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(from pinkfloyd.fandom.com)
Sung By: Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright
Written By: Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Richard Wright
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Part I (Wright, Waters, Gilmour; from 0:00 – 3:54) begins with the fade-in of a dense synth pad created with an EMS VCS 3, an ARP Solina, a Hammond organ and the sound of wet fingers running around the rims of wine glasses filled with various amounts of water. This is followed by plaintive Minimoog passages and a lengthy guitar solo played by Gilmour on a Strat (neck and middle pickups) using heavily compressed sound and reverb. This ends with the synth pad fading into the background.
Part II (Gilmour, Waters, Wright; from 3:55 – 6:27) begins with a 4 note theme repeated through the entire section. This includes a 2nd solo by Gilmour. Mason starts drumming after the 4th playing of the 4 note theme. This is referred to as Syd's Theme.
Part III (Waters, Gilmour, Wright; from 6:28 – 8:42) begins with a Minimoog solo. This includes a 3rd Gilmour guitar solo.
Part IV (Gilmour, Wright, Waters; from 8:43 – 11:09) Waters does the lead vocal with Gilmour and Wright backing him up.
Part V (Waters, from 11:10 – 13:30) has 2 guitars repeating a riff for a minute. A baritone sax overlays the sounds, played by Dick Parry. It ends as the sax changes from a baritone sax to a tenor sax. After, a time signature switch from 6/8 to 12/16 creates the appearance that the tempo speeds up, though the arpeggio guitar part remains unchanged in the background. The sax solo is accompanied by an ARP string synth keyboard sound. A machine-like hum slowly fades in from right to left as the saxophone gradually becomes more distant and this segues into "Welcome To The Machine".
FearlessFly
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July 10, 2020
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@Fred_Snerd . . . don't agree with the premise (no doubt many agree).
My music 'appreciation' applies to most aspects of most music.
@Fred_Snerd I do agree that some lyrics impress me that way -- "Imagine" by John Lennon is a shining example.
@Fred_Snerd . . . had no idea :
One day during recording, Barrett (now heavyset, with a completely shaved head and eyebrows) wandered into the studio (although Mason has since stated that he is not entirely certain whether "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" was the particular work being recorded when Barrett was there). Because of his drastically changed appearance, the band did not recognize him for some time. When they eventually determined the withdrawn man in the corner was Barrett, Roger Waters became so distressed about Barrett's appearance he was reduced to tears.[6] Someone asked to play the suite again for Barrett and he said a second playback was not needed when they had just heard it. When asked what he thought of the song, Barrett said it sounded a "bit old". He subsequently slipped away during celebrations for Gilmour's wedding to Ginger Hasenbein, which took place later that day.[11] Gilmour confirmed this story, although he could not recall which composition they were working on when Barrett showed up.[12][13]
The episode is resumed by Wright as follows:
Roger was there, and he was sitting at the desk, and I came in and I saw this guy sitting behind him – huge, bald, fat guy. I thought, "He looks a bit... strange..." Anyway, so I sat down with Roger at the desk and we worked for about ten minutes, and this guy kept on getting up and brushing his teeth and then sitting – doing really weird things, but keeping quiet. And I said to Roger, "Who is he?" and Roger said "I don't know." and I said "Well, I assumed he was a friend of yours," and he said "No, I don't know who he is." Anyway, it took me a long time, and then suddenly I realised it was Syd, after maybe 45 minutes. He came in as we were doing the vocals for "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", which was basically about Syd. He just, for some incredible reason picked the very day that we were doing a song which was about him. And we hadn't seen him, I don't think, for two years before. That's what's so incredibly... weird about this guy. And a bit disturbing, as well, I mean, particularly when you see a guy, that you don't, you couldn't recognize him. And then, for him to pick the very day we want to start putting vocals on, which is a song about him. Very strange.
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