SOFT MACHINE FAMILY TREE

This family tree is the work of Bruno Ceriotti. Help in putting this together has been provided by John H Warburg, to whom I'm most grateful.


MISTER HEAD (MAY 1966 - AUG 1966)

1) Robert Ellidge (aka Robert Wyatt) drums, backing vocals

2) Kevin Ayers rhythm guitar

3) Christopher Daevid Allen lead vocals, bass

4) Larry Nowlin lead guitar

SOFT MACHINE #1 (AUG 1966 - OCT ?, 1966)

1) Robert Wyatt drums, backing vocals

2) Kevin Ayers lead vocals, bass

3) Daevid Allen rhythm guitar, backing vocals

4) Larry Nowlin lead guitar

5) Michael Ronald 'Mike' Ratledge organ, piano 

SOFT MACHINE #2 (OCT ?, 1966 - AUG 16 or 24, 1967)

1) Robert Wyatt

2) Kevin Ayers

3) Daevid Allen

4) Mike Ratledge

SOFT MACHINE #3 (AUG 17 or 25, 1967 - MAY 3, 1968)

1) Robert Wyatt

2) Kevin Ayers

3) Mike Ratledge

SOFT MACHINE #4 (MAY 4, 1968 - JUL ??, 1968)

1) Robert Wyatt

2) Kevin Ayers

3) Mike Ratledge

4) Andrew James 'Andy' Somers guitar

SOFT MACHINE #5 (aka #3) (JUL ??, 1968 - DEC 20, 1968)

1) Robert Wyatt

2) Kevin Ayers

3) Mike Ratledge

SOFT MACHINE #6 (DEC 21, 1968 - OCT 1969)

  1) Robert Wyatt

2) Mike Ratledge

3) Hugh Colin Hopper bass, backing vocals

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5) Brian Hopper sax, guitar, backing vocals (from mid-May 1969 he joins the band as semi-permanent member for live gigs in England only)

SOFT MACHINE #7 (OCT 1969 - DEC 16, 1969)

1) Robert Wyatt

2) Mike Ratledge

3) Hugh Hopper

4) Mark Charig trumpet, cornet

5) Lyn Dobson tenor sax, soprano sax, flute

6) Elton Dean sax alto, saxello, keyboards

7) Nicholas Kenneth Dacre 'Nick' Evans trombone  

SOFT MACHINE #8 (DEC 17, 1969 - MAR ??, 1970)

1) Robert Wyatt

2) Mike Ratledge

3) Hugh Hopper

4) Lyn Dobson

5) Elton Dean

SOFT MACHINE #9 (MAR ??, 1970 - AUG 1971)

1) Robert Wyatt

2) Mike Ratledge

3) Hugh Hopper

4) Elton Dean

SOFT MACHINE #10 (AUG 1971 - JAN 1972)

1) Mike Ratledge

2) Hugh Hopper

3) Elton Dean

4) Phil Howard drums

SOFT MACHINE #11 (JAN 1972 - MAY ??, 1972)

1) Mike Ratledge

2) Hugh Hopper

3) Elton Dean

4) John Stanley Marshall drums, percussion

SOFT MACHINE #12 (MAY ??, 1972 - MAY ?, 1973)

1) Mike Ratledge

2) Hugh Hopper

3) John Marshall

4) Karl William Pamp Jenkins oboe, baritone sax, soprano sax, recorder, electric piano

SOFT MACHINE #13 (MAY ?, 1973 - DEC 1?, 1973)

1) Mike Ratledge

2) John Marsahll

3) Karl Jenkins

4) Roy Babbington bass, backing vocals

SOFT MACHINE #14 (DEC 1?, 1973 - APR 1975)

1) Mike Ratledge

2) John Marshall

3) Karl Kenkins

4) Roy Babbington

5) Allan Holdsworth electric guitar, acoustic guitar, backing vocals, violin

SOFT MACHINE #15 (APR 1975 - JAN 1976)

1) Mike Ratledge

2) John Marshall

3) Karl Jenkins

4) Roy Babbington

5) John Michael Glyn Etheridge guitar

SOFT MACHINE #16 (JAN 1976 - MAR ?, 1976)

1) Mike Ratledge

2) John Marshall

3) Karl Jenkins

4) Roy Babbington

5) John Etheridge

6) Alan Wakeman tenor sax, soprano sax, clarinet

SOFT MACHINE #17 (MAR ?, 1976 - JUL ?, 1976)

1) John Marshall

2) Karl Jenkins

3) Roy Babbington

4) John Etheridge

5) Alan Wakeman

SOFT MACHINE #18 (JUL ?, 1976 - AUG 31, 1976)

1) John Marshall

2) Karl Jenkins

3) Roy Babbington

4) John Etheridge

5) Raymond Kenneth 'Ray' Warleigh alto sax, bass, flute

SOFT MACHINE #18 (SEPT 1, 1976 - SEPT ??, 1976)

1) John Marshall

2) Karl Jenkins

3) John Etheridge

4) Richard' Ric' Sanders violin, violectra, mandolin, ukulele

SOFT MACHINE #19 (SEPT ??, 1976 - DEC ?, 1976)

1) Karl Jenkins

2) John Marshall

3) John Etheridge

4) Ric Sanders

5) Percy Jones bass

SOFT MACHINE #20 (DEC ?, 1976 - AUG 20, 1977)

   1) Karl Jenkins

2) John Marshall

3) John Etheridge

4) Ric Saunders

5) Steve Cook bass

SOFT MACHINE #21 (DEC 8, 1978)

1) Karl Jenkins

2) John Marshall

3) Ric Saunders

4) Steve Cook

5) Allan Holdsworth

SOFT MACHINE #22 (JUN 16, 1980 - JUL 19, 1980)

1) Karl Jenkins

2) John Marshall

3) Allan Holdsworth

4) John Symon Asher 'Jack' Bruce bass

4) John Tayor electric piano

5) Ray Warleigh

6) Richard Edwin 'Dick' Morrisey tenor sax

7) Alan Parker rhythm guitar

8) Stu Calver backing vocals

9) John Perry backing vocals

10) Douglas Anthony 'Tony' Rivers backing vocals

SOFT MACHINE #23 (JUL 30, 1984 - AUG 4, 1984)

1) Karl Jenkins

2) John Marshall

3) John Etheridge

4) Ray Warleigh

5) Dave MacRae keyboards

6) Paul Carmichael bass