Sun, 31 May 2009
Show #134 Release date: 31. May, 2009 Several months ago the guys over at Free Range Pigs in association with Harvested Records released a soundboard recording of a rehearsal in a small London studio with The Bleeding Heart Band. Its believed someone who worked in the post-production studio, made a copy of the master tape, or plugged his recorder into the soundboard. Ultimately, hes the one to thank. Town House Post-Production Studio, London, 2. May, 1990. 01. In The Flesh? 02. Thin Ice 03. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1) 04. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives 05. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) 06. Mother 07. Goodbye Blue Sky 08. Empty Spaces 09. What Shall We Do Now? 10. Young Lust 11. One Of My Turns 12. Don't Leave Me Now 13. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 3) 14. The Last Few Bricks 15. Goodbye Cruel World 16. Hey You 17. Nobody Home 18. Vera 19. Bring The Boys Back Home 20. Comfortably Numb 21. In The Flesh 22. Run Like Hell 23. Waiting For The Worms 24. The Tide Is Turning 25. Waiting For The Worms 26. Stop 27. The Trial (original studio version) 28. The Tide Is Turning (another take) Running Time: 1hr:59min:25sec Comments[22]
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- Mentioning Van Morrison, I thought at the time he'd massacred a sacred song. Then I saw Scorceses's "The Departed" recently where (bizarre but brilliant this) he uses Berlin Morrsion verson of CN song over a love scene!! You even hear the audience cheering at the end of the track! And now I really appreciate Van's take on it. Still doesn't excuse Cyndi Lauper though.
- I'm really amazed at how much better this Wall sounds without Cindy Lauper and Bryan Adams!
This tape shows that the band could do justice to the material - it was just the cheezy guests that bog down The Wall in Berlin.
I wish they had done the Berlin show this way. It might even have been viewed as a success!
Thanks Again Doc. I look forward to your show every couple of weeks, and have listened to many of the archived shows. I'll have to buy a shirt soon so as to support your heroic efforts. - ..That was great thanks Doc. I love 'the tide is turning' as well,maybe slightly cheesy,but a great 80s track. Not quite as good as Floyds 80s offering with the word 'turning' in the title though,one of the bands finest in my mind...Anyway Doc,i may have mentioned it before,but another Animals/WYWH set would suffice...? ;)
- It's interesting to read the other comments.
If I had to classify myself, I'd have to say I'm a much bigger David guy than a Roger guy.
And yet I find this to be an extremely lively and listenable recording.
In fact, it's the first time I've been able to sit down and listen to a complete serving of 'The Wall' for a long time.
I can't seem to get into the live shows. While Dave at times does flourish, I also feel his constriction.
I'm enjoying it much more than I thought I would.
Maybe now I can go dig into the live recordings again now that I have another perspective.
Thanks again for everything you do Doc. - my thoughts exactly, word by word almost.
and I would like to add before anybody starts bashing here, that being critical about sth. has nothing to do with critizing the doc's work, which I never ever would want to! I hope that came across.
so, personally I have a love/hate realationship with most of roger's stuff, while I think his studio work is good to great (even chaos has a few decent moments), I struggle with his live arrangements time and again. I feel arsed (excuse my language) when somebody in roger's band tries to replicate david's sound, plain and simple. which makes it very hard for me to listen to it, but (!), I try.
on the other hand, I am happy to hear it, I am happy to get a comparison, be it good or not, so thanks doc for maybe bringing me yet a bit closer to roger's work. I trust your taste. your casts brought me to amused to death, and I am very grateful for that. I have to say "ca ira" would be an interesting experiment once.
I will give the cast a few more shots! this is a first impression more or less..
cheers,
bernhard - OK...an interesting listen and but a bit safe and soul-less, much like the the Berlin event itself. I still remember the sheer oddness of seeing my favourite album rendered in such a garish, OTT manner. It just seemed so...uncool. There's also that thing of Roger hiring session musicians to copy the Gilmour style. As choreographed as "The Wall was, there was still a certain freedom to how Gilmour interpreted the songs on the 80/81 live shows. With this show and the latter 1999-2007 tours, Roger essentially went back to trying to reproduce the album tracks (unlike on his 80s tours). While I loved the passion of these shows (particularly the groove he found after Live 8), I always felt uncomfortable at the way Roger's band tried to slavishly copy the Gilmour and Wright's studio parts whereas Gilmour and Wright themselves (on 80s and 90s Floyd tours) had brought some degree of variation and development to the old stuff. How ironic that Roger used to complain that Dave was doing "fascimile Floyd"...look who's talking, baby.
Anyway, another unique podcast. Thanks again Doc.
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