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    Posted: November 16 2009 at 11:59

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Points: 3658 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 16 2009 at 11:18

Yes. 

I see it has now been included among the studio albums as it should be. 

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Points: 3968 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: November 16 2009 at 10:17

http://www.progarchives.com/album.asp?id=3248

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Points: 3658 		Direct Link To This Post 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 ?
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