Kevin Ayers now added!

I must run for now, but I'll be adding albums this evening. So now this thread won't be moved, LET'S DISCUSS THE GREAT MAN!

By the way, I was thinking of using the following songs for mp3s:

• Song For Insane Times
• Rheinhardt & Geraldine/Colores Para Delores
• Song From The Bottom of a Well
• It Begins With a Blessing/Once I Awakened/But It Ends With a Curse
  

Good choices?

Joren wrote: Well, I don't know much about him, but the songs I've heard were pretty good... but not all prog...

The biography might give you an idea of what to expect from his songs.

I think they should add Gentle Giant too! If thats not prog then I'm a sub terranean dweller!

Snow Dog's probably joking, because somebody asked if Robert Wyatt was here

 

ADD YES!!!

I saw Kevin Ayers about 10 years ago backed up by Liverpool prog/jazz supremos the Wizzards of Twiddly. I also briefly met the man - he & the Wizards were rehearsing in an arts centre which I was helping to run. I opened the door one morning, saw a tousled blond guy standing there and said (with great presence of mind and that ready wit for which Liverpudlians are so famous) 'Fookin' 'ell it's Kevin Ayers!', which was a bit of a conversation killer. I got on pretty well with some of the Wizards, and they played a storming set at the Lomax with some of Ollie Halsall's guitar solos played by the trumpeter. Great addition, and I look forward to your reviews and bio Mr Trousers.

frenchie wrote: i agree with kevin ayers being added. is robert wyatt here?

Have a look

I think I'm limited to one mp3 per album and a maximum of 5 over all. I sleep on it. 

Dick Heath wrote: TP Your discography must be comprehensive, and as Ayers is integral to the first Soft Machine album you strictly should include that. However, there has to be a route on the archives that takes the reviewer to the Soft Machine page to avoid duplication. And what about the Nico Eno Ayers + one other live (Cale???) album released by Island in the 70's? I've thinking along the same lines that  Hugh Hopper should included as a "solo artist", but the headache is the large number of groups he's been a member: Wildeflowers Soft Machine Isotope Stomu Yamashta Gilgamesh Hugh Hopper Band Caveman Hughscore/Hughscore Soft Works Bone Soft Machine Legacy His solo albums include the notable 1984, Jazzloops and session work, e.g with Kevin Ayers, Syd Barrett, Robert Wyatt. I know Hugh would react on inclusion, as saying it's 'groovy'.

The discographies need only cover solo works (though I did include that Nico Eno Cale jobby (June 1st) so you know) as he's being added as a SOLO ARTIST. His work in Soft Machine is covered in both biographies, and that's enough, surely?

Dick Heath wrote: Reference in the text will have to do, but a proper discography should be comprehensive. Now you remind me of the LP title, I realise have have got Cales, Ayers, Nico, Eno included. However, any suggestion how you tackle a musician like Mr Hopper and his back catalogue, if he was to be (should be) included?

Solo work in a Hopper, Hugh page. Other bands to be listed seperately. I plan on adding the Wilde Flowers soon... just as soon as I hear some!