Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn

This album is an entracing whirligig of English psychedelia of the Alice in Wonderland-meets-Pooh Bear-and an elf-on a croquet lawn-in the 5th dimension variety. The English type of acid music was so different from the American. This was often because English people had not actually taken any acid b......more

A nice piece on Pink Floyd's mostly overlooked The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, the only complete album featuring the troubled genius and founder of the group, Syd Barrett. He was the key figure in the band who was later replaced by David Gilmour. One can only wonder how different the sound of Pink F......more

My favorite of the 33 1/3 book series. The slant the author takes on this book is not the Syd Barrett acid tragedy, but rather a healthy look at what the psych scene in London was at the time. Points the author made: That Barrett was 100% in charge of the band and the music and not quite far gone yet......more

This year marks 50 years since Pink Floyd's first psychedelic masterpiece, "Piper at the Gates of Dawn." This is a lovely little book about the making of the album and the band at the time. Doesn't add a huge amount that's not already known, but still - lovely. Just like that strange and whimsical a......more

Having just seen Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets, I sought out a book on early Pink Floyd. A fabulous read that re-ignited my love of this record.......more