PINK FLOYD - PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN 1st pr MONO LP
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The PINK FLOYD-THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
EXTREMELY RARE UK COLUMBIA 1st PRESSING MONO LP SX 6157
Blue Black COLUMBIA label
MATRIX No.s: XAX 3419-2 / XAX 3420-1 (1 R & 1 M stampers)
"SOLD IN UK" & "THE GRAMOPHONE CO. LTD")
E.J. DAY LAMINATED BLANK FLIPBACK COVER (without "FILE UNDER POP" REFERENCE), and original advertising inner (EX condition) VINYL IN VERY GOOD+ CONDITION
SLEEVE IN VERY GOOD+ CONDITION
The vinyl displays generally light marks, with absolutely no major playing faults, skips or jumps and still playing with great clarity and power with light background noise in the quietest areas only. There is a tiny nick to "BIKE" causing a short "tick", but this is the most serious point to note, and I would still grade that track as "VERY GOOD". Overall, a very respectable copy. The labels are excellent, with very bright titles, light spindle wear and no writing damage. The E.J.DAY sleeve is in very respectable condition. There are some record related wrinkles and a tiny, tiny nick to front upper right corner where a label has been removed. The spine is superb with unblemished titles and sharp edges. The lamination is still very glossy and the sleeve displays no edge splits or major wear, and the unlaminated rear is very clean, with superb flipback and no graffiti or major rubbing. Very respectable. Beautifully clean flipback, no significant edgewear and a razor sharp sleeve opening. A nice copy of a massively sought after record.
A GREAT ADDITION TO YOUR COLLECTION!
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; onstage, 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, child-like wonder.
The group landed a recording contract with EMI in early 1967 and made the Top 20 with a brilliant debut single, "Arnold Layne," a sympathetic, comic vignette about a transvestite. The follow-up, the kaleidoscopic "See Emily Play," made the Top Ten. The debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, also released in 1967, may have been the greatest British psychedelic album. Dominated almost wholly by Barrett's songs, the album was a charming funhouse of driving, mysterious rockers ("Lucifer Sam"), odd character sketches ("The Gnome"), childhood flashbacks ("Bike," "Matilda Mother"), and freakier pieces with lengthy instrumental passages ("Astronomy Domine," "Interstellar Overdrive," "Pow R Toc H") that mapped out their fascination with space travel. The record was not only like no other at the time; it was like no other that Pink Floyd would make, coloured as it was by a vision that was far more humorous, pop-friendly, and light-hearted than those of their subsequent epics.
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