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  1. Michael Roland Ratledge (born 6 May 1943) is a British musician. A part of the Canterbury scene, he was a founding member of Soft Machine. He was the last founding member to leave the group, doing so in 1976. [1] Biography and career. Ratledge was born in Maidstone, Kent, the son of a Canterbury secondary modern school headmaster.

  2. Jul 9, 2020 · Mike Ratledge reminisces about Soft Machine. Aymeric Leroy. 934 subscribers. Subscribed. 480. 25K views 3 years ago EAST LANSING. Obviously, and unfortunately, NOT a recent interview, and NOT...

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  3. Sep 8, 2023 · A key ingredient to that all‑important recipe for happiness is everyone having an equal say in what goes on. “When I first joined, it was a feudal democracy of the worst kind. Mike Ratledge was on his way out I quickly discovered, and ostensibly everything was group decisions but they weren’t really.

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  4. Mar 20, 2019 · March 20, 2019. Soft Machine is a legend and an institution of British music, a band who included Robert Wyatt, Daevid Allen, Mike Ratledge, Kevin Ayers, Andy Summers (later of The Police), Hugh Hopper, Elton Dean, Roy Babbington, John Marshall, Karl Jenkins, Allan Holdsworth, John Etheridge, Percy Jones, Rick Sanders, Dave McRae and Jack Bruce ...

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    Early Softs with Daevid Allen Soft Machine (billed as The Soft Machine up to 1969 or 1970) were formed in mid-1966 by Robert Wyatt (drums, vocals), Kevin Ayers (bass, guitar, vocals), Daevid Allen (guitar) and Mike Ratledge (organ). Allen, Wyatt and future bassist Hugh Hopper had first played together in the Daevid Allen Trio in 1963, occasionally ...

    After differences over the group's musical direction, Wyatt left (or was fired from) the band in August 1971 and formed Matching Mole (a pun on machine molle, French for soft machine; also said at the time to have been taken from some stage lighting equipment "Matching Mole"). He was briefly replaced by Australian drummer Phil Howard. This line-up ...

    Soft Machine with Allan Holdsworth In 1973, after the release of Six, Hopper left and was replaced by Roy Babbington, another former Nucleus member, who had already contributed with double bass on Fourth and Fifth and took up (6-string) electric bass successfully, while Karl Jenkins progressively took over the role of band-leader and main composer....

    The Soft Machine name was used for the 1981 record Land of Cockayne (with Jack Bruce and, again, Allan Holdsworth, plus Ray Warleigh and Dick Morrissey on saxes and John Taylor on electric piano), and for a final series of dates at London's Ronnie Scott's Jazz Club in the summer of 1984 ]featuring Jenkins and Marshall leading an ad hoc lineup of Et...

    "Soft Machine Legacy" was launched in Turkey in Oct, 2004. The intriguing line-up of Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper, John Etheridge and John Marshallwas a coalition of 4 long-time servers in different eras of the legendary group Soft Machine, but who had not played before as a unit. With the enthusiastic management of MoonJune in New York - the band quick...

    Since 2016 the band formerly known as Soft Machine Legacy was from then on rightfully called ‘Soft Machine’.The Legacy tag, never in fact legally required, was officially dropped. The band toured the UK both in 2016 and 2017, and also performed in Italy, Macedonia, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. In 2018 the band went into Jon Hiseman’s record...

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    Soft Machine are a British rock band from Canterbury formed in mid-1966 by Mike Ratledge, Robert Wyatt, Kevin Ayers, Daevid Allen and Larry Nowlin. As a central band of the Canterbury scene , the group became one of the first British psychedelic acts and later moved into progressive and jazz rock , becoming a purely instrumental band in 1971. [2]

  7. Oct 20, 2019 · Subscribed. 86. 5.7K views 4 years ago. John Etheridge discusses democracy, creative and otherwise, in Soft Machine line-ups present and past, his love of Mike Ratledge's compositions and his...

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