GHETTORAGA The Third Ear Band's Official Archive

Edited since 2009 by Luca Ferrari

October 24, 2026

Freelance roadie Paul Carter's random memories (part two).

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Here are a few random memories from Paul, who has got back in touch, adding some interesting anecdotes to the history of our beloved band......
October 18, 2026

TEB's roadie PAUL CARTER tells something from the past! (part one?)

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Paul Carter is someone who admits to remembering very little, but who truly lived through the 1960s. However, as a freelance roadie (1969-1...
October 09, 2026

New Musical Express in 1969 on the Hyde Park festival.

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  A short piece by Nick Logan published in New Musical Express  on July 12, 1969 recounts the Rolling Stones’ legendary performance at Hyde...
June 28, 2026

Carolyn Looker passed away on June 24, 2026.

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Dear readers and friends, following a brief but relentless illness, my friend Carolyn passed away a few days ago at the hospice in London w...
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April 07, 2026

Behind the scenes of the creation of the cover for the Essen live album.

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  When M.I.G. (Music In Germany) asked me to oversee the vinyl release of the concert TEB played at the Essen Festival on April 24, 1970 (r...
March 11, 2026

Tolkien, Muz Murray and the Third Ear Band in an interesting essay by philologist Monica Sanz.

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In an interesting article entitled " Shadows of Middle-Earth: Tolkien in Subculture, Counterculture and Exploitation " written by ...
March 04, 2026

American label published vinyl edition of the Elements album in August 2025.

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In August 2025, the American label Antarctica Starts Here (San Francisco, California) released the remastered vinyl edition of Third Ear Ba...
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February 27, 2026

Penny Valentine interviewed Paul Buckmaster for Sounds in May 1971.

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Every time I discover an old interview with Paul Buckmaster   somewhere  I'm glad to share it with all the TEB fans because Paul was a c...
February 22, 2026

A rare interview with Ursula Smith and Richard Coff in 1970 after their departure from the TEB.

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Here is a rare interview with Ursula Smith and Richard Coff conducted by Steve Peacock and published by Sounds  on October 17, 1970, jus...
January 06, 2026

Thanks!

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When I conceived and created this archive in November 2009 to fill the void of information and knowledge about the Third Ear Band, the group...
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December 27, 2025

Was TEB music truly inspired by Terry Riley?

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When analyzing the musical form of a band, the question of sources of inspiration, if not actual influences, is fundamental in order to even...
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December 13, 2025

Another unexpected discovery: a Third Ear Band's radio session in 1970!

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Here is another miraculous discovery from the web, a new live radio set by TEB from February 15, 1970, taken from a John Peel's Sunday S...
December 07, 2025

Carolyn says...

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When my dearest friend Carolyn Looker , Glen's lifelong partner, sent me this stuff about the band (circa second half of 1970) where Swe...
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October 26, 2025

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

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  Do you know that a great novel as Hanif Kureishi 's "The Buddha of Suburbia", published in England in 1990 by Faber & Fa...
October 12, 2025

Viv Albertine remembers first time she saw the Third Ear Band.

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Viv Albertine , singer, guitar player, founder of seminal female punk band The Slits (1977-1982), in 2014 published an autobiography title...
October 05, 2025

Bernard Parmegiani's "Pop Secret" on album.

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For some time now, the music market and the web have been full of surprises and twists and turns that have made it almost impossible to keep...
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Luca Chino Ferrari
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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