Pink Floyd - Allen Theater, Cleveland, OH, 4-24-1972

Wow! I try not to hype things up on this blog, since there's way too much of that on the Internet these days already. But if you're a Pink Floyd fan, you definitely need to give this a listen.

Back in the 1960s and 1970s, Pink Floyd made no attempts to record themselves in concert. So the relatively small number of excellent sounding recordings we have are due to lucky chance, like the times they were recorded by the BBC. One unfortunate gap due to this is there's no great live recording of the "Dark Side of the Moon" album from 1972 or 1973. (There is one from a 1974 BBC broadcast.) For a long time now, I've especially wanted to hear what that sounded like in 1972, because the band performed that album in concert for over a year before recording it, and there were a lot of changes along the way. So it's pretty damn shocking to me that, 54 years later, a recording of this quality showed up on the Internet in the last couple of weeks. (I write this in mid-May 2026.)

This is an audience recording. Normally, that's a step below a soundboard or radio broadcast, sometimes several steps below. But not in this case. In my opinion, this sounds as good or better than most soundboards from the era. Previously, most people felt that a concert recording from the Rainbow Theatre in London on February 20, 1972 was the best live recording that included an early version of Dark Side. However, there were some big flaws with that, including some big chunks of the quality recording that were missing and had to be filled in with a much inferior recording from another source. I think this sounds better all the way through, and there are no missing chunks or other flaws like that.

I've included a PDF file that explains the story of how this recording was made public so many decades after the show. So read that if you're interested. That story makes me wonder what other audio treasures are still sitting in people's houses, forgotten or hoarded.

I made one big change to this already fine recording. I ran all the songs through an MVSEP audio filter to get rid of ambient crowd noise. At the time of this concert, in early 1972, Pink Floyd was more of a cult band, with a decent sized devoted fan base. As a result, the crowd listened very attentively and respectfully. So there wasn't much crowd noise to begin with. But I got rid of all I could during the songs, while keeping the cheering at the ends of songs. There wasn't a lot of even that because the Dark Side portion of the concert was played like one big song medley, with few occasions for the audience to really cheer until the whole album was over. Plus, the music of that album was brand new to everyone, so one didn't have the usual phenomenon of big cheers when recognizable songs started.

Additionally, there was very little in the way of random "woo-hoo" noises and talking during this recording. I found a little bit of that on two tracks, and ran those two through an extra MVSEP filter to get rid of that. Oh, and I also got rid of some dead air between songs. In particular, there were a few minutes of the sound of the crowd while the band took a short intermission at the end of the Dark Side portion of the concert. I got rid of that entirely.

Note that two songs that were a part of Dark Side at this point were later totally changed, with only a vague concept staying the same. "The Travel Sequence" was replaced by "On the Run." And "The Mortality Sequence," also sometimes known as "Religion," was replaced by "The Great Gig in the Sky." 

This album is an hour and 58 minutes long.

01 Speak to Me [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
02 Breathe (Pink Floyd)
03 The Travel Sequence [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
04 Time - Breathe [Reprise] (Pink Floyd)
05 The Mortality Sequence [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
06 Money (Pink Floyd)
07 Us and Them (Pink Floyd)
08 Any Colour You Like [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
09 Brain Damage - Eclipse (Pink Floyd)
10 One of These Days [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
11 talk (Pink Floyd)
12 Careful with That Axe, Eugene [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
13 Echoes (Pink Floyd)
14 talk (Pink Floyd)
15 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Pink Floyd)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/VvXP9ZkE

alternate: 

https://bestfile.io/en/S9NNWY3jyprpp93/file

The cover image is the only photo that I was able to confirm actually was taken at this exact concert. It shows lead guitarist David Gilmour. 

Various Artists - Colombian Volcano Disaster Appeal Concert, Royal Albert Hall, London, Britain, 2-9-1986

Here's a really interesting benefit concert. There aren't a lot of musical acts, but the ones that took part gave interesting performances, often with some unusual song choices. The big stars were David Gilmour (formerly of Pink Floyd), Pete Townshend (formerly of the Who), Annie Lennox (of Eurythmics) and Chrissie Hynde (of the Pretenders).

In November of 1985, the Nevada del Ruiz volcano erupted, causing a natural disaster in Colombia. It melted glaciers and caused catastrophic flooding that killed over 25,000 people. A native Colombian musician, Chucho Merchan, with the help of Pete Townshend, organized this benefit concert to raise funds for the surviving victims and to help raise awareness of their plight. Highlights of the concert were broadcast in many countries around the world, and a DVD of parts of it was eventually released. 

I had been aware of this concert for a long time, but I could only find the sets from the main stars. I put songs from the David Gilmour and Chrissie Hynde sets on albums I've posted elsewhere on this blog. However, I recently found virtually the entire concert, with excellent sound quality. So that inspired me to post this, and sooner rather than later.

The first three acts were popular in Britain around the of this concert, though their popularity didn't last. Working Week was a British jazz-dance band that had a hit with the song "Venceremos (We Will Win)" in 1984, plus some other minor hits in 1985 and 1986. 

Jaki Graham, a British soul and dance singer, had three Top Ten hits in Britain in 1985 and 1986, with "Could It Be I'm Falling in Love," "Round and Round," and "Set Me Free." But curiously, it seems she was only given time to perform one song, and she chose a song that wasn't one of her hits. 

The Communards were a British synth-pop duo. They had two really big hits and some smaller hits in Britain, though they had no success in the U.S. In 1986, their version of "Don't Leave Me This Way" reached Number One in the British singles chart, and was the biggest hit of the year in that country. However, that single wouldn't be released until about six months after this concert, which explains why they didn't play it here. They also had another big hit with "Never Can Say Goodbye" in 1987. At the time of this concert, they'd only had one minor hit, "You Are My World," but they didn't play it here.

Here are their Wikipedia entries: 

Working Week (band) - Wikipedia 

Jaki Graham - Wikipedia 

The Communards - Wikipedia 

I don't feel the need to explain the other musical acts in this concert, since they're well known and I've posted albums by each of them at this blog already. However, the timing of how this concert fit into their careers is worth mentioning. David Gilmour started a full-time solo career in 1984 after Pink Floyd broke up in 1983. But he hadn't done much as a solo artist after putting out a solo album in 1984, so his appearance here was notable. He would lead a new version of Pink Floyd starting in 1987.

Similarly, Pete Townshend started a full-time solo career after the Who broke up in 1982. At the time of this concert, he'd only released one solo album, in 1985. But in this concert, he only performed three Who songs, plus "Save It for Later," a cover of an English Beat song. 

Annie Lennox was a member of Eurythmics at this time. However, at the time, she was taking a short break due to some trouble with her voice. That's probably why she only sang one song on her own (while also singing a duet at the end). It was very unusual for her to appear as a solo artist. Her solo career wouldn't really begin until her first solo album in 1992.

Similarly, Chrissie Hynde was a member of the Pretenders at this time. By 1986, the Pretenders had basically become Hynde plus whomever she wanted to work with. But I guess she was billed under her own name because she performed with some different musicians than her usual band at the time. Plus, it seems that freed her to play some more interesting songs. She only did two Pretenders songs, the first two in her set. Then she did covers by the Beatles ("In My Life"), the Righteous Brothers, ("Little Latin Lupe Lu"), Bob Dylan ("Property of Jesus"), and KC and the Sunshine Band ("Give It Up"). That probably was her most eclectic set list ever, and the fact the last song was a duet with Annie Lennox was even more interesting.   

By the way, I saw that both actors Peter Richardson and Harry Enfield spoke during the concert. So I figure one of them has to be the emcee talking between songs. It sounds like the same person talking each time, but I'm not familiar with their voices, so I don't know which one it would be. If anyone can tell, please let me know so I can fix the song title info.   

This album is exactly two hours long. 

01 talk (emcee)
02 Inner City Blues [Make Me Wanna Holler] (Working Week)
03 Sweet Nothing (Working Week)
04 South Africa (Working Week)
05 Shot in the Dark (Working Week)
06 talk (emcee)
07 Heaven Knows (Jaki Graham)
08 talk (emcee)
09 Sentimental Journey (Communards)
10 Forbidden Love (Communards)
11 Don't Slip Away (Communards)
12 talk (emcee)
13 talk (Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly)
14 Moonlight Shadow (Mike Oldfield & Maggie Reilly)
15 talk (emcee)
16 You Know I'm Right (David Gilmour)
17 Run like Hell (David Gilmour)
18 Out of the Blue (David Gilmour)
19 Comfortably Numb (David Gilmour)
20 talk (emcee)
21 I'm One (Pete Townshend)
22 talk (Pete Townshend)
23 Save It for Later (Pete Townshend)
24 Pinball Wizard (Pete Townshend)
25 Magic Bus (Pete Townshend)
26 talk (emcee)
27 Blame It on the Sun (Annie Lennox)
28 talk (emcee)
29 Time, the Avenger (Chrissie Hynde)
30 Back on the Chain Gang (Chrissie Hynde)
31 talk (Chrissie Hynde)
32 In My Life (Chrissie Hynde)
33 Little Latin Lupe Lu (Chrissie Hynde)
34 Property of Jesus (Chrissie Hynde)
35 Give It Up (Chrissie Hynde & Annie Lennox)
36 talk (emcee)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/t9XbbPYK 

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/DEK86KzNjctEOg0/file

The cover image is from this exact concert. It's a screenshot I took from a video. It shows Chrissie Hynde and Annie Lennox together, on the last song in the concert. The video was very low-res and blurry, so the image has issues. But I was happy to at least come up with this, since I couldn't find any images of the two of them together. 

Pink Floyd - BBC Sessions, Volume 7: In Concert, Earl's Court, London, Britain, 10-20-1994

I haven't posted this until now because it's very similar to the official live album "Pulse." but if I want to present a full version of everything Pink Floyd did for the BBC, I should post this too.

"Pulse" is one of those live albums that is drawn from a bunch of different concerts. In this case, all of them were taken from the last month or so of the band's 1994 tour. Personally, I prefer this to "Pulse" because it's a real, full concert, warts and all. All the songs are in the order they were played, as opposed to "Pulse," where they were ordered very differently for some reason. 

About seven of performances from "Pulse" were taken from this exact show. Note also that the entire video of this exact show was included on "The Later Years" box set, but only in DVD format. It's never been released in an audio format.

Some people may say the David Gilmour-led Pink Floyd of the late 1980s and after wasn't the "real" Pink Floyd. I think those people have a point, since Roger Waters was such an essential part of the band. But if that's how you feel, you can just look at this essentially as a David Gilmour concert, and that's a very good thing as well.

Different versions of this bootleg exist. For instance, the video version sounds a bit different than the BBC radio version. I went with the one I thought sounded the best, which is the BBC radio one.

This album is two hours and 30 minutes long.

01 Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts I to V (Pink Floyd)
02 Learning to Fly (Pink Floyd)
03 High Hopes (Pink Floyd)
04 Take It Back (Pink Floyd)
05 Coming Back to Life (Pink Floyd)
06 Sorrow (Pink Floyd)
07 Keep Talking (Pink Floyd)
08 Another Brick in the Wall, Part II (Pink Floyd)
09 One of These Days [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
10 Speak to Me [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
11 Breathe (Pink Floyd)
12 On the Run [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
13 Time (Pink Floyd)
14 Breathe [Reprise] (Pink Floyd)
15 The Great Gig in the Sky (Pink Floyd)
16 Money (Pink Floyd)
17 Us and Them (Pink Floyd)
18 Any Colour You Like [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
19 Brain Damage (Pink Floyd)
20 Eclipse (Pink Floyd)
21 Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
22 Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
23 Run like Hell (Pink Floyd)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/CjnqvC7b

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/6a7qYvXdnmI7m0c/file

The cover photo is from this exact concert.

Knebworth Festival, Knebworth House, Knebworth, Britain, 6-30-1990, Part 8: Pink Floyd

Pink Floyd was the eighth and final musical act to perform at the 1980 Knebworth Festival.

At this point, Pink Floyd was essentially David Gilmour plus backing musicians. The band's former leader Roger Waters left the band in 1983. But I think it says quite a lot that the Gilmour-led version of Pink Floyd was still so popular in 1990 that it was the closing act of this festival, over such big names as Phil Collins and Paul McCartney, and even the trio of Eric Clapton, Dire Straits, and Elton John playing together.

As I mentioned back in my write-up for Part 1 of this festival, most all of the music from this festival remains officially unreleased, aside from a highlights album and video. But the exception to this is this Pink Floyd set. It was first released in full as part of "The Later Years" box set. Then it later got a stand alone release. Even so, I'm including it here so the entire festival can appear in one place.

Pink Floyd toured all over the world from 1987 to 1989, in the wake of their "Momentary Lapse of Reason" album. However, they wouldn't do another big tour until 1994, after the release of their "Division Bell" album that year. In between, the only full concert they played was this one. 

On the band's classic 1973 album "Dark Side of the Moon," the wordless vocals for the song "The Great Gig in the Sky" were sung by Clare Torry. So it was a special treat when she assisted the band by singing that part in this concert. Beautiful and talented Candy Dulfer also played saxophone.

This album is an hour and one minute long.

01 talk by Tommy Vance (Pink Floyd)
02 Shine On You Crazy Diamond [Parts 1-5] (Pink Floyd)
03 The Great Gig in the Sky (Pink Floyd with Clare Torry)
04 talk (Pink Floyd)
05 Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
06 Sorrow (Pink Floyd)
07 Money (Pink Floyd)
08 Comfortably Numb (Pink Floyd)
09 talk (Pink Floyd)
10 Run like Hell (Pink Floyd)
11 talk (Pink Floyd)

alternate:

https://pixeldrain.com/u/zDzX4AZ7

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/NWoJW1HfISeoTcK/file

The cover photo of lead singer David Gilmour is from this exact concert.

David Gilmour - On TV and Radio, Volume 3: 2006-2017

Here's the third and final album of David Gilmour "on TV and radio." As I explained with the previous two volumes, this started out as a BBC sessions series, but I found a bunch of interesting recordings from non-BBC TV and radio shows, so I expanded the scope. That said, this volume does happen to be particularly BBC heavy, with all but four of the tracks from BBC TV or radio shows.

By chance, the four tracks not from the BBC are the ones that are officially released. "Dark Globe," a song written by Pink Floyd's first leader, Syd Barrett, was recorded at an unknown location in 2006 and included on the "Remember That Night" DVD. "Astronomy Domine" and "Echoes" were both done in the studio with former Pink Floyd keyboard player Richard Wright, and were also included as bonus tracks on the "Remember That Night" DVD. "Wots... Uh the Deal," a great song from the 1972 Pink Floyd album "Obscured by Clouds," was played at the Gdansk concert that was the subject of the "Live at the Gdansk" DVD. However, I've included it here because it was merely included as an iTunes only bonus track.

That leaves nine unreleased songs. The first three tracks are from a 2006 appearance on the "Later... with Jools Holland" TV show.  Tracks 8 and 9 are from another appearance on that same show two years later. Note that "Remember a Day" was written and originally sung by Richard Wright, and was done as a tribute, since he'd died in the days before the TV show appearance. Track 10 is from a different BBC appearance in 2008. Then tracks 11 and 12 are from yet another appearance on "Later... with Jools Holland," this time in 2015. Finally, the last song was done in the studio for the TV show "Front Row."

This album is an hour and four minutes long.

01 Take a Breath (David Gilmour)
02 On an Island (David Gilmour)
03 Arnold Layne (David Gilmour)
04 Dark Globe (David Gilmour)
05 Wot's... Uh the Deal (David Gilmour)
06 Astronomy Domine (David Gilmour with Richard Wright)
07 Echoes (David Gilmour with Richard Wright)
08 Remember a Day (David Gilmour)
09 The Blue (David Gilmour)
10 Here I Go (David Gilmour)
11 Rattle That Lock (David Gilmour)
12 Today (David Gilmour)
13 A Boat Lies Waiting (David Gilmour)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16030500/DavdGlmour_2006-2017_OnTVndRdioVolum3_atse.zip.html

The cover photo is from a concert at the Royal Albert Hall in London in 2006.

David Gilmour - On TV and Radio, Volume 2: 1987-2006

I started out trying to make a series of BBC albums for Gilmour, but I discovered too much interesting non-BBC stuff to leave out. That's particularly the case with this volume, in which only tracks 5 and 6 were recorded for an unreleased 2002 BBC studio session.

A majority of the songs here are from DVDs. "Deep in the Blues" is from a tribute concert to guitar pioneer Les Paul, that was later put out on DVD. "Don't" is very unusual compared to Gilmour's usual style. It's a cover of a Leiber and Stoller song that was performed by Elvis Presley, and was done at a tribute concert in 2001. It later showed up on the DVD "David Gilmour in Concert," even though it didn't really fit with the rest of the music from that. Tracks 7 through 9 are from a 2004 concert called "The Strat Pack," that was a tribute to a guitar, the Stratocraster, rather than a person. That too came out on DVD. 

That leaves just a few songs. "Ah, Robertson, It's You" was played on the "Saturday Night Live" TV show in 1987. Since it was never released, I guess there's some controversy about the song title, and some call it "Song for My Sara" instead. "On the Turning Away" was done for an Amnesty International benefit concert, which is fitting considering the subject matter of the song. "Dominos" was a bonus track on some editions of Gilmour's "Live in Gdansk" album, even though it was recorded in Paris.

Note that trcks 3, 5, 7, 8, and 9 were original done for Pink Floyd albums. And while "Dominos" was never a Pink Floyd song per se, it was written by Syd Barrett, the first lead singer of Pink Floyd.

This album is 56 minutes long.

01 Ah, Robertson, It's You [Song for My Sara] [Instrumental] (David Gilmour)
02 Deep in the Blues [Instrumental] (David Gilmour)
03 On the Turning Away (David Gilmour)
04 Don't (David Gilmour)
05 Fat Old Sun (David Gilmour)
06 Smile (David Gilmour)
07 Marooned [Instrumental] (David Gilmour)
08 Coming Back to Life (David Gilmour)
09 Sorrow (David Gilmour)
10 Dominoes (David Gilmour)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16010870/DavdGlmour_1987-2006_OnTVndRdioVolum2_atse.zip.html

The cover photo was taken at the Secret Policeman's Third Ball in London, Britain, on March 26, 1987.

David Gilmour - On TV and Radio, Volume 1: 1978-1986

David Gilmour, the lead guitarist of Pink Floyd, has had a fairly successful solo career, but he's been pretty selective about his album releases. He put out his first solo album way back in 1978, but since then, he's only released three more solo albums, plus two live albums. He's never put out a box set or any other significant archival releases. So I decided to make a series of stray tracks of TV and radio performances focused entirely on his solo career, avoiding any Pink Floyd performances. Here's the first of three albums in that series.

For the duration of this album, it was clear Gilmour's solo career took a back seat to his role in Pink Floyd, one of the biggest bands in the world. He released solo albums in 1978 and 1984 because they were mostly inactive years for Pink Floyd. As for concerts, the only tour he did during this time was in 1984, during a particularly long break while Pink Floyd fell apart and then reformed.

The first five songs are from 1978. Although he put out the solo album "David Gilmour" that year, he didn't perform any concerts to support it. However, he did play these five songs "live" in a studio with no audience. That performance was recorded and his record company released it only to radio stations to help promote the album. So while these five songs are from his 1978 album, the performances are totally different.

The next two songs, tracks 6 and 7, are from 1984. I have an entire BBC concert I'll be posting from that year. But the theme of this series of albums is TV and radio performances, so I can't draw on just any concert recordings. These two songs are from an appearance on the British TV show "The Tube."

The remaining five tracks are from a concert appearance in 1986. He didn't tour that year, but he played a set for the Colombian Volcano Disaster Appeal Benefit. Luckily, that whole benefit concert was broadcast on TV, so I'm able to present his entire short set here.

This album is an hour and two minutes long.

01 There's No Way Out of Here (David Gilmour)
02 So Far Away (David Gilmour)
03 No Way (David Gilmour)
04 I Can't Breathe Anymore (David Gilmour)
05 Mihalis [Instrumental] (David Gilmour)
06 Until We Sleep (David Gilmour)
07 Blue Light (David Gilmour)
08 You Know I'm Right (David Gilmour)
09 Run like Hell (David Gilmour)
10 talk (David Gilmour)
11 Out of the Blue (David Gilmour)
12 Comfortably Numb (David Gilmour)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16010823/DavdGlmour_1978-1986_OnTVndRdioVolum1_atse.zip.html

The photo is from a concert in Chicago in June 1984.

David Gilmour - Von Trapped Family Home Concerts, London, Britain, 4-2-2020 to 12-2020

How did I miss this one? I was oblivious until now, but during the height of the Covid pandemic, David Gilmour did a bunch of acoustic home concerts with his family, then posted everything to YouTube. I just happened to stumble across it the other day while looking for some other Gilmour music. People, if you see something interesting like this and think I might have missed it, please bring it to my attention.

Anyway, this is nothing like what you'd normally expect from David Gilmour's music. He's primarily known as the lead guitarist for Pink Floyd, but there isn't even a hint of lead guitar playing here, and there isn't a single Pink Floyd song. Instead, it's made up of cover songs (with a couple of exceptions) sung by Gilmour and his family while they were all in lockdown. The name "Von Trapped Family" is a joke they made, combining the Von Trapp family singers, made famous through "The Sound of Music" move, with the word "trapped," since they were feeling trapped at home due to the pandemic.  It has a feeling like a family singing songs around a campfire.

Note that the family involvement is no small thing. David Gilmour sang lead on the vast majority of the songs, but not always. For instance, he alternated lead vocals with his daughter Romany Gilmour on the song "The Magpie." Furthermore, his wife Polly Samson sang competent harmony vocals on most of the songs, though note this was a very casual affair and occasional mistakes were made by all involved. Other family members joined in from time to time, with other backing vocals and other instruments, such as harp.

More, annoyingly, there was a baby present for some of the songs, and that baby occasionally cried out or even tried (badly) to sing along. Luckily, this was only very occasionally, and I managed to edit out most of the baby noises. That was particularly a problem for the songs "Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye," "So Long, Marianne," and "Hickory Wind." I had to do a lot of careful editing on those, which is why they have "[Edit]" in their titles. And I edited pretty much all the songs at least a little bit, just not as much as those troublesome three. But there were times I couldn't get rid of the baby noises because they happened at the same time as the singing.

Here's a list of the original artists for all of the songs:

01 Yes, I Have Ghosts - David Gilmour
02 So Long, Marianne - Leonard Cohen
03 Bird on the Wire - Leonard Cohen
04 On an Island - David Gilmour
05 Fingerprints - Leonard Cohen
06 Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye - Leonard Cohen
07 Hickory Wind  - Gram Parsons
08 Thanks for the Dance - Leonard Cohen
09 Dominoes - Syd Barrett
10 If It Be Your Will - Leonard Cohen
11 Octopus - Syd Barrett
12 Who by Fire - Leonard Cohen
13 Diamond Ring - Erik Darling
14 Nature Boy - Eden Ahbez
15 The Magpie - David Dodds
16 Morning Has Broken - Cat Stevens

 If you look at that list, you'll notice a lot of Leonard Cohen songs. No less than seven of the 16 songs were written by Cohen. There's a very good reason for that. Gilmour's wife Polly Samson is an author, and right as the pandemic hit, in April 2020, she published the novel "A Theatre for Dreamers." It's based on true accounts of the life Leonard Cohen and other musicians and artists lived in Greece, years before Cohen started his music career. These home concerts were largely done as a way to promote the book.

In researching the book, Samson spent several years doing a deep dive into the life of Cohen and his friends. As her husband, Gilmour got into it too, for instance doing a lot of research for the book. As part of that overall effort, the entire family grew to be extremely familiar with Cohen's music, making it easy for them to sing many of his songs. 

The other songs are a pretty eclectic bunch. There are two Gilmour originals. "On an Island" is from his 2006 solo album by the same name. "Yes, I Have Ghosts" was cowritten with Samson and is directly tied to the content of her novel. Although there are no Pink Floyd songs per se, there are two written by Syd Barrett, who briefly led Pink Floyd to fame in 1967 before dropping out later that year. These songs are from his brief solo career that happened after that.

As I write this in November 2023, all of the videos of these songs are still up on YouTube, if want to see these performances. They're taken from longer videos that mostly consist of talking with Samson about her book and Gilmour about his music. Those are still available too.

This album is 49 minutes long.

01 Yes, I Have Ghosts (David Gilmour & His Family)
02 So Long, Marianne [Edit] (David Gilmour & His Family)
03 Bird on the Wire (David Gilmour & His Family)
04 On an Island (David Gilmour & His Family)
05 Fingerprints (David Gilmour & His Family)
06 Hey, That's No Way to Say Goodbye [Edit] (David Gilmour & His Family)
07 Hickory Wind [Edit] (David Gilmour & His Family)
08 Thanks for the Dance (David Gilmour & His Family)
09 Dominoes (David Gilmour & His Family)
10 If It Be Your Will (David Gilmour & His Family)
11 Octopus (David Gilmour & His Family)
12 Who by Fire (David Gilmour & His Family)
13 Diamond Ring (David Gilmour & His Family)
14 Nature Boy (David Gilmour & His Family)
15 The Magpie (David Gilmour & His Family)
16 Morning Has Broken (David Gilmour & His Family)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15954509/DavdGlmour_2020_VonTrppedFmilyHomeConcrtsLondnBrtain__4-2-2020_to_12-2020_atse.zip.html

For the cover I wanted something that showed David Gilmour with some family members, since this was a family project. So I took a screenshot from one of the videos. He's holding a guitar in the middle. His wife Polly Samson is sitting next to him, petting their dog. I believe that's their daughter Romany playing the harp. There were others in the video, but they got cropped out.

David Gilmour - Meltdown Festival, Royal Festival Hall, London, Britain, 6-22-2001

David Gilmour was the lead guitarist of Pink Floyd for almost the entire duration of that band's existence. He'd led Pink Floyd since the band's former main lead vocalist and songwriter Roger Waters left around 1983. But by the time of this concert, he was tired of playing stadiums and doing everything big when the name "Pink Floyd" was involved. He hadn't done a proper solo tour since 1984. But he decided to do a different kind of concert in 2001, performing in semi-acoustic mode and playing more unexpected songs instead of all Pink Floyd classics.

The impetus for this different kind of tour was Robert Wyatt, the former lead singer of the prog rock band the Soft Machine. The annual Meltdown Festival is unusual in that every year a famous musical figure is the director, and gets to pick the acts that perform at the festival. Wyatt was the director for 2001, and one of the acts he picked was Gilmour. (Note that Wyatt also was a guest vocalist in this concert on the song "Comfortably Numb.") Gilmour hadn't been doing much musically at the time, but he spent several months practicing new songs and learning to do familiar songs in a new way that fitted the semi-acoustic format. He later commented that he was so nervous at first that his hands were shaking. But he liked the format enough to do six more concerts in this same format in 2001 and another eight in 2002.

Surprisingly, given all the effort he put into these concerts, he has never put out a concert album from any of them. However, a DVD based on this concert was released in 2002, called "David Gilmour in Concert." I took the audio from the DVD, so the sound quality is excellent. That DVD had a few songs at the end from other concerts on the tour. I haven't included those here. However, I will include most of those songs on a different album I plan on posting here later.

Because Gilmour felt free to play what he enjoyed playing instead of what audiences at Pink Floyd concerts expected, he played some unusual cover songs. "Terrapin" is a solo song by Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrett. "Dimming of the Day" is by Richard Thompson. "Hushabye Mountain" is by Robert and Richard Sherman, and first appeared in the 1968 movie "Chitty Chitty Bang Bang." But the oddest song of all was "Je Crois Entendre Encore," which is an aria from the Georges Bizet opera "Les Pecheurs de Perles." Gilmour sang it in French, a language he didn't actually speak.

Note also that this was the first performance of the original song "Smile." It would be included on the album "On an Island" five years later. And while the focus was not on Pink Floyd hits, he did play eight songs first done by that band. A couple of them were lesser known choices, like "Fat Old Sun," which is from the 1970 album "Atom Heart Mother."

This album is an hour and ten minutes long.

01 Shine On You Crazy Diamond [Parts 1-5] (David Gilmour)
02 Terrapin (David Gilmour)
03 Fat Old Sun (David Gilmour)
04 Coming Back to Life (David Gilmour)
05 High Hopes (David Gilmour)
06 talk (David Gilmour)
07 Je Crois Entendre Encore (David Gilmour)
08 talk (David Gilmour)
09 Smile (David Gilmour)
10 Wish You Were Here (David Gilmour)
11 Comfortably Numb (David Gilmour with Robert Wyatt)
12 Dimming of the Day (David Gilmour)
13 Shine On You Crazy Diamond [Parts 6-9] (David Gilmour)
14 talk (David Gilmour)
15 A Great Day for Freedom (David Gilmour)
16 Hushabye Mountain (David Gilmour)

https://www.upload.ee/files/15952402/DavdGlmour_2001_MeltdwnFstivalRoylAlbrtHallLondnBrtain__6-22-2001_atse.zip.html

The cover photo of Gilmour comes from this exact concert.

Pink Floyd - Live in Europe 1968

1968 was a transitional year for Pink Floyd. They'd had great success in 1967, but most of that was due to their lead singer and chief songwriter Syd Barrett, who flamed out and left the band near the end of the year. The other band members had to stand on their own, with guitarist David Gilmour taking Barrett's place.

In terms of live music, Pink Floyd put on almost 150 concerts in 1968, but there's not much in the way of quality live recordings, officially released or not. What I've done is gather together the few songs that were recorded with top notch sound quality and cobble together a live album for the year. By chance, all the songs here were recorded on the European continent, even though most of the shows the band did that year were in Britain or the US, so I've called this album "Live in Europe 1968."

The first three songs, which make up the bulk of the music, comes from the bootleg of a performance at an international rock festival in Rome, Italy, in May 1968. It seems some songs from different bands playing at this concert were broadcast in excellent sound quality on the radio at the time. There's a similarly excellent sounding recording of the Byrds from one day later that also was played on the radio. But unfortunately, only some of the songs were broadcast, and the others apparently have been lost. It's known the band played "Pow R. Toc H." and "Remember a Day" as well, probably more, but there are no known good recordings of them.

The sound quality for the unreleased "Keep Smiling People" is merely good, not great like the others here. But I figured it was worth including because it's an instrumental, so the relatively poor sound quality isn't as obvious without vocals. Also, although you can clearly hear it introduced as "Keep Smiling People," it would evolve into "Careful with that Axe, Eugene," so I figure this early, different version needs more attention. (Other early versions of the song gave it the name "Murderotic Woman.")

The songs are arranged in chronological order. The last two songs are the only ones officially released, but they only came out as DVD extras to "The Early Years 1965-1972" box set. There are a bunch of other "live" songs from 1968 on that box set, but it turns out they're generally lip-synced performances, and only included on the DVD for their visual value.

Now, I need to explain about the editing. The songs generally sound great here, with the exception of the vocals. For the songs with vocals, other than "Flaming," the instruments came through just fine, but the vocals were too low. So I used the sound editing programs Spleeter and X-Minus to boost the vocals where I could. That worked on parts of songs where there was enough vocals heard to get amplified. But for parts of "Astronomy Domine" and "Let There Be More Light," I could barely hear anything at all. So I used BBC versions of these songs, also from 1968, to help. I stripped the vocals from those versions and patched them into these versions where help was needed. It worked because the pitches were the same, and I tweaked the tempos to make them fit, sometimes having to make minor adjustments line by line.

However, I ran into unexpected problems with "Let There Be More Light." Typical versions, including the studio recording, have three verses, with different chorus lyrics following each one. But this version had four. I found out it wasn't simply a matter of repeating one. Instead, the lyrics were all jumbled up. The first verse and chorus was the same as the studio version, but beyond that, different verses were followed by different choruses without any apparent order. I'm guessing it probably was whatever they managed to remember right at that moment. So it took more work to figure out which lyrics went where, and then patching in the clearer version where it was needed. In the end, most of the vocals on this song are actually a mix of the boosted vocals from the same version as the instruments with more patched in vocals from the BBC version. I figured I could get away with that because there already were two vocalists singing at once, so things didn't have to match exactly.

It probably sounds weird with a written explanation, but try listening to it. I hope and assume it will sound perfectly fine, with much clearer vocals than the version you'll find on the box set DVD.

The irony is that there's a different version of "Let There Be More Light" with much better vocals on that DVD that I could have used instead, if I would have known in advance how much work this would take. That's from the same TV show performance as "Flaming" here. But that version is only four minutes long, and the version I chose is seven minutes long. I wanted the extra minutes of jamming. 

One more thing. The songs here generally lacked audience applause at the end. For instance, the three songs recorded in Rome had only maybe two seconds of clapping at the end before getting cut off. So, for songs like that, I pasted in the sound of cheering taken from other concerts to give the songs their natural live conclusions.

The bottom line is, there are lots of excellent live recordings of Pink Floyd from 1969 and later (the live half of the double album "Ummagumma" was recorded in May and June of 1969), but really no good live album from 1967 or 1968. This hopefully will set a new standard of sound quality for 1968. For 1967, I've taken the Stockholm concert included on "The Early Years" box set that has an excellent recording of the instrumentation but almost no vocals to be heard, and used the same technique I used here to add in the vocals from studio versions. I'll post that soon.

Also, I mentioned it in a different post, but I'll repeat it here: I just reuploaded all the Pink Floyd albums I've posted here so far. In a couple of cases I've changed the songs on it, most especially the "See Emily Play" stray tracks album. But I also fixed the volume balance between songs. It turns out those were wildly off, with some songs twice as loud as ones next to it. So if you're a big Pink Floyd fan, you might want to redownload those.

By the way, Pink Floyd played four songs for the French TV show "Bouton Rouge" in early 1968. I considered including them here, but since that was done in a studio with no audience present, I decided those weren't really live versions. They're more like the BBC versions, also done live but in a studio with no audience. So I added those to the album "BBC Sessions, Volume 2."

01 Astronomy Domine [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
02 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
03 Interstellar Overdrive [Instrumental] [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
04 talk (Pink Floyd)
05 Keep Smiling People [Early Version of Careful with That Axe, Eugene] (Pink Floyd)
06 Flaming (Pink Floyd)
07 talk (Pink Floyd)
08 Let There Be More Light [Edit] (Pink Floyd)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16697001/PNKFLYD1968_LivinErope68_atse.zip.html

For the album cover, I used a screenshot taken of the TV performance of "Flaming," included here. It's not the greatest quality, but it is in color and it features all four members of the band. I had a really hard time finding any other concert photo from 1968 with all of them in it.

Pink Floyd - The Committee Soundtrack (1968)

Even if you're a die-hard Pink Floyd, chances are you've never heard of their songs from the 1968 movie "The Committee." Two of the songs made it onto "The Early Years 1965-1972" box set, but that's about it. There are several reasons for this. For one, apparently it's a pretty bad movie, with a length slightly under an hour, so few people have ever seen it. Secondly, all the Pink Floyd songs are mood setting incidental instrumentals, the kind one usually hears in movies, so it's far from their most interesting stuff. 

But worst of all is the fact that the only known versions of the songs come from the movie itself, complete with the actors talking all over the songs. Even the two songs included on the box set have some talking over them, though those were probably chosen because they don't have much compared to the others. 

Then, on top of all that, the Pink Floyd songs added together only make up about 15 minutes worth of music. Apparently, back in 1968, the band considered putting this music on record, but decided against it because they thought only 15 minutes would be a rip off for an album. (Plus, they probably realized it wasn't their best.)

So, long story short, this is for die-hard Pink Floyd fans only. But at least the worst problem of all the talking over the music can be eliminated, so one can actually properly enjoy the music for the first time. Early today, I posted a couple of Pink Floyd songs from 1967 where I was able to remove a BBC narrator talking over the music, due to two sound editing programs I use, Spleeter and X-Minus. I realized if I could do that for them, I could do the same thing here, so I did.

I'm glad to say the program worked quite well. Most of these songs had actors talking over them pretty much non-stop, from start to finish. I was able to remove all that, so you don't hear a word. There is some sound degradation here and there, but it's like night and day compared to trying to listen to the music with the talking on top. What's revealed is mainly a lot of noodling around on the organ by Rick Wright. David Gilmour had joined the band as lead guitarist shortly before this was recorded, but you don't hear any blistering solos from him. However, this does make for good mood setting background music.

Since The Committee songs only add up to 15 minutes, I'd added a version of "Interstellar Overdrive" to the end. This appeared in another 1968 movie, called "San Francisco." However, it actually was recorded in late 1966. As such, it's a pivotal recording by the band. It's probably the first thing they ever properly recorded with the name "Pink Floyd," the first showing they'd changed from a blues band to a psychedelic one. Since it's about 15 minutes long, it makes the whole album about 30 minutes long. That's still short, but at least it's plausible for an album. Because it's instrumental, I think it continues roughly the same mood set from the earlier songs.

By the way, I don't think any of "The Committee" songs have actual names. For the two songs on the box set, they were just called "Music from The Committee No. 1" and "Music from The Committee No.2." I've ignored those names, since they're confusing with the numbering of all the songs, in the order they appeared in the movie. (In this numbering system, "Music from The Committee No. 1" is "Part 2" and "Music from The Committee No.2" is "Part 8."

However, I wasn't happy with just "Part 1" and "Part 2" and so forth. I had a hard time keeping track. So I took it upon myself to give them all different subtitles, at least. For those, I generally used words from the first line or two of the actors' dialogue spoken over the music (now deleted, of course). Parts 1, 2 and 9 are exceptions. "Part 1" is simply "Part 9" played backwards. Both versions didn't have any talking over them. And "Part 2" also didn't have any talking over it, but it did have the sound of birds chirping near the front, as well as some laughing near the end (I removed the laughing). So I called it "Birds Chirping."

"Part 2" and "Part 8" are clearly the same music idea, what one probably would call the theme song for the movie. "Part 7" is said to be an early version of "Careful with that Axe, Eugene," though it doesn't sound that similar to me.

01 The Committee, Part 1 [Backwards] [Instrumental] [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
02 The Committee, Part 2 [Birds Chirping] [Instrumental] [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
03 The Committee, Part 3 [Sound like a Snob] [Instrumental] [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
04 The Committee, Part 4 [In the Womb] [Instrumental] [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
05 The Committee, Part 5 [Suffocating] [Instrumental] [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
06 The Committee, Part 6 [Access to Knowledge] [Instrumental] [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
07 The Committee, Part 7 [The Fakery] [Instrumental] [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
08 The Committee, Part 8 [Do You Play Bridge] [Instrumental] [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
09 The Committee, Part 9 [Not Backwards] [Instrumental] [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
10 Interstellar Overdrive [1966 Version] (Pink Floyd)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16696997/PNKFLYD_1968_TCmmitte_atse.zip.html

The cover is based on a poster for the movie. I cropped it from a rectangular shape and added "Pink Floyd" at the top. I believe this is from a later rerelease of the movie that makes it look much more interesting than it is. From what I understand, nearly all of the movie is just of people in a room talking about some pseudo-intellectual BS.

Pink Floyd - Oakland Coliseum, Oakland, CA, 5-9-1977

Slowly but surely, I've been posting what I consider to be the best and most important Pink Floyd live performances. Most of those were performed at or for the BBC, but this one is not. I consider it just as much of a "must have" as the BBC ones.

In 1977, Pink Floyd toured to promote the album they put out that year, "Animals." It wasn't as popular as some of their other albums, since it didn't have any obvious hit singles (or even songs short enough to be easily played on the radio), but I consider it one of their very best. So it's key to have a good concert from 1977, both for the "Animals" songs, since they played that entire album, but also for the "Wish You Were Here" songs, since they played that entire 1975 album too. And they played three more songs at the end on top of that. (Note that the 1974 BBC concert I posted has most of the "Animals" songs, but they were early versions with different titles and different lyrics.)

There aren't many songs in this concert, but most of the songs are long, with lots of great soloing. The album is two hours and 20 minutes (or 147 minutes) long. I added up the lengths of all the studio versions of the songs, and that totaled 107 minutes. So you basically get 40 extra minutes of solos. There's virtually no between song banter, except for the occasional sentence here and there.

The one snag with 1977 Pink Floyd concert bootlegs is that there are no decent soundboards that have leaked to the public. But the Oakland show here is widely considered the best of the audience bootlegs. In my opinion the sound is excellent, just as good as many soundboards I've heard from other bands. If anyone knows of a better sounding 1977 Pink Floyd show, please let me know.

My interest in live Pink Floyd pretty much comes to an end after this. They only did a small number of concerts to promote their 1979 album "The Wall," and the best of those have been released as an official life album. After that, the band didn't play live again until after band leader Roger Waters left, and my interest in the David Gilmour-led version of the band is much lower. But I'll still post more of the "classic" (1960s to early 1980s) version of the band by and by.

01 Sheep (Pink Floyd)
02 Pigs on the Wing, Part 1 (Pink Floyd)
03 Dogs (Pink Floyd)
04 Pigs on the Wing, Part 2 (Pink Floyd)
05 Pigs [Three Different Ones] (Pink Floyd)
06 Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-5 (Pink Floyd)
07 Welcome to the Machine (Pink Floyd)
08 Have a Cigar (Pink Floyd)
09 Wish You Were Here (Pink Floyd)
10 Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts 6-9 (Pink Floyd)
11 Money (Pink Floyd)
12 Us and Them (Pink Floyd)
13 Careful with that Axe, Eugene (Pink Floyd)

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The album cover art is made out of two main pieces. The photograph is of the band actually playing at Oakland in the very concert posted here, I'm happy to say. Unfortunately, David Gilmour was way off to the side, and I had to crop him out of the photo. I've added the band name in huge lettering. This comes from a photo I found of an official concert T-shirt from the 1977 tour. I liked the flying pig inside the band's name, so I added that to the cover.

Pink Floyd - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: Wembley Empire Pool, London, Britain, 11-16-1974

Here's one of the all-time great Pink Floyd concerts. If you don't have this, you really need to get it. Technically, it's a BBC performance, but it's really just a full concert from 1974, over two hours in length, that happened to get recorded by the BBC, so it has outstanding sound quality.

All of the material here has been officially released. There's even a Wikipedia page for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_at_the_Empire_Pool

But that Wikipedia page is strange, because no such album with that title actually exists. Instead, parts of it have been released on three different albums. One has to put them together to get the full concert, which is exactly what I did here.

For once, there are no sound quality issues at all. (And by the way, there appears to have been no talking between songs whatsoever.) So instead I'll comment on the material. I think the most interesting part are the first three songs. The first one, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," would become a big part of Pink Floyd's next album, "Wish You Were Here," released a year later. The next two songs, "Raving and Drooling" and "You've Got to Be Crazy," were also supposed to go on that album. The three songs were all so long that when combined they made 51 minutes of music, more than enough for an album. But instead, the band shelved "Raving and Drooling" and "You've Got to Be Crazy," worked on them some more, including changing lots of the lyrics, and released them as "Sheep" and "Dogs" respectively for their 1977 album "Animals."

After those three songs, the entire "Dark Side of the Moon" was played in order. A 25-minute long encore of "Echoes" finished the concert.

Later, I'm planning on posting a 1977 concert, so one can hear live versions of the "Wish You Were Here" and "Animals" albums.

01 Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-9 (Pink Floyd)
02 Raving and Drooling [Early Version of Sheep] (Pink Floyd)
03 You've Got to Be Crazy [Early Version of Dogs] (Pink Floyd)
04 Speak to Me [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
05 Breathe (Pink Floyd)
06 On the Run [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
07 Time (Pink Floyd)
08 The Great Gig in the Sky (Pink Floyd)
09 Money (Pink Floyd)
10 Us and Them (Pink Floyd)
11 Any Colour You Like [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
12 Brain Damage (Pink Floyd)
13 Eclipse (Pink Floyd)
14 Echoes (Pink Floyd)

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I could be wrong, but I think the cover art photo comes from the exact concert in question. At the very least, it comes from the same 1974 tour.

Pink Floyd - BBC Sessions, Volume 5: Sounds of the 70s, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 9-30-1971

I recently posted an album of Pink Floyd performing for the BBC in 1970. This is basically the exact same deal, except 1971 instead of 1970. The format was the same: an hour-long concert in front of an audience, played live on the radio. Even the host was the same, famous BBC DJ John Peel. Like the other show, he did all the talking between songs. So if you liked that one, you're sure to like this one.

A couple of the songs played in that 1970 concert are played again here: "Fat Old Sun" and "Embryo." But there are only five songs played in all, because the emphasis is on instrumental jamming. This concert took place one month before their album "Meddle" was released. Two songs from that album are played, "One of These Days" and "Echoes." "Echoes" is the clear focus and highlight, lasting for nearly half an hour. "Blues" is an unnamed instrumental played as an encore that was never released on any Pink Floyd album.

As far as song quality goes, this comes from "The Early Years" box set, so the sound quality is as good as you could hope for. The main thing I did was break up the talking between songs into their own tracks, and boosting the volume on those.

01 talk (Pink Floyd)
02 Fat Old Sun (Pink Floyd)
03 talk (Pink Floyd)
04 One of These Days (Pink Floyd)
05 talk (Pink Floyd)
06 Embryo (Pink Floyd)
07 talk (Pink Floyd)
08 Echoes (Pink Floyd)
09 Blues [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16697018/PNKFLYD1971a_BBSssonsVolum5Sunds70sParsThetre__9-30-1971_atse.zip.html

For the cover art photo, I went with a photo of the band in the studio in late 1971.

Pink Floyd - BBC Sessions, Volume 4: In Concert, Paris Theatre, London, Britain, 7-16-1970

Around 1970, the BBC began playing hour-long concerts in front of live audiences. Pink Floyd was one of the bands that benefited from being able to stretch out in that new format. They wound up playing concerts from the BBC in 1970 and 1971, as well as a longer one in 1974. This is the first of those.

Note that I've already posted three albums of Pink Floyd playing at the BBC (done in the BBC studios with no audience present). Since I'm continuing with three more BBC albums from them, I've decided to rename those earlier albums slightly, so they all have "Volume" in the title. For instance, the first one was known as "BBC Sessions, 1967," but now I'm calling it "BBC Sessions, Volume 1." I've just renamed those and updated the cover artwork accordingly. This one, then, is Volume 4.

Although this is live, it was professionally recorded, and it widely considered one of the few really great concert recordings of the band. It was included on the official box set "The Early Years." I'm including it here to continue the BBC series, plus it really should be heard on its own.

I've broken the talking between songs onto their own tracks, but other than that, I didn't need to change anything. Note that the concert was hosted by legendary BBC DJ John Peel. He's the one that does all the talking between songs.

The concert took place while the band was in the middle of recording the album "Atom Heart Mother." So it's not surprising that it features three songs from that album, "If," "Fat Old Sun," and "Atom Heart Mother." We're especially fortunate that "If" was included, because the band only played that excellent song a handful of times. The song "Atom Heart Mother" had been played a few times already, using the clunky title "The Amazing Pudding." They wanted something better, and realized that had to come up with something fast so that Peel would have a new title to give it for this BBC show. Luckily, they came up with the new title shortly before the concert when band member saw the headline "Atom Heart Mother Named" in a newspaper article about a nuclear-powered pacemaker.

Also note that the song "Atom Heart Mother" really needed a full choir, plus a full orchestra, to play right. For this concert, they hired a professional choir and professional orchestra to back them. Later, when they played the song on tour, they had to make do with a revolving group of back-up musicians who often didn't perform nearly as well. As a result, they shortened the song in concert and cut out the parts that needed the choir and orchestra. So this is probably the definitive live version, especially due to the sound quality.

01 talk (Pink Floyd)
02 Embryo (Pink Floyd)
03 talk (Pink Floyd)
04 Fat Old Sun (Pink Floyd)
05 talk (Pink Floyd)
06 Green Is the Colour (Pink Floyd)
07 Careful with that Axe, Eugene (Pink Floyd)
08 talk (Pink Floyd)
09 If (Pink Floyd)
10 talk (Pink Floyd)
11 Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16697017/PNKFLYD1970c_BBSssonsVlum4InConcrtParsThetre__7-16-1970_atse.zip.html

The cover art photo comes from a Pink Floyd concert later in 1970, at the Fillmore East in New York City.

Pink Floyd - Fillmore West, San Francisco, CA, 4-29-1970

For a band like Pink Floyd that's known for the pristine sound on their albums, you'd think there would be lots of pristine recordings of their concerts. But that's surprisingly not the case. There are very few multitrack concert recordings from them (which usually sound the best), and not many more soundboard recordings, at least in terms of what has been made publicly available, officially or through bootlegs.

So this concert of Pink Floyd playing the Fillmore West in San Francisco in April 1970 needs to be treasured, due to be an excellent performance and excellent sound quality. Furthermore, none of it was used for the box set "The Early Years." That's probably because just one day earlier, the band played about an hour of music at the Fillmore when it was empty for a local PBS station, PBS. The video footage of that is included in the box set, and they probably didn't include this because the set list is very similar. But the KQED performance was slightly less than one hour, whereas this is over two hours.

By the way, I'm pretty sure the reason this sounds so good is because KQED recorded it as well. I just did a little Googling, and found that KQED brought a mobile recording unit to the Fillmore to record their show without an audience, for maximum sound clarity. They probably just kept the unit there and recorded the show with the audience too. This guess is strengthened by the fact that the KQED producers even went to a Pink Floyd concert the next week in Los Angeles and recorded that in hopes of getting more footage to use.

So there are definitely no complaints from me about the sound, except for one thing: the audience noise at the end of most songs. For whatever reason, it turned out that a lot of those were messed up. Some were simply cut off in the middle of the audience reaction. Others were extremely quiet. So I did some editing to make sure there's a proper audience response after each song (except when the band went straight into the next song). In some cases, I patched in clapping from the end of a different song, such as when the audience noise got abruptly cut off.

I made another major kind of edit as well, and that was to get rid of some of the "dead air" between songs. It turns out there was a lot of noodling and/or tuning between some songs. I probably cut about five minutes of that. But, as always, I was careful not to cut any of the actual speaking between songs. (By the way, I believe all the talking is done by Roger Waters.) I also sometimes adjusted the volume of the talking, as the speaker might be too close or too far from the microphone.

Anyway, the songs are great, and while there was some issues between the songs, I believe I've fixed all that, so it should sound great all the way through. If you want just one pre-"Dark Side of the Moon" concert from them, you should make it this one.

01 Granchester Meadows (Pink Floyd)
02 Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd)
03 talk (Pink Floyd)
04 Cymbaline (Pink Floyd)
05 talk (Pink Floyd)
06 Atom Heart Mother (Pink Floyd)
07 Embryo (Pink Floyd)
08 talk (Pink Floyd)
09 Green Is the Colour (Pink Floyd)
10 Careful with that Axe, Eugene (Pink Floyd)
11 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Pink Floyd)
12 talk (Pink Floyd)
13 A Saucerful of Secrets [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
14 talk (Pink Floyd)
15 Interstellar Overdrive [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)

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For the album cover art, I found a concert poster of the band playing at the Fillmore in late 1967. (Apparently, the concert got cancelled.) I liked the art, so I decided to use it. But I had to make a lot of changes and additions to the text, including changing "Fillmore" to "Fillmore West."

Pink Floyd - Zabrinskie Point - Alternate Version (1970)

In 1968 and 1969, director Michelangelo Antonioni made a Hollywood movie about the counterculture called "Zabrinskie Point." Since it was about the counterculture, he wanted music to match for the soundtrack. He used some existing songs by various bands, and got Pink Floyd, the Grateful Dead, and Kaleidoscope to compose new music for the film.

When the movie came out in early 1970, Pink Floyd only ended up with three songs on the soundtrack. But in fact they recorded a lot more, enough to have an entire album just from them. This is my attempt to create a "Zabrinskie Point" soundtrack featuring only Pink Floyd music.

I could have made this a very long album that gathers up absolutely everything Pink Floyd did that was considered for the soundtrack. But frankly, a lot of it isn't that good. Pink Floyd's "The Early Years" box set has no less than 16 outtakes from the soundtrack. I didn't include any of them, because they're all incidental film music, meant to help set a mood but not far removed from forgettable muzak. Many of them are alternate versions of songs I have included.

What I did instead was pick the strongest songs I could find, so this album would stack up with the other Pink Floyd albums from that era. I included the three songs that made it on the actual soundtrack album, plus two more songs that were bonus tracks released in the 1990s, and one of the songs from "The Early Years" box set. On top of that, I've included two more songs that were on "The Early Years," but slightly different unreleased alternate versions.

One more song, "The Violent Sequence," needs a little explanation. It almost made it to the official soundtrack, but the director decided it sounded too sad. If you listen to it, you'll immediately recognize it as an instrumental version of what would become "Us and Them" on the classic 1973 album "Dark Side of the Moon."

All the songs mentioned above make for a 39-minute long album, which is a decent length. But I've added three more songs that weren't connected to "Zabrinskie Point" at all, because I don't have a better place to put them. These come from another 1970 soundtrack, this one for a documentary about the human body called "The Body." The soundtrack is called "Music from the Body," and it's credited to Roger Waters, the main singer and songwriter for Pink Floyd at the time, and avant garde artist Ron Geesin. Most of the songs are experimental, strange sounding instrumentals that aren't to my taste. But it also includes three folky songs written and sung by Waters, and I've added them here. They sound exactly like lost Pink Floyd songs, and that's basically what they are. In fact, one of them, "Give Birth to a Smile," is performed by all four members of Pink Floyd, so I've credited it to the full band.

01 Heart Beat, Pig Meat [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
02 Country Song [The Red Queen] (Pink Floyd)
03 Aeroplane [Fingal's Cave] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
04 Crumbling Land (Pink Floyd)
05 Alan's Blues [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
06 Oenone [Early Version] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
07 Rain in the Country [Unknown Song] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
08 Come in Number 51, Your Time is Up [Careful with that Axe, Eugene] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
09 The Violent Sequence [Early Version of Us and Them] [Richard Wright Demo] (Pink Floyd)
10 Chain of Life (Roger Waters & Ron Geesin)
11 Sea, Shell and Stone - Breathe (Roger Waters & Ron Geesin)
12 Give Birth to a Smile (Pink Floyd)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16701316/PNKFLYD1970a_ZabrskiPontAlternte_atse.zip.html

The official "Zabrinskie Point" soundtrack seems to have had several different album covers, that I think were for different editions of the album. I picked a version that had the least text, with just the words "Zabrinskie Point" in big letters. Then I added "Pink Floyd" above it.

Pink Floyd - BBC Sessions, Volume 3: 1969

I've got a lot of Pink Floyd material to post, because I think they're fantastic and a lot of their stuff didn't make it onto their studio albums at the time.

This is the fifth Pink Floyd album I've posted so far. Two are stray tracks collections covering 1967 to 1969. Two others, plus this one, contain BBC performances, also from 1967 to 1969. The way I look at it, these five albums all go together, gathering up all the little bits and pieces of their musical output during that time. After 1969, Pink Floyd no longer played only a few short songs each time they showed up at the BBC. They did return to the BBC a couple more times, but each time, they performed entire concerts. Similarly, they began thinking in terms of cohesive albums and not individual songs. So 1969 was the last time they released a single that wasn't taken from an album.

Thus, this album is kind of an end of an era. The first four songs come from the last "normal" BBC studio performance Pink Floyd did, in May 1969.

The next song, "Merry Christmas Song," was written by Pink Floyd and apparently recorded by the BBC in 1969. However, it didn't actually get played by the BBC until 1975. It's a jokey Christmas number, and it's sung by the drummer Nick Mason.

The song after that is an instrumental called "Moonhead." It came about because the BBC thought it would be clever to have Pink Floyd play their "spacey" music during the broadcast of the first person landing on the moon in July 1969. The song is about seven minutes long. I edited out about 30 seconds of it, because about a minute into the song, a BBC announcer spoke over the music. I wouldn't have minded since he was talking about the moon landing, except what he said was inane or dumb, ending with the comment that when people finally land on the moon, they'll be able to find out if it in fact is made out of green cheese. I hope that was supposed to be a joke! Luckily, the half minute of talking takes place during a lull in the music, so I think I was able to remove it without it being noticeable or affecting the flow of the song.

I must confess that the final song here isn't associated with the BBC at all. I'm just sticking it here because I don't have a better spot in my musical collection to put it. Pink Floyd performs their instrumental "Interstellar Overdrive" later in 1969. What makes this special and unique is that Frank Zappa joins in and does a lot of soloing. In case you want to see it and not just hear it, there's a high quality video of it on YouTube.

As an aside, I find it amusing that when both Zappa and the members of Pink Floyd were asked about this musical collaboration decades later, they all had no recollection of it happening, though they did remember meeting each other. However, the video and audio definitely proves it happened.

01 Grantchester Meadows (Pink Floyd)
02 Cymbaline (Pink Floyd)
03 The Narrow Way, Part 3 (Pink Floyd)
04 Green Is the Colour (Pink Floyd)
05 Careful with that Axe, Eugene (Pink Floyd)
06 Merry Xmas Song (Pink Floyd)
07 Moonhead [Instrumental] [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
08 Interstellar Overdrive [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd with Frank Zappa)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16697016/PNKFLYD1969_BBSssonsVolum3_atse.zip.html

I purposefully made the cover art to match the two earlier Pink Floyd BBC albums I made. For the band photo in the middle, I chose a publicity photo from 1969. It uses a fish-eye lens.. That was the hip thing to do in those days, but I like the effect in this case.

Pink Floyd - BBC Sessions, Volume 2: 1968

I've already posted Pink Floyd stray tracks for 1967 and 1968. Then I posted an album of BBC performances from 1967. That's because BBC performances are so key for Pink Floyd in the late 1960s and early 1970s, due both to sound quality issues and the fact the band would play songs for the BBC they would rarely or never play in normal concerts. So I'm continuing that trend by posting an album of BBC performances from 1968.

As it so happens, all of the BBC performances from 1967 made up one normal length album, and it's the same for 1968. I love how nicely that works out.

Note that starting around this time, it can get confusing figuring out what Pink Floyd songs are what, due to the band using more than one name for a song. It some cases, they had an early name and then changed it to something else entirely by the time they officially recorded it. Whereas in other cases, they already had a recorded version, but then gave it a new name in order for it to fit into a new project, such as a concept album. Three of the songs here fit into either of those cases, so I've added the other names the songs are known as in parentheses in each title.

The first four songs aren't from the BBC, but are from a French TV show called "Bouton Rouge." It's basically the same though, because they were done live in studio, without an audience. You can find the video of the performances on YouTube. One of the songs, "Let There Be More Light," was also done later in the year for the BBC. Normally I don't like including two versions of the same song on one album, but for the sake of completeness I've included both versions.

This album is 53 minutes long.

01 Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd)
02 Flaming (Pink Floyd)
03 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Pink Floyd)
04 Let There Be More Light [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
05 Instrumental Improvisation (Pink Floyd)
06 Murderotic Woman [Careful with that Axe Eugene] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
07 The Massed Gadgets of Hercules [A Saucerful of Secrets] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
08 Julia Dream (Pink Floyd)
09 Let There Be More Light (Pink Floyd)
10 Point Me at the Sky (Pink Floyd)
11 Embryo (Pink Floyd)
12 Baby Blue Shuffle in D Minor [The Narrow Way, Part 1] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
13 Interstellar Overdrive [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)

https://www.upload.ee/files/16697013/PNKFLYD1968_BBSssonsVolum2_atse.zip.html

For the cover art, I found a publicity photo of the band in 1968. I'll bet Roger Waters would be chagrined to see himself in that fur coat. ;)

Pink Floyd - Point Me at the Sky - Non-Album Tracks (1968-1969)

As I previously stated here, lots of great Pink Floyd stray tracks have been officially released, but the problem is they weren't logically organized into listenable albums.

I already posted one album of stray studio tracks from 1967. This is a continuation of that, gathering all their stray tracks from 1968 and 1969. It's enough for a solid 41-minute long album. The break between this album and the one I posted before is right when Syd Barrett was removed from the group.

This doesn't include any BBC performances or other live versions. I'll include those in future posts.

In 1969, Pink Floyd recorded some instrumental music for the movie "The Committee." That's the subject of a different album posted here. Most of the songs on that don't stand on their own, but I think one of them is good enough for those who don't want to hear the whole soundtrack performance. So I've added, "The Committee, Part 8" to this album.

01 It Would Be So Nice (Pink Floyd)
02 Julia Dream (Pink Floyd)
03 The Committee, Part 8 [Do You Play Bridge] [Instrumental] [Edit] (Pink Floyd)
04 Point Me at the Sky (Pink Floyd)
05 Careful with that Axe, Eugene (Pink Floyd)
06 Song 1 [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
07 Roger's Boogie (Pink Floyd)
08 Hollywood [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
09 Theme [Beat Version] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
10 Embryo [Studio Version] (Pink Floyd)
11 Biding My Time (Pink Floyd)

https://pixeldrain.com/u/93vqH7m2

alternate:

https://bestfile.io/en/h6vj2AKpTXTnHtT/file

The cover is from a poster for a 1967 Pink Floyd concert. I'd already decided to call the album "Point Me at the Sky," after one of the songs, and this seems to fit.