Diskografie: Pink Floyd – Meddle
MEDDLE
Veröffentlichung: 30. Oktober 1971
Label: Harvest, Made in EEC, 1A 062-04917
Format: LP, 100 Gramm Vinyl, Gatefold-Cover
Vinyl: Side 1
- One of These Days (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour) 5:58
- A Pillow of Winds (Waters, Gilmour) 5:17
- Fearless (Interpolating “You’ll never walk alone”, Rodgers-Hammerstein) (Waters, Gilmour) 6:05
- St. Tropez (Waters) 3:40
- Seamus (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour) 2:13
Vinyl: Side 2
- Echoes (Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour) 23:31
Gesamt: 46:46
Band:
David Gilmour: Gitarre, Gesang, Bass, Harmonika
Nick Mason: Schlagzeug, Perkussion, Vocal Phrase
Roger Waters: Bass, Akustikgitarre, Gesang
Richard Wright: Keyboard, Gesang
Musiker:
The Kop Choir: You’ll Never Walk Alone
Seamus: “Gejaule” (Hund von Steve Marriott, Sänger und Gitarrist der Small Faces und Humble Pie)
Studios:
Recordings from January to August 1971
Abbey Road Studios (London)
Air Studios (London)
Morgan Studios (Willesden)
Produktion:
Pink Floyd: Producer
Pete Brown: Engineer (Air & Abbey Road)
John Leckie: Engineer (Air & Abbey Road)
Rob Black: Engineer (Morgan)
Roger Quested: Engineer (Morgan)
Artwork:
Sleeve Designed: Pink Floyd
Cover Photo: Bob Dowling
Inside Photo: Hipgnosis
Charts:
UK: 3
US: 3
Singles:
One of These Days / Fearless
Re-Releases:
2016 Meddle (Vinyl Reissue, PFRLP6)
THE STORY OF MEDDLE
Nick Mason: There wasn’t any great plan when we did Meddle other than it would be a group effort. We weren’t under any pressure from EMI to release anything. There was no concept. I don’t think we had anything already written when we went into studio. After Ummagumma and Atom Heart Mother, we thought I suppose that we should maybe make a group album, something that was maybe a reflection of where we were going live.
ONE OF THESE DAYS
John Leckie: They weren’t really different to any other band. It was quite energetic, everyone had a say. Nick came up with a lot of the crazier ideas. It’s his voice through a ring modulator that you hear on One Of These Days saying ’One of these days I’m going to cut you into little pieces’.
A PILLOW OF WINDS
Inspired, according to Nick Mason, by the game of Mahjong that he and Gilmour and their respective partners used to play while on holiday together, is a fairly straight love song. It’s one of the pastoral pieces that they had toyed with before in songs like Julia Dream and Grantchester Meadows.
FEARLESS
John Leckie: Fearless is still the one that everyone in Liverpool plays. Not just for the football chant, but those churning acoustic guitars. That’s the one that The Las and all those bands tell you is the classic Pink Floyd track.
SAN TROPEZ
San Tropez was not composed collaboratively. It was written by Roger Waters and was brought to the studio in a completed form.
SEAMUS
A great sense of humour test – was named after ex-Small Faces then-Humble Pie frontman Steve Marriott’s dog.
John Leckie: Steve would always be around the studio. They noticed that the dog would start barking in tune with the music.
The dog that appears in the film version in Live At Pompeii is in fact another one, a female Russian Wolfhound named Nobs, which belonged to Madonna Bouglione (the daughter of circus director Joseph Bouglione) took a bit more coaxing for her performance than Seamus did.
ECHOES
Echoes, at that time a series of unconnected parts labelled Nothing – there was Nothing Part One through to Part 36 – which eventually took shape when they debuted it live at a gig at Norwich Lads Club on 22. April 1971. It was still listed under its working title Return of the Son Of Nothing.
John Leckie: They were just back from the US. I remember Dave Gilmour had just got the same wah-wah peddle that Jimi Hendrix used. The seagull sound you hear on Echoes is that, the Cry Baby. Hendrix died in the middle of recording which I think affected them a bit.
I’m sure that one of the reasons that they did Echoes was because of Roy Harper. They shared management with Roy and he was a big mate of the band. He was always around and he was working on Stormcock. I’d worked with Roy and I think played a big part in my being hired for Meddle.
ALBUM COVER
Storm Thorgerson has said was his least favourite Pink Floyd sleeve: “I think Meddle is a much better album than its cover,” he said.
The cover was supposed to have been a close-up picture of a baboon’s bum. The band told him that they wanted something to do with water, maybe an ear underwater. It certainly fit with the mood of the album in a way that somehow you don’t feel that an ape’s anus would have done.
