![]() That was the impetus behind Peter Brötzmann's composition and subsequent LP, Machine Gun. But in Paris during the spring of '68, the students took the reins, and across northern Europe, a euphoric attitude had spread, charged by a sense that the world was not stuck forever but in fact could be changed. This in spite of the fact that the shitheads seemed to have the upper hand, with the quagmire of Vietnam, the intractability of the American struggle for Civil Rights, Martin Luther King's assassination, the 'shoot to kill' order in Chicago. In 1968, there was a palpable sense of optimism in the air. ![]() Arguably the single-most important landmark in European free music: the original BRO Records LP restored to its '68 format, with two alternate takes, new liner notes by Brötzmann and John Corbett - PLUS the only live version of 'Machine Gun' ever recorded. ![]()
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