PINK FLOYD-THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN-1960's ORIGINAL Aust EMI SCXO 6157
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PINK FLOYD-THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN-LP VINYL SET 1960-70's Original Australian Pressing-EMI-Rarest LP. STEREO: SCXO 6157.
COVER: (Grade at GOOD+) light age spots on front and back.
INNER COVERS: (Grade at GOOD+) light age spots.
LABELS: (Grade at GOOD)
VINYL:
PINK FLOYD-THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN-1960-70's ORIGINAL Australian Pressing- EMI (Australia) Limited-Stereo-SCXO 6157. In excellent condition with some cover and record ware due to age. Side One: Astronomy Domine-Lucifer Sam-Matilda Mother-Flaming-Pow R Toc H-Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk-Side Two: Interstallar Overdrive-The Gnome-Chapter 24-The Scarecrow-Bike-Genuine Australian Pressing of a classic Floyd masterpiece. Made and Printed in Australia-Played and checked!!!!!! Get the Original Iconic LP-FREE POSTAGE WITH TRACKING IN AUSTRALIA....See my other Pink Floyd Australian Albums up soon. Pink Floyd is the premier space rock band. Since the mid-'60s, their music relentlessly tinkered with electronics and all manner of special effects to push pop formats to their outer limits. At the same time they wrestled with lyrical themes and concepts of such massive scale that their music has taken on almost classical, operatic quality, in both sound and words. Despite their astral image, the group was brought down to earth in the 1980s by decidedly mundane power struggles over leadership and, ultimately, ownership of the band's very name. After that time, they were little more than a dinosaur act, capable of filling stadiums and topping the charts, but offering little more than a spectacular recreation of their most successful formulas. Their latter-day staleness cannot disguise the fact that, for the first decade or so of their existence, they were one of the most innovative groups around, in concert and (especially) in the studio.
While Pink Floyd are mostly known for their grandiose concept albums of the 1970s, they started as a very different sort of psychedelic band. Soon after they first began playing together in the mid-'60s, they fell firmly under the leadership of lead guitarist Syd Barrett, the gifted genius who would write and sing most of their early material. The Cambridge native shared the stage with Roger Waters (bass), Rick Wright (keyboards), and Nick Mason (drums). The name Pink Floyd, seemingly so far-out, was actually derived from the first names of two ancient bluesmen (Pink Anderson and Floyd Council). And at first, Pink Floyd were much more conventional than the act into which they would evolve, concentrating on the rock and R&B material that were so common to the repertoires of mid-'60s British bands.
Pink Floyd quickly began to experiment, however, stretching out songs with wild instrumental freak-out passages incorporating feedback; electronic screeches; and unusual, eerie sounds created by loud amplification, reverb, and such tricks as sliding ball bearings up and down guitar strings. In 1966, they began to pick up a following in the London underground; on-stage, they began to incorporate light shows to add to the psychedelic effect. Most importantly, Syd Barrett began to compose pop-psychedelic gems that combined unusual psychedelic arrangements (particularly in the haunting guitar and celestial organ licks) with catchy melodies and incisive lyrics that viewed the world with a sense of poetic, childlike wonder.
…. By this time Waters was taking a firm hand over Pink Floyd's lyrical and musical vision, which was consolidated by The Wall (1979).
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