GHETTORAGA The Third Ear Band's Official Archive

Edited since 2009 by Luca Ferrari

February 28, 2011

An interview with Carolyn Looker, Glen Sweeney's wife, soon...

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A long interview with Carolyn Looker will be published here soon. I've called her by phone some days ago and I've sent her about...
February 22, 2011

On fRoots forum talking about Peter Bellamy, Ian A Anderson states that he played support to the Third Ear Band.

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Just today musician and TEB's acolyte Sedayne writes me an e-mail about a discussion  on fRoots forum on Peter Bellamy , where the ...
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February 04, 2011

Third Ear Band's radio broadcasts available in the BBC vaults: a brief updating.

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As the Third Ear Band's manager in the Eighties, I've been able to ask to BBC Archive service which TEB radio broadcasts are availa...
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January 26, 2011

(Scraping the bottom of the barrell 4:) One unrealised 1989 live track of the Third Ear Band!

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There's hardly anything left in my personal archive, but  searching better I've recently discovered one unrealised live track fro...
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January 22, 2011

An unexpected letter from Denim Bridges...

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Just few days ago (January 19th) TEB's guitar player from the "Macbeth" era Denim Bridges wrote me back after a very lon...
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January 18, 2011

A new letter from Steve Pank, original TEB's promoter and driver.

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Waiting for the interview with his wife Ursula, here's a recent letter Steve Pank , the original TEB's promoter and driver, has sen...
January 09, 2011

(Scraping the bottom of the barrell 3:) Some rare poems by Glen Sweeney.

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Written around the second half of '80's (except "Tiger", date back to 1979), here's some rare poems by Glen Sweeney ...
January 06, 2011

(Scraping the bottom of the barrell 2:) "Abrakadabra": another lyrics from the Hydrogen Jukebox era.

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Here's another lyrics from the Hydrogen Jukebox , A.D. 1978, the electric-pop band formed by Sweeney after the TEB experience. Written...
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January 01, 2011

(Scraping the bottom of the barrell 1:) An unrealised Glen Sweeney's lyrics from 1978...

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Scraping the bottom of the barrell (I've hoped some old TEB collector/musician/friend could contribute in all these months with inter...
December 30, 2010

"The hydrogen Raga": another old interview with Glen Sweeney (1988).

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One of the first Italian interview with the Thirds was made in 1988, just after the first tour (Bergamo and Umbertide). It was pubblished ...
December 25, 2010

The Cambodian Embassy rehearsals tape!

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Just before the first Italian tour (September 1988), as documented in another file of this archive (read at http://ghettoraga.blogspot.co...
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December 21, 2010

Christmas greetings, Glen and me...

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For years, just few days before the Christmas Day, I used to receive a little card from Glen and Carolyn with their warm greetings...  Y...
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December 14, 2010

"Solstice Song", an unrealised live track from the Gorizia 1989 gig.

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As stated in a recent file (read at  http://ghettoraga.blogspot.com/2010/12/live-ghosts-at-all-frontiers-beautiful.html ), the Gorizia...
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December 10, 2010

"The return of the third ear's mistery". A rare 1989 interview with Paul Minns...

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Just after the first TEB concert in Italy (Bergamo, September  8th, 1988), musician and journalist (now filmaker) Francesco Paladino (T...
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Luca Chino Ferrari (b. 1963) is an Italian music writer. Since 1985 he has written and translated books about folk and rock musicians as Third Ear Band, Robyn Hitchcock, Captain Beefheart, Tim Buckley, Nick Drake, Syd Barrett & the Pink Floyd for the main Italian publishers. He met Syd Barrett in 1986 and did contribute to the reunion of the Third Ear Band during the '80s. His latest books was published in 2020 for English ReR November Books, as a collection of stuff about the Third Ear Band, and in 2024 as a collection of writings about Syd Barrett (in Italian). He runs a personal Web site (in Italian/English) at https://chino6339.wixsite.com/gelatoaicorvi
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