I agree with Eliezer - a great release & certainly not 100% of the Soft Machine ideal. I recall a couple of LPs that were panned, by fans and/or critics,...
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John Trimble
johntrimble1952
Aug 4, 2011 7:31 pm
Just to prove the boorishness of American taste I will report to you that I rented the film ["J'entends plus la guitare"] over the weekend and not only found...
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terry@...
terryjak2001
Aug 5, 2011 2:13 pm
Greetings Rattlers. I hope you don't mind Aymeric, but this link - <http://www.guardian.co.uk/music/2011/aug/04/musicians-worst-gigs> - to memories of the...
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masonrs@...
Aug 5, 2011 2:14 pm
I dug "Things We Like" when first I heard it back in 1972. I was getting into all of Jack's stuff and was prepared to enjoy what he put out. I wasn't much into...
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David Kipling
spratton@...
Aug 5, 2011 2:56 pm
I don't know whether it was really a bad gig or just a joke, but in Bristol in the early seventies, Country Joe McDonald suddenly paused, strummed a different...
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Stuart Mott
stuartmottca...
Aug 5, 2011 8:00 pm
The very first gig of any sort that I attended was in late 1971 and, for some reason, Loudon Wainwright was supporting SM at the Albert Hall. As I recall he...
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Eliezer Kaplan
lewlez
Aug 6, 2011 11:56 am
... Of course the 'dead skunk' song may have earned more money than any single release by Soft Machine by now, but who knows? (secret is probably kept...
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valestrania@...
valestrania
Aug 6, 2011 11:57 am
The worst gig I've ever been to was Sid Vicious at Max's Kansas City in New York, 1978. He only played 20 minutes, he had to read lyrics from a piece of...
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Harry Howell
howellharry21
Aug 7, 2011 5:10 pm
Rattlers. August 6th is the 65th birthday of a musician that changed all the excepted parameters and limitations of the guitar, the virtuostic and totally...
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Stephen Nelson
snelson54
Aug 7, 2011 9:10 pm
... He flung his nose into the audience? Shades of Gogol. I couldn't resist the image. Goldilocks....
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Stuart Mott
stuartmottca...
Aug 7, 2011 9:11 pm
... I may have been moving in unusual social circles but, as a 14 year old in 1971, I had already heard "The Moon in June" and was more than a little intrigued...
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Urban Kolbl
urban.kolbl
Aug 9, 2011 3:35 pm
Makes me wonder... Did Soft Machine or Matching Mole ever have a horrible concert? Can anyone recall? Thank you =) UK [Soft Machine at Plumpton festival '69:...
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John Kelman
jkelman_aaj
Aug 9, 2011 3:36 pm
My review of Soft Machine, Tales of Taliesin: The EMI Years Anthology 1975-1981, today at All About Jazz. A compilation of material from the British group's...
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alan.c4@...
piblokto4
Aug 9, 2011 3:37 pm
Hi I discovered this group recently and this is my first post. You may be interested in seeing some of my photos of Caravan at the Cambridge Rock Festival on...
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John
johndenley...
Aug 9, 2011 10:31 pm
Very nice review John. Consider the jaw-dropping experience of hearing Allan in a live setting with The Soft Machine which I had the good fortune to do....
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David Kipling
spratton@...
Aug 9, 2011 10:33 pm
... What you ask was simply not possible, in the nature of things. Even more so than the Pope, SM and MM were incapable of error in interpreting the holy...
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Jeff Sherman
alembicsn7452
Aug 9, 2011 10:36 pm
Rattlers: A close friend of mine Paul Black (who played drums in the latter years of Glass first incarnation back in 1975-76) saw that SM Plumpton Festival...
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John Kelman
jkelman_aaj
Aug 10, 2011 8:15 am
... Thanks; I was lucky enogh to see him with SM also... it was, in a word, life-changing. Ok, two words :)...
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Joerg Reinicke
propylaen2001
Aug 11, 2011 6:50 am
Thanks for posting, Alan. The pics are in the group's photos section: <http://groups.yahoo.com/group/whatsrattlin/photos/album/329930735/pic/list?prop=eupdate>...
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m.r.watkins@...
pixiewarp
Aug 11, 2011 10:08 pm
East Asian connections from Canterbury to Malaysia, Japan, China and Tibet, then back again. A rare instance of Dave Sinclair singing, Robert Wyatt reading...
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Frederic Tournade
ftournade
Aug 11, 2011 10:08 pm
Tears for Fears (out of date) <http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uYHsiWbXNBE&feature=share> The Unthanks (school) ...
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Harry Howell
howellharry21
Aug 12, 2011 11:12 am
Another excellent mixture of wonderful music and great to hear again 'Flanagans People'. Just need a satellite channel now , dedicated to Canterbury and ...
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masonrs@...
Aug 13, 2011 6:36 am
Sounds good. Yesterday I went into Generation, New York's hippest record store, and found myself entertained by Caravan's "In the Land of Grey & Pink. Yes,...
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Gary Shindler
bewlay68
Aug 13, 2011 6:37 am
I saw the Unthanks live a couple of years ago as an opening act and they're one of my favorite curent Brit folk groups. They cover King Crimson's "Starless"; on...
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stereom@...
multirodent
Aug 13, 2011 6:40 am
... My best bet so far is that this photo with Elton recording with Pianet comes from September 1970 when the group did the Sounds of the 70ties program for...
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Urban Kolbl
urban.kolbl
Aug 15, 2011 12:43 pm
The salesman must have had his fill of punkweed that day...or maybe he just had some old winter wine. UK...
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masonrs@...
Aug 15, 2011 1:14 pm
I returned to the store the next day. Needless to say, they were playing hard-core punk (without the weed). No Canterbury. Perhaps significantly, the salesman...
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Steven Hale
vxppl
Aug 15, 2011 4:03 pm
Someone recently posted practically all of Soft Machine's Spaced on YouTube. You probably know that Spaced 7 is Spaced 5 played backwards. I just noticed and...
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Urban Kolbl
urban.kolbl
Aug 17, 2011 10:35 am
This reminds me when me and my friend were in a guitar shop and suddenly we could hear Roundabout by Yes. We went all crazy like 'ALLRIGHT!!!!!'' but the...
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Frederic Janosy
pupeej
Aug 17, 2011 10:36 am
Available from <http://www.streamrecords.co.uk/> is the latest CD from Genie Cosmas called "Cry from the city - Music 4 Film,TV and Radio" You may remember her...
