Ummagumma
Studio album / live album by Pink Floyd
Released	25 October 1969
Recorded	1969
Genre	Psychedelic rock, progressive rock, experimental
Length	86:11
Label	Harvest, EMI (UK) Harvest/Capitol, Capitol (U.S.)
Producer	Pink Floyd (disc one) Norman Smith (disc two)
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Pink Floyd chronology
Music from the Film More (1969) Ummagumma (1969) Atom Heart Mother (1970)

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Background

Ummagumma is a double album. One disc was recorded live at Mothers Club, Birmingham, on 27 April 1969 and the following week at Manchester College of Commerce, on 2 May 1969; the other included four solo segments, one half-side of vinyl each by Richard Wright, Roger Waters, David Gilmour, and Nick Mason. Mothers (formerly the Carlton Ballroom) opened above an old furniture store in Erdington High Street, Birmingham, England on August 9, 1968. ... This article is about the British city. ... is the 117th day of the year (118th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (number) 1969 (movie) 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... is the 122nd day of the year (123rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (number) 1969 (movie) 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ...

The album was released in the UK on 25 October 1969 and then in the U.S. on 10 November 1969. The album reached #5 on the UK album charts and #74 on the US album charts, marking the first time the band reached the top 100 in the U.S. The album was certified Gold in the U.S. in February 1974 and Platinum in March 1994. In 1987, the album was re-released on a two CD set. A digitally re-mastered version was released in 1994 in the UK and 1995 in the US. Neither CD release includes the picture of Waters's first wife, which had appeared on the inner-gatefold sleeve of the original vinyl issue. is the 298th day of the year (299th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (number) 1969 (movie) 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ... For other uses of terms redirecting here, see US (disambiguation), USA (disambiguation), and United States (disambiguation) Motto In God We Trust(since 1956) (From Many, One; Latin, traditional) Anthem The Star-Spangled Banner Capital Washington, D.C. Largest city New York City National language English (de facto)1 Demonym American... is the 314th day of the year (315th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Also: 1969 (number) 1969 (movie) 1969 (Stargate SG-1) episode. ...

The cover of the original LP varies between the British (and Canadian) and American releases. The British version has the album Gigi leaning against the wall immediately above the 'Pink Floyd' letters. On the original American album version, however, this was airbrushed to a plain white sleeve, apparently because of copyright concerns (though the Gigi cover appears in U.S. CD version's booklet). Inside the cover is a picture of David Gilmour in front of the Elfin Oak. Nick Mason came up with the idea for the rear cover, which shows the band's equipment laid out on a runway at Biggin Hill Airfield. Not to be confused with Gigli. ... The Elfin Oak is a 900-year-old tree stump in Kensington Gardens in London, carved and painted to look as though elves, gnomes and small animals are living in its bark. ... London Biggin Hill Airport (IATA: BQH, ICAO: EGKB), formerly RAF Biggin Hill, is an airport at Biggin Hill in London Borough of Bromley, England. ...

Track listing

Disc one: live album

Side one

1. "Astronomy Domine" (Syd Barrett) – 8:29
2. "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" (Roger Waters, Rick Wright, David Gilmour, Nick Mason) – 8:50

Astronomy Domine is a song by British Psychedelic rock band Pink Floyd. ... Roger Keith Syd Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and artist. ... Careful With That Axe, Eugene is a Pink Floyd song. ... George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English rock musician; singer, bassist, guitarist, songwriter, and composer. ... Richard Wright, also known as Rick Wright (born July 28, 1945), is the keyboard player of Pink Floyd. ... David Jon Gilmour CBE (born March 6, 1946 in Cambridge) is an English musician best known as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Pink Floyd. ... Nicholas Berkeley Nick Mason (born January 27, 1944 in Birmingham, England) is the drummer for Pink Floyd. ...

Side two

1. "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (Waters) – 9:15
2. "A Saucerful of Secrets" (Gilmour/Waters/Mason/Wright) – 12:48
   • "Something Else"
   • "Syncopated Pandemonium"
   • "Storm Signal"
   • "Celestial Voices"

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Disc two: studio album

Side one

1. "Sysyphus" (Wright)
   • Part 1 – 4:29 (on LP); 1:08 (on CD)
   • Part 2 – 1:45 (on LP); 3:30 (on CD)
   • Part 3 – 3:07 (on LP); 1:49 (on CD)
   • Part 4 – 3:38 (on LP); 6:59 (on CD)
2. "Grantchester Meadows" (Waters) – 7:26
3. "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" (Waters) – 4:59

Sysyphus is a four part suite written by progressive rock band Pink Floyds keyboardist Rick Wright. ... Grantchester Meadows is a song from the second half of the experimental Pink Floyd album Ummagumma. ... Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict is a track written and performed by Roger Waters from the two-part 1969 Pink Floyd album, Ummagumma. ...

Side two

1. "The Narrow Way" (Gilmour)
   • Part 1 – 3:27
   • Part 2 – 2:53
   • Part 3 – 5:57
2. "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" (Mason)
   • Part 1: "Entrance" – 1:00
   • Part 2: "Entertainment" – 7:06
   • Part 3: "Exit" – 0:38

The 4 subtitles of "A Saucerful of Secrets" appeared for the first time the USA edition of this album. They did not appear on the UK edition, nor on any edition of the original "A Saucerful of Secrets" album. The Narrow Way is a section on the studio half of Pink Floyds fourth album Ummagumma. ... The Grand Viziers Garden Party is a three part instrumental of Pink Floyds Ummagumma album. ... A Saucerful of Secrets is the second album by rock band Pink Floyd, and arguably one of the first progressive rock albums. ...

On the remastered CD, "Part 1" of "Sysyphus" was split into two tracks and called "Part 1" and "Part 2". "Part 2" on vinyl became "Part 3" on CD, and "Part 3" and "Part 4" were combined into the CD's "Part 4". (The original "Part 4" begins with the large orchestral thud.)

The record was also released as a double cassette, featuring the tracks in a different order.

The band had also recorded a live version of "Interstellar Overdrive" (from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn), intended for placement on side one of the live album. The track was dropped at the last minute, some say to maintain the sound fidelity of the record, but numerous test pressings with the original track list were given to friends of the band, including John Peel. Other sources have claimed that the song was dropped because of a conflict over the music publishing rights. (It would have been one of only two songs on the record to include Syd Barrett as a writer.) Interstellar Overdrive is a psychedelic music composition by Pink Floyd, which appears on their 1967 debut album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn at almost ten minutes in length. ... The Piper at the Gates of Dawn is Pink Floyds debut album and the only one made under Syd Barretts leadership, although he made some contributions to the follow-up, A Saucerful of Secrets. ... For other persons named John Peel, see John Peel (disambiguation). ... Roger Keith Syd Barrett (6 January 1946 – 7 July 2006) was an English singer, songwriter, guitarist, and artist. ...

Personnel

• Roger Waters – bass guitar, vocals on "Grantchester Meadows" ; tape effects and vocals on "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict".
• David Gilmour – guitars, vocals on "The Narrow Way"
• Richard Wright – keyboards, vocals on "Sysyphus"
• Nick Mason – drums & percussion on "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party"

with: George Roger Waters (born 6 September 1943) is an English rock musician; singer, bassist, guitarist, songwriter, and composer. ... Grantchester Meadows is a song from the second half of the experimental Pink Floyd album Ummagumma. ... Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict is a track written and performed by Roger Waters from the two-part 1969 Pink Floyd album, Ummagumma. ... David Jon Gilmour CBE (born March 6, 1946 in Cambridge) is an English musician best known as a guitarist, singer, and songwriter in the band Pink Floyd. ... The Narrow Way is a section on the studio half of Pink Floyds fourth album Ummagumma. ... Richard William Rick Wright (born July 28, 1943 in Hatch End, London) is a self-taught pianist and keyboardist best known for his long career with Pink Floyd. ... Sysyphus is a four part suite written by progressive rock band Pink Floyds keyboardist Rick Wright. ... Nicholas Berkeley Nick Mason (born January 27, 1944 in Birmingham, England) is the drummer for Pink Floyd. ... The Grand Viziers Garden Party is a three part instrumental of Pink Floyds Ummagumma album. ...

• Lindy Mason (then Mason's wife) – flute on "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" (uncredited)

Miscellaneous

• The title Ummagumma comes from a British slang word for sexual intercourse.^[1]

• In the "Weird Al" Yankovic mockumentary, The Compleat Al, Al is trying to describe the synchronicities between famous rock albums and "ancient astronauts". He holds up an Ummagumma LP and jokingly says, "Remember this? Well, I did a little research and found out that "Ummagumma" is actually an ancient word for: 'We're running out of ideas for songs, help us.'"

• MFSL announced their plans to release Ummagumma on their ultrasound series, but later withdrew those stating that the master tapes were below quality ^[1].

• The album is the last to feature photos of the band members on the outer cover. They are seated in the order, from front-to-back, of Gilmour (in his bare feet), Waters, Mason and Wright. In each successive "reflection" in the upper-left corner, they move each band member forward one space, with the front-most member going to the back. On the rear album cover, roadies Alan Styles (who later appeared on Atom Heart Mother's "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast") and the late Peter Watts (who contributed the manic laughter and speech of "Brain Damage", and who was the father of actress Naomi Watts) are shown with the band's equipment at Biggin Hill Airport.
• After Pink Floyd's May 16, 1970 performance at The Warehouse in New Orleans, the equipment shown on the rear cover of Ummagumma was stolen. The remaining concerts on this U.S. tour were cancelled. After the theft, and the Grateful Dead's drug bust after their January 31, 1970 performance, also at The Warehouse; New Orleans was shunned by most rock bands for the first half of the 1970s. The Grateful Dead would not play in New Orleans for another 10 years. Pink Floyd wouldn't play there for another 24 years.
• The original intention of the band with the live album was to release those songs and then stop playing them. However, with the popularity of the album, the public kept wanting to hear songs from the live album, and so they stayed in their set lists for some time.^[1]
• Although the sleeve notes say that the live material was recorded in June of 1969, these tracks were actually recorded at shows in April and May of 1969.
• Part 3 of "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party" is amongst the shortest Pink Floyd studio recordings ever released. Only "Stop", which was 0:32, from The Wall, and "A New Machine (Part 2)", which was 0:38, from A Momentary Lapse of Reason, are of equal or shorter length.
• This album, More, Atom Heart Mother, and Obscured by Clouds were the only Floyd studio albums to not be represented on Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd
• The sequencing of the studio album later inspired the arrangement for the Minutemen double album Double Nickels on the Dime^[2].

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Quotes

"What was your inspiration for The Narrow Way (on Ummagumma) your first major Floyd composition?"

"Well, we'd decided to make the damn album, and each of us to do a piece of music on our own... it was just desperation really, trying to think of something to do, to write by myself. I'd never written anything before, I just went into a studio and started waffling about, tacking bits and pieces together. I haven't heard it in years. I've no idea what it's like." - David Gilmour - Sounds "Guitar Heroes" Magazine, May 1983

"What do you think of your early records like Atom Heart Mother and Ummagumma today?"

"I think both are pretty horrible. Well, the live disc of Ummagumma might be all right, but even that isn't recorded well." - David Gilmour - German news magazine Der Spiegel No. 23 - 5 June 1995

"When you listen to Ummagumma, you get the feeling that each one of you is doing his own music, not caring much about the others." is the 156th day of the year (157th in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... Year 1995 (MCMXCV) was a common year starting on Sunday (link will display full 1995 Gregorian calendar). ...

"That's right. I can't be precise, but we were very individualistic at the time." - Nick Mason - March 1973

"The back of Ummagumma comes from something Nick Mason did." - Storm Thorgerson - Guitar World - February 1998 The iconic cover of Pink Floyds album The Dark Side of the Moon. ...

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References

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