In Search of Eddie Riff

Infobox Album |
Name = In Search of Eddie Riff
Type = Album
Artist = Andy Mackay


Released = 1974
Recorded = February 1974
Genre = Rock
Length =
Label = EG Records
Producer =
Reviews =
*Trouser Press [http://trouserpress.com//entry.php?a=roxy_music] |
Last album =
This album = "In Search of Eddie Riff" (1974)
Next album = "Resolving Contradictions" (1978)

"In Search of Eddie Riff" is an album by British musician Andy Mackay, released on EG Records in 1974.

The album was released during a brief hiatus from Roxy Music's recording schedule. Mackay later claimed that he intended for the album to showcase his different musical interests: "classical music, Motown, fifties rock and roll instrumentals, film music, electronic effects and partly for my wife Jane, who I had recently married, country and western." [http://www.manzanera.com/shopmaster/AM1.htm] . The leadoff single was a jazz cover of "Ride of the Valkyries".

Reviews were mixed, and the Trouser Press Record Guide has described it as "merely a display of his technical abilities." [http://trouserpress.com//entry.php?a=roxy_music]

Track listing

#"Ride of the Valkyries" (Richard Wagner, arr. Mackay)
#"The End of the World" (Sylvia Dee & Arthur Kent)
#"The Hour Before Dawn" (Mackay)
#"Past, Present and Future" (Mackay)
#"Walking the Whippet" (Mackay)
#"Summer Sun" (Mackay)
#"What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" (P. Riser, J. Dean, William Weatherspoon)
#"A Four Legged Friend" (Jack Brooks)
#"An Die Musik" (Franz Schubert, arr. Mackay)

Personnel

*Andy Mackay: saxophone, oboe, voice
*Phil Manzanera: guitar, saxophone, treatment
*Lloyd Watson: slide guitar, guitar
*John Porter: guitar, acoustic guitar, bass guitar on "The Hour Before Dawn" and "A Four Legged Friend"
*Roger Glover: bass guitar on "Ride of the Valkyries", "The End of the World", "Past, Present and Future", "Walking the Whippet" and "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted"
*Eddie Jobson: piano on "The End of the World", "Past, Present and Future", "Summer Sun" and "A Four Legged Friend", organ on "Past, Present and Future" and "A Four Legged Friend", synthesizer, glockenspiel, violin, strings, string arrangements
*Brain Chatton: piano on "The Hour Before Dawn" and "An Die Musik", clavinet on "Ride of the Valkyries", "Past, Present and Future" and "Walking the Whippet", organ on "The Hour Before Dawn"
*Paul Thompson: percussion
*Bruce Rowlands: percussion on "What Becomes of the Broken Hearted" and "An Die Musik"
*"Countess" Sadie MacKenzie: ethereal voice

Produced by Andy Mackay. Recorded and mixed and Island Studios in February 1974. Engineer: Phill Brown. Assistant engineers: Dave Hutchins, Richard Elen, Brian Pickering.

ee also

*1974 in music