Soft Machine
Fairfield Halls-Croydon,Surrey,UK
December 3,1972


Mike Ratledge – elec. piano, organ.
Hugh Hopper – bass.
Karl Jenkins – elec. piano, baritone & soprano sax, oboe.
John Marshall – drums.

Setlist:

01. Fanfare
02. All White
03. Between
04. Riff
05. 37 1/2
06. improv
07. Gesolreut
08. EPV
09. Drop Intro
10. Drop
11. The Soft Weed Factor
12. Lefty
13. Stumble
14. 5 From 13
15. Riff II

Mono audience recording


Mike Ratledge – elec. piano, organ.
Hugh Hopper – bass.
Karl Jenkins – elec. piano, baritone & soprano sax, oboe.
John Marshall – drums.

Sound quality is good, but not incredible or anything. very listenable though, performance aside. even if the sound quality isnt good enough for you, it should be of interest anyways, as this era wasnt really recorded a whole lot. For me, this recording really reminds you that the six lineup was actually pretty awesome, despite how much its overshadowed by the earlier stuff and the holdsworth era stuff. Seems to me to be a bit more energetic and busy than the show that takes up the first disk of "Six", and you als get to hear the lineup's vversion of Drop, and how The Soft Weed Factor sounds live.