Pink Floyd The Early Years 1965-1972 -Anticip/ation

I always wonder what this means in practice. Because even if the material is PD, the physical recording still belongs to the record company, no? I mean they're not just going to leave it out on the doorstep for someone to come along and pick it up.

 

Obviously so the Floyd can have their own "Carnival of Light" to keep fans wanting more. ;-)

Seriously though, do we know for a fact that the 10+ minute studio recording of "Reaction in G" still exists, and is in their possession? Because as a Syd fan, of course I would love to hear it. Then again I'd also love to hear "She Was a Millionaire," and I guess it's been accepted that it no longer exists. Although I did see someone claim that the instrumental "No Title (Sunshine/Experiment)" could in fact be the backing track to Millionaire, and that this is all that was completed. Don't know if there is any truth to that theory however.

 

It's on the same reel as In The Beechwoods, so they obviously auditioned.

 

I don't know why, if you spend over £300 on a boxset, they don't just allow you access to some part of their website that allows you to download additional content not considered 'good enough' for the actual physical release. Didn't Neil Young do that with his Archives thingy?

 

The short snippet of Reaction in G posted above sounds really good. If it exists, I can't help wondering why it was not put alongside the Latham tracks on CD2.

How come that snippet is on You Tube?

 

Does Young own all his own catalogue? I presume so as he seems to be controlling all his own re-issues. If he owns it then that enables him to do this archival download option, and maybe it needs more people like him to show how it can be done.

But who actually owns the PF tapes? Is it the band or the record company?

Of course as I've said, not all artists want everything put out there. Lou Reed didn't.

 

That sounds like perfect Easter egg material - I acknowledge it is holy-grailesque for me but it's probably more important symbolically than potent as an official part of a tracklist.

 

Putting money in a boxset doesn't grant you artistic agency.
Vaults are closed for a reason. Everything you need is in what you get.

 

It was broadcast as theme music for Beat Club news in 1969

 

This one will not be in the box ???!!!

 

Interesting quesion, because these new LP reissues and the upcoming mega box are on the Pink Floyd Records label. Not EMI anymore. In association with Columbia, which I assume is the distributor, at least in the U.S. Do the Floyd license the recordings for their own label or do they now actually own them?

 

I just checked. From the recent new CDs, it says owned by PF Music and marketed and distributed by Sony.

 

The Warners deal was to buy the Pink Floyd catalog and some others like Radiohead on the Parlophone label. Not sure if the arrangement has been changed now with the new stuff this year. Seems like it, as Parlophone is not the label they are using anymore.

 

Some of the PF catalogue was already owned by PF and licensed to EMI Ltd (Div Bell, for example). but I don't think this applied to the early works.

 

This is quite amazing.

 

I'm interested in creating a playlist of non-album 1967 recordings featuring Syd that could have been used on an LP as a follow-up to Piper that had more Syd involvement. What tracks would those be? Apples & Oranges, Scream Thy Last Scream...?

 

Doesn't "Remember a Day" feature a lot of Syd guitar? Yeah, it was actually on Saucerful, but I think it fits the brief.

 

Apples, Scream, Vegetable Man, Beechwoods, Jugband, Remember, Set the Controls, Paintbox, Reaction in G...
Would've been great!

 

Or a first time stereo mix of Arnold Layne
First time stereo mix of Candy and a Currant Bun
Scream Thy Last Scream with a Syd lead vocal
Etc., etc.

I don't think we're talking about scraping the bottom of the barrel with what is left.

 

Great idea if it works (technically) and is maintained. The Who had Q-Cloud for the Quadrophenia Super Deluxe set and now it's just very buggy. Also, several tracks mentioned as forthcoming to the cloud never were released.

 

Right, it has nothing to do with the physical recordings. The 3rd parties have to find the sources themselves, so unless they can tap into something uncirculated, it's basically going to be whatever is out on bootleg.

 

I don't think there is a lot of unreleased audio and video after 1972, but it would be great to see a second set like this!

 

I think the box set promo video seems to start with footage that is not explicitly listed in the PDF of the contents. So, is that video of Syd dancing around in the parking lot (there's more to it, as well) the menu screen of one of the DVDs, or is it an Easter Egg? Unclear.

Edit: Actually, the first track on the Cambridge St/ation DVD includes "Pink Floyd at EMI studios," which is probably this dancing Syd footage.

 

It's the Chapter 24 video listed in the contents.

 

Even with royalties, I'll bet they can still come in quite under $500 for 27 discs. Even if the product was only slightly cheaper, it still pulls away sales. But price aside, the artists don't want to lose control over the release over their work. They are obviously concerned about it, given all the copyright securing releases being put out.