BIKE
Comment:
'The Bike Song' was the working title for 'Bike', edited just in time for
the final master of 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn'. Comment:
Although it seems to be yet another of Barrett's
charming and childlike ditties, 'Bike' has a deeper significance. First,
there is the very adult plea to Barrett's girl, then the coda, a manic
representation of a "room full of musical tunes", reached
by footsteps like those later used to startling effect on the band's
quadrophonic PA, the winding of clockwork mechanisms and finally the
hautingly oppressive chattering voices.
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