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From the list, Fearless, one of the reasons why David Gilmour is the voice of Pink Floyd. BTW if someone know any bootleg with a live version I'd be interested in the info.

Here's a list of my favs (from today) from the glorious formative years and pre-dsotm years:

TPATGOD: Chapter 24 (or Scarecrow or Flaming)
ASOS: See Saw (the title track is not obscure neither STCTTHOTS)
MORE: well, almost the whole piece. But I love The Main Theme (and the live versions of Cymbaline and Green is the colour just kick the asses of the studio versions; they seemed a little quick recorded, being fully developed on the road. But both, speacilly Cymbaline, aren't obscure as they are staples of their live act from their conception till the DSOTM pre-tour (1972).
ZP: love the Country Theme (the Violent Sequence isn't obscure even if it was rarely played alive before DSOTM)
UMMAGUMMA: The Narrow Way pts II & III (love the riff of the first and the second is wonderful).
AHM: It must be Alan's psychedelic breakfast, specially the Morning Glory section (but could Summer 68 too)
MEDDLE: Fearless apart it must be A Pillow of winds.
OBC: Hard to choose. I love the whole album, Today would be Burning Bridges and the lovely Gilmour/Wrights duet (God, I love these guys!).

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moodyxadi wrote:

From the list, Fearless, one of the reasons why David Gilmour is the voice of Pink Floyd. BTW if someone know any bootleg with a live version I'd be interested in the info.

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The number of boots dropped considerably as soon as Dark Side made it ... and I think that the material for "La Vallee" was not released sooner because the film got delayed or there were issues with the film and what not. I think there were also issues with the Tribe ... and I understant that some material was shot without permission originally. The film also got crossed up in the cross language thing between French and English, and the film never made up "it's mind" ... which is ok for the story of the film, as you don't need it, but it makes the film muddier and tougher to follow and get a hold on.

As far as I can remember, I don't think I have ever heard, or found a single song or two even listed in any bootleg, even at the time, which I would have jumped at immediately on. The majority of the Dark Side of the Moon boots are all PRE the released version and featured a very different "greatest gig in the sky" with Syd Barrett doing his version of a priest doing sermons ... I never found any boots of the WYWH, and only one set of boots from the Animals tour (Anaheim Stadium Series) and then 2 different sets from The Wall ...

Been a long time ... a long time!

In those days, the boots were worth it, because PF was much better in concert than they were on the albums ... end of conversation! ... but when they got motorized and mechanical and all that, they may have sold more (how industrialist of them, hey?) ... but the ability and freedom to free lance died ... and there was none in the after the DSOTM era, when they dumped the original material that ended up in Animals.

Edited by moshkito - March 21 2011 at 21:09

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moshkito wrote:

The majority of the Dark Side of the Moon boots are all PRE the released version

i've got a DSOTM live BBC '74 (full album in concert) + Echoes BBC '74 as well, killer version with some sax. The whole is a must have.

There's also a live version of Atom Heart Mother with the orchestra and one of the best versions of Embryo

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Of the songs offered, definitely "Fearless". Simply a great song and a lot of fun to play. Others not listed would be "Childhood's End", "Grantchester Meadows", and "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast".

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octopus-4 wrote:

There's also a live version of Atom Heart Mother with the orchestra and one of the best versions of Embryo

This is the Live version that had Twyla Tharpe dancing that got trashed senselessly and I think that Roger and the band stopped playing AHM all together. On the bootlegs, this is the version that sounds like a lullaby. And it is really pretty and very nice ... and you gotta hand it to the guys to be flexible enough to try something different ... that sadly got trashed senseless and ripped by the rock press ... and later Ian put up a cover that had the dead ballerina, and I still think that it was a refence to this!

Rock music killed the ballerina and the "classic" ideas and concepts!

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RoyFairbank wrote:

Truly obscure but now widely available Floyd Track (released with 40th anniversary of Piper):

Candy And The Currant Bun

Boy, I love that track. Sane Syd voice, a rare treat! Plus it has the F-word, which somehow got past the censors when it was released as a single circa 1967.

It was the B side of the Arnold Layne single.

It's also featured on the compilation "Masters of Rock/The Best of the Pink Floyd" .

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The 1974 release sold quite well because of the success of dark side the moon - I've seen many copies around and the price is low. So perhaps not truly obscure - but a very nice tune indeed.

I would like a copy of this thing...

^ Haha! All those early singles I love, I just figured it would be easy throwing in one song from each album that most people would have heard or owned. I really do like those singles, and there are a lot of songs that I would have like to add! Cry

octopus-4 wrote:

There's also a live version of Atom Heart Mother with the orchestra and one of the best versions of Embryo

I want THIS^^^^

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octopus-4 wrote:

Steven Brodziak wrote:

octopus-4 wrote:

There's also a live version of Atom Heart Mother with the orchestra and one of the best versions of Embryo

I want THIS^^^^

There are two BBC disks recorded more or less in the same period.

The tracklist of the first is:

The Embryo

Fat Old Sun

Green Is The Colour

Careful With That Axe Eugene

Atom Heart Mother

disk 2 is:

Fat Old Sun

One Of These Days

The Embryo

Echoes

More Blues

I'd swear I have a recording of disc one (could be bootleg though) but there was NO brass on it. I will investigate further. Thanks!

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Poll Question: Which is your favorite "obscure" Pink Floyd song?
Poll Choice	Votes	Poll Statistics
Astronomy Domine	26	[22.22%]
Let There Be More Light	20	[17.09%]
Fat Old Sun	14	[11.97%]
Cymbaline	14	[11.97%]
Wots the Deal?	5	[4.27%]
Fearless	18	[15.38%]
other...	20	[17.09%]
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