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The Soft Machine play in The Love Festival at The UFO Club, London, England, UK, Europe.Full article:
Giorgio Gomelsky (rock manager) : It was down in a cellar in Tottenham Court Road, the UFO Club, which was run by an exiled American, Joe Boyd. They were on a bill with a band called Tomorrow, with Steve Howe, the guitar player who ended up in Yes. So I go see them and it's very good, intelligent stuff... I thought this is a band that should just make albums. It was the beginning of the FM radio thing in America, and I'm thinking, let's get in there. So we make this album demo, not many takes, no overdub, straight, to convince Polydor to fork out the Bread, but they were taking their time.
Jeff Dexter : There was no deejay at UFO, just a guy called Jack Henry Moore who played sounds with one deck and a dodgy old reel-to-reel tape recorder. I was the deejay at Tiles nightclub, so I'd go along with the latest releases and stand beside him while he played them.
Robert Wyatt (drummer, Soft Machine) : We felt like suburban fakes dressed up on Saturday and visiting the city. I never dared take LSD. I was in total awe of the audience at UFO, people like the OZ crowd. We used to come in on the train and pretend we were like them.
Just because we played long solos, people assumed we were stoned, which was great for our credibility. I didn't know much about it, but Daevid (Daevid Allen, later of Gong) had connections with a whole generation of people there, all these people with very advanced ideas. David was the Internationalist of the group. He got us into all of that. The rest of us were all provincial.
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Jeff Dexter : There was no deejay at UFO, just a guy called Jack Henry Moore who played sounds with one deck and a dodgy old reel-to-reel tape recorder. I was the deejay at Tiles nightclub, so I'd go along with the latest releases and stand beside him while he played them.
Robert Wyatt (drummer, Soft Machine) : We felt like suburban fakes dressed up on Saturday and visiting the city. I never dared take LSD. I was in total awe of the audience at UFO, people like the OZ crowd. We used to come in on the train and pretend we were like them.
Just because we played long solos, people assumed we were stoned, which was great for our credibility. I didn't know much about it, but Daevid (Daevid Allen, later of Gong) had connections with a whole generation of people there, all these people with very advanced ideas. David was the Internationalist of the group. He got us into all of that. The rest of us were all provincial.