''The Human Bed'' is a live album by Back Door, released on 3 June 2002 by

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and compiled from three sessions for BBC Radio 1. It takes its name from the composition "The Human Bed", first released on 1972's '' Back Door''. The album, made between 1 March 1973 and 12 May 1974 at the

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, includes four previously unreleased tracks.

Track listing

Personnel

Adapted from ''The Human Bed'' liner notes. ;Back Door * Ron Aspery –

alto saxophone The alto saxophone is a member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments. Saxophones were invented by Belgians, Belgian instrument designer Adolphe Sax in the 1840s and patented in 1846. The alto saxophone is pitched in the key of E♭ ( ...

soprano saxophone The soprano saxophone is a small, high-pitched member of the saxophone family of woodwind instruments invented in the 1840s by Belgian instrument maker Adolphe Sax. Built in B♭ an octave above the tenor saxophone (or rarely, slightly small ...

electric piano An electric piano is a musical instrument that has a piano-style musical keyboard, where sound is produced by means of mechanical hammers striking metal strings or reeds or wire tines, which leads to vibrations which are then converted into ele ...

(7, 8, 11),

arrangement In music, an arrangement is a musical adaptation of an existing composition. Differences from the original composition may include reharmonization, melodic paraphrasing, orchestration, or formal development. Arranging differs from orchestr ...

(14) *

Tony Hicks Anthony Christopher Hicks (born 16 December 1945) is an English guitarist and singer who has been a member of the British rock/pop band the Hollies since 1963, and as such was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2010. His main rol ...

– drums *

Colin Hodgkinson Colin Hodgkinson (born 14 October 1945, Peterborough, Cambridgeshire, England) is a British rock, jazz and blues bassist, who has been active since the 1960s. Career Hodgkinson played in several bands, but was even more prolific as a sessio ...

– bass guitar, vocals,

twelve-string guitar A twelve-string guitar (or 12-string guitar) is a steel-string guitar with 12 string (music), strings in six Course (music), courses, which produces a thicker, more ringing tone than a standard six-string guitar. Typically, the strings of the lo ...

(12), arrangement (14) *

Dave MacRae David Scott MacRae (born 2 April 1940, Auckland, New Zealand) is a New Zealand keyboardist, noted for his contributions in jazz and jazz rock, and his collaborations with musicians from the Canterbury scene. Life and career MacRae studied at th ...

– Electric piano (on tracks 10–14) ;Production and additional personnel * Bill Aitken –

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* Jeff Griffin – production (6–9) * Russell Pay – mastering *

Michael Putland Michael Putland (27 May 1947 – 18 November 2019) was an English music photographer, known for photographing musicians in the 1970s. Biography Born in 1947 just outside London, Putland took up photography at the age of 9. He was a portrait ph ...

– photography * Pete Ritzema – production (1–5) * Tony Wilson – production (10–14)

Release history

References

External links

''The Human Bed''
at

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(list of releases) {{DEFAULTSORT:Human Bed 2002 compilation albums Back Door (jazz trio) albums Hux Records albums Albums produced by Tony Wilson