SYD BARRETT BARRETT VINYL LP TEXTURED COVER LP A-2-1-4 B-2-1-2 GC DAVID GILMORE
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SYD BARRETT
BARRETT
MATRIX: A-2-1-4 B-2-1-2
For the condition of the cover see picures. I have tried to show that this is the textured cover, hopefully you can see that in some of the pictures.
The vinyl plays well no jumps or scratches. Sounds great and is one of the most creative and original LP's from that period.
Barrett was musically active for less than ten years. With Pink Floyd, he recorded four singles, their debut album (and contributed to the second one), and several unreleased songs. Barrett began his solo career in 1969 with the single "Octopus" from his first solo album, The Madcap Laughs (1970). The album was recorded over the course of a year with five different producers (Peter Jenner, Malcolm Jones, David Gilmour, Roger Waters and Barrett himself). Nearly two months after Madcap was released, Barrett began working on his second and final album, Barrett (1970), produced by Gilmour and featuring contributions from Richard Wright. He went into self-imposed seclusion until his death in 2006.
Barrett Main article: Barrett (album)
The second album, Barrett, was recorded more sporadically than the first, with sessions taking place between February and July 1970. The album was produced by David Gilmour, and featured Gilmour on bass guitar, Richard Wright on keyboard and Humble Pie drummer Jerry Shirley. The first two songs attempted were for Barrett to play and/or sing to an existing backing track. However, Gilmour thought they were losing the "Barrett-ness". One track ("Rats") was originally recorded with Barrett on his own. That would later be overdubbed by musicians, despite the changing tempos. Shirley said of Barrett's playing: "He would never play the same tune twice. Sometimes Syd couldn't play anything that made sense; other times what he'd play was absolute magic." At times Barrett would say: "Perhaps we could make the middle darker and maybe the end a bit middle afternoonish. At the moment it's too windy and icy".
These sessions were happening while Pink Floyd had just begun to work on Atom Heart Mother. On various occasions, Barrett went to "spy" on the band as they recorded their album.
Wright said of the Barrett sessions:
Doing Syd's record was interesting, but extremely difficult. Dave [Gilmour] and Roger did the first one (The Madcap Laughs) and Dave and myself did the second one. But by then it was just trying to help Syd any way we could, rather than worrying about getting the best guitar sound. You could forget about that! It was just going into the studio and trying to get him to sing.Released 14 November 1970 Recorded 26 February – 21 July 1970, at Abbey Road Studios Genre Psychedelic rock, blues rock Length 38:43 (Original release)
56:13 (Crazy Diamond reissue) Label Harvest (UK)
Capitol Records (US) Producer David Gilmour
Side one
No. Title Notes Length
1. "Baby Lemonade"
- Take 1, recorded 26 February 1970
- Take 1, recorded 17 July 1970, overdubs added 17 July
- Take 3, recorded 14 July 1970
- Take 1, recorded 17 July 1970, overdubs added 20 July
- Demo, recorded 7 May 1970, overdubs added 5 June
- Take 2, recorded 26 February 1970
No. Title Notes Length
7. "Gigolo Aunt"
- Take 15, recorded 27 February 1970, overdubs added 2 April
- Take 1, recorded 27 February 1970, overdubs and new vocal track 2 April
- Take 1, recorded 27 February 1970, overdubs and new vocal track 2 April
- Take 10, recorded 14 July 1970
- Take 2, recorded 3 April 1970
- Take 9, recorded 14 July 1970
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