Early Henry Cow with Dave Stewart

[daven]

Apologies if this has already been on here:

[calyx]

This doesn't have Dave Stewart - it's Tim Hodgkinson on organ.
Stewart was a guest on the same session, but playing a little bit of celeste at one point in "Teenbeat", where his spoken voice is also heard.

[Scrotum Scissor]

Great track nonetheless, and Egg indeed WERE the closest contender to the "maximal intricacy" prize in British progressive rock. Of course, Stewart had already played with Cutler in The Ottawa Company - am I right?

There are just SO many Cow threads these days...

[daven]

This doesn't have Dave Stewart - it's Tim Hodgkinson on organ.
Stewart was a guest on the same session, but playing a little bit of celeste at one point in "Teenbeat", where his spoken voice is also heard.

Ok. I bow to your better judgement. I read that DS guested on this session and assumed the solo starting at 2:22 was him. I think the organ tone is very similar to the one used on Egg's first album, and I've never heard Tim play like this.

[calyx]

Great track nonetheless, and Egg indeed WERE the closest contender to the "maximal intricacy" prize in British progressive rock. Of course, Stewart had already played with Cutler in The Ottawa Company - am I right?

Exactly - and this session happened right around the time when the Company performed a series of 3 concerts after the whole of Henry Cow had joined it (the company was formed by Stewart and Cutler prior to Cutler joining Henry Cow, so the Cows were not part of the initial concert in September 1971).

There was also an Egg Peel session around this time (Feb/March 1972) that had a nod to the Ottawa repertoire (the medley that includes "There's No Business Like Showbusiness").