Time for another guest post from geofmcm, with his take on a "lost" Pink Floyd album that could have been.
This came about because I always felt 'Embryo' deserved to be on an album rather than on a sampler and other collections. Timewise 'Atom Heart Mother' seemed to be about right, but I was wanting a good version of 'Atom Heart Mother' without the choir and orchestra (although I love the versions of AHM Ron Geesin has done live with various orchestras that are on YouTube.) The one on the box set lacked energy and seemed to be one overdub short so seemed to just plod along. Obviously, there was the studio version of 'Embryo', but the one I used was from the 1970 BBC in concert from Paris Theatre. Unfortunately the BBC recorded this concert in mono, and although they artificially created a 'stereo' version for later releases it was still pretty flat. I therefore decided to create my own version by splitting out the stem versions of 'Embryo', 'Fat Old Sun' and 'If' for my side one, and set about creating stereo version. Dave to the left, Rick to the right, Roger and Nick in the centre (giving the drums some width). Tidied up the sounds of the stems, added some extra sounds, and created my new versions. Unfortunately the concert version of 'Atom Heart Mother' was with orchestra/choir so I looked for another version, and chose Santa Monica 1970, where it was called 'The Amazing Pudding', and was in a more bluesy development phase. It also had longer band parts, and was structurally similar to 'Echoes', but it too was in mono, and of a lesser quality. Again I used RipX to break it into stems and cleaned them up, remixing/mastering a new stereo version. This fills side two and now fits the feel of side one. The title of the album is from 'The Wall', because of the side two track name: "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any [amazing] pudding".
This came about because I always felt 'Embryo' deserved to be on an album rather than on a sampler and other collections. Timewise 'Atom Heart Mother' seemed to be about right, but I was wanting a good version of 'Atom Heart Mother' without the choir and orchestra (although I love the versions of AHM Ron Geesin has done live with various orchestras that are on YouTube.) The one on the box set lacked energy and seemed to be one overdub short so seemed to just plod along. Obviously, there was the studio version of 'Embryo', but the one I used was from the 1970 BBC in concert from Paris Theatre. Unfortunately the BBC recorded this concert in mono, and although they artificially created a 'stereo' version for later releases it was still pretty flat. I therefore decided to create my own version by splitting out the stem versions of 'Embryo', 'Fat Old Sun' and 'If' for my side one, and set about creating stereo version. Dave to the left, Rick to the right, Roger and Nick in the centre (giving the drums some width). Tidied up the sounds of the stems, added some extra sounds, and created my new versions. Unfortunately the concert version of 'Atom Heart Mother' was with orchestra/choir so I looked for another version, and chose Santa Monica 1970, where it was called 'The Amazing Pudding', and was in a more bluesy development phase. It also had longer band parts, and was structurally similar to 'Echoes', but it too was in mono, and of a lesser quality. Again I used RipX to break it into stems and cleaned them up, remixing/mastering a new stereo version. This fills side two and now fits the feel of side one. The title of the album is from 'The Wall', because of the side two track name: "If you don't eat yer meat, you can't have any [amazing] pudding".
Track listing
01 Fat Old Sun
02 Embryo
03 If
04 The Amazing Pudding
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