Kevin Ayers - May I

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  • Опубліковано 17 лис 2024

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  • @Hiwatt100W1
    @Hiwatt100W1 11 місяців тому +10

    What a beautiful song...so many unexpected changes- that work well. Discovered Kevin Ayers about a year ago after becoming a huge early Soft Machine fan. Great song writer, RIP

  • @dukedexter8764
    @dukedexter8764 Рік тому +10

    How beautiful...... this really is so mesmerising a sound ..... endless summer . .... from a true original one off . Sadly missed K.A. ❤

  • @1656581
    @1656581 11 років тому +38

    we'll miss you Kevin, your lovely smile, your charm, British as we liked it
    keep the light on !

    • @colinrunciman5166
      @colinrunciman5166 Рік тому

      If you don't shine, you don't burn, lady!!

    • @michaeledwards3214
      @michaeledwards3214 8 місяців тому

      Damn straight up there with the best early soft machine unrivalled 😊

  • @HippieDavid61
    @HippieDavid61 10 місяців тому +3

    Very talented , great song 👏😊

  • @simonagree4070
    @simonagree4070 Рік тому +9

    And the wonderful Lol Coxhill playing saxophone live for us all...

  • @claudiakatz-palme9708
    @claudiakatz-palme9708 Рік тому +2

    ... und ich dachte, das finde ich nie wieder - wunderbar 😍

  • @maggienicolson
    @maggienicolson 11 років тому +12

    And the beautiful, unique Lol Coxhill on soprano sax

  • @Hectorschizoidman
    @Hectorschizoidman 15 років тому +18

    one of the best voices ever

  • @gordonmckinley2159
    @gordonmckinley2159 7 років тому +9

    Wonderful. Saw him several times from 1972 in Edinburgh and latterly 2006ish in Sheffield backed by a devoted young Belgian backing band. By the way that is the Genius composer David Bedford in crutches following a mishap.
    BIG G....Glory,Glory to the Hibees

  • @dixgun
    @dixgun 3 роки тому +5

    The little laugh at the end is incredible

  • @jenmb.
    @jenmb. 3 роки тому +8

    I wish he had looked at me in a French Cafe.

  • @SpikeWorsley
    @SpikeWorsley 11 років тому +8

    Farewell Kevin and thank you.

  • @choqueras
    @choqueras 16 років тому +17

    Love kevin
    one of my favorites
    great voice, music and amazing lyrics.
    thanks for posting!

  • @DAVO1984FI
    @DAVO1984FI 11 років тому +20

    Mike Oldfield on bass!

  • @sushiema1
    @sushiema1 Рік тому +2

    kevin était tellement charmant

  • @mudleydatthews
    @mudleydatthews Рік тому +1

    One of his best!

  • @mikebears1850
    @mikebears1850 10 місяців тому +3

    I saw these guys playing at the Astoria in 1975 supported by the loudest band i've ever heard...... fastbuck I think they were called. They made my ears bleed... orrible. Kevin was a one off. It was the last few shows with Andy Summers when he was a hippy. I'd seen him playing with Kevin Coyne and the Zoot Money big roll band too. The next time I saw him was in 1977 at Salisbury City Hall when he had turned into a short haired blond policeman secretly playing chords with added 9ths and 12ths.. that was never ever going to cut it with the real punks so they had to escape to America until clever chords! became acceptable again.... Ayers.... An eclectic bag of eccentric songs. I remember May I & Stranger in blue suede shoes were stand outs and some other songs mainly about bananas. A bit mad but a memorable talent & that is some mighty accordion playing..

  • @friendofbeaver6636
    @friendofbeaver6636 10 місяців тому

    Just what I didn't know I wanted.

  • @manuramis
    @manuramis 15 років тому +5

    It's easy to perveive the scenario around the cafe and imagine the girl we want to see.
    Great song from Kevin Ayers.

  • @sophiew1967
    @sophiew1967 3 роки тому +8

    I suddenly feel very sentimental and very English ( which I am) listening to this .Why did they have such thick hair in the 70' s ,was it all the chlorine the water board went bananas with pumping it into English drinking water? ..lol.
    I always thought Kevin Ayers looked bloody fantastic ,same with Nick Drake there was no mistaking where they where from before they even opened their mouths to sing..
    That clarinet player is wearing a fruity little number isn't he..sort of Flash Gordon meets Hugh Hefner in one dressing gown ..the joys of LSD 🌞

    • @piplee1439
      @piplee1439 Рік тому

      English indeed
      A rare breed

    • @digitalramyun
      @digitalramyun Рік тому +2

      The sax player is Lol Coxhill (1932-2012) - best-known as a free-improviser, and as interesting for his music as his sartorial choice in this clip 😎

  • @peterplectrajet6763
    @peterplectrajet6763 11 років тому +9

    Love this....so sad to hear of Kevin Ayers' passing. A true original.

  • @reverendbryan
    @reverendbryan 2 роки тому +14

    My favorite drunk British pop singer w/ French overtones. Love seeing Lol Coxhill pay in a crimson bathrobe! Anyone notice there's pre Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield on bass? It's all just such a pleasure on every front.

  • @WillemMinderhout
    @WillemMinderhout 11 місяців тому +3

    The Whole World:
    Kevin Ayers - guitar and vocals
    David Bedford - accordion
    Lol Coxhill - saxophone
    Mike Oldfield - bass
    Mick Fincher - drums

  • @ntinosmarkos
    @ntinosmarkos Рік тому

    2.30...aaahhh a masterpiece ( all the song)!

  • @ReptiliansCLUB-777
    @ReptiliansCLUB-777 Місяць тому

    Im a old soul living in the actual world

  • @terrycoles5606
    @terrycoles5606 9 років тому +1

    bruce , kevin was properly celebrated by a lot of people and his wonderful daughter galen but absoultely agree a fantastic voice and person ignored for so too long every song gorgeous

  • @mirrortime
    @mirrortime 17 років тому +6

    Beautiful. Thanks much! One of my fav Kevin's songs. I love the French version also. Thanks again.

  • @ivanrainbird2416
    @ivanrainbird2416 2 місяці тому

    so good

  • @luigizanetti7314
    @luigizanetti7314 7 років тому +1

    thank you Kevin

  • @50025600
    @50025600 15 років тому +4

    dazzling saxophone !

  • @pattycakeyumyum
    @pattycakeyumyum 7 років тому +7

    Thank you for uploading this. He was fantastic, a real one-off. "You're not happy, you're just stoned" :)

  • @DillRoadie2
    @DillRoadie2 16 років тому

    couldnt agree more ...love them both too and Jume 1st 1974 and Nadir's last chance my fav albums of all time

  • @goingbehind1093
    @goingbehind1093 3 роки тому +1

    Beautiful

  • @johnspokus
    @johnspokus 16 років тому +7

    Cool guitar too, he's playing a Harmony; I think it's a Rocket. Such a great tune, like a jazzier version of The Velvet Underground.

  • @johnburgess3481
    @johnburgess3481 Рік тому

    It's been a long time , fabulous

  • @Perenchies
    @Perenchies 16 років тому

    simply wonderful

  • @singelding
    @singelding 9 років тому +1

    Awesome!!

  • @chuckpryorl2842
    @chuckpryorl2842 Рік тому

    ....any other Kevin Ayers people out there who are also bead people, and notice the necklace of large elbow shape millifiore beads he's wearing?.........pretty cool....in addition to a great song......

  • @Choober65
    @Choober65 10 місяців тому

    Shades of future Oldfield tracks on the bass.

  • @VladDImpala
    @VladDImpala 16 років тому +6

    WOW! That was great! I love the French version too. I just bought the CD re-masters of his early LPs.
    Kevin along with Peter Hammill are my fave singers, they both have such unique voices.
    Anyone else notice the resemblance between the young Kevin and the young Helen Mirren?!

  • @theloniousratledge8835
    @theloniousratledge8835 12 років тому +1

    He wrote this for Soft Machine in 1967. He was a chansonnier, can't stay in S.M.

  • @dainin123
    @dainin123 12 років тому +6

    They must have had interesting parties!

    • @sophiew1967
      @sophiew1967 3 роки тому +3

      Oh for sure ! Finest China tea cups full of psilocybin mushroom tea and fine English sultana & Moroccan hash scones ( my recipe :) with cream & jam to wash it down with ;) lol

    • @elizabethhann4028
      @elizabethhann4028 2 роки тому +1

      @@sophiew1967 [22 April 2022] I hope that you weren't making fun of Ayers with the above comment. Truth be told, I think a psychedelic mad tea party with Kevin Ayers and all his grooviest musician friends would be really a lot of fun.

  • @dorogo8252
    @dorogo8252 2 роки тому +1

    Perfeito🥺

  • @bobgreen623
    @bobgreen623 15 років тому +4

    Fabulous all round. We all know and love Kev, and Lol, also Mike Oldfield is pretty cool on bass, but who, I say WHO!!??? is the bloke on the accordion??

  • @pablofuentes2612
    @pablofuentes2612 6 місяців тому

    Un crack pa

  • @samybelkhadim8875
    @samybelkhadim8875 11 років тому +1

    Longtemps après que les poètes ont disparu ...

  • @alexkaisindemonge8504
    @alexkaisindemonge8504 11 років тому

    wonderfull

  • @libano90
    @libano90 11 років тому

    R.i.p. Kevin

  • @gio8641
    @gio8641 3 роки тому +2

    god only if i had someone to love to sit and stare at.

    • @sophiew1967
      @sophiew1967 3 роки тому +1

      Me too my friend ..a ' muse' to sit there and let me paint him/ her ..they would have to be able to make a great greed of tea & play guitar for mention mind ;) lol

    • @sophiew1967
      @sophiew1967 3 роки тому +1

      excuse the typos! Auto correct really seems to hate us British folks 😡..That is supposed to say ' make a great brew of tea '

  • @rainblaze.
    @rainblaze. 7 років тому +2

    its like the VU crossed with syd barrett with a touch ISB= dajavu all over again

  • @rodrigotanus4355
    @rodrigotanus4355 3 роки тому +1

    lindo demais

  • @nicolasmrn
    @nicolasmrn 3 роки тому +1

    2:30 that's me when I listen Kevin Ayers music.

  • @missbikini
    @missbikini 11 років тому

    r.i.p.

  • @elizabethhann4028
    @elizabethhann4028 3 роки тому

    [13 July 2021]Kevin Ayers: "🎶💕Il etait un homme fatale💕🎶..."
    I once read something in a magazine where someone called Kevin "a Home Counties Lou Reed", but to me, that doesn't come nearly close enough to describing what Ayers really was. If he was anything (besides his sui generis self) he was not the English equivalent of Lou Reed, but (if such a thing can be) the male equivalent of Nico (hence the line above, about him being "un homme fatale"; you know, as opposed to a femme fatale). R.I.P.
    P.S: The clip above, of Ayers performing "May I", must count as one of the most heart-melting visions ever captured on *THE OLD GREY WHISTLE-TEST* . He looked so good, just singing there, I can hardly believe it. I even think that, in this clip he (arguably)(vaguely) *resembles* Nico.

  • @timppothy
    @timppothy 13 років тому +2

    yes, you can sit with me forever....

  • @TimGuitarcouk
    @TimGuitarcouk Рік тому +2

    Is that Mike Oldfield on bass?

    • @eerk76
      @eerk76 Рік тому

      Yes, it is :))

  • @ronaldbergman2146
    @ronaldbergman2146 11 місяців тому

    and also Lol Coxhill and Mike Oldfield

  • @Pispini68
    @Pispini68 15 років тому +1

    David Bedford on accordion.

  • @uppercastra3610
    @uppercastra3610 7 років тому

    Phil Collins on squeeze box. See you in the sky Kev.

  • @KleberUtiel-jp4ke
    @KleberUtiel-jp4ke 7 місяців тому

    Mike Oldfield playing Bass !

  • @colinrunciman5166
    @colinrunciman5166 Рік тому

    Yes he died in southern France I think, say if you cant burn you dont shine, this true??

  • @manuramis
    @manuramis 14 років тому

    @businessfreedom Yes, very simple and clear. Sure this was a real history.

  • @lordpicchio
    @lordpicchio Рік тому

    Does anybody have the partiture for soprano sax? Thank you!

  • @paulfitzpatrick954
    @paulfitzpatrick954 6 років тому +1

    Julian Copes uncle

  • @flomotopia
    @flomotopia 3 місяці тому

    Lol Coxhill in a Star Trek costume..?

  • @viralinfo2185
    @viralinfo2185 9 місяців тому

    Lol Coxhill cruising

  • @theloniousratledge8835
    @theloniousratledge8835 12 років тому

    Hammill great, Ayers....bah...good.

  • @ignaciogmorera
    @ignaciogmorera 11 років тому +2

    Too bright to live

  • @andrewpreston4127
    @andrewpreston4127 Рік тому

    Who is playing drums on this ? I'm sure I recognise him from somewhere, but just can't place him.

    • @digitalramyun
      @digitalramyun Рік тому +1

      It might be Mick Fincher (who drummed on “Shooting At The Moon”), though he might have left before they shot this clip (and the photo of him on the SATM cover doesn’t look like this chap). If it *is* Mick… he has apparently vanished without trace, making Mike Oldfield the only-known surviving Whole World member.

  • @mehcol
    @mehcol 10 місяців тому

    English music

  • @morganfisherart
    @morganfisherart 6 років тому

    I hear an organ, especially under Lol's sax solo. But I see no organist. ???

  • @mehcol
    @mehcol 10 місяців тому

    not very diverse.

  • @SKYSAW59
    @SKYSAW59 Рік тому +1

    Reminds of Syd Barrett..

  • @chuckpryorl2842
    @chuckpryorl2842 Рік тому

    .....looks like a ...v e r y ...y o u n g....... Mike Oldfield on bass........which was often the case in the early years.......

    • @digitalramyun
      @digitalramyun Рік тому

      Yup: it’s Mike… it would’ve been around the time this clip was shot (1971), that he started recording the demos for “Tubular Bells” (on Ayers’ tape-recorder)

  • @piplee1439
    @piplee1439 10 місяців тому

    Is that Mike Oldfield on bass ?