''Ether Way: BBC Sessions 1975-77'' is a live album by the

progressive rock Progressive rock (shortened as prog rock or simply prog; sometimes conflated with art rock) is a broad genre of rock music that developed in the United Kingdom and United States through the mid- to late 1960s, peaking in the early 1970s. Init ...

band

Caravan Caravan or caravans may refer to: Transport and travel *Caravan (travellers), a group of travellers journeying together **Caravanserai, a place where a caravan could stop *Camel train, a convoy using camels as pack animals *Convoy, a group of veh ...

released 1998.

Track listing

# "The Show of Our Lives" (John Murphy, Dave Sinclair) – 4:54 # "Stuck in a Hole" (Pye Hastings) – 3:15 # "The Dabsong Conshirto" (John Murphy, Dave Sinclair) – 12:32 # "All the Way" (Pye Hastings) – 6:33 # "A Very Smelly Grubby Little Oik/Bobbing Wide/Come on Back/Grubby Oik" (Pye Hastings) – 11:44 # "Behind You" (Pye Hastings) – 5:13 # "The Last Unicorn" (Geoffrey Richardson) – 5:34 # "Nightmare" (Pye Hastings) – 6:17 # "Better by Far" (Pye Hastings) – 4:48 * 1 – 3 recorded for

John Peel John Robert Parker Ravenscroft (30 August 1939 – 25 October 2004), known professionally as John Peel, was an English disc jockey (DJ) and radio presenter. He was the longest-serving of the original BBC Radio 1 DJs, broadcasting regularly fr ...

, 26.6.1975. First transmitted 3.7.1975Caravan - ''Ether Way: BBC Sessions 1975-77'' album at Discogs.com
/ref> * 4 – 5 recorded for John Peel, 6.5.1976. First transmitted 17.5.1976 * 6 – 9 recorded for John Peel, 2.5.1977. First transmitted 10.5.1977

Personnel

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Pye Hastings Julian Frederick Gordon 'Pye' Hastings (born 21 January 1947 in Tomnavoulin, Banffshire, Scotland) is a British musician. Born in Scotland and raised in Canterbury, Kent, he is the guitarist and vocalist of the Canterbury scene band Caravan and ...

– vocals, guitar, vocals, liner notes * Geoffrey Richardson – clarinet, flute, guitar, viola, spoons *

Dave Sinclair David Sinclair (born 24 November 1947) is a British keyboardist (organ, piano, harpsichord, electric piano, Mellotron, Davolisint, etc.) associated with the psychedelia/progressive rock Canterbury Scene since the late 1960s. He became famous wi ...

– keyboards, vocals (tracks: 1, 2, 3) *

Jan Schelhaas Jan Russell Schelhaas (born 11 March 1948) is an English musician, mostly known as the keyboard player from the bands Caravan and Camel. Biography Schelhaas was born in Liverpool, where he started his career playing bass for several bands and r ...

– keyboards (tracks: 4, 5) *

Mike Wedgwood Mike Wedgwood (born 19 May 1950 in Derby) is an English bassist and singer. He is related to the Wedgwood family of pottery fame. Wedgwood joined The Overlanders in 1968 following their biggest hit, a cover of The Beatles song, " Michelle", an ...

– bass, conga (tracks: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5) * Dek Messecar – bass (tracks: 6, 7, 8, 9) *

Richard Coughlan Richard Coughlan (2 September 1947 – 1 December 2013) was an English musician, best known as the drummer and percussionist of the Canterbury scene progressive rock band Caravan. He was one of the founding members of Caravan in 1968 and remain ...

– drums

References

External links

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