third ear band - let's discuss.

2019 update - my new band reminds me of third ear band :)

THere's a new box set version of the 2nd s/t lp alongside an unreleased lp from the time and some other stuff
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/third-ear-band-third-ear-band-elements-1970-71-3cd-remastered-expanded-digipak-edition/
meant to pick it up while I was in London but forgot about it. Read the review of the release as fresh news while on the flight over.

There's also a new remaster of the Macbeth soundtrack out.
https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/third-ear-band-music-from-macbeth-remastered-expanded-edition/

both through Esoteric/Cherry red

just picked up a copy of the unreleased-at-the-time 4th album The Magus - chucked it on with no expectations and it’s blowing my miiiind - like, there’s the expected hippy dribble BUT some of these tracks sound like proto-post-punk, some weird undiscovered country between PiL and This Heat - perhaps a touch of Eno in the vocals - if you’d told me they were from some lost Wire side-project i would believe it

i knew Lydon name-checked TEB in that interview that’s quoted at the beginning of Rip It Up & Start Again - and feel there’s a line you could draw from that to Flowers of Romance - but obviously this unreleased LP didn’t influence him or anyone!

the synth is unreal too!

listening to this LP is one of those experiences that shreds the space-time continuum! it is from 1972 ffs!!

also, how cool was Simon House’s 1970s?! TEB > Hawkwind > Bowie, what a ride.

Don't forget his early proto prog-doom band High Tide!

Ha I did try High Tide once but found it tough going - perhaps I am ready to go again!

thanks for the rec! i found it on Sp__fy, it does indeed sound prescient

High Tide Sea Shanties is the one to hear if you started with the s/t.
Mind numbingly heavy . & the guitarist is the other guitarist in the London line up of the Misunderstood as I hope is well known.