Soft machine documentary



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portion of a show from i guess maybe 1970 that includes some soft machine interviews and footage from the classic 1970 four piece lineup.


Tags for this video: dean elton hopper hugh machine mike ratledge robert soft wyatt

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It doesn't get any ... ( 1 year ago by Bucky315)
It doesn't get any better! Thanks! Post more!
Mike Ratledge had a ... ( 1 year ago by swans1997)
Mike Ratledge had a cool look sorta similar To John Cales Velvet Underground era look. Both were Out-Bloody- Rageous!
Great piece of ... ( 1 year ago by fusion07mp3)
Great piece of video here...thanks for sharing this!
Apart from Wyatt ... ( 1 year ago by Steveco)
Apart from Wyatt this is the first time I've heard the actual voices of the band. They hardly ever talked on stage.
Wonderful, ... ( 1 year ago by eddrousch)
Wonderful, wonderful post! Thank you-
and also very ... ( 1 year ago by dankton1976)
and also very interesting accent!
how can you call it?
(I'm not from english-speaking area)
The comment about ... ( 1 year ago by harmono)
The comment about listening to this as being "hard work" I don't totally see it that way. I think if you have developed an ear for jazz or this kind of music, listening to almost any other jazz music should be challenging but not hard work.
I think most of ... ( 1 year ago by harmono)
I think most of those people are from the southern england area, or Canturbury. Some people call this "canturbury jazz" or "canturbury progressive rock".
i think he was ... ( 1 year ago by gfunkusarelius)
i think he was talking more specifically to a non-jazz audience (they were still considered a pop group that was making a crossover at this time). no doubt they have a lot of really easy to listen music if you are prepared for the dadaistic breaks throughout.
Wow, Ratlidge ... ( 11 months ago by junkdrum)
Wow, Ratlidge actually spoke? I didn't know that.
Array ( 10 months ago by CadillacL)
This is beautiful & intense music. I was born in '71 & have heard of them but, this is the first to hear them.
Yup. English Home ... ( 9 months ago by gavinmorris)
Yup. English Home Counties. That's pretty much 'received English'. They're from Kent, specifically, but that's not the Kent colloquial accent.
...great Soft ... ( 9 months ago by michaelbrigante)
...great Soft machine...his magic e mystic music...changed prog-music...they apported a gloriosy epic-sound!
Cool, its great to ... ( 5 months ago by tacomatic0)
Cool, its great to see some footage of the rare early version of the song, "Neo-Caliban Grides"... I wonder where the whole video is.
4 outstanding ... ( 4 months ago by MeinErsterFilm)
4 outstanding individuals
A most underrated ... ( 2 months ago by cartoonlike)
A most underrated band. I need to see this documentary in its entirety. This is the direction that so-called "fusion" SHOULD have gone. At 3:10, though, what is that keyboard instrument that Ratledge is playing? He used it on many tracks and I always wanted to know. Please tell me. Thanks.
I'm pretty sure it ... ( 2 months ago by bknv2)
I'm pretty sure it is just an organ with a distortion effect. It probably just isnt played through a leslie and has some different settings on the drawbars. thats what I think
A Lowrey combo ... ( 2 months ago by VDGG94ki)
A Lowrey combo organ with a fuzz pedal, he picked out some stinging leads with it, and dig the dissonance at the beginning of Virtually... all that instrument. The funny thing is Lowrey organs were cheap and not many people gigged them ever.
yeah, i owned a ... ( 2 months ago by gfunkusarelius)
yeah, i owned a lowrey organ than a girlfriend got from her grandma and passed to me and it had the exact sound, i loved that damn thing. i should post some tracks we recorded with it. unfortunately the power blew and i never got it fixed.
sounds like a ... ( 2 months ago by AstroLogicalBeats)
sounds like a violin eh
Thanks for the info ... ( 2 months ago by cartoonlike)
Thanks for the info on the Lowrey Organ and fuzz box combo to get that incredible sound. Now I have to find one of those on eBay. Any idea what KIND of fuzz that wuzz?
Perfecto!! Soft ... ( 1 month ago by Carlito1988)
Perfecto!! Soft Machine was simply an incredible creative band...
Ratledge looks a ... ( 1 month ago by zortotron)
Ratledge looks a little like Zappa, eh?
Clarification: I'm ... ( 3 weeks ago by idealtypical)
Clarification: I'm not slamming the music in this clip! I think this is incredible, and this was an amazing period of Soft Machine's career.
I wanted to make that clear: I think all of these guys are incredible. I just think that when Robert parted ways with the band, it began to decline. It lost the spark of mad genius that Wyatt contributed, which was a great counterweight to Ratledge's incredible compositions--himself a genius, but a very different kind of genius than Robert.




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