PINK FLOYD

There's been a couple at least from that era.

getting really into Atom Heart Mother this week...what's generally regarded as I guess imperial phase Floyd I don't really groove as much with, I love Gilmour's soloing and I love Nick Mason but the overall vibe from Dark Side on, how does it change? I say that it changes. I like how there's still a goofy edge in the cosmic up to a certain point I guess, AHM has that, lovely late-night listening

I spent all of my teen years wearing out every decent bit of studio Floyd and never spent much of my adult years listening to them -- is there a guide or good reference point to all of the various live recordings/bootlegs/etc out there? RYM lists 829 bootlegs alone which is a bit overwhelming.

start with those BBC sessions linked above, for sure

imo start with The Man And The Journey (Amsterdam 1969), included in the Early Years box or search the RoIO of the same name.

According to Floyd roadie Chris Cockram (45m30s into this video) every show on the American leg of the 1977 tour was recorded (one tape for Gilmour, another for Waters) but the whereabouts of the tapes now is completely unknown.

― Elvis Telecom

oh ferfuxsake, so there's a whole stash the floyd equivalent of the betty boards out there somewhere?

also very much in character for the era

― out-of-print LaserDisc edition (sleeve)

no it's not! _somebody_ should have sold these tapes on the open market for drug money by now! this is pink fucking floyd we're talking about here!

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as far as floyd boots just listen to the live stuff on the 1967-1972 set. for the early DSOTM sets '72-'73, ah, you know, there's no clear favorite. '73 sets have obscured by "clouds/when you're in". december '72 and early march '73 have "childhood's end". the piece evolved over its first year, with the first performances not having "eclipse" written yet. by the 2/17/1972 rainbow theater performance, "eclipse" was written but there are early, different versions of "on the run" and "great gig". 9/22/1972 is a decent representative late '72 gig. for '73, the robert wyatt tribute concerts on 11/4/1973 (i'm using US dating if it's not obvious) are worth hearing.

there's a complete official release of a '74 winter tour set from a board recording, about the only full concert from '72-'77 to have a complete recording from the board. for '77, go for the ones with the extra encores - may 9 and july 6. both great shows and good audience recordings. there's an official of the wall live, unless you're a hardcore fan that should do you. same thing for the official live recordings from the MLOR and TDB tours.

not that complicated, really. i do get into deep dives on the early stuff - relatively poor quality tapes with rare material like dec 22 1970 and feb 11 1970 - as well as things like the half hour embryo from nov 20 1971, and of course the infamous Pict Rants (ernst-merck halle 1970, saucerful april 3 1971, boeblingen nov 15 1972, and others). but that's more advanced shit. floyd weren't the dead. they weren't even zep. they weren't different every night.

FWIW, the live recordings I regularly listen to are:

1970-01-23 Theatre des Champs-Elysees, Paris, France [The Man Live In Paris]
1970-02-11 Town Hall, Birmingham
1970-04-22 Capitol Theatre, Port Chester, NY
1970-04-29 Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA (Westworld, Sigma 4)
1970-05-01 Santa Monica Civic, Santa Monica, CA
1970-11-22 Casino Montreux (Too Early For A Gig HRV CDR 037)
1973-05-19 Earl's Court, London [Supine In The Sunshine]
1974-11-15 Empire Pool, Wembley, England [Black Holes In The Sky]
1975-06-28 Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
1977-05-01 Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas
1977-05-09 Oakland Coliseum [Animal Instincts]

I'm pretty sure all of them are on YouTube if you want to preview - all of them are definitely available on slsk in FLAC

port chester, huh, that's the only one of mine that wasn't really on my radar. i also like m-502 from 1971-02-25, santa monica 1970-10-23 (great "saucerful") and the plumpton version of "the journey" (1969-08-08).

all of this AI filtering shit... i've heard versions of "seabirds" that sound half-decent... has anyone tried removing the narration from the syd footage on "underground scene - it's so far out it's straight down"?

The Hipgnosis documentary is on Netflix (UK) now

Any time I've ever seen Storm Thorgeson interviewed he comes across as a total dick but that story about him on the Ween thread warmed me to him.

Luckily, Po is a much better interview and does the bulk of the talking.

A previously unreleased interview from December 1971 of Pink Floyd at Studio Europa Sonor in France, is now available in full on YouTube for the first time. Only a few edits had to be made, consisting of cutting out some of the Live at Pompeii footage due to copyright. Big thanks to Adrian Maben and Cinémathèque Française for this release! You can find the original 52 minute video here: https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/121170-chit-chat-with-oysters-adrian-maben-2013/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcwbxVIhn1I

Funny, we were just talking on the Robert Wyatt thread at how good the French were at documenting and archiving music in the 60s and 70s.

I'm obliged to mention that the new Syd Barrett doc can be found on slsk. Just search on "have you got it yet 1080p" and you'll be good.

I cannot locate this on slsk, bummer, perhaps it's been delisted.

It's still there. Try searching on different extensions "have you got it yet avi" or "have you got it yet mkv"

was just thinking of breaking out Floyd. tho they give me feelings and it's overwhelming lol.

https://i.imgur.com/iqYtbZI.jpeg

I was watching the Pompeii thing over the weekend and my wife goes, so Adam Driver is gonna play that guy in the biopic, right?

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/pink-floyd-solar-eclipse-sync/

From https://ravinganddrooling.com/forum/general-discussions/pink-floyd-related/368340-joker-s-wild-unreleased-song-acetate

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https://diskunion-shinjukurockrecord.../24232237.html

A 7’ acetate featuring two previously unreleased Joker's Wild tracks will be offered in Japanese record shop on 25 May. This is quite different from the five-track 10’ vinyl version in 1965. The acetate was inherited by the son of a member of Joker's Wild, and it appears that part of the archive has been released and brought to the surface.

Two sample tracks from the acetate are available on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWaoOBENDMg

The first is probably a cover of 'Say Those Magic Words' by The Birds (not the US band, but the one Ron Wood was in).
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H51ikifaYws

Also: https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/david-gilmour-luck-and-strange-new-album-announced.html

https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/images/stories/2024/dglascover.jpg

"Say Those Magic Words" started out as a McCoys song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig5MCStWnz0