Bodast – Spectral Nether Street (Reissue) (1968/2000)
Artist: Bodast
Title: Spectral Nether Street
Year Of Release: 1968/2000
Label: RPM Records
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock
Quality: Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 53:14
Total Size: 397 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Title: Spectral Nether Street
Year Of Release: 1968/2000
Label: RPM Records
Genre: Psychedelic Rock, Prog Rock
Quality: Flac (tracks, .cue, log)
Total Time: 53:14
Total Size: 397 Mb (scans)
WebSite: Album Preview
Tracklist:
1. Power of Music
2. The Spanish Song
3. Come Over Stranger
4. Nether Street(demo instrumental)
5. Nether Street
6. Mr Jones
7. Tired Towers
8. Do You Remember
9. Beyond Winter
10. Once in a Lifetime
11. Black Leather Gloves
12. I Want You
13. 1000 Years
14. Nothing to Cry For
Bonus Tracks:
15. Beyond Winter(alternate take & mix)
16. Do You Remember(alternate take & mix)
Line-up::
Steve Howe - guitar, vocals
Clive Maldoon (Clive Skinner) - guitar, vocals
Dave Curtiss (David Atkins) - bass, vocals
Bobby Clarke (Bobby Woodman) - drums
Steve Howe's recording career began as early as 1964 under the production of Joe Meek when he was the lead guitarist of the savage R&B outfit The Syndicats. He then joined The In Crowd, who soon became Tomorrow, legendary pioneers of UK psychedelia who along with Pink Floyd and Soft Machine changed the face of pop music forever. When Tomorrow's singer Keith West's first solo single became a huge success (it was a part of the "lost" Teenage Opera project by Mark Wirtz) all band members went their separate ways. Drummer Twink joined The Pretty Things and then formed The Pink Fairies, bassist Junior Wood -along with Twink- tried luck in Aquarian Age and Steve Howe accompanied West on tour before finally giving birth to Bodast in 1968. Bodast was formed by Steve Howe (Guitar), Dave Curtiss (bass, vocals) and Bobby Clark (drums). The name was creatied by taking the first two letters of their names (BObby, DAve, STeve). Curtiss and Clark where veterans of the early UK scene, having been members of Screaming Lord Sutch's Savages or Vince Taylor's Playboys, and they had also worked in France backing Franoise Hardy.They were soon joined by Clive Skinner (vocals) and Bruce Thomas (bass), and also acted for a while as Canto. While back in the era no recordings of Bodast saw the light of day, the fact is that they did record a whole LP under the production of Keith West. Ten incredible songs that are the missing link between Tomorrow and Yes, a stunning progressive opus which still has it's share of psychedelia, and which should have been a classic since day one but, sadly, the album was filed and left unreleased, and Bodast finally disbanded. Howe got some offers to join other established groups. He took the one from Yes, with whom he soon entered the studio to record The Yes Album, to which he added parts of the lost Bodast compositions (the most evident being Nether Street, an important part of it ended up in Starship Troopers). And the rest, as they say, is history