This rotating feature will present complete transcripts conducted for Urban Spacemen & Wayfaring Strangers: Overlooked Innovators & Eccentric Visionaries of '60s Rock,including quite a few quotes and stories that were not included in the finished book. These comprise a vault of information for the serious fan; you won't find them anywhere else. More transcripts will be added to this site on a regular basis, so be sure to check back from time to time.
Click beneath to access lengthy Q&As with:
Daevid Allen: the longtime progressive rock adventurer talks about manager/impresario Giorgio Gomelsky and original Soft Machine cohort Kevin Ayers
Larry Beckett: as lyricist, the closest lifelong collaborator and friend of Tim Buckley
Chris Darrow: one of several multi-instrumentalists in Kaleidoscope, the group that mixed folk, rock, and world music
George Gallacher: lead singer and principal songwriter for the Poets, the best Scottish band of the 1960s
James Lowe: lead singer for the Electric Prunes, the ultimate fusion of garage rock and experimental psychedelia
Phil May: lead singer and founder member of the Pretty Things, the best British band of the 1960s that never made it in the United States
Scott Morgan: lead singer of the Rationals, the finest Michigan 1960s band never to make a national impact
Shel Talmy: producer for the classic early recordings by the Kinks and the Who, as well as the Creation, a very young David Bowie, the Easybeats, Pentangle, and others
Dick Taylor: guitarist and founder member of the Pretty Things
You can also link to the Perfect Sound Forever website for my interviews with:
Randy Holden: the great lost 1960s guitar hero
Neil Innes: one of the prime masters of mayhem with the Bonzo Dog Band
The Kaleidoscope website has my interview with:
Chester
Crill: another of the multi-instrumentalists in Kaleidoscope, the
most
eclectic folk-rock group.
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