Last summer, I ordered several Shindig back issues. One of the issues was #20 featuring the Soft Machine (I tried to find a pdf copy on the internet to share here but no luck). Also, it looks like it's no longer available to order from Shindig. Amazon has some used copies for $12. Highly recommend buying this issue if you enjoy the Soft Machine as much as I do.
Excerpt: "In July they returned to America to headline a few shows before joining Hendrix for a second US tour together. As before, because of the avant-garde stance, their set would sometimes attract hostility from both audience and promoters alike, especially when Ayers insisted upon performing "We Did it Again" ad nauseam." Brilliant.
Instead of the article, here is this youtube video of Soft Machine playing in Paris in their early, pre-jazz, Kevin Ayers havin', psychedelic freak-out days.
According to some dude on the interweb, this is "Soft Machine's live performance for French TV, entitled Ce Soir On Danse Avec Les Soft Machine (Tonight We Dance With The Soft Machine). There’s even actually some dancing going on, despite the band’s challenging alt-psych/jazz/pre-prog stylings. The original poster pegged this as being recorded August 25, 1968, but some Machineheads are pointing out that it might be from 1967 (45 years ago), as the Softs were on tour in the States in August ’68."
0:00 – A Certain Kind
3:52 – Save Yourself
5:55 – Priscilla
6:30 – Lullabye Letter
14:10 – Hope For Happiness
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