Fact #64409
When:
Short story:
Pink Floyd release the part-live, part-studio double album Ummagumma in the UK.
Full article:
Dave Gilmour (Pink Floyd] : For me it was just an experiment. I think it was badly recorded - the studio side could have been done better.
Nick Mason : This was absolutely not a band album. The live stuff sounds incredibly antiquated now, although the fact of Pink Floyd playing at Mothers in Birmingham was considered a bit of an event at the time. We were looking for new ways of constructing an album, although I think what this demonstrates is that our sum is always better than the parts. EMI was very hidebound in those days. It was still run by guys in white coats. I was prevented from editing my own tapes by a studio manager who told me I wasn't a union member.??Dave Gilmour : I'd never written anything before. I just went into the studio and started waffling about, tacking Bits And Pieces together. I rang up Roger at one point to ask him to write me some lyrics. He just said, 'No.?'
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Nick Mason : This was absolutely not a band album. The live stuff sounds incredibly antiquated now, although the fact of Pink Floyd playing at Mothers in Birmingham was considered a bit of an event at the time. We were looking for new ways of constructing an album, although I think what this demonstrates is that our sum is always better than the parts. EMI was very hidebound in those days. It was still run by guys in white coats. I was prevented from editing my own tapes by a studio manager who told me I wasn't a union member.??Dave Gilmour : I'd never written anything before. I just went into the studio and started waffling about, tacking Bits And Pieces together. I rang up Roger at one point to ask him to write me some lyrics. He just said, 'No.?'
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