'Third'

If you were a hardcore subscriber to Guitar magazine like I was, and you wondered why Allan Holdsworth kept getting mentioned, then Soft Machine is your answer.

He played guitar for this prog-rock group at two different times, although, coincidentally, not during the recording of Softs.

Not going to blow my prog-rock load right here because I've got a lot more to go. However, it is worth mentioning that Soft Machine had 20 different line-ups over an 18-year period of synthesizing your nuts off.

I don't know if Holdsworth is in the photo above, but I'd like to think he's the weirdo on the far left.