GRIDES

One dayi was in my fav record shop and i realy wanted a new sof machine album i hade 1, 2 & Third and was thinking about buing fourth and fifth since i hade seen em included on the same album before but the one and only copy of it they hade was sold so i saw this album and it looked good. I read some stuff pasted on the album cover and it sounded very nice, it allso said it contained a DVD with 20min live film from the tour this live album was taken, sweet. The sound of the recoding is simply amazing and sounds very fresh and crisp, great remastering job. The songs themself are from Third & Fourth i dident have fourth only third and 1 & 2 the edition with both of em on the same album so i hadent heard all of the song on this one, wich was nice. The songs from Third seem to be much shorter then on the orginal album while the ones from Fourth seem the be orginal lenght or even longer it was probobly recored between Third and fourt thats why they added many songs from thiere new upcoming album i whuld gues. This is Jazz rock fusion at its purest and best and it proves that this line up of the band was real tight players all of em get to shine on here, Ratledge's fuzzed up organ is simply amazing, sounds like Hendrix playing organ, yust love it. Wyatt was a great jazz drumer, Hoppers plays his bass flawlesly, and Elton Dean is a master of the sax puling out some long amazing solos. No mather if your a Soft machine veteran and got all thiere stuff or if you like me only heard 1-3 albums this is a must have for soft machine lovers an opertuinity to hear the band with thiere best line up and at thiere peak. Or if you yust love jazz rock fusion but never heard any soft machine, you will not be disepointed the album is loaded with great music, one of the best live albums i ever heard so far, Highly recomended.