Canto

The short-lived Canto are mainly of note for including guitarist Steve Howe within their ranks, shortly before he joined Yes and soon after he left the psychedelic group Tomorrow. The relatively complicated tale behind their development is certainly rooted in the forming of Deep Crimson, which began as a task known as Roundabout. Drummer Bobby Clarke used guitarist Ritchie Blackmore, organist Jon Lord, and bassist Nick Simper for some time in Roundabout, but Clarke remaining after 90 days, the remaining music artists forming Deep Crimson. Clarke, for the time being, teamed up with vocalist/bassist Dave Curtiss (who Clarke experienced originally suggested as the vocalist for Roundabout) and vocalist/guitarist Clive Muldoon. Then they recruited Steve Howe, who was simply at loose ends following the dissolution of Tomorrow. Muldoon remaining Canto briefly, and it had been like a three-piece that Canto documented four demos in Oct 1968. They were typical late-psych/early-progressive items with ambitious, unstable song structures, relatively like the function of Tomorrow, but without strong melodic suggestions. Muldoon joined soon after the demos had been made, as well as the quartet transformed their name to Bodast, which documented ten demos in a far more prog-rock design for MGM (these demos had been eventually released lengthy after Bodast break up in middle-1969). All from the Canto demos had been finally released within the 2000 Bodast Compact disc reissue Spectral Nether Road.