PINK FLOYD

When I was in high school AHM was my favorite.

that's the most trv kvlt pink floyd rules time in a young man's life

It's the only time the lyrics to "If" don't sound like utter bullshit.

"If" is great. Rog knew he was a prick from such a young age, and managed to turn being a prick into his life's work.

nah. It's shit.

still rules tho

well yeah, but not to the extent most of their other stuff does.

Summer '68, how about that tune tho

That tune is gold.

Summer '68 is so great

HOW DO YOU FEEL
NOW

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/pink-floyd-david-gilmour-interview-guitar-charity-auction-779721/

Selling all that shit.

Seems like an elegant way to bow out.

Dave rules

Dibs on the Zemaitis acoustic bass guitar.

Leeds University 1970 - solid recording and a good performance, sending to a friend who's Dad was at the gig - https://we.tl/t-bWm8dRKcAk

thx — not sure if i've heard that one!

I'm plugging gaps between 69-72 to see if there's anything I've missed and this is a good one, it's been de-hissed a little, but very well, I hear no artefacts.

Thanks! I've never heard that one.

Proud that my teenage guitar hero aged out to be a super mensch. RULES

From a player's perspective, I dunno if this is really that huge a sacrifice (don't get me wrong -- he didn't have to do this for charity, and it's good that he is.) If you're a professional player who isn't doing huge international tours, 10 guitars is probably too many, and you don't really need many more than that even if you are one. My main instrument, which I adore, is getting too old and precious to take out when I can't have my eyes on it at all times; if it could be easily duplicated (and it can't be, not like a Strat) by folks who know what they're doing, I'd take that one out and not worry about loss or failure of the old one. And I don't have a million billion instruments or children worrying about me having too many guitars I don't play that their kids might knock over when they visit.

listened to that Leeds 1970 tape on the bus ride home yesterday — it ruled! i love the Floyd at this period ... just a bunch of slow lumbering build-ups to thunderous freakouts.
guess you could really see some good shows if you were going to Leeds University in 1970.

Found a list at https://alumni.leeds.ac.uk/Live-at-Leeds

1969-70

Autumn term
October 4 Fleetwood Mac
October 11 Moody Blues with Spice
October 18 Family
October 30 Deep Purple
November 6 Chicken Shack
November 8 T-Rex; Idle Race
November 15 Bonzo Dog Band; Deep Purple
November 22 Christine Perfect (became Christine McVie); The Free
November 29 Graham Bond Initiation; Art Wood’s Quiet Melon

Spring term
January 17 Joe Cocker
January 24 Led Zeppelin
January 31 Ten Years After
February 2 Liverpool Scene, Killing Floor
February 7 Small Faces; Keef Hartley Band
February 14 The Who
February 21 John Hiseman’s Colosseum; Marsha Hunt
February 28 Pink Floy
dMarch 7 Blodwyn Pig; Yes
March 14 Mott the Hoople
March 21 Ginger Baker’s Air Force; Nice

Summer term
April 25 Roy Harper; Matthews Southern Comfort
May 2 Tom Paxton
May 9 Procul Harum; Humble Pie
May 10 Alex Harvey
May 16 Leonard Cohen
May 23 Trapeze
May 30 Principal Edwards Magic Theatre
June 6 Hard Meat
June 13 Timebox
June 20 Fairport Convention
June 27 Moody Blues

haha there you go, not a bad lineup of acts. good Leeds stones bootleg from 1971 too.

Jfc that is unreal

live from leeds it's saturday night

leeds '70 is ok, but man the two months before that they were playing some _really_ crazy shit. i would've loved to have seen them in birmingham a couple weeks earlier doing "main theme" from "more", a 25 minute version of "the violence sequence", which was some themes from "zabriskie point" including "heart beat pig meat" and "us and them", "sysyphus", and brand new material like "atom heart mother" (which didn't even have a title yet)! wish there were more tapes from this era and what there was sounded better.

One of the reasons I love the Raconteurs is because their best moments ("Hands", "Sunday Driver", "Solute Your Solution") sound like Jack White wanted to form a Greta Van Fleet but just based on "The Gold it's in the...".

XP - It's a shame that Birmingham recording isn't a little better, although a lower generation recording was found and tweaked to listenability, I would have enjoyed it if they had kept a few more tracks from More and Ummagumma. The Narrow Way, for instance, never got a fair shot and it sounded great live, then they could have put stuff like ASoS, Set The Controls and Careful to bed a bit sooner.

So glad they ditched the drum solo in "Atom Heart Mother".

the idea that there was a pink floyd concert with _two_ nick mason drum solos in it does make me laugh a little

i don't know about putting asos and careful to bed sooner, though! those epic 20 minute plus versions of asos in '70 and early '71 are fantastic, i wouldn't want to lose them, and for my money careful didn't really hit its peak until fall of '72 when they were throwing in the pict rants. it even sounded great when they busted it out in '77!

set the controls never really took off for me in concert, though. i think this is down to nick mason, who was always limited in what he could do in terms of furious intensity.

the downloaded boot i have is called 'Project Birmingham', is there a newer better sounding one?

If that is a 3rd Gen tape you have then yeah, they released a transfer of a 2nd Gen copy in Oct 2017 which is marginally better.

PINK FLONG

Jfc that is unreal

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Some of the images in this video give a good idea of the size of the room at Leeds, which held maybe 1500. It was the university's cafeteria, and the stage was a bunch of tables pushed together.

https://vimeo.com/71138850

some good shots of the floyd live at leeds

http://www.pinkfloydz.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/pinkfloydleedsrettie011.jpg

http://www.pinkfloydz.com/concerts-tours/pink-floyd-leeds-university-28-february-1970/

typical of roger to monopolize the gong

Gilmour's white Strat is the one that gets stolen in in three months - leading to the purchase of the famous black one. Fuzz Face -> Binson -> Hi Watts is a kick-ass combo.

I can't listen to this at the moment, but having loved their take on Metallica's Orion, I'm really looking forward to some free time when I can check this out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e8iO1kmY8A8

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ws38mFWmOl8

https://sohimages.com/images/images_soh/MC619-2.jpg

Don't give me that goody good money clip

Here's another outside the canon one that I came across in my quest to plug gaps in the collection -

McFarlin Auditorium, Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX, USA
September 10th 1972

Untracked, incomplete, some jumps but the remaining half of DSotM has a lovely, very wonky version of Great Gig with that ascending riff they ditched but it's pretty good quality and a nice listen.

https://we.tl/t-wkTuwhyRJR

<3

wow this tape might even be better than 1972-09-22, though i haven't heard that one in a while and it's more complete at least.

that ascending riff reminds me a lot of the intro to "la carrozza di hans" by pfm.

also really enjoyed the rodrigo y gabriela, starts off pretty "classical guitar tribute to pink floyd" but gets creative quickly enough, which the california guitar trio version doesn't ever do.

Until recently I've only paid scant attention to 1972 recordings, my favourite period has always been 69-71, I found this interesting post on the live evolution of DSotM and when I have some time I might follow the line to see just how much changed.

"I read somewhere in this forum (but it's impossible to find it again now) that Dark Side of the Moon had several different stages of development, of which the studio album is, if I remember correctly, the second of a total of four. Is that correct?

And most importantly, regardless of how many stages it had — what are the best and/or most representative shows I should listen to? Which are the most interesting performances? I think five or six will do, unless you guys consider that's definitely insufficient."

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"I'll have a go at this! Hehe

I would say there's actually more.

In 1972 alone, i would say that there are substantial changes all throughout the year. These are the ones that I think that would best illustrate that:

1/22/1972 Bornemouth
2/20/1972 Rainbow
3/13/1972 Soporro
4/28/1972 Chicago
6/28/1972 Brighton
9/22/1972 Hollywood Bowl
12/9/1972 Zurich

Then, beyond 1972, it continued to change in concert through 1975, and finally once again in 1994:
5/19/1973 Earls Court
11/1974 Wembley
6/18/1975 Boston
10/20/1994 Earls Court"

Decisions decisions out there for a wealthy collector out there:

Soundboard tape of 1971 Santa Monica gig (with bonus Zeppelin): https://www.ebay.com/itm/173810675201

Atom Heart Mother poster and autographed inflatable udder:https://entertainment.ha.com/itm/entertainment-and-music/pink-floyd-atom-heart-mother-poster-and-inflatable-udder-signed-by-the-band-1970-total-2-items-/a/7198-89590.s

"Pink Floyd Plastic Surprise"

"Udder is the size of a regular cow udder."

Christies has a pre-order up for Gilmour's guitar catalog: https://catalogues.christies.com/christies-shop/Product.aspx?offerId=52694

So Mason's book still considered the best?

This new Mojo 2-parter loks great

http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/images/stories/2019/pink_floyd_bundle.jpg

I wonder if in light of the Lewisohn 'Tune In' Fabs triple-book series anyone is attempting something similar with the Floyd, Queen, Stones etc?