Soft Machine live 1967 - (excerpt)

[MrSkynbone]

LOVE the intro, could've went into some great early industrial there.

[danielexr]

0:10 I thought there was a fattie on the drums :-D

[vashna3799]

the ultimate underground rock band of the 60's

[BarryTones]

siroen, im so glad that you put this memorable selection of clips, thought that was lost & gone except in my head! made an old geezer very happy :)

[GOORVY]

I want to be like mike!!

[MrShuggieTodd]

I never thought I could see more out-there organ playing than Chick Corea's during the 1969 Bitches Brew tour. Ratledge is clearly a pioneer !!

[hazardous541]

i like this tension

[Pyth8]

This was a revelation!



[pinkfloydesbassman]

PERFECT BAND!

[teddyrugg]

Awesome footage of one of the very best always innovative truly original

[spiralcosmosart]

There needs to be some kind of revival of the old school LSD rock and Roll keyboard sounds that mike ratledge, Ray Manzarak (of the doors), and Rick Wright of Pink Floyd captured.

[kingocto]

kevin ayers, the suckiest soft machine member of them all..

[rockerjimmy]

coolest video on youtube

[killahsista]

3 people took too much drugs and clicked the wrong button.

[WELLBRAN]

When I was 15 I got my first wage packet and I bought Soft Machine Vol 2 that was my first Album...still got it, and thats why my family think I am strange and wierd..I am now 55 and I do not care!...lol 65 to 75 was amazing for music until punk killed everything... by the eighties it was all gone. But due to the internet many people can relive and discover music such as this....Fantastic

[DDBB2012]

Mike is an exquisite beast on any instrument he plays! love his hair too!

[buttawitz]

iM DEPRESSED ABOUT LIVING IN THESE TIMES IN EVERYWAY POSSIBLE. AMERICA AND MAYBE BRITIAN I DONT KNOW NEVER BEEN THERE BUT EVERYTHING I FEEL AND LIKE IS 70'S LITTLE 80'S I WAS B0RN IN FREAKIN 69 I MISSED EVERYTHING SO IM LIVING IN THROUGH TIME TRAVEL LIKE THIS VIDEO

PUT ME ON DISABILITY TOO

[maurtene]

I like R. Wyatt more than J. Bonham. I am fan for Zeppelin but I still not have heard in a Zeppelin album the exquisite drums who are in the first album of Soft Machine. I prefer G. Baker too, than J. Bohham. He have a similar style to R. Wyatt.

[CHUCKLOVES1969]

okay...i saw hendrix, the who..& the kinks 3x's,,the beatles..stones...arthur brown

to big mama thorton...and i prided mysel,f as knowing a hell of alot about the 60's.

but i never knew who the fuck the SOFT machine were...i always wondered,(thinking it was a secret name hendrix called his band?). but i really never knew. well.....i'm not as smart as i thought i was....go figure.

[greatsea]

Soft Machine is finally getting the recognition they have always more than deserved. There were so many people 10 years ago who had never heard of them but who are now 'soft-heads'. It is ashamed Hugh Hopper died just as his popularity was beginning to explode. In a sense right now is their golden period.

[dannyhood66]

@greatsea Hugh hopper still had more fun back in the 60's underground i'm almost sure about that..But yeah,''he would enjoy these up and coming kids that are taking the time to appreciate this great experimental time of his music and this era of psyilosiben silly putty, slinky string,and pretending there are no strings, therefore they are not to slip off during this time capsule,'monarch of a musical period..Damn it!! Spell checks off again? I don't understand this computer shit sometimes?

[communty]

swert sandals man

[kitsume25]

thats killer sound you fucking idiots

[anonymusum]

This isn´t avantgarde, this is just a boring jam session - but paid and recorded, that´s the only difference.

[natmac81]

Better than Bonham?????Ithink you smoke too much of the same shit these guys did!!!!!

[dannyhood66]

@natmac81 I can believe that man! !aH That shit must have been laced with PCP or something? hA!

'Must be laced with PCP or something

[dannyhood66]

@dannyhood66 Oh shit! 'Im hearing and seeing double??

[WELLBRAN]

@natmac81 Led Zep were good but they tapped into the rock band thing and nothing wrong with that but these guys were experimental in everyway, light years ahead of everyone else, Wyatt and bonham were 2 different drummers and it might sound to you like they were on something mind expanding but it was reisky and dangerous experiments with music wyatt is still alive and has been in a wheelchair for years but still makng music so he was not out of his head as you suggest.

[RalphMarx]

french TV were for runners for the avant garde bands , thats why the french are so ripped off as being beatnik weirdos hehehe

i love them for that ,

[burgersoft777]

Don't get me wrong I like the Soft Machine but Kevins eye make up makes me think of spinal tap and their Jazz odyssey .

[theo9952]

prog rock for ever !

[brunomcrispim]

wyatt is better than bonzo

i'm kiding

but he could be

[vandergraaf78]

I think you are right...Wyatt is better than Bonhan. Many drummers are better than Bonham. He was very overrated.

[dannyhood66]

@vandergraaf78 Hey man,'' its like these guys are are killer at improvised experimental music and really good song writers also im sure of it..But john bonham is one of few overrated drummers that flat out deserves all the credit and respect that he gets..You know when its bonham playing the drums..Not just on the solid shit either..He flat out shreds even when jimmy page was all over the place!,.Page of course, playing accordingly to his wonderful sedated mental state he functioned on daily.

[DucdeCroissy]

French TV was good quality at that time

[cshaw419]

awesome.

[disannAPP]

0:48...bend-and-stretch-bend-a­nd-stretch...

[disannAPP]

Sorray again, 1:44

[disannAPP]

I just say 0:58, 1:02, 1:27, 1:36 and 1:46

[mikimcal]

Ratledge and Wyatt were so creative!! Ayers is great on more melodic pieces, but kind of blah on this one. But it's great to see this video of a great band I've never got to see perform live.

Thanks for posting this.

[shoober616]

ya right kevin ayers was a sweet bassist. his basslines on volume one are really groovy. and if u dont like them u suck.

[barrabas600]

many people like soft machine but when it comes to jazz they hate it.

[McMunchy]

Actually I love the later work, haha. I mean the lineup shifted completely over time, but I have always liked the sound, and Ratledge is fantastic--not to mention Wyatt, Ayers, Allen.. the lot!

[ChannelLightVessel]

I definitely like this. It's a shame about the points where everything cuts out. Is there more?

[BRailman]

I LOVE THIS VIDEO

[FelixLeeArtist]

0:05 early noise?

[bobgreen623]

we all know how brilliant Ratledge and Wyatt were, but Kev's bass-playing is a revelation too, he is great!!

[ministercreek]

These guys were musical genisis if you ask me.

Very talented. No question about that.

[kocisko]

And no questions will ever be rised!

Just signing my name, under what you have said!

Brilliant - indeed!

[eltiodeaca]

whoa dnb, forty years before

[twolunches]

right out there! amazing to think it's 67 when they did this. What a contrast to Sergeant Peppers and all the rest of the psychadelic stuff.

[ozzymandi]

This is the stuff, Today's "music "is mostly soulless garbage made by "musical" eunuchs.

[ozzymandi]

priapus56

Yes,you're dam right !

Couldn't have put it better myself.

[garygomesg]

Pure energy...this was when Ratledge was strongly influenced by Cecil Taylor--wonderful, wonderful, wonderful.

[punkrockefeller]

acid rock.

[priapus56]

When I watch this, I am so FUCKING depressed. Those days were just OUTTA SIGHT! I wanna live again. Why did I have to get stuck in my autumn years in the most shittest artistic period of the last 100 years...

[egdoh]

It could be worse...you could be in the prime of your life and have to live in the banality of todays period, in love with this quality music but being looked upon as if your insane, and not insane in a artistic way...RW is my altime inspiration..

[kenfig]

@priapus56 sadly for us all we only get one bite ; at least you had one in a time you liked.You coulda been in the middle ages- that WOULD have been ALL shit

[eamonosu]

@priapus56 Hey the answer is obvious, we need a music theme park with all the acts from the 50s onwards performing nightly in 3d, and everyone must attend in period costume ;D

[killuminati63]

@priapus56 gotta love the 50 cent rapcrap :P

[Xuivonae]

@priapus56 may be the cause that you are afraid, so make music of your own

[tommy8247]

@priapus56

pandora soft amchine and see what new music comes up that may inspire you. just have to dig - it's out there.

[erocker2020]

@priapus56 I can name soo many good bands out now. Great bands. If you are open to it and not always comparing it to stuff from your youth. Here's a few. watch?v=SzOIw-NsG9M - watch?v=TZx6fgN6Wh8&feature=re­lated - watch?v=JUhpzyun8SE - watch?v=a4HvIwhDRsM - watch?v=4r_xJO_s-mE&feature=re­lated - watch?v=NkE1SH5Llxk&feature=re­lated. Its all a matter of perspective. I think this is a wonderful time for music and art, but its hidden now. Its not on the radio for the most part.

[duckman531]

@priapus56 This is from back when musicians took chances! Remember those days???

[The0ManJam]

@priapus56 There is, 'Hope for Happiness'! Check out 'The "O" Man Jam channel.

Bandleader Ted Monaghan is also in the 'Reading Festival' of his years and his band decided

to got to it themselves and play to the zeitgeist of Proggie creativity.

Best

Jared

[filsdumetal1971]

"Soft Machine","Gong","Magma(christi­an vander) THE GREATEST !!!!!!

[shoober616]

this is free jazzy as fuck i love it

[PsyHector]

No pues esta si es una rolota! wonderful track, la onda es ke ni se komo se llama, ojala alguien pueda decir!

[mcnowski]

AWESOME AWESOME loved the make up to!

[Anorakus]

Far out man :)

I can't help think of Spinal Tap's Jazz Odyssey :)

"On the drums, Robert Wyatt... he wrote this..."

[SpaceRitual]

I loled. Great jam.

[JohnnyRocketFingers]

I very desperatly need to know what this is, just a jam in the studio? part of a song? please help..

[shoober616]

this is deff an improv jam

[slalomluke]

I wish there were more albums with this line up. Soft Machine is almost always quite excellent though.

[shoob3r]

i think kevin ayers "joy for a toy revisited" has at least robert w. and kevin playing 2gether made for that reason of wat soft machines 2nd ablum would sound like if kevin stayed instead of hopper joining for the 2nd

[chaspagano]

joyous footage. is this commercially available on some eurodisk or something?

thanks!

[violinbloke]

Brilliant. What a drummer Robert was.

[threeby8887]

BRAIN!!!

In other words, this is some of the mostwonderful music I have heard.

[Mickdog2112]

Kevin Ayers in Soft Machine - the way it should be.

[tacomatic0]

no offense to kevin, but IMO, hugh hopper was much better and more creative.

[JazzSheep]

Kevin Ayers went on to have one of the longest and most creative solo careers of any British musician of the period. See Shooting At The Moon, Whatervershebringswesing and Bananamour for evidence. To me, the only person who was a better musician than him in Soft Machine was Robert Wyatt. Hopper's great, but he couldn't write like Kevin, and Mike Ratledge has fantastic skill, but I can't help but think that he was the one who brought Soft Machine down into jazz wank territory most of the time.

[LFORSK]

incredible amazing superb acid fantastic psycadelical trip

[glitchesandglitter]

robert looks amazing in that getup. makes me want to go back into the 60's just for that atire.

[TheZanyFilmCompany]

grazie

[Mickdog2112]

Reminiscent of Sacuerful Of Secrets by the Floyd. Love this stuff.

[Bossk14]

way before though!

[Mickdog2112]

Only about a year before the Floyd wrote Saucerful.

[lamecasuelas]

yeah youre right!

[DionysianOne]

That's funny, because this song would be a good transition piece to go from Interstellar Overdrive to Saucerful of Secrets. I think it'd fit right in between the two quite well.

[Mickdog2112]

Man that is AWESOME.

[byrds09]

かっこええ（・д・）

[zauezo16]

solo grazie

[locutus43]

the thungs that you find on youtube...amazing.

i saw'em a couple of month ago, it was a pretty decent show.

[locutus43]

the thungs that you find on youtube...amazing.

i saw'em a couple of month ago, it was a pretty decent show.

[mogwai32]

excellent !!!!

[leptonlunatic]

dude this is killer footage, your my hero for the next 5 minutes because you posted this

[inthemousetrap]

the machine is on fire!!!!!!!!!!

[mtopper66]

OMIGOD this is *superb*....so rare, and so brilliant!!!!! Thanks a million! Long live Youtube!!!!

[DarkZehn]

LA epoca psicodelica del soft machine y mike ratledge se ve weird

[Reinisen]

AAAAAAAAAhhhhhhhhh!!!! What the fuck is this? Hoped something else than the Belgian ´68 footage would exist and her´tis!

[Bucky315]

This is absolutely FANTASTIC!! Thanks for the post. The audio quality of this is so much better than the other early Soft Machine videos. Dig Mikes teased hair! Post MORE!!!

[carlotta8]

merci... c'est un GRAND PLAISIR DE VOIR ET D'ECOUTER CE GROUPE. MERCI

[berthy75]

enooooooooorme !!!

merci 100000000 fois !