This has got to be one of my favorite song titles. I love either image it suggests. If it's planes, what a beautiful image as they lift into the air. If it's narrow rushes of water, what a sweet assault. Motors hum, and the drums start unruly but eventually fall in line. Eno sings something mostly incomprehensible, yet profound-sounding, and we're all in watery flight to some amazing place.Brian Eno - Here Come The Warm Jets
"The title Warm Jets came from the guitar sound on the track of that name, which I described on the track sheet as 'warm jet guitar', because it sounded like a tuned jet. Then I had the pack of playing cards with the picture of the woman in there, and they sort of connected. That was one of the things that was going on at the time: this idea that music was still tied to some idea of revolution, and that one of the revolutions was a sexual revolution. I wasn't making a big political point, I just liked having fun with those things. Most people didn't realise for a long time -- it was rather deeply concealed!"
ReplyDeleteBrian Eno, interviewed by Andy Gill in Mojo, June 1998
Ain't no brain that the one in that man. Thanks Josh!
ReplyDeleteNo sweat. I love your blog!! And Brian Eno. I recently picked a BBC Sessions from him. Let me know if you want me to pass along...
ReplyDeleteThanks dude. Yes, please, pass that those BBC recordings my way!!
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