When you look at Chas Chandler & Michael Jeffery networth you can see who got the money, Kevin is trying to shed light on the scandal of not only Jimi Hendrix's demise but also how talented musicians were servants once they signed that contract. I wonder if they will make a documentary on that, bully management & artist exploitation. I know it's not a new concept, it happened with Motown etc but that's the story right there. Thanks Kevin for trying to tell us the truth.
I talked to him in the mid-nineties, when he was on tour in germany with the wizzards of twiddly. At that time I wrote for a local paper about this concert and I made an Interview with Kevin. I was a big fan since YES WE HAVE NO MANANAS, so it was a real strange situation for me, sitting in front of a living legend. He was cured from heroin 1995, but not me: I sat there with very little heroin-eyes this day. Oh man. It was gespenstisch. Wish I could remember a better Kevin ayers-situation.
Never suspected he was ever on opiates......always thought he was such a "sun & wine' man ,who got his pleasures out of life the easy way. He must've been tempted during the 80's when his career seemed at a dead end ? I'm on methadone self medication since 1972 which still gives an opiate rush...and helped me to survive..
@@Sandwich13455 Might be when one is too long on smack that a methadon "rush' seems minimal . Still , it gives the same symptoms of opiates , like constricted pupils. Ofcourse it's not as extreme as a heroine rush , but still enough to stay warm and dozy. Unless ofcourse your daily dose is just enough to stay normal . It's an easy addiction, no more chasing the streets for smack . The last 20 years I get my two weekly prescription (100mg a day) from a pharmacy.
The thing about heroin/ opiates is that surprisingly to some folks one can behave incredibly ' normal' and even be productive on that drug.I smoked obscene amounts of weed for many years ,well two decades.lol.took LSD most weekends for a good 12-15 yrs & sent to work as a mental health worker on speed..only ever ' knowingly' smoked smack twice.Ironically after trying to ' straighten up' 😂 I now have a 260 mg a day Oxycodone habit because I have MS.Truth be known to the outside world I appear perfectly ' normal' but at the age of 54 am I know a far greater junkie ( legally on an NHS prescription) than I ever was in the 80' s & 90' s . I' m always amazed that people think people who are opiate dependent are scrawny ,pin point pulled waifs..simply not true .
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 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!
I can't imagine, after listening to this interview, what Kevin would make of his broken, post brexit, shithole of a homeland. I was getting ready to leave for the same lifestyle as he chose in France. Now I'm trapped here listening to him, looking beautiful and sounding fabulous.
I wish I'd been old enough to have known Kevin Ayers. It seems all the musicians and music I love are from the late 60's and early 70's. I'm just envious that one of my 3 older brothers (7,8 & 9 years older) the one who's 7 years older was old enough to see Pink Floyd with Sid Barrett in our home town in the North of Scotland and also seen Cream as well as going to the Isle of Wright concert 1970. Just not fair. I'd have been so incredibly happy to have been around then. now I can only enjoy Kevin Ayers music through iTunes and youtube.
at least we have youtube.. i feel like i missed my generation by less than a decade also ...the 80s & 90s were my stomping grounds & i appreciate having that,but we missed the boat & caught the next plane,so to spesk..
heat mizer Thank you for your comment. You might enjoy one CZcams channel I watch called JT Curtis music. He has done an amazing Rock n Roll history beginning at the 50's and is currently working on the 70's. Some of his performances of Cream ect where he sings and plays all instruments is brilliant. Check him out. If you like it's a win and if you don't it's only cost you a couple of minutes! Best wishes.
I recently found out our vet's family babysat Kevin's kids in Ibiza. She's a really dedicated vetinary surgeon and has little spare time to chat. I only found this out by chance when we were dropping her off to collect her new car.
Christian Boule told me once that he once met Kevin Ayers "He was very drunk and very rude to me" Christian Boule used to be in the Steve Hillage band. Now sadly both are not with us.
*@dongo beano* We all have our off days that we might be somewhat "rude" ........Sometimes there's so much bullcrap going on.......we can't be Mr. Nice Guy all the time.....Although it seems Kevin had a hard time with aging , and the realization his party days were over...Numb the pain with pills and alcohol....why not.....you're on death's doorstep anyway...
@@PAULLONDEN I also met him in the 90's and he was really having a hard time with alcohol. A couple of my friends had flown him here to Rochester, NY to perform. He was a handful...that's all I'll say. But what a talent he was and the body of work he blessed us with!
@@strongsidedft8429 I probably saw him on that same tour...maybe? He played in San Francisco in the mid-90s w/ local band Mushroom. very poorly attended show sadly.
@Françoise De la Croix drugs were seen as providing a new reality in the 60s. unfortunately heroin and speed were introduced to the scene in order to destroy it.
Great interview. I had no idea Chandler was such a rip off artist. I have always thought that Hendrix should have taken more interest in the business side of his music. He signed contracts without thinking deeply about it and it got him into trouble(frustrations). I'm glad that Syd Barrett turned his back on the industry after those idiots from Floyd had kicked him out.
May I ask what is this taken from and when was it made?? Is it from BBC4? I'd love to see the whole thing ,if anyone knows could they let me know 😊 Thanks x
Your first point may be partially correct given an outsider's view albeit I doubt whether he would share that opinion. Your second is far from correct. Kevin Ayers was both personally and musically one of the greats - or more accurately speaking he was a one off; not to be compared to anyone from any stage.
@@rosenb37 1967. Except it isnt Kevin Ayres ...as I've been informed by David Freiberg from QMS no less. Its Jim Murray an original band member. Though they do look very similar...right down to the white trousers. Whoops. Nothing like being corrected from the source.Ayers was I America backing Hendrix in 69 I think
@@rosenb37 Whoops I was wrong I'm afraid, as many have now told me including Mr. Freiberg from QMS himself! Kevin does look like Jim Murray original member of QMS tho. And they both like white trousers!
I lived in the same road as the Chandler family back in the day.in Hertfordshire. Yeah, they had a BIG house and with beautiful views. Kevin and Jimi probably helped to pay for it.
a brilliant & underrated artist.. popular for his talent, & could have been global superstar with some of those pop songs he wrote & would have,most likely,had he kept his trap shut when he wasnt singing...an unpopurar opinion of a complex global issue will kill ur popularity quicker than anything that pertains to ur talent...toobadd i like the music , not his politics
I aways wondered why whenever Kevin Ayers was on the brink of "sucess" he would piss of to the south of France for a few months. I think this helps explain why.
Conspiracy theorists really like to compartmentalize. Life is about chaos disunity and disorder. Where are the new handlers when my 16 yr old kid wants a job and is beaten down under the guise of workchoices by 3 suits sitting on the other side of the interview table?
I always rated KA. Just dug out my three albums by him. Why nothing? Its all to do with how much money managers etc. can con out of an artist, not the art they make. It was bad/sad. Blondie? hope its better now.
Ironic now that the student youth now voted mainly with the Establishment for Remain. What a mixed up world we now have, where the rebels are mainly the older generation. I voted for Brexit btw.
Wow, eight years since he died. I cried when I found out he was dead. Absolute lyrical genius in my opinion.
Agreed.
When you look at Chas Chandler & Michael Jeffery networth you can see who got the money, Kevin is trying to shed light on the scandal of not only Jimi Hendrix's demise but also how talented musicians were servants once they signed that contract. I wonder if they will make a documentary on that, bully management & artist exploitation. I know it's not a new concept, it happened with Motown etc but that's the story right there. Thanks Kevin for trying to tell us the truth.
Shouting in a bucket blues and may I are incredible tunes rip and we are all burning
Glad this is archived, what a cool guy.
Great Voice ! Rest in Peace........
I talked to him in the mid-nineties, when he was on tour in germany with the wizzards of twiddly. At that time I wrote for a local paper about this concert and I made an Interview with Kevin. I was a big fan since YES WE HAVE NO MANANAS, so it was a real strange situation for me, sitting in front of a living legend. He was cured from heroin 1995, but not me: I sat there with very little heroin-eyes this day. Oh man. It was gespenstisch. Wish I could remember a better Kevin ayers-situation.
Never suspected he was ever on opiates......always thought he was such a "sun & wine' man ,who got his pleasures out of life the easy way.
He must've been tempted during the 80's when his career seemed at a dead end ?
I'm on methadone self medication since 1972 which still gives an opiate rush...and helped me to survive..
@@PAULLONDEN I've never had a rush from methadone,even at very high levels.
@@Sandwich13455 Might be when one is too long on smack that a methadon "rush' seems minimal . Still , it gives the same symptoms of opiates , like constricted pupils. Ofcourse it's not as extreme as a heroine rush , but still enough to stay warm and dozy. Unless ofcourse your daily dose is just enough to stay normal . It's an easy addiction, no more chasing the streets for smack . The last 20 years I get my two weekly prescription (100mg a day) from a pharmacy.
@@PAULLONDEN I see your point!
The thing about heroin/ opiates is that surprisingly to some folks one can behave incredibly ' normal' and even be productive on that drug.I smoked obscene amounts of weed for many years ,well two decades.lol.took LSD most weekends for a good 12-15 yrs & sent to work as a mental health worker on speed..only ever ' knowingly' smoked smack twice.Ironically after trying to ' straighten up' 😂 I now have a 260 mg a day Oxycodone habit because I have MS.Truth be known to the outside world I appear perfectly ' normal' but at the age of 54 am I know a far greater junkie ( legally on an NHS prescription) than I ever was in the 80' s & 90' s .
I' m always amazed that people think people who are opiate dependent are scrawny ,pin point pulled waifs..simply not true .
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 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!
A very precious document! Thanks.
so cool hendrix barrett as friends
Incredible talent!
thanks for up loading ..wish it was longer
"...but he was.. He wasn't in...."
That was such a brilliant "resignated" ending of his descriptions. It rings like a bell
I can't imagine, after listening to this interview, what Kevin would make of his broken, post brexit, shithole of a homeland. I was getting ready to leave for the same lifestyle as he chose in France. Now I'm trapped here listening to him, looking beautiful and sounding fabulous.
The coolest person ever.
this musician and artist is very much underated 😢
imagine him and syd doing a record together
theres a recording of them doing kevins religious experience together where i think syd did vocals
@@aetwefgaargdv9179Syd did guitar, not vocals. It's an extra on the CD reissue of Kevin's Joy of a Toy album I believe.
I wish I'd been old enough to have known Kevin Ayers. It seems all the musicians and music I love are from the late 60's and early 70's. I'm just envious that one of my 3 older brothers (7,8 & 9 years older) the one who's 7 years older was old enough to see Pink Floyd with Sid Barrett in our home town in the North of Scotland and also seen Cream as well as going to the Isle of Wright concert 1970. Just not fair. I'd have been so incredibly happy to have been around then. now I can only enjoy Kevin Ayers music through iTunes and youtube.
at least we have youtube..
i feel like i missed my generation by less than a decade also ...the 80s & 90s were my stomping grounds & i appreciate having that,but we missed the boat & caught the next plane,so to spesk..
heat mizer Thank you for your comment. You might enjoy one CZcams channel I watch called JT Curtis music. He has done an amazing Rock n Roll history beginning at the 50's and is currently working on the 70's. Some of his performances of Cream ect where he sings and plays all instruments is brilliant. Check him out. If you like it's a win and if you don't it's only cost you a couple of minutes! Best wishes.
I recently found out our vet's family babysat Kevin's kids in Ibiza. She's a really dedicated vetinary surgeon and has little spare time to chat. I only found this out by chance when we were dropping her off to collect her new car.
charming man.
we want more! very interesting to know the real side from someone who was right there back then. Great
Met him for a minute.
Total legend !
Christian Boule told me once that he once met Kevin Ayers "He was very drunk and very rude to me" Christian Boule used to be in the Steve Hillage band. Now sadly both are not with us.
*@dongo beano* We all have our off days that we might be somewhat "rude" ........Sometimes there's so much bullcrap going on.......we can't be Mr. Nice Guy all the time.....Although it seems Kevin had a hard time with aging , and the realization his party days were over...Numb the pain with pills and alcohol....why not.....you're on death's doorstep anyway...
@@PAULLONDEN I also met him in the 90's and he was really having a hard time with alcohol. A couple of my friends had flown him here to Rochester, NY to perform. He was a handful...that's all I'll say. But what a talent he was and the body of work he blessed us with!
@Françoise De la Croix Didn't knew Kevin had three daughters. That puts a whole different perspective on it.
@@strongsidedft8429 I probably saw him on that same tour...maybe? He played in San Francisco in the mid-90s w/ local band Mushroom. very poorly attended show sadly.
@Françoise De la Croix drugs were seen as providing a new reality in the 60s. unfortunately heroin and speed were introduced to the scene in order to destroy it.
Great interview. I had no idea Chandler was such a rip off artist. I have always thought that Hendrix should have taken more interest in the business side of his music. He signed contracts without thinking deeply about it and it got him into trouble(frustrations). I'm glad that Syd Barrett turned his back on the industry after those idiots from Floyd had kicked him out.
Kevin Ayers is cool, his prog rock stuff is magnificent
Nigel Perren What prog rock stuff?
Anthony Monaghan are you serious. Confessions of Dr Dream and other stories.....smh!
yes it is
@@deweyschneebly4074 your nayos familiar 🤔
May I ask what is this taken from and when was it made?? Is it from BBC4? I'd love to see the whole thing ,if anyone knows could they let me know 😊 Thanks x
If only kevin hadn't taken his music so frivolously. He would have been one of the greats.....
Your first point may be partially correct given an outsider's view albeit I doubt whether he would share that opinion. Your second is far from correct. Kevin Ayers was both personally and musically one of the greats - or more accurately speaking he was a one off; not to be compared to anyone from any stage.
Thank you for your reply but sorry do please remind me - what were my points?
Interesting chap . Wish I had met him . So much to ask over a cup of tea ?
Or a bottle of wine...
Syd & Jimi :)
Envious of shirt.
❤
The 01:58 mark is fascinating.
Can anyone plz tell me how/why Kevin was onstage with The Quicksilver Messenger Service at Monterey?
When was this?
@@rosenb37 1967. Except it isnt Kevin Ayres ...as I've been informed by David Freiberg from QMS no less. Its Jim Murray an original band member. Though they do look very similar...right down to the white trousers. Whoops. Nothing like being corrected from the source.Ayers was I America backing Hendrix in 69 I think
@@deweyschneebly4074 Thank you!
@@rosenb37 Whoops I was wrong I'm afraid, as many have now told me including Mr. Freiberg from QMS himself! Kevin does look like Jim Murray original member of QMS tho. And they both like white trousers!
@@deweyschneebly4074 Thank you, again!
I lived in the same road as the Chandler family back in the day.in Hertfordshire. Yeah, they had a BIG house and with beautiful views. Kevin and Jimi probably helped to pay for it.
a brilliant & underrated artist.. popular for his talent, & could have been global superstar with some of those pop songs he wrote & would have,most likely,had he kept his trap shut when he wasnt singing...an unpopurar opinion of a complex global issue will kill ur popularity quicker than anything that pertains to ur talent...toobadd
i like the music , not his politics
What about his politics do you not like?
I aways wondered why whenever Kevin Ayers was on the brink of "sucess" he would piss of to the south of France for a few months. I think this helps explain why.
Conspiracy theorists really like to compartmentalize. Life is about chaos disunity and disorder. Where are the new handlers when my 16 yr old kid wants a job and is beaten down under the guise of workchoices by 3 suits sitting on the other side of the interview table?
SOULJAH ROCKER,JAHBLESS, MARANATHA.....
He speaks honestly about the music business its made by lovely people and run by total assh###s
I always rated KA. Just dug out my three albums by him. Why nothing? Its all to do with how much money managers etc. can con out of an artist, not the art they make. It was bad/sad. Blondie? hope its better now.
❤️👍
The job got given to the USA, so we packed it in
XR2206 non functioning Function Generator
Ironic now that the student youth now voted mainly with the Establishment for Remain. What a mixed up world we now have, where the rebels are mainly the older generation. I voted for Brexit btw.