Collector’s Guide: Pink Floyd – The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn (3CD Book-Box, 40th Anniversary Edition)

Sonderausgabe von Pink Floyds „The Piper at the Gates of Dawn“ mit drei bisher unveröffentlichten Titeln erscheint am 3. September 2007

Bei der Suche in den Archiven von EMI und Abbey Road nach den Original-Masterbändern für diese Veröffentlichung stellte sich heraus, dass die Produzenten einige bisher unveröffentlichte Versionen von Titeln aus den „Piper“-Sessions entdeckt hatten. Um diese seltenen und bisher unveröffentlichten neuen Versionen in diese Sonderausgabe zum Jubiläum aufnehmen zu können, musste das Veröffentlichungsdatum des Albums um eine Woche verschoben werden.

3 CDs sind enthalten in der leinenen Book-Box: Das Piper Album in Mono & Stereo plus eine CD mit allen Pink-Floyd-Singles aus dieser Zeit!

As previously reported the 40th anniversary release is newly remastered by James Guthrie from the original recordings, with Discs 1 and 2 containing the full ‘Piper’ album, represented in both stereo and mono versions. Disc 3 includes bonus tracks, including the following: all the Pink Floyd singles from 1967, (‘Arnold Layne’, ‘See Emily Play’, and ‘Apples And Oranges’), plus the B-sides ‘Candy And A Current Bun’ and ‘Paintbox’ as well as previously unissued versions of ‘Matilda Mother’, ‘Apples And Oranges’ (1967 stereo version) and two rare edits of ‘Interstellar Overdrive’, one previously only available on an EP in France (French Edit) and take six of the track from the original recording sessions discovered in the EMI archive.

When the re-mastering of this groundbreaking album started to come together, a collector loaned EMI a copy of the original French EP, much to the surprise of Guthrie it was a different version of ‘Interstellar Overdrive’ to what had been supplied from the EMI archive..

JAMES GUTHRIE: Whereas the French release used the same take as that later used on the album albeit in a shortened and pre-overdubbed form, this version was more structured and clearly not from the same take. The tape box information was emphatic this was the French edit. The 40 year old job files were pulled and only confirmed the same information listed on the tape box.

Following investigation into the reason behind this, it was discovered that this version was an unreleased mix from take six of the original session, it also materialised that a different version of ‘Matilda Mother’ had been recorded – it had the same backing track as the album version, but the verse vocal and lyrics are different.

CD 1 (Stereo) & CD 2 (Mono): original tracklist

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

CD 3 (Special Edition Bonus Disc)

1. Arnold Layne
2. Candy And A Currant Bun
3. See Emily Play
4. Apples & Oranges
5. Paintbox
6. Interstellar Overdrive (French Edit)
7. Apples & Oranges (Stereo Version)

Charts: Am 9.9.2007 ist die 3-fach-CD in England auf Platz 20 der Albumcharts eingestiegen!