collector's store | catalogue

Pink Floyd

Comes from 'UK' vinyl LP

The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - 1st [b] - Sample

PINK FLOYD The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (Very rare 1967 UK first pressing 11-track mono LP on the blue & black Columbia label. This copy comes in the second variant front laminated flipback picture sleeve, with 'File Under Popular' printed on thetop flipback in the right corner and with '6709 TPS Printed and made by Ernest J. Day & Co. Ltd., London SX 6157 / SCX 6157' at the bottom. This copy has a 'Factory Sample Not For Sale' sticker on the Side One label. See 'More Info' for further details of this classic SX6157)

#Top 500 Greatest Albums Of All Time

click on this image to enlarge
Price Info
$1199.30, £895.00  
Product Availability Last copy in stock. Order now for shipping on Monday 29th September
Release Year 1967 - 58 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.
Shipping Cost Add item to your basket to see shipping quote
Format vinyl LP album (LP record)
Record Label Columbia
Complete Stock List Go to Pink Floyd or visit our Pink Floyd collectors store
Product Catalogue No SX6157
Music Genre 70s Rock, Progressive, 70s Artists, Rock, 60s Rock, Psychedelic
Country Comes from UK Comes from 'UK'
click an image to view larger
 
Tracklisting & More Information

Background & Condition
The album was released on August 5th, 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 separate 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 fade-out 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 and the stereo mix, like 'Sgt Pepper', was pretty much cobbled together as an afterthought.

The Sleeve
The Ernest J. Day & Co. sleeve reveals light general, with some creases in the laminate and light discolouration to the no-laminted back. The flipbacks are secure with the spine being perfectly legible, the print remains bright, vivid & unblemished, with 'File Under Popular' printed in the top right on the back & '6709' release date bottom right. There are no rips or splits, the unlaminated back has just a little age discoloration.

vinyl
The labels are the blue and black Columbia design with "The Gramophone Co Ltd" and "Sold In UK Subject To...." text.

The matrix numbers are:-
XAX 3419-2 / XAX 3420-1


There are a few spindle marks and have a number written in black on both.

The vinyl has been professionally cleaned & played. Side One shows just a couple of wispy marks leaving it Excellent, whilst Side Two has a few more noticeable hairlines & scuffs, although still looks overall very clean, we have graded it VG. All in all, still a very handsome example!

Thanks due to the superior quality of the 1960's vinyl pressings, when played the effect is minimised.

A great chance to grab a respectable MONO issue for a great price!

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] - Sample
Product Information Pink Floyd The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn - 1st [b] - Sample 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.
Artists Related To Architectural Abdabs, Chimera [60S], Clare Torry, Dave Kilminster, David Gilmour, Easy Star All-Stars, Nick Mason, Perfect Children, Rick Wright, Roger Waters, Ron Geesin, Storm Thorgerson, Syd Barrett, The Australian Pink Floyd, Unicorn, Zee
Product Barcode Not Available
Email sales@991.com to contact our sales team
Alternatively Known As pink floid, The Pink Floyd
To Order Off Line or ask a question E-mail our sales team at sales@991.com
or call 011-44-844-264-0-991 quoting 991.com reference number PINLPTH874996

991.com accept a range of card payments!

Trustpilot

we pay top prices for Pink Floyd records, CD and memorabilia
View a printer friendly version of this page view a printer friendly version of this page
<< back |  next >>

 

Close X

 

To get 10% off, visit our new mobile friendly site RareVinyl.com (by clicking the logo below)

var ju_num="1CD30569-E7C3-4F7F-A9C4-CCCE1CB102AE";var asset_host=(("https:"==document.location.protocol)?"https":"http")+'://d2j3qa5nc37287.cloudfront.net/';(function() {var s=document.createElement('script');s.type='text/javascript';s.async=true;s.src=asset_host+'coupon_code1.js';var x=document.getElementsByTagName('script')[0];x.parentNode.insertBefore(s,x);})();