Soft Machine Alive & Well classification error ?

Message Topic Search Topic Options Post Reply Create New Topic Printable Version Translate Topic

   Hi.
I have just finished reading the excellent Out Bloody-Rageous by Alan Bennett. This is the Soft Machine biography from 2005 based on interviews with the band and others. 

Both in that bio and in Wikipedia; Alive & Well is regarded as a studio album. This album was meant as a live album with new material because the band could not afford studiotime (or could not be bothered). Four dates in Paris was set up. The recording was a fiasco (faulty equipment) so the material was re-recorded in studio anyway. That include a brand new composition entirely recorded in studio.

The material is also brand new and does not figure in any other studio albums. 

Should this album be re-classified as a studio album between Rubber Riff and Land Of Cockayne ?

Author	Message Topic Search Topic Options Post Reply Create New Topic Printable Version Translate Topic
toroddfuglesteg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Retired Joined: March 04 2008 Location: Retirement Home Status: Offline Points: 3658	Topic: Soft Machine Alive & Well classification error ? Posted: November 16 2009 at 07:28
	Hi. I have just finished reading the excellent Out Bloody-Rageous by Alan Bennett. This is the Soft Machine biography from 2005 based on interviews with the band and others. Both in that bio and in Wikipedia; Alive & Well is regarded as a studio album. This album was meant as a live album with new material because the band could not afford studiotime (or could not be bothered). Four dates in Paris was set up. The recording was a fiasco (faulty equipment) so the material was re-recorded in studio anyway. That include a brand new composition entirely recorded in studio. The material is also brand new and does not figure in any other studio albums. Should this album be re-classified as a studio album between Rubber Riff and Land Of Cockayne ?

Marty McFly Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2009 Location: Czech Republic Status: Offline Points: 3968	Posted: November 16 2009 at 10:17
	http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3248 this one ?
	There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu Even my

toroddfuglesteg Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Forum Senior Member Retired Joined: March 04 2008 Location: Retirement Home Status: Offline Points: 3658	Posted: November 16 2009 at 11:18
	Yes. I see it has now been included among the studio albums as it should be. Thanx !

Marty McFly Members Profile Send Private Message Find Members Posts Add to Buddy List Reviewer page Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: March 23 2009 Location: Czech Republic Status: Offline Points: 3968	Posted: November 16 2009 at 11:59
	You're welcome, come again :- P facts were enough
	There's a point where "avant-garde" and "experimental" becomes "terrible" and "pointless," -Andyman1125 on Lulu Even my