One of these days
| One of these days | |
|---|---|
| Pink Floyd | |
| publication | October 30, 1971 |
| length | 5:57; 5:32 (US single) |
| Genre (s) | Progressive rock |
| Author (s) | Roger Waters , Richard Wright , Nick Mason , David Gilmour |
| album | Meddle |
One of These Days is the first track on the Pink Floyd album Meddle from 1971 and was released as a single for the album together with Fearless .
It is an instrumental piece - apart from the distorted rendition of the words “One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces” , spoken by Pink -Floyd drummer Nick Mason . This is Nick Mason's only voice-over recording on a Pink Floyd record that was recorded by a ring modulator and then slowed down. The piece was recorded with two electric basses that were played by David Gilmour and Roger Waters and whose sound was changed by a Binson Echorec (a delay effect device). Waters' bass can be heard on the right channel of the stereo playback, while Gilmour can be heard on the left channel. Gilmour's bass sounds a little dull. According to Gilmour, this was due to the fact that old strings were pulled on the bass and the roadie , who had been sent out to get new strings, preferred to visit his girlfriend during that time. One of These Days was recorded between July 19-21 and July 23-25, 1971 at Morgan Studios in London and in August 1971 at AIR Studios in London.
According to Roger Waters, the line of text "to cut someone into pieces" meant the English disc jockey Jimmy Young .
The title was published again in 1981 on the compilation A Collection of Great Dance Songs and is again included on the 2001 Pink Floyd best-of album Echoes . It can also be found as a bonus track on the live album Pulse , as well as on the live album Delicate Sound of Thunder and, renamed One of These Days I'm Going to Cut You into Little Pieces , on Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii .
The piece was an integral part of the band's tour program between 1971 and 1973 as well as 1987 and 1994. Both David Gilmour and Roger Waters played it solo in 2016.
occupation
- David Gilmour - guitar , slide guitar , electric bass (right stereo channel)
- Roger Waters - electric bass (left stereo channel)
- Nick Mason - drums , speech
- Richard Wright - Hammond organ , piano , sound effects
Individual evidence
- ↑ Interview of the journal Guitar World with David Gilmour from 1993 ( Memento from June 11, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) (English)
- ↑ pink-floyd.org: FAQ