Glen Sweeney Paul Minns Richard
Coff Mel Davis Ursula Smith
Played at the Rolling Stones Hyde Park gig
in 1969 to 650,000 people.
John Peel played Jew's Harp on their first
album.
From Sean Breadin in 2008
- I think it's fair to say that with the
passing of Glen Sweeney some years back the Third Ear Band are now a
thing of the past, though interest in the band continues and a healthy
discography remains available on both CD & vinyl - as a search through
ebay will reveal, likewise the collectability of their earlier works.
Plans are even afoot for a tribute Fourth Ear Band, with Glen's wife's
blessing...
Looking at my sources (i.e. Luca Ferrari's Third Ear Gig List that forms
an essential part of his Necromancers of the Drifting West booklet) I
might surmise that the lineup on that occasion was Glen Sweeney, Paul
Minns, Richard Coff and Ursula Smith on cello, who joined in the July of
1969 (replacing Paul Buckmaster, who replaced Mel Davis). In Third Ear
History line-ups are as fleeting and as ephemeral as the music, but that
quartet assumed a semi-permanence and recorded not only their second
album for Harvest, but also the music for a German animaton by Fuchs (Abelarde
& Heloise) and some memorable sessions for the BBC. I see you've linked
to one of Will's little films there too; if you link to his SEA film,
the soundtrack is taken from one of the BBC sessions featuring the
quartet with Smith.
Possibly: Tomorrow Night; Devils Answer; Black Snake; Head in the Sky;
Breakthrough; The Price; Death Walks Behind You; A Spoonful of Bromide
Break in the Ice.
Vincent Crane Carl Palmer Nick Graham
Pete French
Did you know that at the
previous Friars gig John Peel
negotiated to not take a fee so long as the first 100 people got in free
to this gig. David Stopps duly obliged.
Crane
continued with
Atomic Rooster throughout the 1970s with an ever revolving door line up
and played in Dexy's Midnight Runners 1982-1984. Crane had been blighted
by mental health issues all of his life and died in 1989. Carl Palmer went
on to be one third of Emerson Lake and Palmer who went stellar in the
1970s.
