Seamus (song)

"Seamus"
"Seamus"
Song
A-side	"One of These Days" (Japanese single)

"Seamus" is the fifth song on Pink Floyd's 1971 album Meddle, and uses a blues chord progression in an open D tuning.^[1]^[2] The song is named after the Collie dog (belonging to Humble Pie leader Steve Marriott) who performed howling 'vocals' on the album version of the track.^[3]

Mademoiselle Nobs

Film director Adrian Maben captured Pink Floyd's only live performance of "Seamus" (in a greatly altered form, excluding lyrics, and retitled "Mademoiselle Nobs") in his film Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii. To recreate the song, David Gilmour played harmonica instead of singing and Roger Waters played one of Gilmour's Stratocaster guitars. A female Borzoi (Russian Wolfhound) named Nobs, which belonged to Madona Bouglione (the daughter of circus director Joseph Bouglione), was brought to the studio to provide howling accompaniment as Seamus did in the album version. There is also an audible bass guitar in this recording, likely overdubbed during mixing of the film soundtrack at another studio.^[4] Some sources believe that "Seamus" was also performed on the Charlotte Park Center as a encore, 23 March 1973 during the Dark Side of the Moon Tour but it was false.

Personnel

David Gilmour – acoustic guitar, harmonica, vocals (Meddle)
Roger Waters – bass (Meddle) (Studio overdub on Live at Pompeii) , electric guitar (Live at Pompeii)
Richard Wright – piano (Meddle)

with:

Seamus (Meddle) – howling
Nobs (Live at Pompeii) – howling

References

^ Strong, Martin C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Edinburgh: Canongate Books. p. 1177. ISBN 1-84195-551-5.
^ Mabbett, Andy (1995). The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-4301-X.
^ Blake, Mark (2008). Comfortably Numb—The Inside Story of Pink Floyd. Da Capo Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-306-81752-6.
^ Adrian Maben (2003). Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii: Director's Cut (DVD). Universal Music & Video Distribution.

[1] Strong, Martin C. (2004). The Great Rock Discography (7th ed.). Edinburgh: Canongate Books. p. 1177. ISBN 1-84195-551-5.

[mabbett-2] Mabbett, Andy (1995). The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd. London: Omnibus Press. ISBN 0-7119-4301-X.

[3] Blake, Mark (2008). Comfortably Numb—The Inside Story of Pink Floyd. Da Capo Press. p. 143. ISBN 978-0-306-81752-6.

[dvd-4] Adrian Maben (2003). Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii: Director's Cut (DVD). Universal Music & Video Distribution.

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