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Kevin Ayers in "Wild Thing" music documentary
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- čas přidán 31. 03. 2013
- Kevin Ayers talks about the early days of Soft Machine and Pink Floyd.
Included is some vintage video footage of both bands.
This is an excerpt from the French music documentary called "Wild Thing". This is the German version that was aired by TV channel ARTE with German subtitles.
Nice memory of two great unforgettable artists, KevinAyers and Syd Barrett. Thanks for posting
I could listen to the guy speak all day long.
Yeah, and all the girls did that as well. Very like "Smooth Operator". Until some of his girlfriends actually had fistfights. Not only about a kid called Selene.
Where the f is Selene actually now? Maybe she does not like the spots.
@@oupahens9219You mean Galen?) His youngest daughter?
@@KateWyatt7 Hi, maybe, yeah. Thank you for taking note. I was referring to an incident in the city of Aachen, where a redhead woman took me to a concert of Kevin in a remote village but close to the vinyl pressing plant of Germany. He played there with Ollie and all his other friends. Was great. Afterwards we, I forget the name of the stunning redhead, Marlies? Split, because she wanted to fok Kevin.
So, I went home alone. Shame, next day or so, I went to her room in Aachen and there was a big fight between "Marlies" the redhead and another woman, a blond one about something, I was completely unaware of. "Marlies" definitely had a little baby there, and I knowing her for a while, liked that kid and her. After that ordeal, "Marlies" left Germany apparently. Just for me, I just want to know, what the f was happening there.
Do U think, I was maybe holding Galen in my arms, when she was a baby?
That was around 1972 or so.
If not Galen, who was that kid?
Cheers
Gunnar
Just a kind thought for the late Jerôme de Missolz for compiling this outstanding footage.
PEACE..............
This Soft Machine was at heart a wicked acid jazz 3 piece with vocals
The song with Daevid Allen were good as well. Wish daevid would have lasted with them longer, but then again there would not been a Gong group if he would have stayed
Was not prepared for a non-English language documentary.
LOL...surprised he also has fans in non-English speaking parts of the world?
''drug were part of it because they open part of your brain''... there you go. for all the anti-drug propaganda. most under ground musicians were smoking dope and taking acid in the sixties. that's undeniable. they themselves admit it. there is no need to outlaw drug use. psychedelics are harmless (i'm talking about psychedelics, not hard drugs like heroine and cocaine).
Tell that to Syd Barrett, Roky Erickson, Sky Saxon...
@@hectorp.5683 Syd was too sensitive to the world of the music industry and was his way. Drugs certainly worsened his mental state but they weren't the cause, we can say instead that they were his way of coexisting with reality, of accepting it halfway. Excessive use like Syd did certainly impact heavily but it doesn't generate mental problems out of thin air. He was "sick" because he was sick (in my opinion with a good dose of nonconformity) not because he started taking acids at any moment. Basically drugs, especially thc and lsd, in depressed or schizophrenic people, for example, can worsen their mental state if taken in excessive quantities. Syd had moved away from that world not because he was addicted to substances but because he simply didn't want to be a part of it anymore. I do not understand why it is so difficult to accept this and so easy to shoot bullshit. Once this point is cleared I also say that psychedelic drugs have been a source of inspiration and creativity for all music especially for Syd. Having said that there are really many musicians and artists who have made or use these substances but they are very well, this is because it depends on the subject and the quantities. The quantities were excessive and Syd was Syd.
@@hectorp.5683 As Kevin said (and rightly so, in my view), drug use was the exacerbator rather than the catalyst of Syd's mental health issues and purported psychiatric breakdown in the late sixties. Here was a young, shy man with prodigious artistic talents and sensibilities suddenly thrust into a spotlight he never welcomed or had the least bit of comfort for. The crushing demands and pressures of this sudden fame precipitated Syd's most tragic withdrawal from society, not heavy drug usage alone. Though I can't speak with confidence about the others' mental health history, I wouldn't be the least surprised if it was the same for them, as well.