I have an MP3 which I made from a cassette tape I recorded from a radio broadcast in 1987 or '88 [WBAB of Long Island to be precise], which in turn was from an old Pink Floyd performance. I was curious to know when and where the performance had occurred, so I downloaded a few likely files from Napster, but no matches yet.
The tracks in question were “Atom Heart Mother” and “If” from the album “ATOM HEART MOTHER”, plus “One of These Days” from the album “MEDDLE”. Each track is introduced to the audience, and these comments most likely constitute the best unique identifiers to the recordings:
Before “Atom Heart Mother”: “…festival, and its title is the Atom Heart Mother; and Pink Floyd will be accompanied by the Philip Jones Brass Ensemble and the John Aldiss Choir; and the arrangements are written by the Floyd in conjunction with Ron Giessen; and, so: the Atom Heart Mother–”
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NOTE: The piece Atom Heart Mother, as you may know, is subdivided into movements with names like Father’s Shout and Mother Fore and so forth. This particular performance does NOT begin at the beginning, but instead begins with the section Funky Dung.
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Before IF: “…next thing, which Roger in fact will be playing acoustic guitar on and Rick is going to play organ and bass simultaneously…{announcer mumbles}…and hearing, is called ‘If’ --”
Before One of These Days: “This next one is described by Roger Waters as a ‘poignant appraisal of the contemporary social situation’–make what you will of that–and it will be on the new LP called Meddle…during the course of it, too, Nick Mason’s vocal debut’ll come around, and although you’ll hear his voice at no time – if you’re here in the studio, of course-- at no time will you see his lips move, which is something of a technical tour de force, and it’s called ‘One of These Days I’m Going to Cut You Into Little Pieces’, or, for the benefit of the LP, ‘One of These Days’.”
Anyone know which performance this would’ve been? Can I safely assume there exists no commercial release of it?
(PS: It appears NOT to be the fairly famous Amsterdam 1969 concert)