My apologies if this has already been shared. Legacy Records has just released 17 concerts from 1972. I see them for streaming on Spotify and for sale on HDTracks in 48/24. Hopefully this is the beginning of a new wave of archival releases from the band which will make available bootlegs obsolete. Live at Southampton Guildhall, UK, 23 January 1972 Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 5 Feb 1972 Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London 18 Feb 1972 Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London 19 Feb 1972 Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London 20 Feb 1972 Live at the Taiikukan, Tokyo, Japan, 3 Mar 1972 Live at Osaka Festival Hall, Japan, 8 Mar 1972 Live at Nakajima Sports Centre, Sapporo, Japan, 13 Mar 1972 Live at Chicago Auditorium Theatre, USA, 28 April 1972 Live at the Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany, 18 May 1972 Live at The Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland 09:12:72 Live at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 22 Sept 1972 Live at the Empire Pool, Wembley, London, 21 Oct 1972 Live at Ernst-Merck Halle, Hamburg, Germany, 12 Nov 1972 Live at the Palais des Sports, Poitiers, France 29 Nov 1972 Live at the Palais des Sports de L'Ile de la Jatte, Saint Ouen, France, 01 Dec 1972 Live at the Vorst Nationaal, Brussels, Belgium, 5 Dec 1972 plus a collection of rare tracks Alternative Tracks 1972 1. Speak To Me / Breathe (In The Air) (Trance Remix Version) 07:52 2. On the Run (Demo Version) 03:13 3. Time / Breathe (In The Air) (reprise) (Ultra Rare Alternative Version) 06:03 4. Us and Them (Ultra Rare Alternative Version) 5:26 5. Any Colour You Like (Trance Remix Version) 7:32
Another copyright dump (EU 50 years rule), see the 2021 drop: 12 Rare Live Pink Floyd Albums Appear on Streaming Services The releases will vanish sooner or later, so if anyone who wants to have them 'officially' should betetr be quick.
Those alternative tracks are interesting! No indication who did the trance remixes, does anyone know anything about these?
Sadly, your optimism is misplaced. As noted above, these are merely existing bootlegs. The Carnegie Hall recording is from the 2nd May, as the intrepid taper is heard saying at the beginning. So maybe they didn't even listen to it ! Just another "dinosaur" legacy band protecting their IP in the EU. Won't stop the bootleggers, who endlessly recycle titles.
It's merely a few tracks from this totally underwhelming ROIO: Pink Floyd - A Darker Side Of The Moon The "ultra rare alternative versions" are merely early mixes of the album versions. Incomplete ones at that. "Trance Remix." Ugh. P.S. There are 19 of the live b00ts.
You can listen to song samples on HD Tracks. I did some random listening to different shows and it's a real mixture of quite average audience recordings to some quite good ones.
Those Rainbow Theatre concerts might have been BBC concerts and they will remain my favorite live Pink Floyd.
Strange that HDTracks is selling those. In other similar situations (publishing recordings for the sake of copyright extension), the bands/labels simply uploaded some tracks on Youtube. Selling a concert on HDtracks creates the expectation on the side of the customer that it's a real album release, well edited, with good sound.
Just listened to a few seconds of Breathe from all of them very quickly before work this morning to judge sound quality. Only ones that I would consider purchasing would be the London 2/20/72 and the Berlin 5/18/72 shows because they are the ones that sound the best. Most of the others were clearly the "some guy in the audience seated 40 rows back with a handheld recorder" job. Not that the ones that I listened to aren't, but I found their sound quality a cut above the rest. As for performance, I can't say; I'm sure that all of the shows had great performances because Pink Floyd is one of the best bands in the history of rock music and were at their peak live. EDIT: Listening to "Money" from the London show, I'm going to have to say that perhaps the Berlin one is the only one worth listening to or downloading. The others are rough to mediocre.
The 1972 Chicago show is one of my favorite audience recorded bootlegs by any band. Sound is decent and really has an atmosphere to it. However only the first set is up on Amazon. The second set has an absolutely killer "Set The Controls...". The version of "Echoes" has some very drunk and/or stoned guy who obviously felt it his duty to remind everyone who was on stage by yelling PINK FLOYD every few seconds during the spacey part. Good times.
Some of you have never collected and listened to audience recordings from the early '70s and it shows lol. I'm one of those people that really LOVE audience recordings, although I certainly enjoy the excellent quality ones much more than the awful sounding recordings. But I consider them historical documents and as both a history teacher for 26 years and a music lover all of my life, they fit perfectly within my wheelhouse.
I've done some quality control ! The Carnegie Hall concert is not even the best (IMHO) version available ! I also discovered that I downloaded it in 2011. It's out there if "you know where to look ". Good hunting.
I think these (or a good portion of them) have been on Amazon Music for quite a while. Which makes this a little weirder, beyond "I wonder if we can make some money on audience recordings." But you know some HDTracks purchasers are going to rush into this and are not going to be pleased.
For me Rainbow 20/02/72 is the one to go. It's the best and most stable quality throughout the whole concert. I've listented to it twice today already.
