PINK FLOYD - PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN FIRST PRESSING

	£		112
	$		148

Title : The Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn

Label & year : Original Columbia SX 6157 LP , UK Mono 1967 1st Press Vinyl!!!

Matrix's : Side A : XAX 3419 - 2, Side B : XAX 3420 - 1.

About : Ultra rare Blue / Black 1st Press This psych classic sold barely anything as a Mono 1st Press (stereo was the new standard in '67) and had a very, very small run before being reissued on the black and white EMI label, and is INCREDIBLY HARD TO FIND, This album is SURELY one of Pink Floyd's best of all time. It has to be the best psychedelia i've ever heard. If you've never listened to it before, it's guaranteed to blow your mind. It certainly showed me just what sort of things are possible with sound. As you probably know, this original Mono Blue Black Columbia 1st Press is impossibly rare, even more so considering worldwide Pink Floyd collectors have snapped up most of them - so when an album as good as this one hits the market, it really is a moment to behold. Easily the greatest thing Pink Floyd ever did with every song bar one written by the genius of Syd Barrett, one of music's most notorious acid casualty's. Apparently he's fine now, and enjoys a quiet life tending his garden and watching Cricket. So that's really great, and we should be grateful that he wrote this masterpiece, one of the greatest albums of all time. This original Mono mix is extra special. Mostly mixed by Syd, you've got to hear the "Ever So High" bit in Flaming in it's Mono form, it sounds truly incredible with Roger Waters bass riff covered in echo There's a number of other differences from the stereo version too such as a growling organ at the start of Interstellar Overdrive, and if you listen carefully to the mono mix of "Pow R. Toc H.", you can hear extra vocals such as a stoned Roger Waters howling with laughter!!! Syd was a true, true genius, and this was his genius album (with a little help from his friends of course!). Absolute timeless classic psychedelic rock LP from this incredible band. An astonishing album that really contains some of the best music ever recorded by anyone, and deserves to be in every serious 60's / 70's record collection!!! Don't miss out on this MEGA RARE LP, bid now!!!

Tracklist : Astonomy Domine, Lucifer Sam, Matlda Mother, Flaming, Pow R. Toc H., Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk, Interstellar Overdrive, The Gnome, Chapter 24, The Scarecrow, and Bike.

Musicians : Syd Barrett- Vocals / Lead Guitar, Roger Waters - Bass Guitar / Vocals, Rick Wright - Organ / Piano, Nick Mason - Drums, and Norman Smith - Producer.

Trivia : This was part of a collection of classic albums recorded in Abbey Road in the summer of 1967 - in the studio's next door, The Beatles were building Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band, and in the next one on The Pretty Things were building SF Sorrow! It's rumored that Syd did this Mono mix by making star shapes on the mixing desk!

The LP :

Labels : Blue and Black 1st Press Columbia labels. There is no silly writing on this album lables and it still retains most of it's sheen from when it was first pressed in 1976, I must grade overall as very good + .

Record : Visual ultra thick 1st Press Vinyl. Nice bright, clean and shiny, jet black mirror like surfaces. The only blemishes I can see is side two has a very fine mark across it but after playing this it dose not affect the reproduction. There are just a small amount of the lightest, wispy sleeve traces (only visible in strong light) from where it has been removed from it's cover over the years a good example for a record of this age and rarity Must grade overall as very good+

Record : Audio - Fantastic mono clarity It really sounds amazing

Sleeve : Original E.J Day Syd Barrett designed 1967 E.J Day front laminated cover Very hard to find, two or three creases near the edges, and some visable ringwear in some parts. The back is also showing some aging but no writing, a couple of minor creases I will grade this sleeve as very good+

(Now, there was only ever ONE Blue Black Mono press of this LP, but there is some debate whether sleeves with the small "File under Popular" text on the back are 1st or 2nd Press sleeves. This one does have that text, but a friend of mine who bought his copy within days of it's 1st release also has the text on the back of his, so, i'm led to believe that there must have been two seperate factories printing off the sleeves at the same time with slightly different designs. Even if the sleeve was a so called "2nd press" (which I don't think it is), i'm convinced that they were still pressed up before it's very first 1967 release.)

Summary : A truly rare copy of this MONO 1ST PRESS LP by the worlds best progressive rock band

PINK FLOYD

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I have added a picture of another Floyd single JULIA DREAMS which is a very rare single indeed.

Thia is beind sold as a 7" single in my other items and is a must for all floyd collectors everywhere.

This single dose not come up for sale very often.