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Pink Floyd release their second album, A Saucerful Of Secrets, in the UK, Europe. This is their first album with new guitarist David Gilmour.Full article:
Dave Gilmour (guitarist, Pink Floyd] : My role, I suppose, was to try and make it a bit more musical, and to help create a balance between formlessness and structure, disharmony and harmony.
Nick Mason, asked if Barrett had been involved, said he hadn't, explaining that " the song Jugband Blues had been recorded before, between The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Saucerful of Secrets.
Peter Jenner (co-manager, Pink Floyd] : It was really stressful waiting for Syd to come up with the songs for the second album. Everybody was looking at him, and he couldn't do it. Jugband Blues is a really sad song, the portrait of a nervous breakdown. The last Floyd song Syd wrote, Vegetable Man, was done for those sessions, though it never came out. He wrote it round at my house; it's just a description of what he's wearing. It's very disturbing. Roger took it off the album because it was too dark, and it is. It's like psychological flashing. Rick Wright : I did the title track and I remember Norman saying, You just can't do this, it's too long. You have to write three-minute songs. We were pretty cocky by now and told him, If you don't wanna produce it, just go away. A good attitude I think. The same reason why we'd never play See Emily Play in concert. David Gilmour : I remember Nick and Roger drawing out A Saucerful Of Secrets as an architectural diagram, in dynamic forms rather than in any sort of musical form, with peaks and troughs. That's what is was about. It wasn't music for beauty's sake, or for emotion's sake. It never had a story line. Though for years afterwards we used to get letters from people saying what they thought it meant. Scripts for movies sometimes, too.
David Gilmour : I don't think I really exerted any particular influence on the band in the first album at least. It took quite a while for me to find my feet, and, the band on stage was very much more like that previously with Syd. I mean they did lots of long meandering sorta things while Syd was in it, but recording wise they were very under the influence of a record producer and a record company who wanted them to be the next Beatles or whatever. And, Syd also was very good at writing short snappy pop songs, you know.
Rick Wright : We do a lot of improvisation in rehearsals, and generally from the rehearsals we then go into the studios knowing something, sometimes, I mean "A Saucerful Of Secrets" was comple...started completely in the studio from scratch.
(Source : interview on Australian tv show GTK in 1971)
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Nick Mason, asked if Barrett had been involved, said he hadn't, explaining that " the song Jugband Blues had been recorded before, between The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Saucerful of Secrets.
Peter Jenner (co-manager, Pink Floyd] : It was really stressful waiting for Syd to come up with the songs for the second album. Everybody was looking at him, and he couldn't do it. Jugband Blues is a really sad song, the portrait of a nervous breakdown. The last Floyd song Syd wrote, Vegetable Man, was done for those sessions, though it never came out. He wrote it round at my house; it's just a description of what he's wearing. It's very disturbing. Roger took it off the album because it was too dark, and it is. It's like psychological flashing. Rick Wright : I did the title track and I remember Norman saying, You just can't do this, it's too long. You have to write three-minute songs. We were pretty cocky by now and told him, If you don't wanna produce it, just go away. A good attitude I think. The same reason why we'd never play See Emily Play in concert. David Gilmour : I remember Nick and Roger drawing out A Saucerful Of Secrets as an architectural diagram, in dynamic forms rather than in any sort of musical form, with peaks and troughs. That's what is was about. It wasn't music for beauty's sake, or for emotion's sake. It never had a story line. Though for years afterwards we used to get letters from people saying what they thought it meant. Scripts for movies sometimes, too.
David Gilmour : I don't think I really exerted any particular influence on the band in the first album at least. It took quite a while for me to find my feet, and, the band on stage was very much more like that previously with Syd. I mean they did lots of long meandering sorta things while Syd was in it, but recording wise they were very under the influence of a record producer and a record company who wanted them to be the next Beatles or whatever. And, Syd also was very good at writing short snappy pop songs, you know.
Rick Wright : We do a lot of improvisation in rehearsals, and generally from the rehearsals we then go into the studios knowing something, sometimes, I mean "A Saucerful Of Secrets" was comple...started completely in the studio from scratch.
(Source : interview on Australian tv show GTK in 1971)