Fact #100703
When:
Short story:
Syd Barrett, formerly of Pink
Floyd, is working on the songs Golden Hair and Octopus, in
EMI's Abbey
Road Studios, London, UK.
Full article:
Roger Waters (Pink Floyd] : Malcom Jones, who was the first label manager of Harvest, said that they weren't going to put in any more money and then Syd came and saw Dave (Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd) and asked him to help, and then Peter and Andrew (managers) saw EMI and said that the boys were going to help, give us another chance. So EMI said, 'Alright and gave us two days', but we had a gig on the second day so we had three sessions, one afternoon and two evenings, and we went in and recorded seven tracks in three sessions. They were fantastic songs.
John Leckie (record producer) : I was a tape operator in those days, which most people think means you make the tea, but at Abbey Road you really did have to control the tape machines, set everything up, plug in the mikes. You had to know where everything was on the tapes and be able to find it instantly if the artist or the producer wanted to go back to a certain point on the tape. You had to know what they were thinking. They might shout or nod or wave their hand but you had to know what that meant. If you went to the toilet, the session stopped.
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John Leckie (record producer) : I was a tape operator in those days, which most people think means you make the tea, but at Abbey Road you really did have to control the tape machines, set everything up, plug in the mikes. You had to know where everything was on the tapes and be able to find it instantly if the artist or the producer wanted to go back to a certain point on the tape. You had to know what they were thinking. They might shout or nod or wave their hand but you had to know what that meant. If you went to the toilet, the session stopped.
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