Kosmik Radiation Radio - Mar 23, 2012 Playlist

CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK
Egg "Egg" 1970 (UK)

Egg was one of the foundational, but lesser-known, of the British progressive groups who were lumped into the Canterbury Scene (though like many "Canterbury" groups, they have no connection to that particular English city -- Egg was formed by college students in London). Their sound represented a wonderful amalgammation of electronic, rock, jazz and classical music with odd time changes, whimsical English lyrics and twenty minute long epic tracks. Their original line-up was a quartet consisting of Dave Stewart on keyboards (later a member of Hatfield & The North and National Health), Mont Campbell on bass & vocals (also later in National Health), Clive Brooks on drums (he later played with Groundhogs, then became Pink Floyd's drum tech) and lead guitarist Steve Hillage (future member of Gong and popular solo artist). Hillage left the band at the end of 1968, and the others continued on as a guitarless power trio much like Emerson Lake & Palmer, who had much greater success a couple years later with the same instrumental lineup. The remaining trio started calling themselves Egg and released this, their first album, in early 1970, followed by a classic second album The Polite Force in 1971 and a final album released in 1974. There was also a "secret" album recorded by the three guys from Egg along with their old pal Hillage (ie, the original quartet) recorded around the same time as the debut album, but released under the name Azrachel with pseudonyms for the musicians (who were already under contract as Egg by this point).
I don't think Egg ever performed for the cameras, but here's a couple interesting video finds: a clip of a rare non-LP single called "Seven Is A Jolly Good Time" and a fan performing the first movement from a track off Egg's debut, "Symphony No. 2". Here's Dave Stewart (note: not the same "Dave Stewart" that was in Eurythmics with Annie Lennox) playing with his slightly more successful later Canterbury supergroup Hatfield & The North.

(N) = New Release
(R) = Listener Request

Artist	Song	Album	Year (label)	Country
Iron Butterfly	Iron Butterfly Theme	Heavy	1968	USA
The High Pink Clouds	Amphibians	Sabkha Remix (N)	2011 (self release)	USA
Master Musicians of Bukkake	Bardo Sidpa	Totem III (N)	2011 (Important)	USA
The Luck Of Eden Hall	Metropolis	Butterfly Revolutions Vol. 2 (N)	2011 (self release)	USA
Black Bananas	RTX Go-Go	Rad Times Xpress IV (N)	2012 (Drag City)	USA
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band	Trust Us	Strictly Personal	1968	USA

Armand Schaubroeck Steals	Side 3 of 6 Scene 8: Christmas Eve In Elmira - "Cut My Friend Down" Scene 9: Dr. Leiderman Interviews Howard Q. Sappy, Who Was Sent Up For Attempted Suicide - "Streetwalker" Scene 10: An Inmate Reminds Armand Of His Girl - "The Young Boy"	A Lot Of People Would Like To See Armand Schaubroeck . . . DEAD.	c. 1972-1975?	USA
Armand Schaubroeck Steals	Streetwalker (not really live)	Live At The Holiday Inn	1978	USA

Egg	I Will Be Absorbed	Egg CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1970	UK
Egg	Symphony #2	Egg CLASSIC ALBUM OF THE WEEK	1970	UK
The Soft Machine	Save Yourself / Priscilla	The Soft Machine	1968	UK
Air	Sonic Armada	Le Voyage Dans La Lune (N)	2012 (Virgin)	France
Black Tempest (R)	Proxima Beta	Supernormal Recordings (N)	2011 (Tempest Towers)	UK

Of Montreal	Ye, Renew The Plaintiff	Paralytic Stalks (N)	2012 (Polyvinyl)	USA
The Lost Satellites	The War Will End	The War Will End (N)	2012 (self release)	USA
TriBeCaStan	The Mystery Of Licorice McKechnie	New Deli (N)	2012 (Evergreene)	USA
Baris Manco & Mogollar	Binboganin Kizi	Instanbul 70 (N - various artists compilation)	rec. 1970's (2012 Nublu)	Turkey
Los Zombies	Tow The Line	We Tote The Note (N)	2011 (self release)	USA

Crosby Stills & Nash (R)	Long Time Coming	Crosby Stills & Nash	1969	USA/UK
The Byrds	Everybody's Been Burned (David Crosby)	Younger Than Yesterday	1967	USA
Buffalo Springfield	Out Of My Mind (Neil Young)	Buffalo Springfield	1966	Canada/USA
The Monkees	You And I (alleged to be Neil Young on guitar)	Instant Replay	1969	USA/UK