Syd Barrett & The Pink Floyd "Have You Got It Yet?" vol.4 1967-1974
1) In The Beechwoods backing track 1967 (1st gen from 3/69 Mason interview, digitally enhanced) 04:49
2) Vegetable Man 1967 mix (1st gen from 3/69 Mason interview, digitally enhanced) 02:35
3) Vegetable Man 1967 rehearsal (1st gen from 3/69 Mason interview, digitally enhanced) 02:47
4) Silas Lang backing track 5/6/68 02:52
5) Lanky, Part II (aka Rhamadan) 5/14/68 01:37
6) Golden Hair instrumental, 1988 Gareth Cousins mix 5/28/68 01:58
7) Swan Lee backing track, Malcolm Jones alt mix 6/8/68 00:56
8) Swan Lee backing track 6/20/68 02:44
9) Clowns and Jugglers take I, alt mix w/studio chat 7/20/68 02:46
10) Swan Lee fragment, with vocal 4/10/69 00:45
11) Opel studio chatter 4/11/69 00:27
12) Love You take II 4/11/69 01:21
13) Clowns and Jugglers take II, keyboard mix 5/3/69 01:35
14) Long Gone take II 7/26/69 01:50
15) Dark Globe choral version 7/27/69 Jenner 1974 echo mix 02:59
16) Dark Globe choral version 7/27/69 Jones 1987 clean mix 02:58
17) Maisie take I, false start 2/26/70 00:24
18) Maisie take II, alt mix, extra vocals 2/26/70 03:00
19) Rats take I, false start w/studio chatter 6/5/70 01:08
20) Wined and Dined takes I & II edit w/studio chatter 6/5/70 01:40
21) Terrapin (Olympia, London, processed from 1st gen) 6/6/70 04:09
22) Gigolo Aunt (Olympia, London, processed from 1st gen) 6/6/70 05:19
23) Effervescing Elephant (Olympia, London, processed from 1st gen) 6/6/70 01:17
24) Octopus (Olympia, London, processed from 1st gen) 6/6/70 05:13
25) Baby Lemonade (BBC) 2/16/71 02:15
26) Dominoes (BBC) 2/16/71 02:51
27) Love Song (BBC) 2/16/71 01:29
28) "Boogie" 8/13/74 01:32
29) If You Go, Don't Be Slow 8/13/74 02:34
30) "Ballad incomplete" 8/13/74 00:24
31) fragment 8/13/74 00:05
32) "Slow Boogie" 8/12/74 02:59
33) John Lee Hooker 8/12/74 03:53
34) "Fast Boogie" 8/12/74 01:21
35) "Boogie #2 (More Echo)" from Darryl Read EP 8/13/74 00:20
36) Was That OK? 8/74 00:04
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1. In The Beechwoods backing track ‘67 (from 3/69 Mason interview) 04:49
2. Vegetable Man 1967 (from 3/69 Mason interview) 02:35
3. Vegetable Man 1967 rehearsal (from 3/69 Mason interview) 02:47
digitally enhanced versions
(For the original unprocessed version of these tracks see HYGIY Disc 6 tracks 23 – 25)
A member of LaughingMadcaps (who wishes to remain anonymous) was delighted with what we were doing, and when he saw the initial song lists for HYGIY he realized he owned a few tracks that had not been heard. Rather than press up a new bootleg CD, he generously donated his tracks to the HYGIY project -- in this way, it would be distributed to thousands of fans all over the world, for free. We are all in his debt.
While in high school, he interviewed Nick Mason in early 1969 (probably March as Nick was on his way to the first of the 'More' sessions at the time) for the student newspaper. In the course of that interview, Nick played him a few selections from a private reel. They were captured by the student's tape deck and preserved for us in this way. It's an ambient recording of several Pink Floyd songs playing in the room, while Nick comments occasionally. (Fortunately, Nick plays them loud!)
The original complete interview tape was stolen not long after the interview, but the music segment had been copied by a friend of the interviewer and is the source of these recordings. Quality is a bit ropey, but listenable enough. 'Beechwood' runs for almost five minutes and is obviously a backing track, but has some classic Syd tempo/chord changes. Rick Wright is very much to the fore. The instrumental 'Vegetable Man' is rather loose in style, but has some evil leady sort of rhythm guitar playing from Syd. The whole tape runs for about 11 minutes.
These songs very nearly didn't survive. The source tape is a cassette dubbed from the master reel. (It was a cheap cassette, too, with some leakage coming through from the other side of the tape.) For the sake of convenience he dubbed copies of just the songs--and it's a good thing too, because his interview tapes were stolen a year or two later. And so, this is all we have. However, there can be no doubts of its authenticity: that is Nick Mason's voice, after all!
The 1967 mix of "Vegetable Man" is different from the later ones--you can hear the band laughing at the end, longer than they do on the common 1974 mix. (This can also be heard on the 1987 mix of the track.)
The other "Vegetable Man" track appears to be a rehearsal, and instrumental run-through. It's unique among Floyd RoIOs (one almost never hears them in rehearsal). This begs the question of what else is waiting in the archives.
For this - the anonymous benefactor deserves all credit.
4. Silas Lang (Backing track) 02:52
Recorded: June 5th 1968
Toward the end of the 1974 sessions, Jenner had a dub of this 1968 recording made, thinking perhaps something further could be done with it. This reel was leaked to a fan at a later date; of the several hours of 1974 sessions, everything in circulation comes from the mix downs on that one 20-minute reel, and the 1968 "Swan Lee" instrumental as well. The "banjo" and "sax" parts came from a mellotron (one of the rhythm-tracks settings), as well as the odd "piano" notes at the beginning.
Much dispute have arisen about this track. So much that a very extensive article was written by Jon Allan
in which he tracks down the origins of the track. It is thought quite obvious when play alongside tracks 7
and 8 on this CD that the track evolved into the intro for Swan Lee.
Here follows a note from the Late Night article:
‘Opel” and ‘Crazy Diamond’ co-compiler Phil Smee believes the Banjo and Saxophone part to be the result of copying the unmixed track onto a poorly wiped (erased) master tape, but I disagree. Here’s why: In 1973 Roger Waters told Zig Zag magazine that towards the end of his time with Pink Floyd, Syd had “a great plan...to expand the group, get in two geezers, some two freaks that he’d met someplace or other. One of them played banjo and the other played saxophone. We weren’t into that at all, and it was obvious that the crunch had finally come”.
5. Lanky Part II (aka Rhamadan) 01:37
Recorded: May 14th 1968
Once again Malcolm Jones’ “The Making of Madcap Laughs” comes to the rescue.
It’s obvious been hard for the followers and the makers of Syd Barretts music to keep track of the differences between “Lanky II” and “Rhamadan” and that is simply because they were recorded on the same date: May 14th 1968.
From “The Making of Madcap Laughs”
14/5/68
Rhamadan : not issued
Lanky Part 1. not issued
Lanky Part 2. not issued
Golden Hair version 1. not issued
Produced by Peter Jenner
This is the only time Lanky pt.1 & 2 appear in the recording logs where as Rhamadan pops back up again on the 23rd of April 1969 for the infamous Motorcycle dubbing session.
'Lanky' and 'Rhamadan' were very long and rambling percussion instrumentals. Engineer Peter Brown's announcement on the tape of 'Lanky Part One' is, rather wearily, "Five minutes of drums!". It wasn't very good! "Rhamadan" lasted for almost twenty minutes, and in its unfinished state was also pretty boring. Syd too was not satisfied with it (he'd overdubbed several conga drums in random improvisation) and we agreed to abandon that. (Malcolm Jones)
”Syd was carrying a small, portable cassette player, which I assumed he was bringing so that we could make him a copy of 'Rhamadan'. I was very wrong. 'I'd like to overdub some motorbike sounds onto 'Rhamadan'', he said, 'so I've been out on the back of a friend's bike with the cassette player. They are all ready to put onto the 'Rhamadan' four track.' When Syd played the cassette of the sound effects, it was terrible! Not only was it poor quality for casual listening, it was certainly no good for professional recording.”
Purely speculating I’d say that its possible that “Lanky” and “Rhamadan” merely is takes of the same track but named differently. Anyway it seems that the one and half minute long segment presented here is enough to settle any idea of what the track “Rhamadan” might be like!
6. Golden Hair (instrumental Cousins mix 1988) 01:58
Recorded: May 28th 1968
A continued session on Golden Hair (Take 1) first recorded on the 14th of May 1968. This was later mixed by Gareth Cousins in hope that It would make the cut, as a bonus track, for the 1993 release “Crazy Diamond” – In the end both Cousins and Malcolm Jones, who produced the album, settled for the first recorded version from the 14th. That version is by the way 11 seconds shorter than this.
7. Swan Lee (Backing track, Jones alt mix) 00:56
Recorded: June 8th 1968
8. Swan Lee (backing track) 02:44
Recorded: June 20th 1968
Both of these tracks are backing sessions for Swan Lee based on the session heard on track 4.
Malcolm Jones:
”As I was unfamiliar with Peter Jenner's productions of the previous year, I asked Syd to play me tapes he had of rough mixes of a song called Silas Lang (re-titled 'Swan Lee') *(2) "Silas Lang" is the original title on the EMI files, and this was later changed to "Swan Lee". Syd never referred to it as Silas Lang, and this may be a mistake on the part of the engineer on the original session. Part of the lyric goes 'the land in silence stands', which sounds, in part, rather like 'Silas Lang'…'Silas Lang' or 'Swan Lee' was a long and rambling tale about an Indian maiden, reminiscent in many ways of the story of Hiawatha. It had no vocal when I heard it, but had promise.”
9. Clowns and Jugglers (take I) 02:46
Alternative mix with studio chatter
Recorded: July 20th 1968
This version of “Clowns and Jugglers” doesn’t at all vary all that much from the version finally being released on “Opel” in 1988 and again with the “Crazy Diamond” box (1993). Both versions available are from the very first recording session and are very similar to each other. It can be assumed that this version of the track most like was mixed by Gareth Cousins.
10. Swan Lee (Fragment) 00:45
Recorded: April 10th 1969
Syd and I spent the first session alone (7p.m. to 12.30) investigating the old tapes made a year earlier to see if
anything was usable. We first overdubbed guitar and vocal tracks onto 'Silas Lang' ('Swan Lee') and experimented with ideas for 'Clowns And Jugglers'. Neither of these was eventually used (Clowns And Jugglers, re-recorded as 'Octopus', was used in another version), and we both agreed that the new songs were far better than the old tracks. But at least we had checked each other out and we returned to Earls Court ready to start afresh the next evening. See also Tracks 4,7,8.
11. Opel (Studio chatter) 00:27
12. Love You (Take 2) 01:21
Recorded: April 11th 1969
The first we made (the engineer was Peter Mew) was 'Opel', at Syd's request. We both felt at the time that it was one of
his best new songs. I was very sad that 'Opel' was left out (off the album), especially in the light of what I thought to be lesser songs being included. I assume it was Syd's decision. It took Syd nine runs at it to get a complete take, and even that was not perfect. Nevertheless it had a stark attraction to it, and most of the early takes were merely false starts.
13. Clowns and Jugglers (take 2 - keyboard mix) 01:35
Recorded: May 3rd 1969
On May 3rd Mike Ratledge and Robert Wyatt of the Soft Machine overdubbed various parts onto the 8 track copies made the previous session. In contrast to their own recordings, Syd's tracks were very erratic and unpredictable. Although Syd booked them he wasn't very good at explaining to them what he wanted.
This was the version I had worked on with Syd, originally, on our first session together on 10/4/69, when
we had overdubbed guitar and voice onto a rough guitar backing Syd had made alone the year previously. It was in a higher key (than the issued one) and Syd had to sing really forcefully to make it work, but it still rates as one of my favourite unissued Syd recordings, after 'Opel'.
14. Long Gone (take II) 01:50
Recorded: 7/26/69
15. Dark Globe (Choral version - Jenner 1974 Echo Mix) 02:59
Recorded: 7/27/69
16. Dark Globe (Choral version - Jones 1987 clean mix) 02:58
Recorded: 7/27/69
These two tracks (15 & 16) may be mislabelled as Malcolm Jones notes that the 26th of July 1969 was the last recording session with Syd for the album. It could off course be that these tracks are mix tracks based on previously recorded material – but there seem to be no indication of a recoding session on the 27th of July.
17. Maisie (take I) 00:24
false start
Recorded: 2/26/70
18. Maisie (take II) 03:00
Alternative mix with extra vocals
Recorded: 2/26/70
Malcolm Jones: “All in all, the initial sales and reaction were sufficient to justify sanctioning a second solo album. The first session took place as early as 26th Feb., and the following day Syd made four songs as demos only, in stereo only, not multi track. They were 'Wolfpack', 'Waving My Arms In The Air', 'Living Alone' and a track that has since been the subject of much speculation 'Dylan Blues' (ed. But where is Maisie??)
19. Rats (take I) 01:08
False start with studio chatter
Recorded: 6/5/70
20. Wined and Dined (takes I & II) 01:40
Edit with studio chatter
Recorded: 6/5/70
An extract from an article by Michael West talking to a EMI Clerk on the phone, published in the Fanzine Opel:
’And when was the last session before ’74?’
’In 1970…Just hold on, there it is. “Milky way”, “She was a millionaire”, “Rats”: All seventh of June 1970.
ґ’”She was a millionaire”? June 1970? Can you read me out the rest of the sessions? From the beginning?’
’”Wolfpack”, “Milky Way”, “She was a millionaire”, “Rats”, “Love Song”, “Untitled”, “It is obvious”, “Effervescent Elephant”…“Dolly Rocker”, “Dominoes”, “Let’s Split”…”Wined and Dined”….
Alas “Rats Take 1” and “Wined and Dined” are from the last coherent sessions conducted by Syd at Abbey Road.
LIVE AT OLYMPIA 1970
21. Terrapin (Live 1970) 04:09
22. Gigolo Aunt (Live 1970) 05:19
23. Effervescing Elephant (Live 1970) 01:17
4. Octopus (Live 1970) 05:13
Recorded: June 6th 1970 at Olympia London
Extravaganza '70 - Music and Art Fashion Festival, The grand hall, Olympia Exhibition Hall, Olympia London. With David Gilmour on bass and Jerry Shirley on drums.
Syd's only post-Floyd solo show was once again marred by a bad p.a. and resultant low vocals,
but it still features some inspired guitar work and is fun to listen to. The P.A. Problems are mostly sorted out by the final song, so we're treated a freakin' amazing version of Octopus.
”He was going to do it, he wasn't going to do it, it was on and off, so finally we said, 'Look, Syd, come on, man - you can do it!' We got up, I played drums, David Gilmour played bass and he managed to get through a few songs. It got good, and then after about the fourth song Syd said, 'Oh great; thanks very much' and walked off! We tried, you know” (Jerry Shirley)
6.6.70 Extravaganza 70 – Music and Fashion Festival, The Grand Hall, Olympia Exhibition Hall, Olympia, London, England.
With Colosseum, Mungo Jerry, The Move, Mike Raven, The Pretty Things, Rare Bird, Steamhammer, Jackson Heights with Lee Jackson and Fairfield Parlour.
Barrett’s first major appearance was a late addition at the last evening of this four-day festival (3-6.6.70). He was joined on stage by David Gilmour (bass guitar) and Jerry Shirley (drums) and played a rushed set that included ‘Gigolo Aunt’, ‘Effervescing Elephant’ and ‘Octopus’ . His vocals were barely audible throughout and even before the last track was finished he left the stage to scattered applause. (Povey/Russell – In the Flesh)
BBC TOP GEAR 1971
25. Baby Lemonade (BBC) 02:15
26. Dominoes (BBC) 02:51
27. Love Song (BBC) 01:29
Recorded: February 16th 1971
16.2.71 BBC Transcription Service studios, Kensington House, Shepherd’s Bush, London, England
Barrett’s second and final session for BBC radio one in which he performed ‘Baby Lemonade’, ґDominoes’ and ‘Love song’. It was broadcast on Bob Harris – Sound of the Seventies on 1.3.71 at 6.00pm. (Povey/Russell – In the Flesh)
Barrett did complete a session for Radio 1's 'Sounds of the Seventies', but where on 'Top Gear' he chose to unveil new material, here he offered 'Baby Lemonade', 'Dominoes' and 'Love Song'.
THE 1974 SESSIONS
…’Oh, I’m sorry: It doesn’t say. It just says “Various bits and pieces – details inside tape box”. Sorry!’…
28. "Boogie" 01:32
29. If You Go, Don't Be Slow 02:34
30. "Ballad incomplete" 00:24
31. fragment 00:05
Recorded: August 13th 1974
32. "Slow Boogie" 02:59
33. John Lee Hooker 03:53
34. "Fast Boogie" 01:21
Recorded: August 12th 1974
35. "Boogie #2 (More Echo) 00:20
From Darryl Read EP
Recorded: August 13th 1974
36. Was That OK? 00:04
Towards the end of 1974 Peter Jenner again managed to get Syd into Abbey Road for the purpose of cutting a new album. By all accounts the sessions, which lasted for three or four days, were pretty dire. For one thing, Syd showed up with no material prepared and no strings on his guitar. He also was prone to wander away, not returning, and may even have bit an Abbey Road employee! The end result was three reels of mostly unfinished, untitled instrumentals, the most complete of which featured bass and drum overdubs done by Syd himself. When these tapes were reviewed during the making of the ‘Crazy Diamond’ box set, they were found to contain no vocal tracks apart from the odd bit of studio chatter.
Over the years this four-day session has been the subject of debate, and indeed the original notes to "Opel" cast doubt on its existence as, at that point, neither tapes nor paperwork seemed to have survived. They have subsequently surfaced, although the results bear little relation to work gracing "Madcap Laughs" and "Barrett". Instead Syd spent the time working on ill-focused blues' licks and chord sequences, only one of which bore a title: 'If You Go'. The process was abandoned before any vocal tracks were attempted.
”It was an abortion. He just kept over-dubbing guitar part on guitar part until it was just a total chaotic mess. He also wouldn't show anyone his lyrics - I fear actually because he hadn't written any” (Peter Barnes).