John Leckie (sound engineer) :
«They spent days working on what people now call Household Objects. They were making chords up from the tapping of beer bottles, tearing newspapers to get a rhythm, and letting off aerosol cans to get a hi-hat sound»
« The Lost Pink Floyd Album », Classic Rock Magazine, Mark Blake, October 2013
Roger Waters:
« I’ve always felt that the differentiation between a sound effect and music is all a load of shit. Whether you make a sound on a guitar or a water tap is irrelevant »
«Speak to Me», ZigZagMagazine#32, 1973.
Nick Mason:
« (...)« The Household Objects» album would have been the wittiest thing to do next, and it would have been if we could have knocked it out. But I think what we'll do is what we've always done in the past, which is to struggle away at whatever we've got and see how it comes out».
«A Pre-Season report on Pink Floyd», Sounds, August 17th 1974.
Alan Parson:
« We made the bass loop, then i dubbed on the brush, then each individual beat of the snare had to be dubbed in after that, and then another loop was made on the 24-track. SO it went, click track on the 24-track, then the brush, then a couple beats of the snare individually keyed-in, then a bass drum which was just footsteps on the floor using a lot of EQ »
«Interview w/. Alan Parson», Recording Engineer/Producer, October 1976.
David Gilmour:
«We actually did get something out of it that we used on «Wish You Were Here». We did actually use some of the «Household Objects»- the wine glasses were in some of the music at the beginning of the «Wish You Were Here» album »
«90 Years of EMI Radio Special », hosted by Klef Richard, November 26th 1988.
Nick Mason:
« Almost everything we’ve ever recorded in a studio has been extracted by someone at some point and subsequently bootlegged. However, no such recordings exist of the «Household Objects» tapes for the simple reason that we never managed to produce any actual music. All the time we devoted to the project was spent exploring the non-musical sounds, and the most we ever achieved was a small number of tentative rhythm tracks »
«Inside Out: A Personal History of Pink Floyd», Nick Mason, 2005.
Rick Wright:
« I think it was Roger who said, «let’s make an album without using any of our instruments, but (using) household objects. So we’d spend days getting a pencil and a rubber band till it sounded like a bass… spend weeks and weeks doing this. Nick would find old sauce pans and stuff, and then deaden them to try and make them sound exactly like a snare drum. I remember sitting down with Roger and saying, «Roger, this is insane!» ».
«Which One’s Pink ?», BBC TV, 2007.
Nick Mason:
«There are things like sixteen tracks of glasses tuned to a scale across the 16-track: it can be played across the faders, but what it really needs is each one going through a VCS3 or something, and then coming in to a keyboard. I suppose really it's a very, very, very, very crude Mellotron. There's a whole load of things we've done --some of them just down as sounds that work, others as bass lines, tunes. The Household Objects album would have been the wittiest thing to do next, and it would have been if we could have knocked it out. But I think what we'll do is what we've always done in the past, which is to struggle away at whatever we've got and see how it comes out»
Sounds, 17 August 1974
