UMMAGUMMA

This album is one of the Floyd's most complex to listen to. You have somewhat acquired taste for the studio album,but this album shows the indulgent experimental side of all the members. The live album is greatly made with some good versions. Astromoine Domaine is explosive with better guitar showcase then Barret and moving bass by Waters. Wright doesn't show much of a fight on his solo just smooth and relaxing. Careful With That Axe Eugene has some of the best guitar lines by Gilmour not the solo by him just the arpeggieated chimy chords listen to the original on Relics for better guitar work though. Masons durming is powerful.Set the Controls has got the best cresendo in the middle just building and building up to the song. Sauceful of Secerts is also a jam affair building into a little more up-tempo durm sequence and ending with the moving Cestial Voices or what ever the last part is call. The studio version is better we open with the grand opening of Sysyphus and to a classical comtemperary sounds of Wright on the piano ending with him scraping strings and rolling ball bearings across the Strings! typical avant garde like part3. Part four is a mendering organ solo with a bit of Silent Night in some places with reprises back to past one. Waters folkiness shines with the daydreamy wandering of Grandchester Meadows with a studio ending involling a fly being panned across the room with some whacking it dead. The Pict one is a wired one with Waters make animal noises by messing with the speeds on tape and ends with him in scottish accsent telling a story (god knows what). Dave Gilmour give an good Fahey impression with acostic ending with some manic slide work. Two is just a repetitive rift while part 3 has a melodelic rambling song about pasage of rites don't bother with lyrics. Mason's is with flute motif by his wife. Two is experimental with a old-school drummimg solo reprising with the flute song. Worth a listen. Sorry for poor spelling too.