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SEVERAL
SPECIES OF SMALL FURRY ANIMALS GATHERED TOGETHER IN A CAVE AND GROOVING
WITH A PICT
Concept:
Animals and a Scotsman grooving together in the studio (a cave?). Roger
Waters: That was a very light-hearted and easy exercise. It's really just
speeding up and slowing down tape, and using a bit of echo and imagination.
It's just voices and me beating on myself with my bare hands....In fact,
if you slow it down, you'll hear it's somebody gibbering - probably me.
Comment: Playing this at 16r.p.m does indeed transform some of the high
pitched vocals into Gilmour, while Waters marvels, 'That was pretty avant-garde,
wasn't it?' At 45r.p.m, Waters reappears on a tape loop, saying 'Bring back
my guitar, bring back my guitar...'The poem was improvised in the studio
by Waters, and later parodied by Ron Geesin on his 'To Roger Waters , Wherever
You Are'. Comment:
Part of the song consists of Roger Waters
ranting in a scottish accent. Comment:
Comprising a variety of tape loops played at different speeds and in different
directions. By destroying one's LP and stylus, to hear such oddities as
Waters repeating "Bring back my guitar", saying "That was pretty avant-garde,
wasn't it", drumming his hands on a table and ending with an almost inaudible
"Thank you" in the left hand channel. At the right speed, he is heard ranting
bad poetry, improvised on the spot, in an even worse Scottish accent. Waters
"ranting Scotsman" did surface occasionally during extended performances
of 'Embryo'.
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