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Sean Trane View Drop Down

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Posted: January 11 2006 at 05:21

Shouldn't we be discussing Soft Machine?

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
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Dick Heath View Drop Down

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Posted: January 11 2006 at 08:33

Gary Lucas is acknowledged in Out Bloody Rageous! No real objections to sensible tangents thrown up in threads, subject matter can be quite educational.

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Posted: January 11 2006 at 11:51

Dick Heath wrote:

Gary Lucas is acknowledged in Out Bloody Rageous! No real objections to sensible tangents thrown up in threads, subject matter can be quite educational.

I was just kidding anyway, discussing the buckleys can only match the prog we discuss everyday.

Anyway, about a third of the way through VDGG's book and then OBR.

Edited by Sean Trane

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

Dick Heath View Drop Down

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Posted: August 22 2006 at 09:16

Out-bloody rageous is competition for rock biographies. Please read message I just received from author Graham Bennett:

Hi Dick,

I hope all is well. Good news: I’ve just heard that “Soft Machine: Out-Bloody-Rageous” has been nominated by the Association for Recorded Sound Collections for its 2006 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research. The ARSC has slotted the book into its rock music category (send complaints to the ARSC, not me, but preferably after the winner has been announced in October). The other nominees are:

- Grit, Noise, and Revolution: The Birth of Detroit Rock 'n' Roll, by David Carson

- Mr. Tambourine Man: The Life and Legacy of the Byrds's Gene Clark, by John Einarson

- Dream a Little Dream of Me: The Life of "Mama" Cass Elliot, by Eddi Fiegel

- Speak to Me: The Legacy of Pink Floyd's Dark Side of the Moon, by Russell Reising

- Van Morrison: No Surrender, by Johnny Rogan

- Conversations with Tom Petty, by Paul Zollo and Tom Petty.

So we’re up against some stiff competition, but hopefully this will at least help raise SM’s profile.

Cheers,

Graham

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Posted: August 22 2006 at 10:05

Although I have yet to see the books mentioned above , I suspect that the more original one will have an edge to win, and OBR has a chance right behind the Detroit RnR Birth book.

About a third of the way through in Out Bloody rageous, BTW!

It looks like Robert's mother was the real hero in the alcyon days of the band. Without the Ellidge-Wyatt houseold open to beatnicks of all kinds, none of that Canterbury scene would've happened.

let's just stay above the moral melee
prefer the sink to the gutter
keep our sand-castle virtues
content to be a doer
as well as a thinker,
prefer lifting our pen
rather than un-sheath our sword

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Posted: December 14 2006 at 12:59

Another new original title from SAF Publishing

Soft Machine

Out-Bloody-Rageous

Graham Bennett

The definitive story of Soft Machine, with forewords by Daevid Allen, Hugh Hopper and John Etheridge

A Hardback original

156 x 234mm, 448 pp

UK £20 US $30.00

96 B&W & colour photographs & illustrations

ISBN: 0-946719-84-5

PRESS RELEASE: Soft Machine wins ARSC Award

1^{st November 2006}

SAF Publishing is proud to announce that Soft Machine: Out-Bloody-Rageous, the definitive history of British jazz–rock pioneering legends Soft Machine, has won a 2006 Association for Recorded Sound Collections Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research recognising a work of exceptionally high quality.

"The goal of the ARSC Awards Program is to recognise and draw attention to the finest work now being published in the field of recorded sound research," says Brenda Nelson-Strauss of the ARSC Awards Committee. "We congratulate you on your achievement in this field."

Graham Bennett has been invited by the ARSC to the presentation banquet to be held in Milwaukee on Saturday May 5, 2007, to collect his award during ARSC’s annual conference.

Begun in 1991, the awards are presented to authors and publishers to recognise outstanding published research in the field of recorded sound. In giving these awards, ARSC recognises outstanding contributions, encourages high standards, and promotes awareness of superior works.

For more information, to arrange an interview, or to reserve a review copy of the book, please contact Dave Hallbery at SAF Publishing.

149 Wakeman Road, London NW10 5BH. England Tel: +44(0)20 8969 6099 Fax: +44(0)20 8354 3132 Email: [email protected] Website: www.safpublishing.com

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Posted: December 18 2006 at 06:16

In all probability a paperback verison of OBR, extended/updated, will be published hopefully towards the end of 2007. Graham Bennett and I have been exchanging correspondence and made comment about Karl Jenkins' Desert Island Disc programme - where he did not mention Soft Machine directly.......................sort of reinforces a story heard last year about the auditions to find Allan Holdsworth's replacement and Ollie Hassell turned up (needs confirmation but then will possibly be part of the updates).

Update: John Etheridge has confirmed at least part of the story: Brian Godding and Ollie Hassell (after borrowing Godding's guitar) did audition in the hope(?) of replacing Allan Holdsworth - apparently Holdsworth had recommended all three guitarists.

Edited by Dick Heath - April 26 2007 at 12:01

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