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 Discography : The Piper at the Gates of Dawn |
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Release Date - August 5, 1967
UK Chart - #6; US Chart - #131
Syd Barrett - Lead Guitar & Vocals
Roger Waters - Bass Guitar & Vocals
Richard Wright - Organ & Piano
Nick Mason - Drums
Produced by Norman Smith
Recording Engineer Peter Brown
Cover Photography Vic Singh
CD Booklet Photographs:
Dezo Hoffman, Adrian Boot,
Chris Walters &
unknown photographers
Remastering supervised by
James Guthrie
Mastered by Doug Sax
At The Mastering Lab, L.A.
Re-package Design:
Storm Thorgerson
& Jon Crossland
TRACKS
Astronomy Domine (Barrett) [04:08] Vocals by Barret and Wright.
Lucifer Sam (Barrett) [03:03] Vocals by Barrett.
Matilda Mother (Barrett) [03:05] Vocals by Wright and Barrett (last verse).
Flaming (Barrett) [02:42] Vocals by Barrett.
Pow R. Toc H. (Barrett, Waters, Wright, Mason) [04:22] Vocals by Barrett and Waters.
Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk (Waters) [03:03] Vocals by Waters.
Interstellar Overdrive (Barrett, Waters, Wright, Mason) [09:41]
Instrumental. The Gnome (Barrett) [02:11] Vocals by Barrett.
Chapter 24 (Barrett) [03:38] Vocals by Barrett.
The Scarecrow (Barrett) [02:07] Vocals by Barrett.
Bike (Barrett) [03:22] Vocals by Barrett.
Total Playing Time: 41'58
INFO
Release date: August 5th, 1967
This was pink floyds first album. At this time they were not mainstream
but popular with the underground rock and roll crowd. Their
first single "Arnold Layne" which was released in March of 1967
had played on the charts as #20 for some time. This first single was
their big break and gained them nationwide exposure. Their next single
"See Emily Play" played as #6 on the charts for 7 entire weeks. The
popularity of these two singles spawned the creation of "Piper at the
Gates of Dawn"
In 1967 Pink Floyd started out with EMI's at the Abbey Road studio with
music written about many psychedelic and fantasy ideas. The
trademark sounds of The Pink Floyd were the sound of Syd Barretts
Guitar and Rick Wrights one of a kind Organ sound.
The title of the album comes from the the seventh chapter of Kenneth
Graham's "The Wind in the Willows" book, where Ratty and Molly set of
to search a lost animal, and have something akin to a religious
experience when they encounter The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (Pan).
This book was a favorite of Syd's.
The ink paintings on the back cover was drawn by Syd Barrett, based on
some photographs of the band members standing behind each other.
The United States release was different than the United Kingdom one (as
always huh, they just cant leave well enough alone) featuring the
following tracks: See Emily Play, Pow R. Toch, Take Up My Stethoscope
And Walk, Lucifer Sam, Matilda Mother, The Scarecrow, The Gnome,
Chapter 24 and Interstellar Overdrive.
There are some different types of cover art. "Pink Floyd" was written
either with paisley stripes, while others with rainbow stripes. Some
italian pressings have a picture of the group with David Gilmour on the
cover. And a 1983 low budget reissues include "Fame" (a division
of the Harvest record label) written across one corner.
QUOTES
Nick Mason: "We were given Norman Smith by EMI, no arguments. So Joe
Boyd, our original producer, got written out of the thing. Norman was
more interested in making us sound like a classical rock band. It was a
bit like the George Martin thing, a useful influence to have. But I
think Joe would have given Syd his head, let him run in a freer way. We
spent three months recording it, which was quite a long time in
those days. Bands used to have to finish albums in a week, with session
players brought in to play the difficult bits. But because The
Beatles were taking their time recording Sgt Pepper in the studio next
door, EMI thought this was the way people now made records. We were
taken in to meet them once, while they were recording Lovely Rita. It
was a bit like meeting the Royal family."
Former manager Peter Jenner: "Norman was being the perfect A&R man. He
realized Syd could write great pop songs. If we'd put out what we were
playing live, it wouldn't have sold fuck at all. The one song here that
was like the live shows was Interstellar Overdrive. They played
it twice, one version recorded straight on top of the other. They
doubletracked the whole track. Why? Well it sounds pretty fucking weird
doesn't it? That big sound and all those hammering drums."
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