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  • David genio !!!!!!!

  • Kurt? Not my favorite version...lost THE tapes. sorry.

  • why wouldn't Dave laugh???? :)

  • Really outstanding

  • awesome guitar/voice/keyboards.....sou­nd of music in my ears

  • Gilmour sings better here than his later/regular "smooth" voice!

  • WHY DID DAVID LAUGH I NEED TO KNNOW IN ORDER TO GO ON W/ MY LIFE

  • epic song, epic album, epic band

  • this song reminds me of summers gone by in the past. man does it bring back good memories of how life can be so peaceful if that's what you make of it.

  • i think alot of us were born inda wrong time period. Or are we re'living a past life like Hindus believe?

  • This is song that can make mi high even without any drugs...

  • @Slimjim54 In a sense it's a blessing I was never able to see them. To know and feel the bliss of those concerts... yeah, I could die peacefully knowing I'd have experienced that, but since I only dicovered them in '79, the whole catalogue was 'before my time' and I never felt a before-and-after like you do.

    Come to desert island records, there's only 1 band I would take with me, Pink Floyd, all the way up to The Final Cut. :-)

  • Amazing!...the whole bootleg is very well worth getting your hands...

  • @FloydPompeii

    Do you happen to know where i might find this amazing bootleg? The sound quality is vastly superior to any of the bootlegs i currently have in my possesion! :D

  • new mowed grass does smell so sweet!

  • Pink Floyd touches the very young, the teen, the 20 and 30-something, the baby boomer, the elderly. It's universal in its beauty.

  • @Slimjim54 It was time for that to happen. It was destiny. Dark Side turned out too, wouldn't you say?

  • In the beginning of this song David´s voice is higher and more powerful than studio version.

  • I take a trip with FLOYD music to peaceful moods and atmospheres.

  • I love that little piece of feedback @ 5:00

  • God what that man can do to a guitar. I can't believe I might have read somewhere that Dave thought this was "crap". I could have very well misunderstood what I was reading. but poor confused baby he was to not understand how beautiful this is.

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  • I don't think anyone, at least that this 50 old dude has heard, makes a guitar cry and sound so haunting as Gilmour does on this song and "Time". If there is another guitarist please tell me so I can listen to them and admire their work.

  • @bgoodmanpc1 - i hear you! i will be 60 in 2 yrs; saw Pink Floyd at Hollywood Bowl 1972 & haven't had a day pass since when i didn't listen to some "floyd". Gilmour touches my soul with his guitar playing like no other.

  • @lilRadRidinHood When I was growing up in the early 70's other than Dark Side of The Moon, I really didn't appreciate their early body of work, but now I think I like it better than their latter works. I was never really a fan of the Wall.

  • @bgoodmanpc1 You won't find anyone like David because he began this sound. He of course and as you know had peers who were amazing - like Hendrix, like Lifeson, but David's guitar is both unique and moving and no one ever has touched his caliber and never will again.

  • Best version ever. Majestic. Smooth. Hauntingly soothing..

  • Best version ever. Majestic, smooth, and soothingly haunting.

  • It's sooooooo

    good.

  • I can listen to D'G's solo Forever on this track! AND he stills plays it as well, if not even Better!

  • Album version: wonderful

    Live vesion 2006: even better

    This one: not from this world!

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  • introvabile...

  • The difference a few years make. Floyd existed in a time where true creative talent could also become popular and make hits. Nowadays, you have to dig around the internet to find real talent; they don't go mainstream anymore. Popular music is mostly garbage now. The 70s was the decade of the electric guitar and prog rock, while the 2000's and 2010's are all about male dancers in drag in horrible Gaga vids. Alex, I'll take Pink Floyd for 200, please!

  • Gilmour 's laughter , in my ears! great post Thanx!!

  • There is always more to the floyd. I wish this was my childhood.

  • Lovely fat old sun...

  • Espers, Astra, and some Bardo Pond are all nice bits of progressive psychedelia that are very new, but are forgotten by the mainstream.

  • I was 20 years old 4 friends everybody have a strange outfit Renault 4 R4 each part of this car had another colour and I never forget this feeling cildren til 7 years are ...?? evryething which and what cildren get is the origin for their life and now I´m sitting here an dlisten to P.F. in MOntreux-I´ve been there Now I´m 57 years young, three children, hippie, conservative, free(sometimes) I AM
  • Wow, thanks for posting this

  • bonito demais!!!

  • Wow that was one hell of a solo/song/masterpiece

  • love this version

    the disc one intros with and ends with bell chiming same as that of high hopes

  • you took too much man you took too much....

  • abrahamlincoln0900 you have no taste

  • Brilliant!!!

  • Pink Floyd are awesome...

  • FUCKING CLASSIC

    dave gilmour needs to come to alabama

  • word dude im in auburn playing this non stop

  • holy crap!this is absolutely fantastic.

  • I have this bootleg! Great tune and nice jam too.

  • nice name!!!

  • The tune did not loose an inch of it's great quietness and silent perfection....and most probably never will.

    Bernard

  • i guess this is the most laid back, and the most optimistic pink floyd song ever.

    isn't it?

    anyhow, some great version for this song..

  • Thanks for sharing this. Never heard this version. Truly Floyd during their peak. Brings me way back. But why are some of the best Floyd treasures (like Atom Heart & Meddle) so buried and hidden from mainstream people? Please share this stuff with your friends, kids, and the next generation. A band as genius and timeless as PF must be shared. RIP Richard! This recording makes me want to cry (partly because of how old David, Roger, Nick, and myself are in 2009. Treasure every moment.

  • Waters without Gilmour (or visa-versa) would be like Lennon without McCartney. They both fed off each other's talent to make music that neither could have done alone. Mason and Wright (God Bless him) also were amazing. Pink Floyd was one of the best bands ever. Thanks for posting this version of Fat Old Sun, I had never heard it before. Great song, Great band!!!

  • this is my favorite version of any song by pink floyd. the organ, that guitar solo, holy crap!

  • Ah - you've never heard the BBC Peel show version then. ;-)

  • Wow ... David's voice has not changed in 40 years! The way he sings -- like a lullaby!

  • yeah why can't music of today be interesting like this? i was born in 1975 and the rock of today is horrible.lol i think i was born in the wrong time warp lol

  • i hear you, it's hard to match the beauty and glory of Pink Floyd - not only were they brilliant but popular; but there's some good stuff out hiding out there, you just have to find the needles in the haystack of your style

  • @chrisocony I agree completely with you

    gdigia

  • I agree...I too was born in '75 and I feel like I should be in my 60's...judging by my tastes in music....the "rock" of today is a bunch of assholes screaming incoherently with distorted "faux-demon" voices. All bullshit!

  • i was born in the 90's and too feel like i should be in the 70's lol. pink floyd forever

  • me too man. me too

    :'(

  • im 35 and my

    story is the same.I had to put up with the crap of the mid 80s.We won't get any more Pink Floyds I am afraid

  • TreAdos, I don't think anyone could ever describe today's music as well as you just have! It's just what I think, I just would've never thought to phrase it like that = )

  • @RavishingRedheadd you're not the only one. born in 82'. but its nice to have gems like this that no one could even know what to do with, so enjoy these jewels

  • @RavishingRedheadd u re lucky, when u were born they were still making good music together. i was born in 89 i feel like an alien next to my friends who listen to their nonsense music. still im lucky that this music exists, there is no way im listening to theirs i prefer being an music hater or an apathetic psychopath! and im lucky because some of my friends likes this real music. always look on the bright side of life as monthy python thought us :DD

  • @RavishingRedheadd

    Not completely true. Whereas I would not disagree for a moment that Pink Floyd are miles better than anything in the charts over the past, say, 20, years, you must understand that there are actually albums from the 90's/00's - AS GOOD (arguably better).

    Let me give you an example of some stuff on a par with the best of Pink Floyd.

    Howe Gelb/Giant Sand = Confluence, The Listener

    Luke Haines/The Auteurs = Luke Haines is Dead/New Wave/How I Learned to Love the B-Boys

  • @RavishingRedheadd so true

  • @RavishingRedheadd Cause rock is dead. Post-Rock is where it's at.. Try out Sigur Ros.

  • @RavishingRedheadd

    you`re lucky.

    i was born in 1994

  • @RavishingRedheadd ...me too, born in 1978

  • EXCELLENT :)

  • all hail RICK WRIGHT

  • When that fat old Sun has fallen....

    Nothing matter no more...the music carry me elsewhere...to a place where there is happyness......

    This song is well unknown. It's sad...all the people wasting time on ''modern stuff''. Too bad for them....

    The silver sound from a time so strange

    Sing to me

    Sing to me

    Still first in Space.

  • Right on

  • thanks for the comment; no doubt Pink Floyd is as good as it gets BUT some modern stuff is very excellent, too; don't close your ears to all of it

  • You ae right. I am old enough to have seen them back at the beginning, but I lived in Singapore then. I finally saw them in '71, the first time. But, there is a lot of good stuff around now, also a lot of crap. Those of you born in the 70's would probably not remember how crap the '80's were for music That was the worst period, thanks to Stock, Aitken and Waterman, Mickey Most and a host of other music entrepreneurs who gave the masses what they didn't want, but had to endure.

  • wahhh gives me chills

  • Man, thanks for posting this.Now I remember why I always liked them better in their pre- "Darkside" days.

  • their pre peak era is the best for sure : )

  • Mr.Wrights skating solo proves his omnipotence to The Pink Floyd.

  • The?

  • OMFG!: 7:10-8:09...RIP, Rick Wright!

  • perfection

  • it shows the genious of floyd that theyve here turned a song that lasts 6 minutes into a 15 minute masterpiece.

  • this is ultra cool...... Gilmour was the Floyd after Syd went away and Syd (Roger) is in all their work, esp. early which is their best. RIP Syd RIP Rick we will love you forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • just a note to rockaires - Gilmour wrote Comfortably Numb and co-wrote the songs on Dark Side. During their big breakup, I was a huge Waters fan and couldn't get into a Waterless Floyd, but the truth is that Gilmour played a much bigger role in song writing than I had previously thought.

  • 100% agree. Nice to know there's a like minded Floyd lover and thinker out there.

  • Gilmour does do a surprising amount of the writing. There are numerous PF songs attributed to Waters that Gilmour actually contributed quite a bit of lead guitar/solos, most notably Another Brick in the Wall prt 2. I've read in places that Gilmour actually wrote most of the music for the Animals album as well.

  • the thing in Pink Floyd, is that the guy who came with the general Idea, had the credits, but of course the other members contributed to the song to take it from it's basic form to what you can hear on albums

  • same thing happened to me

    roger waters is roger waters, but gilmour is great, very very talented. and listening back to some division bell tracks ... well it's worthy

  • just my opinion but rick wrights organ kinda sounds like the organ on "thank you" by zeppelin. Not saying zeppelins better , floyds amazing and soooo much better.

  • maybe Im crazy but the organ sounds a tiny bit like the doors in parts.

  • No you are not crazy. The reason is not because they are trying to be like The Doors. Its because they are using a Fender Rhodes stage piano and organ. The sound quality of those things sounds pretty uniform across bands and in those days the hammond and the Rhodes were Rock band staples

  • Beatles at 1???? jajajaja... and Menudo, Parchis, etc. at 2, 3 ????.....Pink Floyd es the best.

  • much better than the album vertsion

  • i think the best version ive heard is David Gilmour live in gdansk but this is an amazing performance

  • RIP Mr Wright

  • page is as shit if compared to gilmour. No disrespect to page, great player. But gilmour is the greatest guitar player ever. ever. You understand that? eva...

  • Greatest player ever was Hendrix and then Jeff Beck. Gilmour is amongst the best though.

  • NO WAY man. You don't know what your talking about. No one comes close to the majesty of Gilmour's musical perfection, artistry of the highest order man. He is a musical artist with a methodology and technique, though simple, can not be copied or emulated by anyone else. Comon now, quit bull shitting, You know I'm right. To say he is among the best is a gross understatement. Hendrix and Beck are among the best. Gilmour is THE GREATEST. Operating on a whole other plane of musical existence.

  • Nobody beat the Pink Floyd...

    Fukin Nobody!

  • You didn't understand my opinion, mate. Of course Gilmour is perfectionist and an excellent musician but his glory is dur to the creativiness and genius of Waters compositions. The amazing solos on Time, Money, Comfortably numb, another brick..., final cut and so on could not be possible without the furious mind of Roger. The albums after Waters were very week in comparison. Peace.

  • One thing you have to agree, you listen to a hundred solos from a hundred live versions of the same music and they are always something different and they all rock. He is a free spirit, he feels the music and plays it, and it always simply rocks. love Gilmour's solos.

    But hey, i'm not saying the he is the best of the bests, he is certenly among them,but the best or not i think that has something to do with your personal taste.

  • I can drive you all crazy by saying: What about Stephen Malkmus? He is a brilliant guitarist, putting out guitar dominated, stoner punk type classic rock since 1991. His most recent album from earlier this year, Real Emotional Trash, is quite a masterpiece.

  • Never heard about Malkmus and I do not think that is my style but I give you the benefit of the doubt. Peace.

  • I love Stephen Malkmus!!!

  • i think that your right and wrong. i mean yes hendrix and jeff and gilmour are all amazing but i dont think you can rate anyone to be the best. gilmour is my favorite but i wouldnt say hes the best and there may be things about other guitar players that make them better or worse but you cant rate them really. just let them play.

  • Well said stratman. It's always a question of taste.

  • very well said indeed! Its futile to compare ... best to enjoy all of them .. I just soak them up

  • gilmour is subtler and his compositions are haunting,lingering and long lasting

    not might be the fastest but the finest

  • Page could/can never play well live whereas as gilmour sounds better live than in the studio

  • YES!

  • RIP Mr Wright, off u go to the great gig in the sky

  • I always thought it was "a silver sound from a TIME so strange"

  • it´s simple: the life with out pink floyd is a mistake

  • True man, intresting arguement about Floyd and ledzep... but the thing is who would you be able to live without if the Nazis took over and said they were going to wipe out all the music of either Led zeppelin or Pink FLoyd? My life would end without Floyd...Simple as that..

  • I must concur.

  • The nazi's are taking over, some of you know who I'm talking about...

    My condolences to all the fans, friends and family, we will miss you Mr. Wright.

  • Rick Wright tore that organ up! This version is beyond the realms of the album vers.. Its absolutly beautiful.. Long live Floyd

  • Pink Floyd in their best days,pure magic!

  • this live performance is the best demostration of the magic and talent of the band. album version is amazing, and this live version is from another galaxy. I think all members were genius and specials. PinkF was not a band with an only star. all of them are stars. From Floydian Venezuela! ManuelC

  • For me this is the best Gilmoure song ever.

  • i like the version of the disc

  • So beautifully different from the album version--absolutely gorgeous. It really doesn't get any better than this, does it?

  • Great use of the hammond organ in this song. The way it was put together reminds me a little of Zep's Thank You or Your Time Is Gonna Come. Perhaps they were influenced by it?

  • i love this version, the best of all time

  • you should know more about Led Zeppelin......you can't compared Zeppelin To Pink Floyd both are great band.....zeppelin have a lot of virtuosity...pink floyd too...they are too much different and no one beat the other

  • led zeppelin is a hard rock band pink floyd has a more spacey sound but theyre both classic bands

  • Man you got to be shitting me... In terms of pure artistry zeppelin is a load of horse shit compared to the majesty of pink floyd. LOVE the zeppelin though.

  • you will never see a pink floyd again there first 6 years they were a underground band given time to develop then exploded with dark side of the moon and became huge.

    that will never happen these days, if u can't be successfull from the start the record company will dump you.

  • thanks so much for posting!

  • could you give some news from blonduo i can't find him anymore (sounds like a song)

  • There is simply no contest. Pink Floyd has been light years better than any other band in history of modern music apart from the Beatles maybe. The Led Zeppelin, The Deep Purple are too limited to be compared to the Pink Floyd

  • i wouldn't even consider the later 2, to be honest , now really/...

  • this song is beautiful i love :*:*

  • Does anyone trade bootlegs in traditional way by exchange them by post?

  • pink floyd can't be compared to any band. They're too unique and by the way...THE BEST EVER

  • Ooh, this one's from Smoking Blues bootleg! I have this one! :D

    Anyone wanna know where to get it? :P

  • yea

  • yes

  • what i love about pink floyd is that EVERY song by them is an absolute masterpiece. i mean they pay so much attention ( in the studio) to the arrangments and play them so perfectly. it sounds amazing!

  • i know! I was watchin some led zep vids here on youtube and everyone was mad as hell that I wrote that pink floyd was better,how could you even compare the two? idiots

  • They are gods too

  • yes they r,I like pink better

  • Zep are the God's of Rock'n'Roll and Floyd are the God's of music

  • The section just past the 5:00 minute mark to around 5:35 reminds me of the Grateful Dead sound.

  • I've been to dozens of Dead shows and you are absolutely right my man!

  • nicely put

  • Damn, i love this song! 09:05 minutes of a good trip!

  • I hope you listen to the 5 more minutes in Part 2 for the completion of this song

  • I love those littly dreamy psycodelic songs...

  • Awesome.

  • They are the best!

  • theres nothing better!

  • A lot more feeling than in album version i think. David's voice is so soothing... Masterpice. Hope to see him again in concert.

  • " Smokin' Blues" is a supreme performance( tape)!!!!!

  • pink floyd for ever and ever ;-)

    by affane mohamed (algeria ;-))

  • Davids voice is by far one of the most soothing ever.

    And his style is infamous now. Number 1 in my book.

  • I think you mean "famous", not "infamous", if he's number 1.

  • This is from the Smoking Blues bootleg. It's probably my favorite Floyd recording. THey were wayyyy better live than on the album songs played: 1)Astronomy Domine 2)Fat Old Sun 3)Atom Heart Mother 4)Cymbaline 5)The Embryo 6)Just Another Twelve Bar 7)More Blues It was to be released as a soundboard recording, but they were technical problems, which David Guilmore can be heard laughing at, and other whatever a Must Find
  • Most, not all, but most of my favorite Floyd is pre-Dark-Side and this one is right at the top. Thanks for posting.

  • The CD version is much more subtle and serene, but this one has better vocals and much more "rockish" feeling. Love that song, for me is a msterpiece.

  • great work dude......thanx for uploading

  • **Sure takes yahh back doesnt it**..........

  • Besides being a great guitarist, Davids voice is so soothing.

  • Definately one of the most underappreciated floyd songs. what a cool guitar solo.

  • Faboulous!!

    I LOVE PINK FLOYD!

    see my favorites.

    5*

  • just lovely

  • Really good recoring! cheers for putting it up. love that song!! :)

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