almost totally under construction
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Nothing to say to introduce this page, you all know what it's going to talk about (just mind that this page is still totally under construction) it's divided into 2 sections: part 1. a list of the live dates in which Waters experimented some of his funny cries (includes Waters' pictish rants, general Waters' ego-eruptions) part 2. Waters' rants "against" the crowd the list is about performances from the 70s only so far.
here's where I want my story to begin: the only existing (so far) transcriptions of "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving With a Pict"
transcription 1 : by
Brian Tompsett (taken from the
www.floydian.de
website)
part 1 (date>venue>description/songs/suggested RoIO)
1970-11-27 Neidersachsenhalle, Hannover, West Germany (most of the tapes were then relabeled as 1970 November 14 - Ernst-Merck Halle, Hamburg, Germany) ***** pictish
rant during Corrosion /
other rants -deliria at the beginning of The Embryo
- at the beginning of Green Is The Colour
- at the beginning of Set The Controls
pictish rant on Careful With That Axe Eugene
1972-12-07 Palais des Sports, Lille, France
1972-12-09
Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland
pictish rant on Careful With That Axe Eugene
feel free to send me your own transcription / interpretation of the rants, I'd really appreciate it!
part 2 (date>venue>description/songs/suggested RoIO)
N.B. there are also literally tons of concerts where Waters made quite sarcastic comments, for a question of space those are not included in this list.
1975-04-26 Sports Arena, Los Angeles, CA Waters at the end of the first set: "We're gonna come back soon and do another set. And when we do I'd appreciate it if you people in yellow shirts stop fucking wandering about in front of the stage. Hanging the fucking shit out of you, allright?. So just sit down somewhere and enjoy the show if you can and leave everybody alone, everything will be allright" [transcription from frostbrent's site] noticeable in this date is also the comment introducing Shine On You Crazy Diamond: "It was a cruel song, but fair. Next tune we're going do is another new number. And it's called 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond', it has something to do with Syd Barrett, who some of you might know and some of you probably won't" [transcription from frostbrent's site] SAMPLE (to be posted)* suggested RoIO: Almost all the RoIOs are of an excellent sound quality, some of them are: "untitled" live in LA, from a master>HIFI sorce; The supposed Master Clone of the Reeling In Pink Floyd series; "Echoes From The Past (Platinum) SCS"; "Cruel But Fair" (Harvested); "The Late Millard Tapes" (Highland) about all the RoIOs claim to be from the master tapes, though the Millard's masters seem to have been never transfered directly into DAT or CD-R, so they are all probably from first gens or very good sounding higher gens; furthermore let's notice that any copy made out from the masters has different edits, edits that may also mean entire songs sometimes, then there are A LOT of versions that seem to include exactly the same one another but do really not.
1977-07-01 MSG, Madison Square Garden, NY, U.S.A. Waters rants at the New York Spot Light Operators (Money) "Thank you for coming. I think its…uh…[??]. I just wanted to tell you something. [??] We take around on the road with us some very good spotlight operators and the unions in this town wouldn’t fuckin’ let them work the spotlights. And the guys that did run the spotlights were very fucking shit. [??] Maybe they’ll let us do [??], but I doubt it. This is called Money." [transcription from TS' site] SAMPLE (to be posted)* suggested RoIO: there are 3 recorders in circulation and an incomplete recording is also available on fantapes, for the first common recorder there are are several RoIOs in circulation with different titles, but same contents, see "Where Have You Been"; nice versions are available also in fantapes like this one, the second recorder, incomplete is available from 2 fantapes like this or this ; the other recorder in circulation is available only since 2011 from the master revealing also a second encore
1977-07-03 MSG, Madison Square Garden, NY, U.S.A. 1. Waters
kindly asks the audience not to light fireworks after Pigs
: "thank you, we're gonna take a break ... 20 minutes and then we'll come back
with another set ... and don't throw anymore fu***** fireworks, alright?" SAMPLE (to be posted)* suggested recording: 4 different recorders exist; the 1st recoder is around sourced from the 3rd gen ("untitled" aka "from the master"); the second seems to be around sourced from claimed clones of the master tapes ("Pigs Might Fly"; "Fireworks On The Wings"), fantapes are around like this unknown gen or this LowGen-rip which sounds equal to the claimed master clone. The 3rd recorder missing SOYCD IV-IX is around from a fantape, recorder 4 is around from the masters
1977-07-04 MSG, Madison Square Garden, NY, U.S.A. Waters calls a firework yielding fan a "Shit Bag" on Pigs On The Wing part 2 SAMPLE (to be posted)* suggested RoIO: few recorders exist, 2 different recorders are in circulation + 1 incomplete; the 1st recoder is around sourced from the 2nd gen ("untitled" aka "from the master"), but a version from the first gen surfaced as wellin general circulation; the second recorder is so far available in the MoLM's "Hog Heaven" release only, fantapes are out there... Only this surfaced in general circulation for the 3rdRec so far
1977-07-06 Olympic Stadium, Montreal, Quebec, Canada 1. Waters tells the crowd to leave if they want to light fireworks on Pigs On The Wing part 2: "Ah, for fucks sake don't let it off fireworks and shouting and screaming I'm trying to sing the song!I mean I don't care, if you don't wanna hear it, you know, fuck you. I'm sure there's alot of people here who do wanna hear it, so why don't you just be quiet and. If you wanna let your fireworks off go outside and let them off out there, and if you wanna shout and scream and holler go and do it out there but. I'm trying to sing a song that some people want to listen to, I want to listen to it." [transcription from frostbrent's site] 2. When Waters introduces Us & Them he rants again: "Ok. Ok we're gonna do another tune cause... Just cause there's a few assholes down the front here, there's no need for everybody to get upset, and we're gonna join it and [...] See if everybody else gets we're gonna do one more. This, this tune is called 'Us And Them', it's from 'Dark Side Of The Moon'. It's very quiet, so let's keep quiet. Try and end this thing peacefully." [transcription from frostbrent's site]
and then again at the end of the song "Thank you. Take it easy.
Don't worry about it. I don't, well I do, but I wish I didn't, I wish I didn't,
I wish I didn't." [transcription from frostbrent's site] 4. This is the date of the infamous spit, on the recordings you can't actually hear the spit but according to a review posted on brain-damage.co.uk it occurred during Pigs, right at the end of the song when it starts like fading out: there you can hear Waters screaming like ""Well, hey. Come back pig! Come back! All is forgiven! Come on boy! (whistles) Come on son, just another few yards! Yeah! Oh yeah! Come in over here, son. That's a good boy! Hello, son..." then he screams something not understandable (thanks to A.C. for the transcription!)..., that's the point supposed to be the one where the spit occurred. Read the full review HERE SAMPLE (to be posted)* suggested RoIO: for a list of the recorders/version in circulation for this date have a look HERE |
