Pink Floyd Animals in 5.1 Speculation, Now Pricing & Shipping thread starting Page 248

I saw the 75 tour in LA also. Not the first night of weirdness. But somebody passed a joint down the row in front of me and the cops literally arrested the entire row.

I remember buying a tour book for the show. Except it was a comic book. I think David G. was shown in a dialog bubble as noting that the band is extremely lazy....

 

As they were singing: “You can’t always git what you want”. Misspelling is intentional.

 

So many Roger rants, so little time.

 

Apologies in advance for reviving a thorny subject - but as for the absence of releasable recordings from the 1977 In the Flesh Tour . . . When you consider the crappy sounding bootleg recordings from 1970-1972 that Pink Floyd officially released through streaming services earlier this year, it's hard for me to take Nick Mason's claims seriously. While none of the shows on that tour were recorded to multitrack, they did record every show on a Nakamichi cassette deck. And anyone who has heard the Led Zeppelin soundboard recordings from the same period knows that a cassette soundboard tape can sound pretty darn good. And they were playing large venues on that tour, so a recording of the PA mix should have been pretty well balnced, unlike soundboard reocrdings of concerns at small venues, where much of the sound comes from stage amps. While it seems pretty clear at this point that the Animals reissue will not include any live recordings, why can't they simply release the best recording they have through the streaming services? And if they don't have anything that beats the Oakland audience recording, why not just release that?

 

Re: the Oakland recording, why release it if it's already been available for YEARS in pretty much great quality? Who would pay for that? If you want to I will gladly sell you a transfer of my 1st gen tape for $100.

 

Does it come with marbles?

 

www.archive.org/details/PinkFloyd1975TourComicBook/mode/2up

 

I find this page from the '75 tour book to be a fun and insightful read.

 

@Cool hand luke You're Rick Wright's favourite film

Also, I have that comic rag, it was reproduced and packaged with an issue of RollingStone. The pages are out of order though. Every band member got a double-page "story" which is quite amusing. Especially Rich Right - he's rich and he's right!

And there was also one of Gerald Scarfe's first works for the band in form of an extremely exaggerated caricature of the band.

 

No,. but it does come with a Scarf(e)....

 

I notice right above that his favorite food is boiled eggs, I wonder how many he can eat!

 

You just reminded me I have a small poster of that somewhere, I have to dig it out.

 

If none of these live recordings are released then it will be pretty clear that Gilmour doesn't think that they're up to his standards.

 

To my knowledge, these were not recordings from the desk, but open air mic recordings.

But apart from that i agree with your sentiment.

 

Page 245 - kiss that SACD release goodbye

 

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<<To my knowledge, these were not recordings from the desk, but open air mic recordings. But apart from that i agree with your sentiment.>>

Open air mic recordings - at leasat one with high quality microphones positioned on stands at the mixing desk - should still sound pretty good - certainly on par with, if not better than, the best audience recordings of Pink Floyd from that era. Even if Dave, Nick and Roger don't think these recordings are good enough to include with the Animals reissue, having previously authorized the digital release of bootleg recordings, I can't see why they would object to a digital-only release of at least one of the open air recordings.

 

I get it. But then again, Gilmour didn't block the release of the bootleg recordings from 1970-1972.

 

Different animal altogether and those "boots" were not released under Pink Floyd Records.

 

Does anyone think there are any recordings, open air or otherwise, that haven't already circulated? Do we know for a fact that the band has tapes, soundboard or otherwise?

 

If they had a soundboard recording good enough to give all those bootlegs a retirement, then the release is worth the money

 

weren’t those just copyright releases…meaning it’s been over 50 years so in the public domain?

Also, can we stop the marble jokes? It was funny the first 500 times I heard it or so..I get it, nobody wants the damn marbles. I’ve lost mine apparently if I start arguing on the internets again…

 

I want to keep my marbles. Thanks.

 

Did anyone see my last marble
As it rolled out and over the floor?
It fell through a hole in the corner...

 

Cops at a show, now that is weird. In fifty years of concert going I've seen that happen once. June 10 1982 local radio had announced "The Rolling Stones" would be playing a show at the Liverpool Empire under the guise of "Freddie McGreggor and the Studio One Band". It wasn't the "Rolling Stones", "Freddie McGreggor" it was (a Reggae act from Jamaica). A few Cops hung around the back of the Theatre for about firteen/ twenty mins in case there was trouble then left.