in the 5.1 SACD former it is a
revelation it's brilliant I mean I had
all sorts of things that I've had before
or probably had 30 years ago forgotten
about there are things you're hearing
this mix which you don't hear in the
original mix now you're really hearing
it too the first time on record like it
was originally in concert
the original dark side of the moon that
everyone knows and loves so well is
actually third-generation tape most of
it most of the drums and bass and rhythm
guitars were bounced into a two-track
mix and this mix we've gone back to the
very original tapes synchronize them all
together and everything is original
takes and a better sound quality it's
being remixed to be close to the
original but to be in the quadrophonic
SACD former
medal was the moment where we did sort
of find where we were going echoes in
particular was a good step forward for
us after we made medal which included
echoes which was a whole side so it was
moving towards and doing something that
was a complete piece that was longer we
then told quite a lot we did it a number
of rehearsals somewhere up and West
Hampstead and started working on pieces
which turned out in the end to be Dark
Side of the Moon
oh yeah son
Oh
gig
we started off doing this as a piece
called eclipses that were probably
riding there three or four songs that
were being played on the road and they
were simply designed as individual songs
this is live in Brighton in 1972 in
Eclipse shows it was a completely
different piece before we came to the
synthesizer
this was another guitar Jam we would
specifically trying to get a piece to
replace you on the run pieces that we
had the technology yeah we had the dcs
tree we've just got a new version we'd
had the old wooden version of it for a
little while but this was a new version
that had one of the very first sequences
in it oh that's that that was the big
innovation was that the person ta had a
sequencer which is just first sequencer
ulema see and if you impress this record
button and do a little sequence and you
tell you that something like that not
quite in time and then speed it up then
basically that's what you got funny
enough as is recorded for posterity in
Adrian mavens film live at Pompeii he
happened to be in the studio when I was
working on that of course Roger came out
to put his oar in and said that the
eighth note sequence which I had put in
which is not that one wasn't quite right
and he wanted to do a different one
which he then did and irritatingly of
course it was better and that you can do
this as well make noises over the top of
it so between us that's that's hell that
piece germinated that loops he had had a
kind of feeling of urgency about it
which then with you know the footsteps
and the airport announcements and Roger
that hat is the road he loves at the end
of it it seemed to make sense
all the explosions and whooshing noises
on the south moon and wish you were here
are all generated on one of these
machines the album is a lot about the
stress of torque I mean I think that's
what inspired Rodger to write the lyrics
it's about traveling about fear of death
through flying really which I suffered
from quite a lot early on in our career
I think most people who fly as much as
we did go through cycles where you get
scared of it and then you and then you
reconcile yourself
by this time we were on the road we were
recording we were had met I mean we were
just 18 hours a day just at it and that
pressure was obviously affecting us all
affecting Roger quite deeply
the big move forward on Dark Side of the
Moon was Rogers coming-of-age lyrically
and having the the ideas and the
intelligence to take a subject and
examine it in all its parts in all those
different songs you know the pressures
of life on young pop people and the
pressures of life the world the worries
of travel mortality money so it has some
kind of universal appeal in that it
confronts a number of major
psychological and emotional concerns
in 1972 you know we were all turning
into adults really and we gradually all
of us at different rates and we were all
changing I was 29 years old before I
suddenly realized that this was life and
it was happening and it was not a
preparation for something I know the
song talks about kicking around a piece
of ground and all of that but just
before del Sol the moon must spin it at
around the same time I suddenly realized
that this is not a rehearsal but this
was life happening now one should grasp
the nettle
waste dear
Oh
not appease those ground
scary
Oh
is the English Way the time is
saw this
like something more to say
the great gaping the sky is obviously
about death and it was kind of a play on
the fact that we were doing gauged
enough it was possibly even just the
working title that stuck
I'm very proud as a musician and the way
the court structure works starts off in
B minor and somehow I manage to go
through this whole sequence and get to B
flat it's a very weird change but it
actually works it actually flows
and I thank Clare Torry for that magic
day when she put the boys on
I remember Saul sitting there saying
this is incredible and what's happening
out there what she did I was extremely
excited I'm here in this incredible
voice I mean even today I just can't
believe the effect it has on me and I
guess blow everyone else
I made up the rhythm tape in a shed at
the bottom of the garden
my my my wife then was a Potter and she
had a pottery studio at the bottom of
the garden I had a little music studio
next to it she had a big metal mixing
bowl for meeting up 20 and so I went oh
I know how to make the rhythm for this
and I had a Reeboks a 77 we only had to
track machines at the time uh-huh
and so you know I got a microphone out
and put it by the mixing bowl and
through a handful of coins you know
right that's one that's an mTOR sand
paper up right there's another one then
searched around for the sound of the
cash register or something I thought
it's in seven eight okay so I cut up
seven pieces of tape of those sound
effects exactly the same length and and
spliced them together and you know stuck
it in the Reeboks going around at my
extend to hold it like that and press
the button and now and that was it the
album was definitely helped in quite a
big way by money being the single and
money was really the obvious choice
while we were on tour the record was
going up the Billboard chart like that
and it eventually hit number one we were
touring we went and taught you know and
it was a big it was a big big buzz going
our line of progress in America we were
moving up and selling out quite good
large places you know selling a lot of
tickets the work blows shot up the tours
shot up I went on to write with your ear
so you know coming here be a boy have a
cigar
you're going to go far it was all an by
the way which one's pink
The Voice is all over the record I wrote
a number of questions on a set of cards
a set of white cards like that and then
we set up a microphone in studio through
your Abbey Road and the cards were just
sitting there on a music stand then they
were questions like when was the last
time you were violent you know and then
were you in the right and we got I got
everybody that I could think of Henry
McCulloch yeah Henry and his wife had
had a terrible fight night before and
they bet that's Lee and Henry said were
you in the right now as Henry says I
don't know I was really drunk at the
time I certainly wasn't right
I think it was also a dream fulfilled
you know and if we'd been brave enough
we would probably go and well that's it
lads we've cracked it goodbye it's been
very nice you know we could have all
gone office and I mean I'm glad we
didn't because out of all the EM natives
and anxieties that were left behind you
know in the rubble of the explosion of
that enormous success came all kinds of
wounded creatures that had their own
story to tell
ah
I loved our own we're Oh
Oh
I've always had a problem with us and
then mix what I love the song didn't
quite like the way it was done but now
for me it sounds wonderful I think
that's true bidet and I think it's true
for Roger actually I think about us and
then I thought about it recently because
I listened to the record because of this
5.1 mix I went to to a studio with James
in New York and listened to the whole
thing I must say I think the mix he's
done is terrific
I hadn't sat down and listened to the
piece from start to finish
I wouldn't think for 20 years it was
fascinating to do that and to see how
well it still holds together
us-and-them probably stands the test of
time as well if not better than any of
the other songs on the record you know
with without holdin I that's what the
fighting is all about
it's strange thirty years later to be
you know seeing us about to embark on
this punitive adventure in Iraq I find
it hard to believe that it's about
anything other than the oil
you
but it was the mix of things and you
know over it when has to give credit to
people like storm as well the package
was terrific the starting point for Dark
Side of the Moon was about there lied
show the style of it was related to rig
who said let's go for something very
graphic and very simple storm generally
when he's presenting ideas to us present
a whole bunch of stuff
I think they produced about 10 sleeves
they will put round a room I think was
there the part of that muttering part of
Abbey Road some storeroom or something
the sleeve is so wonderful for whatever
reason is that you know everybody just
snow deal even look to any of the other
cities yeah and they're buying that yeah
that one that one that one all of us
absolutely went brilliant terrific lover
and I was actually trying to make them
stay in the room you know two
perspectives a listen guys do you please
consider this button yeah I really spent
a long time getting it together no no no
that one you know it was sort of
unanimous just obvious you know nearly
anyone who wanted an album cover without
wanting themselves to be on it who would
have chosen that if they'd seen it for
almost any subject but it seemed
particularly appropriate to listen
the triangle is assigned for ambition so
got a symbol and I think that that that
tied in with some lyrics Roger was
writing and this in itself tied in with
pyramids and pyramids seem to be really
good symbols for sort of madness and
greed I think lost people see appearing
now they will think me
and once had a good idea for the inside
the heartbeat everybody made Gate Falls
then if they thought the record was good
so it's going to be a gatefold it's
going to have the lyrics on it I
suddenly realized that you know the
spectrum ended out you know there and
there and you could run it across the
first page and do that
he's doing new artwork but it's using
the same principle of the pyramid and
the prison the visual does that is a
piece of graphics very senior easy to do
and then when I reworked it in 1993 up
to the photograph so I made it
photographic what's happening like and
it was dead real I mean it's just very
straight for them but it would be easy
so I was thinking how can I take this
light gameís further I suggested the
bad that we've made a stained glass
window I was trying to represent that
the fullness the purity the clarity or
there after when I want the
destructiveness of 5.1 so when you do
surround sound good 5.1 it is actually
pretty powerful and cut it so this is
really refined sound okay so I trying to
really refine the light quality so steak
buzz - it would be a really good idea
cook was about how light passes through
with any of the prison but the ground
upon which it sits namely the glass so I
think it's pretty good and I think it's
got some interesting I did was about the
band think this - I think it's cause of
interesting sort of ironic really just
over touch
I love dark side beneath my head and I
will say that now I think it's a
brilliant mix and brilliant songs and
just love it
design the grass lots of magic happening
like this album I think we were all
motivated we working at Abbey Road which
was a really nice place to work we were
such close friends I can remember the
moment of sitting down at Abbey Road and
listening to it was in stupid control
room of number three we've done a lot of
ahem and and we've been slaving over
that mixing desk for four weeks doing
this mix and sticking all this stuff
together that day when you actually all
sit back and listen to it from beginning
to end it was very exciting you've got
this piece of tape you know on a couple
of reels 45 odd minutes long it loads a
bit of white editing tape flashing
through the thing as you as it goes
round and there is a day and you
actually have finished and you sit down
you turn the speaker's up to pretty nice
and loud you listen to the whole thing
through that is a moment of that is
really magical
- I see
side
the original and Dark Side of the Moon
that everyone knows and loves so well is
actually third generation tape most of
it and this mix as we've gone back to
the very original tapes synchronize them
all together and and everything is
original takes of everything there are
things that were really lost either
because they were buried or because
they've got actually softened up by
endless you know drum particularly from
my point of view of listening to drums
the drums are much crisper and there are
things you'll hear in this mix which you
don't hear in the original necks which
actually quite excited it's brilliant
I mean I had all sorts of things that I
haven't heard and really haven't heard
before or probably heard thirty years
ago forgotten about I've been listening
to this Dark Side of the Moon obviously
quite a bit listening to the mixes of it
in the 5.10 CD format and it is a
revelation
I'll see
outside
I had forgotten that in brain damage
listen to bluebells right in the
background now I'm five to one leg burn
if they're not loud but you just are
aware I mean it was designed to be in
that format all of the sound effects
originally were in quadraphonic sound
because we took a quadraphonic system
wherever we went so all the footsteps
going around the hall and all that kind
of stuff we've been doing for years
quadrophonic tapes we had a quadraphonic
pan pots fur for the keyboards for
Richter zoom is keyboards around a huge
room now you're really hearing it too
the first time on record like like it
was originally in concert
you
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let's go