More Kevin Ayers

Why? Well, mainly because I can. Also because this particular YouTube clip really seems to get at something essential about Ayers at a particular point in time. And additionally, that's Ollie Halsall playing one of the guitars - a great guitar player, an important part of what Ayers did musically, and someone who died unnecessarily young. (That's Ollie with the light colored jacket. Andy Summers is the third guitar player on stage.)

Canterbury

In the late sixties and the seventies - and, to some extent, even today - there was interconnected collection of musicians centered in Canterbury, England, who produced a unique body of work. These guys, Kevin Ayers in the foreground, and Daevid Allen (playing the "gliss" guitar") were founding members of The Soft Machine, the band at the center of this swirl. Kevin had an interesting solo career, and throughout the seventies was making great eclectic pop music. Daevid's band, Gong, was awesome spectacle, a psychedelic band with jazz level chops; wildly hallucinogenic, and deeply musical at once.