Pink Floyd - Piper At The Gates Of Dawn SX 6157 Mono

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Check my other Items for sale - more Psychedelic records available...   Album Information Artist Pink Floyd Title The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn Label Columbia Records (Blue Black Label) Cat. number SX 6157 Mono Producer Norman Smith Country UK Sleeve Ernest J Day & Go. Ltd (Flipback Sleeve) Released 1967 Matrix number Side 1 XAX 3419-2 Side 2 XAX 3420-1 Stamper marks Side 1 1 L Side 2 1 H Album Condition Label None Minor Moderate Grade Spindle Wear Side 1   • Vg Side 2   • Vg Paper Damage Side 1 • Ex Side 2 • Ex Ink marks Side 1 • Ex Side 2 • Ex Other info.   Cover None Minor Moderate Grade

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Group's Main Members: Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Rick Wright.

Most bands do not survive if their lead singer, chief song writer and leader leaves. But for Pink Floyd, this not only happened once, but twice and still they roll on. The origins of Pink Floyd developed at Cambridge High School in England in the early sixties. Syd Barrett, Roger Waters, and David Gilmour were all friends there and talked about forming a band. But after graduation Gilmore decided to go on to art school in London as Barrett wandered around the country side.Waters meanwhile attended a architecture school in London where he met Nick Mason and Rick Wright. They formed a R&B band called Sigma 6. With Waters on guitar, Mason on the drums and Wright on keyboards, the band also consisted of bassist Clive Metcalfe and vocalist Juliette Gale (who later would marry Wright). That lineup didn't last to long as Metcalfe and Gale left and Waters switched over to bass and Bob Close came on to play lead guitar.

The band's name changed several times and then Close quit. By the end of '65 Waters, Mason and Wright joined up with Barrett who would become the band's songwriter, lead guitar player and lead singer. He renamed the band Pink Floyd - in honor of blues' musicians Pinkney 'Pink' Anderson and Floyd Council. Under Barrett's guide Floyd would start out quite differently than the concept album kings they would later become know as. With their first two albums they were a psychedelic band. They recorded their first two song in early '66, one, Barrett's "Lucy Leave" a combo R&B & pop song that got the band some attention. They began to play the London underground with experimental light shows and instrumental feedback that was still unheard of at the time.

In early 1967 they signed with EMI Records and released their first single "Arnold Layne" which didn't sound a lot like their live show but never less was a hit reaching the UK's Top 20. Their next single "See Emily Play" was a even bigger hit and reach number 6 in June of '67. Later in '67 their debut album The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn was released. The album did not contain their first two hit singles yet it became a Top Ten hit anyway. Many claimed it to be the greatest British psychedelic album other than the Beatles Sgt. Pepper's. It contained mostly Barrett penned songs that were far out experimental pop fantasies with lengthy riff-laden instrumental passages.With the album's success they began to tour, first with Jimi Hendrix.

But it was during the US tour where problems with Barrett started to show up. Syd was a true gifted genius but also a step away from insanity. He was now a heavy LSD user and it started to take its toll on him. On the US tour he would start to play music out of the blue that wasn't a part of the band's set and at other gigs he would stand on stage and not play at all. In interviews he would be incoherent. In late '67 Floyd released a third single "Apples And Oranges" but two other recordings made at the time, "Vegetable Man" and "Scream Thy Last Scream", were unsuitable for release and Barrett was at this stage too wasted to finish them properly. His fellow band members knowing they were about to see the band crash if they didn't do something, hired Waters' and Barrett's old high school friend Gilmour as a fifth member in February of 1968. Gilmour was to take over the lead guitar. Plans would be for Barrett to stay in the band but not play live any longer.

However the five piece Floyd didn't last long as Barrett's mental instability grew worse and he left the band just two months later. He did go on to record two somewhat successful solo albums shortly after his departure from the band but then disappeared into oblivion, his mental problems totally taking over his life.

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