Песня Pink Floyd "Dogs": История создания и эволюция

"Dogs" (Originally Titled "You've Got to Be Crazy") is a song by English rock band Pink Floyd, released on the album Animals in 1977. This song was one of several to be considered for the band's 2001 compilation album Echoes: The Best of Pink Floyd.

The music was written in 1974 by David Gilmour and Roger Waters, with lyrics by Waters, and originally titled "You've Got to Be Crazy" and was part of the Wish You Were Here setlist. Waters modified the lyrics in some parts, transposed the key to suit both Gilmour's and his vocals, and re titled it "Dogs". The version on Animals is 17 minutes long. The main theme features what were, for Pink Floyd, rather unusual chords. In the final version's key of D minor, the chords are D minor ninth, E♭maj7sus2/B♭, Asus2sus4, and A♭sus2(♯11). All these chords contain the tonic of the song, D—even as a tritone, as is the case in the fourth chord. The song fades in with an acoustic guitar in D tuning strumming the chords with a lively, syncopated rhythm, with a droning Farfisa organ playing chord tones (A, B♭, A, and A♭, respectively). After the first sixteen bar progression, Gilmour begins the vocal. For the third repetition, bass guitar, Hammond organ, drums and lead guitar (playing a subtle drone of D) enter. After this repetition comes the first of several guitar solos, played by Gilmour on a Fender Telecaster rather than his usual Fender Stratocaster. However, Waters has denied the Ginsberg poem was any influence on his lyrics. Instead, these lines can be seen as subordinate clauses to the lyric line that precedes them ("And you believe at heart everyone's a killer/Who was born in a house full of pain/Who was [etc. ]").

During 1974 performances of "You've Got to Be Crazy", which can be heard on the Immersion Box Set and the Experience version of Wish You Were Here, the band performed the song faster than it would eventually become, and in its original key of E minor, before they started using D tuning on their guitars, for a concert pitch of D minor. In the early live versions of Dogs/You've Got To Be Crazy from 1974, the mesmeric solo was dominated by Rick's clanging and airy Farfisa Organ sounds and clanging and echoing electric piano and was substantially shorter than the reworked and completed version. In the background was gentle cymbal tapping from Nick Mason and some gentle electric guitar picking from Dave Gilmour in the first half of this section backed by equally gentle bass guitar picking from Roger Waters. Rick Wright's mesmeric solo from the middle of Dogs/You've Got To Be Crazy is notable by its absence from Pink Floyd's 1975 Tour. The lyrics, though different in 1974, were thematically similar to the final version of "Dogs". The lyrics were modified by the time the song was played live in 1975, and then the lyrics changed again when recording Animals. Once in a while I would find something uncomfortable to sing. The first lot Roger wrote for "Dogs" when it was called "You Gotta Be Crazy", were just too many words to sing. "Dogs" had so many words, I physically couldn't get them in. [We] just cut out two thirds of his words, to make it possible rather than impossible. Equally difficult was for Gilmour or Waters to sing the song's highest part, "dragged down by the stone", in the original key, which would begin on the first B above middle C. As any recording of the early performances will attest, neither singer could quite reach and sustain it, even when attempting it together. The line appears twice, as the climax to each singer's performance. It was likely for the sake of achieving high quality lead vocals, specifically on this line, that they lowered the key before committing the song to record (Waters, however, would go on to reach even higher notes on songs like "Hey You", "Every Stranger's Eyes" and "One of My Turns"). The bootleg release From Abbey Road to Britannia Row: The Extraction Tapes (2014) includes a work in progress studio version of "Dogs." This version is closer musically to the official album version than the earlier "You've Got to Be Crazy" live versions, but it has distinct differences. Unlike the album version, it is sung almost entirely by Waters; Gilmour sings only the middle section ("And when you lose control "). The mesmeric synthesizer solo (with barking dog effects) is missing (accounting for the track's duration of just under 14 minutes, in contrast to the 17 minute version on Animals), and some of the lyrics are different, most notably in the closing "Who was " verse.

The song was performed nightly during the 1977 tour. Gilmour would sing all but the last section with Gilmour and Wright harmonizing 'And when you lose control' part. Gilmour played his acoustic parts on electric guitar, making it easy to switch between lead and rhythm with his Telecaster played in D standard tuning. Some solos were different from the studio version and before the final guitar solo Gilmour would perform an extra solo. Waters would sing the "who was born in a house full of pain" section. Then for the last part, Waters would sing "breaking away from the pack" with Gilmour and Wright singing a round (similarly to performances on the 1974/75 Gotta Be Crazy tour) and both Gilmour and Waters singing the final "who was dragged down by the stone". Waters regularly performed the song on his In the Flesh Tour, with Jon Carin and Doyle Bramhall II replacing Gilmour on vocals and guitars, respectively. Waters also performed the song to open the second set of his Us + Them Tour shows, with Dave Kilminster and Jonathan Wilson on guitars, and the latter on vocals. However, despite Wilson replacing Gilmour's role on vocals during this tour, the sample of Gilmour's voice echoing the word "stone" from the original studio recording was utilized on a backing track during the middle section.

Les Claypool's Frog Brigade performed and released a live version of "Dogs" on the album Live Frogs Set 2 (2001). The entire album is a complete performance of Pink Floyd's Animals album, recorded in October 2000.