8/24/2023 0 Comments Album pink floyd atom heart mother![]() The soundcheck included here, from another Rainbow show on Feb. 1987 show at Ottawa’s Lansdowne Park and hearing them soundcheck with Shine On. There are bits of it which sure sound a lot like Shine On You Crazy Diamond.įinally, for Floyd nerds like me, there is even at least one included bit of “tuning and soundcheck.” I remember being in line for general admission for the Sept. The blues number performed at London’s Rainbow Theatre on February 19th is more than eight minutes long and comes as a palette cleanser following Saucerful. This is, after all, how the band got their start - named after blues musicians Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. You also get quite a few blues jams, believe it or not, usually just called Blues as the title. So, you get the penultimate performance of it. That show isn’t included, but the one from the day before at the Hollywood Bowl is, and they played Saucerful then too. The last-ever performance of it by Pink Floyd (Mason still does it, and Childhood’s End as well!) happened at San Francisco’s Winterland Auditorium on Sept. There are a few performances of the other album-side opus A Saucerful Of Secrets, which the band must have been sick to death of by now. For some shows, the band plays every song from Dark Side in order, while at others you just get a handful - and some shows, none of the new songs at all. For example, The Travel Sequence instead of On The Run and The Mortality Sequence instead of The Great Gig In The Sky. In most cases, seeing as these concerts span January to December 1972, and the album didn’t get released until March 1973, some of the songs are still known by their working titles. Mostly, though, these concerts show the band’s progress and proficiency with the suite of songs which would become their biggest album, Dark Side Of The Moon. The last performance of it happened in Amsterdam on May 22, 1972. It’s one of the last times Floyd played the album-side opus. There’s a performance of Atom Heart Mother from Osaka on March 8, 1972, sans orchestra. 5, 1972 the song serves as the show’s encore. At well over nine minutes long, it is basically twice the length of the studio version. It’s also cool to hear the band perform Childhood’s End from Obscured By Clouds (La Valee Soundtrack). There’s also no “short, sharp shock” soundups, before heavy-handedly fading out abruptly.Īs for the live stuff, my goodness is One Of These Days ever great. The sax solo following the first chorus is gone, but there’s way more sax in the second chorus. There’s no delay on Gilmour’s vocal, much the same as when you could hear this during the studio segments of the Pompeii film. The album version is 7:49 but this one is just 5:26. This runs right into a “rare alternative version” of Us And Them, which is noticeably different. The reprise fades out before the vocals start. It is kinda fun to be able to better hear Gilmour’s rhythm guitar flourishes. There’s less backing vocals, no saxophone solo or guitar solo - just space where they used to be. The Rototom intro is a little longer in this alt version. The regular album version is 6:53, this one is 6:03. I hate to tell you this, but it’s not that different. Then you’ve got Time/Breathe (Reprise) - Ultra Rare Alternative Version. You’ve heard this before, it’s just a three-minute clip from the film Pink Floyd At Pompeii of Roger dicking around with a VCS3. The track called On The Run (demo version) is not. Let’s be clear, there are probably dozens of really cool ways to remix these songs, but this ain’t one of them. Who the hell even asked for this? The other is “everyone’s least favourite song on Dark Side Of The Moon” - Any Colour You Like, which actually works a bit better but is very, very disco. It’s just five tracks - two are “trance remixes.” One of Speak To Me/Breathe, which seems haphazard and just doesn’t work. There’s some interesting stuff to be heard, but first let’s examine this so-called Alternative Tracks playlist. So, enjoy these concerts while they’re available. Judging from the generic artwork and repetition, this is nothing more than a move by “ Pink Floyd Music” to keep its copyrights alive and out of the grubby hands of other distributors. So, what’s happening here? Are Roger Waters, Dave Gilmour and Nick Mason pouring some Pimms and deciding to reward their fans with goodies? Not so much. ![]() That last one was what got me most excited, but it’s mostly bullshit. Last year it was a pile of unreleased concerts - now gone - and this year, there are suddenly 18 live performances from 1972 available, plus one short playlist of alternative tracks. The not-so-jolly Old Pink left a pile of goodies in everyone’s streaming stockings again, in what’s becoming an annual event. I left a plate of pie with no crust out for Santa Floyd last night and was dutifully rewarded.
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