juicerino (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

thanks so much for posting this.

tqd86 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

fag

friar124 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

He was not paraplegic at this time.

friar124 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

What about Caravan? They were number two, beating out Gong. Hehe. We all love these Canterbury guys, don't we?

CanterburyLSD (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

nice... Outside of Soft Machine and Gong,this was the third best band to come out of Canterbury!!

robbieman23 (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

As yet another guitarist I agree, the Softs were at their best with Ratlidge, Hopper and Wyatt.

eggymoo (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

not including Larry Nolan or Daevid Allen of course... I meant the later fusion guys, Holdsworth etc..

eggymoo (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Got to agree with that - Third was a pivotal album, I remember hearing John Peel's first broadcast of 'Moon in June'. Cataclysmic. My whole outlook on music was transformed. The later line-ups are just a different band, using the same name. Like Fleetwood Mac after Peter Green left! I'm a guitarist, but once they added guitar to the Soft Machine line up it was downhill from there !! Ha Ha!

gommecourt (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Robert was injured in an accident in May 1973, a year after this was recorded. Mole lasted from autumn 71 to Sept 72. He then went away to Venice with his lady, Alfie, who was working on the film 'Don't Look Now', and wrote the music that became 'Rock Bottom'. A new version of Mole started to rehearse this music a few days before the accident. The band would have consisted of Francis Monkman (Curved Air), sax player Gary Windo and previous Mole bass player Bill MacCormick.

cordedpoodle (December 31, 1969 at 5:59 pm)

Robert is clearly using his legs here on the high hat and the bass drum. Soft Machine was terribly under rated. Also liked Daevid Allen from original SM who went on to coform Gong.