Pink Floyd Songs - A Saucerful Of Secrets Lyrics

Pink Floyd - A Saucerful Of Secrets

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Album: A Saucerful Of Secrets
Released: 1968

A Saucerful Of Secrets Lyrics

A Saucerful Of Secrets

Roger Waters described this as being about war or a battle. (where Something Else and Syncopated Pandemonium are the actual battle, Storm Signals the aftermath and Celestial Voices the mourning of the dead).

On some pressings of Ummagumma this was broken down into 4 sections. These sections are called:
a. "Something Else" - 00:00 (ominous opening noises)
b. "Syncopated Pandemonium" - 03:57 (with the drum tape-loop and such)
c. "Storm Signal" - 07:16 (organ-based section)
d. "Celestial Voices" - 10:14 (closing spacey part with the voices) (thanks, Phil - Liverpool, England, for above 2)

Dave Gilmour in Guitar World February 1993: "'A Saucerful of Secrets' was a very important track; it gave us our direction forward. If you take 'A Saucerful of Secrets,' 'Atom Heart Mother' and 'Echoes' - all lead logically to Dark Side of the Moon. 'A Saucerful' was inspired when Roger and Nick [Mason, Pink Floyd's drummer] began drawing weird shapes on a piece of paper. We then composed music based on the structure of the drawing."

Guitar World asked Gilmour about the techniques he used to get such unusual guitar tones back then. He replied: "Well, on the middle section of 'A Saucerful of Secrets,' most of the time the guitar was lying on the studio floor. And I unscrewed one of the legs from a mic stand... You know how mic stands have three steel legs about a foot long? I just whizzed one of those up and down the neck - not very subtly. Another technique, which came a bit later, is to take a small piece of steel and rub it from side to side across the strings. You just move it and stop it in places that sound good. It's something like an E-bow."