It's All Dark

Love this!

Appearing here due to a request - actually for a hard copy - but seeing as how I've cleaned it up: removed glitches, offensive clicks and pops and moments of silence, thought I'd post it here, to allow you to grab a good version of this superb boot.

Dark Side of the Sky provides everything you want from a live recording; that being something different from the ever so familiar.
Recorded a whole year before the release of Dark Side of the Moon, this performance from the Rainbow Theatre reflects very much a work in progress.
It's harder and gutsier than the eventual release, and with keys subdued Gilmour dominates, and he's in an angry, ball-breaking mood (no hippie shit this!).

'On the Run' is unrecognisable; played out here in a loose jazz-funky-kinda style [!]; 'The Great Gig in the Sky' features extraordinary samples, far more interested in exploring and delineating insanity than death.

I'm not sure if 'Time' is missing a few lines, or whether the lyric hasn't been properly nailed; its certainly sung in an odd order, and seems to me the vocal is given up, again to make way for Gilmour to kick-out, which he certainly does, in what must be the best 'Time' solo ever.

'Us and Them' is definitely cut and spliced; and one can imagine the stressed-out recorder desperately loading another tape.

The two tracks from Atom Heart Mother were recorded at the Paris Theatre two years earlier.
Not really sure why they're on here; but hey, they're pretty good, and it's a particularly good version of the album's title track: very parpy; very organic.

So enjoy this.
It's always a treat to hear something so familiar subverted; even better when that subversion comes from the originators.

Pink Floyd - Dark Side of the Sky

Rainbow Theatre, February 1972:

Speak to Me
Breathe
On the Run
Time
Breathe (Reprise)
The Great Gig in the Sky
Money
Us and Them
Any Colour You Like
Brain Damage
Eclipse

Paris Theatre, September 1970:

Atom Heart Mother
If

Originally ripped from vinyl @320kbs
Much cleaned up! As good as it gets!
Return to the sky here

Animinimalism

If the quality of this bootleg was a little better, this would be one of the best captured performances of a band who at the time of this recording, Johnny Rotten, the man of the then moment, chose to be his anathema.

Rotten no doubt picked on Floyd due to their iconic status; representative of all that was pompous, pretentious and past.

Slightly ironic I always thought, as Animals (still my favourite Pink Floyd album; with 'Pigs' being one of my all time favourite songs [nice version on here, with improved guitar solo]) was just as interesting a response to the shitty-seventies as Never Mind the Bollocks - and in their themes and attitudes actually quite similar.

Although Waters preferred to spit at the audience rather than have them spit at him.

Pink Floyd - Pink Floyd Plays the Animals, Oakland Colosseum '77 (1990)

Part One

Sheep
Pigs on the Wing
Dogs
Pigs on the Wing 2
Pigs
Shine on You Crazy Diamond (part one)
Welcome to the Machine

Part Two

Have a Cigar
Wish You Were Here
Shine on You Crazy Diamond (part two)
Money
Us and Them
Careful With That Axe Eugene

CD rip to mp3s
Part One includes artwork
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