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PrintableNICK RHODES!  He made that band! He was the secret weapon! One of the greatest keyboardists ever!!!!!NEW WAVE FOREVER: SLAVE TO THE WAVE FROM THE CRADLE TO THE GRAVE. | |
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blackguitaristz said: Heiress said: Err, I totally know where you are coming from but just the same, I take this with a grain of salt, given that Nick admits to being obsessed with aesthetics from the age of 10 or so. And started dying his hair not long afterwards. I concede that Sylvian was an inspiration, but the reason the early D2 lineup liked Japan is because they resembled the NY Dolls.  They were heavily, heavily into looks, moreso than they were into music. Like Byron, the look was a right accompaniment to their art - equally, if not a bit more important. Byron was, after all, the first English pin-up! (unless someone could come up with another example - I'd love to hear it...)
There is much resemblance between the Max's Kansas City scene, which includes the Dolls, and the early New Romantic club scene at the Blitz, etc. Makes sense that Warhol was one of Rhodes major heros, given that he had much to do with the former scene. Yeah. I dig Duran's early shit and was the only kid that I know of at the time when Duran first came out here in the States that knew they got their name from the Barberella flix. But I dug them, not cuz of their image but because they sounded like two bands that I dig; Chic and Roxy Music. With a little Bowie thrown in. Did you see their concert that aired on Nickelodeon, back in the day? There was D2, Bow Wow Wow and Haircut 100, I think.  Pretty hip for ol' Nick.
I just read this great passage in the new book about D2, Notorious, about how John Taylor hears a Sex Pistol song, then a Chic song, back to back in a club, and says, in an intuitive moment, "isn't there some way we could merge those two sounds together?" I think they loved the energy of punk, without the hostility. Must have been the case with a lot of kids, because punk as it was in the late 70s just couldn't last... There was a great quote about Roxy Music that I must use as well, in my paper... something Bryan Ferry said about punk bands who would wreck hotel rooms, whereas Roxy Music would redecorate them. | |
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NWF said: NICK RHODES!
He made that band! He was the secret weapon! One of the greatest keyboardists ever!!!!!He is great, because of his willingness to, er, experiment. Nick did so many crazy things for effect on Rio and S&TRT. Like the sound of actual keys tinkling at the end of, I think, the Chauffeur? You know what that always made me imagine? - long beads in a doorway, that clink together as you pass through... something rather Oriental. | |
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NWF said: NICK RHODES! He made that band! He was the secret weapon! One of the greatest keyboardists ever!!!!!
NICK RHODES! NICK RHODES!  what else can u say about this man? he was the coolest/talented/sexiest/ british musican of the eighties by far. i spent many a days bunking off school for this guy and it was worth every single minute of it! believe!!FUNKNROLL!  "February 2014, wow". 'dre. | |
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I <3 Nick and Duran Duran. ~Stephanie~
U need another lover like u need a hole in yo head | |
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    FUNKNROLL! "February 2014, wow". 'dre. | |
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catpark said: That one of him mussing his own hair is just too... 
The second, however... is he standing on a chair? oh dear... | |
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