There were endless, interesting possibilities for that little device, Gilmour told Rolling Stone.Subscribe now for more from the authority on music, entertainment, politics and pop culture.Pink Floyd s eternally popular song cycle has sold more than 15 million copies in the U.S.
March 1st, 1973, and more than 45 million units worldwide. A true colossus of classic rock, the album made its creators bassistvocalist Roger Waters, guitaristvocalist David Gilmour, keyboardistvocalist Rick Wright and drummer Nick Mason incredibly wealthy, and ultimately spent a mind-boggling 937 weeks on the Billboard 200. Recorded at Londons Abbey Road Studios in various sessions from May 1972 through January 1973, the albums cerebral soundscapes (exquisitely captured on tape by Abbey Road engineer Alan Parsons, and mixed with the help of veteran producer Chris Thomas) and heavy lyrical musings on the human condition inspired countless bong-fueled headphone listening sessions in darkened bedrooms, but its songs also sounded great on FM (and even AM) radio. ![]() As Waters told Rolling Stone in 2011, Dark Side was the first Pink Floyd album that was genuinely thematic and genuinely about something. And as artists like Radiohead and Flaming Lips (both of whom have been profoundly influenced by Dark Side ) can attest, the albums music and lyrics still hold up beautifully today. Roger Waters had been contributing lyrics to Pink Floyd albums since 1968s A Saucerful of Secrets (he also received co-writing credit on the instrumentals Pow R. Toc H. and Interstellar Overdrive from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the bands 1967 debut), but Dark Side marked the first though definitely not the last time that the bassist took the lyrical reins for an entire Floyd LP. Along with adhering to a cohesive concept, Waters wanted Dark Side to feature lyrics that were more lucid and direct than anything the band had written before. To try and drag it kicking and screaming back from the borders of space, from the whimsy that Syd Barrett, the bands original leader, who had written the bulk of the material on Piper was into, to my concerns, which were much more political and philosophical. I never rated myself terribly highly in the lyrics department, and Roger wanted to do it, Gilmour admitted to Rolling Stone in 2011. I think it was a sense of relief that he was willing to do that. At the same time, him being the lyricist and more of the driving force didnt ever mean that he ought to be in full charge of the direction on the musical side of things. From the beginning, the band had intended to call their new album Dark Side of the Moon a reference to lunacy, as opposed to outer space but when British heavy blues rockers Medicine Head released an album of the same name in 1972, it caused the Floyd to rechristen their project as Eclipse. We werent annoyed at Medicine Head, Gilmour told Sounds magazine. We were annoyed because we had already thought of the title before the Medicine Head album came out. Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon Immersion Rar Files Free To RevertBut when the Medicine Head album stiffed and quickly sank into obscurity, Pink Floyd felt free to revert back to their albums original title. Though the lush textures and spacious arrangements of Dark Side of the Moon make it sound like a purely studio project, the band actually aired out all of the songs in concert in the exact same sequence that they would appear on the album more than a year before the albums official release. The band premiered Dark Side of the Moon: A Piece for Assorted Lunatics (as it was provisionally known at the time) at the Brighton Dome on January 20th, 1972; and though it was inadvertently cut short that night by what Waters called severe mechanical and electric horror, the band went on to perform the song cycle in its entirety in during the rest of their 1972 live dates, further refining the songs (and the transitions between them) as they went. ![]() So we could work on the transitions as part of the recording process rather than just part of the mixing process. Of all the Dark Side songs played live by the band in 1972, On the Run was the one that was most radically transformed in the studio. Pink Floyd Dark Side Of The Moon Immersion Rar Files Portable Modular AnalogOriginally known as The Travel Sequence, the instrumental was originally a guitar-driven jam but it received a massive electronic makeover in the studio, thanks to a portable modular analog synthesizer known as the EMS Synthi AKS. ![]()
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