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Mike Ratledge, Keyboardist in Soft Machine, Dies at 81
Soft Machine founding member and keyboard player Mike Ratledge died on Wednesday, February 5 after a brief illness, according to his former bandmate and guitarist John Etheridge. “Mike was the ...
Iconic rocker dead at 81: ‘What a loss to all of us’
Mike Ratledge, a founding member of Soft Machine ... hours ago after a brief illness,” former Soft Machine guitarist John ...
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"Behind those dark glasses and unsmiling visage, he presented an inscrutable presence." Soft Machine's Mike Ratledge remembered...
Mike Ratledge ... Cecil Taylor and saxophonist John Coltrane’s ‘sheets of sound’ technique. These elements ultimately found a vivid expression in Ratledge’s late 1960s playing that ...