By Marvin Marks on Aug 2, 2011 in Retro Reviews | 2 Comments
Pink Floyd’s The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is one of my favorite albums ever. It’s the very first album by Pink Floyd (or “The Pink Floyd” as they were known in 1967) and for those that only know the band for their much more famous 1970s work (like The Dark Side of the [...]
By Marvin Marks on Nov 12, 2010 in Features | 1 Comment
As a huge fan of Syd Barrett I’m surprised I hadn’t heard about the new remastered Syd Barrett collection called “An Introduction to Syd Barrett” until today. What’s neat about this 18 track collection is that it is remastered and that it includes songs from his time as leader of Pink Floyd and from his [...]
By Mozart Breath on Sep 19, 2009 in Features | 1 Comment
It was 1969 when Skip Spence put out a confounding record that was unfortunately not mixed in mono. This is a lovely skeletal structure of a record, though, one that I will no doubt tell your grandparents about when I was a little boy. Say hello to plenty of acoustic guitar, bass and live percussion. [...]
By Mozart Breath on Aug 23, 2009 in Features | 6 Comments
The following songs will both include Syd Barrett Era Pink Floyd material and selected songs from his short-lived solo career as well. Pink Floyd as Syd’s baby often had a genuine immediacy that one finds in the very best of Pop songs. The successful single “See Emily Play” is both a catchy commercial jingle and [...]
By TheRoboticMushroom on Jan 6, 2009 in Music Trivia | 2 Comments
Syd Barrett was born as Roger Keith Barrett on January 6th of 1946 in Cambridge, England. Barrett was the original lead singer, main songwriter, and lead guitarist for Pink Floyd (known as The Pink Floyd at that time.) Incredibly he was only 21 years old when Pink Floyd released their debut album The Piper at [...]
By Marvin Marks on Aug 5, 2008 in Music Trivia | 3 Comments
The Pink Floyd’s debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn was released on August 5, 1967. It was the only Pink Floyd album released while Syd Barrett was the lead singer, guitarist, and songwriter of the band. Between the release of The Piper at the Gates of Dawn and 1968′s A Saucerful of [...]
By Mozart Breath on May 18, 2008 in Features | 5 Comments
I would suggest that Folk Rock is indeed one of the better musical genres in the history of known music. While various brands of Classical may express the ultimate and certain elements of Jazz or the Jazz hybrid of Jazz Rock are often where it is no doubt at in most instances, Folk Rock and [...]
