{"id":482780,"date":"2019-02-27T09:05:10","date_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:05:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=800787"},"modified":"2019-02-27T09:05:10","modified_gmt":"2019-02-27T16:05:10","slug":"pink-floyd-plot-saucerful-of-secrets-mono-mix-reissue-for-record-store-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/pink-floyd-plot-saucerful-of-secrets-mono-mix-reissue-for-record-store-day\/","title":{"rendered":"Pink Floyd Plot \u2018Saucerful of Secrets\u2019 Mono Mix Reissue for Record Store Day"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Pink Floyd<\/a> will reissue the mono mix of their second album A<\/em> Saucerful of Secrets<\/em> as a vinyl release for Record Store Day, April 13th.<\/p>\n

Unlike the Beatles or Rolling Stones, the band transitioned to stereo fairly quickly, making this one of the rare albums in their catalog that originally came out in mono. The audio was remastered from the original 1968 mono mix by James Guthrie, Joel Plante and Bernie Grundman. The limited edition, 180-gram LP, housed in a \u201cfaithful reproduction\u201d of the original sleeve, will come out on the group\u2019s own Pink Floyd Records.<\/p>\n

The record marks a pivotal moment in the band\u2019s career, as it\u2019s the only release to feature both founding guitarist, Syd Barrett<\/a>, and his replacement, David Gilmour. As Barrett became unreliable at concerts, the group decided to eject him from the lineup. Barrett\u2019s only songwriting offering to Saucerful<\/em> is its closing track, \u201cJugband Blues,\u201d for which he supplied the vocals; he also played guitar on \u201cRemember a Day\u201d and \u201cSet the Controls for the Heart of the Sun.\u201d He\u2019d previously written the majority of Piper at the Gates of Dawn<\/em>, which came out as a mono vinyl release on Record Store Day last year.<\/p>\n

In a 2016 interview with Rolling Stone<\/em><\/a>, Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason said he\u2019s changed his mind about the prevailing theories of why Barrett became erratic. For decades, rock mythology has suggested that Barrett had become an acid casualty and got lost in the music.<\/p>\n

\u201cLooking back on it, there\u2019s no doubt that LSD exacerbated the state, but I think perhaps what was happening was Syd had realized he didn\u2019t want to be in a rock band at all,\u201d the drummer said. \u201cHe\u2019d done that, decided it wasn\u2019t really what he wanted to do and probably wanted to go back to art school, but he couldn\u2019t find a way of getting out of it. Certainly, we couldn\u2019t believe that anyone didn\u2019t want to be in a rock band. So I think when he was messing around with the songs, like\u00a0\u2018Jugband Blues,\u2019 I think he almost did it as a whim, thinking it would be another really peculiar thing, whereas actually I think the song has an extraordinary edge. I think what was going on was Syd really was trying to leave.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pink Floyd will reissue the mono mix of their second album A Saucerful of Secrets as a vinyl release for Record Store Day, April 13th. Unlike the Beatles or Rolling Stones, the band transitioned to stereo fairly quickly, making this one of the rare albums in their catalog that originally came out in mono. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-482780","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-14 16:59:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=482780"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/482780\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=482780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=482780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=482780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}