SOFT STAGE BBC IN CONCERT 1972

The Soft Machine

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Live, released in 2005

Songs / Tracks Listing

1. Fanfare
2. All White
3. Slightly All The Time
4. MC
5. Drop
6. Stumble
7. One Across
8. As If
9. Riff
10. Gesolreut

Line-up / Musicians

- Elton Dean / alto sax, saxello, electric piano
- Hugh Hopper / bass
- Mike Ratledge / organ, electric piano
- John Marshall / drums

Releases information

2005 UK CD album featuring 10 tracks recorded for the BBC at London's Paris Theatre on 20th July 1972 just months before the live & studio material for the album 'Six' was put together, picture bookletcontaining extensive liner notes & rare band photos.

Record Label: Hux Records
Catalogue No: HUX070
Country of Origin: UK

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This live concert recorded for BBC radio hails from a point midway between the completion of Fifth and the beginnings of Six; John Marshall is now well-installed behind the drum kit as Robert Wyatt's long-term replacement, transtional drummer Phil Howard having taken his leave midway through the Fifth sessions, but Karl Jenkins has yet to join the group (and Elton Dean hasn't left yet).

As such, this represents one of the last glimmerings of Soft Machine before Jenkins began making his own extensive compositional contributions. About as much of Six is credited to him as Mike Ratledge, a mark of how his influence would eventually come to be the main creative force in the band's later years. As it stands, I find Softstage somewhat more compelling than Fifth or Fourth, two albums which I always felt bore the scars in the studio of the circumstances around their recording, whose material has always across somewhat better in a live context. As the close of the post-Wyatt/pre-Jenkins chapter, it's pretty solid.

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