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Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict
Song by Pink Floyd From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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"Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict" is a track written and performed by Roger Waters from the 1969 Pink Floyd double album, Ummagumma.[3][4][5]
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The track consists of several minutes of noises resembling rodents and birds simulated by voices,[6] utilizing techniques such as tapping the microphone played at different speeds, followed by Waters providing a few stanzas of spoken word in an exaggerated Scottish burr.[7][8] This poem was improvised in the studio.[9]
The Picts were the indigenous people of what is now Scotland who merged with the Scots.
There is a hidden message in the song at about 4:32. If played at 16 rpm, Waters can be heard saying, "That was pretty avant-garde, wasn't it?"[10] Playing it at 45 rpm reveals a second message from Waters: "Bring back my guitar."[9]
A small sample of these effects appears at about 4:48 on Waters' other track on Ummagumma, "Grantchester Meadows".
"It's not actually anything, it's a bit of concrete poetry. Those were sounds that I made, the voice and the hand slapping were all human generated – no musical instruments."
— Roger Waters, interview with the University of Regina's The Carillon, October 1970[11]
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In popular culture
The title of the Man or Astro-man? song "Many Pieces of Large Fuzzy Mammals Gathered Together at a Rave and Schmoozing with a Brick" is based on this song.
A quotation in the Karl Edward Wagner novel Bloodstone (1975) pays tribute to the song: "several species of small furry animals gathered together in cave and grooving with a pict."
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Personnel per Paul Stump.[9]
- Roger Waters – voices, tape effects
- David Gilmour - high-pitched voice
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