Pink Floyd - this just in!

Posted by: Kevin-W on 31 May 2007

Good news for all you Syd/PATGOD fans!

(taken from www.pinkfloydz.com)
Piper Confirmed! We are very happy to tell you that EMI have just issued a press release about the upcoming Piper At The Gates Of Dawn re-release. Release date is scheduled for 3 September 2007 and will be a Deluxe 3 CD set, in a DVD sized hardback book format with a reproduction of a previously unseen Syd Barrett notebook. There will be a Stereo disc, mono disc version of the album (different takes of the tracks), and a 3rd disc of all 1967 singles and B sides, plus unreleased edits of 2 tracks (TBC), all in sequence. All music remastered by James Guthrie. A 2 CD standard version of the stereo and mono discs, but without booklet and singles disc, will also be released in a brilliant box and will be priced at deluxe 1 CD price.

Sounds good: any guesses on the two other tracks? One slight grumble - still no room for Vegetable Man and Scream Thy Last Scream though...

K

Posted on: 31 May 2007 by Chris Kelly

Excellent news. Thanks for the heads-up Kevin.

Posted on: 31 May 2007 by Guido Fawkes

Thanks Kevin - I'll be sure to place a pre-order.

So the two bonus tracks are not Vegetable Man and Scream Thy Last Scream (Old Woman With A Casket) - which is a shame. I've got the versions on Magnesium Proverbs: one STLS has a squeaky over-vocal and the other called Old Woman With A Casket is without the squeaky bit. Could it be an edit of Interstellar Overdrive or Reaction in G?

It can't be Lucy Leave/King Bee because that was 1965 - I got a copy of that on Fish Out of Water. It's available on the Internet too as an MP3.

Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket
Blam blam your pointers point your pointers
Waddle with apples to grouchy Mrs. Stores
She’ll be scrubbing bubbles on all fours
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket
Fling your arms madly old lady with a daughter
Flat top top houses, mouses, houses
Victim a victim of sitting fat flat
Watching the telly til all hours, silly child
Fling your arms madly old lady with a daughter
(During Instrumental part)
Oh, sock it to me....
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket
Blam blam your pointers point your pointers
Waddle with apples to grouchy Mrs. Stores
She’ll be scrubbing bubbles on all fours
Scream thy last scream old women with a casket

In yellow shoes I get the blues,
So I walk the street with my plastic feet
with blue velvet trousers make me feel pink
Theres a kind of stink about blue velvet trousers
In my paisley shirt, I look a jerk,
and my turquoise waistcoat is quite outta sight.
But oh, oh, my haircut looks so bad....
Vegetable man! Where are you?
So I change my gear, and I bugger my knees
and I cover them up with the latest cuts
My pants and socks are all in a box
It does take long to darn old socks
The watch, black watch, my watch
with a black face and a date in a little hole
and all the luck, its what I got,
Its what I wear, Its what you see,
It must be me, Its what I am!
Vegetable man! Where are you?
Ah, ah ah ah, ah ah ah Hah, ah ah ah, ah ah ah - oh!
I've been looking all over the place for a place for me
But it ain't anywhere
It just ain't anywhere.
Vegetable man, Vegetable man, Vegetable man. Vegetable man, Vegetable man, Vegetable man,
He's the kind of fella you just gotta see if you can, Vegetable man.

ATB Rotf