"It's always been the fight between me and Roger," Gilmour told Rolling Stone. All of it combines to make a case for the often-overlooked keyboardist as a musical visionary in his own right. They began with a 13-and-a-half minute Wright composition titled "Sysyphus, Parts 1-4," a remarkable epic that moves from ominous orchestral wonder to contemplative piano and then onward into free-form noise. "It was really Meddle that was the next stepping stone, and the way forward towards Dark Side. "The idea of everyone operating separately didn’t work particularly well," Mason added.
In the end, however, this was a road Pink Floyd decided was better left untraveled. There's no denying the gumpton on the original material for Ummagumma, which gave each of the four members – Richard Wright, Roger Waters, Gilmour and then Mason – an opportunity to create a solo piece, without the involvement of the others. I think Atom Heart Mother, which we’re all fond of – we think it’s interesting – it was not the route we ended up continuing down, in the same way that Ummagumma wasn’t either.” “I think what we ended up doing in a way,” Nick Mason told Dave Kerzner in 2014, “was going down some cul-de-sacs. And, after an experiment with big-band arrangements on Atom Heart Mother, this period ultimately helped shape the band's vision for larger successes into the '70s. 5 in their home country – though stalling at No.
to that point, finishing at an impressive No. Ummagumma nevertheless became Pink Floyd's best-selling album in both America and the U.K.
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