PSYCHEDELIC LIGHT SHOW UFO 1967: Soft Machine

[@jandiep1]

I saw this show in Rotterdam when Jimi Hendriks, Soft Machine and Pink Floyd went on tour. I was so impressed by the lights that I started my own lightshow. Great days. Everything was possible.

[@davidlh6147]

Same here.Really inspiring

[@paulcarew593]

You saw Hendrix, Soft Machine and Pink Floyd on the same bill - now that is something to talk about.

[@Valientlink]

@@paulcarew593 Was a very good show for the Floyd too despite their seemingly "disastrous" show in the US 3 days before. I don't buy a lot of those stories, nobody has them straight. When they weren't always positively reviewed it's because people just didn't get it, they'd go on long improvised jams with their binson boxes and most people enjoyed it but some people, like in Germany just tossed beer bottles and yelled at them to get off hence the whole "Reaction in G" song.

[@ursulabischofbergervaldes23]

Debías de ser un crack! Qué suerte!!!

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

Ok that’s interesting so please tell me more

[@nutritiongod]

I was lucky enough in 1967 to be hired to assist the Mark Boyle Sensual Laboratory running projectors for their light show. The show was for Soft Machine who were the opening act for Jimi Hendrix's first US tour. Pretty heady stuff for a 14 year old.

[@jdmresearch]

Lucky!

[@Darltornjacket]

Jim English I was lucky enough to see that show it was at the Sheraton Hotel Ball room. The Local. Band was Ulysses who opened the show That show changed my live. I was 15 in 67. Cheers

[@pnicosiss1]

Did you know or see performances there of an Argentinian dancer called Graciela Martinez?

[@dean6816]

I remember hearing about 60s psychedelia in my early teens and instantly becoming obsessed with it!!

[@GALLILAO]

i use to go to the UFO middle earth club and roundhouse back then tripping and they had this all the time those where the days the allnighters and the lyceum most it now a blur but if i read up and watch vidoes come back i went to see Pink Floyd Yardbirds Trex hndreds band but cant remember half of it just bit haze as they closed down moved onto the Borderline and 100 club

[@JeffJimmyJimi]

Buy an old overhead projector. Put down a clear sheet, pour a bit of olive oil on it, add a few drops of various food colourings and place a 2nd clear sheet on top. The heat from the lap causes the colours to bend and shift. Before adding the second sheet you can drag a toothpick to start a pattern.

[@jonesey904]

Saw this kind of light show projected on a big movie screen behind Soft Machine when they opened for Hendrix at the Capitol Theater in Ottawa, Canada in March 1968. Had not seen it since. Loved it then, love it now.

[@charlottejohanna1234]

WOW!

[@marcfedak]

Great post Music is Love. This gives someone like me who was too young to see them play live a bit of a sense of what their trip out shows must have been like. (Lucky bastards who got to see Soft Machine and Jimi Hendrix Experience sharing the bill.)

[@FarRite5921]

Very nice job with the acid-like background. Cheers.

[@keltyk]

@gnowave -Daevid Allen was out of the band when this was recorded- it's from their first lp

[@AnthonyMonaghan]

OK I'm gonna say it...this is beautiful man!

[@timothylee6859]

very cool. the whole thing is so antilog. Don't change a thing, amazing for the time it was done.

[@chrisarnold3553]

Search Light fantastic (1968) - old Pathe footage of Mark Leonard who actually did Pink Floyd's first kights show at Hornsey College of Art).

[@blueguitar411]

this is gorgeous; thank you

[@theloniousratledge8835]

8:05: Cecil Taylor all'organo Lowrey!🙂

[@revmarctime1]

This is the same recording as the first LP, done in the studio.

[@summerstone7]

good trip, ma an...

[@croiners4166]

Wow!

[@lopedeaguirre1]

Bravura!

[@NoiseSwarm]

time travel made possible..... thanks

[@theloniousratledge8835]

Il "Light Shaw" è del 1967, la musica è del LP "The Soft Machine".

[@susaninmaine]

fantastic - thank you! but why is there an ad in the middle? :/

[@jacobrivers420]

lets all triiip to Wonderland!

[@SusanDoran]

[@MarcsWishes5]

Do you have the rights for the video? I would like to use it for my video.

[@animalmother4]

@dougshairyback I think its just right

[@bradjamison]

pretty much recorded live, you can hear someone clapping at the start of the key's solo...I wonder who is that? is that a keyboard bass underneath as the wah wah bass solo is embarking on its journey?

[@carnack53]

but this is the album track

[@e.arruda7410]

It's in the studio. Frist tracks from Soft Machine's first LP. Graham Bennett in his book writes that, although fuzz boxes had famously been used with guitars in rock music, "it was Mike Ratledge who apparently first thought of using a fuzz box with an organ." I add: he probably learned a thing or two touring with Hendrix

[@petalsandflowers]

@@e.arruda7410 Mike was using a fuzz with his Lowrey Holiday Deluxe long before touring with Hendrix.

[@andrewarthurmatthews6685]

I think you will find the story tells of Jimi suggesting or demonstrating to Mike how to change the organ sound with a fuzz box . So not Mike’s idea as such

[@susaninmaine]

Hi -- who is the man self-consciously dancing? It doesn't look like 1967 but I could be wrong -- please apprise! thanks.

[@henkdrie]

I am not sure what this is, not a lightshow to a concert, it is the record playing with someone making light effects on a computer. Copyright issues?

[@scottstevenz8732]

peace pot microdot !

[@michaelmclaughlin8339]

I would put that in fotoshop and PUMP UP THE COLOR. The images were too dark

[@ferjuan3489]

Daevid Allen whas Hear?

[@petalsandflowers]

Daevid Allen was deported in the Summer of 1967, this was recorded in April 1968. So, no, Daevid was not in this.

[@UniquelyAttractive]

2:30

[@streetcarjay]

and I wanna take you higher by Sly and the Family Stone

[@greggasiorowski1326]

That guy looked more modern, is this a retro thing? 🤷

[@petalsandflowers]

No. This is an actual Mark Boyle film from 1967. The dancer was probably in there to simulate what bands at the time called ”idiot dancing” that was real popular at happenings at the time.

[@streetcarjay]

The best song to listen while watching this is "You keep me hanging on" by Vanilla Fudge.

[@garyaker3215]

could use a better dancer

[@Sweetstyleh]

Wtf is this?

[@bluethunder6801]

Music real music!

[@markpearson4693]

It says - Soft machine !

[@BurningSpear213]

Could've done without the lame dancing guy.

[@croiners4166]

Wow!