After reading about the sessions for
Madcap Laughs I can only come to that one conclusion. See there were 2 producers for the album the first being Malcolm Jones. He did a great job and the best songs from the album were recorded by him (terrapin, octopus, late night, long gone, no good trying)
Then Waters and Gilmour came in and instead of helping an old friend out, they fucked him over. They decided to include studio chatter and false starts on the final album mix.Their excuse being "we wanted it to represent the atmosphere of making of the album." Well first off, who the fuck are you to make that kind of decision? Did you even ask syd? probably not. I mean Pink Floyd themselves were known for fighting later on, would the wall have been better if they included studio arguments between gilmour and waters. NO! Not only that but they could have substituted one of the lesser songs like "feel" for opel but they didn't, instead painting syd as a contentious psycho.
I think their motivation for doing this was purely egotistical. They decided to show what a trouble syd could be and also to knock down any chance of a comeback in the public eye for syd. Remember this was 1970 when Pink Floyd were still known as that band that did piper. During the time of Madcaps, they were recording their indulgent double album with each member getting a side. I think subconsciously they didnt want syd to steal the spotlight from then again so they purposelly put on bad material.
TO SUM IT UP FUCK ROGER WATERS AND DAVID GILMOUR FOR RUINING THEIR OLD BANDMATES ALBUM.
Anyone else feel this way about
the Madcap Laughs?
