ON THIS DATE (43 YEARS AGO) November 29, 1971 - Pink Floyd: One Of These Days b/w Fearless 45 single (Capitol 3240) is released in the US. One of These Days is the opening track from Pink Floyds 1971 album Meddle. The song is instrumental except for a distorted, low voice that says One of these days Im going to cut you into little pieces and features double-tracked bass guitars played by David Gilmour and Roger Waters. Waters bass is panned hard left with Gilmours fading into the right channel. Gilmours bass sound is quite muted and dull. According to Gilmour, this is because that particular instrument had old strings on it, and the roadie they had sent to get new strings for it wandered off to see his girlfriend instead. The threat, a rare vocal contribution by Nick Mason, was recorded through a ring modulator and slowed down to create an eerie effect. It was aimed at Sir Jimmy Young, the then BBC Radio 1 and Radio 2 DJ whom the band supposedly disliked because of his tendency to babble. During early 1970s concerts, they sometimes played a sound collage of clips from Youngs radio show that was edited to sound completely nonsensical, thus figuratively cutting him into little pieces. The bootleg compilation A Treeful of Secrets contains a demo version of One of These Days in which the Jimmy Young collage loops in the background during the song. However, the authenticity of this demo has not been confirmed. Possibly the most interesting thing about One of These Days is that it actually stars myself as vocalist, for the first time on any of our records that actually got to the public. Its a rather startling performance involving the use of a high voice and slowed down tape. — Nick Mason According to John Peel, Waters has described One of These Days as a poignant appraisal of the contemporary social situation. Gilmour has stated that he considers the song the most collaborative piece ever produced by the group. A film, French Windows, was made by Ian Emes, set to the piece and featuring people and gibbons dancing against various backgrounds. It was back-projected by Pink Floyd during live performances and shown on television. Pink Floyd
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