SOUNDTRACK: PINK FLOYD-Live BBC 1970-1971 (1970/1971).
Since I am delving deeply into early Pink Floyd, I came across this bootleg of Floyd on the John Peel show.
The first show is Live at Paris Cinema, London 07-16-1970, just before the release of the album Atom Heart Mother (which we know because Peel says the song will be on their forthcoming album). The first set includes “Embryo” (which only ever appeared on their compilation Works, in a much shorter version), “Fat Old Sun” (from AHM), “Green is the Colour” (from the More soundtrack), “Careful with that Axe, Eugene” (available on Relics and in live formats), “If” (from AHM) and “Atom Heart Mother.”
The version of “AHM” here is interesting because the cello solo is played by a horn instead. The reason for this is because it allowed them to have fewer musicians on tour. It’s the same theme but the horn brings a very different feel than the cello did. It’s also interesting to hear that the horn players are nowhere near as polished as they might be. (In Geesin’s book he does talk about the lack of rehearsal the orchestra had for their live shows).
The second show is Live at Paris Cinema 09-30-1971, just over a year later. They once again do “Fat Old Sun” but in 1970 it was 6 minutes and in 1971 it is now 15 minutes long with a lot of jamming and keyboard stuff thrown on top. Next up is “One of These Days” (from the forthcoming Meddle) a favorite of mine. From this set I learned that the distorted voice that says “one of these days I’m going to cut you in to little pieces” is actually that of Nick Mason (and interestingly, in this version, the quote comes at the end of the song rather than the middle). Then they play “Embryo” again (it was clearly a concert favorite even if it never got a proper release (same length for each show and not drastically different). Then comes “Echoes,” the big side long epic from Meddle. And the set ends with “Blues,” which is indeed a blues. I don’t really expect to hear a blues from Pink Floyd, but here it is, and it’s a good one (Gilmour clearly can jam to anything).
The video below contains the two complete shows running at over 2 hours.
[READ: September 29, 2013] School Spirit
This is the final obscure Douglas Coupland book that I’m aware of and will be the final DC book that I need to hunt down for this blog (I have three other proper novels that I haven’t posted about, but those are proper books and will be dealt with in turn).
This book has about the least amount of information about it that I’ve seen in a book.
The (I assume) official description of the book (which I get from Amazon and Google Books) says
Dis Voir’s Encounters series invites a well-known contemporary artist to choose a subject for a book. The artist also selects a person with “elective affinities”–someone with whom he or she would like to share this exchange. The resulting collaborative volumes serve as an artistic and political laboratory of the present. For this first installment, French artist Pierre Huyghe choose Canadian writer Douglas Coupland, author of Generation X, for the influence that Coupland has had on his generation, and on Huyghe’s own work. Using a high school yearbook as scaffolding for their meditations, they discuss the construction of character, narrative techniques based on chance and the political dimensions of Coupland’s work–themes that are also fundamental questions for Huyghe’s projects. Using a high school yearbook as the framework for a meditation on memory.
But my copy (which has a different cover and limited publication information so may possibly be a different version) does not have anything to say at all about “the construction of character, narrative techniques based on chance and the political dimensions of Coupland’s work.” (more…)
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