Ed Wynne of the Ozric Tentacles : A Guitar Wizard’s Recording & Mixing Journey

blobb

to-nite at 8:00pm, Ed talks about stuff

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Freebird

A cool band back in the day. I own these two albums and still play them regularly ...

blobb

Cool interview as always. Here's the recording for anyone interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgtgS0MDhe0&feature=emb_logo

brucegill

Oh man. Not heard their stuff for yeaaaars. Remember a gig at The Astoria. Could have been Brixton. Was a little, ah, not with it. Think it was good. Might not have been. Pretty sure it happened. I think. Maybe. 

blobb

I've been to a few like that.

brucegill

blobb said:

I've been to a few like that.

F@@@@@ good times though

Funkfingers

My brother and his college friends were big OT fans in the late Eighties. My vague recollection is that OT had opened for Here And Now at some ULU student union-organised gig. At the time, the music of both bands was only available on cassettes sold at the venue.

blobb

Ah H&N and Ozrics, what a nite that would have been.

Incidentally, the six cassettes are due another remaster/box set release

The first time they did this, and packaged them up in a cereal box type packaging (there is an 'Ozric Tentacles is a type of breakfast cereal' thing going on here), Kelloggs threatened to sue and they were pulled from sale. Original tapes are rare, and so are the re-issues! Although I've yet to see Lawsuit used in this context. Yet.

Amazingly, all six tapes were made in Ed's bedroom studio. When Jurassic Shift got to No 11 in the charts, they became one of only a few bands to achieve a top 40 release with no record company support whatsoever. Just gigs, word of mouth and bootlegging tapes....

Funkfingers

My brother has the "naughty" cereal packet 6CD box set. I have no idea when he last bothered to play any of them.

Thanks for the link. On the 2021 tour itinerary, my nearest venue is a tiny club in Cardiff. (Saw Living Colour there. They absolutely stormed it.)

ToneControl

Always loved his playing
I've seen them a few times

I was really please to hear this a few years back, I'll share it
I was listening to Desert Island discs back in 1997, and 21  minutes in, the posh sculptor says out of the blue "my youngest 2 children have a band...."

BBC Radio 4 - Desert Island Discs, David Wynne

Just imagine having kids that create such brilliant music

Tone71

Great band, lots of lsd and ozrics memories (of sorts) from the late 80's early 90's

I really like the remastered stuff that Ed has re-released on Spotify too and love the way he posts on FB, happy to discuss synth's and what was used when.

SurfinSirFari

I remember sending off for the cassettes to a chap at a Frome address (Better Daze distribution?) along with those of the (fab) Ullulators, the Oroonies and suchlike. Also Evil Edna's Horror Toilet because, well, why wouldn't you? 

pogul

Was that The Cheap Suit Oroonies? I saw Ozrics do a gig at Tower Records in London - it sounded amazing. They always had a very distinctive hihat thing going on that I can't quite understand - some kind of crunchy rhythmical thing. Very cool.

SurfinSirFari

Could be, I think the Oroonies went through different mutations.
I saw the OT several times at free events in the past, like the Strawberry Fayre in Cambridge for instance. They played on Wango Riley's Travelling Stage, I recall.
Their clouds of swirly guitar, synth, sequencer sound was often astonishing. 

Mudcrutch

brucegill said:

Oh man. Not heard their stuff for yeaaaars. Remember a gig at The Astoria. Could have been Brixton. Was a little, ah, not with it. Think it was good. Might not have been. Pretty sure it happened. I think. Maybe. 

I had a mate that used to spend a fortune going to festivals and never actually seeing any artists or bands because he used to get so wasted on arrival and ended up sleeping it off in his tent.

Mudcrutch

blobb said:

Cool interview as always. Here's the recording for anyone interested.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgtgS0MDhe0&feature=emb_logo

Thanks for posting that I hadn’t seen it before.

gordiji

Loved this one off 'There is Nothing'. Great early guitaring from Wynne. My favourite Ozrics album in fact, even the title is clever.