{"id":45,"date":"2007-06-20T18:15:40","date_gmt":"2007-06-21T00:15:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mog.com\/spaceling\/blog_post\/87078"},"modified":"2023-07-23T19:35:20","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T02:35:20","slug":"a-quick-short-sharp-shock","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/2007\/06\/a-quick-short-sharp-shock","title":{"rendered":"A quick short, sharp shock"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd fans may know of this series of discs that make available a plethora of rare recordings: radio adverts, interviews, mono edits, alternate versions, etcetera. On disc three, track 20, a very special track, and one which gave me the shivers. You&#8217;ll understand when you <a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/cody-k-greenberg\/pink-floyd-roger-the-hat-interview\">listen to it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fsoundcloud.com%2Faharonium%2Froger-the-hat-interview&width=false&height=false&auto_play=false&hide_related=false&visual=false&show_comments=false&color=false&show_user=false&show_reposts=false\"><\/iframe>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Dark_Side_of_the_Moon\">wikipedia<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Snippets of dialogue between and over the top of the songs are also featured on the recording [of <em>Dark Side of the Moon<\/em>]. Roger Waters devised a method of interviewing people, whereby questions were printed on flashcards in sequential order and the subject&#8217;s responses were recorded uninterrupted. The questions related to central themes of the album such as madness, violence, and death. Participants were commandeered from around Abbey Road, placed in the darkened studio in front of a microphone, and told to answer the questions in the order which they were presented. This provoked some surprising responses to subsequent questions. For example, the question &#8220;When was the last time you were violent?&#8221; was immediately followed by &#8220;Were you in the right?&#8221; (Henderson, Peter; Surcliffe, Phil; and Bungey, John (1998). The First Men on the Moon Part 2 (html). <em> REG <\/em>. MOJO Magazine. Retrieved on 2006-12-23.)<\/p>\n<p>Recordings of road manager Roger &#8220;The Hat&#8221; Manifold<sup>[<a href=\"#footnote_1_45\" id=\"identifier_1_45\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-identifier-link\" title=\"Very difficult to find more information on Roger Manifold on the web. The above picture came from this webpage about another band he was a roadie with, The Third World War. Apparently, the Hat monicker derived from Mr. Monicker&rsquo;s recognizable top hat, sported in his daily roadie ministrations. Wish I could find a picture of it. I love top hats, too.\">1<\/a>]<\/sup> were the only ones obtained through a conventional sit-down interview because the band members could not find him at the time and his responses (including &#8220;give &#8217;em a quick, short, sharp shock&#8230;&#8221; and &#8220;live for today, gone tomorrow, that&#8217;s me&#8230;&#8221;) had to be taped later when the flashcards had been lost.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From the liner notes of A Tree Full of Secrets (disc 3):<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Roger the Hat interview (07:30)<br \/>\nRecorded : 1972<br \/>\nPrimary source : Capital Radio broadcast (&#8220;Pink Floyd Story&#8221;), December 1976 &#8211; January 1977<br \/>\nSource for the tree : unknown gen from Capital Radio broadcast. All through &#8220;The Dark Side of the Moon&#8221; album, you can hear the voices of people interviewed by the band. Here, Roger the Hat (who was a roadie for various rock bands) is interviewed by Roger Waters. On the album, you can hear his voice during &#8220;On the Run&#8221; (&#8220;Live for today, gone tomorrow, that&#8217;s me, hahaha-\u00a6&#8221;) and during &#8220;Us And Them&#8221; (&#8220;Short, sharp shock -\u00a6&#8221;).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Rogerthehat.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2358\" src=\"http:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Rogerthehat.jpg\" alt=\"Roger the Hat\" width=\"350\" height=\"197\" srcset=\"https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Rogerthehat.jpg 350w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Rogerthehat-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/aharon.varady.net\/omphalos\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/06\/Rogerthehat-150x84.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 350px) 100vw, 350px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Contrast the reflection of Roger the Hat in this interview with the wise dialogue of Miller (Tracy Walter) in the film REPO MAN (1984) as relayed to Otto (played by a young Emilio Estevez).<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vRJ5cCP0ZPE?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<ol class=\"footnotes\"><li id=\"footnote_1_45\" class=\"footnote\">Very difficult to find more information on Roger Manifold on the web. The above picture came from <a href=\"http:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20110927092927\/http:\/\/www.stardomroad.com\/third_world_war.html\">this<\/a> webpage about another band he was a roadie with, The Third World War. Apparently, the Hat monicker derived from Mr. Monicker&#8217;s recognizable top hat, sported in his daily roadie ministrations. Wish I could find a picture of it. I love top hats, too.<span class=\"footnote-back-link-wrapper\">[<a href=\"#identifier_1_45\" class=\"footnote-link footnote-back-link\">&#8617;<\/a>]<\/span><\/li><\/ol>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pink Floyd fans may know of this series of discs that make available a plethora of rare recordings: radio adverts, interviews, mono edits, alternate versions, etcetera. On disc three, track 20, a very special track, and one which gave me the shivers. 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