So when I found it for $2 in an Opportunity Shop last week – a UK pressing, excellent condition, once the property of Michael who owned a permanent marker – it was a happy day indeed. But I swore that I’d wait until I had it on vinyl mainly because of the cow. When I started Vinyl Connection and thought about some of the albums I’d like to write about, Atom Heart Mother was high on the list. Brass, space guitar, a choir, the sound of eggs frying… Taking the cassette from its cow cover and reading the strange titles became a nightly ritual there was so much to hear and so much of it was strange. To a young man stretched out on the bedroom floor of a nondescript brick house in suburban Melbourne it was a revelation. “I am on a one-fifth royalty for that side.” “The actual tunes and the harmonies were entirely mine,” said Ron Geesin, composer, performer and sound architect (according to his web-site). įor his part, Roger Waters would prefer the suite be “thrown into the dustbin and never listened to by anyone ever again.” Keyboard player Rick Wright does not remember it fondly. David Gilmour reflected that Atom Heart Mother, Pink Floyd’s first album of the 70s, was “us blundering about in the dark”.
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