Have You Got It Yet?
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Have You Got It Yet? (often abbreviated as HYGIY) is a collection of bootlegs of the work of Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd's guitar player and frontman during the band's early years, both with the band and from his subsequent solo career. Conceived by members of the Laughing Madcaps Yahoo! group and compiled from their pooled resources, the collection includes alternate versions, interviews, radio and TV shows about Syd and a photo album.
The first CDs feature the earliest known Pink Floyd tracks (including some unreleased such as "Lucy Leave" and "I'm a King Bee"), BBC radio sessions, acetates, outtakes, remixes by Peter Jenner and Malcolm Jones, and live tapes. The core material is presented chronologically and includes everything in general circulation.
Of particular interest is the fourth CD, which includes portions of the unfinished 1974 sessions and alternate takes from Barrett's solo sessions. While compiling this CD, the Laughing Madcaps group discovered a version of "In the Beechwoods", a previously-unheard Pink Floyd track. It was first presented to the world as part of the Have You Got It Yet? series.
The later CDs include peripheral material such as a 2001 radio show hosted by writers Jim DeRogatis and Greg Kot. Another features lengthy Nick Mason and David Gilmour interviews. Others include promos and recordings of BBC and VH1 retrospective documentaries. There is also a tribute album recorded by members of Laughing Madcaps and a selection of fan-generated Out Of Phase Stereo (OOPS) mixes. An MP3 anthology collects cover versions (dating back to 1967) from such artists as The Flaming Lips, R.E.M., Robyn Hitchcock and dozens more. The final disc (named Apocrypha) is reserved for tracks of dubious or fake origin.
The title of the release is based on a legendary Syd Barrett "song". At one session Barrett attempted to teach the other members of Pink Floyd this song, playing a series of chords and asking the band, "Have you got it yet?" It soon became evident that "it" - the song - didn't even exist as a solid entity and that Barrett was merely making up the chords as he went along. This was one of Barrett's more famously eccentric behaviours.
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