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Roy Babbington (born 8 July 1940 in Kempston, Bedfordshire, England) is an English rock and jazz bassist. He became well known for being a member of the Canterbury scene progressive rock band Soft Machine.
6 de dez. de 2021 · Soft Machine have announced that bass player Roy Babbington has retired. The longstanding bass playr has also chosen his successor for the band in former In Cahoots bass player Fred Thelonious Baker.
7 de dez. de 2021 · Photo credit Soft Machine. “It is with sadness that Soft Machine announce that Roy Babbington is retiring from the band as bass player after playing with the band since 1970. His first recording with Soft Machine was with Robert Wyatt, Mike Ratledge, Elton Dean and Hugh Hopper on the album ‘Fourth’.
21 de set. de 2018 · Now, 50 years after the release of the influential English jazz-rock band’s self-titled debut, Babbington and former Soft Machine members have released Hidden Details (MoonJune). It takes cues from the band’s classic line-up, but nods at grunge and electronica as well.
He replaced Roy Babbington in Soft Machine in January 2022 and was in fact chosen by Roy to be his successor. Fred is perhaps best known for playing in Phil Miller's Canterbury scene band ‘In Cahoots’. He has also played with many musicians and groups on the Canterbury scene, including Pip Pyle, Elton Dean, Hugh Hopper.
Babbington’s got business calls coming in, so we swiftly move on to amplification. “Back in the early days I carried around a massive Leak TL50 with a pre-amp on it and a Marshall 4X12 cabinet. That was my Soft Machine rig in the early-70s and I stopped using that when I stopped using the Fender six string.”
In 1973, after the release of Six, Hopper left and was replaced by Roy Babbington, another former Nucleus member, who had already contributed with double bass on Fourth and Fifth and took up (6-string) electric bass successfully, while Karl Jenkins
