The bands of Canterbury scene make me very proud to be from there :) listen to Lapis Lazuli a band I used to play in, they're very good and keeping prog alive in this neck of the woods!
I think he means the *Syd, Roger, Rick and Nick-PINK FLOYD* - Must be the grandious, congenial first line-up,.....before his LSD- excesses sadly turned Syd's fantastic brain into pudding and ruined his body. Robert mentions here the other progressive and rebellion rock groups of the london club scene that stood in frienship- contact with Soft Machine. Kevin Ayers ( founding member of SOFT MACHINE and later in solo projects) and CARAVAN were fellow mates of SOFT MACHINE from the legendary "CANTERBURY SCENE" and there was a constant coming and going in the line-ups of the bands between all of these musicians! - They were all friends and knew each other quite good, because they often played at the same evemings at places like the legendary "UFO CLUB" "Speakeasy", the "Marquee Club", which by that tines were real temples of revolutionary sound experiments and early psychedeiic light shows"! - The whole lyrics of this version is a bitter ironical reckonning with the music industry. Its much more then a great song - its a precious time document of the so called "Swinging London" of the last days of the 60ties and the fall of the experiments of the european hipster-, beatnik-, hippie- and early psychedelic era ( approx. between 1965 and 1970). *Here is something about *the historical background* of this recording/ version of "The moon in june" for those who are interested ( ....that what i learned about it...):* I heared there had been big trouble, because Soft Machine should present "TMIJ" "live on BBC-broadcast" at the John Peel show - The BBC was terrible conservative at that time and did everything to suppress rebellic bands, refused to broadcast groups or songs/ titles that stood in confronation to the "clean establishment" and the shallow entertainment radio of these days! - So Robert Wyatt, who was always in his whole lifetime a real engaged "straight left-wing" rebel - in music as well as in politics - decided to present a new long version of "The moon....", which in the album-original was an instrumental - with a harsh critical vocal part, in which he straightly attacked the BBC, and present THIS at SOFT MACHINES appearance at the John Peel show! Must be a real "earthquake" and Robert, SOFT MACHINE and John Peel got a big bunch of massive trouble with the BBC bosses when it was broadcasted!! This to know a bit about the circumstances of the release 8f this epic version of "TMIJ"... GREETZ, Lincoln Six Echo"
To my girlfriend, Kevin, Caravan, and the old Pink Floyd are just band/artist names that she only listens to when I put them on... to me, it is a lifestyle (as is Soft Machine, of course)
really marvelous this version of Moon in June, for the assemblage of the riffs, for the arrangement, for its performance and finally, even more, for the divine scratchy voice of Robert Wyatt, unique, at least for me
See, hear this, all you "gear freaks" of the TH-cam world. ... you don' t need a HAMMOND thru a LESLIE-CABINET or a FENDER RHODES E-PIANO to create great sounds ... here it is Mike Ratledge, a cheap hohner pianet and a somehow distorted small, also cheap farfisa or even lowrey organ ... - its the player....and his musical genius and fantasy, thats all ....
Passano gli anni, le sensazioni restano sempre uguali, sempre diverse. Il grande bardo continua a far vibrare le corde più sensibili del nostro animo. Robert, grazie della tua esistenza. Sei nella mia anima e nel mio cuore.
I saw the Softs a few times. Watford Town hall - 1st time I ever saw a drum solo with BARE HANDS on a drum kit. Third Album was the best although Second album was excellent. I remember see them at University College London. I was so close to the stage I was looking over Mike Ratclidge head reading his music and notes. Also had a nice chat with Elton Dean when I saw them in Coventry.
beside the wonderful Music arrangement,...the lyrics here show the extra ordinary level they were these days,..and stayed there,... here in the BBC,..and everywhere
What a crime that Mike and Hugh ousted Robert from his own band only to go on to make increasingly less soulful music (please forgive awkward "increasingly less" construction). God how I love this version! Thanks for posting.
I had the misfortune to see them late last year (December? 2019) - as their first tune got underway the woman seated next to me recoiled in horror... The ONLY gig I've ever left half-way through in disgust. Unfortunately, the Softs (as they are now) play exactly what turned the punks away from most of the music before them, musical masturbation for their own pleasure with no thought for either other participants or their paying audience. If only Robert, Kevin and Daevid could have formed a band together - Oh, hang on, they did, it was glorious while it lasted!
Weird thing is despite Wyatt going on about how much he loved pop and didn't want to play the experimental complex stuff the other guys wrote, he went and made even weirder stuff with Matching Mole. Those Matching Mole records are more far out and experimental than a lot of the tunes in third and fourth which were pretty normal structurally.
I’m with you. At the time there was this obsession with moving to the next level of musical intricacy. But IMO its increasingly cerebral nature is what killed modern jazz. I know their motivation here was to pay the rent, but for me this is the high point of the Softies’ capricious flirtation with pop. It is unmatched.
Sublime version, Roberts ad lib lyrics brilliant. I used to have this on a SM collection called 'triple echoes' which sadly you can't buy anymore, so nice post.
Proveniente de lo que sin duda fue una época sin igual en la cultura...una época donde los genios musicales se daban a montones...volverá a haber una época igual? ;-{D
Robert Wyatt a joué tous les instruments sur la première partie de Moon in June, Mike Ratledge ayant refusé de participer à cette pièce. Ce fut sa dernière chanson sur un disque de Soft Machine.
Music making still performs the normal functions: background noise for people eating and talking and drinking and smoking and that's alright by us. Don't think that we're complaining. After all, it's only leisure time isn't it?
Heard this when it first went out on my old valve radiogram in my teenage bedroom on a summer Sunday afternoon...and that perfect Ratledge solo when he kicks it in, meshing with Robert's drums and Hugh's bass now brings a tear to the eye.. A band caught at their peak. (But I have a strong feeling there was a previous session to this one containing another version of Moon in June that has never been released..)
Me too - my mate's huge old valve radiogram saw this track captured by me on a borrowed Phillips reel-to-reel tape recorder - released years later (2003) on Hux Records HUX037 as a 2-cd set -'Soft Machine BBC Radio - 1967 - 1971'. I saw them live at one of the few Parliament Hill Free Concerts, London, summer 1969 - on a high for a few days afterwards! Then tracked down the records (Volume 1 available in the UK only after Volume II, as I remember), a stonking gig at Cooksferry Inn, Edmonton, and various South Bank and Fairfield Halls concerts. Volume II and this track surely one of the highlights of the entire prog era - along with Beatle's Sergeant Pepper and The Nice's 'Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack'. So much ground-breaking music in the air back then...….that bands in subsequent decades - with the exception of Sheffield's 'The Comsat Angels - really a bit of a let-down...…. Norway's Terje Rypdal took over the flame from Hendrix, the best of his stuff being quite brilliant...……..and don't miss out on Peter Banks - who played at that same Parliament Hill concert with Yes. The three 'Flash' albums are not perfect but unmissable for guitarists, as is the flawed but fab 'Flash In Public'. But let's look forward too - check out blues guitarist Samantha Fish, who is coming up with great ideas and great playing, not yet properly captured on record. But I'm watching...……….
think i read somewhere that the band worked out the arrangement/lyrics literally while hanging about at the BBC...... one thing's for sure and that's wyatt's vocal delivery & drumming are more staightforward than much of his other stuff around this time.... also, this was the version picked up for the TRIPLE ECHO box set years later much to the joy of one john peel !
Hugh did later realise what had gone wrong, as by 1972 the music didn't exactly have the quirky and weird qualities he had in mind. So he went on for a solo career and other projects, including a fairly soulful performance on Wyatt's first (post-accident) solo record "Rock Bottom". However, Robert HAS admitted he was not an easy guy to get on with circa 4th LP, as he admitted being "drunk and arrogant" and as he was walking off during some of the numbers, no wonder they wanted a new drummer!
Beh, si..La Macchina Morbida. Anche se la concezione musicale di Ratledge non era esattamente morbida, avendo digerito pure le unghie di Cecil Taylor ed assorbito certe "angolarità" compositive di T. Monk, stemperate dalla sicura conoscenza di Bill Evans e le modalità di John Coltrane. Il suo errore fu quello di "congedare" Wyatt. Mancò, al complesso, la sua geniale sensibilità. Ci qualche buona prova fino al 1973, ma intanto era arrivato Jenkins...con Ratledge che si era stancato. Fine.
john peel was bbc greatest n most influential radio dj!!! ,, .. imvho fr curtz )( jinntendo pun for your conenience n )( hope fuelly pleasure jowlso ,,, ... note the infra-joeKING LIVE on radio 3!!! HaH infra-chokked virtually on CHU-chube ,,, ... ..........
The most touching singer of all time (with peter Hammill)...don't just open your ears try to open your hearts ...you probably can't so i wish you the suffering it needs to open it...the rest is writing bullshit of your egos that try to be interesting with srupid comments despite your extraordinary names.... LOL
![SOFT MACHINE - Moon in June ["BBC Peel Sessions" version - about 1970 (maybe June '69)]](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/lfZj_H1WjtA/mqdefault.jpg)
The best version of Moon In June, I think ! Truly amazing...
Dude your so right. Canterbury scene was a great time in progressive rock history
Idem
The bands of Canterbury scene make me very proud to be from there :) listen to Lapis Lazuli a band I used to play in, they're very good and keeping prog alive in this neck of the woods!
Absolutely
Si, è vero, questa della BBC è la migliore versione di Moon in June, perché unisce il mondo di Robert Wyatt con la sensibilità jazzistica di Ratledge.
God, I could listen to that first 20 seconds on loop for eternity. Such a mesmerizing tune!
Dioavlo
With this performance we get a glimpse of what Rattlege 😊is capable of.
Robert Wyatt is one of the greatest drummers of all times.
Best version ever. Epic underrated track
i love how he's just rambling about stuff for most of the song.
I remember reading that Robert Wyatt ad lib'd most of the song especially for the Peel Show.
So true, the final lyrics are completely different! Robert was a genius
"Kevin, Caravan and the old Pink Floyd".
I think he means the *Syd, Roger, Rick and Nick-PINK FLOYD* - Must be the grandious, congenial first line-up,.....before his LSD- excesses sadly turned Syd's fantastic brain into pudding and ruined his body.
Robert mentions here the other progressive and rebellion rock groups of the london club scene that stood in frienship- contact with Soft Machine. Kevin Ayers ( founding member of SOFT MACHINE and later in solo projects) and CARAVAN were fellow mates of SOFT MACHINE from the legendary "CANTERBURY SCENE" and there was a constant coming and going in the line-ups of the bands between all of these musicians! - They were all friends and knew each other quite good, because they often played at the same evemings at places like the legendary "UFO CLUB" "Speakeasy", the "Marquee Club", which by that tines were real temples of revolutionary sound experiments and early psychedeiic light shows"! -
The whole lyrics of this version is a bitter ironical reckonning with the music industry. Its much more then a great song - its a precious time document of the so called "Swinging London" of the last days of the 60ties and the fall of the experiments of the european hipster-, beatnik-, hippie- and early psychedelic era ( approx. between 1965 and 1970).
*Here is something about *the historical background* of this recording/ version of "The moon in june" for those who are interested ( ....that what i learned about it...):*
I heared there had been big trouble, because Soft Machine should present "TMIJ" "live on BBC-broadcast" at the John Peel show - The BBC was terrible conservative at that time and did everything to suppress rebellic bands, refused to broadcast groups or songs/ titles that stood in confronation to the "clean establishment" and the shallow entertainment radio of these days!
- So Robert Wyatt, who was always in his whole lifetime a real engaged "straight left-wing" rebel - in music as well as in politics - decided to present a new long version of "The moon....", which in the album-original was an instrumental - with a harsh critical vocal part, in which he straightly attacked the BBC, and present THIS at SOFT MACHINES appearance at the John Peel show!
Must be a real "earthquake" and Robert, SOFT MACHINE and John Peel got a big bunch of massive trouble with the BBC bosses when it was broadcasted!!
This to know a bit about the circumstances of the release 8f this epic version of "TMIJ"...
GREETZ,
Lincoln Six Echo"
The Softs also appeared on Syd Barrett's The Madcap Laughs on a couple of tracks.
To my girlfriend, Kevin, Caravan, and the old Pink Floyd are just band/artist names that she only listens to when I put them on... to me, it is a lifestyle (as is Soft Machine, of course)
really marvelous this version of Moon in June, for the assemblage of the riffs, for the arrangement, for its performance and finally, even more, for the divine scratchy voice of Robert Wyatt, unique, at least for me
His voice wasn't "scratchy", it was, well...plaintive.
See, hear this, all you "gear freaks" of the TH-cam world. ... you don' t need a HAMMOND thru a LESLIE-CABINET or a FENDER RHODES E-PIANO to create great sounds ... here it is Mike Ratledge, a cheap hohner pianet and a somehow distorted small, also cheap farfisa or even lowrey organ ... - its the player....and his musical genius and fantasy, thats all ....
Love it, arguably the best version of Moon In June; though Third's version still holds a place in my heart.
Passano gli anni, le sensazioni restano sempre uguali, sempre diverse. Il grande bardo continua a far vibrare le corde più sensibili del nostro animo. Robert, grazie della tua esistenza. Sei nella mia anima e nel mio cuore.
I saw the Softs a few times. Watford Town hall - 1st time I ever saw a drum solo with BARE HANDS on a drum kit. Third Album was the best although Second album was excellent. I remember see them at University College London. I was so close to the stage I was looking over Mike Ratclidge head reading his music and notes. Also had a nice chat with Elton Dean when I saw them in Coventry.
Marvellous !
Definitive version. Fantastic.
+pop gun favorate soft machine track.
This song is just a big ad for BBC and I love it!
Oh, how I love this song!!
One of my all-time favorite Soft Machine songs. Love Wyatt's vocals (and drumming!) on this one.
I remember listening to this live on John Peel way back when and recording it on my reel to reel as I always did for Top Gear!
So did I on my grandfathers reel to reel one sunday afternoon
Me too. Top Gear was a must-listen. Despite it's extraordinary name.
Snap and snap, except my Dad bought me a Grundig reel to reel!
wonderful❤I had Robert Wyatt's Rock Bottoms beautiful record jacket .but sad
The voice, the lyrics, the music, the pattern shifts...a unique trip! Only Soft Machine could do it!
I love it and I love both versions equally ( Third version.....Hammond organ in Soft Machine played by Robert Wyatt is fantastic)
One of my favourite intros ever. Robert Wyatt was an awesome drummer.
soft machine, machine molle...puissante
soft machine, the music they must play at my funeral, at least they will have to stay and listen 😳
I love this tune! ❤
By far the heaviest lowrey solo i ve ever heard of Mike. Amazing version. Im glad i can find this material on TH-cam. Thanks for sharing
indeed ..Mike was topping his (already usually) amazing performancies on that day ... must be because of the very special "Moon in June"
beside the wonderful Music arrangement,...the lyrics here show the extra ordinary level they were these days,..and stayed there,... here in the BBC,..and everywhere
I listen to this every full moon in June , tonight !
@3.22... As a kid this always made me feel wonderful. What a segment.
What a crime that Mike and Hugh ousted Robert from his own band only to go on to make increasingly less soulful music (please forgive awkward "increasingly less" construction). God how I love this version! Thanks for posting.
I had the misfortune to see them late last year (December? 2019) - as their first tune got underway the woman seated next to me recoiled in horror... The ONLY gig I've ever left half-way through in disgust.
Unfortunately, the Softs (as they are now) play exactly what turned the punks away from most of the music before them, musical masturbation for their own pleasure with no thought for either other participants or their paying audience.
If only Robert, Kevin and Daevid could have formed a band together - Oh, hang on, they did, it was glorious while it lasted!
They just wanted to take different paths, like they 2/3 of the band, also "less soulful" lmao don't try to take sides on such an old problem mate
Weird thing is despite Wyatt going on about how much he loved pop and didn't want to play the experimental complex stuff the other guys wrote, he went and made even weirder stuff with Matching Mole. Those Matching Mole records are more far out and experimental than a lot of the tunes in third and fourth which were pretty normal structurally.
Let's not forget Kevin and Daevid!
I’m with you. At the time there was this obsession with moving to the next level of musical intricacy. But IMO its increasingly cerebral nature is what killed modern jazz. I know their motivation here was to pay the rent, but for me this is the high point of the Softies’ capricious flirtation with pop. It is unmatched.
luved the band 30 y itp n still do ...
So good i played it thrice.
the best version-deeply moving and somehow nostalgic before its time-Robert wyatt and the arrangement simply shines.
Really remarkable version! Also if "Third" version got a lifetime special place in my heart...
This version of TMIJ has been released on the "Triple Echoe" (3 record vinyl compilation) album. Much better than the definite version on "Third".
Unforgetable Triple Echo!... 😌
Sublime version, Roberts ad lib lyrics brilliant. I used to have this on a SM collection called 'triple echoes' which sadly you can't buy anymore, so nice post.
hi Phill, you are not the only one, i too got this "triple echoes" LP since over 35 years.....so many good songs on that LP, memories ..is my favorite
Great Lyrics by Robert!
nice chap that Robert wyatt,and what a voice..just oozes soul!
So good. So good.
Proveniente de lo que sin duda fue una época sin igual en la cultura...una época donde los genios musicales se daban a montones...volverá a haber una época igual? ;-{D
Tienes un problema evidente con la pornografía.
Robert Wyatt a joué tous les instruments sur la première partie de Moon in June, Mike Ratledge ayant refusé de participer à cette pièce. Ce fut sa dernière chanson sur un disque de Soft Machine.
Quite wonderful - I remember listening to this live. SF at their best.
best version around imho
the Bilzen Jazz and Pop Festival version is definitely up there
Thanx
this is beautiful...
Humans categorize .. So as a musician from LA. I say.. RW is the most expanded creative English multitasking musician.. My fav.
Amazing version
That. Is. SO. Awesome.
Thanks a lot for this video!!
Music making still performs the normal functions: background noise for people eating and talking and drinking and smoking and that's alright by us. Don't think that we're complaining. After all, it's only leisure time isn't it?
Najlepszy kawał muzyki jaki w życiu słyszałem.
I shant say,
one more word
so instead I'll play drums...
That Ratledge solo!
Mind-blowing🌺
the ending is so powerful and pataphysic
Unique voice ! . Fantastic sound !
Indeed, I think the highest quality of the peel session lineup
best version
Awe i love it ❤
why is john peel always lurking behind my music?
Rise and Shine
Heard this when it first went out on my old valve radiogram in my teenage bedroom on a summer Sunday afternoon...and that perfect Ratledge solo when he kicks it in, meshing with Robert's drums and Hugh's bass now brings a tear to the eye.. A band caught at their peak.
(But I have a strong feeling there was a previous session to this one containing another version of Moon in June that has never been released..)
Me too - my mate's huge old valve radiogram saw this track captured by me on a borrowed Phillips reel-to-reel tape recorder - released years later (2003) on Hux Records HUX037 as a 2-cd set -'Soft Machine BBC Radio - 1967 - 1971'. I saw them live at one of the few Parliament Hill Free Concerts, London, summer 1969 - on a high for a few days afterwards! Then tracked down the records (Volume 1 available in the UK only after Volume II, as I remember), a stonking gig at Cooksferry Inn, Edmonton, and various South Bank and Fairfield Halls concerts.
Volume II and this track surely one of the highlights of the entire prog era - along with Beatle's Sergeant Pepper and The Nice's 'Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack'. So much ground-breaking music in the air back then...….that bands in subsequent decades - with the exception of Sheffield's 'The Comsat Angels - really a bit of a let-down...…. Norway's Terje Rypdal took over the flame from Hendrix, the best of his stuff being quite brilliant...……..and don't miss out on Peter Banks - who played at that same Parliament Hill concert with Yes. The three 'Flash' albums are not perfect but unmissable for guitarists, as is the flawed but fab 'Flash In Public'.
But let's look forward too - check out blues guitarist Samantha Fish, who is coming up with great ideas and great playing, not yet properly captured on record. But I'm watching...……….
yes
think i read somewhere that the band worked out the arrangement/lyrics literally while hanging about at the BBC......
one thing's for sure and that's wyatt's vocal delivery & drumming are more staightforward than much of his other stuff around this time....
also, this was the version picked up for the TRIPLE ECHO
box set years later much to the joy of one john peel !
yes thx a lot
Thank you Kyle for this upload!
Epic .
ouch, that's what I get for blasting the volume 11:25
this is music
that moment when you have to give the thumb up to 667 likes. Great track!
Hugh did later realise what had gone wrong, as by 1972 the music didn't exactly have the quirky and weird qualities he had in mind. So he went on for a solo career and other projects, including a fairly soulful performance on Wyatt's first (post-accident) solo record "Rock Bottom". However, Robert HAS admitted he was not an easy guy to get on with circa 4th LP, as he admitted being "drunk and arrogant" and as he was walking off during some of the numbers, no wonder they wanted a new drummer!
Thanks. I'd never heard Robert talk about where HE was at during the time of his ouster.
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the greatest bad singer on the planet
Kyle Donaldson I've always thought him the baddest great singer on the planet. Just goes to show ya...
+Sublime Music Channel agreed him and Joe Strummer
+Kyle Donaldson drummer first and singer two !
The BEST bad singer of all time!
Nearly as bad as Bieber or GaGa :)
❤
this is so cute
лучшее исполнение!
This comment section has no jojo references, Impressive.
Kono giorno Giovanna niwa yume ga aru
Like the band it was referenced to, the Stand Soft Machine is greatly underrated
You jinxed it
I love this, but wtf happened at 11:26?
or an oooorchestra on radio 3... rob has my favorite vocal timbre of anyone
unlike Joe Strummer, Robert Wyatt could sing but chose this style after a while. those early soft machine and wildflowers singles proved as such.
Joe Strummer is NOT a musician !
How is Joe Strummer NOT a musician?
helmuthb he is literally a musician. A solid one as well.
They know how to make the hairs on my neck respond!
I think this reminds me a little of Genesis.
Well, it's progressive. But they are more honest, pure genius.
No, non era rock-progressivo, era quella particolare musica delle parti di Canterbury. I Soft Machine non non hanno mai cercato sonorità neoclassiche.
ahhhh what happens at 11:25 :( Malfunction :/ Someone upload the vinyl!!
Only Rob Wyatt .... to all our friends like Kevin (Ayres), Caravan and the old Pink Floyd ....
Lyrics and music...by Bob Wyatt.
Wait so did he just make up the lyrics as he went along?
James Marks for the most part. He uses some of the studio phrases but is really going off the top
@3.22
Beh, si..La Macchina Morbida. Anche se la concezione musicale di Ratledge non era esattamente morbida, avendo digerito pure le unghie di Cecil Taylor ed assorbito certe "angolarità" compositive di T. Monk, stemperate dalla sicura conoscenza di Bill Evans e le modalità di John Coltrane. Il suo errore fu quello di "congedare" Wyatt. Mancò, al complesso, la sua geniale sensibilità. Ci qualche buona prova fino al 1973, ma intanto era arrivato Jenkins...con Ratledge che si era stancato. Fine.
plus... what's to dislike (apart from the ads, hien?)
proprio il contrario di software durissimi agghiaccianti delle computermachines con cui siamo alle prese...:)
Bel commento!
Ate several grams UFOs listening to this
4:04 Caravan and Pink Floyd....
That's "...the ol' Pink Floyd," btw. Just to be clear.
Mike, squeezed the soloing
11:26 Rude awakening
ezt eddig nem ismertem,nemhallottam."the Peel Sessions" megjegyzem!
john peel was bbc greatest n most influential radio dj!!! ,, .. imvho fr curtz )( jinntendo pun for your conenience n )( hope fuelly pleasure jowlso ,,, ... note the infra-joeKING LIVE on radio 3!!! HaH infra-chokked virtually on CHU-chube ,,, ... ..........
What did you drop to write such a comment lol
Bloody mid-vid adverts!!!
5:01 wtf
666 likes ooooooooooo
The most touching singer of all time (with peter Hammill)...don't just open your ears try to open your hearts ...you probably can't so i wish you the suffering it needs to open it...the rest is writing bullshit of your egos that try to be interesting with srupid comments despite your extraordinary names.... LOL
A sheer joy to listen to this wonderful music!
//
the worst greatest singer not on the planet!