PINK FLOYD

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Doesn't David sing "wish?" Wtf

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

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

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

We could invite James page to play hats off.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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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.

best bait and switch 10/10

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.

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.

There 'you' go, in fact.

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

so when is this leaking (the entire box)

Xpost yes, that was the one.

I saw they had the box set in my local cd shop earlier. i should have seen if i could grab a copy of the 2cd but I think they were saying tomorrow. & I'd already spent more than I'd really intended to.

Asked if they were going to get the individual sets in but they hadn't heard about them being released individually.

THink the box was going for €500. Not sure how many they got or if it is likely they would shift many. Or also how wide an area they are the main cd shop for outside of supermarkets.

so the high quality full vocal version of Seabirds is now sadly lost

First Trump now this ;_;

I'll gladly take a low quality version. Is there anything floating around?

yeah, there is- it's not on youtube, but there are rips from the movie. schroeder's use of diegetic music means that much of the song is mostly inaudible, however.

yeah I heard it there. Was hoping for something better.

Listening to the 2cd thing and it sounds great.
IT is a shame that neither the unreleased psychedelic singles are on it but what is so far has been great.

Would be interesting as a stand alone but does get obscured by the larger box.

Sound does seem pretty fantastic.

Somebody posted this, which is a little different in its packaging cos it's teh Japanese version and appears to have an extra booklet to the Western one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=566&v=nTikEtqMl58

i'm hearing that the shoddy rush job was such a shoddy rush job that the original pressings haven't even removed the 5.1 mixes of meddle and obc that got cut from the set in a fit of puerile waters-gilmour legal feuding- they only removed the menu link to the files on the blu-ray. so good news for anybody who's super into 5.1, i guess.

audio for both box and 2cd is circulating, I think somebody was asking further up the thread.

So, if I understand this correctly, they weren't originally going to include the Live At Pompeii disc, but they accidentally included it in the first pressing, and after that they just said fuck it and marketed that as a "hidden bonus disc"?

Album of the Decade, obviously.

Listening to the new mix of Live At Pompeii now. Holy shit, this is fantastic.

Live at Pompeii on disc two, the DVD/Blu-Ray of volume6, is that shitty updated version where the director changed the order around, put on new titles and tons of inappropriate stock footage from the wrong era.

Is the "Live At Stockholm" disc that heavily-hyped thing from a couple years ago? Sounds amazing. "Reaction in G" is every bit as good as "Interstellar Overdrive"!!

so latest word is that rontoon sent them pristine copies of bbc '71, better than what's on the set, in 48k, but because they didn't tell anybody about this project the discs were already pressed and they couldn't use them.

pink floyd literally waited for yeeshkul to go on freeleech to put together this set, and is charging $600 for it.

oh god, i did that thing where i use the word "literally" to mean "figuratively", kill me now

Seeing David Fricke interview Nick Mason in 3 hours.

i hope fricke asks him how he feels about how he feels about the release of a massive box set conclusively proving that he is a terrible, terrible drummer

nick i love you and as a member of pink floyd you RULE but god you are an awful drummer

I'll ask.