PINK FLOYD Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Rare Mono Vinyl
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PINK FLOYD The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn
Rare original 1967 UK 11-track 1st pressing blue & black Columbia label MONO vinyl LP album, housed in a front laminated flipback picture sleeve manufactured by Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd without the 'File Under Pop' text on the back.
The sleeve has some signs of age with a small creases in the laminate, generally good condition for 43 years old! The vinyl has some surface marks but plays without problems, the label has some spindle marks - overal would be classed as VG+, still a great copy SX6157.
Background :-
This remarkable first pressing was released on August 5, 1967 and one month later it was released in stereo. The album's title comes from the title of the seventh chapter of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows' !
The mono mixes of each track were done at seperate 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'. There's a whole layer of organ missing on the stereo mix at the start of 'Interstellar Overdrive' with a bongo fadeout and seriously different parts
in 'Pow R Toch H'. As the engineer said many years later 'The 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 & the stereo, like 'Sgt Pepper', was pretty much cobbled together as an afterthought.
Tracklisting :-
1. Astronomy Dominé
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
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