[quote="rendezvous"]I'm not sure what you mean by "even worse than Avalon."
I am afraid my words could have been a bit mistakable
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Avalon is a great album and More Than This or Take A Chance belong to my all time Roxy favourites.
But Avalon included a (btw very fine) BF solo track: To Turn You On. Without Andy and Phil. Phil had to arrange with a second guitarist (Neil Hubbard) on almost every track. A lot of (very competent) studio musicians (Paul Carrack, Neil Jason etc.) contributed to Avalon. And no TGPT, but that's a different story ...
So it was the last (but not the worst) Roxy album but somehow the sixth Ferry album, too - IMHO.
My reflection was how a new Ferry album could sound: Some tracks include Manzo. And some other guitarists, too. Some tracks include Andy, if he is able to play. And a lot of other musicians as always. But we shouldn't expect a new Roxy album only because of Phils contribution
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