Transmissions + 1969 - Pink Floyd

Publicación: 20 de marzo, 2020.

Discográfica: Audio Vaults.

N° de catalogo: AV201821  •  506020901321 3.

Grabado en: Maida Vale Studios; Paris Theatre, London; BBC TV Studios, London; University of Southampton Students' Union; Pop & Blues Festival.

Tracks:

Disco 1.

01 Point Me At the Sky.

(Gilmour/Waters)   4:21

02 The Embryo.

(Waters) 3:26

03 Baby Blue Shuffle in D Major.

(Gilmour)   3:53

04 Interstellar Overdrive.

(Barrett/Waters/Wright/Mason)   8:37

05 Daybreak (Grantchester Meadows).

(Waters) 3:45

06 Nightmare (Cymbaline).

(Waters) 3:36

07 The Narrow Way (Part 3).

(Gilmour)   4:48

08 The Beginning (Green is the Colour) / Beset By Creatures of the Deep (Careful With That Axe, Eugene).

(Waters/Wright/Mason/Gilmour)   6:58

09 Moonhead.

(Waters/Wright/Mason/Gilmour)   7:16

10 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun.

(Waters) 5:22

11 A Saucerful of Secrets.

(Waters/Wright/Mason/Gilmour)   11:55

Tracks 1-4

Maida Vale Studios, London, Recorded 2nd December, 1968, Broadcast On Top Gear, 14th January, 1969.

Tracks 5-8

Paris Cinema, London, Recorded 12th May, 1969, Broadcast On Night Ride, 14th May, 1969.

Track 9

BBC TV Centre, London, Recorded 20th July, 1969, Broadcast On Omnibus-What If It’s Just Green Cheese?, 20th July, 1969.

Tracks 10-11

TV Broadcast, Forum Musiques, Paris, France, 22nd January, 1969.

Disco 2:

01 Astronomy Domine.

(Barrett)   9:04

02 Careful With That Axe, Eugene.

(Waters/Wright/Mason/Gilmour)   8:39

03 Interstellar Overdrive.

(Barrett/Waters/Wright/Mason)   12:34

04 The Beginning (Green is the Colour).

(Waters)   3:44

05 Beset By Creatures of the Deep.

(Waters)   5:28

06 A Saucerful of Secrets.

(Waters/Wright/Mason/Gilmour)   12:48

07 Careful With That Axe, Eugene.

(Waters/Wright/Mason/Gilmour)   5:55

08 A Saucerful of Secrets.

(Waters/Wright/Mason/Gilmour)   14:45

Tracks 1-6

Old Refectory, Student’s Union, Southampton University, Southampton, Hampshire, 9th May, 1969.

Tracks 7-8

TV Broadcast, Essencer Pop & Blues Festival, Essen, Germany, 11th October, 1969.

Compact Disc - Edición Europa:

Discográfica: Audio Vaults.

N° de catalogo: AV201821  •  506020901321 3.

Portada y sticker.

Contraportada.

Carpeta.

Carpeta (detalle).

Interior carpeta.

Carpeta (detalle).

Disco 1.

Disco 2.

Matrix: G22314 AV201821/CD1.

Matrix:  G22315 AV201821/CD2

Pink Floyd:

Roger Waters: Bajo, voz.

David Gilmour: Guitarra, voz.

Richard Wright: Órgano, teclados, voz.

Nick Mason: Batería, percusión.

Notas del disco:

In December 1967, the group added guitarist David Gilmour as the fifth member of Pink Floyd. Gilmour already knew Barrett, having studied with him at Cambridge Tech in the early 1960s, The two had performed at lunchtimes together with guitars and harmonicas, and later hitch-hiked and busked their way around the south of France. In 1965, while a member of Joker's Wild, Gilmour had watched the Tea Set. Morrison's assistant, Steve O'Rourke, set Gilmour up in a room at O'Rourke's house with a salary of £30 per week (equivalent to £500 in 2018, and in January 1968, Blackhill Enterprises announced Gilmour as the band's newest member; the second guitarist and its fifth member, the band intending to continue with Barrett as a nonperforming songwriter. Jenner commented: "The Idea was that Dave would ... cover for [Barrett's] eccentricities and when that got to be not workable, Syd was just going to write. Just to try to keep him involved". In an expression of his frustration, Barrett, who was expected to write additional hit singles to follow up "Arnold Layne" and "See Emily Play", instead introduced "Have You Got It Yet?" to the band, intentionally changing the structure on each performance so as to make the song impossible to follow and learn. In a January 1968 photo-shoot of the five-man Pink Floyd, the photographs show Barrett looking detached from the others, staring Into the distance.

Working with Barrett eventually proved too difficult, and matters came to a conclusion in January while en route to a performance in Southampton when a band member asked if they should collect Barrett. According to Gilmour, the answer was "Nah, let's not bother", signalling the end of Barrett's tenure with Pink Floyd. Waters later admitted, "He was our friend, but most of the time we now wanted to strangle him". In early March 1968, Pink Floyd met with business partners Jenner and King to discuss the band's future; Barrett agreed to leave.

Jenner and King believed Barrett to be the creative genius of the band, and decided to represent him and end their relationship with Pink Floyd. Morrison then sold his business to NEMS Enterprises, and O'Rourke became the band's personal manager. Blackhill announced Barrett's departure on 6 April 1968. After Barrett's departure, the burden of lyrical composition and creative direction fell mostly on Waters. Initially, Gilmour mimed to Barrett's voice on the group's European TV appearances; however, while playing on the university circuit, they avoided Barrett songs in favour of Waters and Wright material such as "It Would Be So Nice" and "Careful with That Axe, Eugene".

In 1968, Pink Floyd returned to Abbey Road Studios to record their second album, A Saucerful of Secrets. The album included Barrett's final contribution to their discography, "Jugband Blues". Waters began to develop his own songwriting, contributing "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", "Let There Be More Light" and "Corporal Clegg". Wright composed "See-Saw" and "Remem-ber a Day". Norman Smith encouraged them to self•produce their music, and they recorded demos of new material at their houses. With Smith's instruction at Abbey Road, they learned how to use the recording studio•to realise their artistic vision. However, Smith remained unconvinced by their music, and when Mason struggled to perform his drum part on "Remember a Day", Smith stepped in as his replacement. Wright recalled Smith's attitude about the sessions, "Norman gave up on the second album he was forever saying things like, You can't do twenty minutes of this ridiculous noise'. As neither Waters nor Mason could read music, to illustrate the structure of the album's title track, they invented their own system of notation. Gilmour later described their method as looking "like an architectural diagram".

Released in June 1968, the album featured a psychedelic cover designed by Storm Thorgerson and Aubrey Powell of Hipgnosis. The first of several Pink Floyd album covers designed by Hipgnosis, it was the second time that EMI permitted one of their groups to contract designers for an album jacket. The release peaked at number 9, spending 11 weeks on the UK chart. Record Mirror gave the album an overall favourable review, but urged listeners to "forget it as background music to a party". John Peel described a live performance of the title track as "like a religious experience", while NME described the song as "long and boring ... [with] little to warrant its monotonous direction". On the day after the album's UK release, Pink Floyd performed at the first ever free concert in Hyde Park. In July 1968, they returned to the US for a second visit. Accompanied by the Soft Machine and the Who, it marked Pink Floyd's first significant tour.

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