You Got It Now!

Syd Barrett's Last Recording Session - Abbey Road Studios 1974-08-12 - Now you can finally hear it!
Well, well, well! After lusting after this gem for many years ... here it is, finally ... 11 instrumental tracks of pure unrealised potential, going nowhere faster and faster ...
I wish someone with more talent for visualisation than I have, and with more dexterity at arranging than I have, and with the vision that Syd has started - would finish these tracks, especially "If You Go". One of the many biographies I have read about this session (arranged for three days, but only worked on for one) said that all they could produce from Syd is "a few unfocused licks". Well, it's a bit more than that.
Source: Peter Jenner's Mixdown Reel
Lineage: Boot Vinyl LP "You Got It Now!" -> Sound Forge -> click and crackle removal, vinyl restoration and light NR -> FLAC via FLAC frontend level 6, sectors aligned and verified

SYD BARRETT
Syd Barrett’s Last Recording Session [A DoinkerTape, 1CD]
Sessions at Abbey Road Studios August 12, 1974. Ex SBD stereo.
This session on August 12, 1974 was written about in David Parker’s book, Random Precision - Recording the music of Syd Barrett 1965-1974. Thanks to schnitstelle for pointing it out. Parker wrote:
John Leckie: “I was working a lot with Pete Jenner at the time, doing Roy Harper records and various other things and… well Pete said: ‘Syd’s going to come in, and we’re going to do some recording and he’s not in very good shape, and we’re going to see what we can get.’ So Syd came in with new guitars… you know, he had new equipment, there was a drum kit and everything…”
“Syd’s new equipment? I remember looking at these new guitars thinking: “Wow, he’s really serious about this.’ …They’d obviously just been delivered and he was obviously looking at big things, buying all of this equipment.”
“It was Syd on his own, just Syd, Pete Jenner, me and Pat Stapley. We were the only people who were in the studio.”
Peter Jenner: “Well I think that was… we didn’t know what we were going to do. I think still we were saying like: ‘Give Syd all the tools and then see what he comes up with. Give him a full palette and let’s see if he paints a nice picture’ and there was some indication that he wanted to do it.”
One of many legends to emerge over the years about this session is that Syd turned up with a guitar, but no strings. Phil May of the Pretty Things is credited with supplying a set to enable Syd to begin recording.
John Leckie: “I think the idea was that Syd was going to play guitar on the first day, do a whole album of playing guitar, and on the second day he was going to play the drums, hence the drumkit… and on the third day he was going to play the keyboards or whatever… do the overdubs, and on the fourth day he was going to sing. And that would be the LP.”
Aside from Barrett, also in the studio were Pink Floyd manager Peter Jenner, as producer and engineers John Leckie and Pat Stapley. The next day “was devoted to compiling the best pieces from the 16-track recordings produced on the previous day. Ten pieces were selected and transfered onto 8-track tape.”
That’s what you have here. The entire recording finally appeared on a bootleg LP, “You Got It Now” in early 2008. Barrett passed away in July 7, 2006.
This was shared by Doinker at the Dime who said “Well, well, well! After lusting after this gem for many years… here it is, finally… 11 instrumental tracks of pure unrealized potential, going nowhere faster and faster… ”
When Syd Barrett died, there was such an outpouring of love and nostalgia for him that it recalled “the ever-popular tortured artist effect”. Despite his talent and originality, he could not or did not know how to cope with fame. This final session shows Barrett struggling, inchoate and reduced to doodling on the guitar. There’s only one unfinished song, If You Go, Don’t Be Slow. Barrett was 29 at the time of the recording. He was 60 when he died.
- The Little Chicken

from: http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=390

Dodano:  23.11.2014