Sold Date: May 1, 2018
Start Date: April 24, 2018
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SOFT MACHINE  VOLUME TWO  

just what is that noise on Hibou, Anemone and Bear?....it can only be Hugh Hopper's fuzzed up fender, there is no other sound like it in Rock, Prog or Jazz. Hopper used the bass for heavy riffing, even lead lines and with Mike Ratledge using heavy distortion too, its not clear who is making what sound. But that what makes this album unique, the deconstruction of conventional instrumental hierarchies, nothing through the rest of the 70s sounded as revolutionary as this trio stepping on the fuzz pedals 

orig UK 1st Press with flipback cover date code 6911 (Nov 1969) PROBE SPB 1002 1969

"MADE IN GT.BRITAIN BY THE GRAMOPHONE.CO.LTD"

matrix:  SPB 1002 A-1G  /  SPB 1002 B-1G     earliest possible mothers:  1G / 1G      

label:    Black & Silver Probe labels  -  light spindle  -  one tiny sticker from my library

cover:   orig front laminated flipback G&L sleeve 

inner:    orig patent applied for...plain clean white inner  

vinyl:     super clean copy of their first UK release (Nov 1969) 

a super luscious copy of a brillant innovative album, more free or avant-garde than either of their great rivals Pink Floyd or Frank Zappa - charming and utterly English