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  • Serial_Apologist
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    • Dec 2010
    • 37595

    Originally posted by Boilk View Post
    I have that Souster Nimbus CD, bought on the strength of first hearing his great flügelhorn & live electronics piece The Transistor Radio of St. Narcissus on 'Music In Our Time'. This recording on YT doesn't shine as much as that Radio 3 one, despite both being with John Wallace...

    Well done Boilk! I have that MIOT broadcast on a cassette, as it happens!

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    • eighthobstruction
      Full Member
      • Nov 2010
      • 6432

      Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
      You might enjoy Kevin Ayers....No Eggsplaination....great album....

      I did in fact really mean : Whatevershebringswesing - Kevin Ayres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j7AIUnRf4w
      bong ching

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      • Serial_Apologist
        Full Member
        • Dec 2010
        • 37595

        Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
        I did in fact really mean : Whatevershebringswesing - Kevin Ayres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j7AIUnRf4w
        I thought so - "No Eggsplanation" was one track on that LP iirc.

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        • Conchis
          Banned
          • Jun 2014
          • 2396

          Kevin Ayers was a great talent - far too talented and quirky to be a pop star, though he certainly had the looks. His 'cred' was greatly enhanced when he made off with Richard Branson's first wife, who must have figured that life with the impecunious K.A. would be a lot more fun than being lumbered with some fake hippy tycoon.

          Shooting At The Moon is probably his most adventurous work, with the experimental track 'Pisser Dans un Violin' breaking barriers as to what you could do on record.

          Mike Oldfield was also part of his band at that time, playing both bass and guitar.

          It's often forgotten that Ayers was an early member of Soft Machine but I don't think he would have been happy in that band long-term.

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          • eighthobstruction
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 6432

            Originally posted by Conchis View Post
            Kevin Ayers was a great talent - far too talented and quirky to be a pop star, though he certainly had the looks. His 'cred' was greatly enhanced when he made off with Richard Branson's first wife, who must have figured that life with the impecunious K.A. would be a lot more fun than being lumbered with some fake hippy tycoon.

            Shooting At The Moon is probably his most adventurous work, with the experimental track 'Pisser Dans un Violin' breaking barriers as to what you could do on record.

            Mike Oldfield was also part of his band at that time, playing both bass and guitar.

            It's often forgotten that Ayers was an early member of Soft Machine but I don't think he would have been happy in that band long-term.
            ........one of those lucky people who looked good in Loons....
            bong ching

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            • teamsaint
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 25195

              Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
              I did in fact really mean : Whatevershebringswesing - Kevin Ayres https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5j7AIUnRf4w
              I’m working my way through some of this stuff, and the Kevin Ayers / early Soft Machine I am particularly enjoying, thanks 8O
              I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

              I am not a number, I am a free man.

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              • eighthobstruction
                Full Member
                • Nov 2010
                • 6432

                Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                I’m working my way through some of this stuff, and the Kevin Ayers / early Soft Machine I am particularly enjoying, thanks 8O
                ....Oh ta....I'm going to buy KA CDs [never replaced vinyl copies] and indocrinate my one year ol'grandson in the car as we drift around the Dales....he's only just in a front pointed seat and taking notice of the world <jeesh how could he not....>
                bong ching

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                • Conchis
                  Banned
                  • Jun 2014
                  • 2396

                  Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                  ....Oh ta....I'm going to buy KA CDs [never replaced vinyl copies] and indocrinate my one year ol'grandson in the car as we drift around the Dales....he's only just in a front pointed seat and taking notice of the world <jeesh how could he not....>
                  Not a bad collection for a reasonable outlay:

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                  • teamsaint
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 25195

                    Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                    ....Oh ta....I'm going to buy KA CDs [never replaced vinyl copies] and indocrinate my one year ol'grandson in the car as we drift around the Dales....he's only just in a front pointed seat and taking notice of the world <jeesh how could he not....>
                    Sounds an excellent plan. 3 pleasures in 1 Lucky you !!

                    ( Mine would probably get XTC, Wire, and the accessible bits of Salisbury Plain, but the same principle....)
                    Last edited by teamsaint; 08-02-19, 20:14.
                    I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                    I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                    • eighthobstruction
                      Full Member
                      • Nov 2010
                      • 6432

                      Originally posted by Conchis View Post
                      Not a bad collection for a reasonable outlay:

                      https://www.base.com/buy/product/kev...2564636205.htm
                      Gosh that is good....thanks....
                      bong ching

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                      • Bryn
                        Banned
                        • Mar 2007
                        • 24688

                        Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                        Gosh that is good....thanks....
                        Find many great new & used options and get the best deals for Original Album Series by Kevin Ayers (CD, 2014) at the best online prices at eBay! Free delivery for many products!

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                        • eighthobstruction
                          Full Member
                          • Nov 2010
                          • 6432

                          Haa story of my life Bing Bang Bong....gone....
                          bong ching

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                          • Serial_Apologist
                            Full Member
                            • Dec 2010
                            • 37595

                            Originally posted by eighthobstruction View Post
                            Haa story of my life Bing Bang Bong....gone....
                            Ayers Rock - no relation.

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                            • teamsaint
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 25195

                              Here’s something for Prog fans to consider if they have any leftbover xmas vouchers.

                              This combination of the two volumes of The Road box, both originally released to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Henry Cow in 2008, comes ten years later (sort of… ) as a 50th anniversary…


                              Wouldn’t mind having that at all, but £80 is a bit above my prog budget.
                              I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                              I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                              • Serial_Apologist
                                Full Member
                                • Dec 2010
                                • 37595

                                Originally posted by teamsaint View Post
                                Here’s something for Prog fans to consider if they have any leftbover xmas vouchers.

                                This combination of the two volumes of The Road box, both originally released to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Henry Cow in 2008, comes ten years later (sort of… ) as a 50th anniversary…


                                Wouldn’t mind having that at all, but £80 is a bit above my prog budget.
                                It's a great shame there appears to be no recorded record of The Orkestra - formed at the CPGB-oganised Festival of the Left (if I remember the title correctly - maybe should check!) at Ally Pally in the summer of '77, by the teaming up of Henry Cow and the Mike Westbrook Brass Band. The experiment was short-lived; three years on however it would lead to Lindsay Cooper and Georgie Born joining the Westbrooks' project The Cortège - one of the great jazz frescoes of all time, up there with Carla Bley's Escalator at the very least, I would claim.

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