The fine line between soft-rock and power ballads began to blur and intersect during the early part of the '80s as hard-rock bands that shunned the former label found ways around the scorned descriptor. So, "I Want to Know What Love Is" becameForeigner's biggest hit, thanks to help fro...
The 1970s and 1980s saw the rise of a new generation of soft rock artists who embraced a more polished, radio-friendly sound, expanding the genre's appeal beyond the traditional rock audience. Bands and artists like Fleetwood Mac, Eagles, Elton John, Billy Joel, Hall & Oates, Christopher ...
Soft Machine are an English rock and jazz band from Canterbury formed in mid-1966, named after the novel The Soft Machine by William S. Burroughs. Australian poet, guitarist, singer, composer and performance artist Daevid Allen moved to Paris in 1960. Inspired by the emerging 'Beat Generation...
were one of the greatest UK avant/jazz-rock bands of all time and their work continues to be name-checked by today's hip experimentalists. "Soft Machine were the grooviest, coolest psychedelic band of the era..." - Phil Manzanera
Soft Machine were a fairly impenetrable band, you either loved them or loathed them .Originally the Softs featured the well known 60s rock eccentrics Daevid Allen and Kevin Ayers, but they left fairly early on in the piece . I used to like them quite a bit and I saw them once at the...
From watching a 1970 concert of the Spft, they to me can compete with the best and well renown jazz fusion bands in the US in both groove, melodicisme and band interplay. So who to you carry the heavyest stick in creating the wildest fusion of jazz,rock and what ever. lets concentrst...
Next month will find the band at BottleRock in Napa. Just as one of the most talked about bands at last year’s event was Vintage Trouble, one can reasonably expect that to be the case for The Soft White Sixties. Much like Vintage Trouble, and their vocalist, Ty Taylor in particular,...
rock's most popular bands. Part of it had to do with Morrison's increasing unreliability; his boozing had grown so severe that guitarist Robby Krieger ended up writing half the songs and even singing one. But part of it also had to do with the band's restlessness. They got their No....
The hard rock and metal god facade cultivated by many rock musicians and singers is sometimes nothing more than that. Most of the time, the guys and ...
Musicista di spicco della scena di Canterbury, fu membro deiSoft Machinee di diverse altre band ad essi collegate. He was a prominent member of the Canterbury scene, as a member ofSoft Machineand various other related bands. WikiMatrix ...