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Soft Machine - VOLUME TWO (UK Probe promo poster)
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Re: Soft Machine - VOLUME TWO (UK Probe promo poster)
Oct 18, 2013, 15:59
Deepinder Cheema wrote:
Larry, there is nothing about the poster which indicates that it is a Probe records promotional poster, neither the UK or the US record company#. It is an excellent executed Silk Screen poster commonly made from the late 1960's or the early 1970's. The best thing about the poster is the words Soft Machine using that typeface* (tries to remember) The deliberate off set which sets up the inky background going into bubbles is excellent.


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#did you find it in the US or UK?


Sorry, but I have to disagree with you entirely there. Incidentally, it was found in the UK. Of course posters were silk-screened for head shops and the like back in the day. However, the Soft Machine were far too marginal a band to have had commercial materials printed in this manner. You are correct that there is no catalog information on the poster. However, for 1969, promotional items, if they were printed at all, often did not carry record company logos and the like. I have some that do and some that don't.

If this was not printed by UK Probe, then, without a doubt, it came officially from the band's management to be sold at gigs.
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