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The full band come in at 4:32 but Gilmour is already lost, mostly in his own history. Psychic TV, in which the late Mr Christopherson was also involved, do not have their groundbreaking 1982 work Force The Hand Of Chance discussed here. There was always so much of the sixties about TG. If you tolerate this…but I am moving too fast.īetter to recall that the sleeve was in great part designed by junior Hipgnosis employee Peter Christopherson, about to start Throbbing Gristle, a band, or collective, whose work would poke into extremes even the Floyd would find uncomfortable but whose work, overall, would not be that out of place in the Floyd oeuvre one can look on their masterpiece, 1979’s 20 Jazz-Funk Greats, as an example of Floyd’s discoveries, and perhaps even Syd’s discoveries, taken to their logical conclusion. A businessman with bowler and briefcase but no face. Huge wafts of cloth, red and white, blowing through a desert. Businessmen shaking hands, one on fire the idea being that we hide our burning passions under suits of sobriety, whatever society deems “appropriate.” A swimmer drowning in sand dunes. The perfect mirror of the arched diver into the Mediterranean pool, so immaculate that you can neither see their shadow nor guess that their body had an upper half. Gilmour stumbled upon the motif while idly doodling. Syd was there, that day in June 1975, and he may have been many things, or ended up as many things, but he was not yet a ghost.įour clear clarion notes on the guitar. And in the rare event that the ghost you desire is still alive, don’t keep summoning the ghost and then act surprised when the ghost turns up. In the sixties it was Robert Johnson by the mid-seventies it would have been Hendrix, Joplin, Morrison, the great untouchables.īut calling for ghosts, summoning them even, carries its own inbuilt risks. Every new generation discovers its own ghosts and venerates them with a view to recharging them. Figures of the past are never immobile tableaux. There’s no such thing as history beyond what each generation decides to make history.
Most of all, there was a baffled numbness. Slowly and shockingly they realised that it was the man to whom this song they were working on was dedicated. Most hadn’t seen him for five, six years tops. It took them a long time to work out who it was. Checking for health and safety and efficacy. One of the Abbey Road technicians – there are so many of them, it must be. The same guy pops his head around the door, has a look at some of the equipment. But who the hell is he? Nobody really knew.īack into the studio, to work on this song, this damnable elegy, that seems to be taking forever.
There he is, staring at them, maybe smiling. They had an album to do, and it was hard, wrenching work. He could be serving you a bagel in the Bronx. Therefore it can be assumed that E minor is the precise reverse – the chord that represents hell. The last chord of “A Day In The Life” – recorded in the same studio, the chord that is meant to stand for heaven – was E major. An electric guitar doing the same before bending down to a heartbreaking move to B minor. A Moog picking out a single note topline. Track listing: Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5)/Welcome To The Machine/Have A Cigar/Wish You Were Here/Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9)Ī drone.
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