Just got the cd version(One Way) today.Compares favorably with my lp copy.Love tHe sounds the band came up with here.Mike Ratledge does some cool effects with the organ.Did he use a wah-wah pedal?Bob

Don't know. Maybe just the Leslie as I haven't heard this.

Weren't Andy Summer (Police) and Robert Wyatt in SM?

I photographed Robert Wyatt in '91 - went to his home north of London and it is one of the best souvenirs of my "people" photography. Still have the postacard him and his wife sent for X-Mas :)
You can see that image here: http://www.axeldahl.com/pages/people.html
I also did the guitarist of Soft Machine but not Ratledge - would''ve been nice to have all three!

Apart from that, the day I doscovered the 1st Soft Machine album I still remember and always will - talk about "power trio"!
SM #1 is one of my fav' albums and luckily my Big Beat LP reissue still is mint.

Try the Soft's Fourth album.Some free jazz here,trippy organ efffects,hypnotic bass riffs,oh,Virtually pts 1 thru 4,just get it!

Three is my favorite. i've had my copy since 1971. i also have a copy of Fourth, have never heard One or Two. i'd like to, though. in 1971, 'round these here parts, the Softs were regarded as the deepest, heaviest, weirdest, most avant, too cool for you, no one could possibly 'get it' band around. the one you pulled out on the 2nd joint, said 'check this out, man!', laid it on the TT, dimmed the lights and waited for your friend to say, 'wow! holy shit, whass this?'

soft machine, man.

and they still have that effect on the innocent

oh, the wire just did a piece in a recent issue on ratledge. oh, and axel? super cool. very super cool.

Back in the day I listened to alot of SM. I wonder how they would sound today. Being straight and all.

cubdog

um, i listen to Third all the time, and it sounds great

..and you will still "get it".I haven't used street pharmaceuticals in decades,and the Softs' sound still blows me away.Now,their Seventh release,along with the Third,Fourth & Sixth are my faves.-Bob