GHETTORAGA The Third Ear Band's Official Archive

Edited since 2009 by Luca Ferrari

May 17, 2024

My liner notes for the recording at Essen Festival.

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"Despite not being at least initially among the scheduled groups (in fact, the band’s name does not appear on the poster or the officia...
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May 13, 2024

M.I.G. Music scheduled the TEB live album at Essen Festival for 31 May 2024.

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The announced LP/CD TEB  live recording of Essen Festival (1970), titled " Druid One ", will pubblish by M.I.G. on May 31th, 2024...
April 03, 2024

The wonderful 1970 Third Ear Band live concert soon out for M.I.G. Music - an update.

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The fantastic unreleased 40 minutes live gig played by the Third Ear Band at the Essen festival in June 1970 will be released soon by M.I.G....
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April 02, 2024

An obscure collaboration by Ursula Smith in 1969 with a disappeared band...

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As you can read on this short article below, published in Wishaw Press and Advertiser on September, 19, 1969, that year Ursula Smith playe...
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February 10, 2024

A 1970 Third Ear Band's unrealised live recording found in Germany!

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Dear TEB aficionados, lovers of fine antiques,  I was contacted a few days ago by Made In Germany (M.I.G. Music), a German label specializi...
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December 18, 2023

An old article on a gig of the Al Stewart-Third Ear Band tour.

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An old article from the " Evening Sentinel " published on January, 27th 1970 presents the gig TEB played at Stoke-on-Trent on Frid...
December 01, 2023

"How I got the third ear". Memories from Finland.

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TEB fan Mauri Kankaanpää gives us some memories closely related to the Third Ear Band... "1st of December 1973 was a remarkable day f...
November 21, 2023

Two old reviews of "Alchemy" found in the local press...

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Not only music magazines, but also local newspapers have devoted space to the Third Ear Band. Here you can read two reviews of " Alchem...
November 13, 2023

The Anacondas Skiffle Group story: the end of the prehistoric events before the Third Ear Band (part 3/3).

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(read the second part of the story HERE ) After the sudden success due to winning the band competition promoted by the Croydon Jazz Club......
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November 07, 2023

Another interesting article on the late great Paul Buckmaster.

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Here below you can read another old article about Paul and his brilliant career. Written by  by  Paul Huddleston , it  was published in  ...
October 30, 2023

The Anacondas Skiffle Group story: some prehistoric events before the Third Ear Band (part 2/3).

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(For reading the first part of the story click  HERE ) Our story about the very first known band involved Glen Sweeney is now focused on the...
October 21, 2023

The Anacondas Skiffle Group story: the Stone Age of Glen Sweeney and the Third Ear Band (part 1/3).

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Historiographical Background It is well known that Glen Sweeney's musical beginnings date back to the 1950s and were consummated in the ...
May 14, 2023

A 1969 letter by Michael Horovitz quoting the Third Ear Band.

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In January 1969 International Time published a letter signed by Michael Horovitz , a poet and cultural agitator and editor of the undergroun...
February 16, 2023

"Alchemy" in Padua...

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A few weeks ago, while on vacation in some beautiful northern Italian cities, in Padua, I came across the window of a historic record store,...
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January 01, 2023

The music according to Glen Sweeney in an old article from 1970.

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  Dear loyal listeners of the Third Ear Band , for however few of you are left, here is another archival tidbit from the distant past.    Fr...
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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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