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The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - 1st (b)

PINK FLOYD The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (Rare 1967 UK first pressing 11-track MONO vinyl LP on the blue & black Columbia label, front laminated flipback picture sleeve with 'File Under Popular' printed on the back top right SX6157)
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Product Availability Currently Unavailable - You can request the next copy of this item
Release Year 1967 - 57 years ago
Condition Unless stated otherwise in the description above, all items are in at least excellent condition - so please read our descriptions carefully. We try to sell items as close to Mint condition as possible, and many will indeed be close to brand new and/or unplayed. Others may be 'used' - and all will meet our strict grading and are 100% guaranteed.
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Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Columbia
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Product Catalogue No SX6157
Music Genre 60s Rock, Psychedelic, Progressive, 70s Rock, 70s Artists, Rock
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
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Tracklisting & More Information

Background & Condition :-

This remarkable first pressing in in astonishing condition and has obviously been kept in a clean smoke free environment for the last thirty years & very carefully looked after. The album was released on August 5, 1967 and one month later it was released in stereo. The album's title comes from the title of the seventh chapter of Kenneth Grahame's 'The Wind in the Willows' !

The mono mixes of each track were done at seperate sessions, as it was the main format. The whole stereo album mix was a one day thing, so this really is the definitive mix of this classic album with significant differences to the stereo mix.

Subtle changes in effect abound, moment to moment gradations that can alter the flow of an entire track. For example, Syd Barrett's whoops and shouts on 'Take up thy Stethoscope and Walk' are simply dripping with delay and the environment constantly morphs, unlike the stereo version which is 'fixed'. The coda of 'Flaming' is shorter than on the stereo version, as is 'The Gnome'. There's a whole layer of organ missing on the stereo mix at the start of 'Interstellar Overdrive' with a bongo fadeout and seriously different parts in 'Pow R Toch H'. As the engineer said many years later 'The omission of things in the stereo mixes was really just because of the time - or lack of it - spent over these' - Mono was the de-facto standard & the stereo, like 'Sgt Pepper', was pretty much cobbled together as an afterthought.

The Disc :-

The overall condition is fantastic. There are some hairline marks visible on very close inspection that are completely inaudible & probably caused by being removed & replaced in the original EMI paper advert inner.The labels are clean & bright with the KT tax code clearly visible & just a few light spindle marks around the centre hole as evidence of play.

The matrix numbers are :

XAX 3419-2 On Side One
XAX 3420-1 On Side Two

The Sleeve :-

Still with the original unsplit EMI advert paper inner, the sleeve is fantastic with negligible scuffing to the edges [to the point of being almost non-existant!], bright clear laminate withno sign of shelfwear & secure undamaged flipbacks.
The sleeve back is clean, unscuffed & unstained with 'File Under Popular: Pop Groups' text. The Ernest J. Day & Co. sleeve is dated 6709, just creeping into the period of the first release of the stereo version.


This truly is a staggering copy, by far the best we've ever seen & one which you'd be unlikely EVER to find better. An investment grade item !!

Tracklisting :-

1. Astronomy Dominé
2. Lucifer Sam
3. Matilda Mother
4. Flaming
5. Pow R Toc H
6. Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk
7. Interstellar Overdrive
8. The Gnome
9. Chapter 24
10. Scarecrow
11. Bike




LP RECORD  
Recording Artist Pink Floyd
Product Title The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - 1st (b)
Product Information Pink Floyd The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - 1st (b) UK vinyl LP album (LP record).
Language All tracks are sung in English, unless otherwise stated in our description.
Additional info Deleted - A deleted or out-of-print item is one that is no longer manufactured. However, we stock thousands of out-of-print formats and we specialise in tracking down out-of-print, deleted and hard-to-find releases.
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