Tonight we featured the early year of influential jazz-rock outfit Soft Machine.Not a huge commercial success in the late 60's when they began but revered by artists the world over for pioneering sounds and atmospheres that are still emulated today.
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All tracks by Soft Machine.
Hope For Happiness
Joy Of A Toy
Hope For Happiness (Reprise)
We Did It Again
Why Are We Sleeping
Ryvmic Melodies
Pataphysical Introduction Part I
A Concise British Alphabet Pt I
Hibou, Anemone And Bear
A Concise British Alphabet Part II
Orange Skin Food
A Door Opens And Closes
10.30 Returns To The Bedroom
Out-Bloody-Rageous
Teeth
As If
Facelift
Virtually
Slightly All The Time
Our first feature this week was 1971's Space Rock classic, the self-titled, Clear Blue Sky. The band was made up of an Acton, London-based trio by the names of John Simms, Ken White and Mark Sheather. One of the unsung musical gems of the seventies, it was to be almost 20 years before the band released their highly anticipated second album in 1990.
Continuing on from last week's Deep Purple off-shoot theme, we featured the band sacked bassist Nick Simper went on to form called Warhorse. They produced 2 albums between 1970 and 1972 with yet another classic prog artist, keyboard player Rick Wakeman from Yes. Tonight we featured tracks from both of their albums.
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CLEAR BLUE SKY - Sweet Leaf
CLEAR BLUE SKY - The Rocket Ride
CLEAR BLUE SKY - I'm Comin' Home
CLEAR BLUE SKY - You Mystify
CLEAR BLUE SKY - Tool Of My Trade
CLEAR BLUE SKY - My Heaven
CLEAR BLUE SKY - Birdcatcher
WARHORSE - Vulture Blood
WARHORSE - No Chance
WARHORSE - Burning
WARHORSE - Solitude
WARHORSE - Woman Of The Devil
WARHORSE - Red Sea
WARHORSE - Back In Time
Nobby in the studio with his ultra-rare copy of the second Warhorse album "Red Sea"
In this episode we set the record straight by exposing one of the great lost rock bands of the early 70's named "Captain Beyond". It consisted of the prolific talents of Rod Evans (ex-Deep Purple) and Rhino Reinhardt with Lee Dorman (both ex-Iron Butterfly). Judging from the quality of their musicianship, they should have been right up there on top with Led Zeppelin, Deep Purple and Uriah Heep.
This is our long-overdue tribute to them over thirty years after they appeared. But never too late...
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All tracks by Captain Beyond
Dancing Backwards (On A Sea Of Air)
Armworth
Myopic Void
Mesmerization Eclipse
Raging River Of Fear
Thousand Days Of Yesterdays (Intro)
Frozen Over
Thousand Days Of Yesterdays (Time Since Come And Gone)
