RE-UP EGG Live Colchester 1972

Egg
Colchester, UK
May 27,1972

Soundboard Recording

1-Germ Patrol
2-Long Piece No: 3 Part 2 & 4
3-Wring Out The Ground (Loosley Now)
4-Blane
5-Long Piece No: 3 Part 3
6-Enneagram
7-A Visit To Newport Hospital

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Love to Gord 1964-2017

Gord Downie  Musician, Songwriter, Poet, Humanitarian

A Nation Weeps

Fell on Black Days

I drew this self portrait in 1994/95. It's set in my first apartment. Cobains suicide hit me harder than I thought, my mood was dark and personal problems deepened. I felt myself isolating, growing roots, but not growing. Listening to Soundgarden, I was inspired by"Fell On Black Days".

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RE-UP Pink Floyd Early Flights Vol. 10

Pink Floyd
Early Flights Vols 1-10 (1966-1994)

Early Flights Vol.10
19?? - 1994, Rarities, B-Sides, Demos And Never Released Material
Euro Boots Eb 112
Germany
Matrix Disc: Pf 10

MP3 192k

Tracks / Time / Source:
1. Country Theme 2:09
2. Mexico 70 4:22
3. Big Theme 2:48
4. Small Theme 3:05
5. Carrerra Slow Blues 4:48
6. Shine On Your Crazy Diamond 10:49 Knebworth,June 6th 1990
7. Comfortably Numb 8:19 Knebworth 1994
8. High Hopes 8:15 Knebworth 1994
9. Take It Back 5:59 Knebworth 1994
10. Coming Back To Life 6:47 Knebworth 1994
11. Keep Talking 7:39 Knebworth 1994
12. One Of These Days 6:58 1994

Total Time: 72:04

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RE-UP Pink Floyd Early Flights Vol. 9

Pink Floyd
1971-1987

Bootleg Title: Early Flights Vol. 9
Release: Euro Boots EB111
Quality: Varies [VG/EX-]
Lineage: Silver Pressed CD -> WAV -> CDR(1) -> EAC (Secure) -> WAV -> FLAC(level 6)
Database Link: http://www.hokafloyd.com/CDHOKA/early_flights_9/Early%20Flights%209.htm

01. A Saucerful Of Secrets  (16:31)
02. Sheep  (12:19)
03. Pigs On The Wing – part 1  (1:32)
04. Dogs  (18:22)
05. Pigs On The Wing – part 2  (2:06)
06. One Slip  (5:24)
07. Run Like Hell  (7:31)
08. Money  (6:17)

01 - Copenhagen 09/23/1971 Special Long Version
02-05 - Dortmund-Germany 01/23/1977
06-08 - Vocals-Paul Carrack-Live 1987

Comments:
German release. This unauthorised bootleg release contains
rarities, B-Sides, demos, and never released material. Volume
9 of a 10 volume set spanning 1966-1994.

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RE-UP Pink Floyd Early Flights Vol. 7

Pink Floyd
1967-1975

Bootleg Title: Early Flights Vol. 7
Release: Euro Boots EB105
Quality: Varies [VG/EX]
Lineage: Silver Pressed CD -> EAC V0.9beta4 -> FLAC Level 7
Database Link: http://www.hokafloyd.com/CDHOKA/early_flights_7/Early%20Flights%207.htm

01.Interstellar Overdrive (UFO Club 01/20/1967)
02.Pow R.Toc H. (BBC Look Of The Week 05/14/1967)
03.Astronomy Domine (BBC Look Of The Week 05/14/1967)
04.Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (UK Radio 1967)
05.Let There Be More Light (Psychedelic Club, Paris 10/30/1968)
06.Flaming (Psychedelic Club, Paris 10/30/1968)
07.Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun (Rome 05/05/1968)
08.Interstellar Overdrive (Rome 05/05/1968)
09.A Saucerful Of Secrets (Kralingen 07/28/1970)
10.A Great Gig In The Sky (Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton, Canada 06/28/1975)
11.Money (Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton, Canada 06/28/1975)
12.Any Colour You Like (Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton, Canada 06/28/1975)
13.Brain Damage (Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton, Canada 06/28/1975)
14.Eclipse (Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton, Canada 06/28/1975)

Comments:
German release. This unauthorised bootleg release contains
rarities, B-Sides, demos, and never released material. Volume
7 of a 10 volume set spanning 1966-1994.

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RE-UP Pink Floyd Early Flights Vol. 6

Pink Floyd
1968-1972

Bootleg Title: Early Flights Vol 6
Release: Euro Boots EB95
Quality: Varies [VG/EX-]
Lineage: Silver Pressed CD -> EAC V0.9beta4 -> FLAC Level 7


01. Astronomy Domine (2:27)
   (ORTF Radio 20/01/1968 - Complete Short Version)
02. Astronomy Domine (Rome 1969) (7:47)
03. Cymbaline (5:18)
    (London Sound Techniques Studios 03/1969)
04. Obscured By Clouds (1:00)
05. Free Four (3:30)
    (US Promo Single 1972)
06. Instrumental Unreleased (1972)(1:37)
07. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
    (ORTF Studio - Paris - Jan 22, 1969)
08. Green Is The Colour (2:30)
    (Amougies Festival - Belgium, Oct 25, 1969)
09. Careful With That Axe, Eugene (9:50)
10. Intro
    (Theatre Des Champs-Elysees Paris - Jan 23,1970)
11. The Violent Sequence (ID.)
12. The Amazing Pudding (ID. 16:17)
13. Careful With That Axe, Eugene (7:37)
    (The Dome, Brighton, June 29, 1972)
14. Margritte PT4 (Waters 1972) (2:44)
   
Comments:
German release. This unauthorised bootleg release contains
rarities, B-Sides, demos, and never released material. Volume
6 of a 10 volume set spanning 1966-1994.

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RE-UP Pink Floyd Early Flights Vol. 5

Release: Euro Boots EB94
Quality: Varies [VG/EX]
Lineage: Silver Pressed CD -> EAC V0.9beta4 -> FLAC Level 7


Tracklist:
01.Intro (1:14)
02.Let there be more light (7:25)
03.Set the control for the heart of the sun (12:27)
04.Intro (0:51)
05.A saucerful of secret (14:09)
 
Tracks 1-5 (Paradiso - Amsterdam - May 23, 1968 - Early Show)

06.Candy (demo) (1:57)
07.Interstellar overwrite (demo) (6:21)
08.Intro (0:34)
09.Keep smiling people (10:09)
10.Intro (0:50)
11.Let there be more light (8:04)
12.Intro (0:50)
13.Flaming (4:59)
 
Tracks 8-13 (Paradiso - Amsterdam - May 23, 1968 - Early Show)

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RE-UP Pink Floyd Early Flights Vol. 4

Pink Floyd
1969-1970

Bootleg Title: Early Flights Vol. 4
Release: Euro Boots EB90
Quality: Varies [VG/EX]
Lineage: Silver Pressed CD -> ? -> FLAC
Database Link: http://roio.alpha.pl/pink_floyd_65-68/early%20flights%20vol%204.htm

Tracklist:
01. Astronomy Domine (Essen, 1969-11-10)  (8:59)
02. Mademoiselle Knobs (outtake)  (1:51)
03. Come In No. 51, Your Time Is Up  (4:58)
04. Green Is The Colour (Italy 1970)  (3:51)
05. Careful With Axe, Eugene (Italy 1970) (3:43)
06. Embryo  (2:09)
07. Cymbaline (San Francisco, 1970-04-29)  (8:34)
08. Granchester Meadows (San Francisco, 1970-04-29) (7:09)
09. Fearless (Mono Mix – US Promo)  (3:17)
10. Us And Them (US promo)  (3:18)
11. Brain Damage / Eclipse (demo)  (3:24)
12. Interstellar Overdrive (Chicago, 1970-04-21)  (13:19)
13. See Saw  (4:31)
14. San Tropez  (3:40)

Comments:
German release. This unauthorised bootleg release contains
rarities, B-Sides, demos, and never released material. Volume
4 of a 10 volume set spanning 1966-1994.

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RE-UP CAN Live Saarbruken 1975

CAN
SaarbrŸcken, Germany. October 24 1975

*Original Notes*

An audience recording of excellent quality. 
Generation unknown but most likely very low.
Received in a trade on CDR in about 2006.
Titles are fictitious and I'm not that clued up to make any sense of the
listings given at http://all-blues.de/music/kraut/canlive.htm#1975.
If anyone has a version of this show with known lineage it would be most
welcome. In fact any more CAN would be a treat.

DISC ONE

01 TWENTY-FIVE-FORTY-TWO (25:42)
02 SIXTEEN-ZERO-THREE (16:03)
03 NINE-ZERO-EIGHT (09:08)
04 TWENTY-FIFTEEN (20:15)


DISC TWO

01 THIRTY-FIVE-TWENTY-ONE (35:21)
02 ZERO-EIGHT-NINETEEN (08:19)


CAN

Holger Czukay Ð bass guitar

Michael Karoli Ð guitar, vocals,

Jaki Liebezeit Ð drums, percussion

Irmin Schmidt Ð keyboards


Linage: unknown> CDR> XxACT CD Extraction> Flac

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RE-UP Pink Floyd - Live Toronto 1987

Here's a show near and dear to my heart. I was at this concert, my first live Floyd experience. 1987 I was deeply immersed in Floyds music. I was 20, been a fan for the past year or so, and collected most of the catalogue of music. When Momentary Lapse was released - I, like thousands of others, bought it without hearing a note, (still on vinyl!!!) after all it was Pink Floyd! Even despite the ongoing war with Roger and lack of his genius, Floyds return was a feeding frenzy for the fans, and I was there. 
Points of note on the dates of these shows, (for those who do care). This show, on the 23rd was initially the second show announced, a week or so later the third date was added on the 21st.

Audience (loud (happy)crowd)
SHN file
G+ /-VG

*Original Notes*


PINK FLOYD
TORONTO 23.9.87

X-ref: No info.

Venue: September 23rd, 1987 – CNE Stadium, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.

Album notes:
A part of north american „A Momentary Lapse Of Reason” 1987 tour. Recording
mastered from genuine low generation analog tape. Discs' division
compatible with the course of the show. Carefuly indexed. Revised copy.
Balanced. Speed corrected. Very rare show (this isn't mislabeled 1987-09-21).

Lineage: A[Low]>SBLive>WAV>CoolEditPro>EAC>SHN

Disc 1:
1. Echoes  (18:23)
2. Signs Of Life  (4:27)
3. Learning To Fly  (5:37)
4. Yet Another Movie  (7:34)
5. A New Machine – part 1  (1:46)
6. Terminal Frost  (5:59)
7. A New Machine – part 2  (0:39)
8. Sorrow  (9:59)
9. Dogs Of War  (7:59)
10. On The Turning Away  (8:50)

Disc 2:
1. One Of These Days  (7:45)
2. Time  (5:47)
3. On The Run  (4:14)
4. Wish You Were Here  (5:08)
5. Welcome To The Machine  (8:38)
6. Us And Them  (7:35)
7. Money  (7:15)
8. Another Brick In The Wall  (6:24)
9. Comfortably Numb  (9:38)
10. One Slip  (7:16)
11. Run Like Hell  (7:02)

Quality (1-6): 4,5.
Artwork: Wojtek

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RE-UP Fairport Convention with Robert Plant

Fairport Convention with Robert Plant

Cropredy Aug 14 1992,1993

Two Days In The Country
FAIRPORT CONVENTION ROBERT PLANT

Cropredy Festival, England
Liberated Silver Rarities bootleg

Ex
128 kbps

Track List:
AUGUST 14, 1992
1. North Country
2. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
3. In The Evening
4. Ramble On
AUGUST 14, 1993
5. Misty Mountain Hop
6. Thank You
7. 29 Palms
8. If I Were A Carpenter
9. North Country
10. Jesus On The Mainline
11. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You
12. Whole Lotta Love

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David Gilmour - Oakland CA 2006

David Gilmour
April 17, 2006
Paramount Theatre
Oakland, Ca

FLAC
EX

Disc 1
01 Breathe  4:04
02 Time  5:25
03 Breathe Reprise  2:23
04 Castellorizon  4:02
05 On An Island  7:59
06 The Blue  5:34
07 Red Sky At Night  3:26
08 This Heaven  4:43
09 Then I Close My Eyes  9:14
10 Smile  4:41
11 Take A Breath  6:52
12 A Pocketful Of Stones  6:21
13 Where We Start  7:31
Total Time 72:15

Disc 2
01 Shine On You Crazy Diamond pt I-V  12:07
02 Wearing The Inside Out  8:21
03 Fat Old Sun  7:11
04 Arnold Layne  3:54
05 Coming Back To Life  6:52
06 High Hopes  9:56
07 Echoes  24:44
Total Time 73:05

Disc 3
01 Wish You were Here  5:35
02 Comfortably Numb  10:09
Total Time 15:44

Remaster
1. Adjust EQ, dynamics and peaks in Gotfob source.
2. Adjust EQ, dynamics and peaks in Km source.
3. Sync two sources, slight speed difference existed.
4. Create Stereo image using both sources.
5. Phase correct to center sound and stablize stereo image.
6. Balance power and amplitudes of both channels.
7. Re-track.

*Original Notes
Since the beginning of the tour Gilmour has played the whole new album during the first set
of each show. Initially, the show would open with this album but on April 16th, the day
before this performance the decision was made to take the Breathe-Time-Breathe reprise
segment and move it to the beginning of the show. This allowed him to welcome the audience
after playing these songs and then introduce the new album before any of it was played.
This worked well so it was used again during this show. During the second set, Shine On and
Wearing The Inside Out are played, as they have since the beginning of the tour. This is
followed by Arnold Layne which is performed here for the first time since October 6th, 1967
making this a very special show. The song was then included in additional shows in both
Europe and the US and is featured on the Gilmour commercial DVD as he sings the song with
David Bowie. The remainder of the setlist included songs played consistently throughout the
tour. Both source recordings were excellent but had different dynamics and slightly different
sound characteristics. At times, there is a nice stereo separation so listening with
earphones is recommended.

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RE-UP Pink Floyd Italy June 20, 1971

Pink Floyd
Date: 1971-06-20
Location: Rome - Palaeur, Italy June 20, 1971
CD Bootleg: Rome 1971
Label: LIVE RECORDS PFR 71 A/B
Quality: EX-

CD Bootleg "Rome 1971" > EAC > FLAC level 8

*Original Notes*

Comments:

This comes from my original silvers cd's.
This version sounds more defined and crispier than the 2nd gen but is a bit shorter,
about 13 mins shorter. No music is lost but some tune-ups and crowd noise are missing.
This is a hissy recording but the performance and sound are great, this hiss doesn't detract
from the show at all.
Im ready to give this a EX-.
If you notice, on the artwork it says...

Set List:

Disc 1:

01. Atom Heart Mother [18:50]
02. Careful with that Axe, Eugene [14:27]
03. Fat Old Sun [14:30]
04. The Embryo [11:45]

Disc 2:

01. Echoes [24:04]
02. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [12:03]
03. Cymbaline [11:55]
04. A Saucerful of Secrets [18:27]
05. Astronomy Domine [8:06]

Band:
David Gilmour
Rick Wright
Nick Mason
Roger Waters

Recorded Live at Rome - Palaeur, Italy June 20, 1971

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The Orb with David Gilmour

Metallic Spheres
The Orb featuring David Gilmour
2010
mp3(256) tracks 1, 2; (192) track 3; (320) bonus track

Track listing
1."Metallic Side" (28:42)
 1."Metallic Spheres"
 2."Hymns to the Sun"
 3."Black Graham"
 4."Hiding in Plain View"
 5."Classified"

2."Spheres Side" (20:12)
 1."Es Vedra"
 2."Hymns to the Sun (Reprise)"
 3."Olympic"
 4."Chicago Dub"
 5."Bold Knife Trophy"

3."Cult of Youth Ambient Mix" (13:45)
4.Bonus track: "Brickshake #7" (2:25) (Shakedown Street/Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2 Mashup)     by David Gans

*Original Notes

Notes: All tracks written by David Gilmour, Alex Paterson & Youth.
 "Hymns to the Sun" written by David Gilmour, Alex Paterson, Youth & Graham Nash.
 "Black Graham" written by David Gilmour, Alex Paterson, Youth & Marcia Mello.
 "Hiding in Plain View" written by David Gilmour, Alex Paterson, Youth & Tim Bran.

The Orb, the visionary UK 'ambient/house' collective, came to collaborate with David Gilmour after working together on a version of Graham Nash's Chicago for a charity project. Youth (aka Martin Glover), a frequent Orb accomplice, was invited to create a remix, and he and Alex Paterson, as The Orb, were so energized by the task that they continued working until it was an album-length entity. Having asked Gilmour to bring his guitars to Youth's studio in South London to prolong and enrich their new creation, the trio worked up a sonic mixture in a range of styles. Thus, the Metallic Spheres project was born.

Metallic Spheres is designed to be heard in two parts – 'Metallic Side' and 'Spheres Side'. Each track, or side, consists of five movements. The album uniquely utilizes David Gilmour's electric guitar and lap steel guitar, Alex Paterson's sound manipulation, keyboards and turntables, and Youth's bass guitar and keyboards.

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RE-UP Pink Floyd - The Complete Rainbow Tapes

For fans of the early versions of live Darkside, this is essential.
This Box Set Covers The Four Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London,
UK Shows In February 17-20, 1972

Also Includes A Twelve Page Miniature Reproduction Of The Concert Program And A Concert Poster

The 4 Double CDs Are Packaged In Tri-Fold Digipacks

BOX approx.16,8cm x 16,8cm x 4cm

FLAC
Audience
NOTE: Day Four, Disc 2, Track 5 (Blues) is defective, only 2 mins out of the six are there.


  Day One - 17 February 1972
 
  Disc 1:
 
  1. Speak To Me  1:08
  2. Breathe  2:48
  3. On The Run  6:44
  4. Time  5:32
  5. Breathe (Reprise)  1:02
  6. The Great Gig in the Sky  4:15
  7. Money  7:53
  8. Us And Them  6:59
  9. Any Colour You Like  3:29
10. Brain Damage  3:14
11. Eclipse  3:48
 
Total Time: 47:52

 
  Disc 2:
 
  1. Tuning & Soundcheck  2:41
  2. One Of These Days  8:24
  3. Tuning & Soundcheck  0:52
  4. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 14:53
  5. Tuning & Soundcheck  2:06
  6. Echoes 26:55
  7. Tuning & Soundcheck  1:34
  8. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 14:23
 
 
 
Total Time: 71:48



  Day Two - 18 February 1972
 
  Disc 1:

  1. Speak To Me  1:10
  2. Breathe  2:40
  3. On The Run  6:43
  4. Time  6:21
  5. Breathe (Reprise)  1:16
  6. The Great Gig in the Sky  4:54
  7. Money  7:27
  8. Us And Them  6:54
  9. Any Colour You Like  3:59
10. Brain Damage  3:08
11. Eclipse  3:39
12. Encore Break (Wind Tone S.E. & Soundcheck)  2:18
13. One Of These Days  8:59
14. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 15:11
 
Total Time: 64:49
 
 
 
  Disc 2:
 
  1. Echoes 28:54
  2. Tuning & Soundcheck  1:24
  3. A Saucerful Of Secrets 16:58
  4. Tuning & Soundcheck  0:51
  5. Blues 10:01
  6. Tuning & Soundcheck  1:29
  7. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 13:23
 
Total Time: 63:00




  Day Three - 19 February 1972
 
  Disc 1:
 
  1. Breathe  1:01
  2. On The Run  6:16
  3. Time  6:01
  4. Breathe (Reprise)  1:03
  5. The Great Gig in the Sky  4:22
  6. Money  7:44
  7. Us And Them  6:55
  8. Any Colour You Like  4:32
  9. Brain Damage  4:05
10. Eclipse  3:11
11. One Of These Days 10:37
12. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 13:00
 
Total Time: 68:37
 
 
 
  Disc 2:
 
  1. Echoes 26:34
  2. A Saucerful Of Secrets (Cut) 15:36
  3. Blues  8:29
  4. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 13:13
 
Total Time: 63:52




  Day Four - 20 February 1972
 
  Disc 1:
 
  1. Speak To Me  2:49
  2. Breathe  2:46
  3. On The Run  6:05
  4. Time  6:55
  5. Breathe (Reprise)  1:04
  6. The Great Gig in the Sky  3:59
  7. Money  8:06
  8. Us And Them  6:48
  9. Any Colour You Like  4:36
10. Brain Damage  3:51
11. Eclipse  2:48
12. Tuning & Soundcheck  1:34
13. One Of These Days  8:03
14. Tuning & Soundcheck  2:13
15. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 10:58
 
Total Time: 60:35
 
 
 
  Disc 2:
 
1. Tuning & Soundcheck  2:08
2. Echoes / Encore Break 25:47
3. Audience Requests  0:56
4. A Saucerful Of Secrets 16:05
5.* Blues  6:47  *Damaged file (Incomplete)
6. Audience Requests  1:32
7. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 13:52
 
Total Time: 67:07

17 - 20 Febuary 1972 Live at Rainbow Theater, Finsbury Park, London, England

Day 1

Day 2

Day 3

Day 4

RE-UP Pink Floyd - Japan Tour 1972 - 6 Discs

For fans of the earliest versions of Darkside, the concerts from 1972 are essential. This Godfather box set captures most of Floyds tour of Japan for that year. Six concerts including pirate radio broadcasts and alternate concert performances. The qualities vary, but all range within VG and E. Usually within the better range. Included are the box set artworks and infos in both jpg and tif.

The audio files are all in FLAC.

Enjoy!

Disc 1

  













Disc 2

Disc 3

Disc 4

Disc 5

Disc 6

Arts and Infos

Art and Info

The corner stone of Rock and Roll music. The guitar legend, the guitar hero, the guitar god. It started with this man.

Chuck Berry

RE-UP Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett 1968 to 1970. A Fantasy. Part 2

Pink Floyd – Vantage Point
(a soniclovenoize re-imagining)


Side A:
1.  Ibizia Bar
2.  No Man’s Land
3.  Long Gone
4.  Cymbaline
5.  Terrapin

Side B:
6.  The Nile Song
7.  No Good Trying
8.  Love You
9.  a) Embryo
    b) Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up
10. Dark Globe


This “re-imaging” is the second of a trilogy of albums that asks the question “What if Syd Barrett hadn’t been fired from Pink Floyd?”  Vantage Point, the title of which is culled from the lyrics of “Cymbaline” and references the famous cover art of Pink Floyd’s Umma Gumma , is the theoretical album released in 1969 by a Syd Barrett-led Pink Floyd, following my re-imagined 1968’s The Shape of Questions To Heaven and the very real 1967’s The Piper At The Gates of Dawn.  All tracks have been volume-adjusted and most of the songs have been tightly crossfaded for continuity and cohesion.  Two entirely new and original edits of songs were created and one unique remaster to an otherwise forgotten track.

The primary source material for Vantage Point is the second and third recording sessions for Syd Barrett’s The Madcap Laughs in 1969, the third session as even produced by former bandmates Gilmour and Waters.  This allows us musical and conceptual continuity for this re-imagining, as a core group of quality and eccentric compositions can be chosen: “Terrapin”, “No Good Trying” “Love You”, “No Man’s Land”, “Dark Globe”, and “Long Gone”.  These tracks all seem to have a unifying sonic design: Syd Barrett’s signature songwriting, surrounded by atmospheric and post-psychedelic meandering.  No alternate Opal versions were used here, as the album versions all sound sonically complete and coherent (as opposed to the previous Barrett selections on The Shape of Questions To Heaven).  With over half an album already represented, we turn to what the other Pink Floyd members were pre-occupied with when not helping their former bandleader with his debut solo album.

As it turns out, 1969 was a scatter-brained year for Pink Floyd, recording music for two different soundtracks (More and Zabriskie Point) and collecting some of those ideas for a conceptual performance and intended live album, The Massed Gadgets of Auximenes, known by fans as “The Man and The Journey”, in reference to the two suites of experimental and conceptual music contained within.  While a studio version of The Massed Gadgets in itself would be an interesting reconstruction for this blog, Pink Floyd chose to utilize the material in their 1969 album Umma Gumma, a double album with lengthy selections from their current live tour as disc one, and some of the recycled instrumental studio pieces creating disc two, each offered as solo recordings from each member of Pink Floyd.  The chaotic nature of this double album and its preceding projects illustrates Pink Floyd’s search to find their own fate and to exorcise the ghost of Syd Barrett, which haunted them on A Saucerful of Secrets.  It wasn’t until the following year’s Atom Heart Mother in which Pink Floyd began to discover their own voice.

Knowing that at this point in time a Syd Barrett-led Pink Floyd is still a song-based band rather than a largely instrumental and improvisational-based band, “Ibizia Bar”, “The Nile Song” and “Cymbaline” from the Soundtrack From The Film More were chosen to sit alongside the six Barrett songs, fitting perfectly in mood and atmosphere.  In this alternate Barrett-led Pink Floyd timeline, we can presume that the rest of the band harnessed more songwriting weight on their albums, compensating for Barrett’s inevitable decline, and we must represent this on our re-imagining.  A 1969 live staple “Embryo” was taken from Works (which features a crisper remastering done by myself) and was edited into “Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up” from Zabriskie Point.  This creates Pink Floyd’s staple epic psychedelic odyssey album-cut on Vantage Point, as seen with the previous albums’ “Interstellar Overdrive” and my own unique edit of “Golden Hair/Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun”.

The ‘pink’ frosting on this cake would be the concluding track “Dark Globe”, my own unique creation which begins and concludes with the flutes from “The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party”, found on Umma Gumma.  Adding a medieval atmosphere to a song already structurally and melodically reminiscent of European folk ballads, we are left with a melancholy and prophetic closing track that also introduces the aesthetic of my third and final re-imagined Barrett-led Pink Floyd albums…


flac --> wav --> editing in SONAR, Audacity & Goldwave --> flac encoding via TLH lv8
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RE-UP Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett 1968 to 1970. A Fantasy.

I just love fan projects, Floyd especially. I just recently came across these wonderful  "re-imagined" posts by soniclovenoize. Here is the first of three albums put together as if Syd was still in the band, post Piper. It's a great take on Floyds 68-70 work alongside Syds solo work. Beautifully put together and a genuine pleasure to listen to.

 Pink Floyd – The Shape of Questions to Heaven
(a soniclovenoize re-imagining)


Side A:
1.  Vegetable Man
2.  Apples and Oranges
3.  Late Night
4.  Remember A Day
5.  a) Golden Hair
    b) Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun

Side B:
6.  Lanky, Part One
7.  Paint Box
8.  Clowns and Jugglers
9.  Scream Thy Last Scream
10. Jugband Blues


I received a number of requests for this, so I thought I’d give it a try and see how well it comes together.Luckily it seemed to come together rather enjoyably, so here is the first of a trilogy of my re-imagined albums that postulate “What if Syd Barrett hadn’t been dismissed from Pink Floyd?”  The Shape of Questions
to Heaven is the theoretical 1968 follow up to 1967’s The Piper At The Gates of Dawn, and culls material from Pink Floyd’s A Saucerful of Secrets sessions and Syd Barrett’s The Madcap Laughs sessions to create a second album of Syd Barrett-led Pink Floyd, an album that most certainly never was.

At what the band believed to be the height of their popularity in 1967, Pink Floyd witnessed the mental collapse of their lead singer and songwriter Syd Barrett.  Caused by copious amounts of psychedelics and possibly a tendency for madness and erratic behavior in the first place, Barrett was known at that time for blank stares half-way through a Pink Floyd performance, spells in which he would just simply stop playing his guitar and vacantly stare motionless into the audience.  He was becoming unreliable inasmuch as the band resorted to hiring a second guitar player to back Barrett up, a guitarist by the name of David Gilmour.  After sessions for the second album had begun (which would eventually become A Saucerful of Secrets), Barrett’s madness climaxed during a rehearsal in which Barrett attempted to teach his bandmates a new song, allegedly entitled “Have You Got It Yet?”, in which every run-through of the song, Barrett altered the structure so the band could not follow along, and then sung to the band members “Have you got it yet?”  In one of the great moments in Rock History, Roger Waters simply didn’t pick up Syd for rehearsals and Pink Floyd continued without Syd Barrett, the crazy diamond himself.  This era in Pink Floyd’s history can only be remembered in the sole album featuring Syd Barrett as the lead singer/songwriter of Pink Floyd, the psychedelic-pop masterpiece The Piper At The Gates of Dawn.  But no longer does that have to be the case.  

To create this second Syd Barrett-led Pink Floyd album, we must put forth very specific constrictions of what source material to include.  The first of the source material would be the only songs on A Saucerful of Secrets to feature Syd Barrett: “Remember a Day”, “Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun” and of course “Jugband Blues”.  More Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd songs were recorded during these late 1967 recording sessions which didn’t make the album that we can also include: the single release “Apples and Oranges” and “Paint Box” (taken from the Piper At The Gates of Dawn 40th Anniversary remaster and Relics, respectively)as well as the unreleased Barrett-penned “Vegetable Man” and “Scream Thy Last Scream” (taken from The Syd Barrett Tapes bootleg).  Already we have more than half an album!  

After Barrett’s dismissal from Pink Floyd, he gathered himself in 1968 to record his first solo album, The Madcap Laughs.  The album was essentially recorded in three sessions: May-June 1968 with Peter Jenner,April 1969 with Malcolm Jones and July-August with former bandmates David Gilmour and Roger Waters.  
For the sake of chronological continuity, we are only going to utilize the material Barrett recorded in his initial 1968 sessions (swiftly overlooking the overdubs made in 1969, of course), pairing them with the aforementioned material from the A Saucerful of Secrets sessions recorded in late 1967 and early 1968.
Focusing on the material that sonically fits with the previous seven selected Pink Floyd recordings, we are using “Late Night” and an alternate version of “Golden Hair” from The Madcap Laughs remaster, as well as “Clowns and Jugglers” and “Lanky (Part One)” from the Opel remaster.  

The sequence of The Shape of Questions to Heaven was heavily influenced by its actual previous album The Piper At The Gates of Dawn but almost all of the tracks were crossfaded to create a continuous two sides of music (a tactic Pink Floyd would later explore in the following years).  My re-imagining begins 
with a duo of uptempo rockers (“Vegetable Man” and “Apples and Oranges”) before a low-key decent with the following two songs (“Late Night” and “Remember The Day”), allowing the side to slowly wind down.  Side A concludes with an original edit of “Golden Hair” and “Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun”, crossfaded into each other creating a seven-minute epic.  Although placed with a record-flip in-between, the psychedelic-jazz jam “Lanky, Part One” continues the mood set by the previous suite, even staying in the same key and mode.  After the rare stereo mix of Richard Wright’s “Paint Box”, the album picks up for a glorious and increasingly paranoid finish with “Clowns and Jugglers”, “Scream Thy last Scream” and the prophetic “Jugband Blues”.  

The Shape of Questions to Heavens shapes out to be an album very indicative of Syd Barrett’s mindset in 1968.  Although we largely have similar full-band Pink Floyd song arrangements as found on their debut 
psyche-pop debut, the off-kilter songwriting leans towards the bizarre, with two Richard Wright and a Roger Waters-penned song picking up the slack for their slipping songwriter.  We are fairly certain the album would have been a commercial flop, probably too avant-garde for the mainstream 1968 and too lacking in commercial singles, with “Apples and Oranges” the only possible contender (which was a failed single in itself).  Regardless, it is an enjoyable listen and an interesting alternative to A Saucerful of Secrets,and succeeds in creating an album that demonstrates just what Pink Floyd could have done with their lunatic on the grass.  


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RE-UP Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett 1968 to 1970. A Fantasy. Part 3

Pink Floyd – Themes From An Imaginary Western
(a soniclovenoize re-imagining)

Side A:
 1.  Father’s Shout
 2.  Baby Lemonade
 3.  Wined and Dined
 4.  Rise and Shine
 5.  Gigolo Aunt
 6.  Mind Your Throats Please
 7.  Fat Old Sun

Side B:
 8.  Love Song
 9.  Wolfpack
10.  Dominoes
11.  Sunny Side Up
12.  Summer ‘68
13.  Effervescing Elephant
14.  Father’s Shout (Remergence)

This is the final installment of a trilogy of “re-imagined” albums that postulates “What if Syd Barrett hadn’t been fired from Pink Floyd?”   Themes From An Imaginary Western, a title derived from an early moniker of the song “Atom Heart Mother”, is the theoretical album that would have been released in 1970 by a Syd Barrett-led Pink Floyd, following my other two re-imagined albums, 1969’s Vantage Point and 1968’s The Shape of Questions To Heaven.  The entire album has been crossfaded and edited into two continuous sides of music with the “Atom Heart Mother” theme bookending the album, an aesthetic first explored by Pink Floyd at this time and continued for most of their career; it seemed appropriate for this material.

Themes From An Imaginary Western uses Syd Barrett’s second and final solo album Barrett and Pink Floyd’s Atom Heart Mother as source material, as both albums were recorded around the same time.  As we’ve already established, a Syd Barrett-led Pink Floyd would have primarily been a singles-oriented band, as opposed to the largely improvisational, instrumental and experimental quartet Pink Floyd of the late 60s.  This was an easy ethos to mimic on my first two re-imaginings, but the task is much more difficult here, as Pink Floyd’s contributions from Atom Heart Mother began to solidify the artistic visions that saw the creation of the classic Pink Floyd albums throughout the decade.

My solution was to design Themes From An Imaginary Western as a collection of the decidedly Pink Floydian Barrett solo tracks, all interconnected with instrumental passages from Atom Heart Mother.  This seemed to be an appropriate choice, as the more low-key, less schizophrenic and honestly slick early 70s pop-production of many of the Barrett tracks seemed to pair well with the sound of Atom Heart Mother, a sound Pink Floyd continued to refine.  After much sequencing work was done, we are left with two sides of music that find this Barrett-led Floyd attempting a new musical direction, maybe a response to the lack of obvious hit singles from their last two albums.  Themes From An Imaginary Western, while not immediately abrasive, galactic or even heavy, is at least cohesive in sound and design and introduces the following album, the band’s first foray without Syd Barret, Meddle.

Beginning Side A, the main theme from “Atom Heart Mother” (subtitled “A Father’s Shout”, and is indicated as such here) was used to introduce the album and somehow fits perfectly crossfaded into “Baby Lemonade”, which in turn is hard edited into “Wined and Dined”.  An instrumental interlude in the form of “Rise and Shine” (from “Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast”) introduces “Gigolo Aunt”, which is crossfaded into a piece of the experimental section of “Atom Heart Mother” (subtitled “Mind Your Throats Please”) and finally into Gimour’s contribution to the album, the majestic side-closer “Fat Old Sun”.  Side B begins with the closest to a hit single on this album, “Love Song”, followed by the paranoiac “Wolfpack”.  “Dominoes” segues into another instrumental interlude culled from “Alan’s Psychedelic Breakfast” (subtitled “Sunny Side Up”) which leads into the epic “Summer ‘68”.  Barrett’s last word with Pink Floyd becomes one of his most noteworthy songs, the child-like “Effervescing Elephant”, crossfaded into the grand finale of the album, the closing reprise of the “Atom Heart Mother” theme (subtitled “Remergence”).

This unfortunately must be the final Syd Barrett-led Pink Floyd album, as he simply ceased to make music after this point.  What few recordings we have from an attempted third solo album in 1974 are musically miserable and organizationally scant, unsuitable for any release, let alone an Album That Never Was.  It’s just as well, as Themes From An Imaginary Western is symbolic of the end of an era for this proposed Pink Floyd.  Listening, we can clearly hear a Syd Barrett simply running out of steam, the arrangements relying on typical post-psychedelic pop forays and arbitrary lyrical subject matter.  We can also hear the rest of the band beginning to surpass their once-leader, ready to tackle broader concepts paired with refined songwriting.  This is the farewell album that, in real life, Pink Floyd never got to make with Syd.  Instead, his ghost haunted Pink Floyd’s albums for some time.  With this trilogy complete, maybe Syd Barrett’s bones can finally rest.


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