third ear band - let's discuss.

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.