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Nov 2, 2026
Adam Scott GlasspoolHOST
He is an English musician.
Adam Scott GlasspoolHOST
He was a member of Soft Machine, one of the first psychedelic acts in the UK.
Adam Scott GlasspoolHOST
And he was a drummer and a singer.
Adam Scott GlasspoolHOST
But then, after an accident left him paralysed from the waist down, he became a big name in jazz and in jazz fusion.
Tony DavenportHOST
Now, though, we come towards the end of the first hour with Tony Davenport on RaidersPodcast.com and the Jazz Session, and I'm playing out this hour with a couple of tracks from the, I suppose, 60s and 70s.
Tony DavenportHOST
First is Soft Machine from Volume 1 in 1969 and So Boot, If At All.
Tony DavenportHOST
followed by National Health from the Missing Pieces compilation built together in 1995 and the trek The Tow Plane and The Glider.
Tony DavenportHOST
See you at the top of the hour.
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speaker_1UNKNOWN
Thank you.
Tony DavenportHOST
Welcome to the B-Side.
Tony DavenportHOST
You're listening to Tony Davenport and ready to broadcast.com. And I played out with some, I suppose, jazz rocky edge of Soft Machine, then National Health from the 60s and 70s.
Tony DavenportHOST
And I'm going to continue now firmly in the 70s with Deodato, then Herbie Hancock.
JerryHOST
And, and well, before I bought it, a lot of times I'll, I'll just kind of Google, you know, what's this, you know, what's this album like or what is it compared to or something? And there's a whole big list.
JerryHOST
It said, you know, General Giant Octopus, Family Bandstand, Robert Fripp Exposure, Aqualung, Oblivion Express, Soft Machine 3rd, Hot Rats, Dark Side of the Moon, Selling England by the Pound, Two for the Palsy.
JerryHOST
Caravan, Girls Who Grow Plump in the Night, Breakfast in America, We're Only in it for the Money, Zappa, Legend, Tangerine Dream, Lambs Lay Down on Broadway, Brain Cell Surgery, Overnight Sensation, Van der Graaf, Deteriorator, Quiet Zone, Pressure Dome, Yeah, and then the very last one was, I thought it was cool they put that on there.
JerryHOST
Jeff Wayne's, that War of the Worlds double album.
Ivar HamiltonHOST
For you Prague people, and this is not Styx in Kansas, boys and girls.
Ivar HamiltonHOST
The Soft Machine, all-time recordings, 14 CD set, three Blu-rays featuring many unreleased BBC concerts.
Ivar HamiltonHOST
Ministries, I just previously mentioned the Filth Pig album is out now, reissued this week, two LP set.
Ivar HamiltonHOST
The Phil Linnett box set, The Story of My Life, eight CD set.
speaker_0HOST
Jazz saxophone is best known for his avant-garde and prog rock music.
speaker_0HOST
He was part of the group Soft Machine, by the way.
speaker_0HOST
George Glover was born in 1947.
speaker_0HOST
He had a decades-long tenure as the keyboardist for the British blues rock group the Climax Blues Band.
JerryHOST
Okay.
JerryHOST
Now, this super group... featuring members of Yes, King Crimson, Roxy Music, and Soft Machine.
JerryHOST
This group was one of the most prominent progressive rock supergroups of the late 70s.
JerryHOST
Various members of the group were guitarist Alan Holdsworth, keyboard violinist, and then Eddie Jobson, bassist, vocalist, John Wentman, and drummer Bill Bruford had all played together in their previous bands.
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EricHOST
Yeah, I think that's how the jamming started is that they were all on tour at the same time in the UK and they just happened to cross paths and then they just started jamming and it just happened.
EricHOST
That's cool.
JustinHOST
Which was the Soft Machine guy?
EricHOST
Eddie Jobson.
RyanHOST
It was released, you know, decades later.
BrentHOST
Yeah, well, they do mention groups like the Silver Apples, Soft Machine, Captain Beefheart, Pretties for You era, Alice Cooper.
BrentHOST
So they were definitely no strangers to avant-garde rock.
BrentHOST
Roger's artwork, very of its time.
Nick SalomanHOST
It was his first album just called, uh, Madcap Laughs and, uh, yeah, Octopus was a single as well.
Nick SalomanHOST
And, uh, that is an early version of Octopus under the name of Clowns and Jugglers, and he's being backed by, um, uh, The Soft Machine on that one.
Nick SalomanHOST
So that's kind of interesting, which is, you can hear it's a bit ramshackle.
Nick SalomanHOST
Um, but then, you know, in his later period of recording, things were a bit ramshackle and, uh, poor old Syd, you know, he, he [laughs] you know, it's a bit of a drag.
Brian GullandGUEST
That was, um, after I, after I left Canterbury.
Brian GullandGUEST
I left in '64, um, which, I mean, I, I dare say there was various Kevin Ayers and, um, proto-Caravan and Soft Machine stuff going on, but, um, no, I got very into, um, prog rock.
Brian GullandGUEST
Um, you know, all the usual suspects.
Brian GullandGUEST
Um-
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Brian GullandGUEST
Um, passed over, whatever.
David EastaughHOST
Mm.
Brian GullandGUEST
Um, um, yes, I li- I really liked Soft Machine.
Brian GullandGUEST
Um, and again, they were very experimental album to al- album, weren't they?
GregHOST
[laughs]
Brett VargoHOST
My number four is the beautiful 1982 single Shipbuilding by former Soft Machine and Matching Mole member Robert Wyatt-
Robert Ellis OrrallGUEST
Right
Brett VargoHOST
... of the song written by Elvis Costello and Clive Langer.
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