Fifty Foot Hose has been played on NTS over 30 times, featured on 33 episodes and was first played on 20 March 2014.

Fifty Foot Hose was a psychedelic rock band that formed in San Francisco in the late 1960s, and reformed in the 1990s.

The original group were one of the first bands to fuse rock and experimental music. Like a few other acts of the time (most notably the United States of America), they were consciously trying to fuse the contemporary sounds of rock with electronic instruments and avant-garde compositional ideas.

The group comprised three core members: founder and bassist Louis "Cork" Marcheschi, guitarist David…