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Artist:    Syd Barrett
Title:     Steel Breeze
Unique_Id: STAIRSTE

Format: LP
Catalog:!
Misc:!
Produced:!
Date:!
Cover: A closeup picture of Syd and the boys in a church or hall. Same
      as one that appears in Schaffners book.
Sources: Various RoIO's, 1967 recording sessions, 1970-71 recording 
         sessions, 1974-75 recording sessions (allegedly).

Tracks:
                   Side One
          1. Love You (fast version)
          2. Love You (slow version)
          3. Long Gone
          4. Rhamadam
          5. Octopus
          6. Clowns and Jugglers
          7. Untitled
          8. Dark Globe
          9. Singing a Song in the Morning

                   Side Two
          1. Matilda Mother (live at UFO)
          2. Interstellar Overdrive (live at UFO)
          3. Interview with Syd and Roger
          4. Interstellar Overdrive (alternate version)
          5. Sunshine
          6. Interview w/ PF

Band:
        Syd Barrett
        Roger Waters
        Rick Wright
        Nick Mason
        Mike Ratledge
        Hugh Hopper
        Robert Wyatt
        Kevin Ayers

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Quality:
           VG - Greg

Comments:
          The first three are common enough, Rhamadam is believed to
        actually be Lanky Part 2, since Rhamadam was supposed to have
        overdubbed motorcycle noises on it, and this take has only drum
        tracks (it's in the Opel booklet). 5 and 6 merge into one another
        to become, in essence, one song. 7 is, according to the sleeve,
        from recording sessions in 1975. Track 9 is a Kevin Ayers song
        that Syd supposedly played guitar on and sang backing vocals. It
        does sound like him, but most disagree with this conclusion. After
        "Singing a Song..." there are two unlisted bonus tracks. The first
        sounds like the Beach Boys (why it was included, I don't know), and
        the second is an entirely unknown insturmental. Noone seems to 
        recognize it. The first two tracks on side two are literally
        ruined by some DJ's moronic prattling throughout them. 3 is an
        interesting interview with Syd and Rog, that has appeared before,
        but apparently never in it's entirety. Track 4 on side two is
        nonexistent. Track 5 is a previously unreleased insturmental from
        the piper sessions. Track six is another interview, this time with
        the whole of Pink Floyd.  -  Greg

           The [truncated] segments are all that are available. These 
           segments came from Malcolm Jones' tapes. Years ago, he gave a
           friend who was a big Syd fan a tape of some segments of
           unreleased Syd tracks. I'm sure he cut them off as he didn't
           want to let the complete songs out. Even the segments were
           supposed to remain uncirculated but, obviously, they fell into
           the wrong hands. Although it would be great to have the complete
           versions, this is an ROIO we are talking about after all.

           Syd did play lead guitar in the studio for Kevin Ayers' Singing
           a Song in the Morning. However, the producer mixed out Syd's
           guitar on the final release of the song. However, for years it
           has been known that there exists an acetate of the original mix
           with Syd's guitar left in.

           As for the version on the Steel Breeze roio, it is from an
           acetate of Singing a Song in the Morning. Therefore, it was
           probably assumed to be the version with Syd. However, as we
           discussed earlier about acetates, they can be just prereleases
           of officially released songs. So, this could just be an acetate
           of the officially released version. Or it could have Syd. It's
           hard to tell from listening to it.        -   ECHOES