Ollie Halsall - ...and on guitar (1992)

Peter John "Ollie" Halsall was born on 14 March 1949, and began his musical career in 1964 playing drums with various local bands such as Pete and the Pawnees, the Gunslingers, the Music Students and Rhythm and Blues Incorporated. In 1965 he taught himself to play the vibraphone and was invited to London to join fellow Southport musicians bassist Clive Griffiths and keyboardist 'Professor' Chris Holmes in pop rock outfit Take Five, which became Timebox, and in 1967 Halsall took up guitar, while the band was augmented by adding Mike Patto on vocals and 'Admiral' John Halsey on drums. Timebox released a number of singles in 1968 and 1969 on the Deram label, but never managed to record an album, and in 1970, following the departure of Holmes, Timebox evolved into the progressive rock band Patto, featuring Halsall on both guitar and vibraphone. Patto were a well-respected band, and released three albums between 1970 and 1972, but in 1973 Halsall left to join Jon Hiseman's Tempest. Tempest were one of the very best jazz-rock fusion bands of the 1970's, and released two superb albums in 'Tempest' (1970) and 'Living In Fear' (1971), but after less than a year he quit, and became an in demand session guitarist, playing on a track for Kevin Ayers' 'The Confessions Of Dr. Dream' album in 1974 which led to a permanent position in Ayers' band the Soporifics. Halsall's UK session work included concerts and recordings with the Scaffold, GRIMMS, Neil Innes, Centipede, Andy Roberts, Mike de Albuquerque, John Otway, John Cale and Vivian Stanshall, and he was even briefly considered as a possible replacement for Mick Taylor following his departure from the Rolling Stones in December 1974. In 1975, Patto staged a brief reunion comprising just three benefit gigs, but the reuniting of Halsall and Patto sparked the formation of Boxer during 1975, and they released two albums on the Virgin label before Patto died of lymphoid leukemia in 1979. 

In 1978 he was invited to join Neil Innes and Eric Idle's spoof Beatles project The Rutles, recording their debut eponymous album in 1978, which reached the top 20 in the UK. He plays many of the instruments on the songs, and provides lead and backing vocals – most notably on the tracks 'Doubleback Alley', 'With A Girl Like You' and 'Get Up And Go'. Eric Idle was cast in his place in the accompanying film and Halsall only featured in a very minor cameo role as Leppo, the fifth Rutle who got lost in Hamburg. During 1976 Halsall had rejoined Ayers with whom he stayed for the next sixteen years, and for much of that time he frequented the town of Deià in the north of the Spanish island of Mallorca, commuting to Madrid on the mainland to produce and play for numerous Spanish artists, including El Primer Tercio, Ronni Urini, and his final work with pop rock bands Radio Futura and Hombres G. In the 1980's he was part of a Spanish synth-pop band Cinemaspop with vocalist Zanna Gregmar, and they released two studio albums, 'Cinemaspop' in 1983, which was a collection of synth-pop covers of classical movie tunes, and 'A Clockwork Orange' in 1984, which included some compositions and vocals by Halsall, as well as a bizarre electronic version of The Troggs' 'Wild Thing'. Halsall died in Madrid from a drug-induced heart attack on 29 May 1992 at the age of just 43. He has been described as an influence by a number of respected guitarists, including Alvin Lee of Ten Years After, Bill Nelson of Be-Bop Deluxe, Allan Holdsworth, Kee Marcello of Europe and Cheap Trick's guitarist Rick Nielsen. XTC's Andy Partridge cites Halsall as one of his top three influences, saying "He made the guitar sound more like Albert Ayler or John Coltrane, more like a sort of fluid piano player". The final word has to go to his friend John Halsey, who said "Ollie may not have been the best guitarist in the world, but he was certainly among the top two." 

Track listing

Disc One
01 If Your Love Don't Swing (b-side of 'Midnight Confessions' by Pete Kelly's Solution 1968)
01 Lover's Prayer (with Duffy Power 1970)
02 Speed Well (from 'Andy Roberts And The Great Stampede' by Andy Roberts 1973)
03 Take It While You Can (from 'Rockin' Duck' by GRIMMS 1973)
04 That Girl's Alright (b-side of 'Teenage Love Song' by John Hetherington 1973)
05 Nuclear Band (from 'Fresh Liver' by Scaffold 1973) 
06 Singing A Song Is Easy (from 'How Sweet To Be An Idiot' by Neil Innes 1973)
07 Keep On (from 'Manor Live' by Steve York's Camelo Pardalis 1973)
08 Sweet Mirth (from 'We May Be Cattle But We've All Got Names' by Michael de

                                                                                                                       Albuquerque 1973)
09 Overture (from 'Jesus Christ Superstar' film soundtrack by Rice/Lloyd Webber 1970)
10 This Is The Time To Get Merry (from 'Two Faced' by Bruce Epstein & Jack Fischer 1973)
11 Didn't Feel Lonely Till I Thought Of You (from 'The Confessions Of Dr. Dream' by 

                                                                                                                        Kevin Ayers 1974)

Disc Two
01 Shouting In A Bucket Blues (from 'June 1, 1974' by Kevin Ayers/John Cale/Eno/Nico 1974)
02 Itchy Feet (from 'Fatsticks' by Terry Stamp 1975)
03 The Elf Sires (from 'Some Things Never Change' by David Kubinec 1979)
04 It's A Pain (from 'Where Did I Go Right?' by John Otway 1979)
05 Bum Love (with John Halsey, from 'Miniatures' by Various Artists 1980) 
06 Don't Run Away (single by Zanna Gregmar & Ollie Halsall 1981)
07 Everyday, I Have The Blows (from 'Teddy Boys Don't Knit' by Vivian Stanshall 1981)
08 Sailship (single by Ronni Urini 1983)
09 Ely (from 'Teixido' by Teixido 1989)
10 Instrumental (from 'Veneno En La Piel' by Radio Futura 1990) 
11 Encima De Ti (from 'Historia Del Bikini' by Hombres G 1992)

Thanks to Auran for the suggestion.

For MAC users

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Eric Clapton - ...and on guitar (1970)

Throughout the 60's Eric Clapton's reputation as one of the greatest British guitarists grew and grew, as he moved through some of the UK's best bands, from The Yardbirds, John Mayall's Bluesbreakers, Cream, and finally Blind Faith. With a workload like that, and the constant touring that it involved, it's not surprising that he didn't have a lot of spare time to go into the studio and offer his services as a guest guitarist, so it wasn't really until 1968 that he started to appear on records by other artists. His most famous guest appearance was in 1968 on The Beatles' 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps', at the request of George Harrison, who asked him to play on it following the two guitarists collaboration on Harrison's Wonderwall Music' album, and that seems to have given him a taste for popping into the studio to help out friends, acquaintances, and artists that he admired. Also in 1968, while Cream were touring the US, Atlantic supremo Ahmet Ertegun asked him if he would play guitar on a record by a fellow Atlantic artist, and so the other guitarists were pulled out of the studio and a nervous Clapton laid down the lead guitar on Aretha Franklin's 'Good To Me As I Am To You'. The Beatles' recording followed later that year, and the Apple Records connection led to him playing on the b-side of Jackie Lomax's 'Sour Milk Sea' single, and also on Billy Preston's 'Do What You Want To' single from the same year (Preston had played on the 'Get Back' sessions, and on John Lennon's 'Cold Turkey' single). He was also one of the many, many guest artists on Martha Velez's 'Fiends & Angels' album, and by 1970 he was in the studio with other artists more than ever, helping out King Curtis, Jonathan Kelly, Shawn Phillips, and Leon Russell. One of my favourite guest appearances of his was on the 'Labio-Dental Fricative' single by Vivian Stanshall, and especially it's b-side 'Paper Round', where his guitar-work really shines. After adding his guitar to songs by Doris Troy and Stephen Stills, we end this album in 1970, after a flurry of guest appearances spanning just a three-year period. Once his solo career started to take off he cut back on the moonlighting, but rest assured that before that happened there are more than enough for a second volume.        

Track listing

01 While My Guitar Gently Weeps (from 'The Beatles' by The Beatles 1968)
02 Good To Me As I Am To You (from 'Lady Soul' by Aretha Franklin' 1968)
03 The Eagle Laughs At You (b-side of 'Sour Milk Sea' single by Jackie Lomax 1968)
04 Do What You Want To (b-side of 'That's The Way God Planned It' by Billy Preston 1969)
05 Cold Turkey (single by John Lennon & The Plastic Ono Band 1969)
06 I’m Gonna Leave You (from 'Fiends & Angels' by Martha Velez 1969)
07 Teasin' (single by King Curtis 1970)
08 Don't You Believe It (single by Jonathan Kelly 1970)
09 Man Hole Covered Wagon (from 'Contribution' by Shawn Phillips 1970)
10 Prince Of Peace (from 'Leon Russell' by Leon Russell 1970)
11 Paper Round (b-side of 'Labio-Dental Fricative' single by Vivian Stanshall 1970)
12 Ain't That Cute (single by Doris Troy 1970)
13 Go Back Home (from 'Stephen Stills' by Stephen Stills 1970)

The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band - A Dog's Breakfast (1983)

To close this comedy/rock special here's a collection of hard to find singles, b-sides, and radio sessions by various members of the Bonzos, which were issued by them after the band broke up. You might think that there's not enough Viv on here, but that's because there are actually enough rarities from him to make his own album, which I'll be posting later, but I've added my favourite single of his - 'Labio-Dental Fricative'/'Paper Round' - so that there's at least two songs of his on here. 
Here are some notes on each song that I found online, although I've re-jigged the track listing from the original album that they came from.     

Topo D. Bill - Witchi-Tai-To (A-side) - 3:29
Topo D. Bill - Jam (B-side) - 3:10
originally released in December 1969 as the first single (CB-116) on Tony Stratton Smith's newly founded 'Famous Charisma' record label. Produced by 'Legs' Larry Smith, both tracks were recorded with help from former collegue Roger Ruskin Spear and one or more (unknown) members of Yes and/or The Who. The single was released under a pseudonym as the various participants were already signed to other record companies. The word is that 'Springtime for Hitler' was 'Legs' Larry's first choice to be released but rejected by Stratton Smith as he was just finalizing a deal with a German distributor.

The World - Angelina (A-side) - 2:48
The World - 9 To 5 Pollution Blues -  4:22
Neil's first short-lived solo project 'The World', was a more conventional group than the Bonzo's and featured besides Neil on lead vocal, piano and guitar, former Bonzo Dennis Cowan on bass and guitar, Ian Wallace on drums and Roger McKew on lead guitar. They only released one album 'Lucky Planet' (LBG-83149) and one single 'Angelina' b/w 'Come Into The Open' (LBF-15402 in mono) in 1970 on Liberty Records.

Viv Stanshall & The Sean Head Showband - Labio-Dental Fricative - 3:09
Viv Stanshall & The Sean Head Showbnad - Paper Round - 2:05
Viv's first solo single was released on the Liberty Label in 1970, coupling "Labio-Dental Fricative/Paper Round", and credited to Vivian Stanshall and The Sean Head Showband (an oblique reference to Stanshall having shaved off all of his hair during his breakdown). Both sides featured Eric Clapton on guitar.

Roger Ruskin Spear - Trouser Freak (Full Version) (A-side) - 2:49
Roger Ruskin Spear - Trouser Press (A-side) - 2:58
Roger Ruskin Spear - Release Me (B-side) - 2:50
Roger Ruskin Spear - Drop Out! (B-side) - 2:02
Roger's wonderful 'Rebel Trouser EP' was released in 1971 under the monniker 'Roger Ruskin Spear And His Giant Orchestral Wardrobe' on EMI's subsidiary label United Artists (UP-35221) and recorded with help from former Bonzo bass players Dave Clague and Dennis Cowan (on guitar), Leon Williams on trumpets and Tat Meager on drums. The EP's opening track 'Trouser Freak' was re-released several times on Bonzo compilations but these versions were all edited down to 2:18 omitting the ending, whereas the version here is complete.

Roger Ruskin Spear - Mattress Man (BBC Radio Flash 10-08-1971) - 2:11
Roger Ruskin Spear - Call Of The Freaks (BBC Radio Flash 10-08-1971) - 2:47
Two live tracks by 'Roger Ruskin Spear And His Giant Orchestral Wardrobe' from the Viv Stanshall presented BBC radio show 'Radio Flash' broadcast on August 10, 1971 and produced by John Walters and engineered by Bob Conduct. Among others Roger on tenor sax, Dave Glass on piano, Tad Meager on drums, Jerry Gardner on rhythm guitar, Bob Kerr on cornet and Thunderclap Newman's Andy Newman on sax. (He also recorded a cover of the Bonzo's track 'On Her Doorstep, Last Night', but I've omitted that as it was nowhere near as good as the Bonzo's version. PJ)

Neil Innes - Re-Cycled Vinyl Blues (A-side) - 3:30
Neil Innes - Fluff On The Needle (B-side) - 5:36
From the Neil Innes solo-single 'Re-Cycled Vinyl Blues' b/w 'Fluff On The Needle' released in 1974 on United Artists (UP-35676) and featuring Monty Python member Michael Palin acting as a record shop keeper. Among the featured send-ups are standards like 'Take Good Care Of My Baby', 'White Christmas', 'In The Mood' and 'Who Wants To Be A Millionare'.

Neil Innes - What Noise Annoys A Noisy Oyster (A-side) - 2:47
Neil Innes / Grimms - OO-Chuck-A-Mao-Mao (B-side) - 3:51
Two great Neil Innes penned tracks released under his own name in 1975 on United Artists (UP-35772). The B-side was originally released in 1973 on the second Grimms album 'Rockin' Duck'. 

Roger Ruskin Spear - I Love To Bumpity Bump - 2:35
Roger Ruskin Spear - When Yuba Plays The Rumba On The Tuba - 3:04 
Both sides of a 1974 single from Roger's second solo album 'Unusual'. The b-side, a wonderful cover version of a tune found on an old 78 RPM-single is his solo version of an early Bonzo favorite they never recorded.

Grimms - Womble Bashers Of Walthamstow (A-side) - 2:50
Grimms - The Worst Is Yet To Come (B-side) - 2:48
Grimms' (featuring Neil Innes) final release from the album 'Sleepers' and released as 7" single in 1976 on DJM Records (DJS-679). 

'Legs' Larry Smith - Springtime For Hitler (A-side) - 3:59
'Legs' Larry Smith - I Got A Braun New Girl (In God Wet Rust) (B-side) - 2:12
From the 1978 single 'Springtime For Hitler' released in 1978 on Arista Records (ARIST-194). 'I Got A Braun New Girl' was re-released in 2009 on Smug Records as part of a five track digital EP 'Call Me, Adolf!' produced by Gus Dudgeon.

'Legs' Larry Smith - Bullshot - 2:16
Title song from the 1983 Handmade Films release 'Bullshot' featuring 'Legs' Larry on vocals. Handmade was a George Harrison owned company that he established in 1979 with Denis O'Brien to finance Monty Python's second feature film 'Life Of Brian' after their movie deal with EMI fell through at the last minute.

Neil Innes - Them (B-side) - 2:52
Written and performed by Neil Innes, this song was originally released in 1982 as A-side to the single 'Them' b/w 'Rock Of Ages' (MMC I00) and re-released in 1992 as B-side to 'No Matter Who You Vote For The Government Always Gets In (Heigh Ho)'. The latter song, recorded in 1987, was Vivian Stanshall's final recording with the band as he died in 1995 when a fire broke out in his house.

That's your lot for tonight, and if nothing else this album shows that every member of the Bonzo Dog Band had much more to give after the group had disbanded. Watch out for Viv's album later on. 

Track listing

01 Topo D. Bill - Witchi-Tai-To (single 1969)
02 Topo D. Bill - Jam (b-side of 'Witchi-Tai-To')
03 The World - Angelina (single 1970)
04 The World - 9 To 5 Pollution Blues (from 'Lucky World' 1970)
05 Viv Stanshall & The Sean Head Showband - Labio-Dental Fricative (single 1970)
06 Viv Stanshall & The Sean Head Showband - Paper Round (b-side of 'Labio-Dental Fricative')
07 Roger Ruskin Spear - Trouser Freak (Full Version) (single 1971)
08 Roger Ruskin Spear - Trouser Press (b-side of 'Trouser Freak')
09 Roger Ruskin Spear - Release Me (b-side of 'Trouser Freak')
10 Roger Ruskin Spear - Drop Out! (b-side of 'Trouser Freak')
11 Roger Ruskin Spear - Mattress Man (BBC Radio Flash 1971)
12 Roger Ruskin Spear - Call Of The Freaks (BBC Radio Flash 1971)
13 Neil Innes - Re-Cycled Vinyl Blues (single 1974) 
14 Neil Innes - Fluff On The Needle (b-side of 'Re-Cycled Vinyl Blues')
15 Neil Innes - What Noise Annoys A Noisy Oyster (single 1975)
16 Neil Innes / Grimms - OO-Chuck-A-Mao-Mao (b-side of 'What Noise Annoys A Noisy Oyster')
17 Roger Ruskin Spear - I Love To Bumpity Bump (single 1974)
18 Roger Ruskin Spear - When Yuba Plays The Rumba On The Tuba (b-side of 'I Love.....')
19 Grimms - Womble Bashers Of Walthamstow (single 1976)
20 Grimms - The Worst Is Yet To Come (b-side of 'Womble Bashers Of Walthamstow')
21 'Legs' Larry Smith - Springtime For Hitler (single 1978)
22 'Legs' Larry Smith - I Got A Braun New Girl (In God Wet Rust) (b-side of 'Springtime For Hitler')
23 'Legs' Larry Smith - Bullshot (from the film 'Bullshot' 1983)
24 Neil Innes - Them (single 1982)

Vivian Stanshall - Are You Having Any Fun? (1990)

As promised on Friday, here's the first of two posts from the legendary Vivian Stanshall. Born Victor Anthony Stanshall in 1943, he is, of course, best know for his work with the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band. They were actually named following a word game that Stanshall played with co-founder Slater, in which they cut up sentences and juxtaposed fragments to form new ones and 'Bonzo Dog/Dada' was one result which they liked. The band initially performed under this name, but grew tired of explaining what Dada meant and so it became the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band, 'doo-dah' being a quaint expression that both Slater's mother and Vivian himself used to describe everyday objects. After acquiring a manager, they went full-time and were booked on the working men's club circuit, mainly in the north of England, and in 1967 they appeared in The Beatles' television film 'Magical Mystery Tour', performing Stanshall's 'Death Cab for Cutie' during the strip club scene. This led to a spot as the house band on 'Do Not Adjust Your Set', a weekly children's television revue series that also featured pre-Monty Python appearances from Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Terry Jones. 
In 1968 the band scored a surprise top-ten hit with 'I'm The Urban Spaceman', co-produced by Paul McCartney and Gus Dudgeon under the alias 'Apollo C. Vermouth'. After a couple more successful albums they decided to split whilst they were still friends, and in March 1970, they played their last show at Loughborough University. Following the split Stanshall formed a number of short-lived groups during 1970 alone, including biG GRunt (including former Bonzos Roger Ruskin Spear and Dennis Cowan, and with Anthony 'Bubs' White on guitar), The Sean Head Showband (again featuring Cowan and White), Gargantuan Chums, and the slightly longer-lived Bonzo Dog Freaks with Innes and the ever-faithful Cowan and White. Early that year, biG GRunt recorded a well-received John Peel session for BBC Radio 1, but despite this promising start they dissolved during their first UK tour when Stanshall became incapacitated by the onset of an anxiety disorder which caused a nervous breakdown that would continue to plague him for the rest of his life. He soon recovered sufficiently to record and release his first solo single 'Labio-Dental Fricative/Paper Round', credited to Vivian Stanshall and The Sean Head Showband (an oblique reference to Stanshall having shaved off all of his hair during his breakdown), and featuring Eric Clapton on guitar. 
Later in the year, his single version of Terry Stafford's song 'Suspicion' was released, credited to Vivian Stanshall and Gargantuan Chums and featuring Keith Moon and John Entwistle of The Who, with the b-side being 'Blind Date', the only officially released track by biG GRunt. In early 1971, Stanshall returned to touring with a new band, Freaks. This group recorded a BBC radio session for John Peel that featured solo numbers by Stanshall and Innes, alongside tracks from The Bonzo's yet-to-be-released 'Let's Make Up And Be Friendly', and it also marked the first appearance in any medium of an episode of Stanshall's magnum opus, 'Rawlinson End'. Further singles were rare, but avidly welcomed by his fans when they appeared in 1974 and 1976, as were the Peel sessions that he was continually offered by his DJ friend. In 1973 he recorded his contribution to the 'That'll Be The Day' soundtrack album, although the song didn't make the film, and one of his last recordings was for a charity album in support of the Nordoff-Robbins Music Therapy Centre, put together by the New Musical Express, and featuring his '(There's) No Room To Rhumba In A Sports Car'. 
Vivian Stanshall was found dead on the morning of 6 March 1995, following a fire at his flat. 
I hope that this collection of non-album singles, choice radio sessions, and the afore-mentioned charity record and film soundtrack work, is a fitting tribute to a unique character, for whom it can honestly be said 'there'll never be another like him'.  

Track listing

Vivian Stanshall & biG GRunt 
01 Eleven Moustachioed Daughters (John Peel session 1970)
02 The Strain (John Peel session 1970)
03 Cyborg Signal (John Peel session 1970)
Vivian Stanshall & The Sean Head Showband
04 Labio-Dental Fricative (single 1970)
05 Paper-Round (b-side of 'Labio-Dental Fricative')
Vivian Stanshall & Gargantuan Chums
06 Suspicion (single 1970)
Vivian Stanshall & biG GRunt
07 Bind Date (b-side of 'Suspicion')
Vivian Stanshall
08 Lakonga (single 1974)
09 Baby Tunde (b-side of 'Lakonga')
Vivian Stanshall, Keith Moon, Jack Bruce, Ronnie Wood & Graham Bond
10 Real Leather Jacket (from the 'That'll Be The Day' soundtrack album 1973)
Vivian Stanshall
11 Trail Of The Lonesome Pine (John Peel session 1975)
Vivian Stanshall & Kilgaron
12 The Young Ones (single 1976)
13 Are You Having Any Fun? (single 1976)
14 The Question (b-side of 'The Young Ones'/'Are You Having Any Fun?')
Vivian Stanshall & The Big Boys
15 (There's) No Room To Rhumba In A Sports Car (from 'The Last Temptation Of Elvis' 1990)

Vivian Stanshall - Return Of The Ginger Geezer (1994)

After leaving the Bonzos in 1970, Vivian Stanshall enjoyed a wide-ranging and varied career. He released a few solo singles in the early 70's (see his last post), and his first big break came in 1971 when he was asked to fill in on the John Peel radio show while the DJ took a month off in the August. He recorded four two-hour shows which he called 'Radio Flashes', comprising sketches and music, and they've gained a reputation over the years from fans as being some of his best work, even though the BBC in their wisdom have apparently wiped the first show from their archive. I've included a couple of the sketches as interludes, and you can hear the remaining three shows in full here. 
Following the success of his short-lived radio career, other artists started asking him to guest on their recordings, the first and most famous of which was Mike Oldfield. They collaborated on Oldfield's 'Sailor's Hornpipe' single, with Stanshall writing and narrating some nonsense over Oldfield's interpretation of the traditional tune, and this led to Viv contributing his reknowned master of ceremonies piece for part three of Oldfield's 'Tubular Bells', introducing the instruments as they made their appearance. It wouldn't have been the same had it been anybody else but him. In 1974 Robert Calvert asked him to write and narrate some sketches to slot between the songs on his 'Captain Lockheed And The Starfighters' album, and I've included three of the best of them here. Also in 1974 he co-wrote 'Dream Gerrard' with Steve Winwood and Jim Capaldi for Traffic's last studio album 'When The Eagle Flies', and it turned out to be one of the highlights on what was already one of their best albums. Winwood was obviously impressed with what Stanshall brought to the table, and they collaborated further on songs from Winwood's solo albums 'Steve Winwood', 'Arc Of A Diver', and 'Back In The High Life', including a song they co-composed for the '...High Life' album which never made the final cut, even though it was good enough to have been included. 
He was also asked to contribute his fruity vocals to songs by The Damned and Marden Hill, and in between that he still found time to play around in the studio with mates like Keith Moon, recording a humourous take of 'We'll Meet Again', which later appeared on a bootleg album in 1978. All of this is in addition to recording and releasing a number of fine solo albums, including the classic 'Sir Henry At Rawlinson End', which also spawned a 1980 film starring Trevor Howard, and a sequel album in 1984 with 'Sir Henry At N'didi's Kraal'. As I said in the last post, Vivian Stanshall really was one of a kind, and the world is a poorer place without him, so enjoy listening to this collection of his many talents, as surrealist comedian, radio broadcaster, songwriter, singer, and owner of the poshest voice in rock history.       

Track listing

01 Bruce Reason & The Reason Mobile (Radio Flashes 1971)
02 Sailor's Hornpipe (Mike Oldfield - co-write/narration 1973)
03 Aircraft Salesman (A Door In The Foot) (Robert Calvert - writer/narration 1974)
04 Ground Crew (Last Minute Reassembly Before Take Off) (Robert Calvert - writer/narration 1974)
05 Ground Control To Pilot (Robert Calvert - writer/narration 1974)
06 Dream Gerrard (Traffic - co-write with Steve Winwood & Jim Capladi 1974)
07 Announcement (Radio Flashes 1971)
08 Holiday Home (from 'The Roughler Presents The Warwick Sessions (Volume 1)' 1987)
09 Vacant Chair (co-write with Steve Winwood 1977)
10 Arc Of A Diver (co-write with Steve Winwood 1980)
11 Cohen's Colon Cream (Radio Flashes 1971)
12 My Love's Leaving (co-write with Steve Winwood 1986)
13 If That Gun's For Real (previously unreleased co-write with Steve Winwood 1986)
14 Thompson's Tiger Tongue Toiletry Paper (Radio Flashes 1971)
15 Lovely Money (The Damned - narration 1982)
16 Bombed On Heavy (Marden Hill- narration 1994)
17 We'll Meet Again (from the 'Harold Hare...And Other Droppings' bootleg with Keith Moon 1978)