Andre Terhorst (aterh@worldonline.nl)
22 October 1997. All application after that will not be honoured!
The great Fernando Andrés J from Costa Rica has offered to design some inlays, which will be made available in due time. (I've seen some of his earlier work and judging from that, it looks quite promising!).
3x90 min. tapes
He he, I finally got this one together.
For those of you who don't know what this is about, here's a bit of background history.
A couple of months ago, Ed 'Kahuna' Sander did me a favour. In return I decided to compile a tape for him with some rare Floyd tracks. I tried to select only live tracks that were 'special' for some reason. Either because they haven't been played much or because the version is very much different from any studio or other live recording of that particular song. This resulted in the following tracklisting:
Mr. Kahuna was so thrilled that he screamed it out on Echoes, resulting in a large demand for that tape. So, we decided to tree it. Gerhard 'accoustic motorbiker' came up with the name 'The Good The Rare And The Scary'. John Chrisman was kind enough to do the administration.
Besides the enthusiastic responses to this tape there was also a lot of discussion on why this or that song was included and why other songs were not. (well, there's only so much one can sqeeze on a tape).
To cope with the demand for songs not included I decided to run a second volume.
Some time ago I asked the Echoes community to cough up some ideas. The basis thought behind the tape(s) would be the 'rarities' values of the track.
The following criteria rules were set:
I deliberately left out any inclusion of 'One Of These Days', 'Careful With That Axe, Eugene' and 'Blues' because for these the elobarate Mr. Jon Rosenberg already made compilation I cannot top (well, the 'Blues' compilation is still in the works).
Also, I didn't include stuff that can be found on the 'rarities' tapes as compiled by Gerhard.
For some tracks I had multiple versions from which I selected the best sound quality. However, you may experience tracks with a lot of hiss, vinyl pops and cracks, loud screaming audiences etc. Especially a few of the older songs are ....well...poor. Never the less, I found them valuable enough to be included.
For all those who don't yet have the predescor of this tape, well sorry. That one won't be included in this tree. If your branchleader however has a copy (and if you are real nice), ask politely and (s)he might be willing to dub you a copy as well.
Now, I know there will (again) be discussion on why certain tracks are on these tapes and why certain others were not. Well, if there's enough other stuff in the vault we can always do a 'Son Of The Good The Rare And The Scary', can't we?
As for now, let's get this show on the road......
May The Floyd Be With You.....
Tape 1, Side A
A song played only a couple of times in the early days of the band. Roger does announce the title, but it's hard to hear whether he sais 'One' or 'Once'. There are some lyrics to this song but due to the poor sound they are hardly distuinguisable.
Taken from the performance at the 'Hippy Happy Fair'. Floyd played here just after their US-tour and just before going on the package tour with (amongst others) Jimi Hendrix. It's a performance from the last number of gigs with Syd, before he got completely cracked up. The song is an instrumental, very much in the style of Interstellar Overdrive
A song from the second Floyd album 'A Saucerful Of Secrets' and played only in 1968. Pitty because it still sounds like an excellent song to perform on stage.
Now this is interesting. Flaming is a Barret song, but here it's sung by Dave. Again, not played after 1968.
A gig with one of the strangest setlists. It included rare performances of 'The Violent Sequence', 'Main Theme from More' (both to be found on predecesor tape 'The Good The Rare And The Scary'). Sysyphus is the part Rick wrote for inclusion on Ummagumma. This is the only known recording of Floyd doing this song live. It also includes some of Roger's Pictish ranting. Unfortunately, it cuts out a bit too early.
Another track from their performance at the 'Hippy Happy Fair'. The original song was only a 3min tune, on this live performance it's extended to 11 minutes.
The sheffield show featured a version of Atom Heart Mother with orchestra and choir. Since the band didn't have a real 'encore' they decided to play part of Atom Heart Mother again, only this time without the orchestra and choir, resulting in a 3 minute reprise.
Tape 1, Side B:
The date of this recording is not sure. It has long been labelled as being from july70 but that's definitely wrong. It is a recording from nov70 but the exact date is unsure. (Best guess is the 5th). Again a strange performance. This song start off with 'Moonhead', followed by some pictish ranting and finally seagues into 'Embryo', leading into a 25min song.
A very experimental song, probably played only on a couple of occasions in December 1970. This particular performance is the only known recording. After the song, they planned to play 'Fat Old Sun' but Dave needs some time to tune up. You can hear Roger 'patiently' waiting for this.
Why is this included? Well, this version lasts for over 21min. Not because it's an extended version but because they had several powerbreakdowns at the beginning of the song. So what does a band do when waiting for the power to be restored again? They chat a bit, tune a bit and play a little bit of blues (bit faint, but it is there).
Saucer is a song with a lot of room for some improvisations. On this particular occasion Roger decided to do some of his pictish ranting if only for a few seconds. It's one of the best Saucers (imho) but unfortunately it cuts out just before 'Celestial Voices'.
A one-off performance. Floyd playing a blues tune with a dog howling. A combination of their occasionally played blues and 'seamus'.
Some vocal excercises from the backgroud singers during the soundcheck. You can hear a bit of 'Learning To Fly' acapella.
Tape 2, Side B:
An early version of this song. There's an extra (first) verse with a 'planets' theme. Also the end of the song is notably different as it doesn't have the 'fade out'.
This gig was the press-premier of 'Dark Side Of The Moon'. The piece was basicly as it would eventually appear on the album, only these three songs are different. 'On The Run' has some great guitar jamming, 'The Great Gig In The Sky' has a organ-solo with some preacher overdubs and 'Any Colour You like' is also more guitar orientated then the VCR version as it is recorded on the album.
Tape 3, Side A:
Probably the premier of this song. It's the uncut version and has some slightly different lyrics.
This song was never included on the Wall, although the lyrics did appear on some albums. During the life-performances of the Wall however, they did play this tune.
From the premier show of The Wall. At the beginning a curtain caught fire, causing the band to stop for a few minutes. Due to this delay, the brickbuilder were behind and to give them some more time to finish the wall, the band jammed along during ABitW3, leading into a 12+ minute version of this song.
This song was played only twice. On 29th and 30th of August, both in Oslo. Were the band making a statement to the Norwegian whale-hunt?
Tape 3, Side B:
To great aclaim the band revived this song for the 1987-1989 world tour. Unfortunately they dropped it from the setlist after only 11 performances in favour of 'Shine On' which became the opening song from then on. The exact reason for dropping 'Echoes' from the setlist is not sure. Dave said it was 'just to old' and he felt uncomfortable singing about albatrosses. Well as for these lyrics, the 1987 band had the habit of gooving up the lyrics for 'Echoes' many times.
The 1994 tour had some shifts in setlist. Some songs from the Division bell were not played on all occasions. 'Poles Apart' is such a song.
Again a song that wasn't performed at each show during 1994 tour.
A song from the same session as the 'Warming Up In Tampa' roio that's been floating around. It was labelled as being the soundcheck for the 5may94 show in Tampa. But it seems more likely this is from a pre-tour rehearsal in March 1994. This song is included mainly because it's not on the 'Warming Up' roio and it gives a good example of how a rehearsal is performed.
Another soundcheck. This time for the first gig of the 1994 tour. As a big suprise (and to great aclaim) the band started of with this very old Barret tune which they hadn't played for more then 20 years! Many fans were thrilled. Later on in the tour they even topped this by performing the complete DarkSideOfTheMoon which most notably is documented on P*U*L*S*E. This soundtrack is pretty much the same as it was performed during the shows, only this version is without any audience noise which gives it a different atmosfeer.
Due to the length of some tracks I couldn't keep it in chronological order but I did try to get as close as possible.
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