A rare old interview with Lyn Dobson from "Melody Maker".

It has never been frequent to read interviews with Lyn Dobson in the past for a few reasons: first, for the fact that he has always been a session man and studio turner, having played with many bands, including Manfred Mann and the Soft Machine; also, in spite of his histrionic nature on stage, he has always preferred to respond to words with music. 

Devoted to John Coltrane's saxophone, passionate about the I King and meditation, a good draughtsman, involved in volunteer organizations (including as a bus driver for transporting the disabled), I knew him as a shy, thoughtful person, anything but egotistical - except when he took the stage, transforming himself into an outstanding performer!
In this fine interview with Richard Williams, published by "Melody Maker" on January 31, 1970, he shows all his intelligence and sensitivity as a young musician with a philosophical reflection on the power of music...

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A 40 minutes unrealised recording from a 1970 TEB live gig in Germany found!

In the last few weeks, Michael Schutz of Mig Music wrote me for asking some help about how to contact original members of the TEB because he has found a 40' UNREALISED LIVE RECORDING from a 1970 gig. He wrote me this:

"Mig Music has been working with the German state TV station WDR since 2009 and WDR is the producer of the TV series " Rockpalast " which is recognised worldwide as a music/rock/TV format. 

WDR has always used its own sound engineers for the recordings of Rockpalast but also for other musically valuable festivals. One of these gentlemen was Joachim Manfred Kaiser, who two or three years ago told the current chief editor of the Rockpalast programme that he still had extensive security copies of recordings of the Rockpalast from 1975 onwards, the Berlin Jazztage since around 1968 and also of the Essen Pop and Blues Festival, and that he would like to hand them back to his former employer.

There were recordings of about 100 minutes from 1969 with the Keef Hartley Band and from 1970 with the Keef Hartley Big Band. The last living musician who founded the band together with Keef is Miller Anderson. We are friends. Miller got 12 minutes of the recordings and immediately agreed to release them. The quality of the recordings is incredibly good, considering that the tapes are 52 years old.

The tapes also include a performance by the Third Ear Band from the 1970 festival in the Grugahalle in Essen, which is just over 40 minutes long. We know from the Keef Hartley tapes how uniquely high and therefore good the quality of the recordings by the sound engineer Kaiser are. These are always radio recordings. Not like the Rockpalast for TV, he was the sound engineer for the music radio departments of the WDR.

Unfortunately, there is no further information about the recordings, such as which pieces are involved and which artists were on stage in Essen.

I would therefore ask you to inform us who we should contact from the band. With Glen Sweeney or with Dave Tomlin or maybe with Paul Minns? This has nothing to do with EMI and nothing to do with Cherry Red. Here only the musicians who were on stage have the right to say yes or no."

I explained him, as we know, that the band played at least four times in Germany with two different line-ups, one acoustic (for example, for the "Abelard & Heloise" TV soundtrack) and one electric (for the appearance on "Beat Club" TV programme).

So he assuered me he will send some excerpts just to detect the band  musicians and the titles of tracks... 

Could be this another buried treasure?

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