Soft Machine: Out-bloody-rageous

Soft Machine: Out-bloody-rageous
ISBN-10
0946719845
ISBN-13
9780946719846
Series
Soft Machine
Category
Music / Genres & Styles / Rock
Pages
415
Language
English
Published
2005
Publisher
SAF
Author
Graham Bennett

Description

Soft Machine were one of the greatest British pioneering bands, they played a pivotal role in shaping psychedelic rock, progressive rock and jazz-rock fusion. Out-Bloody-Rageous is the definitive biography of this ground-breaking band. Based on extensive interviews with members and associates of Soft Machine, it is illustrated with over 80 photographs, posters and clippings and includes a full Soft Machine family tree, concert file, discography and sessionography. It is essential reading for any serious fan of jazz. It traces the lives of Soft Machine's members, pieces together the band's serendipitous formation and colourful career, and unravels the truth, the mystique and the legend behind this most elusive of bands. It recounts the incidents and internal tensions that led to an astonishing 24 different line-ups and places Soft Machine's development in the musical and social context of the time.

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