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A very short lived line-up of the Soft Machine. Karl Jenkins is great on the oboe.

Kevin Ayers STARS one of my all time favourites

Some things that came out of the 60s were not so great

Robert WYatt King of drums

Schools telly. I wonder what department commisioned this.

I saw them once - they were supporting John Mayall in Gloucester - an afternoon gig, if you can believe that, but in a theatre, not an outside festival. I didn't understand them then, and I don't now. The bass seems out of time - but it's difficult to hear any time signature anyway, as Wyatt seems to spend most of the time either wailing or flailing like a madman at the hi-hat with timpani sticks. I hate all this weirdo-pseudo-academic stuff - it reminds me of Tonto's Expanding Headband, and other equally meaningless troupes that got under way at this time. The keyboard player acts as if he is so intellectually superior that he can't deign to play anything remotely melodic - just fast runs that go nowhere - and the guitarist just seems totally lost. This kind of introspective indulgence, ignoring any need in the audience for any kind of melody line, core rhythm or sequence of any sort, is what opened the door for Yes and all those appalling prog. rock bands who stood up there pretending they were being innovatory but just bombarding the audience with an unhinged progression of un-connected riffs, keys, time-signatures (if they had any) and incoherent, meaningless vocal wailing that really spelt 'PRETENTIOUS' - and 'If you don't understand what we're doing, then you're stupid/square/out of touch' etc. Put this against Miles Davis' 'Kind of Blue', and you have the perfect example of the Sublime vs. the Ridiculous.

ILEA - Inner Lysergic Energy Adventures.

Some real OG Progressive Jazz Rock, thanks for sharing.

mooiste ooit. Kevin. Paradiso Amsterdam> May I?

Sounds like ‘May I’. My KA favorite

N’ ganz ganz krasse Kollege!!!!!!!!!!!!!

IKEA has a TV Chanel ???????????!!!!!!!!!!!!!😂

☮ 1972.....

I wonder if he knew Nick Drake. Maybe they would have liked each other

Roy is absolutely worth the time

Kevin was my favorite. So sad that he’s gone. At least we have his songs. ❤️

❤‍🩹❤💖

An incredible performance, hard hitting

Facelift etc. from Third, this was the best Soft Machine ever. Almost in the jazz 'side' (Vol. II almost there also) but the inventive, repetitive electronics, clearly ahead of that time, made a diference from IV and V, which were almost only jazz but no fun at all. IMFO

I like the bit at the end. Where they stop.

ILEA = Inner London Education Authority - enlightened times!

Music for feeble minded

Great composer, performer. He Can turn anyone into a MoonJunista as long as they lie perfectly still --

Kevin es muy musical...es dios. Por millas muy superior a tantos interpretes. Gracias por hacer de tu música el soundtrack de mi vida.

How we miss this time of great creativity. The likes of talent of one man and his guitar has been lost in the mists of time. There never was a time like this (late 60s early 70s) before or afterwards (now) when music was so good. I am biased (lucky) because I 'came of age' during this period.

They're all the same guy, right?

it really is amazing. With infinite digital tracks and tricks today, it doesn't sound as good as just these 4 guys playing live

Utterly sublime...this should be the most watched thing on You Tube. Aspiring singer-songwriter-guitarists, this is what you need to be listening to to measure up...oh no, that's world's gone, hasn't it? Or has it? Stunning, gob-smacking vignette of a truly great artist at the top of his game.

❤😊

I think the phrase pretentious bullshit springs to mind

Um. Yeah, it still moves me.

Merci, je découvre ces enregistrements précieux J'adore Soft Machine depuis le début ❤️

🔥🔥🔥

Great music. Canterbury goes On

Carl Jenkins is a Sir now. Blimey.

They had already turned into a jazz band when Ayers and Allen were gone. The lineup that opened up for the Jimi Hendrix Experience is the proper band

Just been listening to 'drop' omg wow ..wheres all the live vids of this amazing band?

No conocia esta banda,grata sorpresa,lo bueno que son gracias por compartirla,saludos

Nice

Never heard of Third Ear before, I don't feel I missed out

This version of Soft Machine was the most satisfying musically in my opinion. My other impression, looking at this footage from more than 50 years ago - none of them had rockstar good-looks.

I never really “got” jazz improv in the 70’s. Listening to this fifty years on, I still don’t. But great piece of music history, and where Ayers was coming from, Clips of Ayers post Softs and before his solo work and Eno collaboration are few and far between, and cool to see Wyatt too. Thanks.

For everyone complaining in the comments, it gets good at 7:06

The Nucleus Machine.

They should've used Nik Turner instead.

I LOVE Wyatt, but -No... NOT Blown-away. This is pure Wankery!

It is so simple to get this annoying hiss off digitally nowadays. A spectrum analyzer vst would show the 3-4khz (or whatever) zone where the hiss peaks, pull that down with an equalizer. A 2 minute job

Jesus, in a world of plastic pop, we can still look back, just before the (musical) Cambrian explosion and see artists truly expressing themselves in dusty black and white telly studios. What a treat. Kevin Ayers was a genius.

Shame they only released three albums....

Nice!