“We spent seven months on David Gilmour’s boat and almost bankrupted ourselves. But Bob encouraged us to dream big”: How Bob Ezrin brought out the prog in Kula Shaker

Crispian Mills and Bob Ezrin.

Psychedelic rockers Kula Shaker encountered a stumble when they went to make their second album, 1999’s Peasants, Pigs & Astronauts. Fortunately prog producer extraordinaire Bob Ezrin came to their rescue – and although the record wasn’t an immediate success, it’s been reappraised in recent years. In 2022 vocalist and guitarist Crispian Mills told Prog about the experience.

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