GHETTORAGA The Third Ear Band's Official Archive

Edited since 2009 by Luca Ferrari

January 30, 2025

"Druid One" album review by Italian musician and writer Alessandro Monti.

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Here's a brilliant review on "Druid One - Live at Essen Pop and Blues Festival 1970" by my friend Italian musician and music w...
January 15, 2025

Third Ear Band music on Italian national radio.

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Just yesterday night, on the third channel of Italian national radio RAI (the programme was called "6 Gradi", six grades) Third Ea...
January 01, 2025

A book by Steve Pank available in Amazon.

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A book written by STEVE PANK titled " Hole in the Moon " is available on Amazon in paperback and Kindle Edition formats ( go here...
December 28, 2024

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

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January, 30th 1971: on the last issue of "Melody Maker" a fan asked a question about what percussion Glen played on  the second al...
December 20, 2024

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

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On the glorious " ZIG ZAG " #9 (January 2nd, 1970) PETER JENNER wrote about the story of KEVIN AYERS ' "Joy of the Toy...
December 13, 2024

Mick Taylor reviewed TEB's Alchemy on Melody Maker.

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  On the monthly " The History Of Rock " ("Uncut" publication) of September 22, 2016 devoted to 1969, retrieving an old ...
December 09, 2024

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

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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 fro...
November 22, 2024

Dave Tomlin funeral.

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  Dave from the video interview "Radical Elders" (2019). Dave Tomlin's brother Tony kindly wrote me today: "Dave was cre...
November 09, 2024

Dave Tomlin, a giant of British counterculture.

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From the video interview "Radical Elders" (2019). Multi-instrumentalist, lyricist, writer and poet, David John Tomlin (1934-2024)...
November 07, 2024

Dave Tomlin passed away on 2 November 2024. R.I.P. dear friend!

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  Dave Tomlin (left) and Steve Pank in London, Summer 2010 (photo: Luca Chino Ferrari)       This is a very sad news for all of us! Sadly Da...
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November 03, 2024

Four rare 1972 photos of Simon House on eBay.

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Four b/w photos of Simon House playing violin with the Third Ear Band at the Clitheroe Pop Festival on June 3rd, 1972 are on eBay for £20....
October 12, 2024

My new book on SYD BARRETT out now.

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    A new book of mine on Syd Barrett has been in the bookstores for a few months now. It is called " Scritto sui Rovi " (Written...
September 28, 2024

"Not tied into a more coherent narrative history": a 2021 specious review about TEB book/CD by Richie Unterberger.

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  A December 2021 review by Richie Unterberger found by chance on the web at the page http://www.richieunterberger.com/wordpress/2021/12/ ...
September 18, 2024

A TEB press release distributed by Dutch EMI-Harvest in 1969.

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Here's the press release circulating in the first half of  1969 for promoting TEB's music, just before Paul Buckmaster left and Urs...
August 27, 2024

The Al Stewart and Third Ear Band's 1970 tour programme.

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    Among the Third Ear Band memorabilia in my archive, this tour program has a special place because it was given to me years ago by Steve ...
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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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