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Topic: Machinations

Posted By: Dick Heath
Subject: Machinations
Date Posted: September 02 2004 at 08:42

Which SM album had a critic comparing them to the Four Freshmen?

Which Jimi Hendrix album track has Robert Wyatt providing the backing vocals?

Which Robert Wyatt recording has Jimi Hendrix playing bass?

Who introduced Robert Wyatt to the 'delights' of a shot of tequilla followed by a shot of Southern Comfort, followed by a shot of tequilla followed by etc......, and Wyatt claims the insertion of a single malt whisky into that drinks cycle, lead him to believe he could fly from a 4th floor window?

What did Robert Wyatt give Jimi Hendrix during the first Experience Package Tour of the USA (- the tough question)?

What did Mitch Mitchell give Robert Wyatt at the end of that tour?

On the Experience's earlier, first US major tour, who was the headlining band?

Finally another toughie: Downbeat (the leading US jazz magazine) once in comparing Robert Wyatt's drumming, said it was a cross between Elvin Jones' and whose?

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Posted By: Cesar Inca
Date Posted: September 06 2004 at 09:02

I think we all give up: ANSWERS, PLEASE?

Posted By: James Lee
Date Posted: September 07 2004 at 01:20

Which ProgArchives collaborator knows the most about Robert Wyatt?

Start us off easy- such as who is responsible for the name of the band, and did SM or any of its members ever collaborate with him?

I can't even begin to guess at most of those questions...Southern Comfort always makes me think of Janis Joplin, but I don't think she was a tequila fan.

I'm fascinated by the Soft Machine/ Four Freshman connection though.

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Posted By: Certif1ed
Date Posted: September 07 2004 at 08:12

Dick Heath wrote:

Which SM album had a critic comparing them to the Four Freshmen?

Don't know this one, but I know that Acid has a reputation for making people "see sounds and hear colours", so that might explain somone mistaking instrumental music for 4-part vocalisations...

Which Jimi Hendrix album track has Robert Wyatt providing the backing vocals?

Not sure about album track, but there are many known recordings;

1. Sessions for "Fluffy Turkeys" demo

2. Playhouse Theatre, BBC Top Gear recordings 15/12/67

3. Sunrise - Eire Apparent. OK, that's cheating, but Jimi plays guitar and Robert does backing vox on "The Clown".

Which Robert Wyatt recording has Jimi Hendrix playing bass?

"Slow Walkin' Talk" in the October 1968 T.T.G. sessions, also released on the Hendrix CD "Calling Long Distance" in 1992, "Flotsam and Jetsam" in 1994 and Canterburied sounds Vol. 3 in 1998.

Heh! I've never found a single malt that does that, but LSD might...

Sorry, out of answers for now - I knew about the Hendrix recordings, but I know next to nothing about Wyatt...

Posted By: Dick Heath
Date Posted: September 07 2004 at 17:58

Certif1ed wrote:

Dick Heath wrote:

Which SM album had a critic comparing them to the Four Freshmen?

Don't know this one, but I know that Acid has a reputation for making people "see sounds and hear colours", so that might explain somone mistaking instrumental music for 4-part vocalisations...

Volume 2 unbelievably. When the album eventually got released in the UK (what, about 6 months afterits release in the USA? _ The first album on vinyl was never released accept as twoforone package several years later), there several critical reviews that strongly suggested that several critics had'nt heard the album because the complete inaccuracies reported. I saved one from the music industry magazine Record Retailer, which was just plain bollo***

Which Jimi Hendrix album track has Robert Wyatt providing the backing vocals?

3. Sunrise - Eire Apparent. OK, that's cheating, but Jimi plays guitar and Robert does backing vox on "The Clown".

Thanks for that one, I'll pass it on. But in fact....
Apparently on the album version of Stone Free, Wyatt and Hopper provide the backing vocals, but I'm told they are not credited - Chas Chandler was manager to both Hendrix and Machine at that time, and produced that album. I guess they are not on the single version of Stone Free because as monaural recording it wouldn't need the dynamics of a stereo recording (???)- and back then stereo and mono recordings could be different recording sessions.

Which Robert Wyatt recording has Jimi Hendrix playing bass?

"Slow Walkin' Talk" in the October 1968 T.T.G. sessions, also released on the Hendrix CD "Calling Long Distance" in 1992, "Flotsam and Jetsam" in 1994 and Canterburied sounds Vol. 3 in 1998.

Yes!!

Keith Moon, according to Wyatt on his BBC 4 documentary last year.

Heh! I've never found a single malt that does that, but LSD might...

Sorry, out of answers for now - I knew about the Hendrix recordings, but I know next to nothing about Wyatt...

<>Wyatt's biography Wrong Movements by Michael King (pub SAF, UK and apparently through Consortium Book Sales in the USA) is an excellent if qwerky source. (However, don't hold your breath if you order it, I had to wait 5 months after ordering it because it was out of print). The forthcoming Soft Machine biography by Graham Bennett - I have the advantage of proof reading it at the moment, hence picking up these snippets - it is a great piece of research and writing.

Finally, see my announcement of today: Wyatt wins a Mercury Music prize for his last album!