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xxpost, i feel like ppl really shit on it? maybe that was just my perception. obv a little ponderous in places but some of it reminds me of obscured by clouds a bit and gets as trippy in places as they were in years

Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 8 September 2016 15:59 (seven years ago) link

that matrix sounds like it rules. looks like someone has posted a link to flac files in the youtube comments fyi.
i thought endless river sounded good at the time, but was a little too reference-y to Great Moments Of Pink Floyd's Past. should check it out again.

tylerw, Thursday, 8 September 2016 16:13 (seven years ago) link

here's the link for the FLACs, it's still active: http://www.filefactory.com/file/c421f83/n/PF750618BosGarMat-flc.rar

calstars, Thursday, 8 September 2016 23:49 (seven years ago) link

Rave master is Boston, June 18, 1975

calstars, Sunday, 11 September 2016 19:50 (seven years ago) link

just listened to side one of Saucerful of Secrets really loud on my new turntable. it sounded great until those damn kazoos started up. Corporal Clegg is a cool noise rock song but the two multi-kazoo interludes are TMI.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 13 September 2016 02:46 (seven years ago) link

Got thirteen channels of shit on the tv to choose from

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 25 September 2016 17:20 (seven years ago) link

decided to give "momentary lapse of reason" a go

haven't listened to this for a long, long time

Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 16:24 (seven years ago) link

i will always love "learning to fly", big childhood nostalgia, probably the second pink floyd song i was aware of (first being another brick in the wall)

Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 16:29 (seven years ago) link

this sax man goes mildly ham at the end of the dogs of war

Pull your head on out your hippy haze (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 28 September 2016 16:37 (seven years ago) link

Tylerw -- had the same reaction you did.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 16:59 (seven years ago) link

http://www.photocove.com/myupload/Pink_Floyd_g720zqyp5c.jpg

tylerw, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 17:03 (seven years ago) link

But of course.

Meantime, my budget may in fact allow me (later in the year) to go 'eh' and pick up the monster box for the hell of it. It really is my favorite era of the band, both Syd and non-Syd, and since it stops right before the era I no longer care about -- ie everything else -- it's kinda perfect.

Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 28 September 2016 17:07 (seven years ago) link

Well, I went for it, pre-orderwise. My advice if you're in the US -- order from this link:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B01J20B7IW/ref%3Das_li_ss_tl?ie=UTF8&camp=1634&creative=19450&creativeASIN=%20B01J20B7IW&linkCode=as2&tag=braindamage-21

In sum: if you do, thanks to the collapse of the UK pound, it will currently cost you $400, which is $150 off the baseline price for the US order. Also, as I discovered earlier, the DVDs and Blu-Rays are region-free, so further reason just to do that.

Ned Raggett, Thursday, 20 October 2016 05:05 (seven years ago) link

UK people, you may be interested in BBC4 tomorrow (21st Oct, 21:00), it looks like a broadcast based on one of the DVDs. A one-hour version, anyway.

Mark G, Thursday, 20 October 2016 06:49 (seven years ago) link

Fuck, I've just turned this on, I could have spent the last 45 minutes watching this.

Patti Labelle is in here with her high but mediocre singing voice. (Tom D.), Friday, 21 October 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link

... switched it on in the middle of a band only performance of "Atom Heart Mother"!

Patti Labelle is in here with her high but mediocre singing voice. (Tom D.), Friday, 21 October 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link

Rog played the Bridge School Benefit last night. Backing band was My Morning Jacket (they played earlier in the evening); he brought his 2 fab backup singers (in costume!); and GE Smith on lead guitar

Setlist
Wish You Were Here
The Bravery of Being Out of Range
Mother
Vera
Bring The Boys Back Home
Hello In There (John Prine)
Forever Young (Bob Dylan) - with Neil Young

it kinda ruled, guys

Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 23 October 2016 16:25 (seven years ago) link

I have to admit that's one of the most out of nowhere setlists I would have expected from him.

Also, giving nothing away but Waters features prominently in an upcoming PBS series next month, Soundbreaking, and I was constantly (and happily) surprised at how engaging, funny and warm his contributions and memories were. I idly noted this elsewhere and a friend of a friend said it was all down to him getting therapy, and if so, well, best decision he's made ever. I was so used to thinking of him as a power-crazed grump I hadn't expected a turnaround.

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 October 2016 16:30 (seven years ago) link

yeah my morning jacket sure know how to knock "mother" out of the park

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yzdP0Dgt2FI

mystery local boy (rushomancy), Sunday, 23 October 2016 16:31 (seven years ago) link

His having been in therapy has been well known and documented for years. xp

heaven parker (anagram), Sunday, 23 October 2016 18:49 (seven years ago) link

No doubt! But I'd not heard of it until now.

Ned Raggett, Sunday, 23 October 2016 19:29 (seven years ago) link

Doesn't David sing "wish?" Wtf

calstars, Sunday, 23 October 2016 20:42 (seven years ago) link

I guess it's too much to hope for another performance by Harper of Have a Cigar but maybe these old dudes should try it anyway. Harper is 75

calstars, Sunday, 23 October 2016 20:44 (seven years ago) link

guessing I should get Us + Them tickets; still kicking myself for missing the Wall

akm, Sunday, 23 October 2016 21:34 (seven years ago) link

I think harper's reputation is pretty in the shitter right now, not sure anyone wants to be seen with him

akm, Sunday, 23 October 2016 21:38 (seven years ago) link

We could invite James page to play hats off.

calstars, Sunday, 23 October 2016 21:41 (seven years ago) link

Yeah, but since he was found Not Guilty, I guess a slow brand rebuild is probably on the way.

Mark G, Sunday, 23 October 2016 23:36 (seven years ago) link

two weeks pass...

Well, guess who got to spend some time with a certain really expensive box set?

I'll say first of all, I'd maybe pay 600 dollars for these versions of Vegetable Man and Scream Thy Last Scream alone. Been waiting a lifetime for this. A bit over-compressed, but amazing.

All in all it's a weird set. Certain things I thought would be complete aren't quite, like the Zabriskie Point stuff has versions/outtakes I haven't heard and doesn't have stuff I have heard on bootlegs.

So this set doesn't replace all the bootlegs you've ever owned, but it certainly compliments it.

And in a few cases gives you a clearer remastered version of some things you've heard.

In the Beechwoods is totally fascinating. Almost doesn't make sense in their catalog at all. I don't think I'd ever heard a bootleg of it before. Sounds like the Zombies writing an outtake for Tommy as performed by The Beach Boys.

Also confusing but pointed out elsewhere online there was maybe a last minute switcheroo or mistake. Tracklist and WIKI says one of the discs is a remix of Obscured by Clouds but it's actually the Live at Pompei tracks remixed.

I'd also like to reiterate that while I think the set is obviously very freaking expensive, I don't think it's that much of a rip-off. Like considering the sheer quantity of material and production value, it's not like they're getting criminal margins out of this.

You can do the math. 10 audio CDs to start. Then add 8 DVDs/Blurays, including two full length feature films.

All of that digital media in 6 box sets, each with booklets of photos and text with a sleeve holding mini reproductions.

Then a handful of vinyl 7" singles nicely packaged.

Then a pile of printed reproduction posters, flyers, pamphlets. Not huge, but very nicely done. Spot color offset printing, metallic inks, recreation of programs.

I don't know, as someone who's had a hand on the production side of music and printed material, I'd think this amount of stuff would really add up. I don't know what equivalent sets would go for.

dan selzer, Monday, 7 November 2016 04:30 (seven years ago) link

i heard most of "Vegetable Man" and the sound quality was really really nice

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 7 November 2016 17:14 (seven years ago) link

yeah "vegetable man" sounded amazing, jeezus. hilariously maddening that they didn't put it (or scream thy last scream) on the affordable two-disc sampler.

tylerw, Monday, 7 November 2016 17:17 (seven years ago) link

i'm hearing word that the track labelled "seabirds" isn't, and is actually an unidentified instrumental. this will make me very sad if true.

xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 02:42 (seven years ago) link

Oh yeah. I wasn't famiilar w/ Seabirds till now. Definitely not it. More like one of those Fingals Cave takes. Though I have 2 distinct versions of that song on bootlets, one rocks, the other is spacier. What a mess.

dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 04:11 (seven years ago) link

So the tracklist their official site is incorrect? No "Obsfucation" disc at all? That sucks.

Mr. Snrub, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 07:30 (seven years ago) link

what i've heard is that the cds contain both a 2.0 obc remix and a 2.0 pompeii remix. no 5.1 obc remix, apparently because of a proxy gilmour/waters fight between lawyers.

90% of this stuff is from widely distributed bootlegs. i'm a little amazed at their considerable ability to fuck up the bits that aren't. to the point where i'm out. i've already spent enough money on lawyers this year putting my dad's estate through probate.

xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 09:24 (seven years ago) link

Has there been any indication of what the individual sets will cost yet? I remember the breakdown based on the box set price still seemed pretty steep.
& I think I might need to pick up a couple of them but not the whole box, not physically at least.

Still strange to find taht content wasn't settled accurately when this was fully announced, though that was after some shuffling.

What's the exclusive section sound like? People were saying taht it might be considerably worse tahn teh best bootleg sources. particularly the BBC stuff.

Stevolende, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 09:30 (seven years ago) link

i'm hearing word that the track labelled "seabirds" isn't

wtf??!! This was one of the things I was most interested in hearing.

The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Tuesday, 8 November 2016 10:43 (seven years ago) link

No Obscured by Clouds at all...BUT my source just got another disc in the mail, seems like they realized a mistake and fixed something. Not sure what it is though.

dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 13:19 (seven years ago) link

The updated CD he got is the Obscured by Clouds CD.

dan selzer, Tuesday, 8 November 2016 16:01 (seven years ago) link

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There's been some discussion over the Seabirds track on The Early Years box set, from reviewers who have an early version of the collection. When the More movie soundtrack work was completed, the tapes of the tracks to be used went to the film company, so the high quality full vocal version of Seabirds is now sadly lost. On the box set are tracks not used in the film, and therefore kept in the archives. One of those tracks - an instrumental also called Seabirds - is included on the set and has never been heard before.

dan selzer, Thursday, 10 November 2016 13:55 (seven years ago) link

best bait and switch 10/10

xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Thursday, 10 November 2016 14:06 (seven years ago) link

listening to a 2-disc The Early Years (Creation 1967-1972) and there is a really cool alt version of "Matilda Mother" that sounds like an album outtake from a different take and with different lyrics for the verses. it say this is from a "2010 Mix" but i'd never heard it before. it has a long meandering ending completely missing the fadeout.

AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 10 November 2016 20:32 (seven years ago) link

That's the one with the original Hilaire Belloc lyrics.

I saw, back in the day, a copy of 'cautionary tales' on Alice's bookshelf, a Christmas present possibly. I did wonder if she'd ever read it. So, one day I played that version in the car, she clocked it immediately : "Oh, that's from my book!"

So, there out go.

Mark G, Thursday, 10 November 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link

There 'you' go, in fact.

Mark G, Thursday, 10 November 2016 20:46 (seven years ago) link

The 2010 mix with the Hillaire belloc lyrics was on the Piper 3cd box set.

Stevolende, Thursday, 10 November 2016 21:29 (seven years ago) link

so when is this leaking (the entire box)

PaulTMA, Thursday, 10 November 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link

Xpost yes, that was the one.

Mark G, Thursday, 10 November 2016 22:49 (seven years ago) link


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