- Format: PAL
- Region: Region 2 (This DVD may not be viewable outside Europe. Read more about DVD formats.)
- Number of discs: 1
- Classification: Exempt
- Studio: Wienerworld
- DVD Release Date: 26 Jun 2006
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- ASIN: B000FGFTD2
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A First ...and the Last,
By Zarrafak "finvin" (Scotland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Soft Machine - Legacy: the 40th Year Jubilee Celebration [DVD] (DVD)
I bought Abracadabra, I believe the first CD by this basic line up, with Allan Holdsworth in place of John Etheridge on guitar (also then called 'Soft Works'), about 9 years ago as an expensive Japanese import. I'd have to say it didn't make a great immpression on me. After getting hold of a couple of excellent DVDs, one of a 1970 Paris concert Soft Machine - Alive In Paris 1970 (NEW DVD), and of a German one from 1973 Ndr Jazz Workshop: Germany May 17. 1973, I thought I'd give them another go and get this DVD to complete an overview of their career, as it were.
It's good; but not earth shattering. This may not be the first Soft Machine-derived line up to feature Dean, Hopper and Marshall, but I believe it is the first since their early 'prog/pop' incarnations to feature a saxophone/woodwind and guitar front line, without a powerful organ and/or electric piano player. Excellent though Etheridge is, I personally miss the powerful riff based composing and playing of a Mike Ratledge, or Karl Jenkins. Etheridge and Elton Dean don't really work together as a unit; each treats the band almost as a trio. Although Elton Dean provides some electric piano fills for Etheridge, he just seems to lay out when Elton plays; there's virtually no communication between them. This is in total contrast to the interaction and trading off between Dean and Ratledge in the early seventies. Basically there's just less going on with this band. I'd also have to say that although I've listened to virtually all their 70s recordings, I've always favored 'Third' to 'Seven', along with subsequent releases of live sessions, and radio transcription from that period. With the earlier, and later work I was more selective. I always thought the sound of Allan Holdsworth more tasteful and restrained than John Etheridge. That may be my problem, but it probably shouldn't be yours. Overall though, as possibly the last recording of Elton Dean, and last video footage of Hugh Hopper, it's a worthy epitaph and worth your investment.
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