Steve Howe had several offers to play lead guitar in a couple established bands after the breakdown of Tomorrow. Instead, he stuck with an upstart group of veteran musicians in a band they named after themselves (Bobby Clarke, Dave Curtiss, Steve Howe.... Clive Skinner). Bodast had a record deal with Tetragrammaton Records but the company (and they) folded before their debut album's scheduled release. They only held a handful of recording sessions and the products from those sessions finally saw the light of day in 1981 thanks to the guitar hero cult that surrounds Steve Howe.
The "1969 album Bodast" is a hypothetical album reconstructed from the extant recordings. More than a what-might-have-been alternate history, this tour stop is a record of how a group of musicians were transitioning as they and the larger musical landscape moved from psychedelic rock to progressive and hard rock.
Here is Bodast's complete discography:
Bodast
The Bodast Tapes (1981 compilation album)
The Early Years (1990 compilation album)
Spectral Nether Street (2000 compilation album)
Towards Utopia (2017 compilation album)
"I Want You" by Bodast
Pass the Headphones!!
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