Celestial Voices - Pink Floyd

^ We all have to tread carefully when discussing 'unofficial' material here.
............wish we could have a 'secret' bootleg thread, but technically, though many of us have them, they have always done the artist a disservice.
I've always said that if I meet any band member featured on an unofficial recording, I'd hand them a tenner (whatevs the pitiful royalty they'd get from a proper album) coz the enjoyment I get from the better recorded boots is immense.

^ I agree, these unofficial recordings capture a rare glimpse of many of our favourite bands creative and performing progress 'in flight'. They are priceless, and I love to discuss them in length, but this site is all above board, and we have to respect that, let alone the bands themselves.

Edited by Tom Ozric - March 29 2016 at 08:07

For a band like Pink Floyd, I think they and their record company missed out on a huge opportunity to make even more money (as if they haven't made enough with just the official releases!) by releasing a lot of these boots themselves.  The demand has always been there, and probably still is.  I suppose they didn't want to release anything of low quality, but I have heard a number of PF boots that have close to excellent sound quality.

Instead, we just have two live albums from their 70's period that were actually released while they were a band.  Of course, we have Delicate Sound Of Thunder and Pulse as well, but that I don't really count those as they are basically run thorough's of the studio versions (there is little to no changes in any of that material from what is on the studio albums).  I think that is why their 70's boots are so popular, because each performance was different from the last (not drastically, of course, but enough to make it worth having multiple versions of the same songs).  I've heard boots from the 80's and 90's, and aside from Echoes on the first leg of the first Momentary Lapse tour, there really is no reason to have any of them over the official live release.  This isn't the case with the 70's material.

I like what the celestial voices are singing at the start of Not Now John.

^ good point.

infandous wrote: For a band like Pink Floyd, I think they and their record company missed out on a huge opportunity to make even more money (as if they haven't made enough with just the official releases!) by releasing a lot of these boots themselves.  The demand has always been there, and probably still is.  I suppose they didn't want to release anything of low quality, but I have heard a number of PF boots that have close to excellent sound quality. Instead, we just have two live albums from their 70's period that were actually released while they were a band.  Of course, we have Delicate Sound Of Thunder and Pulse as well, but that I don't really count those as they are basically run thorough's of the studio versions (there is little to no changes in any of that material from what is on the studio albums).  I think that is why their 70's boots are so popular, because each performance was different from the last (not drastically, of course, but enough to make it worth having multiple versions of the same songs).  I've heard boots from the 80's and 90's, and aside from Echoes on the first leg of the first Momentary Lapse tour, there really is no reason to have any of them over the official live release.  This isn't the case with the 70's material.

Actually, songs on Delicate Sound and Pulse (at least some of them) are different enough from the originals that I would prefer them over the studio ones... sure, not as different as the performances from the 70's, but they are good enough. I particularly like "Another Brick in the Wall 2" on Pulse, with longer and better guitar solo at the end; "Comfortably Numb" on Delicate Sound, with even longer and better solo at the end too; "Yet Another Movie" on Delicate Sound is very different, and much better than the original, as far as I'm concerned; and "High Hopes", specially because of the backing vocals at the end. There are some other songs that I do like better on this two live albums, but I guess the differences would be less significant.

I am not too overly-familiar with Pink Floyd bootleg catalogue. Can anyone recommend some of their greatest live performance alterations of some of their studio-produced work?