Soft Machine - 'Switzerland 1974' Official Trailer
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- Album 'Switzerland 1974' by Soft Machine (Cuneiform Records)
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Album Personnel:
Roy Babbington (electric six string bass)
Allan Holdsworth (guitar)
Karl Jenkins (oboe, soprano sax, electric piano)
John Marshall (drums)
Mike Ratledge (electric piano, organ, synthesizer)
Soft Machine's 'Switzerland 1974' (CD/DVD), released on Cuneiform Records, feature Soft Machine's July 4, 1974 concert at the Montreux Jazz Festival, and are officially licensed from the Montreux Jazz Festival. These audio and video recordings feature Roy Babbington (electric six string bass), Karl Jenkins (oboe, soprano sax, electric piano), John Marshall (drums), Mike Ratledge - and the earliest available performance footage of guitarist Allan Holdsworth.
[The official trailer features Soft Machine performing excerpts of "Hazard Profile" and "Riff II."]
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Allan Holdsworth is a gift to humanity.
was.... sadly. Incredibly good on that track.
God has to be Good ...he send us Allan Holdsworth ...
@@ThrashRoC Stop making God responsible of things made by humans
@@ThrashRoC and he sent us Jimi. The poor magic boy.
👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Allan Holdsworth's playing should be declared UNESCO world heritage.
Ratledge on key boards too
Brilliant comment 🙂🙂👍
1974, barely any overdrive or compression and he's still playing stuff more acrobatic and inventive than any jazz or rock guitarist would play until 5 years later when the Randy Rhoads/Van Halen style started, but by the mid 80s Holdsworth was doing stuff those guys would never be able to come up with in their lives. It'll take a while for music history to let it sink in how great he was. He was just too individualistic to get famous in the pop world.
Listen to some Ollie Halsall - another early 70's guitar wizard no one seems to know about.th-cam.com/video/LORb71pcv7Q/w-d-xo.html
What? As much as I love those other players ( and yes, Eddie Van Halen was no joke when he hit the scene ) they were never at the level Holdsworth was, even then!
@@dcuss7294 They were never as harmonically advanced or free in their improvisations but they did play as fast. They just stuck to a smaller palette of what they knew.
@Andy Butler only mclaughlin wouldve been able to keep up tbh
Andy Butler . Wow...Your guitar palette is clearly severely limited. In terms of harmonic sophistication, taste, and brilliant improvisational technique, a number of actual jazz guitarists tower over those that you cited. Just a few examples are Wes Montgomery, Django Reinhardt, Tal Farlow, Jimmy Raney, George Barnes, George Benson, Barney Kessel, Kenny Burrell, Grant Green, Johnny Smith, Karl Kress, Jim Hall, Herb Ellis, Jimmy Ponder, Melvin Sparks, Joe Pass, Mundell Lowe, Rene Thomas, Hank Garland, and Gabor Szabo. Any one of these masters could run circles around the highly competent but limited pop/rock-oriented artists that you named.
Please we all love Allan but let's also give credit to the rest of the band. John Marshall absolutely throwing it down on the Drums brilliant.
John Marshall!! Yes!
THESTIG5954 True, but let’s be honest, this is all about Allan. He was on another level and way ahead of his time!
@@jazznotes3802 l agree but the rest of band deserve credit too. Trust me l am 100%Holdsworth saw in Manchester great gig l also appreciate other musicians that add to the mix.
And look how Jenkins teleported from standing with an oboe to sitting at the piano :P
Yeh the drums are sick. Great 70s tache. Thought it would be shit having never bothered to check out later soft machine, definitely is not the og soft machine sound but our man Holdsworth shreds. Doesn't he sound exactly like Frank Zappa but sped up a little bit...
Alan Holdsworth was one of the few guitarists that Zappa ever had a good word about. That says alot!
That actually says a lot about Zappa.
@@ADITYASINGH-vc4gm perhaps it simply says that zappa knew when to keep his mouth shut?
zappa must have sort of liked steve vai, too, then. in all seriousness, I think that the above claim is probably a bunch of cr@p.
@@donkeyshot8472 no
Killer comment ! I was about to write the same when I saw yours :) Congrats (even if I like FZ). @@ADITYASINGH-vc4gm
There is only one Alan Holdsworth in a century.His melodic and rhythmic creation is mindblowing.
John Marshall breaks sweat! A fantastic drummer with such a cool groove.
Allan is the embodiment of the ideas I have in my head but cant express
Strange to see Holdsworth bending a string. Excellent.
He always did it man
Looks like he uses the pick more tlo.
I can't help but sense he's thinking, "damn I wish this SG had two more frets!".
R.I.P. Allan Holdsworth.
Allan Holdsworth was best back then and he still is.
I'm pretty sure he's from another planet.
I agree. More fire in his playing
Planet BADASS GUITAR PLAYER!!!!
holdsworth bent alot in the 70s with lifetime,tempest and soft machine. He got more coltraneish with his playing in the 80s
@@harveydents I think you reacted to the wrong comment, the comment about allan bending strings is above this one😅
Allan was literally a complete guitarist. Handsome, tall, full of charisma, and stellar playing. What a perfect package! We all miss him.
...and Allan was always up for a pint and a chat at the bar after the show! Yorkshire did well to bring us both Allan and John McLaughlin - maybe it's something in the water they use there to brew ale! I think drummer/keyboardist Gary Husband is also from there - he who played drums with Allan on several of his solo albums and "reinterpreted" his music on one of HIS solo albums AND played keys with Billy Cobham a while ago and also with John McLaughlin. Hrumph, baah, how dare they all be so amazing!? Allan will never be forgotten!!! Soft Machine are STILL out there, still fabulous line-up, still the ground-breaking and exciting band they always have been!!
And he was packing you forgot to mention
He wasn’t much of a rhythm player…just wasn’t his style
R.I.P. John Marshall and Allan Holdsworth! 2 otherworldly masters of their craft!
1974 I was 12 and just starting my life and how lucky I was to grow up in the 70's when music was at its best.
Arguably the best decade of music ever, and will ever be.
The 70's, I wish I could go back in time and experience it all over again.
no, no. the seventies generally SUCKED. except for bowie. which gave us the eighties.
Me too! We were raised in the '60s. and get ripped in the '70s. And here we are... Cheers my fellow sister! 👏🏻🤗👍🏻
civilisation ended when gatefold LP covers stopped
Born in 64. I’m being fussy but I was a bit too young to go to concerts until about 77 so I missed a lot of good early seventies rock blues concerts. Thank the lord I wasn’t born later 👍🏴🇬🇧
Io ne avevo 14 e sono completamente d' accordo con te ....un decennio fantastico sotto tutti i punti di vista....viverlo una volta sola non basta! Vorrei il remake di quegli anni strepitosi!
Saw them in concert, as a young drummer, I was blasted by Wyatt at the drums, and remember the hypnotic feel that finally let the whole public in a state of chock for hours afterwards ! I realize now, that the 70s were an incredible time , period !
Wyatt left in 71 because he missed the 60s. Grass is always greener in days past.
@@gerardotejada2531 robert wyatt left soft machine because he was asked to leave due to "musical differences", not because he "missed the 60s".
So good to see a young Allan, he made that poor SG earn its money that's for damn sure R.I.P Master
Soft Machine 'Switzerland 1974' (CD/DVD) out now! Grab your copy today!
cuneiformrecords.bandcamp.com/album/switzerland-1974
Bought it as soon as I could! Thank you so much! So amazing, definitely worth every cent.
thank you for the kind note and for the support!
Soft Machine with Allan Holdsworth at the top of the fusion game.
RIP Allan.. !! Fantastic Music you created that will be enjoyed FOREVER...!!
the 70s had some amazing guitar players, Holdsworth, Di Meola, Steve Morse, Larry Coryell. They were ripping it up before shred was even a term.
And the great John McLaughlin.
Huw Lloyd, Brian May, Todd Rundgren, Alex Lifeson, Johnny DuCann
Frank Zappa.🎶
@@conradmason87 Fuck Zappa
@@davidhenrylake2047 How can you be so stupid zappa is a genius and everyone who knows music knows that, but it's surely not for everyone: th-cam.com/video/yuC6GzEP674/w-d-xo.html
amazing Soft Machine will live for ever . 41 years and still fresh .
What a band. Allan's most rocker guitar approach ever, going through staccato and legato playing with no pain.
I Fucking love this. Allan was already crazy. Love the contrast of the vintage tone with his style that was beginning to form
"Huntington Beach, Ca.@ the Golden Bear, a small club with about a hundred people there, Allan comes out on stage and says that his father had just passed away. I, like everyone, was surprised to see him go on, but what I and everyone in that room saw for the next 2 hours, was indescribable. I was awashed in the most glorious, melodic sound coming from the highest quality equipment possible, it seemed like he was taking out his grief on the neck of the guitar. Any recording I heard before of him seemed like child's play, compared to what I was witnessing. It was the greatest display of musicianship imaginable, that I had ever, or since seen. Allan Holdsworth single-handedly rewrote the language of jazz guitar." td
RIP genius, I love his 70s work. You could still hear the pick attack then, and he'd even bend the odd string here and there haha. His later stuff was amazing too, 80s and above is when I feel like he was finally able to get the sounds in his head out of his guitar. But it's neat to here him with a classic rock tone here.
It's really wild seeing him progress....
He was awesome here....
Then in the eighties he became untouchable by any guitarist.
Makes me wonder could anyone achieve his playing with intense guitar practice?
I know you need long fingers and some natural ability.
But Allan had to work hard too just like others.
I too love his sound here! I wonder what amp and cab he used during this time, always hard to see...
1974 I was 12 and just starting my life and how lucky I was to grow up in the 70's when music was at its best.
Arguably the best decade of music ever, and will ever be.
The 70's, I wish I could go back in time and experience it all over again.
Allan looks SO badass playing a white SG.
Just now listening to these guys, although I'm sure my father had a few of their records.
Love how the rest of the band are looking at him when he solos, with the expression of what is that! In amazement
Yep. 2:23!
RIP Allan Holdsworth true guitar innovator!
Rest in Peace Allan, you were one of the greatest pioneers. Very sad to know you're gone
R.I.P. Allan. Absolute genius!
Great album, I only found out about this the other day. I got a copy as it's long been my view that Holdsworth performance with Soft Machine has some of his most inventive playing, and the video really shows how far ahead of the curve Allan Holdsworth was, particularly when you consider the age of this project being 1974. Recommended purchase.
Allan was always a monster player, it doesn't matter how far back you listen. It's like he was fully formed as soon as he started playing.
I don't know. That's a nice image, but if you go back and listen to the super early stuff in bands he was in in like 1962 and 1963 (can be found on TH-cam), you will hear a young player who is perhaps a little advanced, but basically typical for that time. Something magical happened with him in the 1970s.
RIP to the drummer John Marshall of Soft Machine, who passed away on 9/16/23 at the age of 82. JM was also a founding member of the jazz-rock band Nucleus & has recorded/toured with the artists... Allan Holdsworth, John Abercrombie, John McLaughlin, Volker Kriegel, Barney Kessel, Alexis Korner, Keith Tippett, Centipede, Jack Bruce, Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, John Surman, Charlie Mariano, Alan Skidmore, Jasper vant Hof, Gil Evans, Theo Travis, Eberhard Weber's Colours & many others.
When Allen starts soloing every other musician on stage is watching him....And Allen? Oh he's just playing with his eyes closed....
my world is a bliss!! thanks for your music.. i dreamt of meeting you Sir allan T_T
I’m a fan of the original Softies, preferring prog-rock to prog-jazz. As a keyboard player I’ve been in awe of Ratledge since day one. Even playing a shitbox Lowrey spinet, Ratledge absolutely wailed on their first album.
This track is my first exposure to this incarnation of the band and wow, their musicality and tightness just soars. With guitar players, a little shredding goes a long way in my book - I’m more into Lenny Breau’s ruminative style - but this guy Allan Holdsworth is something else. Technically he is brilliant of course but more impressive to me is the subtlety with which he intersperses musical figures that echo aspects of the theme among those 16-bar shreds. As one who usually finds modern jazz a little too cerebral, I found ample musicality and passion and yes, beauty, in this performance.
The piece’s simple theme and complex percussion seemed the ideal environment for Ratledge to come up with an outrageous keyboard rejoinder to that brilliant guitar work, but alas, it was not to be. Maybe on another track - a new album by the Softies at their peak is a must-have for sure.
Purtroppo, nel 1974 Ratledge aveva perso il suo ruolo centrale nei Soft Machine, ed era relegato in una funzione marginale.
Holdsworth starts out playing blues licks.
Somehow he ends up on the dark side of Neptune.
Very nice, great musicianship, great chemistry in the band...
Dream Theatre in the 70's.😊
As 2014 winds down, some of you ask, "What are you doing for us NEXT year?"
One answer can be found here:
th-cam.com/video/i5AdkYRm344/w-d-xo.html
This blows Zappa away in many respects ... this combo of Soft Machine with Holdsworth ... and we know Frank dug Holdworth in the highest regard, but Al is a superior player to Frank though Frank is the superior Composer.
If only they made an album together, the stuff to come out would surely disorient and warp space time in multiple dimensions.
Thou shalt not take the name of Frankie in vain, repent now you headen.
Seriously I think "we know Frank dug Holdworth" its stretching it a bit.
If you are a FZ fan as I am - that you would remember Frank quote..."The only person who is capable of judging a piece of music is the person who wrote it in the first place". Both men were absolutely incredible in their own right and in their own musical space.
1:55 man that felt good
Whole tune videos from this concert were on youtube at one time. I know because I downloaded several. I suppose "Cuneiform Records" got them removed. I can't find the ones I downloaded maybe 6+ years ago, I fear they were on a disk that went bad. Or else they are on some thumb drive.
Hi, do you have the performance of floating world bundles by any chance??
Sir Karl Jenkins on keys and soprano sax folks!!! What a career eh?!! Bravo O great one!.
great band, one of my favourites of ALL time..... ❤xxx
Outstanding musicianship.
Just found this on reddit. I'm jamming to this from now on. We'll def check their music.
懐かしい！ 初期のアラン。
70年代のロックはいろいろなタイプのアーティストが現れて面白かったですね。
We all mis ALLAN HOLDSWORTH...he is so unique and different then other guitarist in the world...I mis him a lot..r.i.p 🙏🎸❤
amazing guitar ! allan ruled staccato playing then and he rules legato now.
R.I.P. Allan Holdsworth
I got a Soft Machine album in high school (1975) and I wasn't really impressed. Then I went to see them with a neighbor and they were awesome. Holdsworth is a fluid, creative musician, as were the whole band (but Holdsworth was the only one I knew by name).
What happened to the original 6 minutes video?
My dad was in the band with john marshall and i used to know him
Damn...people die and then you discover them....and regret that you won't be able to see them live. Rest in peace.
Ollie Hallsall was first that Allan Holdswiorth, you can't disrespect Patto's guitarist, that said, Allan Holdswiorth was gorgeous
Long live Allen holsworth one of the greatest jazz fusion guitarist. of all times.
Brilliant track off the Bundles album l can't get enough of this group.
This is Magnificent!!! It always amazes me that some guitarists early in their life figure it all out real quick
LOVE THIS... wow!
Das war wunderbar;es war so eine Aufbruchsstimmung zu was Neuem,Anderen!!!!
he is off the hook and charts even in 1974. deep bow. RIP maestro and supreme virtuoso.
RIP Allan Holdsworth and by the way John Marshall on drums is just brilliant love his style and effort he puts in...boy does he sweat.
As Jody Grind we did a lot of gigs with Soft Machine in the 1960’s, Personally, I prefer the early trio with bass p/ayer Hugh Hopper (what happened to him). I ve always been a fan of Mike Ratledge. IMHO this smacks of a watered down Chick Corea’s Electric Band. Soprano out of tune!!!
His old style of playing 1:53 2:06 2:16, a predecessor to Frank Gambale today
Soft Machine fans might like this special video for “The Floating World” from Bundles. th-cam.com/video/bjhdbwYvgPk/w-d-xo.html
Allan Holdsworth = out of this world. Amazing stuff from the 70's.
The full version is one of THE greatest guitar solos. It has everything - fluid, melodic, dynamic, emotion, technique . Pure brilliance and I never tire of listening to it. RIP Allan.
Remembering Allan Holdsworth born on August 6, 1946. he was a British jazz fusion and progressive rock guitarist, violinist and composer. He contributed to numerous bands, including Soft Machine, U.K., The Tony Williams Lifetime, Pierre Moerlen's Gong and Bruford. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allan_Holdsworth
Holdsworth pioneered guitar shredding
very very good..................................................
exceptional.
Saw that band in Montreal at CEGEP Maisonneuve in 74... After Maneige opened for them...actually Maneige were stronger and stole the show. SM had lost all their magic and became just another ” cold jazz band” like Kevin Ayers told me when i produced him in Montreal. He was right. Marshall on drums was something though , actually each player taken individuallyy were good but the sum of them was boring
This vídeo was available complete here. Never before released LOL.
What José..
For me, Allan's Bundles is the best, for my taste already in the mood of the Seventies and with a group absolutely awesome, Carl Jenkins, Roy Babbington and John Marshall, my best keyboard player aka Mike Ratledge, the one person is missing here is Ian Carr. I love him.
RIP Allan Holdsworth, you will be missed. :(
Shit, I miss Allan Holdsworth so much.
OMG i think that Allan Holdsworth did not even have to show up with any rhythm charts or any other BS that might interfere with his freakin' lead guitar playing. what?
dudes, he probably showed up at the very last minute and he probably said "get out of my way!"
Was Allan ever not amazing?
My favorite SM line up will always contain Robert Wyatt and Mike Ratledge - but this whole concert used to be on TH-cam and I had one of the best shroom trips of my life that got me so infested in this specific show
Thank you for sharing.
Some them live they opened up for jimi hendrix fucking amazing band great light show oh that was in toronto
I had a snobby guitar buddy who could “play anything “ and he was humbled by AH and pat megheny when I called his bluff
Holy shit. What planet is Holdsworth from… cause it’s not Earth.
Saw a version of soft machine open for hendrix at the arena in Seattle. Thought they were beyond boring. Think they’re great now
The Soft Machine that i heard was hardcore heavy rock metal band.
Different era and members?
Allan was so ahead of everyone at this time. Sadly while I think he's now more well known amongst guitarists and musicians than ever, he'll never be a household name with average music listeners. The most famous guitarists are rarely the best guitarists. They're famous because they themselves or the band they were in had a hit or multiple hits. Today in 2023 if you went purely based on technical skill, very few "top 100" guitarists would even be in the top 100,000. But Allan I believe would EASILY be right in the top 100.
( does it really happen ? A Soft Machine live dvd ... can't believe it ... )
2:08 is when Jimmy Page should have retired or gone into international food imports.
For all lovers of such Soft Machine, I recommend to check out modern band Causa Sui, especially Summer Visions vol 2, vol 3. full album link: th-cam.com/video/QvbkRlO8XFU/w-d-xo.html
OK, What key are we in here?? From a "wanna B" apprentice , what do we have here? A bunch of sharps and flats? In and out and Then back in again? This band is like a Musical science experiment !! Very mentally stimulating !!!
I love every version of Soft Machine but this may be the jammiest. The period w Jenkins before Rutledge split went places no other version of Softs did. Add Holdsworth and it’s a British gumbo that smokes!
Why does Allan Holdsworth have Mickey mouse on his guitar?
Not forgetting (Sir) Karl Jenkins, now one of the worlds most celebrated Classical Composers ( Adiemus, The Armed Man) > He composed one of the pieces at Charles III Coronation - a genius
hot the hell was Allan playing like this in 1974 is beyond me..
RIP Allan.
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I saw that band in Cegep Maisonneuve Québec with that personnel. All members were awsome and Holdsworth was a discovery. Great show !
His harmonic sensibilities were there even then,,,,,miss that grumpy old Yorkshireman :(
RIP. Allan holdsworth....