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Soft Machine - The Soft Machine

12" Very Good+

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Record Details

Artist: Soft Machine
Title: The Soft Machine
Format: 12"Gatefold Promo
Label: Probe
Cat No: CPLP 4500
Released: Dec 1968
Country:
Genres: Psych RockJazz RockExperimentalProg Rock
Condition Very Good+
Status Have
Added To List 19th September 2019
Disc 1 | 12"
Very Good+
Probe / Command abc 
A Matrix:
CPLP-4500 AS-2LW P17 LW[sideways]  
B Matrix:
CPLP-4500 B-SB-2SS LW[sideways]  

Additional Information

Comments Debut album. Gimmix Gatefold w/tracks, credits, wheel, uncensored. Colored paper sleeve.

PERSONNEL:
Robert Wyatt – vocals, drums
Mike Ratledge – Lowrey Holiday De Luxe organ, piano
Kevin Ayers – bass, vocals (10, 12), b-vocals (7, 9), piano
ADDITIONAL:
Hugh Hopper – bass (13)
The Cake – b-vocals (12)

First cat.# on spine and cover.
Second cat # on label.

1st issue Cover:
* FRONT COVER: Uncensored rotating wheel cut-out sleeve revealing female butt.

* "NOT FOR SALE" Promo copy sticker.

* Probe/Command abc logo Top-left.

INSIDE & BACK COVER:
Uncensored image of nude girl.
(A bikini was later airbrushed on to censor image.

LABELS:
* Labels are Side 1 and Side 2. (later copies were 1 & 2.

* Track timings on labels differ to inside sleeve.

* Label variation w/rainbow probe logo to the right of the ABC logo.

SPINE:
* On the spine ''Command/Probe'' appears.

* ''Command/ABC Records/Probe'' appears on Top-Left front cover.

The work on this album was one of the essential roots in progressive rock and jazz-fusion.
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