Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of The Moon ⋆ Patriots Hemp

In the 5.1 SACD format here’s a revelation it’s brilliant I mean I had all sorts of things that I haven’t heard before probably heard 30 years ago forgotten about there are things you’re hearing this mix that you don’t hear in the original mix now we’re really hearing itFor the first time on record like it was originally in concert [Applause] The original Dark Side of the Moon that everyone knows and loves so well is actually a third-generation tape most of the drums bass and rhythm guitars were bounced into two tracks mix and this mix we’ve gone back to the variational tapes synchronize them all together and everything is original tape

And a better sound record it’s being remixed to be close to the original but to be in the quadrophonic SACD former Don’t be Insane Metal was the moment rare we did find where we were guy echoes, in particular, a good step forward for our fully made metal which included echoes which was a whole side so it was moving towards and doing something that was a complete piece that was longer we then toured

Quite a lot we did it a number of rehearsals somewhere up and West Hampstead and started working on pieces which turned out at the end to be dope Sailor Moon Oh Later We started off doing this as a piece called eclipses that were probably provided there three or four songs that were being played on the road and they were simply designed as individual songs it was live in Brighton in 1972 the Eclipse shows it was a completely different piece for we came to the

Sympathiser this was another guitar jack we would specifically try to get a people to replace on the right pieces that we had a technology yeah we had the BCS free you just got a new version we’ve had the old wooden version of its relic alas but

This is the new version that had one of the very first teachings within it that’s that was that was the big innovation was that the person PA had a sequencer which is just the first sequencer item assist and if you press this record button and do a little

Sequence you take that something like that not quite in time and then speed it up then basically that’s what you got son enough as its recorded for posterity in Adrian Maybin film live at Pompeii he happened to be in the studio when I was working on that

Of course Roger came out to put his oar in the fed that the eighth note sequence which I had put in which is not that one wasn’t quite right and he wanted to do a different one which he then did and irritatingly of course it was better

And that you can do this as well make noises over the top of it so between us that’s hell that piece Germany that loops it had a kind of feeling of urgency about it which then with you know the footsteps and the airport announcements and Roger the Hat who’s

The roadies laughs at young ability it seemed to make sense all the explosions and whooshing noises on a certain moon and wish you were here are all generated on one of these machines the album is a lot about the stress of torch I mean that thing’s actually inspired you ah just to write

The lyrics it’s about travelling about fear of death through flying really which I suffered from quite well early on in our career I think most people who fly as much as we did go through cycles where you get scared of it and then here and then you reconcile yourself

By this time we were on the road we were recording we were hadn’t left coming we were just 18 hours a day just at it and that pressure was obviously affecting us all and affecting Roger quite deeply the big move forward on Dark Side of the Moon was Rogers coming-of-age lyrically

And having the the ideas and the intelligence to take a subject and examine it in all its part in all those different songs you know the pressures of life on young hot people the pressures of life the world the worries that travel mortality money so have some

Kind of universal appeal and that it confronts a number of major psychological and emotional concerns in 1972 you know we were all turning into adults living and we gradually thought was a different rate and we were all changing I was 29 years old before I suddenly realized that this was life and

It was happening and it was not a preparation for something I know the song talked about kicking around on a piece of ground and all of that but just before dog showed the moon it must been at around the same time I suddenly realized that this is not a rehearsal

But this was life happening now one should grasp the nettle [Applause] English The great gig in the sky is obviously about death and it was kind of a play on the fact that we are doing gauged enough it was possibly even just the working title it starts I’m very proud as a musician and the way the court structure works starts off in B minor and somehow I manage to go through this whole sequence and get to B flat it’s a very weird change but it actually works it actually flows [Applause] and I thank Clare Torry for that magic

Day when you put the boys on I’m endless all sitting there saying this is incredible you know what’s happening out there what you do I was extremely excited here in this credible voice I mean even today I just can’t believe the effect it has on me and I

Guess know everyone else I made up the rhythm tape in a shed at the bottom of the garden my my my wife then was a Potter and she had a pottery studio at the bottom of the garden I had a little music studio next to it she had a big gun metal

Mixing bottle for me to number 20 and so I went oh I know how to make the rhythm for this and I had a Reeboks age 77 we only had to track machines at the time I had and so you know I got a microphone

Out and put it by the mixing bowl and threw a handful of coins in and my fight that’s one lesson into sandpaper up like there’s another one I searched around for a sound of cash register or something until it’s in seven eight okay so I cut up seven pieces of tape of the

Sound effects exactly the same length and and splice them together and you know stuck it in the Reeboks going around at my extent to hold it like that and press the button and now and that was it the album was definitely helped in quite a big way by money being the

Symbol and money was really the obvious choice while we were on tour the record was going up the Billboard chart liner and it eventually hit number one we were touring we went toward you know and there was a big it was a big big buzz going our light of progress in America

We were moving up and selling out quite good large places you know selling a lot of tickets the workload shot up the tours shot up I went on to write with you later so you know come in here be a boy have a cigar we’re going to go far

It was all run by the way with sunscreen [Applause] The Voice is all over the record I wrote a number of questions on a set of cards a set of white cards like that and then we set up a microphone in studio through your Abbey Road and the cards are just sitting there on a music stand and they

Were questions like when was the last time you were violent you know and then were you in the right and we got I got everybody that I could think of Henry McCulloch yeah Henry and his wife had had a terrible fight night before and they back Ashley and Henry said were you

In the right now as Henry says I don’t know it was really drunk at the time I certainly wasn’t awake I think it was also a dream fulfilled you know and if we’ve been brave enough we would probably go well that’s it lads good practic good bye it’s been very nice you know we could have all gone office and I mean I’m glad we didn’t because out of all the amenities and

Anxieties that were left behind you know in the rubble of the explosion of that enormous success came all kinds of wounded creatures that had their own story to tell Ah We’re out I’ve always had a problem with us and then mix or I love the song didn’t quite like the way it’s done but now for me it sounds wonderful and I think that’s true bidet and I think it’s true for Roger actually I think about us and then I talked about

It recently because I listened to the record because of this 5.1 makes I went to to a studio with James in New York and listened to the whole thing I’m asserting the mix he’s done is terrific I haven’t sat down and listened to the piece from start to finish

I wouldn’t think for 20 years it was fascinating to do that and to see how well it still holds together Neither us and them probably stands the test of time as well if not better than any of the other songs on the record you know with without all deny that’s what the fighting is all about it’s a strange thirty years later to be you know seeing this about to embark on this punitive

Adventure in Iraq I find it hard to believe that it’s about anything other than the oil Oh But it was the mix of things and you know over one has to give credit to people like storm as well the package was terrific the starting point for Dark Side of the Moon was about their lied show the style of it was related to Ridge who said let’s go for something

Very graphic and very simple stormed generally when he’s presenting ideas to us present a whole bunch of stuff I think they produced about 10 sleeves they will put round a room I think was their part of that ad nothing collaborated from we’d storerooms I think this sleeve is so wonderful for

Whatever reason appears but you know everybody just snow deal even look to any of the other scissors yeah yeah and they’re buying that you know that one that one that one all of us absolutely went brilliant terrific love it and I will basically trying to make them stay

In the room you know to protect us to give us a guide you please be still of this by them I believe it a long time getting it together no no no no that one you know it was sort of unanimous good obviously really anyone who wanted an album cover

Without wanting themselves to be on it who would have chosen that effect scenic but almost any subject but it has been particularly appropriate the triangle is a sign for ambition so a symbol and I think that the fact tied in with the link the roads who was writing

And little self tighten with pyramid and pyramids seem to be really good symbols for the madness and greed I didn’t lost reserve see appearantly now they will think outside me And once had a good idea accorded inside the heartbeat everybody made gate falls then if they thought the record is going to be thick so it’s going to be a gay pole then it’s going to have the lyrics on it and I suddenly realized that you

Know the spectrum end you down you know there and there and you could run it across the first page and do that he’s doing new artwork but it’s using the same principle of the pyramid and the prison the visual both head is a piece of graphic very single interview to do

And then when I reworked with in 1993 and to the photographic so I made it photographic what’s happening life and it was dead real and it just very stable and it’ll be easy now the thing and how can I take this light game is third I suggested the fact

That we’ve made a stained-glass window I was trying to represent that the fullness the purity declared here or there was the one I wanted the cute business of five point one so when you do surround sound good five point one it is actually pretty powerful and perfect

So this is really refined okay so I kind of really refine the life quality first thing but then it can be a really good idea if it was about how light passes through with any of the prison but the ground upon which it fits maybe the glass no I think it’s pretty

Good I’m looking at something interesting a little bit other band think is true I think such an interesting sort of ironic religious overtone I love dark side and I will say that now I can get your brilliant mix and bringing songs and just love it [Applause] Lots of magic happen along than this album I think we were all motivated we’re working at Abbey Road which really nice place to work for the research pros friends I can remember the moment of sitting down at Abbey Road and listening to it as an Beauty controllable number

Three we’ve done a lot of a home and and we’ve been slaving over that mixing desk for a weeks doing this mix and picking all this stuff together and that day when you actually all sit back and listen to it from the beginning to end it was very exciting you’ve got this

Piece of tape you know on a couple of real 45 minutes long has loads a bit of white editing tape flashing through the thing as you put it goes around there is a day when you actually have finished and you sit down you turn the street

Medoc – pretty nice and loud and you listen to the whole thing true and that is a moment that it was really magical On the dock The original and Dark Side of the Moon that everyone knows he loves so well is actually third generation tape most of it and and this mix has we’ve gone back to the very original tapes synchronize them all together and everything is the original tapes and everything there are

Things that were really lost either because they were buried or because they’d got actually softened up by endless in a drum particularly from my point of view list of the drums the drums are much crisper I mean there are things here or here in this mix which

You don’t hear in the original neck which actually quite excited with it I mean I had all sorts of things that I haven’t heard I’m really haven’t heard before or probably heard 30 years ago forgotten about I’ve been listening to this darkside the moon obviously quite a

Bit listening to the mixes of it in the 5.1 as a CD former and here’s a revelation [Applause] I had forgotten that in brain damage listen to bluebells right in the background now five to one leg plan if they’re not loud but you just are aware I mean it was designed to

Be in that format all of the sound effects originally were in quadraphonic sound because we took a Quadra funding system wherever we went so all the footsteps going around the hall and all that kind of stuff we’ve been doing for years quadrophonic tapes we had a quadraphonic pan pots for keyboards for

Richter zoom is keyboards around a huge room now you’re really hearing it for the first time on record like like it was originally in concert [Applause] How that you take are you feeling like are you Oh God To me laughter