Tag: alt-cuts & b-sides

Pink Floyd – Studio Archives and Other Dreams (1967-1972)

PInk Floyd
1967-1972 “Studio Archives and Other Dreams”

01 – Breathe In The Air (Demo, 2/17/70)
02 – On The Run (Demo, 2/17/70)
03 – On The Run (Outtake, Abbey Road Studios, London, 11/72)
04 – Time (Demo, Abbey Road Studios, London, 06/72)
05 – Money (Acoustic Demo, ’72)
06 – Us & Them (Demo, Abbey Road Studios, London, 06/72)
07 – Brain Damage…Eclipse (Demo, Abbey Road Studios, London, 06/72)
08 – Embryo (Top Gear Session, 1/14/70)
09 – Point Me In The Sky (Top Gear Session, 06/25/68)
10 – Brain Damage (Outtake Pt 1, Abbey Road Studios, London, 11/72)
11 – Brain Damage (Outtake Pt 2, Abbey Road Studios, London, 11/72)
12 – One Of These Days (Studio Demo #1, ’71)
13 – One Of These Days (Studio Demo #2, ’71)
14 – Free Four (Us Promo Single ’72)
15 – Fearless (Mono Mix Us Promo )
16 – Candy (Demo Version)
17 – Scarecrow (Syd Barrett Bbc Broadcast ’67)
18 – Corporal Cleg (Belgian Video Version ’68)
19 – Bob Dylan Blues (Syd Barrett Demo)
20 – Late Night (Sid Barrett Without Vocal, 5/28/68)
21 – On The Road Again (Soundcheck, Praterstadion, Wien, 07/01/88)

From Richie Unterberger on Allmusic.com

“While this RoIO is something of a grab bag of material from numerous sources, mostly from the years 1967-1973, the sound quality is very good, and some of the tracks not common even to unauthorized releases.

Of most interest are the numerous studio demos and outtakes with early version of songs from Dark Side of the Moon, even though it seems like the February 17, 1970 dates given for demos of “Breathe in the Air” and “On the Run” are awfully early. Those two particular recordings are more rock-oriented, straightforward, and less technologically ornate than the familiar official ones. But the 1972 demos/outtakes are closer in nature to the Dark Side of the Moon productions — less ornate and polished, certainly, but with the structures and arrangements nearly complete. The acoustic guitar-and-voice demo of “Money” is an exception.

Also mixed in are superb-fidelity BBC radio renditions of “Embryo” and “Point Me in the Sky”; a odd pair of “studio demos” of “One of These Days” that use ugly distorted voices in the mix; a 1972 “US Promo Single” version of “Free Four”; and a mono mix of “Fearless.”

Going back to the Syd Barrett era and its immediate aftermath, there’s also a demo version of “Candy and a Currant Bun,” a BBC airshot of “Scarecrow,” a “Belgian video version” of “Corporal Clegg,” Barrett’s demo “Bob Dylan Blues,” and a recording of Barrett’s “Late Night” with the “original backing track without vocal.”

In the only chronologically jarring entry, there’s also a 1988 soundcheck of “On the Road Again” — yes, the old blues song made into a hit by Canned Heat in the late 1960s.

Even considering this is a RoIO, it would be nice if there were notes explaining just how these songs differ from both official versions and other performances of the tunes floating around; even serious Pink Floyd fans will likely have a hard time identifying all the specific variations. Otherwise, however, it’s well packaged in both its graphics and fidelity aspects.”

Syd Barret – Psychedelic Freak Out

Syd Barrett
Psychedelic Freak Out
(Demos, Acetates & Mixes)

The Godfatherecords GR 483
Matrix Disc : G.R. 483

Tracks: Time:

1 Interstellar Overdrive 14:56 October 31, 1965 – Demo
2 See Emily Play 2:52 May 21, 1967 – Acetate With Alternate Ending
3 Scream Thy Last Scream 4:40 August 7, 1967 – Malcom Jones Mix 1987
4 Vegetable Man 2:37 October 1967 – Malcom Jones Mix 1987
5 Vegetable Man 2:47 1967 Mix From Mason Interview, March 1969
6 Silas Lang 2:47 May 6, 1968 – Backing Track
7 Lanky 1:36 May 14, 1968 Part Two
8 Golden Hair 1:56 May 28, 1969 Instrumental – Gareth Cousins Mix 1988
9 Swan Lee 2:43 June 20, 1968 – Backing Track
10 Clowns & Jugglers 2:45 July 20, 1968 Take 1 – Alternate Mix With Studio Chat
11 Love You 1:17 April 11, 1969
12 Clowns & Jugglers 1:34 May 3, 1969 Take 2 – Keyboard Mix
13 Long Gone 1:45 July 26, 1969
14 Dark Globe 2:58 July 27, 1969 Choral Version – Peter Jenner 1987 Echo Mix
15 Dark Globe 2:57 July 27, 1969 Choral Version – Malcolm Jones 1987 Clean Mix
16 Maisie 2:51 February 26, 1970 – Alternate Mix With Extra Vocals
17 Slow Boggie 2:58 August 12, 1974
18 John Lee Hooker Inspired 3:52 August 12, 1974
19 In The Beachwoods 4:49 1967 – Backing Track

Bonus Track:
20 Interstellar Overdrive 14:55 Pink Floyd Live Supporting Jeff Back Group, Shrine Exposition Hall,
Los Angeles, CA, July 27, 1968

Total Time: 55:47

Pink Floyd – The Great Gig in the Sky: An Alternate Take on The Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd
The Great Gig In The Sky – an alternate take on The Dark Side Of The Moon
Silent Sea Productions – SSR 41925

1 Speak To Me 2:49
2 Breathe 2:46
3 On The Run 6:09
4 Time / Breathe Reprise 6:49
5 The Great Gig In The Sky 4:22
6 Money 7:14
7 Us And Them 7:46
8 Any Colour You Like 3:23
9 Brain Damage 3:46
10 Eclipse 2:50
11 Money 1:41
12 Us And Them 5:28
13 Brain Damage / Eclipse 3:26
14 Brain Damage Part 1 1:26
15 Brain Damage Part 2

Pink Floyd – Bear In Tree – 6 Rarities

Pink Floyd
Bear In Tree – 6 Rarities

  1. Pow R Toc H – Recorded 20th December 1967 for BBC Radio Programme “Top Gear”. Most copies of this session in circulaton are from a recording of the Febrary 1968 rebroadcast which omits the ending of this number. This is a completely untruncated version taken from a recording of the original December 1967 broadcast.
  2. Behold The Temple Of Light / The End Of the Beginning – Recorded 14th April 1969 Royal Festival Hall. Most copies of this performance in circulation are taken from a recording which is cut during this section. This is the complete segment via an alternative audience recorded source. From a mouldy old cassette with a drum heavy sound.
  3. Breathe (reprise) – Recorded December 1971/Janauary 1972? Very early instrumental version from a lyricless run-through rehearsal.
  4. Run Like Hell (demo) – Recorded 1978. Instrumental from the same session as the “Comfortably Numb” demo. From an old cassette labeled “DG Demos”.
  5. Wearing The Inside Out (demo/backing track) – Recorded 1993? An instrumental version with David Gilmour to the fore. Originally from a cassette labeled “EMI/Sony premix ’93”.
  6. Money – Recorded 1994. Toe-tappingly to the point live rehersal version. Originally from a cassette helpfully labelled “Oddments”.

Thanks to Bear, Ron, Mr. Phloyd, “Big-Ed”, “MOB”, Sally, Jeff, and Mr. K.

Better late than never.

Pink Floyd – Some More Secrets (1967-1988)

Pink Floyd
Some More Secrets – 1967-1988

CD1
01 – Introduction – 1:12
02 – Daybreak I – 8:12
03 – Work – 3:55
04 – Afternoon (Tea Break) – 3:35
05 – Afternoon (Biding My Time) – 5:14
06 – Doing It – 4:04
07 – Sleep – 4:38
08 – Nightmare – 9:15
09 – Daybreak II – 1:23
10 – The Beginning – 5:58
11 – Beset By Creatures Of The Deep – 6:28
12 – The Narrow Way – 5:14
13 – The Pink Jungle – 4:49
14 – The Labyrinth Of Auximenes – 6:40
15 – Behold The Temple Of Light – 5:32
16 – The End Of The Beginning – 6:47
CD2
01 – Echoes – 23:29
02 – Careful With That Axe, Eugene – 12:49
03 – Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun – 14:11
CD3
01 – Cymbaline – 12:28
02 – Atom Heart Mother – 30:01
03 – A Saucerful Of Secrets – 20:33
CD4
01 – Tuning & Intro – 3:29
02 – Raving And Drooling – 11:59
03 – Tuning & Intro – 1:43
04 – You Gotta Be Crazy – 13:28
05 – Tuning & Intro – 1:51
06 – Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I-V – 12:31
07 – Have A Cigar – 4:37
08 – Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts VI-IX – 13:28
09 – Speak To Me – 6:09
10 – Breathe – 2:55
11 – On The Run – 4:32
CD5
01 – Time – 6:29
02 – The Great Gig In The Sky – 6:05
03 – Money – 8:08
04 – Us And Them – 7:53
05 – Any Colour You Like – 8:40
06 – Brain Damage – 3:44
07 – Eclipse – 2:12
08 – Tuning & Intro – 1:56
09 – Echoes – 22:21
CD6
01 – Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part 1-5) – 11:44
02 – Signs Of Life – 4:27
03 – Learning To Fly – 6:16
04 – Yet Another Movie/Round And Around – 7:12
05 – A New Machine (Part 1) – 1:43
06 – Terminal Frost – 6:21
07 – A New Machine (Part 2) – 0:33
08 – Sorrow – 10:17
09 – Dogs Of War – 8:17
10 – On The Turning Away – 8:59
CD7
01 – One Of These Days – 6:59
02 – Time – 5:40
03 – On The Run – 4:41
04 – Wish You Were Here – 6:15
05 – Welcome To The Machine – 7:10
06 – Us And Them – 7:39
07 – Money (End Cut) – 8:25
08 – Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) – 6:33
09 – Comfortably Numb – 10:35
CD8
01 – Murderistic Woman Or Careful With That Axe, Eugene – 3:57
02 – The Massed Gadgets Of Hercules (A Saucerful Of Secrets) – 8:01
03 – Let There Be More Light – 4:33
04 – Julia Dream – 3:34
05 – Point Me At The Sky – 4:25
06 – Baby Blue Shuffle In D Major (Narrow Way Part One) – 4:12
07 – Embryo – 3:11
08 – Interstellar Overdrive – 8:34
09 – Grantchester Meadows – 3:46
10 – Cymbaline – 3:38
11 – Green Is The Color – 6:54
12 – Narrow Way Part Three – 4:43
13 – Vegetable Man – 3:35
14 – Scream The Last Scream – 3:47
15 – Jugband Blues – 3:52
16 – Pow R. Toc H – 4:37
CD9
01 – Intro By John Peel – 0:42
02 – Fat Old Sun – 14:59
03 – One Of These Days – 7:43
04 – The Embryo – 10:46
05 – Echoes – 26:29
06 – Blues – 4:57

Disc ten has been officially released, therefore not included in the torrent. Also, both dvd’s are not included in this torrent. It’s a nice collection of sbd’s, though. No setlist on the info file, so I’ll post the cover art below so you can see what the dates are; and the setlists.
Soundboard Collection

Pink Floyd – The Unmissable Tracks 1966-1982

Pink Floyd
The Unmissable Tracks 1966-1982

02:44 lucky Leave First Pink Floyd Studio Session 1966
02:59 I’m a kingbee First Pink Floyd Studio Session 1966
03:05 Milky Way Studio Ottake
03:41 it would be so nice Single Released 04.12.1967
03:05 apples and oranges Third U.K. Single Released 18.12.1967
03:58 baby blue shuffle in D major Recorded Live for BBC Radio 1967/68
05:39 moonhead Recorded Live for French TV 1967/69
04:23 The narrow way Recorded Live for French TV 1967/69
08:10 oneone/Fingal’s Cave Outtake Dec.1969
07:00 rain in the country Outtake Dec.1969
04:33 the violence in sequence Theater Champs Elysees 23.01.1970
08:40 corrosion Studio Outtake 1970
03:26 brain damage/eclipse Quadrophonic Mix 1973
05:48 pink blues French Tour 1974
02:37 comfortably numb Demo Version 1978
02:52 when the tigers broke free U.K. 12-Inch Single Version 1982

Total Time: 73:25

Pink Floyd – Ummagumma Revisited

Pink Floyd
UMMA & GUMMA (Ummagumma Revisited)

~UMMA~
DISC ONE: STUDIO ALBUM

  1. Sysyphus Part 1
  2. Sysyphus Part 2 /
    The Violent Sequence (aka The Riot Scene, early Us & Them – from The Ultimate Zabriskie Point)
  3. Sysyphus Part 3 (pitched down half a step)
    Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave (backwards)
  4. Sysyphus Part 4 (1st half) / Grooving With A Pict
    (vocals only)
  5. Sysyphus Part 4 (2nd half = part 1 reprise)
  6. Oenone (from The Ultimate Zabriskie Point)
    / Selene (aka Moonhead aka Corrosion – BBC TV 7/69 documentary on the moonlanding)
  7. Dythyramb from Grantchester Meadows (ripped from KQED DVD soundtrack 71_04_28)
  8. Careful with that sickle, Cronus
    (aka Come In #51, Your Turn Is Up – film version for intro and end + soundtrack version

for middle section – from The Ultimate Zabriskie Point)

  1. The Narrow Way, Part 1
    (unknown song – soundtrack version – from The Ultimate Zabriskie Point)
  2. The Narrow Way, Part 2
  3. The Narrow Way, Part 3 (69-05-12 Paris Cinema London – from BBC archives)
  4. The Embryo (from Works)
  5. The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party: Entrance
  6. Heart Beat, Pig Meat (from The Ultimate Zabriskie Point)
  7. Nick’s Boogie (London 66-67) / The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party: Entertainment
  8. The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party: Exit
  9. Biding My Time (from Relics)

TOTAL LENGTH: aprox. 78min!

~GUMMA~

DISC TWO: LIVE 1ST SET

  1. Grantchester Meadows
    Recorded live at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, USA on 70-04-29
  2. Astronomy DominÈ
    Recorded live at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, USA on 70-04-29
  3. Impro on Interstellar Overdrive and Moonhead
    Recorded live at Ernst-Merck Halle, Hamburg, West-Germany on 70-11-14
  4. Grooving With A Pict
    Recorded live at Ernst-Merck Halle, Hamburg, West-Germany on 70-11-14
  5. The Embryo + Roger Introducing The Massed Gadgets of Auximenes
    Recorded live at Ernst-Merck Halle, Hamburg, West-Germany on 70-11-14
  6. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
    Recorded live at the Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switserland on 72-12-09

TOTAL LENGHT: aprox. 60min

DISC THREE: LIVE 2ND SET

  1. Sysyphus
    Recorded live at the Town Hall, Birmingham, England on 70-02-11
  2. The Narrow Way Part 1 aka Baby Blue Shuffle In D Major
    Recorded in the BBC Maida Vale Studios on 68-12-02
  3. The Narrow Way Part 3
    Recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall, London, England on 69-04-14
  4. The Pink Jungle-intro of The Labyrinth of Auximenes
    Recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall, London, England on 69-04-14
  5. Heart Beat, Pig Meat
    Recorded live at the Town Hall, Birmingham, England on 70-02-11
  6. Piano Impro
    Recorded live at te Fairfield Hall, Croydon, England on 70-01-18
  • The Violent Sequence
    Recorded live at the The‚tre des Champs-ElysÈes, Paris, France on 70-01-23
  1. Biding My Time
    Recorded live at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 69-09-21
  2. Doing It
    Recorded live at the Concertgebouw, Amsterdam, The Netherlands on 69-09-21
    Recorded live at the Royal Festival Hall, London, England on 69-04-14

ENCORES:

  1. Green Is The Colour
    Recorded live at the University of Southampton, Southampton, UK on 69-05-09
  2. Beset By Creatures of The Deep
    Recorded live at the University of Southampton, Southampton, UK on 69-05-09
  3. Biding My Time (reprise) aka Just another 12-bar
    Recorded live at the Altes Casino, Montreux, Switserland on 70-11-22

TOTAL LENGHT: aprox. 65min

=======================================================================================

  1. WHAT IS IT?
    Revisiting UMMAGUMMA as if it was a band-album, including left-overs and alternate versions, plus some home-made edits. Giving it a brandnew concept. (So this could have been PF’s first concept album!)
  2. WHY?
    The idea for this project came in mind when I considered it was a pity that “The Embryo” and “Biding my Time” were recorded for Ummagumma but left out in spite of the concept of making it a ‘four-men-solo album’. My first thought was then to burn a copy of Ummagumma for myself, just including those songs at the end of the album. But then I thought: “Why not making it an extended alternate version?” Inspiration also came from Muabdib’s studio remix of “The Man & The Journey” (which I recommand!) and the enhanced Wall version “Every Brick In The Wall”.
    It’s obvious that the original concept of Ummagumma didn’t work out like the band wished it to. Quotes from the band members are clear on this subject:

“We all believed it was going to be one of the best things we’d ever put onto record, which I think it was at that time, but the stuff on the album isn’t half as good as we can play.” -Rick
“For me, it was just an experiment. I think it was badly recorded, the studio side could have been done better. We’re thinking of doing it again.” -David
“This was absolutely not a band album. The live stuff sounds incredibly antiquated now […]. We were looking for new ways of constructing an album, although I think what this demonstrates is that our sum is always better than the parts.” -Nick

  1. WHAT HAS BEEN DONE?
    Well, I took the liberty to get rid of that solo-concept, and tried to mix what Ummagumma might have been if it was a real teamwork, giving it a different concept. I don’t pretend I improved it, but I wished to include left-outs, unreleased material (principally from ZP, but which fits perfectly in the spirit of Ummagumma) and alternate versions. I had plenty of material (of different quality) to choose from, for 1969 was probably their most prolific year. Therefore I used as far as possible the best sources for those alternate versions, but except for the Zabriskie Point outtakes, quality failed in most of the cases. It’s a pity even the audio rip of Grantchester Meadows from the Harvested’s KQED DVD is only 19OKbps, hissy and had an annoying hum in the beginning. Other sources had less hiss but much more microphone noise! I tried the best I could to erase this hum and de-hiss it a bit withoput denaturating the audio spectrum with Noise Reduction.

Another thing I permitted myself is to rename some tracks in order to give it the mythological concept I conceived for the occasion. I took inspiration by the example of Sysyphus and Oenone and gave Greek mythological references to the whole album, hence Cronus instead of Eugene, Selene (goddess of the moon) for Moonhead, and a Grand Vizier’s Garden party which became an authentic Roman orgie! I recommend you to read the liner notes while listening, for I tried to make it more or less conceptual with a storyline. In contrary, I left the original titles for the live set.
The choice of including ‘Careful…’ is less obvious, since this is a 68 song. But, I found it a shame that only the single version was available on official sources, and no version of this tune appears on the regular albums. This december 69 take of Careful for the ZP soundtrack is radically different and much closer to what we use to hear on live roio’s. The sound effects aer from the film itself, only the stereo effects for the footsteps and the riding car are mine. Other things that could be considered as ‘sins’ to some purists: I messed a lot with Sysyphus, integrating ‘The Riot Scene’ from ZP (aka The Violent Sequence, early Us & Them), ‘Several Species…’ backwards and the Pict rant without animal noises in it. Hence ‘Several Species..’ has

disappeared from the tracklist! But figure out in case of teamwork, Roger would maybe have done the same. Moreover you can clearly hear Roger rant more or less in the same part on the live version of Sysyphus (a fact I discovered AFTER mixing the studio album!!!)
The same ‘dammages’ occured to Nick’s piece.
Figure out Syd came to help him get this piece a little more attractive!

  1. WHAT ABOUT THE LIVE SET?
    The live set isn’t a gathering of alternate takes of what was originally on the live set of Ummagumma, but more what it would have sounded like if the band had once played (my) Ummagumma live. So here is a REAL live Ummagumma album, assembled from the most “mythic”

shows from 69-70 where the Floyd performed their strangest bits with an incredible energy. Especially on that night in Hamburg 70-11-14, Roger was in an incredibly talkative/rantic mood! Notice that powerful ‘Embryo’ including some jungle noises ‡ la ‘Several Species…’ and ‘Pow R. Toc H.’ Alas and again, the shows featuring the rarest tracks like ‘Moonhead’ or ‘Sysyphus’ were badly recorded, and most sources are hissy, muffed, etc. The huge quality difference between the different sources I used, forced me

to use fades between some tracks, which I don’t like but was the only way to make it sound acceptable. The SQ skips are more particulary noticeable in the ‘meddley’ I made.

A special note about ‘The Narrow Way Part 3’ though. The best recording is the one from the Amsterdam venue of ‘The Man & The Journey’
. Musically, however, Dave’s vocals are probably the worst he ever did in his whole life! His voice fails on all live performance of ‘The Narrow Way’. That’s why I choose this recording from the London premiere of ‘The Man & The Journey’: it’s not the best source, but at least the vocals are barely audible, which is not a real loss in this case! 🙂

CONCLUSION
I still hope you’ll enjoy listening as I enjoyed mixing and compiling this.

Furry Animal – May 2004

The Band – Jericho Demos

The Band
Woodstock, 1991 and/or 1992
Jericho demos, rehearsals, outtakes

  1. Caves of Jericho (5:42)
  2. Shine A Light (4:44)
  3. Move to Japan (4:53)
  4. Country Boy (3:21) REMOVED
  5. Night On The Town (3:54)
  6. The Same Thing (4:02)
  7. Amazon (5:36)
  8. Atlantic City (4:47)
  9. Circle of Time (5:22)
  10. The Tide Will Rise (3:51)
  11. Nobody Sings ‘Em Like Ray (4:42)
  12. Remedy (4:22)
  13. Keep The Home Fires Burning (4:48)
  14. Stuff You Gotta Watch (2:53)
  15. Blind Willie McTell (7:33)
  16. Atlantic City (4:47)
  17. Soul Deep (4:24)
  18. Remedy (live) (5:36) REMOVED
  19. Blind Willie McTell (live) (4:11) REMOVED

Rick Danko
Levon Helm
Garth Hudson
Richard Bell
Randy Ciarlante
Jim Weider
and the ghost of Richard Manuel

with
Colin Linden
John Simon (?)
Bobby Strickland (?)
Dave Douglas (?)
Aaron Hurwitz (?)
Others (?)

Note: these tracks were received as a double cdr set in a trade, with tracks from three different sources. The original Wav files were not named (just Track 1, track 2, etc). I changed the track names after extracting, before compressing. The log files included here reflects the discs as i received them.

I cannot detail the lineage, but I did check to ensure these are not from a lossy or cress-encoded source. The lineage I can offer is:

Studio demos > cassette (unknown generation) > digital conversion > CDR > WAV files with extracted & compressed to FLAC level 8 (verified) with xACT 1.71. Log file & fingerprints included in torrent.

I have removed “Country Boy” from this torrent. Although the overdubs are all different on the version released on “Jericho”, the base track is the same, which violates two separate Dime polices of what’s not allowed:

  • The audio of any performance used as the sound on officially released video material – even if the recording is from another source than that of the sound in the officially available material;
  • Remixes, remasters, alternate mixes, and alternate edits of any official material;
    I also dropped the final two songs which were from an official, if somewhat obscure, release:
    http://theband.hiof.no/albums/remedy_blind_willie_mc_tell.html

Notes, mostly stolen from
http://theband.hiof.no/articles/demos_viney.html
which you should read in it’s entirety if you’re interested in this sort of thing:

These are all different versions to the released album. These are said to be out-takes, but none of them are final mixes. There seems little overdubbing and backing voices are less pronounced. There’s an almost live feel – rehearsals rather than out-takes. The bass is over-present throughout, a common problem with live recordings. As bass isn’t directional it leaks onto every mic and over-amplifies itself. There rarely seem to be two drummers, and Garth plays a lot of accordion throughout the first half. These tracks can’t have been sequenced as an album, as the four numbers with horns are in a row together. They might well be the earlier versions of the album with John Simon.

Caves of Jericho
Levon lead vocal.

Shine A Light
Rick takes the first verse, then hands over to someone else for the next. This could be Randy Ciarlante or John Simon (who plays piano and does backing vocal on the final version) or someone unknown. Great slide guitar which was dropped from the final version. the unknown voice and slide guitar sound a lot like Colin Linden.

Move to Japan
This has a very live feel. Garth’s accordion is prominent.

Country Boy
Richard Manuel. This is the older tape that they preserved for the final album.

Night On The Town (Bruce Hornsby)
Title track of a Bruce Hornsby album. Lead vocal is Randy – Rick and Levon can be heard in the background. It starts with ‘shave and a haircut- two bits’ rhythm. Then this version takes too many directions and is ultimately too messy to get anywhere, There’s a great bit of wild Garth organ.

The Same Thing
Levon counts this in and sings. A looser feel than the final cut.

Amazon
‘tikki tikki’ birds sound effect starts before Same Thing finishes and runs right into this – suggesting some post production effort. Rick sings.

Atlantic City
This has some odd and interesting breaks where only a drum flourish is heard. A nice idea that got dropped (probably for the best though). Levon’s vocal is not quite as subtle.

Circle of Time
This is new and it’s a loping mid-sixties style soul influenced song. Think about mid-period Robert Parker or Levon & The Hawks to get the feel. Rick Danko sings lead, supported (I think) by a female singer. The prominent instruments are bass, drums and guitar with less piano and a touch of synth with a horns sounds. I’d guess an unfinished demo rather than a finished out-take, the bass is so over-prominent that it can’t be a final mix, though all the elements are there. Jim Weider bends some very un-Band like guitar sounds. If this had made it through to Jericho. it would definitely have been one of the best tracks on the album. The bass on Circle of Time doesn’t sound like Rick Danko; my guess is that it’s Rob Leon. Guitar is likely Colin Linden again.

The Tide Will Rise (Music: Bruce Hornsby / Words: Bruce Hornsby and John Hornsby)
Levon sings lead. This song found its way to Hornsby’s January 1993 Harbor Lights album, and is a song to his ancestors, the watermen of Virginia. This is presumably an earlier version then. With words like ‘they say we’re a dying breed, they say we’re gonna disappear’ it reminds me of Cahoots, complete with tinkling orientalish synth and guitar sounds. They put out worse than this in the past (most of Islands and Cahoots for starters). Also it’s hard to tell how different a clean final mix would be.

Then next four songs run after each other, and all feature Garth on horns rather than keyboard. There are usually multiple horns. On the final versions on Jericho Bobby Strickland added sax, and Dave Douglas added trumpet. They (or others) may well be on these sessions too.

Nobody Sings ‘Em Like Ray
Co-written by Jim Rooney. Jazzy tribute to Ray Charles with Garth Hudson performing powerfully on horns. Either there’s overdubbing or assistance. Three voices share equal honours, Levon, Rick and probably Randy. It’s also very catchy, and has great lyrics. It’s incomprehensible that it wasn’t used.

Remedy
The bass sounds more prominent than the final version. The piano is terrific.

Keep The Home Fires Burning
This opens with a jaunty sax lead. Vocals are shared. The harmony chorus has a C&W feel.

Stuff You Gotta Watch
Opens in Sgt Pepper style with a voice announcing ‘the triumphant return of the Kenny Wayne Orchestra!’ then goes into a very live sounding big band pastiche version of Stuff You Gotta Watch which is faster and better than the album cut. Phenomenal!

When the Crossing The Great Divide bootleg appeared, it had the demo versions of Blind Willie McTell and Atlantic City, together with The Box Tops cover Soul Deep. These are dated 1991.

Pink Floyd – Magnesium Proverbs (1966-1970)

Pink Floyd
Magnesium Proverbs – 1966-1970
Catalog: Night Tripper Productions

Sources:
1966- 1970

1-2. 1966 studio recordings dubbed from original EMI disc acetate

  1. 1967 studio recording dubbed from original EMI disc acetate, alternate mix
    4-5. February 27, 1967 studio recordings, Sound Techniques Studios, Chelsea, London
  2. 1967 studio recording alternate mix, different from U.S. 45
    7-9. May 4, 1967 television performance from “Look of the Week”, BBC2
  3. July 1967 radio broadcast from Radio Carlisle, Scotland
  4. September 13, 1967 live performance, Star Club, Copenhagen, Denmark
    12,13. October 1967 studio recording, De Lane Lea Studios, London
  5. August 1967 studio recording, final Pink Floyd 45 w/Syd
    15-17. February 1970 radio broadcast “Sound Of The Seventies”, BBC
    18-21. Syd’s only live solo appearance Royal Festival Hall, London, June 1, 1970 [6.6.70, Extravaganza ’70, Olympia, London]
  6. It’s a mystery!!
  7. Alternate mix from U.K. mono version of “Saucerful of Secrets”, recorded October 1967 De Lane Lea Studios, London

Hires-coverscans:

MP3-Soundsample:

Tracks:

  1. Lucy Leave
  2. King Bee
  3. See Emily Play
  4. Arnold Layne
  5. Candy And A Currant Bun
  6. Flaming
  7. Pow R Toc H
  8. Astronomy Domine
  9. Interstellar Overdrive
  10. Reaction In G
  11. Stoned Alone
  12. Vegetable Man
  13. Scream Thy Last Scream (Old Woman With A Casket)
  14. Apples And Oranges
  15. Baby Lemonade
  16. Dominoes
  17. Love Song
  18. Terrapin
  19. Gigolo Aunt
  20. Effervescing Elephant
  21. Octopus
  22. Clowns And Jugglers
  23. Mystery Bits
  24. Jugband Blues

Total length: 73:48

Band:
Syd Barrett

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Quality: VG++/+++

Comments:
It is a collection of lots of Syd stuff. Some of which is of good quality, some bad. There
are a few common tracks which I believe are the standard released versions (Emily, Candy
and a Currant Bun etc.) but some other rarer tracks of very good quality – Scream Thy Last
Scream, Vegetable Man, Lucy Leave, King Bee. It also contains radio recordings of
Reaction in G and Stoned Alone. These are not of such good quality. Also there is a few
tracks of Syd supposedly during his only live solo performance (1st June 1970 I think)
where he plays Baby Lemonade, Evervescing Elephant etc. but I’m not sure about these.
The quality is poor but it is definately Syd, and it’s definately live. The CD finnishes with a
recording of the backwards message from the Wall. -ANONYMOUS

The live material on Magnesium Proverbs fits the description of the Extravaganza ’70 gig.
The liner claims the recording is from the Royal Festival Hall on 1 June 1970.
-ANONYMOUS

The majority of the source notations are correct. However, I think a few things should be
pointed out in all fairness. Here are my notes about each track:

1-2) These sound fantastic! By FAR the best quality versions to appear anywhere. Each
new Syd RoIO that has appeared in the past year has contained these songs with slightly
better quality than the others. Let’s hope this trend continues! This disk contains a few
pops and crackles, but both songs are very listenable.

3) This puts the version on the Psychedelic Dungeon CD to shame. There are a few pops,
but not nearly so many as before. Sadly, the actual difference between this mix and the
official one is minimal.

4,5) Yes, they were recorded on Feb 27, 1967, but there’s nothing terribly odd about that.
They’re simply the normal 45 versions of the songs, probably pinched from the Shine On
set or the CD Full of Secrets DJ disk.

6) Obviously recorded from vinyl, but which ? This alternate mix is not amazingly different
from the Piper version. It’s nice to have, but isn’t the nicest part of the disk.

7) This track is actually Pow R Toc H, some DJ’s prattling, and Astronomy Domine. That
means that all of the following track numbers will be out of synch with the track listing
above. The quality is quite good. There’s some tape hiss, but remarkably little.

8) The final of the “Look Of The Week” songs. This version of Interstellar Overdrive is
slightly muffled, a bit rambling, but still a good listen. At the end of this track is a snippet
from an interview. It might be Paul McCartney. I’m not a Beatles fanatic, so it might also
be someone else, but it certainly does sound like Paul.

9) The complete date and source of this track is July 23, 1967 at the Cosmopolitan
Ballroom, Carlisle, Cumbria, Scotland. Why the compilers chose to include this 30 second
version of “Reaction In G” and exclude the 4 minute version of “Set The Controls..” is
beyond me. However, again, there’s little tape hiss. Much better than my prior tapes
(although my prior tapes do contain StCftHotS)

[Actually, Carlisle (and Cumbria) is in England, but quite near the Scottish border. This
error presumably originates with Jon Rosenberg (“A Journey Through Time & Space
With The Pink Floyd”), although I’m willing to be corrected — HEDONIST]

10) Stoned Alone = Reaction In G. This instrumental is muffled and in monophonic sound.
It’s not amazingly fun to listen to, but it is considerably better quality than what I’ve heard
before.

11) More moronic DJ ranting and an amazingly keen version of Vegetable Man. There’s
little or no tape hiss or vinyl distortion. If it weren’t for the DJ’s nonsense, I’d say that this
is the best version of VM to appear yet.

12) STLS is of sparkling quality. They may well have snagged this one directly from the
Psychedelic Dungeon disk.

13) Apples & Oranges, as Arnold Layne and Candy and A Currant Bun, is the traditional
45 version. Nothing particularly amazing about it.

14,15&16) These are probably the best tracks on the disk, in my humble opinion. The
vocals are distorted, the tape hiss is evident, and the guitar playing isn’t the best. However,
setting all of these things aside, these are remarkable tracks. The versions that I’ve had
previously sound MUCH worse. I’ve always been particularly fond of this session for
some reason. It’s pretty clear that Syd’s falling apart, but he really tries to keep it all
together. Like always, the RoIO makers got the date wrong. The actual date is February

  1. Also, for some unknown reason, they chose to provide only 3 of the 4 songs Syd
    sang that night (omitting Terrapin).

17-20) These tracks are from Syd’s June 6, 1970 gig in Olympia, London called
“Extravaganza 70-Music and Fashion Festival”. (again the RoIO compiler got the date
wrong) The vocals are virtually impossible to make out until Effervescing Elephant, where
they are merely hard to make out.

[After Effervescing Elephant you can hear someone, probably an audience member, shout
for the Mike to be turned up because they “can’t hear [his] voice”. Nice to be able to hear
this at last! — HEDONIST]

21) Several EMI outtakes of Clowns & Jugglers edited together in a manner similar to that
on the Vegetable Man LP, “Clowns & Jugglers (1-3)”. Good sound quality, but fairly tame
material.

22,23) The mono Jugband Blues… There are a few vinyl pops, but it is different from the
typical version. Very nice.

24) The hidden message, played so you can understand it, from the song “Empty Spaces”.
Kinda cool to finally hear it.

Probably the most exciting find of them all, if it is genuine, is the photo included with MP
of Syd in his garden. The photo is in color and shows a man that looks almost exactly like
Syd squatting in front of and under some foliage with the sun shining across his face.
Although the photo clearly shows the face and is in color, I can’t swear to you that it really
is Syd, because so few photos of Syd (taken in the 1980’s) have ever surfaced. -SCOTT

The version of Interstellar Overdrive is listed as track 9 on the CD box, but it is actually
track 8 on the CD. The previous two tracks, Pow R. Toch and Astronomy Domine, are
combined as one CD track.

The Source listing says that this is from the “Look of the Week” show. However, this
track is apparently from the UFO club on the 20th of January, 1967.

The same recording appears on “Rhamadam: Syd Barrett and the Dawn of Pink Floyd”
(track 11) but it was taken from a documentary shown on Granada TV. The Ramadam
version is of poorer quality with a narrators voice dubbed over the music.

According to the list of “Pink Floyd TV Appearances”, Paul McCartney was interviewed
for this documentary. That would explain why the Magnesium Proverbs version of IO
ends with him talking. MWP

You can tell the original from the repress very easily. The original has really sharp graphics
on the back of the jewel case, the label name is “Gold Standard” and is pressed on a
gold(?) CD. The original press was limited to 500 copies (from I’ve heard from “the inside”)
and as I said before, really really tough to find. The repress has a blurry copy of the track
listing from the original, and isn’t pressed on a gold. CD. -TIBIRD

I really like this one it is one of, if not my favorites. The cracks and pops (from vinyl I
assume) add charm to it. Very listenable and quite a nice collection that represents Syd s
career . It has been said before about other ones, I know but. . GET THIS CD !! It is a
must, more so for fans fans of Syd, it would have been nice for them to exclude some of
the more common ones and put stuff like Experiment and Candy and a Current Bun
w/original lyrics on this disc (yes they do exist). Plus the live Syd songs that are on it are
sweet !! Very nice I would rate it as EX but some of the quality prevents it from being as
so. – Jeff