Sun, 5 October 2008
Show #119 Release date: 05. October, 2008 This podcast is what it is. It’s collection of some of my favorite tracks, not featured in a while and others I tooled around with. Enjoy! 01. Remember A Day [Later…With Jools Holland, 23 September, 2008] 02. The Doctor (Comfortably Numb demo) 03. Return of the Son of Nothing [Berliner Sportspalast, W. Berlin, W. Germany, 5. June, 1971] 04. Childhood's End [Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland, 9. December, 1972] 05. High Hopes (The Doctored "remix") [AOL Sessions, New York City, 6. April 2006] (with 2002 Meltdown chorus mixed in) 06. Time (alternate version/lead guitar removed) 07. You Gotta Be Crazy [Los Angeles Sports Arena, 26. April 1975] 08. Barn Jam 166 [Live In Gdansk, Disc 4] 09. Astronomy Domine [Abbey Road Studios, 29, August, 2006/ ‘Look of The Week’, 14. May 1967] 10. The Trial (orchestral version) 11. Outside The Wall (brass version) 12. Waiting For The Worms (megaphone version) Running time: 1h:42m:19s Photo: adventureduo.com Comments[35]
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- Thanks Doc!
I've been loving the shows since I discovered them a few weeks ago. (I wish there was a Yes fanatic who did something similar...)
Not just the shows, but the commentary, the historical background of significant moments....I never heard any of the live Obscured by Clouds until I found your site, or the Zappa-Floyd jam. Anyhoo, very cool. I've been in geek heaven for a couple of weeks.
I was gonna suggest a show of alternate lyrics - shows were lyrics got changed - Shine on you crazy bastard, or Bowling {see Guy Pratt's book, or early versions of songs with prototype lyrics, or mistakes where verses got sung out of order. But you kind of beat me to it with the Son of Return of Nothing here followed by the You Gotta be Crazy.
Whatever, I'm sure I'll enjoy it whatever it is.
Thanks for flying the flag, and I promise to buy a t-shirt one of these days... - Beautiful as always, Doc. While I mainly prefer whole concerts, these mixed shows are a really special treat. They take a whole lot more work to put together and your efforts are supremely appreciated. Many thanks and keep it shinin' on! (Oops, wrong band! :)
golgo - Finally - got the chance to download it.
Truely one of Dcotor's top podcasts. Interesting and memorable.
Doctor the Great, the collector of the best stuff in our era... and sometimes the creator of the best stuff in our era... you know, regarding track 5 of this podcast...
Thank you - Alfred. When I said a live obscured by clouds podcast. I thought that maybe half the songs have been done live by either floyd or members doing solo shows. To make up the rest maybe some live tracks from tribute bands could fill in some of the missing gaps, and for the rest well that would be up to the Doc to sort out. I think it could be worth it if all but maybe two tracks could be found live in one way or another. I love obsured by cloud and I feel it is one of floyds most overlooked albums even by people who claim to be devoted fans. Anyway it was just a selfish idea I just want copies of all albums Live. I know deep down that it is impossible but it does not stop me wanting them. The one I want more than any other is Amused to death, my most played album ever, I know what god want parts 1 and 3 were played live with jeff beck (not sure if they have ever been on any of the previous shows)and quite a few tracks other tracks have been played live but there are too many gaps to make it worth while in my opinion. Anyway, Doc knows best as every single show has ooozed the highest quality, I am totaly blown away when I look at my ipod and see that brain damage now has a ruuning time of over 1 week thats 7.1 days which works out at 170 hours and 40 minutes.
Love you doc. - doc thankyou sooo much for doing what you do here. omg its fantastic to hear all of this music and concerts. you are sooo great at putting this stuff together and cleaning them up to sound so sweat!
question. is there a way u can do podcasts of the whole wall concerts. i dont know how many there were. i remember one, of when the group stopped the show ,because of the burning curtian. i have lost that show. wouldnt mind hearing it again one day.
doc thankyou soooooooo much for your websight and for making us pink floyd fans all over the world soooo happy. thumbs way up high!
kenny - thanks for the info Doc.
I had pictured the megaphone at about 40 feet long & 10 feet in diameter ( ??? alien contraption capturing and transmitting Brain waves...perhaps to monitor the species' "Brain Damage"...???)
.....turns out its about 6 feet long.
Still a provocative and iconic photo.posted by: Michael from South Carolina on 2008-10-07 13:54:00
- Thanks guys! I appreciate all the compliments and feedback. It means a lot to me.
The alternate lyrics for Return of the Son of Nothing (Echoes) are;
Planets singing face to face
Bound to the air of life, how sweet!
If purposely we might embrace
The perfect union deep in space
Ever might this once relent
And give us leave to shine as one
Our two lights {singing better
Than one light can}
And in that longing to be one
The parting {suns shine as one}
I'll see you've got to travel on
And on and on, around the sun
{...} = difficult to make out
The photo is a Desert Megaphone. I found it by searching "no rhyme no reason" in Google's image search. Seemed rather fitting with Waiting For The Worms.
You can see other cool photos and read about it at adventureduo.com. Apparently there is "no rhyme no reason" for it being there. - If Maff's still reading, the only two tracks played live from Obscured By Clouds were "Obscured By Clouds" and "When You're In", although there should be versions of "The Gold It's In The..." or other tracks like that from Dave Gilmour's solo tours and perhaps even "Free Four" on either his or Roger's solo tours. It would be interesting to hear what they'd sound like mixed together.
- Actually, I correct myself, I didn't notice the "Childhood's End" on the podcast playlist (which throws out what I'd learnt from a previous podcast). I love the version of "Return of the Son of Nothing", it makes me wonder where that "pop" sounding keyboard part during the "jam" section went for later recordings.
I second Fat Old Jack's request for the "Games For May" concert, but I'm not sure there's a bootleg of it, if there was a time machine I'd like to see what the UFO and Roundhouse performances sounded like as well. - doc, you outdid yourself on this one. already among my favourites. I really, really love these sorts of shows, there's a really nice looseness to them to get lost in. high hopes superdoctored is absoutely stunning, I hope you'll get some wider recognition for this, very well engineered.
anybody else thinks it's no coincidence david's looking at those old animals era pics of his during barn jam 166 on disk 4 when playing a very uhm somewhat 77/78 lapsteel guitar? - Fantastic, very enjoyable show as usual. I like the ones where you talk after every few songs or so as opposed to the 2/3 snippets from entire shows.
I guess it didn't really fit the theme, but no "The Blue" from jools? I guess it'll be a treat to hear on a future Podcast.
Cheers
- Nice one Doc-
Love the alternate versions of Dogs and Echoes included here, and the barn jam was great! Not sure if you have already done it, but how's about doing A "The Man And The Journey" podcast. The 9/69 Amsterdam performance is my all time favorite Floyd ROIO. I'd love to hear some other performances from that tour, doctored for super sound, of course.
Also, I would LOVE to hear the complete Games For May concert from 5/12/67. If any tapes even exist from that show, I know YOU would have them. - Nothing. Then the Son of Nothing. Finally the Return of the Son of Nothing. An amalgam of themes & riffs that became Echoes, in my mind, their greatest work. In this case Rick's keyboards were what held it all together, making it a cohesive whole, greater than it's parts. Thanks, Doc, for the opportunity to hear Echoes in its infancy.
- Absolutly love these type of mixed up shows. I also love the live albums shows you put together, so is it possible to do a live "Obsured by Clouds" or are there too many tracks missing from the live setlists.
Another show Idea I like the sound of but it might not work could be to collect all of the tracks that have never been released on a studio album and bundle them all into one show. Stuff like embryo, there should be enough material to knock a show out if you include solo stuff and tracks that have only been available on compilation cds, mmmmmmm might work.
looking forward to seeing what you come up with next.
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