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Henry Cow’s personnel fluctuated over their decade together, but drummer Chris Cutler, bassist John Greaves, and bassoonist\/oboist Lindsay Cooper were important long-term members alongside Frith and Hodgkinson.An inherent anti-commercial attitude kept them at arm’s length from the mainstream music business, enabling them to experiment at will. Critic Myles Boisen writes, “[their sound] was so mercurial and daring that they had few imitators, even though they inspired many on both sides of the Atlantic with a blend of spontaneity, intricate structures, philosophy, and humor that has endured and transcended the ‘progressive’ tag.”[3]While it was generally thought that Henry Cow took their name from 20th-century American composer Henry Cowell,[6][7] this has been repeatedly denied by band members.[8] According to Hodgkinson, the name “Henry Cow” was “in the air” in 1968, and it seemed like a good name for the band. It had no connection to anything.[10] In a 1974 interview, Cutler said the name was chosen because “[i]t’s silly. What could be sillier than Henry Cow?”[12]Table of ContentsHistory[edit]Early years[edit]Unrest[edit]Europe[edit]Rock in Opposition[edit]Legacy[edit]Members[edit]Timeline[edit]Discography[edit]Studio albums[edit]See also[edit]References[edit]Works cited[edit]Further reading[edit]External links[edit]History[edit]Early years[edit]Fred Frith met Tim Hodgkinson, a fellow student, in a blues club at Cambridge University in May 1968. Recognising their mutual open-minded approach to music, the two began performing together, playing a variety of musical styles including “dada blues” and “neo-Hiroshima”. One of Henry Cow’s first concerts was supporting Pink Floyd at the Architects’ Ball at Homerton College, Cambridge, on 12 June 1968.[13]In October 1968 Henry Cow expanded when they were joined by Andy Powell (bass guitar), David Attwooll (drums)[14] and Rob Brooks (rhythm guitar). They performed with this line-up until December that year, when Frith, Hodgkinson and Powell split off from the rest of the group and became a trio. Powell at the time was studying music at King’s College under Roger Smalley, the resident composer. Smalley was influential in Henry Cow’s early development. He exposed them to a variety of new music from bands and musicians like Soft Machine, Captain Beefheart and Frank Zappa. Smalley also introduced them to the idea of writing long and complex musical pieces for rock groups.[15] It was at this time that Henry Cow began writing music to challenge their collective ability to play, then using it to improve on themselves.[16][17]As a trio, with Frith on bass guitar, Powell on drums and Hodgkinson playing an organ that Frith and Powell had persuaded him to learn, Henry Cow performed a number of gigs on the university calendar, including the annual Architects’ Ball and the Midsummer Common Festival, as well as a performance on the roof of a 14-storey building in Cambridge. In April 1969, Powell left and the band reverted to a duo, with Frith playing violin and Hodgkinson on keyboards and reeds. In October 1969 philosopher Galen Strawson auditioned for the band. Later, Frith and Hodgkinson persuaded bassist John Greaves to join the band, and with the services of a couple of temporary drummers and then Sean Jenkins, Henry Cow performed as a quartet for the next eight months. In May 1971, Martin Ditcham replaced Jenkins on drums, and with this line-up they played at several events, including the Glastonbury Festival alongside Gong in June 1971.Ditcham left in July 1971, and it was not until September that year that the drummer’s seat was filled again, this time by Chris Cutler. Responding to one of Cutler’s adverts in Melody Maker, the band invited him to a rehearsal,[15] and it was only when Cutler joined that Henry Cow settled into a permanent core of Frith, Hodgkinson, Cutler and Greaves. The band then relocated to London, where they began an aggressive rehearsal schedule.After having entered John Peel’s “Rockortunity Knocks” contest in 1971, Henry Cow recorded a John Peel session for BBC Radio 1 in February 1972. They later went on to record another session in October that year and a further three sessions between 1973 and 1975.In April 1972, Henry Cow wrote and performed the music for Robert Walker’s production of Euripides’ The Bacchae. This involved an intense and demanding three-week period of concentrated work that changed the band completely. It was during this time that Geoff Leigh on woodwinds joined and Henry Cow became a quintet.In July 1972, the band performed at the Edinburgh Festival, and wrote and performed music for a ballet with artist Ray Smith and the Cambridge Contemporary Dance Group at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. Smith appeared with Henry Cow at several of their early 1970s performances,[13] to “add a dimension to the whole experience”.[18] Smith’s acts included “set[ting] up an ironing board stage left and spen[ding] the whole evening … quietly ironing” at the Rainbow Theatre, “read[ing] out short passages of discontinuous text between each piece of music” at the Hammersmith Palais, and miming with a glove puppet at the New London Theatre.[18] Smith later went on to do the “paint sock” art work for three of Henry Cow’s LP covers.^ Romano 2014, “Chapter 8 | Escape Artists \u2013 Designing and Creating Prog Rock’s Wondrous Visuals | Henry Cow: Legend (1973)”.^ MacDonald, Ian (14 October 1972). “Ayers \/ Cabaret Voltaire”. New Musical Express.^ a b Martens, Matthew (October 1996). “Henry Cow”. Perfect Sound Forever. Retrieved 30 March 2020.^ “Mike Oldfield (with Mick Taylor, Steve Hillage and members of Henry Cow, Gong and Soft Machine) \u2013 Tubular Bells (Live BBC Video 1973)”. MOG. Archived from the original on 23 August 2009. Retrieved 23 May 2009.^ a b c Cutler, Chris. “Henry Cow”. Chris Cutler. Retrieved 25 July 2017.^ Mills, Ted. “Desperate Straights”. AllMusic. Retrieved 25 September 2020.^ Ankeny, Jason. “Slapp Happy”. AllMusic. Retrieved 25 September 2020.^ Gross, Jason (March 1997). “Chris Cutler”. Perfect Sound Forever. Retrieved 25 September 2020.^ a b Macan, Edward (1997). Rocking the Classics: English Progressive Rock and the Counterculture. Oxford University Press. p.\u00a01973. ISBN\u00a00-19-509888-9.^ Glanden, Brad (18 November 2006). “Henry Cow: Concerts”. All About Jazz. Retrieved 7 January 2018.^ a b c Warburton, Dan (19 March 1998). “Fred Frith interview”. Paris Transatlantic Magazine. Retrieved 17 June 2018.^ “The Stone calendar”. The Stone, New York City. Retrieved 23 April 2007.^ “Fred Frith \u2013 Tim Hodgkinson \u2013 Chris Cutler, The Stone NYC, December 16, 2006”. Punkcast. Retrieved 23 April 2007.^ Fordham, John (24 September 2013). “Lindsay Cooper obituary”. The Guardian. Retrieved 26 September 2013.^ Mack, Shane (19 September 2013). “RIP: Lindsay Cooper, member of Comus and Henry Cow collaborator”. Tiny Mix Tapes. Retrieved 20 September 2013.^ “Legendary bands celebrate the life and work of Lindsay Cooper”. hcmf\/\/ (Huddersfield Contemporary Music Festival). 18 June 2014. Archived from the original on 8 December 2015. Retrieved 20 June 2014.^ “HENRY COW, MUSIC FOR FILMS, NEWS FROM BABEL and OH MOSCOW play the music of Lindsay Cooper”. Serious. Archived from the original on 27 June 2018. Retrieved 21 June 2014.^ “HENRY COW | MUSIC FOR FILM | NEWS FROM BABEL | OH MOSCOW”. Area Sismica. 14 August 2014. Retrieved 18 September 2014.^ Lawson, Dom (2 January 2015). “HENRY COW LIVE”. teamrock.com. Retrieved 8 January 2015.(registration required)^ a b “Michel Edelin Quintet with special guest John Greaves: Echoes of Henry Cow”. RogueArt. Retrieved 12 October 2019.^ “Henry Cow: The World Is a Problem Book Release”. New York University College of Arts & Science. Retrieved 24 December 2019.^ “Henry Now in Piacenza” (in Italian). 21 November 2022.^ a b c Kelman, John (12 January 2009). “Henry Cow: The 40th Anniversary Henry Cow Box Set”. All About Jazz. Archived from the original on 30 July 2017. Retrieved 7 January 2018.^ MacDonald, Ian (7 April 1973). “Henry Cow: Just Happy Playing Their Music”. New Musical Express. Retrieved 18 June 2018 \u2013 via Rock’s Backpages.^ Cutler, Chris (21 October 2005). “Conference on Composition and Experimentation in British Rock 1967\u20131976, Palazzo Cittanova, Italy”. Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage, University of Pavia. Retrieved 22 March 2020.^ Cutler, Chris. “Art Bears”. Chris Cutler. Retrieved 17 June 2018.^ Cutler, Chris (2019). Ex Box \u2013 Collected Fragments 1971\u20131978 (CD liner notes). Henry Cow. 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