Pink Floyd The Piper At The Gates... vinyl LP record UK

	£		362
	$		480

    ARTIST: PINK FLOYD TITLE: The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - 1st (b) - G DESCRIPTION: PINK FLOYD The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (Rare 1967 UK first pressing 11-track mono LP on the blue & black Columbia label. This copy comes in the second variant front laminated flipback picture sleeve with File Under Popular printed on topflipback in the right corner and with 6709 TPS Printed and made by Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd. London SX 6157 / SCX 6157 at the bottom SX6157)
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TRACKLISTING: Background & Condition :-

The album was released on August 5th 1967 and one month later it was released in stereo.
The albums title comes from the title of the seventh chapter of Kenneth Grahames The Wind in the Willows!

The mono mixes of each track were done at separate sessions as it was the main format.
The whole stereo album mix was a one day thing so this really is the definitive mix of this classic album with significant differences to the stereo mix.
Subtle changes in effect abound moment to moment gradations that can alter the flow of an entire track. For example Syd Barrett?s whoops and shouts on Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk are simply dripping with delay and the environment constantly morphs unlike the stereo version which is fixed.
The coda of Flaming is shorter than on the stereo version as is The Gnome. Theres a whole layer of organ missing on the stereo mix at the start of Interstellar Overdrive with a bongo fade-out and seriously different parts in Pow R Toch H.
As the engineer said many years later &quotThe omission of things in the stereo mixes was really just because of the time - or lack of it - spent over these"
Mono was the de-facto standard and the stereo mix like Sgt Pepper was pretty much cobbled together as an afterthought.

The Sleeve :-

Still with the original EMI catalogue inner enclosed which has a little handwritting on. The Ernest J. Day & Co. sleeve displays some creasing to the laminate and shows a pinhole to the top right corner from previous display. The flipbacks are nice & secure with a minor tape mark and a small area of paper loss. The spine perfectly legible & despite a little creasing to the laminate the print remains bright vivid & unblemished with File Under Popular printed on the back & 6709 release date bottom right. Overall a Good/Very Good sleeve.

The Disc :-

The labels are the blue and black Columbia design with &quotThe Gramophone Co Ltd" and &quotSold In UK Subject To...." text. There are a few spindle marks visible but otherwise the labels are clean & all text clearly legible.

The matrix numbers are:
XAX 3419-2 On Side One
XAX 3420-1 On Side Two

The vinyl has been professionally cleaned & played. The start of Side 1 begins with a little light distortion in passages before the track gets going. The surface noise is not obtrusive to the actual music and settles down in time for the song to properly kick off. The disc plays through a treat despite a few mark visible to both sides this does not affect play & the quiet passages between each track has just a little background sound. There are quite a few marks/hairlines visible but again this does not affect the playback a great deal. The whole disc plays through just fine & sounds much much better than our conservative G grading (more like VG)!

Great chance to grab a first issue MONO for a fair price!

Tracklisting :-

1. Astronomy Domin?
2. Lucifer Sam
3. Matilda Mother
4. Flaming
5. Pow R Toc H
6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk
7. Interstellar Overdrive
8. The Gnome
9. Chapter 24
10. Scarecrow
11. Bike FORMAT: Vinyl LP RECORD LABEL: Columbia CATALOGUE No: SX6157 COUNTRY: UK YEAR: 1967 ADDITIONAL INFO: Deleted BARCODE: N/A ALTERNATIVE ARTIST NAMES: pink floid The Pink Floyd SELLER INFO: eil outlet [part of Esprit International Limited / EILare the world"s largest retailer for rare, used and hard to find vinyl, CD"s and music collectibles from the 60s, 70s, 80, 90s through to today,click here for our store.
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