Bike (song)
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| Song by Pink Floyd | ||
| from the album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn | ||
| Released | August 5, 1967 | |
| Recorded | May 21, 1967 | |
| Genre | Psychedelic rock, Musique concrète | |
| Length | 3:21 | |
| Label | Columbia/EMI (UK) Capitol (US) | |
| Writer(s) | Syd Barrett | |
| Producer(s) | Norman Smith | |
| The Piper at the Gates of Dawn track listing | ||
| The Scarecrow (10) | "Bike" (11) | |
Bike is a song by British progressive rock band Pink Floyd, and is featured on their debut album, The Piper at the Gates of Dawn (1967). It also appears on two Floyd compilation albums: Relics (1971) and Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd (2001). On all three albums, it is the final track.
In the song, Syd Barrett's lyrical subject shows a girl his bike (which he borrowed), a cloak, a homeless mouse that he calls Gerald, and a clan of gingerbread men - because she "fits in with my world". Towards the end of the song, he offers to take her into a "room of musical tunes".
The final verse is followed by an instrumental section that can be referred to as a piece of musique concrete: a noisy collage of oscillators, clocks, gongs, bells, maniacal laughing, and other strange sounds edited with tape techniques, apparently the "other room" spoken of in the song.
The song was written for Barrett's then girlfriend, Jenny Spires. She is also mentioned in the song Lucifer Sam, which is also on "The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn".
[edit] Covers
- The American jam band Phish has covered this song numerous times in their live performances which features drummer Jon Fishman on lead vocals and performs a vacuum solo. Trey Anastasio in turn plays drums in Fishman's stead and the song usually includes an instrumental intro and outro of "Hold Your Head Up" by the band Argent.
[edit] Personnel
- Syd Barrett - Guitar, Vocals and Sound effects
- Richard Wright - Keyboards
- Roger Waters - Bass
- Nick Mason - Drums and Percussionhu:Bike
