Soft Machine and Friends
Hamburg (Germany), Congresszentrum
NDR Jazz Workshop
1973-05-17

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Setlist (Soft Machine only):

DISK 1 4 CUTS @58:49

"Fanfare" / "All White", "The Soft Weed Factor", "Lefty", "37 1/2", "Riff", "1983" (with H.Hopper),

DISK 2 4 CUTS @63:12 (W/guests):

"Down The Road", "Between", "Stanley Stamps Gibbon Album", "Chloe And The Pirates", "Gesolreut" (with G.Boyle & A.Themen), "EPV", "Stumble", jam (with G.Boyle), "L.B.O.", "Riff II"


Mike Ratledge - keys
Karl Jenkins - keys, oboe, s-sax
Roy Babbington - bass
John Marshall - drums

guests:

Hugh Hopper - bass
Gary Boyle - guitar
Art Themen - drums
Linda Hoyle - Vocals

Ok, this is all a bit convoluted.Two disc's with four cuts, two available setlists.

here: http://db.etree.org/lookup_show.php?shows_key=180108

and here; http://calyx.club.fr/softmachine/chrono.html


However I think we need a Softs expert to sort this out.

On listening I've chosen the Calyx site as more likely. I'm probubly wrong. Been wrong before. A lot.
Anyway this is after Hugh Hopper had left with Roy Babbington replacing him in the bass chair.Hence he's listed as a guest. This also apparently was the date that Babbington's hiring was announced. (Calyx).
Clearly what you have here is a band in transition. Presonally, I love they way the Canturbury Scene (dis) functioned. With its breakups, squabble's and long-term musical friendships. It functioned much more like a "jazz" community than "rock".

But that's just an old geez getting sentimental.

Enjoy.

Kine