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Mike Ratledge played keyboards in [[Soft Machine]] during Allan's tenure with the band. | Mike Ratledge played keyboards in [[Soft Machine]] during Allan's tenure with the band. | ||
==[[No Secrets (Facelift 1994)]]== | |||
"So they said then OK, this is what this tune is and then I'd play on a couple of the things. Then they asked me to do a couple of gigs with them as a guest, so I did that. And then after that they asked me join the band. I really had a lot of fun with that band - they were good times. They were all great guys - Kari Jenkins, Mike Ratledge, Roy Babbington, John Marshall. It was really good fun". | |||
==[[Sad scene say Softs (Melody Maker 1974)]]== | |||
Mike Ratledge has always been a somewhat jazz-tinged rock musician, right from the early days when the influence of Cecil Taylor could be heard strongly in his playing, when jazz was really a dirty word. On the other hand, Karl Jenkins served his apprenticeship in jazz bands like Nucleus. | |||
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