Pink Floyd ?– The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (LP 1st Press Mono1967 VG SX6157)
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Pink Floyd ?– The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Label: Columbia ?– SX 6157 Format: Vinyl, LP, Album, Mono, 1st PressCountry: UK Released: 1967 Genre: Rock Style: Psychedelic Rock
Tracklist
A1 Astronomy Domine A2 Lucifer Sam A3 Matilda Mother A4 Flaming A5 Pow R. Toc H. A6 Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk B1 Interstellar Overdrive B2 The Gnome B3 Chapter 24 B4 The Scarecrow B5 BikeCredits
- Design [Rear Cover] – Syd Barrett
- Engineer [Recording] – Peter Bown
- Photography By [Front Cover Photo] – Vic Singh
- Producer – Norman Smith
- Written-By – Mason* (tracks: A5, B1), Wright* (tracks: A5, B1), Waters* (tracks: A5 to B1), Barrett* (tracks: A1 to A5, B1 to B5)
Notes
Inner Sleeve #1: Cream colored inner sleeve. On the front is an EMI logo at the top center, with "Add these outstanding LPs to your collection" at the top, 16 LP covers pictured in the middle including Both Sides of Herman's Hermits, and "Remember-the new Emitex cleans and preserves your records," and "Patents applied for" at the bottom. On the back is an EMI logo at the top center, with " - the greatest recording organization in the world" at the top, 16 LP covers pictured in the middle including the Beatles-Revolver, and "E.M.I. Records (The Gramophone Company Ltd.) Hayes - Middlesex - England, Made and Printed in Great Britain" at the bottom.Later releases had a white rear sleeve instead of the grey one.
Pink Floyd's debut studio album was released to an unsuspecting world in August 1967, the famous "Summer of Love."
The core theme of `Piper' revolves around singer-guitarist-frontman Syd Barrett's psychedelic journey back into childhood. Of the 11 songs on the UK release 8 are from Barrett's poetic but bizarre LSD-inspired mind, full of dreamlike imagery and unlike anything else from this time: whimsical, humorous, occasionally dark-edged, and very musical in the way of traditional songs. The mix and running order of the slightly later US release differed, and featured the single `Arnold Layne'.
Of the remaining three tracks `Astronomy Domine' and `Interstellar Overdrive' are longer space-rock numbers destined to become live-on-stage standards for the band up until 1973, growing progressively lengthier and louder with the passing years. The final song `Take up thy Stethoscope and Walk' is Roger Waters' first recorded composition, an indifferent and forgettable piece displaying little indication of the truly great lyricist he was within a few short years to become. Rick Wright's keyboard work and eerie space-rock sound effects contribute in no small measure to the album's quirky 1967 character.
`Piper at the Gates of Dawn' (the title of Chapter 7 of `The Wind in the Willows') remains an enduring monument to Syd Barrett's eccentric genius. It's a one-off, a real psychedelic classic. The follow-up album `A Saucerful of Secrets' with the more professionally grounded Dave Gilmour replacing the by-then-mentally-unstable-and-unreliable Barrett retains much of the same groove, whilst moving Pink Floyd on from being The Syd Barrett Band into a functional quartet of more-or-less equal creative professional musicians.
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