PINK FLOYD IF

(Waters) Recorded for the album "Atom Heart Mother", released in 1970, "If" clearly indicates the future direction of Waters' songwriting. With a pleasantly disarming acoustic guitar line, Waters delivers some stark and disturbing lyrics about being insane. The track was essentially a filler on the album, and was not widely performed, although Roger Waters did revive it for his solo tours of 1984 and 1987. This recording is taken from the Paris Theatre, London, September 16th, 1970

PINK FLOYD IF
BBC Archives (HRV 007)
Paris Cinema, London
Disc 1 (July 16, 1970):
1. John Peel Intro 0:28
2. The Embryo 10:42
3. Fat Old Sun 5:51
4. Green is the Colour3:23
5. Careful with that Axe, Eugene 8:27
6. If 5:48
7. Atom Heart Mother 25:08

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• PINK FLOYD
• IF
• Atom
• Heart
• Mother
• Nick Mason
• Syd Barrett
• David Gilmour
• Roger Waters
• Richard Wright

[Yorlamusic]

ich liebe diesesLied

[2braindamage]

@Yorlamusic i like this one better than the cd version

[jczother]

@Matt88Sull Your talking out your ass, Rogers is no Geddy Lee he has his own style of playing, almost Paul Mcartney like. Hits the runs perfect, especially when they played more bluesy shit. He is a songwriter and can play many instruments and is a great bassist, I agree with the statement below and your no critic....

[MorPhyscher]

@Matt88Sull in my humble opnion roger waters, espescially from 69' - 78', was one of the most inspiring bass players ever to pick up the instrument

[Matt88Sull]

i wish roger actually knew how to play bass...

[Screamerific]

this seems awfuly rare.

[roddy76to86]

I have never heard John Peel as pissed off as that. Never mind John, only 6 more years before Punk blows this away.

[kantunil]

This is an historical perfomance I agree but I was expecting more from it. I prefer very much the album version. I own the 2003 remastered CD and I like it so much since I first listened to it. But in this version Nick's bass drum kick is unnecessary and the solos from David are far away from what I hear on the album. they seem unenchanted, without feeling and even out of tune. The only thing that's ok to me is Rogers performance, his voice and acoustic guitar playing are flawless.