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Jimi Hendrix at the Virginia Beach Dome, August 21, 1968. Bill Stokley: “I remember he wasn’t that good at this show and didn’t play very long.”. Photos by Bill Stokley. Eon sent in the following set of photos from the same show. Jimi may not have played very long, but the ending was spectacular:
Repping the Intuitive Non-Career Mover. Kevin Ayers, Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge and Daevid Allen, 1967. Recorded in the seventeen short months between December ’66 and April ’68, the intensely psychedelic music contained within this Album of the Month displays such a rush & roar of Mithraic fire, such a manic intensity of youthful ardour ...
Dec 12, 2013 · That left drummer/singer Robert Wyatt and keyboard player Mike Ratledge in limbo. The disbandment was really only a hiatus, because the newfound popularity of the band more or less forced them to re-consider and head back into the studio to create their second milestone album, Soft Machine 2 .
Nov 27, 2021 · Volume 2. If any album by any group needed footnotes, it’s this one: dense, textured, and allusive. And yet Volume 2 is surprisingly welcoming and witty. Mike Ratledge’s Lowery organ and classical / jazz piano, Hugh Hopper’s fuzz bass, and Robert Wyatt’s overdubbed / reverbed voice and drumming that’s simultaneously muscular and graceful, along with labyrinthine melodies and complex ...
Soft Machine (Kevin Ayers, Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt) August 23, 1968 The New York Rock Festival, Singer Bowl, Flushing Meadow Park, Queens, NY August 25, 1968 Carousel Theater, Framingham, MA (2 shows) August 26, 1968 Kennedy Stadium, Bridgeport, CT August 30, 1968 Lagoon Opera House, Salt Lake City, UT.
Jan 7, 2019 · The studio stuff all sounds pretty much perfect. The 1969 live stuff is in very good / excellent quality, while the 1967/1968 live stuff probably only merits a "fair" sound rating but is worth hearing simply because it is so incredibly rare (particularly the complete performance from the Merriweather Post Pavilion in August 1968 which was on the tour when they were support for the Jimi Hendrix ...
Robert Wyatt (born Robert Wyatt-Ellidge, 28 January 1945) is a retired English musician.A founding member of the influential Canterbury scene bands Soft Machine and Matching Mole, he was initially a kit drummer and singer before becoming paraplegic following an accidental fall from a window in 1973, which led him to abandon band work, explore other instruments, and begin a forty-year solo career.
