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Third Ear Band - Unreleased 1968-1971

Track listing:
  1. COSMIC SCALE 5:38
  2. JASON'S TRIP 6:06
  3. DEVIL WEED 3:34
  4. HYDE PARK RAGA 5:52
  5. DRUID 6:24
  6. HYDE PARK 5:05
  7. WATER 4:10
  8. ETERNITY IN D 7:31
  9. DRUID 8:33

Notes


THIRD EAR BAND - studio and BBC sessions '68 - '71


'STANDARD MUSIC LIBRARY' library music
(incognito as 'NATIONAL BALKAN ENSEMBLE'), 1968

1. COSMIC SCALE
2. JASON'S TRIP
3. DEVIL WEED

BBC RADIO, 'TOP GEAR' 27.07.69

4. HYDE PARK RAGA
5. DRUID
(N.B. 3rd track 'GHETTO RAGA' missing from source tape, anyone have it?)

'BEAT CLUB' GERMAN T.V. 1971

6. HYDE PARK

BBC RADIO 1 'IN CONCERT' 17.02.71

7. WATER
8. ETERNITY IN D
9. DRUID

GLEN 'ZEN' SWEENEY - PERCUSSION (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9)
PAUL MINNS - OBOE (1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9)
RICHARD COFF - VIOLIN, VIOLA (1,2,3,4,5,7,8,9)
BEN CARTLAND - VIOLIN, VIOLA (1,2,3)
URSULA SMITH - 'CELLO (4,5)
DENIM BRIDGES - ELECTRIC GUITAR, VOCAL (6,7,8,9)
PAUL BUCKMASTER - CELLO, BASS GUITAR (6,7,8,9)
UNKNOWN - CONGAS (6)



addendum;

THIRD EAR BAND - complete (?) list of BBC sessions
(ANYBODY HAVE TAPES?)

first date - recording
second date - transmission



sweeney, coff, minns, cartland -
31/12/68 - 1/1/69 night ride
the grove
stone circle
egyptian book of the dead
pierrot


sweeney, coff, minns, smith -
21/7/69 - 27/7/69 top gear
hyde park raga*
druid*
ghetto raga

20/5/70 - 12/6/70 (^17/7/70) alan black - sounds of the seventies
earth
down home raga
water
festival^

8/6/70 - 20/6/70 top gear
down home raga
feel your head
hyde park raga



sweeney, minns, buckmaster, bridges - also coff! eh?
thought he'd already left -
17/1/71 sounds of the seventies (according to
luca ferrari's 'the dragon wakes' webpage - hmm - seems to be a
'bbc in concert' with peel, to my ears)
water*
eternity in d*
druid*



sweeney, minns, bridges, house, pavli, marchant -
25/1/72 - 11/2/72 john peel show
air
i the key

21/2/72 - 21/3/72 pete drummond - sounds of the seventies
groom's dance
fleance's song
hierophant

24/4/73 - 18/5/73 the sequence
i the key
the magus
ten dimensional landscape

* denotes 'actually circulating and included in this compilation'.

most information from the book "in session tonight" by Ken Garner