could ummagumma and Sauserful of secrets been a little less "mad scientist" sounding

On an unrelated train of thought, did anyone else notice the bad grammer in the thread title?

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In 1954 the British Government, in order to maintain the balance of power between East and West, exploded their first atom bomb at Woomera. They failed to contact all of the Aborigine peoples at the time. The Aborigines still call this 'the day of the cloud.'

Yes. I also noticed the bad grammar in your post.

Stenchfist! It's you again.

I've been rumbled...

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In 1954 the British Government, in order to maintain the balance of power between East and West, exploded their first atom bomb at Woomera. They failed to contact all of the Aborigine peoples at the time. The Aborigines still call this 'the day of the cloud.'

I read an old interview in which Roger stated that ummagumma
was thrown together from pressure by the record label. the label
allegedly told them to record a double lp featuring both live and
studio music, the studio side to feature each member's individual
abilities. The Floyd were all sore displeased with the final result, and at one point considered redoing the whole thing...then along came Dark Side of the Moon.

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I can rightfully say that I like that. Hook me up to the lie detector, maybe.

I thought that the band had planned to do the live record so that they could retire the songs from their live act.

That's entirely possible. I only know the band didn't like the pressure from the label...and I also remember they had just toured before recording ummagumma & that's partly why the
label wanted a "rush job"...to capitalize on the momentum.
That's the problem with the "paper pushers" controlling the
artists for the sake of better numbers...the result is artistic
bullshit.

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Yeah, that's one thing I heard as well. Then of course, Pompeii has three of them all over again, two years later.

Also, I find Ummagumma is a better album to listen to than The Soundtrack to More, which i am not particularly fond of (on another thread i think i mentioned how terrible "Quicksilver" is)

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In 1954 the British Government, in order to maintain the balance of power between East and West, exploded their first atom bomb at Woomera. They failed to contact all of the Aborigine peoples at the time. The Aborigines still call this 'the day of the cloud.'

ummagumma isn't my fav floyd work, but I sure did appreciate the
nice little poster which came with the cd!!!
I heard a rumor that ummagumma's studio part was written by
the floyd members, but was secretly recorded with Syd playing the instruments...maybe that explains why it's so "audibly tormenting".

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Hmm... that's the strangest/stupidest rumour i ever heard.

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In 1954 the British Government, in order to maintain the balance of power between East and West, exploded their first atom bomb at Woomera. They failed to contact all of the Aborigine peoples at the time. The Aborigines still call this 'the day of the cloud.'

hey, I agree, I didn't start it, just heard it. It goes along with the
equally strange/stupid rumour that Syd wrote most of the music/lyrics & creative art ideas for the Wall & Rog/David/Scarfe
took credit.

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You actually heard that rumour? Wow... Perhaps i should get a job making up rumours.

Attempt #1

Pink Floyd are in fact not four different people, but three different people (circa 1971). This can be proven by having no interviews with Rick Wright on Pompeii - he's actually played by a roadie while the real Rick Wright was on a special top secret mission to the moon to collect the dung of moon-rhinos, a chinese delicacy, the proceeds from the sale of which would pay for any future cocaine habit he may have developed.

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In 1954 the British Government, in order to maintain the balance of power between East and West, exploded their first atom bomb at Woomera. They failed to contact all of the Aborigine peoples at the time. The Aborigines still call this 'the day of the cloud.'

I thought Rick had died mysteriously after they shot the cover
for the Abbey Road album??? He was the only one not wearing
shoes in the photo.

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No, that wasn't Rick, they just pasted his head on the photo to make it look like it was. That's why he's not wearing the shoes, as it would be a giveaway (Rick's shoes were said to be very distinctive).

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In 1954 the British Government, in order to maintain the balance of power between East and West, exploded their first atom bomb at Woomera. They failed to contact all of the Aborigine peoples at the time. The Aborigines still call this 'the day of the cloud.'