Whichever way you slice the Third Ear Band they look, sound, feel, and smell like nothing else. The boxes they don't tick spread across every musical genre. Wyrd Folk, you say? Didn't exist at the time. They haven't yet invented the box this band could tick with any confidence.
They're not going to play at your wedding. Unless it's at Stonehenge.
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| From '69, peak year for stuff like this. There wasn't any. |
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| Putting band name on cover in shameless bid for show-biz acceptance and chart action. |
They're possibly still out there, creaking and droning away, either in physical or ætheric form. Deliverable includes first three albums (xtry trx) and a massive compilation, but there's more! Shuffle on down to your nearest physical media outlet and scoop up a sack o' Thirdie goodness while you still have the strength!
Does anybody read this crap? Asking for a friend.
You need these for parties and house guest clearance. To claim the deliverable, simply state one venue at which the Thirdies played! It's a tough one, by George!
ReplyDeleteThe roundhouze. They Kicked!
DeleteTell your friend, yes, still reading. --Muzak McM.
ReplyDeleteThe Round House, which at times could be full of squares..
ReplyDeleteSaw them several times in 1969, notably in Hyde Park alongside the Edgar Broughton Band...
ReplyDeleteI come here mainly to read this crap, any music is a bonus.
ReplyDeleteSame here.....willm. Todays relly hits the mark.
DeleteNew Century Hall, Manchester, England Feb 1970 supporting Al Stewart
ReplyDelete"Supporting Al Stewart" - the music business gets no bleaker than this.
DeleteI found "Voices" by Siouxsie and the banshees could empty a pub.
ReplyDeleteI'm willing to check 'em out...gimme the purple clousdy one?
ReplyDeleteYou'll take 'em all and be grateful, consarn it. Later.
DeleteI'm with Bambi ... 😂
ReplyDeleteYou make sure he gets home all right.
Delete'simply state one venue at which the Thirdies played! It's a tough one, by George!'
ReplyDeleteAs it goes they supported the Stones at Hyde Park in 1969 (and Floyd the following year). You know the one where Hells Angels acted as the Stone's security. I imagine they never did find out who the third ear belonged to......
Of course the band actually started their career playing underground gigs at places like 'the Middle Earth' a couple of years earlier, the club, not the Tolkein fantasy world. Although the idea that they began their career entertaining orcs and hobbits might explain some of the idiosyncrasies of their music.... I wonder what Gandalf made of them?
There's a common rumor that they played The Roundhouse, but - picture or it didn't happen.
DeleteTalking of Tolkein, Hobbits and things. Fun fact whilst records have been released by 'the Hobbits', 'Gandalf', at least 10 'Saurons', a handful of Sarumans, a few 'Gollum's', 'the Uruk Hai' and sundry 'Elves', 'Dwarves', 'Goblins', Dragons and 'Trolls' of varying kinds it seems nobody has ever wanted to identify themselves simply as 'the Orcs' so if anyone is looking for a name for their band.......
ReplyDeleteThe New Orc Dolls, The Electric Light Orcestra, Björc ...
DeleteMany years ago I actually got some CDs direct from Glen Sweeney hi'self!! Recorded in Italy (where I'm now!!) .. but no contact with ya' man since the early 90s .. CDs long gone now!!
ReplyDeleteA little rock n' roll glamor deposited on th' IoF©!
DeleteLooking at him again he doesn't appear entirely wholesome. He could be the leader of a post-Process cult whose trans-cross-over category-defying archaic musical air (using sonic ingredients specified in certain infamous/dreaded texts) constituted a ritualistic spell to lure the unwitting.
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I gather Glen Sweeney has gone to join the drum-choir in the sky. Like VdGG(?) TEB was seemingly far bigger in Italy and indeed reformed there in the late 80s to generate some live material that got predictably grey-zoned yo death IIRC.
ReplyDeleteToo young to have seen them live in their original incarnation. Grabbed their score for Polanski's Macbeth from a long-ago blog (Chocoreve ?) and was smitten on the spot by the evocation of ever-cold wild-camping wart-sprouting prophecy, shawms harshly valuing human life at near zero, and retro PCBs fitted in castle walls staffed by abrasive medieval CEOs.