Kevin Ayers '70s Era
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- čas přidán 26. 08. 2024
- 1970 - why are we sleeping
1970 - Clarence In Wonderland
1972 - May I ?
1972 - Oh My
1972 - why are we sleeping
1973 - Oh Wot a Dream !
1973 - Shouting In A Bucket Blues
1975 - Lady Rachel
1976 - May I ?
This is still awfully exciting to watch and hear. Kevin Ayers seems like a good role model for young people- well read, doesn't take himself seriously, bilingual, few hang ups, and a nice line in hats.
Don't forget large quantities if wine and cigarettes 😎🤔
And an early death...
And a hell of an appetite for booze and dr*gs?
@@ptrisonic he died at 68 I believe which isn't that early !
He also took a prodigious amount of both coke and heroin for a good 20 years or so...but that's cool
I like your shirt, I like your hat and I like you. Too soon gone. Thank you very much, Kevin.
Let's have a good time drinking lots of skywine, love & peace Kevin where ever you are.maybe in Rachel's arms among the stars.....
Maybe the most underrated musician of all time.
You have to be known to be underated...
@@CheckAvailabilityYo you've never heard of Kevin Ayers before viewing this video.😂
this dandy of the 68revolution he was unique a bohemian troubador a pierot lunaire his style was a mix of pychadeia calypso free jazz space rock and chanson je taime forever monsieur banana moon
Saw him in a tiny club in Glasgow in this era ,1969/70, when his band had Mike Oldfield, Lol Coxhill and others. Amazing - I later travelled to London to see the Ayers Cale Nico Eno June 1st 1974 show. He should have been a big star.
The Kevin Ayers catalog was a big part of my musical upbringing from Joy of the Toy onward. An eclectic mix of eccentric English songs almost like a musical trip through alice in wonderland with a ever so strange banana obsession!!!! I got to see him live in 1975 at the Astoria in London with Andy Summers & Zoot Money just before the punk thing kicked off & just about when Summers met Stingo & Copeland to do their pretend punk band. As a musician myself I recorded a cover version of May I for my brothers funeral as he was a big fan. Ayers songwriting was always very amusing and he even got quite poppy in his later material. He never quite broke out commercially partly, I think because he was so laid back himself. He was always surrounded by a group of very talented musicians from Oldfield, Summers, Coxhill, Bedford, Wyatt, Halsall etc. Whatevershebringswesing and Confessions of Dr Dream albums are stamped in my head from a young age. He was a one off with music full of vision and humour but possibly fuelled by the occasional substance, mainly red wine. A bit mad but a memorable talent. Too old to die young!
Great band..KA always surrounded himself with great players Oldfields lead is brillant. The whole world band. Love the casual approach. Way to go...thankyou very much.
Alison Carpenter yes and Steve Hillage
@@frankolsson6130 I think that both Mike Oldfield and Ollie Halsall, in their very different ways, were more idiosyncratic guitarists than Steve Hillage.
Hillage, though, was a very fluent and accomplished guitarist in a blues-rock vein. I'm surprised that John Mayall never bagged him for the BluesBreakers!
Mike Oldfield.....great.
Lol
Canadian Cal Bachelor doing the Hillage stuff for tv on Shouting in a Bucket Blues there. Also saw him with John Baldry's Barracuda, supporting the best Ayers gig I ever saw (one of the best gigs I ever saw full stop) at York Uni c1975.
Multi-camera pro-shot of The Whole World from 1970?
Hell yeah!
I loved Kevin Ayers music and l saw him live in the 70s. He was so cool. Such a beautiful looking man. R.I.P Kevin ❤
When I die, I want to come back az Kevin Ayerzzzz 🎱🪄🔮
I bought Kevin Ayers & The Whole World's Shooting At the Moon at bargain price in late 1972. I remember Mike Oldfield's lead solo hitting me like a storm on that brand new but low-quality stereo I had. And then Kevin's humourous and tender vision of a French girl in a French café (see 11:30) and that oyster and its flying fish. I instantly became addicted to this low voice and all. And still am. Same happened with Frank Zappa and Neil Young, and Daevid and so many of those heroes of my youth.
Le dandy décadent du rock psychédélique... mais un vrai génie derrière son côté "à l'aise dans ses pompes".... il a gardé ce "je ne sais quoi" de sa période crazy de Soft Machine ! et un humour décalé d'arracheur de dents... A redécouvrir !!
Sa chanson hommage à Syd Barrett est juste horrible. J'me suis dit marrant on dirait JugBand Blues.... Puis ça m'a mis mal à l'aise dans mes chaussures en plastique bleu... ça doit être moi... c'est ce que je suis... c'est ce que je vois.... Pas comme Syd ou Mac Demarco pourraient.... Une gêne allez savoir pourquoi. Et puis ses chansons ersatz du Velvet.
What a treat, I must admit I'm here just to see Mike Oldfield in his teens though. I'm happy I could catch a couple of glimpses of him here and there.
Same :)
@@excession30 :( This is sad news to me that I wasn't aware of if it's true. I try hard to keep my artistic admiration separate from personal life and beliefs, political, religious or otherwise, but super disappointing nonetheless.
I've tried to confirm this myself but haven't been able to. The only remotely political things I read about him is how happy he is not being in Britain anymore and paying the high taxes. Do you have sources to share?
You are the most extraordinary person, I ever dreamed...
Get out of my dream!!!! And did he really screams: fuck you all??? Kevin?????
He did.
Thanks for posting. Great treat. Most underrated musician
Joy of a Toy, Whatevershebringswesing, sublime (at the time).The rest of it? Not so much.
I watch and listen, almost feel's like it was back then
Kevin Ayers, Frenchman, but born in England--as a 🚼 Baby!
R.I.P.
you mean English born and bred
Francophile though
@@peterfreeman6677 -- Thank's for the backup Peter. The guy's right, Ayer's was born in England. If he listened to the album's, most of them, anyway. He fell in Love with the South of France: Even the mood of his music was laid back and mellow, reflecting the S.O.F. in the 60's & early 70's. It's also in the liner notes'.
You're right my friend: KEVIN AYER'S. was born in England, but bred in France.
TOM
@@peterfreeman6677
I enjoyed your reply to my post, and thank you for the live performance.
Did he actually play to a French Audience? Did he actually speak in the French Language? Yes, he did.
Brian, you were right, 'Kevin Ayer's' might've been born in England, but his ❤ belonged in France.
well -- his french here is adequate. like a B+ student. of course manque de pratique - et de discipline.
I was a big fan back in the 70s, but never got to see him live. Never realized he was quite a tall dude until CZcams. 🙂
The Lonely Rocker digs this kinda music! good ole vintage rock of the seventies!
Takes up where Syd Barrett left off.
I was lucky to see him in the Gulbenkian theatre at UKC around 1974 - his first words were "get those God damn lights out of my eyes". Great concert in his home town.
Thanks so much for posting this. Happy to find it! Sounds n looks great. Wish I'd had a chance to see Kevin+ live.
Had a show (promoted) in Los Angeles with John Cale and Steve Hillage. We gave them a ride from Hotel in Hollywood. That was interesting.
Hillage didn't believe we knew who he was. Had to try to convince him. Even told him had Fish Out of Water. Cale thought had we yelled at him to hurry but it was a truck yelling at us for parking. Tried to convince him too.
The show was just the 2 of them. Like '85 in a small club, The Music Machine in Santa Monica.
WOW ! Amazing ! I worked promoting the 90s GONG return to the states ...which meant driving for hours , eating dinner , airport pick ups...all kinds of amazing personal time spent with Daevid, Gilli , Pip, Bloomdido...Tim Blake .even got to hang with Tally for a bit ...They were such real people ...not rock stars at all . I miss my very cool friends , I thought they'd be here forever.
No wonder he didn't believe you. Fish Out Of Water is by Chris Squire!! The album you're thinking of is Fish Rising...
His French and Spanish was spot on. # Hidden Underrated Gems lol.
Welcome to Jazz Club
GREAT-GREAT !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
and then, great again!
The greatest!!!!!!
Wow, il amène les pièces dans son propre monde et c'est très bien ainsi!
Thanks so much for posting these. I hadn't seen many of them and they are fantastic.
Such a shame about his drug addiction, very well educated man and very good looking
I didn’t know Kevin really had a serious drug period- that is, that he was addicted at any point.
What was he addicted to?
Wine and women...😎
@@simonbate7285 un bon vivant
"Révolution doit être pour faire la vie plus simple et plus plaisirable". Not a 100% french sentence, but "plaisirable" is a charming brand new word. Adopted !
Nice word ,indeed!!👍
He coined new musical World and .... a new French adjective!
C.& Chelsea the Dog.
🐉🔬🐲
Simplemente excepcional ¡¡ Merci Kevin ¡ et ses amis¡
des années que je cherchais qu'elle était la voix derrierre le Soft machine qui chantait cela...merci
Oui c'était bien et Kevin meilleur et il vivait en France dans le sud
RIP Mr Ayers - 14/12/1972 (fac de Nanterre) : Steve Hillage on guitar, Archie Legget on bass and Pip Pyle on drums (Why are we Sleeping !!!)
Mike Oldfield on guitar
The above is right..great version of sleeping '.. any more of this particular concert?
@@alisoncarpenter232 Two numbers only were filmed for the TV programme "Rockenstock". The other one was "Stranger in Blue Suede Shoes". It might be out there somewhere but I haven't found it yet.
I've got down Eddie Sparrow on drums at the Nanterre gig. Don't know if that's right ...
Layed back man!
Fucking Fantastic......thanks.
Excellent
Великий рокер!!!!!!
12:38 An unusually melodic solo by Lol Coxhill (in his bathrobe no less)
Who’s the fiddler. Seems American.
Se te extraña
Groovy man, like cool baby
Reminds me a lot of R. Stevie Moore
super unfortunate that he wont see a majority of his legacy being built, i got a good feeling he will be noticed heavily soon.
Aw Ollie...wish you'd have stuck around a while longer...
The Lady Rachel--- гениальная вещь!!!!СУПЕР!!!!
Have a cigar, Kevin! Why not, we're almost home...?!
El hombre Máquina
muy buenos.
I'm glad, Kevin found his niche, because he wasn't meant to play with 'Soft Machine'.
w e ll the music was/is marvelous. here you can notice: he Knew he needed a good guitar player, but he maybe got useless jealous. imagine kicking stuart copeland out of a nand with such relevance as the soft machine. then vontinuing the fit and walking out. soft machine waited years before getting a guitar player --
@@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491 Please listen to the first two Soft Machine albums (again? ) and then tell me what you think of the bass sound. For me it was the best!
But he did....and 'love did indeed make sweet music', especially if you were tripping....
Stuart Copeland and Soft Machine? Huh? He was the drummer in Curved Air. I don’t think Kevin stomped out of Soft Machine, either. He continued to make music with Wyatt and Ratledge. But the original trio is the best IMHO.@@jorgegonzalez-larramendi5491
glutting myself on this xxx
he speaks very good French, cool man
B+
MIKE OLDFIELD The best...! ! !
In the second version of “Why Are We Sleeping?,” is that Steve Hillage playing the jammy guitar?
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Il faut éviter l'ennui...
boom back to real music
certainly is delivering van to romania soon so route poss
Génial
Does anyone else remember a song (I believe by Kevin and ensemble) which was played on the radio 1 several times making a minor hit during the summer of 1974 and it mentioned something about a party. I'm well into my 70s and I'd so love to hear it again if it's at all possible.
It's called After the Show. Easy to find on youtube
Caribbean Moon?
my head is a nightclub.....
perfect Kebin and Robert Wyatt Canterbury
“Fake Mexican tourist blues” was very popular but was banned from the Radio due the, for that era, risky lyrics. Please get it on Spotify, it doesn’t sound at all dated 😀
Lady Rachel has Kevin joined by Ollie Halsall on guitar. Also recognise the guy on bass but can’t recall his name....
Mike Oldfield
@@Mytube777 RICK WILLS
Ooh, Ollie Halsall? Nice
I think Rush borrowed 2:32 - 3:06 sounds like The Necromancer near the end? from Caress of Steel
Le début de Soft Machine
that "begining" of The Soft Machine was 5 - 6 + before this 1972 material. love the inclusion of SM dongs
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super ce type, mort à la trentaine
He looks like Stevie Nicks with a deep voice.
I think you mean Stevie Nicks looks like Kevin with a higher voice.
Nice 👌ﾃｷﾄｰ伝説ｼﾞｭﾝｼﾞ参上😏
Cool
Girl on a swing
😍
I guess you guys recognized Mike Oldfield on those videos? :) He played with Kevin and that time. 14:21
Is that Lol Coxhill on Sax?
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15:51 great Oldfield!
Wow!
Damian albarn father was managing the band
Ne dormez pas, surtout ne le prends pas sérieusement...
What's the track with Hillage playing it's amazypants!!!!
The second version of Why Are We Sleeping?, the band was called Decadence
Can I see that the third to fourth number of bass player Mike Oldfield?
Oh yes picking electric with his nails and all.
01:55 Gregg Wallace on the Sax?
No, Lol coxhill!
is the 1970 guitar player Mike Oldfield?
Mike Oldfield en la guitarra 👍👍
Kevin Ayers vocals, guitar, bass
David Bedford keyboards
Lol Coxhill sax
Mike Oldfield bass & guitar, backing vocals
Mick Fincher drums
Privileged, English eccentric, slacker style.
Yep, that's our Kevin. Laid-back to a fault.
great musician totally derailed by drugs after '81 or so - what a waste - well, at least we have the first seven albums .....
Wine not drugs, maybe occasionally marijuana
NO. He was a drug addict - very well documented and he's said so in interviews. For fifteen years, he was off the grid.
@@ivantopolcic For 15 years of the last 17 years of his life, Ayers was a drug addict. FACT.
Didn't know that, thanx. I always thought that he was too smart for Heroin.
He definitely rebounded with falling up, still life, and unfairground
Is that Dick Heckstall-Smith in the band?
Lol Coxhill. Very similar.
Anyone knows the places where these concerts where played? Is it the first one in the Tarverne de l'Olympia, Paris, 31 mar 70?
I remember the Kevin Ayers shows in North London, and a special he did called Bananarama
@@LordMelbury1953 I remember that!!! Where the hell was it in North London? The Roundhouse??
@@LordMelbury1953 Bananamour, you mean.
Correct. Filmed for "Pop 2". I'm sorting out where these came from, I'll post it soon. Look up top.
@@LordMelbury1953 Between September 6th and 24th 1972 he did a series of performances at the Hampstead Theatre Club in North London, with the name of "Banana Follies". For the last one he had with him Robert Wyatt, Lol Coxhill, Didier Malherbe, George Wilson, and David Bedford.
The one on the 20th was recorded for BBC's "In Concert", and the lineup then was Kevin Ayers (vocals, guitar), Archie Legget (bass). Lol Coxhill (sax), Johnny Clifford (congas). That concert is available, not as one video but as a playlist of tracks, from the Kevin Ayers CZcams account
(czcams.com/play/OLAK5uy_kN0a75-jzZn8a5xyL5kQyrHWsG8uZLmFE.html).
Anybody knows if the sax player is Lol Coxhill?!?
Definitely yes!
absolutely that is Lol. Mike Oldfield and Robert Wyatt and I think Davyd Bedford on keys.
Lol
Great footage-I don't think that is Robert Wyatt on drums though.
Mick Fincher on the first track, Dave Dufort on the second
Religious Experience
So ahead,so ahead.That bass seems to come from the 80s.
Phil Collins on sax :D
No, I don't think so. That's Lol Coxhill.
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Who is playing the reed on May I ?
Lol Coxhill??
@@dirkh1 thank you...He's terrific.
W O W
Multi Linguist.
is that Dick Heckstall Smith on sax
I think it's Lol Coxhill...
Lol Coxill...
memories of a long forgotten youth but as Dylan so wisely sang "Forever Young" is how I feel in my heart ,If only the physical part would think so too....Karma is such a bitch when it comes 2 having lived the fast lane for too many years, fuck ,who am I kidding .....still going strong as ever 250 mph down the fast track listening to Stomping Ground from Gallagher blazing through the speakers.Only nowadays you have them @&!*@?!! hidden cameras everywhere so the fun is over making speed on the FAHREN
By all means, per the below. Nobody understood Syd better than Kevin. Or was it Bowie, or Eno? I guess you've got to throw David Gilmour in the mix.
What is that odd-looking yellow bass that Kev is playing?
That's a good question. It's a short-scale Fender of some kind, but it doesn't look like a Mustang, a Bronco, a DuoSonic or a MusicMaster.
I need to research this one!
I wonder if English sounds that good when read like Kevin read French. No, I Don't think so.
English sounded pretty good, too, when Kevin used it.
Scribbling out the British Empire; money -bags will soon need the Changs
Enough of this western intellectual crap! As Kevin would say and break into some reggae, calypso, usw.
Only one bad thing about Kevin's music - f***in Lol Coxhill!!
why?