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@Chaturanger

3 ай бұрын

The best is voivod version : kzread.info?search_query=astronomy+domine+voivod

Imagine the conversation when this album was pitched to the record company: "The opening track starts with flight announcements for the signs of the Zodiac, then it becomes a study of the existential terror of cosmic loneliness and how our subconscious minds use metaphor and symbolism to cope with it. The second song is about someone's cat."

@chapter2467

3 ай бұрын

"... and don't get me started on Pow R. Toc H."

@user-gl5kj1fm5x

3 ай бұрын

oh yeah and by the way we're working on a song about a swampy paddock

@gregwhitcoe5411

3 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣💯

@anonymouzzz4307

2 ай бұрын

and ends with BIKE

@wingnutbert9685

2 ай бұрын

🤣🤣🤣🤣.... I guess the reception would be hinged on how stoned the person on the other side of the desk was! LOL!

100% Richard was such an amzing talent, much missed. Floyd would not have been Floyd without him

@lsbfilmproductions

3 ай бұрын

Richard was so underestimated. He was the glue that held Pink Floyd together.

@patcecil1685

3 ай бұрын

@@lsbfilmproductions could not agree more

@bjhellstream

3 ай бұрын

​@@lsbfilmproductions He was the what made them come unglued.

@bjhellstream

3 ай бұрын

Without the other band members Roger would just be Roger, not Pink Floyd.

@thegrokkingchair4736

3 ай бұрын

@@bjhellstream AGREED!!!

You can still see this live as Nick Mason has it in his Saucerful of Secrets set. If you get the chance, don't miss his tour.

@kellieelliott5198

3 ай бұрын

Brit Floyd also has it in their set this year

@johnb2427

3 ай бұрын

They are incredible. I finally got to see Echoes live!

@paulcassidy8130

3 ай бұрын

@@johnb2427 I'm seeing them for the third time in London at the end of June. Can't wait!

@PickupthePieces76

3 ай бұрын

I got my ticket for this summer! His last tour was a blast.

@admirerofclassicalelectron2858

3 ай бұрын

Did it two times and it was great. Nick and his not-so-young friends play with enthusiasm as if they were fighting for their first record deal. So much fun!

Syd Barret was brilliant at capturing a theme.

Now you realize how innovative Pink Floyd was from the beginning and how it carried throughout their career.

@exsappermadman25055

3 ай бұрын

If only they didn't split, they would have been bigger than the Beatles...The English wankers!...

Pink Floyds members are all masters of leaving space. Such restraint.

For what it's worth, the VoiVod cover was excellent. I still listen to that one.

@Roddy1965

3 ай бұрын

Yeah, it's brilliant.

@karls74

2 ай бұрын

Yeah...just had to have listen to that again as it's been a while. Superb!

@ImYourOverlord

9 күн бұрын

The whole Nothingface album is great fun!

@cainealexander-mccord2805

9 күн бұрын

@@ImYourOverlord That's the way I remember it. Nearly 40 years ago now. Unbelievable.

Yeah Baby: lots of people don't like Ummagumma, but I think it's GENIUS!

@MattiaCampagnano

3 ай бұрын

People who dislike Ummagumma are those who don't know a lot outside The Wall and DSOTM. Ummagumma studio album is all but easy listening, but I don't understand why discounting a masterpiece like The Narrow Way. To me the earliest albums pre-DSOM are Pink Floyd's best work. Change my mind.

@AlexMitchell-sj4sb

3 ай бұрын

Granchester Meadows being a stand out track, one of my favourite Pink Floyd tracks.

@slatvatfatcat

3 ай бұрын

A trip to London and Paris I took as a high school student in 1978, when the trans-Atlantic portions of the flights--both on Air France--had Ummagumma as one of the music channels! I think I listened to a total of 18 hours of that album playing over and over.

@AlexMitchell-sj4sb

3 ай бұрын

@@slatvatfatcat really?? Wow that was cool! How things were in the 70s eh!

@Mertztillithurts

3 ай бұрын

@@MattiaCampagnano I wouldn't dare try to (because I totally agree!).

When I heard the news of Syd's passing, I went into mild shock. I went downstairs to the studio and grabbed the Gretsch Peppermint Twist and turned up REAL loud. I just began playing a medly of Astronomy Domine, Interstellar Overdrive and Set The Controls For the Heart of the Sun.... over and over until I couldn't play anymore. When they opened their show in the mid 90's with it, my head exploded. I've almost recovered. 🤘🧙‍♂🤘

@lesliespears8918

3 ай бұрын

Yes if you don't have Umma Gumma I strongly recommend you go ahead and buy one!!!!!!

@rjlchristie

Ай бұрын

I binged on The Madcap Laughs after the news. My fav Syd. BTW Set the Controls is a 100% Waters effort, not one of Barrett's.

I think Ummagumma is the band's most underrated album. Of course there is "Dark Side", "Wish You Were Here" and "The Wall" but "Ummagumma" shows what a raw diamond the band was in the early years. The first two live sides show how creatively the band worked out their studio work. “Careful With That Axe, Eugene” is the best example of this. Prog-rock and experimental rock reign supreme on the studio-sides. Me and my bird always loved "Grantchester Meadows". My bird (a bugdie) began chirping when I played that song.

@richardsinger01

3 ай бұрын

Grantchester Meadows is the best song on the album - well, on the studio disk anyhow. A lot of the rest doesn't really work for me.

When I saw you were reviewing this, I thought "Man oh man, he's gonna go nuts over those chord progressions/changes". 🤔 You didn't disappoint! 😇😀 Great show today!!

Voivod does a great cover of Astronomy Domine on their album Nothingface!

@wingnutbert9685

2 ай бұрын

Glad someone else mentioned it. Pretty unique cover and tune at the time it came out.

@kevinmuzerMetalMind64

2 ай бұрын

@@wingnutbert9685 Agree! Love Voivods guitar players jazz chords and phrasing in metal. Unique time signatures!

Omg, I love it! The first time I heard this song was in the early 80s. I was tripping on shrooms! Syd was the driving force then. He had brilliant ideas but was overwhelmed by them. Careful with that Ax Eugene is worth a listen.

The thing is, just playing the song on Guitar or Bass is so satisfying, just doing a vamp off it is so fun, the whole structure just puts you into a trance like state as a player. Great piece to learn.

Les Claypool and Sean Lennon also played a cover of this song in The Claypool Lennon Delirium.

@justincaron8428

3 ай бұрын

Came to say the same. Would love to see him react to their version. It was amazing live.

@ElChatarreroDelBlues

3 ай бұрын

Colonel Les Claypool, the Zappa of the 90s (saving the distance), another genius. With The Claypool Lennon Delirium they also covered some, at least 2 come to my mind now, King Crimson songs (In the Court of the Crimson King and Thela Hum Ginjeet). Doug would have to honor the many facets of Colonel Claypool.

@wingnutbert9685

2 ай бұрын

oooh....haven't heard that! Thanks! I'll check that out! I wonder if Doug's heard any Primus?

You have to hear all the albums before The Dark Side. It's amaizing how they can start with The Piper and get growing.

@JulioLeonFandinho

3 ай бұрын

Growing? there was no growing from perfection, and when they lost Syd, they had to re-start the whole thing again. Growing would've been if Syd could've had the opportunity of developing his musical ideas and the rest would've followed him, as it was supposed to be from the beginning

@lhpl

3 ай бұрын

Piper is probably the greatest PF album. I find albums like DSOTM, WYWH and the Wall deeply depressing. Piper is the opposite.

I first heard this song when it was covered by Voivod.

@stephanechamberland8486

3 ай бұрын

great cover !

@spunk88888

3 ай бұрын

Same here, also a great version of the song.

I remember seeing pink floyd live 1984 Birmingham alabama and this song opened the concert i was shocked but pleasantly suprised loved it.

@Llanchlo

3 ай бұрын

1994?

@raymondhartmeijer9300

3 ай бұрын

must be 1994, they didn't tour in 84. AD was also on the Pulse live album

I am happy you tackled a little more from 'Ummagumms', the live track is worth it. Two other studio tracks that are worth it is "Grandchester Meadows" and "The Narrow Way". Fascinating stuff.

Now you need to react to Interstellar Overdrive!

@davidblake5415

3 ай бұрын

There’s a live version with Sid era Floyd doing Interstellar Overdrive and Astronomer Domine

@sleambean

3 ай бұрын

Definitely do the one from the London '66-67 EP, it's definitely the definitive version!

@arthurdent1045

2 ай бұрын

@@sleambean gotta start with the original album version though...

@sleambean

2 ай бұрын

@@arthurdent1045 the EP one predates it actually, and is recorded in one take together without overdubs or time constraints so it's much more representative of their live output despite being recorded in a studio still

@arthurdent1045

2 ай бұрын

@@sleambean I agree it is a fantastic version! but i always think it is better to begin with the studio versions before going to the live versions.

Great video Doug! Worth noting that Gilmour also played this song on his recent solo tours so you could actually review a 3rd version. :)

One of my fav PF songs.

This song has a special place for me as it was the opening track when I saw Pink Floyd live in 1994. I can still picture the lighting of the stage everytime I hear it.

@OldRod99

3 ай бұрын

The only time I got to see Pink Floyd live - Arrowhead Stadium, June, 1994 - what a great way to start the show!

@Madman007

3 ай бұрын

@@OldRod99 Saw them in the Superdome New Orleans.

Each of them has a special place for me, but I enjoy the earlier version more. Piper and Saucer are my favorite PF albums. The later stuff is great and definitely has a broader appeal, but it's really a completely different band. Kind of like Genesis with and without PG.

Love love love the wonder you bring to listening to music!!! And especially love when you talk some of the theory going on. So insightful and inspiring! Thank you! 😊😊

So glad you are here!! Your analysis is always appreciated!! Thank you, Doug!!!

I don't think I'd ever listened to these back-to-back before. I love how Syd's influence pervades even the version he isn't on.

Rick loved the jazz chords and progressions. That's part of what made "The Floyd" sound. That and David's guitar.

@standbytogo123

3 ай бұрын

And in the beginning the interplay between Ricks key board playing and and Syd's guitar playing.

@rjlchristie

Ай бұрын

Syd Barrett defined the sound of the first two albums, even though he had departed before Saucerful was completed.

@standbytogo123

29 күн бұрын

@@rjlchristie As far as I am aware, on the second album 'A Saucerful', Syd was only involved on 'Set the Controls' and 'Jug band Blues', the song writing on other tracks apart from the title track the last track on the album was mainly Roger Waters and also Rick Wright.

@rjlchristie

29 күн бұрын

@@standbytogo123 According to Floyd freaks at Wikipedia, Barrett wrote only Jugband Blues, he played on about three tracks in total.

@twistedspanner

9 күн бұрын

@@rjlchristie Yeah Syd played on 'Remember a Day' too which I think was a left over from Piper? That's Syd's slide.

I have had both albums for decades and can't pick a clear favotite. Great analysis Doug!

I can still remember back in 1969 when I was in junior high school and there was a "head shop". It was dark inside and mysterious. They had black light posters everywhere and sold pot paraphernalia, jewelry, posters, and incense among other "hippie" things. There was always music playing. The place was my first exposure to Floyd.

@standbytogo123

3 ай бұрын

Wow!

@joannefrancia5940

3 ай бұрын

There was one like that in San Jose California in the early 70s. I’d have described it the same way.

The Claypool Lennon Delirium also does a cover of this track. Main players are Les Claypool of Primus and Sean Lennon.

@vicprovost2561

3 ай бұрын

Great version, worth searching on You Tube for.

This was the very first album I every heard from Pink Floyd back in 1970. A friend of mine invited my over to his house and we smoked some hash. He gave me a set of headphones and put this album on. I laid there from star to finish and was hooked forever on Pink Floyd.

I am too young to have had the honour to have experienced Pink Floyd perform this masterpiece. But I have experienced Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, and will do again. Awesome stuff.

Enjoyed your video! I agree I loved the live version of this song. It is amazing to me that Pink Floyd uses these major chords to make a masterpiece. Take Care!

If you want some "Intense Avant Garde Piano/Organ listen to Richard's Sysyphus 1,2,3,4 and "Awesome Wild Space Guitar" from David on his Narrow Way 1,2,3 from Ummagumma!

I'm pretty sure, if memory serves, that the live version was the first Pink Floyd song I ever heard. I bought Ummagumma from a neighbor's garage sale when I was a kid, having no idea who Pink Floyd were. I just liked the cover and the song titles. That album still holds a special place in my heart, and "Astronomy Domine" set the stage (so to speak). Rick Wright's organ solo still gives me chills. It somehow always makes me think of the cold, lonely desolation of a barren heavenly body or a little astronaut in a little spaceship silently hurtling through the cosmos. It's such an evocative piece of music.

There is also a heavy metal cover of Astronomy Domine by a band Voivod. Highly recommended.

There are two bands within Pink Floyd. The first founded by the brilliant Rogers (Barrett and Waters), who created a unique dissonant style, unlike anything before or since. They influenced everyone from the Beatles on their psychedelic album to geniuses like David Bowie. The other band is a little less sparkling, but maintained its own style and produced sharp albums, with a strong humanist content and political criticism of the capitalist model that tries to mold people like robots, in the family, at school, at church and at work, targets more constant in his lyrics. Pink Floyd was an avant garde band, which reflected the feelings of their time for eternity.

@rjlchristie

Ай бұрын

At least four distinct eras. 1967-8 (Barrett). 1969-71( struggling to find a voice sometimes very pretentiously), 1971/2-1976 (findingmaturity and triumph), 1977 onward (perhaps after Waters left can be counted as a separate phase as well, but imo the band had long become a corpse). They really ceased being a band in 1975 with the completion of Wish You Were Here,. After that Wright was sidelined and it was a commercial enterprise consisting of competing egos.

PHENOMENAL ❤ This is the very best performance of the song. Mind-blowing 😊

You should check out the cover version by Voivod. It's brilliant.

Rick's interludes on the Farfisa Compact Duo organ and Binson Tape Echo unit are wonderful

I saw Floyd live several times during this era, they were constantly on tour and absolutely amazing. I'll never forget them sitting down on the stage, a roadie brought on a tray of tea and they sat drinking it while going into Grantchester Meadows. Magical!

Thank you for the great vid as alwaysm love this channel Doug!

I listened to this song , & album-Ummaguma- around the time came out. I was c.17. Blew me away! I like the live version too best, but the studio recording is good. Thanks for putting on Doug!

I love it. One of my absolute Floyd faves. Umma Gumma is a pretty challenging album, so is Piper, but it’s really wild to hear how much they changed, and how quickly.

Great stuff.. Love the shaker moment, BTW 😂

one of my ATF floyds is track one on album one. it boggles my mind that this was being recorded in the same place and at the same time as Seargent Pepper. you've featured covers before... Voivod's cover of AD is awesome... I think you'd dig. thanks for this one! like a hit of smelling salts. in a good way. :-)

Hi Doug, my name is Richard Finlan. I watch you now and then here in South Wales and really enjoy your takes on certain music. Have you reacted to The Nice live version of the Intermezzo from the Karelia Suite on the Five Bridges album yet? It's brilliant as they play with the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Joseph Eger. Also there's a good live version from a Swedish tv programme on KZread where you can see bassist Lee Jackson using the cello bow to great effect. Check them out and thanks for all the great stuff.

Nice video. What i have to say is that Rick Wright was responsible for the Psychedelic sound of Pink Foyd more than any other member. He was the colour of the Psychelelic sound of the band and also made the songs more atmospheric.

They opened the 4 shows I saw on the Division Bell tour with Astronomy Domine. It was Dave, Nick, Rick, and Guy Pratt only on stage for this in 94.

@philmorris2673

3 ай бұрын

Yes, I remember them opening with this at Earls Court on the Division Bel tour 🙂

In case you don't see the comment I just made on one of your Maiden vid's from a few years ago, I love seeing you listen to this type of music, especially the heavy stuff. Traditionally educated, listening with an ear that usually resides within the rules and structure of traditional music frame work. So much fun seeing you react to the unusual and out of the box writing of musicians that often have little to no music education. Their writing based on gut and ear and experimentation being appreciated by you is great to see. I'd be interested if it's influenced your work and outlook and pushed you to break the rules set out by your formal education? Granted, it's always hard to tell for ones self if it has. Laid up for a time and will enjoy a binge sesh of your vid's. Thanks! Bert the Weldor

And here is VOIVOD's cover of "Astronomy Domine." Story went that David Gilmour heard this version, and decided to start playing the song again in concert. kzread.info/dash/bejne/lKqMw66TipmzY7A.html

Richard Wright was a magician with those notes

Umma Gumma was my intro to Pink Floyd in 1970, so I would favour the live version. Their live performance of this masterpiece in 1969 was a sign of things to come, culminating in their Pulse tour. At the end of everything, for me it always comes back to Pink Floyd.

They did it on the Pulse DVD too in 1994. Great interpretation.

1994 tour in Denver they opened with this song. Such a great concert!

Pink Floyd was never "mainstream" Doug, At least when it came out. lol Glad you fixed the shaker as well! Please keep naming the key. It's helping my ear.

@rmyikzelf5604

3 ай бұрын

Indeed

My other favourite track from ummagumma is a saucerful of secrets

I had the pleasure to see and hear this performed by Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets.. A delightful show of early pre DSOTM material of which I was too young to see Pink Floyd perform. I now have seen and heard all of Pink Floyd’s catalog of music played by them or some incarnation of them…

Excellent discussion, I love both versions, I have the idea that the studio version is provocatively avant-garde and the live version more consciously introspective even looking back at the origin piece

The live version from the Pulse tour ('94) is also pretty awesome

@Llanchlo

3 ай бұрын

Imagine being in the audience when it was started up for the first time in 23 years ...

@JulioLeonFandinho

3 ай бұрын

boring and bland

@MrTheCamel

3 ай бұрын

@@Llanchlo I was...not the first show, but I saw the Pulse tour

Some Pink Floyd songs have not been, for me, very accessible. Your enthusiasm and knowledge teach me greatly to appreciate these songs as well. Thank you very much for that.

I'm seeing Nick Mason live in June this year, for 2nd time. He has a all-star band with him doing early PF - cant wait. Am hoping this one features.

My first album by Pink Floyd was Umma Gumma (heard on a McIntosh 5100 amp/pre-amp with Altec Lansing speakers the first time). My second album was The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. What I had for a Pink Floyd experience was the BBC special with them on the Beach--that's all I can remember. "See Emily Play".

Canadian band 'Voivoid' does a good version. A band that started out as noise punk metal and became the Pink Floyd of Thrash Metal.

I have always been mesmerized by that crazy composition

You should hear the Voivod version

I first heard the song when a friend was playing *A Nice Pair*, a double album that basically consisted of PIPER and SAUCERFUL, reissued. Except that, oddly enough, the version of Astronomy Domine was the Ummagumma version. So I assumed I knew Piper at the Gates of Dawn, but the original Piper had a different Astronomy Domine.

Pink Floyd played this live for a BBC arts programme back in 1967 after which Roger Waters and Syd Barrett were interviewed by a music critic and violinist, I think his name was Hans Keller or something similar, who was not impressed at all, but at the end of the interview he says , well I don't like it but they have an audience and anyone with an audience deserves to be heard. The clip is still around on U Tube I think. I loved all the experimental stuff Floyd did when it came out, but it was an acquired taste and most people didn't like it at all. It was Richard Wright's keyboards that got me into Pink Floyd in the first place, always seemed to remind me of 1950s and early 60s sci-fi movies and TV shows. The song Astronomie Domine makes reference to British comic book hero, Dan Dare, from the late fifties and early sixties. He was a spaceship captain who like all great spaceship pilots of the time battled aliens, space pirates and other nefarious characters. The talking at the beginning of the studio version was I believe Peter Jenner calling out the names of planets, constellations and moons.

Very cool review. Awesome

The pink floyd i love start with the early singles and the piper at the gates of dawn, and end with live at pompei. After that, they dramatically changed their sound, leaving behind that dreamy but occasionally dramatic psychedelia that i love so much. In beetween lots of underappreciate gems like More, saucerful of secrets, ummagumma live album and a lot of material on atom heart mother (summer of '68 is a unique blend of beach boys, morricone and pink floyd themselves). There are also a lot of great non-album tracks (i reccomend you to take a listen to one of the '70 live versions of embryo, or to the simple but amazing julia dream).

Uma Guma is the album I have listened to likely more than any other. It was a must on camping trips trips. First heard this song A year late in 68. That was while hauling hay in rural AZ. The Piper at the Gates of Dawn then had to be special ordered. Which back then was a lot harder than you might think.lol I agree that Richard Wright was highly underrated.

You should really check out the cover Voivod did of this.

There’s a version on Gilmour at Gdańsk and Nick’s SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS also keep this alive. On UMMA GUMMA there is also the beautiful melodic GRANCHESTER MEADOWS which prefigures some of the later Pink Floyd. For me Rick Wright shines with vocal harmonies but the extraordinary keyboards that really are a defining feature of the sound. I really love the live tracks which are extraordinary and were very much the go to back in the day for ‘heads’ using ‘herbal supplements.’ It’s also a platform for their ability to improvise. Nick and David also shine here.

Oddly drove past Erdington (the home of Mothers) yesterday - you'd never guess one of the worlds greatest music venues was ever there!. But then you read who played at this small club, it reads as an unbelievable list - for a small venue in outer Birmingham.

Three things I want to mention about this song: 1) There is an excellent verion (my favorite) of this from their 90s live album Pulse 2) My old band Ziusudra used to play this song live at every show (and you can find it on Spotify and other places) 3) That weird Eb chord is what you get if you play an open E chord on the guitar, but move the 3 stopped strings down 1 fret, leaving the two E strings and the B string to ring out as well. Thanks for listening to this, it's a wild one, isn't it?

voivod's version of this has to be the best floyd cover version ever

Roger Waters fans will probably go for my jugular, but Pink Floyd's special, spacey sound (with everything that has meant since the '70s) was built on David Gilmour's guitar and Rick Wright's keyboards (plus the vocals of David and also Wright and Waters), the lyrics and concepts of Roger Waters (with input from the other members of the band). Recently, Waters made a personal cover of the album Dark Side of the Moon, listening to what he did allows us to fully appreciate what Gilmour and Wright's contribution meant and means to make Pink Floyd what it was and what it still is. Conversely, Gilmour's solo work and post-Waters Pink Floyd, being quite far from the conceptual and lyrical richness of Pink Floyd in its splendor (which, for me, is the period from 'Echoes' (which closes the Meddle album) to The Wall - with Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Where Here being the band's masterpieces) is more than respectable and Pulse (the concert footage) a delight for the eyes and ears. Richard Wright was never underestimated by the old Pink Floyd fans, in fact (as one of them since the mid-70s), I always had him in very high esteem. His synth intro on Shine on You Crazy Diamond parts VI-IX always gave me a deep thrill and still gives me goosebumps when I listen to it. The atmospheres that characterized Pink Floyd's sound would never have existed without the magic of Rick Wright's keyboards.

@richardlovell4713

3 ай бұрын

I might go for your jugular: David wasn’t in the band when they developed that sound. Don’t know which members were responsible for it, but the band was renowned for it before Piper (I remember reading reviews of their performances at UFO).

@ElChatarreroDelBlues

3 ай бұрын

@@richardlovell4713 I am referring to the definitive Pink Floyd sound that is prefigured in Echoes and continues in The Dark Side of the Moon and subsequent albums. In the purely psychedelic stage, the name of the band and the style were defined by Syd Barrett. In The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, almost all the songs are by Barrett (except two signed by the 4 members of the band and one signed by Waters). In Pink Floyd's second album, A Saucerful of Secrets, David Gilmour already appears (playing in the style of that time of the band) in many of the songs (Syd Barrett only writes and sings 'Jugband Blues'). Then comes the purely experimental stage with Waters increasingly occupying the role of leader, which over time caused more and more short circuits with the other members, especially Gilmour and Wright (who he even expelled from the band). Personally, I believe that, just as Barrett's mind and psyche collapsed, Waters' ego became enormously inflated, he despised his peers and believed himself to be the owner of Pink Floyd and, as such, wanted the band to cease to exist. ..

@Olgasys

3 ай бұрын

On a recent Spotify exclusive Roger Waters openly says that they were horrified because of what happened to their friend and song writer. He had to fill for him whole his life but never replaced.

The live half of Ummagumma remains some of my most frequently played music.

@doscwolny2221

3 ай бұрын

Same, my wife hates it though. I have to wait until shes not home. Lol

@andrewharris4268

3 ай бұрын

@@doscwolny2221nooooo! I used to play it in the car on long trips. I know EVERY NOTE.

Musical analysis is really much, much more than harmonic root movement analysis. We know Doug has perfect pitch and quickly identify changes, but really, we can easily look the progressions up elsewhere if need be. So much valuable musical analysis wizzes past him while he is preoccupied with whatever the chords are doing.

Doug, you need to listen to the version by the Canadian metal band Voivod, from their breakout album, Nothingface… Actually, you need to listen to the whole album, Prog Metal at its best…

I'm afraid, Arnold Layne was not part of The piper at the gates of dawn, it was the first Pink Floyd's single, in 1967

@standbytogo123

3 ай бұрын

It was on the USA release of the Album. The record companies in the USA had the annoying habit of putting single releases on albums, happened with the Beatles as well.

There's a video of Pink Floyd doing this song with Syd Barrett. Later in the video both Syd and Roger Waters are interviewed. Interesting stuff

Love these videos from you, especially the way you break down the music. Was wondering if you ever listened to the Elden ring OST- Mohg, Lord of blood. I think you would enjoy it a lot, considering it's very different from any other video game music you've listened to:)

They performed this song again on their Pulse Live album from 1994. Great version as well.

Capolavori entrambi, both are masterpiecies

I saw the Floyd play this on the Division Bell concert in 1994. Really just rad.

Yes, some great stuff, the Ummagumma version is the best version for me. Also from that experimental double album, do the Narrow Way, David Gilmour's contribution to the studio disc, it is a killer track for me. Great stuff, Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶

@bookhouseboy280

3 ай бұрын

If only the vocals had as much presence as on the BBC version kzread.info/dash/bejne/doCTwdKYnqvanrQ.html

@vicprovost2561

3 ай бұрын

@@bookhouseboy280 Thanks for the tip, perfect for a Saturday evening!

Loved this vid. Thanks.

I am excited to hear early versions of bands. Awesome! Have you considered other bands of the era? Particularly Steppenwolf/Sparrow or Moody Blues? I would love to hear your take on the Moody Blues' concept album "Days of Future Passed."

It’s an epic track, I’m so happy to see you enjoy it like I do Doug!

Following their increased success and fame from Dark Side, the band rereleased their first two albums in a release called “A Nice Pair” and the Astronomy Domine on that version of Piper is actually the one from Ummagumma

To get the two chords in the intro its easier when played on the guitar cos it goes to an E major open strings position and then a half step down for the A D and G strings and because it is played with open strings you still play the low and high E and B which creates a lot of dissonance between the Eb chord and the E and B from the open strings that were part of the E major its a neat move love the dissonance !!

Doug, there is one more version of this song, in the Live album ‘Pulse’. Quite different again!

Unfortunately, Floyd's American label wasn't quite up to the advanced level of the band -- IIRC, they left "Astronomy Domine" off the original release in favor of something else, " See Emily Play", I think. I didn't get it until the A Nice Pair double repackaging of the first two albums years later. I heard the Ummagumma version first. I don't have the religious background to say with any certainty, but I have always assumed that the whispering at the beginning of the original is supposed to sound like a Latin mass done over a NASA communication link. I could very easily be wrong. The other big difference I hear is the number of effect pedals the band has gotten their hands on.

I learned guitar by playing their 1st album. Sid is not normal or is his guitar playing. Love every song on Piper at the Gates of Dawn. But the Ummagumma version, and David's melodic sense of his interpretation of Sid's song is what kept me playing the guitar. Richard's melodic sense and harmonic ambience on his keyboard, is the glue of that band ;)

the first chords are 022100 to 011000 on guitar, its like a Eb5 over open Emin its a really cool movement

Latter day Pink Floyd, and David Gilmour on his own tours performed Dominé frequently. He and Rick loved the song> Look for David Gilmour live at Abbey Road to see a great version from the 2000's. Also, Nick Mason's band do a wonderful version of Dominé live. It's a Pink Floyd staple and I think the band members love playing it still.

That live version of Astronomy Domine is probably my favourite Pink Floyd track. Turn off the lights, turn up the volume and wander off into space.