Crazy Diamond

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Album Info

Release Date: 1993

Label: Harvest

© 1993 The copyright in this compilation is owned by EMI Records LTD. © 1993 EMI Records LTD.
Released in a box containing a 24 page booklet and 3 CDs, each with a 4 page booklet.

This is original SWINDON 1993 issued without SID codes. Later identical repress with SID codes here: Syd Barrett - Crazy Diamond

[Catalog numbers:]
"SYD BOX 1" [on the spine and back of the box]
"SYDBOX 1" [on the EMI barcode window]

The box set includes the two original albums The Madcap Laughs and Barrett, the rarities collection Opel, 19 bonus tracks of alternative versions and previously unreleased takes, and a 24-page color booklet with Syd Barrett story, photos and early Pink Floyd ads and playbills.

All tracks recorded at Abbey Road Studios.
℗1970 1-1 to 1-13, 2-1 to 2-12
℗1988 1-1 to 1-14
℗1993 1-14 to 1-19, 2-13 to 2-19, 3-15 to 3-20
Tracks 3-11, 3-14 and 3-19 are instrumental.

1-1: 1969-4-11 (take 1)
1-2: 1969-4-11 (take 3)
1-3: 1969-4-11 (take 4)
1-4: 1969-4-17 (take 5)
1-5: 1969-8-05 (take 1)
1-6: 1969-4-17 (take 5)
1-7: 1969-6-12 (take 11)
1-8: 1969-6-12 (remake, take 11)
1-9: 1969-7-26 (take 1)
1-10: 1969-7-26 (take 5)
1-11: 1969-7-26 (take 1)
1-12: 1969-4-26 (take 5)
1-13: 1968-5-28 (take 2)
1-14: 1969-6-12 (takes 1+2)
1-15: 1969-4-11 (take 5)
1-16: 1969-4-11 (take 1)
1-17: 1969-4-11 (take 3)
1-18: 1969-7-26 (take 4)
1-19: 1968-6-08 (take 5)

2-1: 1970-2-26 (take 1)
2-2: 1970-7-14 (take 1)
2-3: 1970-7-14 (take 3)
2-4: 1970-7-17 (take 1)
2-5: 1970-7-05 (take demo)
2-6: 1970-2-26 (take 2)
2-7: 1970-2-27 (take 15)
2-8: 1970-2-27 (take 1)
2-9: 1970-2-27 (take 1)
2-10: 1970-7-14 (take 10)
2-11: 1970-4-03 (take 2)
2-12: 1970-7-14 (take 9)
2-13: 1970-2-26 (take 1, guitar and double-tracked vocals only)
2-14: 1970-2-27 (take 1)
2-15: 1970-2-27 (take 1)
2-16: 1970-7-14 (take 1)
2-17: 1970-7-14 (take 1)
2-18: 1970-7-14 (take 2)
2-19: 1970-7-17 (take 2)

3-1: 1969-4-11 (take 9)
3-2: 1968-7-20 (take 2)
3-3: 1970-6-05 (two-track demo)
3-4: 1970-6-12 (remake, take 6)
3-5: 1970-7-14 (take 1)
3-6: 1970-7-17 (take 1)
3-7: 1970-6-05 (two-track demo)
3-8: 1968-5-28 (take 5)
3-9: 1970-6-05 (two-track demo)
3-10: 1970-7-14 (take 1)
3-11: 1968-5-14 (take 1)
3-12: 1969-7-26 (take 1)
3-13: 1970-6-07 (take 5)
3-14: 1968-5-14 (take 1, instrumental backing track)
3-15: 1970-2-27 (take 9)
3-16: 1970-7-17 (take 3)
3-17: 1970-7-17 (take 5)
3-18: 1968-7-20 (take 1)
3-19: 1968-5-28 (take 2, original backing track)
3-20: 1970-7-14 (take 2)

Regarding the matrices for Variant 1:
CD1: The "-1-11" portion is hand etched into the glass master.
CD2: The "-1-18" portion is hand etched into the glass master.
CD3: The "-1-19" portion is hand etched into the glass master.