| Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive |
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In January 1967, prior to recording The Piper
at the Gates of Dawn, the band had produced
at Sound Techniques Studio in London a s In
January 1967, prior to recording The Piper at
the Gates of Dawn, the band had produced at
Sound Techniques Studio in London a s In
January 1967, prior to recording The Piper at
the Gates of Dawn, the band had produced at
Sound Techniques Studio in London a single
entitled Arnold Layne. The single was later
released in March of that year and reached
#20 in the British charts. Also in January
the band had recorded a 16-minute version of
Interstellar Overdrive and an improvised jam
called Nick's Boogie, for Peter Whitehead's
documentary film Tonite Let's All Make Love
in London. (The latter track wasn't released
until 1991 on the CD reissue of the film's
soundtrack). The band's live show consisted
mainly of instrumental numbers and blues
covers, however they had started to introduce
songs which were written primarily by lead
guitarist and lead vocalist Syd Barrett. Many
of these songs written by Barrett appeared at
the Games For May concert several months
before the release of the album.
Recording of the album began on the 21
February 1967 in studio three of Abbey Road
Studios at the same time The Beatles were
recording Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club
Band and The Pretty Things were recording
S.F. Sorrow. The album was produced by Norman
Smith, an EMI staff member who had previously
engineered all of The Beatles recordings up
to 1965's Rubber Soul. Smith would go on to
produce Pink Floyd's follow up album, A
Saucerful of Secrets. "Interstellar
Overdrive" and "Matilda Mother" were two of
the first tracks recorded, as the latter was
viewed as a potential single. "Interstellar
Overdrive"s kinetic and spacey production,
came from the insistence of the normally
conservative Norman Smith, whose work on the
record is often criticised because it is seen
that he tried to make the album more pop
orientated[citation needed]. An early,
unoverdubbed, shortened mix of the album's
"Interstellar Overdrive" was used for a
French EP released that July. In April, the
band recorded both "Percy the Rat Catcher"
(this would later be called "Lucifer Sam"),
and a currently unreleased track called "She
Was a Millionaire". At some point during the
album's creation, Nick Mason recalled that
they were "ushered" into studio 2 where The
Beatles were recording "Lovely Rita". Several
conflicting views surround how efficiently
the recording of the album actually went. In
his book Inside Out: A Personal History of
Pink Floyd, Nick Mason recalled that the
sessions went smoothly and that the whole
process was extremely efficient. Norman Smith
however, condemned both the album's recording
and the band members' musical abilities.
Smith later stated that the sessions were
"sheer hell". However, both "The Gnome" and
"The Scarecrow" were recorded in one take.
Indeed a large proportion of the album is
credited solely to Barrett, with tracks such
as "Bike" having been written in late 1966
before the album was even started. "Bike" was
originally entitled "The Bike Song", and it
was recorded on 21 May 1967. The last
recording session took place on 5 July 1967,
with the track "Pow R. Toc H." being one of
last songs added to the album.
Vic Singh photographed and designed the album
cover, unlike subsequent Pink Floyd albums.
The album remains one of the few to actually
feature the band members on the front cover.
The album's title comes from the title of
Chapter Seven, "THE PIPER AT THE GATES OF
DAWN," of Kenneth Grahame's The Wind in the
Willows, where Rat and Mole, while searching
for Portly, the lost son of Otter, are drawn
to a place where the 'Piper' is playing on
his reed flute.
"`This is the place of my song-dream, the
place the music played to me,' whispered the
Rat, as if in a trance. `Here, in this holy
place, here if anywhere, surely we shall find
Him!'"
(The 'Piper' referred to is the Greek god
Pan.)
Portly was found near Pan.
Lyrics: Instrumental Track (more)
Tags : Pink Floyd 1967 The Pipers AT Gates Of Dawn Roger Waters Syd Barret Nick Mason Rick Wright |
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Durée : 580 s |
| PINK FLOYD at the UFO club IN GLORIOUS COLOUR |
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INTERSTELLAR OVERDRIVE Recorded for TONIGHT
LETS ALL MAKE LOVE IN LONDON in 1966 at the
legendary underground psychedelic Club-UFO...
Peter Whitehead's 1967 documentary of London
scene in the swinging-60's is a visual treat
for Mod enthusiasts everywhere. Featuring a
who's-who of the scene, Tonight Let's All
Make Love In London is a visual patchwork of
60's culture, seen through the eyes of the
people leading it. Mick Jagger, Michael
Caine, Vanessa Redgrave, Allen Ginsberg, and
Julie Christie are all here, alongside
counter-culture artists and other musicians
who helped shape their generation and future
ones to come. Most of the musical content
comes in the form of extremely rare concert
footage and inside studio recording sessions,
while other segments include candid
interviews, strange political demonstration
footage, and even a segment on the radical
art of body painting! Yes, politics and sex
are on the palette here as the psychedelic
soundtrack from a very young Pink Floyd,
swirls and pushes the film on towards the
climax of it's brisk 70 minute running time.
Languishing in distribution limbo for too
long, Tonight Let's All Make Love In London
is a fitting testimonial to the changing
times in the mid-60's and one that should be
able to live on in the years to come for the
young and old to look back on and enjoy.
Tags : pink floyd ufo club lsd syd barrett pure evil |
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Affichage : 35902
Durée : 1012 s |
| Hatsune Miku - Interstellar Flight [初音ミク] - 星間飛行 |
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【初音ミク】星間飛行【カバー】
Hatsune Miku -Interstellar Flight [Cover]
http://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm3920781
HQ:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_BZf2EzL4AU&fm
t=18
☆Update☆
☆60,000☆
Went ahead and encoded the mp3 for anyone
that's interested. Enjoy!
http://www.sendspace.com/file/rj3lhl
Ranka Lee's debut single, Interstellar
Flight performed using Vocaloid software.
Brought to you by Niconico Douga. Enjoy!
Tags : 初音ミク 星間飛行 ランカ・リー マクロスF Macross Frontier 中島愛 VOCALOID ranka lee |
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Durée : 231 s |
| Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive |
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Pink Floyd - Interstellar Overdrive
Copyright - 1967 Columbia Records
"Interstellar Overdrive" is a psychedelic
composition by Pink Floyd, which appears on
their 1967 debut album The Piper at the Gates
of Dawn at almost ten minutes in length. An
earlier, longer recording can be heard on the
soundtrack to the film Tonite Let's All Make
Love in London, which was released in the
same year. Other versions of the track appear
on various bootleg recordings.
Like the Paul Butterfield Blues Band's
slightly earlier song "East-West,"
"Interstellar Overdrive" was one of the very
first psychedelic instrumental improvisations
recorded by a rock band. It was seen as Pink
Floyd's first foray into space rock (along
with "Astronomy Domine"), although band
members would later disparage this term.
Despite its encapsulation of their concert
repertoire under the leadership of guitarist
and composer Syd Barrett, the long,
improvisational, freeform structure of the
piece is not particularly representative of
the group's recorded output. As drummer Nick
Mason states in his book Inside Out: A
Personal History of Pink Floyd, live versions
of the song featured many sections that did
not appear on the album, and would often last
more than 20 minutes. During the band's days
playing in residence at London underground
clubs such as the UFO (Underground Freak
Out), the song usually opened their show. It
occupied other positions, including the
encore, until it was retired from the band's
setlist in 1970.
The opening hook of the piece is a distorted,
descending guitar riff played in unison by
the band. This riff eventually turns into
improvisation, including modal
improvisations, percussive flourishes on the
Farfisa organ, and quiet interludes. The song
gradually becomes almost structureless and in
free-form tempo, punctuated only by strange
guitar noises. Eventually, however, the
entire band restates the main theme, which is
repeated with decreasing tempo and more
deliberate intensity. The novel use of stereo
(in the second mix of the album, the original
being monophonic) makes sound oscillate
between speakers towards the composition's
conclusion.
This riff originated when early Pink Floyd
manager Peter Jenner was trying to hum a song
he couldn't remember the name of (most
commonly identified as Love's cover of "My
Little Red Book"). Barrett followed Jenner's
humming with his guitar and used it as the
basis for the principal melody of
"Interstellar Overdrive." Roger Waters once
told Barrett that the song's riff reminded
him of the theme tune from Steptoe and Son.
Recorded on March 16, 1967, with overdubs in
June of that year, the Piper version also
appears on the official compilation albums
Relics and A Nice Pair.
The studio recording on The Piper at the
Gates of Dawn is the one that most listeners
are familiar with, yet several other versions
survive from both the recording studio and
the stage. It was first recorded as a demo on
31 October 1966. Other alternate early
versions that survive include one used as a
backing track for a Canadian Broadcasting
Company interview with the band in December
1966, two five-minute excerpts of versions
performed at the UFO Club on 20 January and
24 February 1967, and a chaotic, late-Barrett
era rendition recorded live in Rotterdam in
November 1967. An earlier, 16-minute
rendition (recorded for the film Tonite Let's
All Make Love in London by Joe Boyd on 11
January 1967) may actually be superior in its
more kinetic approach to the early sections,
though it is perhaps more tedious and
drawn-out as a whole. The soundtrack for
Tonite Let's All Make Love in London
(released in 1968) includes an edited version
of the recording and two reprises of it. The
full version is available on the album London
1966/1967 (Snapper SMACD924X).
The song was a staple of Pink Floyd's live
shows throughout the late-1960s; the last
ever performance took place on the 21
November 1970 in Montreux, Switzerland. The
40th anniversary edition of The Piper at the
Gates of Dawn contains two different,
five-minute-long versions of the song.
An especially powerful version of
"Interstellar Overdrive" was rumoured to have
been cut from the Ummagumma live album. Tapes
of this performance may still exist.
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