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- From: traub@rtf.bt.co.uk (Michael Traub)
- Newsgroups: alt.music.progressive
- Subject: Re: Soft Machine
- Message-ID: <1993Jan28.093107.8658@rtf.bt.co.uk>
- Date: 28 Jan 93 09:31:07 GMT
- References: <3k0ZXB3w165w@bluemoon.use.com>
- Organization: BT Customer Systems, Brighton, UK
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- In article <3k0ZXB3w165w@bluemoon.use.com> buzzsaw@bluemoon.use.com (Patrick Buzby) writes:
- >
- > Since there's been talk about Soft Machine recently, I'd like to
- >voice a question about them that I've had for some time.
- > I have Soft Machine's second and third albums. I like the second
- >album a lot, but the third I find rather dull aside from "Moon In June."
- >Now, I love a lot of the other Canterbury-fusion groups (Hatfield and the
- >North, Moerlen's Gong, and so on), so are the later Soft Machine albums
- >distinctly different or better than the third? Any reply would be much
- >appreciated.
-
- I prefer the later stuff, Five, Seven, Softs, Alive and well.
-
- Sort of like jazz-rock, but without the jazz and without the rock:-)
-
- Perhaps a little like the later Gong stuff (Shamal onwards). Then again,
- perhaps not.
-
-
- --
- Michael Traub
- BT Customer Systems, Brighton Systems Centre. traub@btcs.bt.co.uk
-
- JOE, taxi driver: Unemployment will rise and sooner or later the
- masses will revolt against it. There'll be civil disorder and the
- further breakdown of civil society. The end result I hope will be
- the triumph of the people over capitalism. I also wouldn't mind
- if a few more people used taxis this year - '92 was rotten.
-
- (Taken from "Hopes and Fears" in The Guardian, December 31st 1992, a
- section which looked at what people saw 1993 bringing)
-