Glen Sweeney's percussion on "Air"...

January, 30th 1971: on the last issue of "Melody Maker" a fan asked a question about what percussion Glen played on  the second album...

Sweeney in a rare photo taken during the sessions for the second album.

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Peter Jenner told the story of Kevin Ayers' Joy of the Toy sessions.

On the glorious "ZIG ZAG" #9 (January 2nd, 1970) PETER JENNER wrote about the story of KEVIN AYERS' "Joy of the Toy" recording sessions, revealing for the first time the involvement of some musicians (not mentioned on the inner sleeve for copyright reasons) as our PAUL MINNS and PAUL BUCKMASTER. Interesting the fact Jenner said Buckmaster had left the Thirds just before... (December 1969?)

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Mick Taylor reviewed TEB's Alchemy on Melody Maker.

 

On the monthly "The History Of Rock" ("Uncut" publication) of September 22, 2016 devoted to 1969, retrieving an old issue of MELODY MAKER (July-September 1969) documents a review by Mick Taylor, guitarist for the Stones who had recently replaced Brian Jones, in which he comments on "Alchemy." The column was the well-known “Blind Date” in which musicians were subjected to 'blind' listening...

Needless to say, even in that 1969 the ears of most rock musicians were not ready for the music of the Third Ear Band. What about today?

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The croaking self-styled great rock magazines and the right to be informed.

Read below about an old issue of ‘UNCUT’ # 181 from June 2012, one of the self-styled ‘best rock magazines’ around.

A long-time reader from Somerset writes to the letters column run for years by ALLAN JONES and asks that the magazine also cover obscure bands, starting with the Third Ear Band. What happened to Sweeney and co.? 

A legitimate question, because the reader, a music lover, is not supposed to know the music scene in depth and asks the expert.

Less legitimate is Jones's (derisive? English humour?) response, which only demonstrates the snootiness, know-nothingness and arrogance of a self-referential world that continues to croak its stale truths unconcerned with what is happening just outside the editorial offices of experts...

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