Do you know Hanif Kureishi's The Buddha of Suburbia (1990) quotes the Third Ear Band?

 

Do you know that a great novel as Hanif Kureishi's "The Buddha of Suburbia", published in England in 1990 by Faber & Faber, quotes the Third Ear Band at the beginning (page 10)?

He writes:

"(...) Mum often said Eva was a vile show-off and big-mouth, and even I recognized that Eva was slightly ridiculous, but she was the only person over thirty I could talk to. She was inevitably good-tempered, or she was being passionate about something. At least she didn't put armour on her feelings like the rest of the miserable undead around us. She liked the Rolling Stones's first album. The Third Ear Band sent her. She did Isadora Duncan dances in our front room and then told me who Isadora Duncan was and why she'd liked scarves. Eva had been to the last concert the Cream played. In the playground at school before we went into our classrooms Charlie had told us of her latest outrage: she'd brought him and his girlfriend bacon and eggs in bed and asked them if they'd enjoyed making love."

 

In the book, a wonderful fresco of London in the Sixties through the eyes of an English/Indian young, there are also some quotations of popular music's bands/musicians as Soft Machine, Kevin Ayers, Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd; rock magazines as Melody Maker and New Musical Express; songs as "Come Together," "Greensleaves"...

 

Unfortunately, however, in the Italian translation by the otherwise talented Ivan Cotronero (p. 17), who was clearly unaware of who they were, the Third Ear Band clumsily becomes “the band of Third Ear”...

 

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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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The Thirds quoted on a Rough Guide to the "The Lord of the Rings"...

Weakness of the contemporary book market, the Third Ear Band is quoted on a 304 pages paperback "Rough Guide to 'The Lord of the Rings'", printed in 2003.

At page 276, inside a box about the "Gandalf's Garden" magazine run by Muz Murray, author Paul Simpson writes: 

"(...) Founded by Muz Murray, the group focused on the free spirits within London; but the word quickly  spread throughout Britain, the magazine becoming a bible for those who couldn't visit their spiritual base at the World's End, Chelsea. Printed on suitably psychedelic paper with equally abrasive-on-the-eye ink, the magazine was an instant cult success. Band reviews became a regular feature, with such oddly titled acts as Junior's Eyes, Soft Machine, The Third Ear Band and Quintessence all receiving the Gandalf treatment."

The box, titled "How Gandalf inspired a mystical commune in swinging Chelsea", is on the Internet HERE

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Old TEB stuff found in the Internet.

Here you can watch three rare TEB stuff emerged from the Internet Big Sea:

- a beautiful pink poster (drawed by Sweeney) from  a concert played at Middle Earth on October 31th, 1967 with the Soft Machine:

- this one from an "Implosion" event at the London Roundhouse on November 8th, 1970 with Soft Machine and Brinsley Schwarz:

 

- this page taken fron the "Evening News" with infos about the Hyde Park concert played on July 18th, 1970 (with Pink Floyd and Edgar Broughton Band) with a well-known picture of the band as a quartet.

As always these precious documents will be insert on the historical files of the Archive (here).

 

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