Pink Floyd bootleg recordings
The Pink Floyd bootleg recordings are a collection of audio recordings of musical performances by the British rock band Pink Floyd, which were never officially released by the band, or under any other legal authority. The recordings consist of both live performances and outtakes from studio sessions unavailable as a legal release. Since Pink Floyd has not released a live album with a recording of a concert from the seventies, their bootlegs are widely collected by fans.
Some bootlegs exist in several versions because many listeners have recorded performances at the same time. Pink Floyd was a group that has protected its sonic performance, making hacking difficult. Few concerts have been broadcast, especially as regards the golden age of the group, from 1966 to 1981.[1]
Pink Floyd was one of the mainstays of the bootleg industry in the seventies.[2][3] In 1999, the group was mentioned on BPI's list of most bootlegged British artists of all time.[4]
One of the best known ROIO's by Pink Floyd is "Best of Tour '72: Live at the Rainbow Theatre" with a concert performed on February 20th, 1972. This bootleg includes one of the first performances of The Dark Side of the Moon. One year and one month before the official release of Pink Floyd's magnum opus (1973), the bootleg had already sold over 120,000 copies.[5]
In 2008, the Pink Floyd bootleg "Madison Square Garden, New York, NY – July 2, 1977" was mentioned on the Yahoo's Top 10 of Best Bootlegs of All Time.[6]
Earliest bootlegs
Most of Pink Floyd's early bootlegs concern performances from the European A Saucerful of Secrets Tour and the A Saucerful of Secrets US Tour. Most of the early bootlegs were released by the label "Ace Bootlegs Production".
| Bootleg title | Recording details | Notes |
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| Feed Your Head | Star Club, Copenhagen, Danmark, September 13th, 1967 | audience recording, also released as "Wonderful, wonderful Kopenhagen" and "Starclub Psycho" |
| Playhouse Theatre | The Playhouse Theatre, London, United Kingdom, September 25th, 1967 | also released as "Hippy Happy Fair" |
| The Live Pink Floyd - Oude Ahoy Hallen | Rotterdam, The Netherlands, November 13th, 1967 | audience recording |
| Rome Vpro (Broadcast) | First European International Pop Festival, Piper Club, Rome, Italy, May 6th, 1968 | |
| Paradiso Amsterdam | Club Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, May 23rd, 1968 | audience recording, also released as "Syncopated Pandemonium" |
| Live in Amsterdam - Fantasio Club | Fantasio Club, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2nd concert on May 23rd, 1968 | |
| Shrine Exposition Hall | Shrine Exposition Hall, Los Angeles, July 27th, 1968 | audience recording, includes 15:57 version of A Saucerful of Secrets |
| Utrecht '68 | Margriethal Jaarburs, Utrecht, The Netherlands, December 28th, 1968 | also released as "Owed to Syd Barrett" |
1969
| Bootleg title | Recording details | Notes |
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| Sounds Resounds Around | St. James Hall, Chesterfield, United Kingdom, March 27th, 1969 | soundboard recording including a 16 minutes version of Interstellar Overdrive and a 19:13 version of A Saucerful of Secrets |
| The Massed Gadget of Auximenes | Royal Festival Hall, London, April 14th, 1969 | audience recording with a performance of The Man and The Journey |
| Beset by the Creatures of the Deep | University of Southampton, England, May 9th, 1969 | |
| From the Master Tape | Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England, June 22nd, 1969 | released by the label Ayanami, also released as " The Labyrinths of Auximenes" |
| A Man and his Lunacy | Royal Albert Hall, London, June 29, 1969 | audience recording |
| Plumpton Race Track | Plumpton Race Track, East Sussex, London, August 8th, 1969 | audience recording also released as "The Journey Through The Past", live at 9th National Jazz Pop Ballads & Blues Festival, includes a 20:26 version of A Saucerful of Secrets |
| Complete Concertgebouw | Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, September 17th, 1969 | soundboard recording also released as "A Man and the Journey", "Amsterdam 69 (Swingin' Pig Version) and "Amsterdam 1969 (Harvest)", plans for an official live album release of The Man and the Journey were considered, but abandoned due to overlap of material with Ummagumma. |
| Essener Pop Festival | Essener International Pop Festival, Essen, RFA, October 11th, 1969 | released by the label 'Man Of Leisure Music', also released as "Essen" and "Song Days '69" |
| Amougies Pop Festival | Amougies Pop & Jazz Festival, Mont-de-l'Enclus, Belgium, Octobre 25th, 1969 | first part of a unique concert in Belgium with Frank Zappa as special guest. The complete concert was released on "Interstellar Zappadrive" by Harvested. The songs Green is the Colour, Careful with That Axe, Eugene and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun are in soundboard quality, but were performed without Frank Zappa.[7] |
| Afan Lido | Port Talbot, Wales, December 6th, 1969 | audience recording, released by Man of Leisure Music. |
1970: Atom Heart Mother tour
| Bootleg title | Recording details | Date | Notes |
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| Biding My Time in Croydon | Fairfield Hall, Croydon, England | January 18th, 1970 | contains a 2:20 concert with an early prototype of Atom Heart Mother (than called The Amazing Pudding, 24:34), The Violent Sequence (a 15 minutes song with the piano sequence of Us and Them included), Main Theme from More (14:02) and A Saucerful of Secrets (16:54). The bootleg contains also a track from December 22th, 1970, Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast (24.46) called. |
| Elysees Floyd | Théâtre du Rond-Point des Champs Elysées | January 23th, 1970 | a part of this concert was also released as "The Man-Live in Paris", "Paris 23/01/1970" and "Broadcast from Europe" (containing 3 songs from the performance at Palais des Sports in Lyon on June 12th, 1971) |
| Project Birmingham | Town Hall, Birmingham, England, | February 12th, 1970 | audience recording including Atom Heart Mother (25:27), a 12 minutes version of The Embryo and Sysyphus (12:09) |
| The Amazing Pudding | Town Hall, Birmingham, England, February 11th, 1970 | February 11th, 1970 | audience recording including The Violence Sequence (26:31) |
| Six of one | Leeds University, Yorkshire, England | February 28th, 1970 | contains 6 tracks of over 10 minutes each with a long performance of A Saucerful of Secrets (29:57) |
| A Trick of the Light | Auditorium Maximum, Hamburg University, West Germany | March 12th, 1970 | released by label 'World Production of Compact Music' |
| The Injustice of a Kaleidoscope of Sound | Konzert Saal, Technische Universität, West Berlin, West Germany | March 13th, 1970 | also released as 'Richard, Are You Ready Yet?', this bootleg includes a 15:29 version of 'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun' |
| Masters of the Mystic Arts | Meistersinger Halle, Nuremberg, Germany | March 14th, 1970 | |
| Hanover | Niedersachsen Halle Hannover, Germany | March 15th, 1970 | |
| Lund | Akademiska Forningens, Lund, Sweden, | March 20th, 2010 | |
| Genuine New York 70 | University of New York, Long Island | April 11th, 1970 | released by the labels Monkey Records and Highland (as Trademark Moo) |
| Port Chester '70 | Port Chester, New York | April 22nd, 1970 | contains a long versions of The Embryo (15:36), Cymbaline (16:24) and Astronomy Domine (13:06) |
| Interstellar Fillmore | Fillmore West, San Francisco, California | April 29th, 1970 | soundboard recording, also released as "Interstellar Encore" and as "Embryo" |
| KQED | KQED TV Studios, San Francisco, California | April 30th, 1970 | Broadcast recording, also released as "Colourful Meadows" |
| Fat Old Gig | California, Philadelphia, Birmingham, Sheffield | April 29th, September 26th, February 2nd, December 22nd, 1970 | 4 discs bootleg, also partially released as "Electric Factory", "Electric Factory (Harvested version) and "On Top of the World" |
| Live in Santa Monica | Santa Monica, Civic center, California | May 1, 1970 | audience recording, another bootleg named "Santa Monica Civic Auditorium" contains a registration of the same concert |
| Bath Festival | Bath Festival of Blues & Progressive music, Shepton Mallet, England | June 26, 1970 | released by the label Ayanami |
| Stamping Ground | Kralingen Pop Festival, The Netherlands | June 28, 1970 | This bootleg is released by the label Highland and includes a long version of Interstellar Overdrive (18:55) |
| The Theme from an Imaginary Western | Soersfestival 3-Day Open Air Festival, Aachen Soerser Stadium, Aachen, Germany | July 12th, 1970 | released by R.D.Productions, also released as "Soersfestival in Aachen/ A Heavenly Ride" |
| Phenomena | BBC studios and Paris Cinema, London | July 17th, 1970 and September 19th, 1970 | released by Manic Depression, 2 discs with BBC Top Gear sessions and 2 BBC concerts. This essential bootleg is also released under the names "BBC Archives 1970-1971", "Libest Spacement Monitor", "Pink is the Pig" (with a 1969 version of Point Me in the Sky), "Mooed Music" and "Eclipse" |
| Free Hyde Park Concert | Blackhills Garden Party, Hyde Park, London | July 18th, 1970 | contains only 4 tracks |
| Foreign Legion | Saint-Tropez, France and Palais des Sports, Lyon, France | August 8th, 1970 and June 12th, 1971 | released by the label Head, audience recording |
| Fête de l'Humanité | Fête de L’Humanité, Bois de Vincennes, Paris, France | September 12th, 1970 | audience recording released by the label "Cochon Productions" |
| Fillmore East 27 September 1970 | Fillmore East, New York City | September 27th, 1970 | |
| Sing to me Cymbaline | Santa Monica Civic Center, California | October 23th, 1970 | |
| Mind Your Throats Please | Concertgebouw, Amsterdam | November 6th, 1970 | contains a long version of 'Fat Old Sun' (15:06) |
| Remergence | Grote Zaal, De Doelen, Rotterdam, The Netherlands | November 7th, 1970 | |
| Pictures of Pink Floyd, vol. 1 | Gothenburg, Sweden and Stadthalle, Offenbach, Germany | November 11th, 1970 and February 26th, 1971 | also released as "The Pictures of Pink Floyd: restoration project" and "Command Performance" |
| Copenhagen Sequence | Falkoner Centre, Copenhagen, Denmark | November 12th, 1970 | Also released as "70/11/12", contains the track 'Libest Spacement Monitor'. |
| Denmark Behind Us | Aarhus, Denmark | November 13th, 1970 | |
| Ernst-Merck Halle | Ernst-Merck Halle, Hamburg, Germany | November 14th, 1970 | also released as 'Grooving with a Pict', includes the track 'Moonhead (Corrosion)' (13:28) |
| Smoking Blues | Casino de Montreux, Switserland | November 21th, 1970 | also released as "Montreux Casino 1970", "Reeling on Pink Floyd" and "The Good…The Bad", soundboard recording including "Just Another Twelve Bar" |
| Mounting Pressure | Friedrich Ebert Halle, Ebertpark, Ludwigshafen, Germany | November 25th, 1970 | |
| The Killsberg Tapes | Killsberg Halle, Stuttgart, Germany | November 26th, 1970 | |
| Cirkus Krone | Cirkus Krone, Munich, Germany | November 29th, 1970 | |
| A Psychedelic Night | City Hall, Sheffield, England | December 22nd, 1970 | also released as "Alan Psychedelic Mastertape" and "Rise And Shine" (last mentioned bootleg is considered to contain the best version of "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" , the bootleg "A Psychedelic Night" includes Atom Heart Mother (31:25 + reprise 2:36), A Saucerful of Secrets (23:22) and Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast (19:08) |
1971
At least 34 bootlegs of different concerts from 1971 were released (not counting the several bootlegs of each concert)
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Playing 98 shows in 1972, the most until 1994, Pink Floyd debuted the live performance of their album The Dark Side of the Moon before its release not of a song but a whole album. A lot of bootlegs dates back from this period. Most of these bootlegs contain a pre-release version of The Dark Side of the Moon.
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In the Flesh Tour
The Division Bell Tour
The 1994 West Coast Trip
The 1994 West Coast Trip is a live bootleg by Pink Floyd.
Track Listing
All songs written by David Gilmour except where noted:
- Astronomy Domine (Syd Barrett) - 4:15
- Learning to Fly (Gilmour) - 5:10
- What Do You Want From Me (Gilmour) - 4:16
- Take it Back (Gilmour) - 6:12
- Lost for Words (Gilmour) - 6:07
- Sorrow (Gilmour) - 9:42
- A Great Day for Freedom (Gilmour) - 5:06
- Keep Talking (Gilmour) - 6:56
- One of These Days (Gilmour) - 5:44
- Shine on You Crazy Diamond (Roger Waters) 11:30
- Breathe (Waters) - 2:50
- Time (Waters) - 6:57
- High Hopes (Gilmour) - 7:53
- Wish You Were Here (Waters) - 6:08
- Another Brick in the Wall (Waters) - 6:27
- The Great Gig in the Sky (Waters) - 5:20
- Us and Them - 7:27
- Money (Waters) - 8:20
- Comfortably Numb (Waters) - 9:35
- Hey You (Waters) - 4:46
- Run Like Hell (Waters) - 7:24
References
- ^ Ace Bootlegs, Pink Floyd
- ^ Clinton Heylin, Bootleg: the rise & fall of the secret recording industry, Omnibus Press, 2003
- ^ Ace Bootlegs, Pink Floyd
- ^ Led Zeppelin: The Most Bootlegged Band In The U.K., Yahoo! Music, July 5, 1999
- ^ Bigozine, ROIO of the Week, Best Of Tour '72 - Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, UK, Feb 20, 1972
- ^ Yahoo, The 10 Best Bootlegs of All Time, Thu Oct 9, 2008
- ^ Pink Floyd, 1969 bootlegs, with Frank Zappa