The Good, The Rare And The Scary

The collection came from a tape tree announced in the best Pink Floyd's
mailing list "Echoes". All of the songs chosen are 'special' from some
reason. Most haven't been played too often (The Violent Sequence,
Childhoods End e.g.) or the performance is totally different from any other
occasion (E.g. The Embryo).

The soundquality isn't quite 'hi-fi full surround Dolby S Pro Stereo' (if
you know what I mean), but for some of these songs it's the only version
available (and it *is* listenable).

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Here's the tracklisting, with a few comments (timing is approximate,
including tuning/applause etc.):

1) The Embryo (28.00) - Taft Auditorium, Cincinnati, Ohio, 20-Nov-71

     The legendary super long version. Embryo has had many faces on
     different shows. This sure was a song the band used to change from
     time to time. Sometimes is was just a 3-4 minutes song which got
     extended to 10-12 minutes. This one is the longest version ever.
     Almost half an hour of jamming!

2) The Violent Sequence (23.00) - Town Hall, Birmingham, UK 11-Feb-70

     This piece alledegy was written for the Zabriski-point movie, but
     never made it into the movie, nor on any record. This track is the
     only 'complete' performance of this musical piece available. Well, at
     least what we *suspect* as complete. (The version on Total Eclipse and
     Waters Gate is from a different performance and is only the last part
     of the complete song).

     It starts with the Heart Beat Pig Meat drums and later goes into an
     experimental bit followed by a piano part without much melody. The
     track then goes into Moonhead and ends with the beautiful keyboards
     coda out of which Us and Them originated.

3) Libest Spacement Monitor (20.30) - Royal Albert Hall, London 26-Feb-71

     This starts with a raving experimental bit in which bits of
     Interstellar can be detected. Then it goes into Moonhead, followed by
     The Embryo. The title for this song is most likely an invention of
     roio-makers. At the beginning Roger announces the drummer of the band
     as 'Ladies And Gentleman, Mr. Nicholas Mason'. Apperently a roio-maker
     misheard this and thought (s)he heard 'Libest Spacement Monitor'.

4) Obscured by Clouds/When You're In (12.30) - Sportatorium, Hollywood 28-Jun-73

     This version is far better and very different from the version I (i.e.
     ED) have on 'Obscured at the Rainbow'. The WYI melody is much more
     recognisable and the middle piece features a jam not unlike the On The
     Run Jam version. This show was a very 'tough' show as the audience was
     very annoying (almost rioting).

5) Childhood End (7.30) - The Amphiteatre Chicago 7-Mar-73

     Unfortunately the vocals are very far in the background. A shame
     really because the live version sounds excellent, complete with
     improvised middle piece. How unfortunate that they didn't play this
     more often. Records show that the band may have played this on only 5
     or 6 occasions.

6) Main Theme from More (10.00) - Town Hall Birmingham 11-Feb-70

     Long version of the More track. Also a tune played only a couple of
     times in the 1970-ies.

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