ROCK GENERATION VOLUME 7

[Side 1
GARY FAR & THE T-BONES
- How Many More Times
- I'm A Lover Not A Fighter
- Dearest Darling
- You Don't Love Me
- Quit Teasing Me Baby
- Louisiana Red]

Side 2
THE ORIGINAL SOFT MACHINE
- That's How Much I Need You Now
- Save Yourself
- I Should've Known
- Jet-Propelled Photograph

Total Time: 32:12

- Robert Wyatt / vocals & drums
- Daevid Allen / lead guitar
- Mike Ratledge / piano & organ
- Kevin Ayers / bass & vocals

Mid 60's Soft Machine demos recorded by Georgeo Gomelsky (former Yardbirds' manager) and only released as fame kicked in half a decade later. Probably in a cynical attempt to maximise profits, the demo session was split across two albums released by the French Label BYG, here on 'Volume 7' of the Rock Generation series (LP - BYG 5529.707 T and subsequently released by Musea's Spalax label on CD SPALAX 14556) and also on 'Rock Generation Volume 8'. The particular odd coupling here is of Soft Machine with Gary Farr & The T-Bones on Side 1 of the LP - Farr later founded the short lived Anglo-Welsh brass rock group Heaven. Both 'Soft Machine Volume 7' and '8' recordings were subsequently amalgamated into the various vinyl and CD issues of 'Jet Propelled Photographs'; (album title and tunes reprised as in the 21st century by Daevid Allen's University of Errors).