Land of the Ever Young...

This session was one of several that were done in order to record the band live in the studio. It features a line-up that did many gigs. During this period I was playing the only electric guitar in the band as Andrew Done had left. The session contains a couple of rare tracks in ‘Firestick Frazzle’ and ‘Coloured Sand’. The Frazzle was written by Paul Miller with help from Ian.
‘Walker’ is an epic piece that I still hanker to record properly in it’s fullness but a storming live version can be heard on ‘The Beltane Bash’ from much later on in the band’s history. These are nice recordings to hear the words clearly. As a well recorded representation of the band live at that time I am so glad we did this session.

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Included on the CD, which had a very limited release are three out-takes from ‘....Slow’. Andrew Done appears on electric guitar on ‘Her Silence’. ‘Ditch’, of course, is finally fully realised on ‘Return of The Broken Sorcerer’. ‘Water Song’ is a fabulous piece of Power Pop by Mr Rushbury and I was honoured to put some lead guitar on it for him.

Jambo Diddley
10.02.11.