Always think that in any area of the arts, you get maybe ten percent of people who are creative, original... and the rest are generally following on, copying.

After Elton Dean who died in February 2006 Theo Travis [1] replaced him and Soft Machine Legacy recorded the album Steam released in 2007. In 1972 shortly before leaving Soft Machine he recorded the first record under his own name 1984 (named after George Orwell's novel).

Hugh Colin Hopper (29 April 1945 – 7 June 2009) was a British progressive rock and jazz fusion bass guitarist.