Fractured Fairy Tails
| Data: 1967-1968 Miejsce: London, England Possible demo recordings |
1. Interstellar Overdrive 2. Unknown Demo 1 3. Unknown Demo 2 4. Unknown Demo 3 |
I am calling this "Fractured Fairy Tails," and although
this obscure recording is most likely a fake, these tracks have acquired a
certain notoriety among Pink Floyd concert audio traders. Some speculate that
this recording is just two random guys playing guitar simultaneously, using a
cheap tape recorder (to muddy the sound), sometime in the 1980ås.
Conversely, it could also be an erratic Syd Barrett,
right before or right after he was cut loose from the band, possibly playing
some "new material" with Roger Waters in late 1967 or early 1968 (aka the
infamous ôHave You Got It Yet?ö track) as there are no keyboards (Wright) or
percussion (Mason) present. There are some vocals buried deep in the mix of Demo
1 which can barely be heard if you listen closely.
It is worthy to note, that the guitar riff after the
introduction of "Interstellar Overdrive" is identical to the bass line heard on
the ôPiper At The Gates Of Dawnö studio version of this song, which doesnåt
appear on earlier versions of this song. This leads to the conclusion that if
this track is legitimate, it could have been recorded sometime after the release
of ôPiper At The Gates Of Dawn.ö
I have come across several different versions of these "demos" during my time as
a ROIO collector, however these are the most complete versions of these tracks
I've ever heard. This recording was unidentified in my collection, and was stuck
onto the ends of a two show, two tape set. I've had these tapes for years, and
didn't know the material was there.
Although I recognized ôIntersteller Overdriveö
immediately (the longest version of this song I have ever heard), the other
three tracks are unknown, to me at least. The left channel drops out in "Unknown
Demo 2" (from 1:40 to 2:23), and the end is cut off "Unknown Demo 3," as the
cassette ran out of tape.
Re-aligned stereo channelization to reduce the noise
floor as it was slightly off, normalized the overall output levels by scan
throughout and increased them by approximately 1-2 dB as needed throughout for a
fuller more dynamic range. No noise reduction or EQ was used.
Source: Unknown generation tape.
Dodano: 7.1.2017
