OFF: Prog Vote

[Ian R Fines]

>Soft Machine-a description or a pointer to a sounds site for them? I'm
>curious:)

go to the Canterbury: Calyx web site, where they have much info and many
links pertaining to Soft Machine.  They were formed in the later 60's by
Kevin Ayers, Hugh Hopper, Daevid Allen, Mike Ratledge, and Robert Wyatt.
At this point it was mainly rock, but Daevid was deported from England
which resulted in a rapid change in the band.  By the time _third_ had
been released, Soft Machine was almost jazz...but sorta progressive too.
After this album, the evolved into more straight jazz, with the addition
of musicians such as Allan Holdsworth.