PINK FLOYD THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN FIRST MONO LP
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PINK FLOYD THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN
THE MEGA RARE MONO VERSION FIRST PRESSING
CAT NO. SX 6157
NO "FILE UNDER POP" EXISTS PROVING IT IS A FIRST MONO PRESSING AND HIGHLY SOUGHT AFTER FOR ANY RECORD COLLECTOR OR PINK FLOYD FAN.
IN OVERALL GOOD CONDITION APART FROM THE DOODLING ON THE BACK AND ON THE INNER SLEEVE. IT IS A REAL SHAME ROD COULDN'T KEEP A NOTEPAD BESIDES HIM WHEN HE LISTENED TO ONE OF THE GREATEST ALBUMS OF ALL TIME AND SCRIBBLED ON THAT INSTEAD !!
VINYL IN VG CONDITION, THERE ARE SOME VISIBLE MARKS AND HAIRLINE SCRATCHES WHICH AS FAR AS I CAN TELL ON MY DECK DO NOT AFFECT THE PLAYING BUT I CANNOT GUARANTEE A SNAP CRACKLE OR POP FREE SOUND.
IF YOU WANT ANY MORE DETAILED PICTURES PLEASE JUST ASK.
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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