PINK FLOYD

Now I think I'm ready to delve into the bootlegs.

Three Different Ones to start with...

Brain Damage Podcast: http://braindamage.libsyn.com/
Mostly bootlegs, rare tracks, and ephemera. He's been posting a lot of Waters' recent live Wall shows, but if you dig backwards there's lots of good stuff. I've been using his show as a bootleg preview. The "Floyd's Worst Moments" show is a fun one - battles with power outages, rainstorms, and Waters' psychodrama.

Harvested: http://www.harvested.org/
Bootleg group that releases definitive (complete show, speed-corrected, and mastered) versions oF the more well-known bootlegs out there. There's no audio downloads from the site, but if you search "Harvested" + their HRV release number you're bound to find it on a torrent, slsk, etc. site.

Yeeshkul: http://www.yeeshkul.com/
Torrent site of every Pink Floyd bootleg live recording known to exist. The guys on that site know more about live Pink Floyd than the band does.

Excellent, thanks!

just remember that pink floyd rules

The BBC shows are the first ones to look for. I've seen them under different names, but Meddled (1971-09-30) is probably the best. The Massed Gadgets of Auximenies (1969-04-14), Animal Instincts (1977-05-03), and Interstellar Fillmore (1970-04-29) would be the next ones.

Other faves: Who Was Trained Not To Spit On The Fan?, Interstellar Zappadrive (Zappa guests on guitar for a 20 minute "Interstellar Overdrive")

http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_ezgu7yVHA8U/RyHitIchDGI/AAAAAAAAAFg/S-eNEYrRP5c/s1600-h/pffz-amougies.jpg

Also, the Gilmourish site http://www.gilmourish.com/ - is a incredibly detailed reverse engineering of every guitar/amp/effect Gilmour used from 1968 onwards. It's also a very good guitar instruction/equipment review site. Worth reading if you play.

"atom heart mother"" suite is one of the greatest prog epics there is. lord this band rules

The BBC shows are the first ones to look for. I've seen them under different names, but Meddled (1971-09-30) is probably the best.

I think I prefer the one where they played "Atom Heart Mother", Paris Theatre, 1970 sometime.

Listening to MEDDLED right now and it's pretty damn good. Hard to pick a favorite between those two. I really love the stripped-down "Atom Heart Mother" with just the band minus the bells and whistles from the Paris Theatre show (same year). But really, why choose? Love both equally.

Pawing through http://www.gilmourish.com/ and just giggling at the overwhelming amount of information and obsessive detail this goes into. Highly recommended.

Listening to MEDDLED right now and it's pretty damn good. Hard to pick a favorite between those two. I really love the stripped-down "Atom Heart Mother" with just the band minus the bells and whistles from the Paris Theatre show (same year)

... the one I've heard has got the choir + brass section + everything? So that's a different Paris Theatre show!

"atom heart mother"" suite is one of the greatest prog epics there is. lord this band rules

― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, October 5, 2011 8:45 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

is pink floyd prog? i mean...they are...in a way? but not in a way? i guess i never knew how to place them in relation to prog, they certainly have some of the elements of prog, but at the same time they tend away from instrumental flourish and more towards huge expansive mood...

tbh, the floyd has never seemed as chopsy to me as other prog bands -- king crimson, yes, etc. like rick wright is not a flashy player by any means. none of 'em are, i guess.

Rick "Turkish Delight" Wright. They are certainly not a "chops" band.

I must be thinking of another show then. I know I've heard one that's minus the choir and horns and I really dug it. Must be from that period, but not sure when. Will check around.

As for prog-ness of The Floyd, for all the tricks and effects, none of it ever felt like i was showing off, y'know? Gilmour is a pretty understated player, at least in terms of the notes being played. Sure, he loved to put the sound right into outer space, but all of the notes belonged exactly where they were. No unnecessary scales.

Our own difficult listening hour listened to Pipers... for the first time this morning. His thoughts:

this stuff is ridiculous though

SITTING ON A BUTTERCUP
SWIMMING IN THE STARRY SKY

what a stupid decade

...
he agrees that pink floyd rules, though, right?

Mono Piper...-INTENSE (and rules)

^this. Just heard it for the first time the other day, and it trounces the stereo version. Trounces, I say!

yeah, i'd say that's my go-to example for the mono beating stereo in the 60s argument. even w/ the beatles, i don't care that much, but piper is just so much better.

Also was the only version directly mastered/overseen by Syd, yes?

yeah i think that's right.
everything just sounds so much more alive on the mono mix.

yeah...but there's one moment...I always forget but will find it, where there's a transition in the stereo mix (the mix I grew up with ), that's like the effects change in PIL's Memories, where suddenly everything clears out and changes and it's just astonishing, and it's totally missing on the mono version, which I wasn't familiar with till a year or two ago.

Is it the back-and-forth whooshing at the end of "Interstellar Overdrive"? That's about the only think I miss from the stereo version. Makes me dizzy.

*thing

i actually think it's the aforementioned parts in flaming, where it goes from all the jingle jangle percussion and background vocals to a strummed guitar in the middle of the couplet. I'm listening to the stereo version on youtube now and it's not as pronounced as I remember.

Before "sitting on a unicorn". I'll have to listen to whatever stereo version I have at home.

I listened to Ummagumma for the first time ever today. I really wish I hadn't let all of the horror stories about the studio side keep me away for so long, because the live side is a real treat.

Wait, I forgot, Pink Floyd rules!

I love The Narrow Way, really underrated and a big part of my "boot".

might be unbelievable heresy, but i might prefer the live "Astronomy Domine" on ummagumma to the syd version. maybe!
pink floyd rules!

^that is sacrilege imo but the live side of ummagumma is dope.
Getting back to the soundtrack talk...the Floyd contributions to Zabriskie Point RULE.
Also: only original Floyd stuff on Spotify.

lol i felt ~regrets~ as soon as i typed that. but i do love the live side!
dudes, the floyd opened with astronomy domine when i saw them in 94! and i was in the fucking parking lot!

True story: in like 2000, I checked Ummagumma out of my local library to finally hear it, but when I got home it had two copies of the stupid disc in it! Revolted I was, so I returned it unlistened.

Yeah, "The Narrow Way" is something I could really see myself returning to, not so much the rest of it. dan selzer you better at least post tracklistings when you are done! That will rule, much like the Floyd!

Also: only original Floyd stuff on Spotify.
Oh, besides Pulse, that is.

No Grand Vizier's Garden Party for you Jon?

might be unbelievable heresy, but i might prefer the live "Astronomy Domine" on ummagumma to the syd version. maybe!

17 October, 1970. Pepperland Auditorium in San Rafael, CA. PF twice tries to open with "Astronomy Domine" but the auditorium power keeps blowing out and the band and audience is frustrated. When power is finally restored, they sound like the unholiest combination of Spacemen 3, Tangerine Dream, and Husker Du. Run for your lives!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ykRgNwnOR0I

(apologies for sounding like a Deadhead with all the bootleg talk)

How weird: Rhapsody has tons of Floyd and Spotify almost none?

Licensing is a bitch.

so if i were to read a book about pink floyd (who rule), should it be pigs might fly or saucerful of secrets or something else entirely

I thought SAUCERFUL was a pretty great read. Most fans probably thought he spent too much time on "the stupid flower child early days before DARK SIDE MAAAAAAN" but I thought he got the balance pretty right. Not familiar with PIGS MIGHT FLY.

Pigs Might Fly rules.

http://www.bigozine2.com/MP311/PFjungle/PFjungleFr.jpg
dunno if everyone already has this, but i don't! looks like it rules.
http://bigozine2.com/roio/?p=902

I dl'd Concertgebouw from some site a few months ago. It's fantastic.

Broke down and picked up Meddle, Animals and Dark Side of the Moon. Fucking hell does Animals sound amazing.

Stopped yesterday and picked up a fuck-ton of these. Piper, Meddle, Atom Heart Mother, DSOM, The Wall, Wish You Were Here and Animals. Just started listening to The Wall here at work and it sounds incredible. The remaster has cleared up a lot of the song-to-song volume change problems from previous CD issues, so far as I can tell. And there's so much going on in the background of these songs that I've never really paid attention to before.

Since I haven't listened to them since their original releases, is there any reason for me to give Momentary Lapse and Division Bell another chance? I remember liking "Learning to Fly" and "Dogs of War" at the time, but the rest of them have completely left my memory.

Like, Waters's bass on the intro to "The Happiest Days of Our Lives" sounds so powerful and ominous it literally just sent a chill up my spine.

The transition from "Empty Spaces" to "Young Lust" is like 1000x cleaner now!

I know only DJP and I rep for The Wall, but damn. This sounds amazing. I want to go home and jam it all night on the big speakers now.

I'm about to go all Bimble here, I swear.

i wasn't overly fussed re the beatles reissues, but i can see myself stumping up the necessaries for the boxset of this lot at some time.

so, EMI have done 2 of their crown jewels in last 2 years

who is up for the big shareholder pleasing treatment next year i wonder ?

'the wall' is amazing. never got the haters