However, the recording quality is still vibrant, electric and exciting. Much of the "stereo" is panned hard-left/hard-right but with good center vocal fill as in 4 track recording with desperate aspirations for more tracks that would arrive later at EMI. Listening now to "Flaming" you can hear Robyn Hitchcock say to himself "I must make a record!". It hasn't lost its ability to excite the senses and drop you through the worm hole of time into a magnificent cosmic space. The opening Joe Meek and the Tornadoes meets LSD- twang-bar guitar-drenched "Astonomy Dominé" sets the stage for the album and for Pink Floyd's long career. Norman Smith, best known for engineering early Beatles albums, produced this one, engineer by Peter Brown. TOCH H" is credited to the group and one ("Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk") is by Roger Waters. Pink Floyd's startling 1967 debut was a Syd Barrett extravaganza-the workings of a brilliant, but soon to be unhinged mind (if he wasn't already) who wrote all but two of the album's eleven tracks of gliding, swooning, off-kilter psychedelia. While the jackets (where appropriate) are not "fold-over", the image of the folds is there, and look so real you will need to run your finger over them to be sure they are just images. The packaging, including the artwork reproduction, is outstanding. I was sent three of the four (not sent A Saucerful of Secrets).
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Bernie Grundman's "BG" scribe mark is on the inner groove area of the 180g LPs, which I believe were pressed at RTI (the other three albums are soundtrack from the film More, A Saucer Full of Secrets and the double LP Ummagumma.
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Long time Pink Floyd curator and engineer James Guthrie (that description sells him short, but that will have to suffice for a record review) along with Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman mastered this and the others in the series from "the original analogue master tapes".
and Europe Sony for the rest of the world. Warner Music will manufacture and distribute in the U.K. Sony/Columbia Records is Pink Floyd's American label. Roger Waters' "Grantchester Meadows" was a lyrical folk-like number unlike almost anything else the group ever did.Sony/Legacy recently announced that Pink Floyd's catalog would be reissued on vinyl for the first time in twenty years. The studio LP was more experimental, each member getting a certain amount of space on the record to make his own music - Richard Wright's "Sysyphus" was a pure keyboard work, featuring various synthesizers, organs, and pianos David Gilmour's "The Narrow Way" was a three-part instrumental for acoustic and electric guitars and electronic keyboards, and Nick Mason's "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" made use of a vast range of acoustic and electric percussion devices. "Astronomy Domine," "Careful with That Axe Eugene," "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun," and "A Saucerful of Secrets" are all superior here to their studio originals, done longer, louder, and harder, with a real edge to the playing. They also sound like they've got the amplifiers to make their music count, which is more than the early band had. Featuring the band's second lineup (i.e., no Syd Barrett), the set shows off a very potent group, their sound held together on-stage by Nick Mason's assertive drumming and Roger Waters' powerful bass work, which keep the proceedings moving no matter how spaced out the music gets. The live set, recorded in Birmingham and Manchester in June 1969, is limited to four numbers, all drawn from the group's first two LPs or their then-recent singles. For many years, this double-LP was one of the most popular albums in Pink Floyd's pre- Dark Side of the Moon output, containing a live LP and a studio LP for the price of one.
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