PINK FLOYD

That seems to be true of quite a few other rock artists of the era too.

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=15J5LneNja0

the whereabouts of the tapes now is completely unknown.

also very much in character for the era

Well, the Pompeii stuff is cool at least. And there was a whole double live album from the post-Roger era, right?

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

I went to see Nick Mason's Saucerful Of secrets tonight and loved every second of it; it was almost my perfect setlist. I'm not ashamed to admit I found myself in tears during several songs and I really don't think the gig could have been bettered in any way. It really was perfect.

that rules

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

a poll of floyd songs that have no vocals but roger's

perhaps not even those of backup singers (e.g. 'in the flesh[?]')

you wanted to vote for 'not now john'? joke's on you and wouldn't maggie be pleased

SO YA THOUGHT YA

Aye, a roar he cried! Frae the bottom of his heart
That I would nay fall but dead, dead as a can by a feat deah...
And the wind cried Mary

I think "If" might just win that poll

Dreadful song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCDSDrImsaw-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thQcZeArc-4

^^^
"Is There Anybody Out There? / Nobody Home with original TV/Film clips used in the studio recording.

Gunsmoke, Season 12, Episode 21, "Fandango"
Gomer Pyle, USMC, Season 4, Episode 7, "Gomer Says Hey to the President"
The Battle of Britain (1969)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3ZheFc7MgM

New Gilmour album out, it's probably his best full solo outing since his debut, in that it has no skippable tracks even if it's not always the most memorable thing

THis however is a thing of beauty. Does Romany Gilmour have the greatest singing voice ever? No, it's a little flat and extremely english, but she sounds really good here anyway. Also it is completely insane to me that she is doing a song by someone who was in gnac. I didn't think the Montgolfier Brothers were listened to by anyone other than saddos like me in the '00s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9qdvkx9E3o

this reminds me a lot of HAAi "Baby We're Ascending"

Ice-T: "Hey David Gilmour, can Body Count cover Comfortably Numb with new lyrics?"
Gilmour: "Sure. Do you need a guitar player?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl8zhYA0BHU

live for today, gone tomorrow -- that's me

Any Colour You Like C/D

Of all the Gilmour interviews out right now, I thought this one was the best
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/03/david-gilmour-the-rich-and-powerful-have-siphoned-off-the-majority-of-music-industry-money

Also I noticed that in the $400 million deal, the band members still retain songwriting rights.

Countdown to officially licensed Floyd Laserium shows in 5...4...3...2...

Gilmour's new album is pretty good, I enjoy it.

But today I'm more blown away by Live in Gdansk, which I'd never heard before!

Gilmour rules! Pink Floyd rules!

Of all the Gilmour interviews out right now, I thought this one was the best
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/03/david-gilmour-the-rich-and-powerful-have-siphoned-off-the-majority-of-music-industry-money

― Elvis Telecom

I gave this a read this morning and I was surprised at how genuinely inspiring I found it. It's this... he's thoughtful, and kind, but he's not soft. When I was young Pink Floyd was doing _The Division Bell_ and I thought it was boring, and Pink Floyd were boring. And now that album is a classic with younger generations. I haven't really listened to it much. Probably it's held up. Roger Waters... I was into Roger Waters around this time and it was always bad. It was. _Amused to Death_ was fucking racist and I made excuses for it because... because I was ignorant. Is all I can say. _The Division Bell_ may or may not be boring but it's not racist. I was angry and resentful and Roger Waters, he was a lot more angry and resentful than David Gilmour. And he'd go out there and talk shit about David Gilmour at every opportunity. Just an utter miserable bastard, and at the time, that made him a role model for me. The best I could imagine being.

People ask Gilmour about Roger Waters and he says what he needs to be said. He doesn't mince words, but he doesn't overstate the point. Next question. Another question about Waters - what's his favorite Waters lyric - and he says "Walk With Me Sydney". That impresses me a lot. Just... the utter _contempt_ he has for Waters. That's the best way to treat someone who's said and done the things Waters has said and done, I believe. Not anger. Not sympathy. Contempt.