'Interstellar Encore' is a 2CD boot that was recorded at The Fillmore West, in San Francisco, CA on April 29, 1970.
"So you thought you had heard this show before? Never Like this! For the first time we bring you a complete stereo soundboard recording of this show that has often been confused with their appearance at the KQED studios earlier in the day."In typical bootleg fashion, the above quote regarding the KQED show is incorrect, it was actually recorded the following day on April 30th, in an empty Fillmore West. CD1:
1. Grantchester Meadows 2. Astronomy Domine
3. Cymbaline
4. Atom Heart Mother
5. Embryo
5. Embryo
CD2:
1. Green is the Colour
2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
3. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
4. A Saucerful of Secrets (1st Encore)
5. Interstellar Overdrive (2nd Encore)
I saw this tour, earlier that April (on a double-barrel micro dot), at the Boston Tea Party, in Boston, MA.
2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
3. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
4. A Saucerful of Secrets (1st Encore)
5. Interstellar Overdrive (2nd Encore)
I saw this tour, earlier that April (on a double-barrel micro dot), at the Boston Tea Party, in Boston, MA.
For me, one of the highlights at the Boston show, and on this freeload, is that they played my favorite Pink Floyd song, "Cymbaline".
For the freeload, post one verse or chorus of your favorite Pink Floyd song.
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ReplyDeleteAs quoted from Interstellar Overdrive
Jugband Blues (might be the first time I got the chivers over a lyric)
DeleteIt's awfully considerate of you to think of me here
And I'm most obliged to you for making it clear
That I'm not here
And I never knew the moon could be so big
And I never knew the moon could be so blue
And I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes
And brought me here instead dressed in red
And I'm wondering who could be writing this song
I don't care if the sun don't shine
And I don't care if nothing is mine
And I don't care if I'm nervous with you
I'll do my loving in the winter
And the sea isn't green
And I love the queen
And what exactly is a dream
And what exactly is a joke
"One of these days I'm gonna tear you into little pieces"
ReplyDeleteOn a more serious note, and from the same lp,
Overhead the albatross hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath the rolling waves in labyrinths of coral caves
The echo of a distant tide
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and submarine
And no one showed us to the land
And no one knows the wheres or whys
But something stares and
Something tries
And starts to climb towards the light
From Echoes.
"I've always been mad, I know I've been mad, like the
Deletemost of us...very hard to explain why you're mad, even
if you're not mad..."
And if the cloud bursts thunder in your ear
ReplyDeleteYou shout and no one seems to hear
And if the band you're in starts playing different tunes
I'll see you on the dark side of the moon
The path you tread is narrow
ReplyDeleteAnd the drop is sheer and very high
The ravens all are watching
From a vantage point nearby
Apprehension creeping
Like a tube-train up your spine
Will the tightrope reach the end
Will the final couplet rhyme
Almost everyday you fall upon my waking eyes,
ReplyDeleteinviting and inciting me to rise.
And through the window in the wall
come streaming in on sunlight wings
a million bright ambassadors of morning.
I know a mouse and he hasn't got a house
ReplyDeleteI don't know why I call him Gerald
He's getting rather old but he's a good mouse
Your the kind of girl that fits in my world
I'll give you anything everything if you want things
I've been singing that verse multiple times a day for the past week. It must be in the air.
DeleteEarlier today, I was discussing with a friend how it has become too cold to ride a bike in Manhattan....
DeleteWhere I live it's too hot to cycle - they're saying 43 degrees by Tuesday (thats 110 for you U.S.folks)
DeleteAustralia?
DeleteYes, Sydney.
DeleteHmmm. I never really associate Pink Floyd with their lyrics, so no verses really come to mind.
ReplyDelete"Cymbaline" is great though. It's funny how Pink Floyd always came through on quote unquote throwaway stuff like the soundtracks to More and Obscured by Clouds...
Oh, and prog rock synergy. If you like Floyd, and haven't heard of Kiwi progsters Ragnarok, swing by my place to check them out...
Hardly an obscure quote but here you go:
ReplyDelete"There is no other day
Let's try it another way
You'll lose your mind and play
Free games for May
See Emily play"
The memories of a man in his old age
ReplyDeleteAre the deeds of a man in his prime
You shuffle in the gloom of the sick room
And talk to yourself as you die
Not sure why, but Obscured By Clouds is my favourite Floyd album.
And who's the fool who wears the crown?
ReplyDeleteGo down in your own way
And every day is the right day
Scream thy last scream, old woman with a casket
ReplyDeleteBlam blam your pointers, point your pointers
Waddle with apples to crunchy Mrs. Stores
She'll be scrubbing bubbles on all fours
Scream thy last scream old woman with a casket
Home, home again.
ReplyDeleteI like to be here when I can.
When I come home cold and tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire.
Far away across the field
The tolling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the softly spoken magic spells.
I remember the first time I heard DSOTM, skipping school, in a shop that sold both stereo equipment & records. I stayed to hear the whole thing, amazed by it. Thanks Babs
Not necessarily my favorite Pink Floyd song, but I do like the lyrics & the sentiment. Currently reading a series about magic & 4 Londons on 4 worlds, interesting. Thanks Babs
DeleteI actually forget that this is a PF song, because I have only listened to it in a sort of all star collaboration, in which Van Morrison sings this part of it:
ReplyDeleteThere is no pain, you are receding
A distant ship smoke on the horizon
You are only coming through in waves
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons
Now I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain, you would not understand
This is not how I am
I have become comfortably numb
Link to the song, that also features Ric Danko:
ReplyDeletehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wpFo_E9Fq2k
When that fat old sun in the sky is falling
ReplyDeleteSummer evening birds are calling
Children’s laughter in my ears
The last song-light disappears
Link
ReplyDeletehttps://workupload.com/file/Rgd24UA9dGM
ReplyDeleteGreen Is the Colour
Heavy hung the canopy of blue
Shade my eyes and I can see you
White is the light that shines through the dress that you wore
She lay in the shadow of the wave
Hazy were the visions of her playing
Sunlight on her eyes, but
Moonshine beat her blind every time
Green is the color of her kind
Quickness of the eye deceives the mind
Envy is the bond between the hopeful and the damned, damned
How do you like the version from the freeload, Mr Pinkwhistle?
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