All your loop sounds now that everyone uses was INVENTED by Hugh Hopper, he used to have recording tape at home going around milk bottles and all sorts to edit! He was the poineer of loops
@theeOO69 ya there were his backing band in Madcap Laughs, but not on Barrett cause I'm pretty sure Jerry Shirley the drummer for Humble Pie was playing on that album, with as usual David Gilmour helping Syd with the compositions.
So far, one idiot didn't like this. Interesting to see Hugh on the Burns Bison, which I assumed had been long put out to pasture (or should that be prairie?).
@Fredigundis22 So far, there's one confirmed idiot walking about out there someplace in the world who only has a sense of taste in his mouth. Some people just don't know good music when they hear it.
I really miss Kevin in pieces like this, his crazy vibe and he was / is ligher spirited than the others. I went from being a Rober Wyatt fanboy to liking Kevin Ayers more than all the others.
I wish someone would release all these old French "Pop" programs on DVD. There were some pretty incredible performances on that show including Soft Machine, Amon Duul II, Kevin Ayers, Can and most famously the Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico performance from '72.
toetcutterr6, though I'm a huge Soft Machine fan and drastically changer my vision of the world since their grace touched me, I can't let you spit on Muse anyway ^^ If you didn't hear the bass in Muse, you're lying ; if you didn't hear some absolute badass bassline from Muse, you're lying too : listen to Hysteria or Plug In Baby. Besides I don't think Soft Machine would be very proud to see that their music created such despising points of view among their fans !
@droogless Great holistic bands are--Melting Euphoria, Ozric Tentacles, Gong, Aphrodities Child, Magma, Jade Warrior, Eat Static, System 7, Lisa Gerrard, Dead can Dance, Stomu Yamashta, Kazumi Watanabe, Toninho Horta, Larry Coryell, Shakti, Oregon, Mother Gong, Acid Mother's Temple, Acid Mother's Gong, Magical Power Mako, Patrick Bernard, Lost at Last, Sphongle, Steve Tibbetts, Steve Hillage.
@droogless I have the same "problem" I think they are simply the best band of that period but I have also used them to drop a hint to an overstaying guest!
Thank you for posting this amazing rare video. Soft Machine's greatest fans are destined to be musicians who can appreciate that astounding, jaw-dropping talent.
They were and still are the sound of the late 60's early 70's for me. Appreciated then and still today- thanks to the internet & youtube-enfin-they get a second airing!- thanks again siroen.....cheers!
Takes me right back to Canterbury 68-70 where I was at school...saw them at the University there and elsewhere.....early Soft Machine recordings now seem to be getting the recognition they deserve thanks to the internet. "Soft Machine" still does it for me.They were the cutting edge at the time and had their fans including Dali I seem to recall nd still captivate. See on wonderful clips like this one. Thanks again for this siroen... bought their first 4 albums when they came out!
You really aren't comparing a myspace chic hipster emo band to the great Soft Machine are you? I don't hear the bass in any Muse song I just searched anyway.
You can't compare Muse to Soft Machine, but I don't agree with your description of them as myspace,chic,hipster,emo. I'm not a fan of muse but they are leaning slightly into the prog category. Hysteria and New Born supposedly have good bass.
@toecutterr6 Different ages, different aesthetics. I wish I could get the digital clean and crisp version of that bass fuzz sound Hugh had in Pig and still haven't found anything comparable
For a live recording of this trio check out the Paradiso 69 album (Voiceprint??) - mindblowing - as is this. Fucking awesome. Though I bet Ratledge & Hopper were pissed off with the camera drooling over Wyatt!
true, the paradiso album is pretty good, which is funny, since the band members originally didnt want it to be released, since they considered it a bad gig(Robert's singing is a bit rough, and Mike has technical difficulties with his organ every now and then). However, if you do ever get to hear any tapes of other 1969 trio gigs, I do think they are even better than the paradiso recording.
Why I haven't seen this yet is a mystery. Great performance of 10:30 Returns to The Bedroom. And I know it's Esther's Nose Job, it's part of the suite KNOWN as ENJ.
Great stuff. Robert Wyatt with one cymbal - that's all you need, you don't need crash cymbals - now all we've got to do is convince every other drummer. Was Hugh about to audition for a Shadows tribute band with that bass? Best band EVER. Sorry - I didn't mention Mike - as cool as ever on this.
Definitive Softs! Apart from the crazy title sections on Volume Two, largely to comply with record company protocol on shorter songs, the piece was simply known as Esther's Nose Job. As Sigkil says, check Paradiso 1969 for the killer trio live take, otherwise the BBC Sessions for the Big Band version!
You are really great at digging up Wyatt-era Soft Machine clips I had no idea existed! From the quality it looks like this one has been kicking around for a while, but I'd certainly never heard of it (nor a lot of the other clips you've put up) before!
BRAVO!!!!!!!
66cathyovo66 4 months ago
Holy smoke this band liked playing in 7 big time!!!!!!
C0NTR4B455 4 months ago
dedicated to you but you werent there
BarryTones 5 months ago
All your loop sounds now that everyone uses was INVENTED by Hugh Hopper, he used to have recording tape at home going around milk bottles and all sorts to edit! He was the poineer of loops
WELLBRAN 6 months ago
the only band that comes close to this style is Primus
ccmac54 7 months ago
Terrific! I love this album and this song. Thank you for posting it!
GaryXGomes 7 months ago
Didn't these guys play on Syd Barretts first solo album?
theeOO69 7 months ago
@theeOO69 ya there were his backing band in Madcap Laughs, but not on Barrett cause I'm pretty sure Jerry Shirley the drummer for Humble Pie was playing on that album, with as usual David Gilmour helping Syd with the compositions.
spacemeddle 7 months ago
oh, this is just awesome. no one has ever sounded quite like them-and it certainly isn't Muse for goodness sakes. what a strange comparison!
fetishalchemy 8 months ago
Comienzods del rock-jazz : 1969
Mike Ratledge, teclista
Robert Wyatt, vocalista y batería
Hugh Hopper, bajista
leoncoda 9 months ago
So far, one idiot didn't like this. Interesting to see Hugh on the Burns Bison, which I assumed had been long put out to pasture (or should that be prairie?).
Fredigundis22 9 months ago
@Fredigundis22 So far, there's one confirmed idiot walking about out there someplace in the world who only has a sense of taste in his mouth. Some people just don't know good music when they hear it.
Miniver765 9 months ago
I really miss Kevin in pieces like this, his crazy vibe and he was / is ligher spirited than the others. I went from being a Rober Wyatt fanboy to liking Kevin Ayers more than all the others.
C13AI 1 year ago
If only we could hear this right!
enigmadroid 1 year ago
The time i found out Soft Machine i realized the existence of pure psychedelic music
epantopoulou 1 year ago
I wish someone would release all these old French "Pop" programs on DVD. There were some pretty incredible performances on that show including Soft Machine, Amon Duul II, Kevin Ayers, Can and most famously the Lou Reed, John Cale and Nico performance from '72.
thatmuse76 1 year ago
wow !!!!!
analogicsensations 1 year ago
Soft Machine Vol 2 was the very first LP I bought and now at 55 my brain has not been the same since! lol superb WAY ahead of its time
WELLBRAN 1 year ago
just for said they are great !!!
efrodon 1 year ago
toetcutterr6, though I'm a huge Soft Machine fan and drastically changer my vision of the world since their grace touched me, I can't let you spit on Muse anyway ^^ If you didn't hear the bass in Muse, you're lying ; if you didn't hear some absolute badass bassline from Muse, you're lying too : listen to Hysteria or Plug In Baby. Besides I don't think Soft Machine would be very proud to see that their music created such despising points of view among their fans !
nanotechnos 1 year ago
la pura psicodelia
miguelcontrol 2 years ago
I keep coming back here to watch this. Amazed everytime. Thanks for posting this GEM!
VERNIXX 2 years ago 3
Opened for Hendrix at the Civic Opera House in Chicago in 1969.
nebzahlerman 2 years ago
@nebzahlerman THE TWO GREATEST ROCK BANDS EVER!
dantean 1 year ago
@nebzahlerman He obviously did not know how good they were or he would never had agreed to it lol!
WELLBRAN 1 year ago
@nebzahlerman maybe after jimi said christ i do not want to follow them on get rid of them....lol
WELLBRAN 2 weeks ago
wath's the song name?
Progman94 2 years ago
Esther's Nose Job
reverendhelmy 2 years ago
0-1:31 = "A Door Opens and Closes"
1:31 - End = "1030 Returns To The Bedroom"
warboner 2 years ago 2
God knows what drum insanity took place after that edit at 3:28...
BassLudeman 2 years ago 2
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BassLudeman 2 years ago
They were amazing.. I have been trying to get my wife and my mates into these for ages.. but they just don't get it !
I have now become wise to this and i always stick them on when i want everyone to go home....Genius.
R.I .P mr Hugh Hopper you were great.
droogless 2 years ago 25
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@droogless Great holistic bands are--Melting Euphoria, Ozric Tentacles, Gong, Aphrodities Child, Magma, Jade Warrior, Eat Static, System 7, Lisa Gerrard, Dead can Dance, Stomu Yamashta, Kazumi Watanabe, Toninho Horta, Larry Coryell, Shakti, Oregon, Mother Gong, Acid Mother's Temple, Acid Mother's Gong, Magical Power Mako, Patrick Bernard, Lost at Last, Sphongle, Steve Tibbetts, Steve Hillage.
augustmaquet 9 months ago
@droogless I have the same "problem" I think they are simply the best band of that period but I have also used them to drop a hint to an overstaying guest!
SteveLane 2 months ago
Thank you for posting this amazing rare video. Soft Machine's greatest fans are destined to be musicians who can appreciate that astounding, jaw-dropping talent.
MrPlanx 2 years ago
I need that hat Robert is wearing!
expoonation 2 years ago 5
They were and still are the sound of the late 60's early 70's for me. Appreciated then and still today- thanks to the internet & youtube-enfin-they get a second airing!- thanks again siroen.....cheers!
studdingsails 2 years ago 2
Takes me right back to Canterbury 68-70 where I was at school...saw them at the University there and elsewhere.....early Soft Machine recordings now seem to be getting the recognition they deserve thanks to the internet. "Soft Machine" still does it for me.They were the cutting edge at the time and had their fans including Dali I seem to recall nd still captivate. See on wonderful clips like this one. Thanks again for this siroen... bought their first 4 albums when they came out!
studdingsails 2 years ago
This is a song called "10.30 Returns To The Bedroom" from his second official album "Two".
BRailman 2 years ago
Wonderful, deep bass tone is absolutely LOST in today's music.
toecutterr6 2 years ago 2
absolutely NOT. Check out Muse bassist.
mitharath 2 years ago
You really aren't comparing a myspace chic hipster emo band to the great Soft Machine are you? I don't hear the bass in any Muse song I just searched anyway.
toecutterr6 2 years ago 16
You can't compare Muse to Soft Machine, but I don't agree with your description of them as myspace,chic,hipster,emo. I'm not a fan of muse but they are leaning slightly into the prog category. Hysteria and New Born supposedly have good bass.
PCFDD 2 years ago
@toecutterr6 Muse V Soft machine??? muse have no prayer in that match up...ridiculous!
WELLBRAN 1 year ago
@toecutterr6 This was 1969 and these guys were light years ahead of everyone else...and even ahead of themselves lol!
WELLBRAN 1 year ago
@toecutterr6 Different ages, different aesthetics. I wish I could get the digital clean and crisp version of that bass fuzz sound Hugh had in Pig and still haven't found anything comparable
lordkrandel 11 months ago
check out lullabye arcestra...theyre from toronto..weirdly enough i saw them play with a band who covered this exact song
itscrawford 2 years ago
Hum......They're english....from Canterbury......
DaedalusWolf 2 years ago
For a live recording of this trio check out the Paradiso 69 album (Voiceprint??) - mindblowing - as is this. Fucking awesome. Though I bet Ratledge & Hopper were pissed off with the camera drooling over Wyatt!
sabrinaeden 2 years ago
true, the paradiso album is pretty good, which is funny, since the band members originally didnt want it to be released, since they considered it a bad gig(Robert's singing is a bit rough, and Mike has technical difficulties with his organ every now and then). However, if you do ever get to hear any tapes of other 1969 trio gigs, I do think they are even better than the paradiso recording.
BassLudeman 2 years ago
Soft machine vol 4 is the best one and it was the very first LP I EVER bought I was 12!
WELLBRAN 2 years ago
Well every band has to have a front man. i do not think they were bothered
WELLBRAN 2 years ago
seems like modern jazz way ahead of their time! pioneers no doubt
steve89z 2 years ago
Why I haven't seen this yet is a mystery. Great performance of 10:30 Returns to The Bedroom. And I know it's Esther's Nose Job, it's part of the suite KNOWN as ENJ.
GilmoursAngst 2 years ago
ik moet ervan huilen, zo goed vind ik deze muziek
ReyZame 3 years ago
Thank you!!!!!!
Wormtongue13 3 years ago
Fabulous! I have known this tune for 35 years. To see it performed live is just amazing. Thanks so much.
MeTube77770 3 years ago
Ground breaking, and ahead of their time.
WELLBRAN 3 years ago 2
Great stuff. Robert Wyatt with one cymbal - that's all you need, you don't need crash cymbals - now all we've got to do is convince every other drummer. Was Hugh about to audition for a Shadows tribute band with that bass? Best band EVER. Sorry - I didn't mention Mike - as cool as ever on this.
NeilThompson30 3 years ago 3
Why is the bass rig mic'd up?
toecutterr6 3 years ago
hi hat too
smovlov 3 years ago
at least wyatt has a hihat too besides the ride cym, unlike keith moon!
progjazzfusion 3 years ago
Yeah. Drummers nowadays have huge sets with thousands of drums and cymbals and they can't play anything that would be even near Wyatt's playing.
gietek 3 years ago 6
Same as a beautifull woman she would still look great dressed in a sack!
WELLBRAN 2 years ago
Never seen this footage! Thanks. Power trio era...
Hulloder 3 years ago
HEAVY bass tone!
toecutterr6 3 years ago
so so so so good.
I just love everything about this band.
keep it coming!
bucksama 3 years ago
Love this specific and recognizable organ
MeinErsterFilm 3 years ago
Definitive Softs! Apart from the crazy title sections on Volume Two, largely to comply with record company protocol on shorter songs, the piece was simply known as Esther's Nose Job. As Sigkil says, check Paradiso 1969 for the killer trio live take, otherwise the BBC Sessions for the Big Band version!
sabrinaeden 3 years ago
Wyatt is one of the blackest white guys I've ever seen... if that makes sense. Coltrane would have dug him.
yeshead 3 years ago 5
awesome 7/4 i'd say jam but it's too tight. composition. yes. composition. i guess. sm stuff. awesome. whatever
JRL10040 3 years ago
Simply the best trio that ever lived. .
Bucky315 3 years ago
superb magic music
LFORSK 3 years ago
musica del futuro
mighine 3 years ago 2
"A Door Opens and Closes" followed by "10:30 Returns to the Bedroom". Both of them are sections off "Esther's Nosejob" suite.
stereom 3 years ago
Sounds like something off the Softs' second LP (it seems CD's are even longer playing), "A Door Opens and Closes."
dutchkensington 3 years ago
Do you have idea what's the name of this song? It's great.
mitharath 3 years ago
Esther's Nose Job
DaedalusWolf 3 years ago
Precious document. If you liked this I recommend the "Live at the Paradiso 1969" CD
sigkil 4 years ago
You are really great at digging up Wyatt-era Soft Machine clips I had no idea existed! From the quality it looks like this one has been kicking around for a while, but I'd certainly never heard of it (nor a lot of the other clips you've put up) before!
rushomancy 4 years ago