Soft Machine - I Should Have Known

Aka "Why Am I So Short?", as it was released on The Soft Machine, Vol. 1

Category:

Music

Tags:

• jazz
• fusion
• Wyatt
• Hopper
• Ratledge
• Ayers

[SovietTelevision]

Robert Wyatt = Greatest drummer ever. Huge loss when he was paralyzed.

[Cwal]

I wish I could find live music like this today -_-;

[thedroogfulable]

'pparently Jeff Mangum was a huge fan of these guys. Especially Robert Wyatt. I can see where he got inspiration for the fuzz.

[philipatoz]

And some may laugh, but the manic drumming and keyboard riffing here reminds me much of 1973-era Deep Purple jams, featuring Jon Lord and Ian Paice, yet about four years earlier. Add in some screeching rock vocals and fast melodic riffs on a Stratocaster, and you'd swear this SM track is Blackmore and Co.

[philipatoz]

Very interesting video post. First, I'm surprised at how intense, vigorous and nuanced Wyatt's drumming was (even though I have those first two albums, I never listen to them). I'm an enormous fan of the "Third" album through about Soft Machine "Seven." They lose me a bit in the fusion years, but I still can appreciate some of even that. In this track, I can see the Genesis of explorations they would later make with Ratledge's keyboard-driven explorations, albeit without their jazz influences.

[notnowjon]

2:00 un sacco di palle!!! XD XD

[Lurtzman1]

Robert Wyatt was epic! How does one have such a vocal range? In the beginning he's singing really high & then starts singing in a "normal" pitch. Not to mention the fact that he was such an amazing & underrated drummer. It's so unfortunate that he was effectively rendered unable to drum by his accident.

[softmachine42]

@tapsahtip he was drunk and fell off a balcony

[tapsahtip]

what paralysed him . . .?

[Adamboms]

Yup, definitely the best drummer ever.

[micheljch]

@SovietTelevision 4th floor - at Gilli Smyth's 40th birthday party

[nomenklaturahippie]

altro grande pezzo del loro repertorio........ immensi, irraggiungibili