Condition: Used
PINK FLOYD - UMMAGUMMA
Harvest Canada 2LP
Record VG+ VG++ has few minor scuffs
Gatefold cover VG+ has some ring wear and some wear on the spine
Band Members and Musicians on: Pink Floyd Ummagumma with Gigi UK Pressing
Track Listing:
Side One:
Astronomy Domine
Careful with that Axe Eugene
Side Two:
Set the control for the heart of the sun
A Saucerful of Secrets
Side Three:
Sysyphus - (ft. Richard Wright)
Grantchester Meadows, Several Pieces of Small Furry Animals gathered together in a Cave and grooving with a pict. (ft. Roger Waters)
Side Four:
The Narrow Way (ft. David Gilmour)
The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Entrance, Entertainment, Exit (ft. Nick Mason)
Side One & Two recorded Live at the MOTHERS, Birmingham & Manchest College of Commerce June 1969,. Side three and four recorded in the Studio. Engineers: Brian Humpries & Peter Mew. Produced by Norman Smith
Pink Floyd's fourth album Ummagumma was released in November of 1969.
Ummagumma was Pink Floyd's first double album.
The first album is a live album that the band recorded at a club called Mother's in Birmingham, England and the Manchester College of Commerce in Manchester, England in April and June of 1969 respectively.
The first track is a wonderful, extended reading of "Astronomy Domine" this time featuring keyboard player Rick Wright singing the lower parts Syd originally sang and guitarist/singer David Gilmour singing the higher harmonies. The song is a great showpiece for David's excellent guitar work and Rick's fantastic keyboard work. Next is "Careful With That Axe Eugene" (deleted from the original cassette issue) which is more sinister and longer than the hurried studio version with bass player/vocalist Roger Waters' demonic screaming and excellent drumming from drummer Nick Mason and excellent playing by Wright and Gilmour as well. "Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun" (deleted from the original cassette issue) follows and buries the studio version once again featuring extra keyboard work by Rick whom may be one of the best keyboardists in rock history (although unjustly overlooked) and Roger sang this track with more passion. The first disc ends with "A Saucerful of Secrets" (deleted from the original cassette issue) which surpasses the studio version although I love the version from Pompeii too. The ending section of Saucerful is way different than the studio as Rick's organ is this time joined by bass guitar, drums and then guitar making it more of a jam than a funeral hymn like on the original album.
LP two consists of a solo piece or two by the four band members and came about because of Rick's frustrations with doing just rock music.
Rick's solo piece was the four-part "Sysyphus" which features Rick's jazz and classical influences and his keyboard work on the mellotron and piano and organ gives me a shiver down the spine. Roger had two solo pieces. First, the folk-tinged acoustic number "Grantchester Meadows" which was his song about his childhood in Cambridge. Next, was the avant-garde tape effect with Scottish dialect rant laden "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict". David Gilmour for his solo piece combined his rock, blues and folk influences in the three part "The Narrow Way". Although he hates the song and refused to have the lyrics to part 3 printed on the remaster, it's my favorite on the album.
The solo albumends with Nick Mason's "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" which is a Nick Mason drum solo and shows that he is a great drummer and Nick's then wife Lindy did the flute solos.
Don't be fooled by the review's title, this is a great album.
Ummagumma was the band's first album to crack in the U.S. Top 100 on Billboard peaking at #74 in early 1970 and eventually went Gold in early 1974 (after the success of Dark Side) and eventually Platinum (in March, 1994).
Pink Floyd 1969 - Sysyphus: Part Two (Studio Album)
Pink Floyd - Careful with that Axe Eugene (Live)
That scream...man, that's some great screaming =)
Pink Floyd - Saucerful of Secrets (Popeii Excerpt)
Interview with Pink Floyd 1967
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