least, he seems a very decent, well educated and highly intelligent man. He's been the salt and pepper on tons of good music leading to outstanding music. He's absolutely unique. My life in the Ghost of Bushes & Low are my favourite albums with him, still the rest is vaste like an ocean.
Churchill said…If you’re going through hell keep moving…On my self imposed trips through there Eno’s music was a guiding light through the many dark places.🔥
I love that one too, but his catalog is so vast and I had to be choosy about what I covered. Sadly that one didn’t make the cut. If I covered every single one of his albums it probably would have given me a hernia
Excellent. With due respect, the RRRRs in the voice do take a while to settle down. But that's the signiature sound of the american female voice, which seems to be acknowledged by the Grrrl part of the the channels name. Nothing Eno's synth couldn't tame. Let's se what else the Grrl's been up to!
His collaborations with David Byrne from Talking Heads created a whole new genre of music! A nervous funk unheard of before! Also credit to Adrian Belew for great guitar effects! Spacey AF, but funky with a groove too!
Great video, always been an Eno fan. Long ago, I dated a lady who turned out to be one of his ex girlfriends (who shall remain nameless, of course), it felt like an absolute honour!
Whether true or urban myth in Australia. that Brian Eno wrote the "ditty" that plays on the Aristocrat poker/slot machines in Aussie pubs and clubs. And since Australia has more poker/slot machines than the rest of the world combined htis made him a shed load of money on royalties
Eno is most likely to be the main inspiration for Ted Levine’s role in the Silence of Lamb. His greatest invention is you’d be androgynous and cool with receding bald hair to the similar extent Bowie’s bad teeth made him an spaceman from Mars.
Very nice docu with some good/enjoyable footage, but the laidback/funkie guitar all along the docu a bit too much. Thanks and GreetZ from The Netherlands
Highlighting the unintentional hilarity of the over-the-top androgyny, effeminacy, and just full-on overt swish of the day, a look back at Early Eno is a window into how far a committed heterosexual would go to push the envelopes of the day. What larks! Now, of course, he resembles a staid and respected Dean of Students or a vacationing Anglican Pastor, but we all do truly respect what he created then and is creating now despite the early visuals.
Wow, very interesting stuff. Being a huge Roxy Music and Eno fan I thought I knew most of what there was to know about him. I was wrong. Great job. Can’t wait to see what you’ll tackle next.
Well made and lots of depth. By far the finest documentary I’ve ever seen on Eno. Would have liked to have heard about his work with Cluster. My Life in the Bush of Ghosts would have been cool. Thank you for sharing!
I've only discovered Brian Eno's incredible works earlier this year and have been wanting to hear about his origins and methods. Thank you for making this!
99% i already knew but to those in search of eno it was a good starting point but like any artist you must go discover their work Here come the warm jets, Taking tiger 🐅 mountain by strategy and Another green world 🌎 are wonderful records start there folks after Roxy music's first and second records, his ambient work is huge and will take quite a bit of listening but my personal favourite outside the early records is a collaboration with Jon Hassel called Possible music volume 4 superb ambient record Jon Hassels trumpet 🎺 and the rhythms created by eno are outstanding! Enjoy discover unfold ❤🎶🎵🎭🐯
One of the best in depth analysis of Eno's career, work and collaborations. Your commentary was to the point and backed up by multiple examples and excellent research. Eno is difficult to explain or talk about, even with the most experienced and knowledgeable music fans. Most know him in passing as being the producer of....... rather than an artist or musician. A friend once described him as a deliberately professional improvisor and I find that description pretty accurate. He created and captured sounds that I had only dreamed about in my head and made them literal. I never get tired of listening to him.
The June 1, 1974 gig and album wasn't with VU, it was Kevin Ayers, John Cale, Brian Eno and Nico, with Mike Oldfield, Robert Wyatt and Ollie Halsall accompanying them. The album was produced by Richard Williams and not Eno. John Cale's album Fear wasn't produced by Eno either, but by Cale himself. He produced John Cale's Words For The Dying though in 1989.
@@AGrrrlsTwoSoundCents Still you gotta get your facts right. It's not about who's first or who knows more, it's about getting the narrative right. Would have been nice if you had mentioned the collaborations between Cale and Eno which were quite plenty full, e.g. Cale participating on Eno's Another Green World, or their album Wrong Way Up, which I think is one of the most pleasant pop lp's to listen to. But hey, kudos to you for making this an interesting view.
Great video but i have to point out that Eno didn't produce those masterpieces that he, Bowie, Iggy, and Visconti (and Alomar and the rest) created. They are all produced by Tony Visconti who deserves a lot of credit for Bowie. Once again great vid but as ForARide says below it's up to us to keep the narrative straight. Folks like John Cale and Tony Visconti are grossly underrated and unknown. Eno himself was heavily influenced by John Cale and the VU (which you include). Anyway thanks for the upload.
A few years ago I was privileged to meet Mr Eno’s daughter, who was studying medicine at the time. She wasn’t really aware of him as a superstar, he was just ‘dad’ to her, but she was more than happy to talk about him to me, despite me coming across like a crazy fan, salivating about minimalist ambient music. She was really keen that I consider her uncle Roger, too, as to her, his music was just as vital as her dad’s. Best of all, she talked about occasional childhood visits from ‘uncle David’ - who turned out to be Mr Bowie! Since she was studying medicine, we discussed his music ‘Neroli’ which was intended to accompany childbirth.
@@curly_wyn Could not agree with you more. And let us not forget Flood. Another outstanding producer. Since I am still not educated enough on either of these men fully, I wanted to give Flood a mention for his work with Depeche Mode & U2. Prematurely, I will guess that Eno is a greater talent since I know he produces ALL sorts of music. Allowing Eno to be an absolutely perfect soundtrack musician. Even able to take Commissions!! Whereas, I am of the belief that Flood has a special talent with artists especially in studio. Think: Mutt Lange 👌
Mr Eno also managed an extremely influential record label: Obscure records, which brought the attention of the record-buying public to Gavin Bryars, Michael Nyman, Harold Budd, David Toop, The Penguin Cafe Orchestra as well as the first issue of his own ‘Discreet Music’. Fun Eno Fact: “King’s Lead Heat” is an anagram of ‘Talking Heads’.
So prolific. Eno has been a very large part of of my life , musically. And all of the things that music does for us. How it can mark eras in our lives , how it can assist and support in extremely difficult times , or simply be in the background while just being alive . Brian Eno has made it all more rich for the last 38 - wow, 38 years! of my life. I’d love to have the opportunity to thank him.
I grew up with Eno starting with Green World Ferry didn’t split with Eno based on an apparent technical prowess Brian was the knobs pusher, not a virtuoso - he realized he needed his own voice Bryan didn’t like the sophisticated and articulate Eno getting all the attention Eno realized it was Bryan’s band and he as the songwriter He even sights Stranded as the best Roxy album, an album he didn’t play on
I discovered these gems soon after they were released in Montreal. I am glad to learn more about the history behind them. Taking Tiger Mountain by Strategy was my first Eno record and what fun I had listening to it, still do nearly 50 years later. I could go on but...
This is surprisingly good. Eno was so inspiring to me and friends in college in the 1980's that we had a schtick, "Eno is God because Eno.spelled backwards is one."
"Brian Eno grew up in the overwhelmingly white small town in England in the 1950's"... uh... no duh! That's like saying, "Eluid Kipchoge grew up in an overwelmingly black village in Kenya..." lol... but thanks feeling the need to point out Brian's race and the race of the people in the place he grew up! Yes, for the last few thousand years, England has been 99.9% white as well... 😂
Very enjoyable prog. Ive listened to Eno for some 40+ years now and I never tire of listening to my rather battered copy of Here come the warm jets. The title , the 'Warm Jets' refers to peepee! Have a closer look at the cover and you will see???
My life in the bush with ghosts Bowie Talking Heads Baby's on fire and third uncle by bauhous I knew I didn't know he was a founding member of roxy music Awesome awesome man
I've been looking forward to this video since you announced it, and after watching it I wanted to say it turned out excellent. Great job as usual! Also, thanks for touching on everything I commented on in my response to your community post asking what to include in this video
I've been listening to his work since the early 80s & think you have done a fine job with this. The photos are great & even the repetitive backing track was cool!
Wow! SUBBED! The YT algo guided me here and I couldn't stop watching until the end. I love Eno and your presentation of his work was hypnotizing. Four things, though. What about his work with U2? What about Bill Gates Hiring him to compose Windows 95's activation sting, The Microsoft Sound? What about the music and in game music and music creation app he made for the game series "Spore"? And you didn't mention that Eno and Schmidt actually created the Oblique Strategies deck/system, which surprised me, as you mentioned it. Looking forward to watching more of your work! :)
Brian Eno was such a good artist and producer too! Another Green World was “essentially a bunch of bleeps and bloops, but I loved every minute of it!” said Robert Christgau. Now that I mention that, Izzy, I realize my bashing of him in the Talking Heads may have been a tiny bit exaggerated. Yes, he’s made some really questionable and stupid reviews giving bad albums high scores, like the Soulja Boy thing and especially when he gave Sublime’s self-titled album an ‘A-‘ (which is ridiculous, that deserved a C- at best), but he’s also given B+’s and above to albums we both really like. For example, he gave The Replacements’ Let it Be, Sly and the Family Stone’s There’s a Riot Goin’ On, Lucinda Williams’ Car Wheels on a Gravel Road, Prince’s Sign o’ the Times, Television’s Marquee Moon, and Brian Eno’s Another Perfect World all an ‘A+’, and gave many albums from artists like The Velvet Underground, Patti Smith, The Strokes, Sleater-Kinney, most riot grrrl bands, L7, Hüsker Dü, Pavement, and Fiona Apple an ‘A’. Now that I think about it really, both he and Lester Bangs, as controversial and contrarian as they were with giving “classic” albums bad reviews, have introduced me to more great music than any other critics I can think of!
I am 73 and have loved Roxy Music since ‘73 when I was in LA after moving from Dallas to California, and my brother’s girlfriend played their album for me. For Your Pleasure.
I can imagine what Dallas was like way back in 1973 ... was it a bit of a culture shock moving to LA ? What section of the Dallas area are you from ? I first heard of them also around '73 maybe '74 when I was about 15 or 16 . Who knows where the time goes ... but we were certainly blessed to have some of the best music in our younger days
