Consequently whenever we played these pieces, they had to be played from beginning to end. With the invention of 16-track and 2-inch tape there was the belief for quite a while that there would be something wrong with editing tape that big. That part was re-recorded at British Grove Studios by pianist Richard Wright during the multi-channel mix used for the album Immersion Edition and the SACD release.
On part 3, a piano part seems to have been added "live" to the final mix, making it absent from multitrack masters. There was no way of saving it, so we just had to do it yet again. That affected the tom-toms and guitars and keyboards which were playing along at the time. Unfortunately nobody understood the desk properly and when we played it back we found that someone had switched the echo returns from monitors to tracks one and two. So we did it again in one day flat and got it a lot better. We originally did the backing track over the course of several days, but we came to the conclusion that it just wasn't good enough. Īccording to guitarist David Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason on the Wish You Were Here episode of In the Studio with Redbeard, Pink Floyd recorded a satisfactory take of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" but because of a new mixing console which was installed at Abbey Road Studios, it needed to be re-recorded because excessive 'bleed' from other instruments could be heard on the drum tracks.
Our bodies were there, but our minds and feelings somewhere else." Eventually an idea was raised to split the song in two, Parts I–V and Parts VI–IX. Recording īassist Roger Waters commented, as the sessions were underway, that "at times the group was there only physically. It was intended to be a side-long composition (like " Atom Heart Mother" and " Echoes") but was split into two sections and used to bookend the album, with new material composed that was more relevant to the album and to the situation in which the band found themselves. The work was first performed on their 1974 French tour and recorded for their 1975 concept album Wish You Were Here. The remaining band members felt guilty for removing him, but they viewed it as necessary, admiring Barrett's creativity and being concerned about his severe mental decline. He was replaced by David Gilmour, Barrett's former school friend who had initially been brought in as second guitar. Barrett was ousted from the band by the other members in 1968 due to his drug use and troubled mental health, which had affected his ability to integrate with the rest of the band and perform and create as a musician. The song was conceived and written as a tribute and remembrance to their former band member Syd Barrett, a founding member of Pink Floyd.
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