(The)Soft Machine
Merriweather Post Pavilion
Columbia, Maryland, USA
August 16, 1968

Lineage is unknown
Sound Quality: B/B-/C+, I really cant decide, its better and worse at different times in the show

Setlist:

1 - Joy of a Toy
2 - Hope For Happiness
3 - Hope For Happiness Part 2
4 - Clarence in Wonderland
5 - You Don't Remember
6 - Improvisation/10:30 Returns to the Bedroom

Lineup:

Robert Wyatt - Drums, Vocals
Kevin Ayers - Bass
Mike Ratledge - Organ, Keyboards

Ive had this on my computer for about a year, all the while thinking this was just the performance that is on "Turns on Vol. 2", but when I listened to it again, I realized that this must have been a different, although very similar, performance. After checking a couple SM chronologies for 1968 dates in Maryland, I concluded that this is in fact the concert AFTER the one on the Turns On CD, whose venue is the Coliseum Ballroom in Davenport, IO. Sound Quality isnt the greatest, as always, but still pretty good, and very listenable. Unfortuanately, Robert's singing gets drowned out by the organ a lot of the time. A very interesting recording nonetheless. Its interesting that "Esther's Nose Job" was already in progress by this date.