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Deepinder Cheema
Deepinder Cheema
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Edited Oct 18, 2013, 16:40
Re: Soft Machine - VOLUME TWO (UK Probe promo poster)
Oct 18, 2013, 16:38
lademell wrote:
Deepinder Cheema wrote:
UK Probe was manufactured and distributed by EMI so any promotional posters would have been done by the licensed record company. EMI did have promotional posters printed by their sleeve printer often with the initials EJD which is E.J.Day. I have never seen a record company resort to Silk Screen. I agree that it is possible that the band themselves or the management could have got the posters printed up, but unless you have some evidence of this then the matter is only for speculation. I think it is just as you say something created for the poster shop market. Sadly Hugh Hopper could have offered an opinion as he answered my query about Amougies, The Actuel Pop and Jazz festival with excellent recall.


I have seen oddly silk-screened promotional materials before (Tyrannosaurus Rex and some others). UK Probe was done through EMI, but in '68 and '69 there were very few materials printed by them. Yes, the first two Pink Floyd singles had flyer-size shop materials. PIPER, SAUCERFUL, MORE and UMMAGUMMA did not (UMMAGUMMA did have a US promo poster though, which I own).

Again, if this did not come via Probe/EMI, then it was through band management to be sold at gigs. Do not believe this was printed for head-shop distribution, because, as I stated earlier, Soft Machine never reached that level of penetration (a Zeppelin, Hendrix, Doors level). Also, there would be more of them in circulation.

It is a shame that Hugh Hopper is no longer here. He was a wonderful musician.


I have to correct you there. Ummagumma did have an EMI UK Harvest poster. The poster is a recreation of the LP sleeve, but because the poster is larger there are 8 iterations toward infinity, so it was a bigger cut and copydex paste job. Rick Wright is the main image seated portrait. The word Slogan is repeated on the image. It is a very rare item indeed, Storm Thorgerson borrowed my poster when he was trying to locate the work.
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