Post #147917 by tikibars on Sat, Mar 19, 2005 3:48 PM

For my 1000th post, I may as well contribute something absolutely non-Tiki.

Hence... I knew that Sylvian was going to come up in this thread sooner or later, since Jon Hassel and Michael Brook both played on a bunch of his stuff and were part of his touring bands in various years.

I used to be the sound engineer at the Park West in Chicago - the Sylvian show that Astrosurf saw there was my last gig there before I quit. I wanted to leave the job three months earlier, but stuck around just to have the opportunity to work with Sylvian. Along with Devo and Eno, Sylvian is one of my all time musical gurus.

Secrets of the Beehive.
Gone to Earth.
Brilliant Trees.

Can't touch that stuff.
Awesome.

I think the coolest thing about Eno is his ability to bring out the best in the bands he produces. I think the record he did with Talking Heads is their best album, and the first Devo album remains a masterpiece. He even helped revitalize a then-stagnant U2 in the early 1990s.

I think the trilogy that Eno did with Bowie (Heroes / Low / Lodger) is Bowie's best work, and was followed by the also-genius Scary Monsters - which is Eno-less, but which is also full of other Eno-collaborators such as Robert Fripp (who, in turn, keeps working with Sylvian!).

Seems to me that for these guys, making records are like ordering Chinese food: one artist from column A, one from column B, one from column C, and Eno for dessert.

And a mai tai, please.

See, you can bring ANY topic back to Tiki.

Sorta.