Mellotronists

Ah yes, one of my favorite Harvest releases...right up there with 
Ummagumma and See See The Sun. If it's your intro to Ayers, I'd 
follow up with 1) Whatevershebringswesing and 2) Bananamour. It's 
been awhile since I heard those first two Soft Machine albums too--I 
ought to dig 'em up as it's been a couple decades since I heard 
them. Ayers certainly is a cut & dry kinda guy with sort of a Zevon 
meets Snakefinger outlook and wit. I wish he was still releasing 
solo albums with the variety he displayed in those early days. "Girl 
On A Swing" in particular had some great oblique 'Tron. I'd always 
thought Ayers and bandmate Robert Wyatt should do a album as a duo. 
A couple of snoots on kind of a left o'center wavelength. I bet 
Wyatt would snow Ayers just like he did on Nick Mason's Fictitious 
Sports.

Hi there!

It's my first introduction to Kevin's solo work... I thought I'd 
start with his first and work my way through each album in 
cronological order... Shooting at the Moon next then.

I'm familiar with his stuff on the Soft Machine's first album and 
also the 'new' BBC release.

I love 'Joy of A Toy' though... I've been playing all day!!

Best wishes

Philip

--- In Mellotronists@yahoogroups.com, "mellotrongirl" 
<mellotrongirl@h...> wrote:
> Ah yes, one of my favorite Harvest releases...right up there with 
> Ummagumma and See See The Sun. If it's your intro to Ayers, I'd 
> follow up with 1) Whatevershebringswesing and 2) Bananamour. It's 
> been awhile since I heard those first two Soft Machine albums too--
I 
> ought to dig 'em up as it's been a couple decades since I heard 
> them. Ayers certainly is a cut & dry kinda guy with sort of a Zevon 
> meets Snakefinger outlook and wit. I wish he was still releasing 
> solo albums with the variety he displayed in those early 
days. "Girl 

> On A Swing" in particular had some great oblique 'Tron. I'd always 
> thought Ayers and bandmate Robert Wyatt should do a album as a duo. 
> A couple of snoots on kind of a left o'center wavelength. I bet 
> Wyatt would snow Ayers just like he did on Nick Mason's Fictitious 
> Sports.