Pete Brown: Can’t Get Off the Planet – The Recordings 1968-1973, 6CD Remastered Box Set

• 6CD NEWLY REMASTERED CLAMSHELL BOX SET ANTHOLOGY COLLECTING ALL OF THE RECORDINGS BY CREAM AND JACK BRUCE LYRICIST AND POET PETE BROWN WITH HIS BANDS THE BATTERED ORNAMENTS, PIBLOKTO!, GRAHAM BOND AND PETE BROWN and BROWN AND FRIENDS MADE BETWEEN 1968-1973.

• FEATURING THE ALBUMS ‘A MEAL YOU CAN SHAKE HANDS WITH IN THE DARK’, ‘THINGS MAY COME AND THINGS MAY GO, BUT THE ART SCHOOL DANCE GOES ON FOREVER’, ‘THOUSANDS ON A RAFT’ AND ‘TWO HEADS ARE BETTER THAN ONE’.

• WITH 30 BONUS TRACKS, 11 PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED, DRAWN FROM SINGLES, BBC RADIO AND STUDIO SESSIONS AND A PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED PIBLOKTO! CONCERT FROM 1971.

• INCLUDES THE RECORDINGS BY PETE BROWN AND FRIENDS FEATURING JEFF BECK AND JACK BRUCE.

• REMASTERED FROM THE ORIGINAL HARVEST AND CHAPTER ONE MASTER TAPES WITH AN ILLUSTRATED BOOK WITH A NEW ESSAY, PHOTOGRAPHS AND CUTTINGS.

Pete Brown first came to prominence as a performance poet and a lyricist for compositions by JACK BRUCE for CREAM and Jack’s solo work. In 1968 Pete formed the band THE BATTERED ORNAMENTS and recorded the album ‘A Meal You Can Shake Hands With in the Dark’, one of the first releases of EMI’s Harvest label in July 1969. Upon being dismissed by his band members on the eve of a performance supporting the Rolling Stones at Hyde Park that year, Pete formed the band PIBLOKTO! and began a song writing partnership with guitarist JIM MULLEN. The band’s blend of jazz and progressive influences was unique and they earned a loyal following on the underground live circuit. The band’s debut album ‘Things May Come and Things May Go, But the Art School Dance Goes On Forever’ was released in 1970 and enjoyed considerable success in France. The first Piblokto! single, ‘Living Life Backwards’ was also a hit in France and was later covered by JEFF BECK. ‘Thousands on a Raft’ was the last Piblokto! album and was once again a hit in France. Following concerts in France in October 1971, the band dissolved, and Pete formed BOND AND BROWN with Graham Bond. This group recorded the album ‘Two Heads Are Better Than One’ and the ‘Lost Tribe’ EP for the Chapter 1 label in 1972 before also breaking up at the end of that year. In 1973 Pete embarked on the BROWN AND FRIENDS project which saw him record material with a group including JACK BRUCE and JEFF BECK among their ranks.

TRACK LISTING

DISC ONE

PETE BROWN AND HIS BATTERED ORNAMENTS ‘A

Meal You Can Shake Hands With in the Dark’

1  Dark Lady

2  The Old Man

3  Station Song

4  The Politician

5  Rainy Taxi Girl

6  Morning Call

7  Sandcastle

8  Travelling Blues (or The New Used Jew’s Dues Blues)

Bonus tracks

9  Then I Must Go and Can I Keep (Morgan Studios 1968) 10 Sandcastle (Morgan Studios 1968)

11  Security Blues (EMI Abbey Road Studios 1969)

12  The Week Looked Good on Paper (A-side of single)

DISC TWO

PETE BROWN AND PIBLOKTO!

‘Things May Come and Things May Go, But the Art School Dance Goes On Forever’

1  Things May Come and Things May Go, But the Art School Dance Goes On Forever

2  High Flying Electric Bird

3  Someone Like You

4  Walk for Charity, Run for Money

5  Then I Must Go and Can I Keep

6  My Love’s Gone Far Away

7  Golden Country Kingdom

8  Firesong

9  Country Morning

Bonus tracks

10  Living Life Backwards (A- side of single)

11  Can’t Get Off the Planet (A- side of single)

12  Broken Magic (B-side of single)

DISC THREE

PETE BROWN AND PIBLOKTO!

‘Thousands on a Raft’

1 Aeroplane Head Woman

2  Station Song Platform Two

3  Highland Song

4  If Only They Could See Me Now Parts One AND Two

5  Got a Letter from a Computer

6  Thousands on a Raft

Bonus tracks

7  Flying Hero Sandwich (A-side of single)

8  My Last Band (B-side of single)

DISC FOUR

PETE BROWN AND PIBLOKTO!

‘Studio & Radio Sessions 1969-1971’

1  Prophet (Demo 1969)

2  Country Morning (Demo 1969)

3  High Sorrow (Demo 1969)

4 Aeroplane Head Woman (Demo 1970)

5  Dawn of a Night Wasp (Demo 1970)

6  Raining Pins and Needles (Abbey Road studios January 1970)

7  Christmas Party in a Deserted Seaside Station (Station Song Platform Two) (Abbey Road studios January 1970)

8 Aeroplane Head Woman (BBC Radio session – August 1971)

9  Dawn of a Night Wasp (BBC Radio session – August 1971) 10 Got a Letter from a Computer (BBC Radio session – August 1971)

DISC FIVE

PETE BROWN AND PIBLOKTO!

‘Live in Paris – October 1971’

1 Aeroplane Head Woman

2  Golden Country Kingdom

3  Got a Letter from a Computer

4  The Politician

5  Milk is Turning Sour in My Shoes

DISC SIX

GRAHAM BOND AND PETE

BROWN ‘Two Heads Are Better Than One’

1  Lost Tribe

2  Ig the Pig

3  Oobati

4 Amazing Grass

5  Scunthorpe Crabmeat Train Sideways Boogie Shuffle Stomp 6 C.F.D.T. (Colonel Fright’s Dancing Terrapins)

7  Mass Debate

8   Looking for Time

Bonus tracks

9  Macumbe (A-side of EP)

10  Milk is Turning Sour in My Shoes (B-side of EP)

PETE BROWN AND FRIENDS

11  Nights in Armour (Decca Studios 1973)

12  Barbed Wire Night Dress (Decca Studios 1973)

13  Night at Joan and Roy’s (Demo 1973)

14  She Used to Come and See Me When I Slept on the Floor (Demo 1973)