The Floyd then went off to play in America and left me to get on with it.” “As far as I can remember, Dave talked to me about the theme and Rick came round to my studio and we went through a few phrases for the vocal section. Talking in 2006, Geesin said Pink Floyd had only the vaguest idea of what they wanted. Atom Heart Mother would offer a similar fusion of ordinary and extraordinary sounds. Between them, they crafted a soundtrack from conventional instruments and ‘human noises’ such as breathing, talking and farting. He and Waters were already writing music for a scientific documentary called The Body. Still, Geesin was the obvious choice to compose the score. We all listened to it and thought, ‘Oh, that’s quite nice…’ But we all thought the same thing, which was that it sounds like a theme from some awful western. “I think it’s significant that they all fell asleep,” he grumbled. Geesin also preferred opera to most rock’n’roll, and he took Mason, Gilmour and keyboard player Rick Wright to hear Wagner’s Parsifal at Covent Garden.
“I called it ‘astral wanderings’,” he said. And when he did hear some, he wasn’t impressed. Geesin wasn’t familiar with Floyd’s music. Nick Mason met Geesin through a mutual friend, the Rolling Stones’ tour manager Sam Jonas Cutler.
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By 1970 he was composing TV soundtracks in his basement flat/studio in Notting Hill. Geesin had started his career in a jazz band in the early 60s. But first they needed someone to write a score.Įnter Ron Geesin, an Ayrshire-born banjo player, pianist, poet and writer. Pink Floyd eventually decided that the missing ‘something’ was an orchestra and a choir. “But it still seemed to lack an essential something.” “We added, subtracted and multiplied the elements,” said Mason.
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“It demanded the full range of our limited musicianship,” said Mason in his memoir, Inside Out.įloyd had been playing the piece live for some weeks, tweaking the arrangement. The company insisted this tape was not to be spliced and used for edits, meaning Waters and Mason recorded the backing track for their new composition in one 23.44-minute take. EMI had just installed state-of-the-art eight-track recorders that used a specific one-inch tape. Instead, Pink Floyd entered EMI’s Abbey Road studios in early March to record their new work. “It’s rather Yellow Submarine-ish, about a little boy in space.”īut Waters never mentioned Rollo again.
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“We’re going to do the music for an Alan Aldridge TV cartoon series called Rollo,” Waters announced in Melody Maker. But they were still undecided on their next recording project. It’s believed Pink Floyd performed the first version of their new instrumental on Januat the Lawns Centre in Hull. Pink Floyd live in Hyde Park on J(Image credit: Michael Putland/ Getty Images) “We all listened to it and thought, ‘Oh, that’s quite nice…’ But we all thought the same thing, which was that it sounds like a theme from some awful western.” “Dave came up with the original riff,” Waters told Capital Radio (now TeamRock) DJ Nicky Horne. However, Floyd’s discarded outtakes contained a musical sequence around which the Atom Heart Mother suite would evolve. The soundtrack included just three Floyd tracks, padded out with songs by the Grateful Dead, among others. Zabriskie Point appeared in February 1970 and was a resounding flop. It was hell.”įloyd lasted two weeks in Rome and then came home.
However, the director, worried their music would overpower his movie, criticised everything: “You’d change whatever was wrong and he’d still be unhappy. “We did some great stuff,” insisted Waters. Zabriskie Point was the next stage on Floyd’s varied musical journey, but the band quickly discovered that Antonioni was an impossible taskmaster. The piece was fashioned out of found sounds, with its composer ranting in a Scottish accent. Pink Floyd in 1971 (Image credit: Koh Hasebe/Shinko Music/Getty Images)įloyd’s next release, 1969’s double album Ummagumma, included Roger Waters’ musique concrète experiment, Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In a Cave And Grooving With A Pict.
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