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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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Latest revision as of 13:28, 14 March 2018
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.
