Ah soft machine, they opened for the 1968 hendrix concert i saw as well. Early soft machine was nowhere as good as the later bruford and holdsworth version. I joined the chants for hendrix while SM was playing and it ended with the singer down on his knees in some dramatic finale.
Hendrix needed two roadies behind his marshalls to hold them up from hendrix’ frontal assault. Incredible concert. The whole thing was a mitch mitchell drum solo sort of with the whole band playing if that makes any sense.
They dont make concerts like that any more. Thanks for resurrecting the memories.
I saw Hendrix a second time at the PHX Coliseum. Vanilla Fudge opened and killed it. People were chanting for Fudge 10 min into Jimi’s set. He was totally drugged out that time and couldn’t tune his guitar. (”We tune because we care for your ears.”)