Soft Machine The Soft Machine
1968 Vinyl Uncensored, Die-Cut Gatefold
Jazz-Rock
Psychedelic Rock
Prog Rock
Experimental

Main image
Probe, Command, ABC Records
bass guitar [uncredited] Kevin Ayers
design [cover design] Byron Goto
design [cover design] Eli Allman
design [cover design] Henry Epstein
drums Robert Wyatt
lead guitar Kevin Ayers
liner notes Arnold Shaw
mastered by George Piros
organ Mike Ratledge
producer Chas Chandler
producer Tom Wilson
Manufactured By Grand Award Record Co., Inc.
Plated At Longwear Plating
Record Company ABC Records, Inc.
Published By Amm Jay Music Inc.
First issue sleeve with a circular die-cut in sleeve, revealing rotating 'clockwork' card insert through which the band members be viewed on a full-color backing sheet. Uncensored images of a nude girl on the inside and back of the gatefold and under the clock insert. (An added bikini bottom was used to censor these images on the second US version of this album, cat suffix 'X').

Labels: Track timings on labels differ to those on inside sleeve. On the labels the side indications are 'Side 1' and 'Side 2'. First catalog number on spine and cover, second on label.

Manufactured by information is taken from label rim-text but there are no known pressing-plant marks on this version of the release. An otherwise identical version exists with 'TƧM' added to the runouts (The Soft Machine) indicating disks pressed at [l926053].
Plated at [l438055].

Mfg. by Grand Award Record Co., Inc., a subsidiary of ABC Records Inc. 1330 Avenue of the Americas, New York, N.Y. 10019.
'Command/Probe' appears on the spine while the labels and front cover show 'Command/ABC Records/Probe.'

...Selections published by Amm Jay Music Inc. - BMI.

Kevin Ayers is credited with Lead Guitar, but actually mostly plays Bass Guitar on this release.

Matrix / Runout: CPLP-4500-A (A-side label)
Matrix / Runout: CPLP-4500-B (B-side label)
Matrix / Runout: CPLP- 4500 AS - 2LW P17 LW[sideways] (A-side runout, etched, variant 1)
Matrix / Runout: CPLP- 4500 B - SB - 2SS LW[sideways] (B-side runout, etched, variant 1)



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