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Dear Vic: Finally today the picture arrived at home!!! it's wonderful, so beautiful... thanks you very much for all
kisses
Claudia
"Hello Vic,
The print has arrived and is currently at the shop being framed (along with your certificate of authenticity)... and I was quite pleased and impressed when the clerk kept referring to it as "a priceless work of art" Thank you very much sir, this is truly appreciated by all of us!"
MK Canada.
"Vic Singh's photo waiting for me! I am a very happy Greek!! yippeee! Aggeliki"
"Just to let you all know, my Pink Floyd picture arrived today
and is now framed and up on the wall. And a very handsome
edition it is to the Lucifer household finery. A big thanx to Vic
for supplying a classic picture."
"Thank you Vic - a new family heirloom... I can't wait for this!" U.S.A.
"Thank you Vic and thanks for signing the Pink Floyd picture.
It's a great picture.
Cheers and best of luck,
Bruce"
Hello Madcaps, I went and picked up my Piper... print today from the framers. I went whole-hog and got one of the Giclee prints. I then had it professionally framed (double-matted). It's breathtaking! The image is more perfect than on the LP cover! It's direct from Vic's negative. Vic is the Piper... Photographer. I am soooooooooooooo happy! This is a real heirloom and it's signed by Vic.......Roky Syd.
Visit the site above to see the Piper... print. For those on a budget, Vic has regular color prints for sale. He'll sign it too if you ask. This is a REAL Syd Barrett collectible! And you're not bidding on eBay with thousands of others. Vic has different prices for different budgets too. I heartily endorse his offer. By the way, you can contact Vic here if you want: photo@vicsingh.co.uk
"Picture arrived today Vic. Thanks very much. I have it framed already!I bet you never expected people to be showing so much interest in that photo 36 years later?
Mike U. K."
"The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" cover photograph was exhibited in the Pink Floyd Interstellar Exhibition, Cite De La Mystique, Paris.
The Spare Bricks Piper Contest Fans Submissions.
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I think The Piper cover is the ultimate representation of the summer of love. Everything from the clothes the Floyd are wearing, to the hairstyles, and to top it all off the wonderful psychedelic photograph by Vic just screams 1967. A true iconic image from a very important time in Floyd and other music history.
Paul Banks
Canada
What that picture invokes in me are feelings of youth, friendship, innocence, big dreams, fun, beginnings, raw talent, low ticket prices, orginality, hair, lots of colorful clothes and a desire to go ride a bike with someone I love!
Michael Teige
Monroe, Washington, USA
What the Piper cover means to me: Same as the original...it reminds me of better days, fresh music, and youth.
Mark Gunzinger
Woodbridge, Virginia, USA
To me, this cover art reminds me of the long-gone, untainted Floyd look. It's a time where their music was innocent (enough) and their focus was on producing genuinely good music, not intricate concepts and despairing lyrics. Their hits were things like "Interstellar Overdrive," and "Bike:" just fun, catchy songs, nothing over-the-top. The psychedelic cloning effects on the cover mimic this style. Nothing egotistical or over-the-top, just four good friends sitting around, eagerly waiting to get back to the studio.
Nathan Cooper
Hattiesburg, Mississippi, USA
The living freshness of the image that boldly states "I am here!" is the perfect beginning to a catalogue of genius spanning the many decades ahead. The sad and troubling times that those men faced in the years ahead are washed away, replaced by the memory of what was once, and will forever be, a wonderful moment in time.
Linda Broadbent
Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
I remember buying Piper as a decision based largely on the cover art. I was deciding where my limited funds should be applied. Should I fill out my Beatles or Stones collections? I remember happening upon Piper.
The cover signaled to me that four musicians pictured had upped the ante as far as musical creativity was concerned. The band’s clothing and especially the kaleidoscope-like effect suggested that even the music was going to be challenging and even dizzying. But because the band’s faces were clearly visible, an honesty at the music’s heart was also promised. The cover presented a musical proposition that I found compelling enough to chance my dollars on this unknown band.
Looking back, the jacket accurately prepared me for the music within and began my deep appreciation of Pink Floyd that has lasted nearly 40 years.
Thanks for the interview with Vic Singh. I always wondered about that shoot and the photographer.
Michael Garnice
Brooklyn , NY, USA
With the passing of Syd the photo from the Piper sessions is strong reminder of how short both fame and life can be.
Michael O'connor
Suwanee, Georgia, USA
The cover says perfectly what the album is to be like. I can't explain it any further than to say you feel the album when you look at the cover.
Michael Franklin
Logansport, Indiana, USA
For both the band and the photographer the cover of Piper conveys innocence, Use of a similar lens technique today would be seen as trite but back then if was fresh and innovative. So too was the Pink Floyd—fresh and innovative.
Jim Poulin
Phoenix, Arizona, USA
What comes to my mind when I look at this sleeve is: Without even hearing a note from that amazing album, you can see that it will be something adventurous; different, and innovative. Exploring new territories. So simple yet so effective is the sleeve the colors the effect the strange name. and of course SYD. Just right and different just like their music The dawn of a new era. Along with Sergeant Pepper, Piper pushed even more the boundaries that to often limits us. It came out a year before my birth but when I look at it it brings me to a place I would have loved to visit.
Paul Cousineau
Québec, Canada
The Piper cover represents (to me, at least) the confusion of identity. Fragmented as individuals and as a singular band. A kaleidoscope of personalities, beliefs and desires.
Cyrus Simcoe
Green Bay, Wisconsin, USA
To me the image represents four passionate men deeply aware of the mark they are making in music history. Not only are they aware of the mark they are making they are smug in the fact that they own the psychedelic genre.
Roger Washington
Mission Viejo, California, USA
The cover of Piper is a symbol of the new area of British music. It also reflects way back to the birth of Floyd to the misty haze of today. The original line-up...a fading star in upper-left corner and a supernova to the upper-right corner, words have different meanings.
Michael Haakanen
Isnäs, Finland
i was only a wave in the air
i was not born when they recorded piper
but for me it just means the beginning
of something i just cant explain
the first record
the rocket starts and entered the sky
entered my mind a part of my mind
and never left
goes round an round
like beethoven
like mozart
Daniel Jaakov Kühn
Munich, Germany
The Piper image was my first couloured photo of Pink Floyd I have ever seen. Very nice memories of that album cover. I have never known who was the photographer Vic Singh. Now I know. Silk clothes and faces my favorite musicians looks like dream. Fantastic atmosphere of the image by using the prism lens. Really great.
Jiri Englis
Vavrovice, Czech Republic
The picture means to me what youthfulness is. The ability to reach for the stars and the desire to do so too. They were young and ambitious and brillant! Untapped and flowing. Just like our youth. Also reminds me of why we named our son Barrett Pink.
Mr.Roger Guilmette
Port Charlotte, Florida, USA
To me, the Piper cover image encapsulates the mood and the visual impact of the psychadelic era in a single picture. The colours are vibrant yet not brash, and the spectral images possess both an ethereal quality and a powerful sense of movement that fully complements the directions that the music takes the listener.
John Johnstone
Cumbria, United Kingdom
Change, return, success, going and coming without error...action brings good fortune...a space capsule which comes from the sixties and will never get obscured by any cloud...goodbye madcap, pow r toc h!
Alessandro Tosetti
Modena, Italy
The "Piper" cover to me means and reminds me of the best years of my life, The Late 60's. Though there was a war happening and much civil unrest, it was The Late 60's music that pulled me through. The Floyd then, as now, will always remind me of a better time.
Continue your journey Syd
Karl L. Aynedter
Zephyr Cove, Nevada, USA
Coming from the early days of Pink Floyd, I'm not surprised that this cover show has a lot to do with the aiming of the band to be rich and famous, making it clear with the way they look and dress. It's just like ... Look at us !!! We're the Pink Floyd and you must pay attention to what you're going to listen to.
Felipe Mac Auliffe
Chile, South America
Vic Singh's photo to me means that in some way we are all connected, as all the bodies of Syd, Roger, and Nick are touching. They are all dressed in similar sixties clothing so they are the same, they all have so much in common. They are all muscians and they are all in the asme band counted as one.
Justin Rovtar
Jamesville, NY, USA
A kaleidescope of colours and personalities that interweave to produce
a single creative presentation of sound and image.
David Le Hunte
Somerset, United Kingdom
To me, Vic Singh's 'Piper' cover image encapsulates all that Piper stands for: Vic's image is a challenge to the mind and body to break from previous musical and lifestyle conventions and to partake of that which is at once mysterious and inspirational. As such, it is the penultimate reflection of the music contained within 'Piper' and the mind of 'Piper's' primary creator, Syd Barrett. Vic's cover image serves the purpose of capturing the listener's interest, drawing the listener into the 'Piper' experience, and releasing the listener with the challenge of partaking of this experience again and again. Vic's image succeeds on a grand scale."
Michael Shogi
Reminderville, Ohio, USA
The Piper cover is the introduction to an entity, and to a legend, in an era where art mattered. The purpose of the art was to explore the unknown and portray the beauty of it, summarized today by one word; psychedelic. As Piper at the Gates of Dawn was an overture to this time, the album face was an equally reflective representation of the band, and the man, who stand matchless in that well celebrated age.
Seth Rivard
Muskegon, USA
The Piper at the Gates of Dawn cover image shot through a prism in capsules the Pink Floyd and more importantly the memory of Roger "Syd" Barrett.
Jerome Brunet
San Jose, California, USA
On a personal level, the cover image takes me back to my early teenage years. That was the time when I discovered Pink Floyd. As one could image, those years were filled with rebellion, confusion, experimentation, deviation, and a search to find oneself. Through it all, there was Pink Floyd's Piper at the Gates of Dawn. The album fits so well with what I was going through and experiencing at the time. The ablum has it all... deep, moody songs (Astronomy Domine, and Take Up Thy Stethoscope And Walk) fun, mystical and whispy songs (The Gnome, Scarecrow, Lucifer Sam, Flaming and Bike), thought provoking tunes (Chapter 24), and melodic sprees (Interstellar Overdrive, Pow R Toc H). Like the album itself, the cover image has many layers (imagees or views, if you will) stacked on top of itself that come together to make the whole.
So, what does the PatGoD image mean to me, finding oneself among all the different incantations one could become and bringing them all together to fit as one entity.
Scott Johnston
Cary, North Carolina, USA
This cover got to be a simple one but it's fantastic. Their faces looking at me in this cover, make me feel that they are extraordinary, like their music.may be they wanna warn us that they've got an important message in this music.
HOSSEIN FARNOODI.
Shiraz, Iran
The Piper At the Gates of Dawn, with its kaleidoscopic imagery and flowered shirts, is the epitome of psychedelia in the 60's.
Greg Schmidt
Hammond, Louisiana, USA
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