Pink Floyd - 24) Follow The Worms (Working Title For Waiting For The Worms)

Pink Floyd's The Wall (1979) stands as one of Pink Floyd's greatest achievements, as well of one of the greatest achievements in rock music and live concert production. The album spawned a tour, a film, a book of the film (now quite collectible), and eventually an all-star revival concert in Berlin, and finally in 1999 a double live album. But before The Wall was a film, a concert, or even an album, The Wall was just an idea... an idea under construction. The Wall went through at least two "demo" stages. The first was a crude recording of Roger Waters strumming his guitar and singing alone. Presented by Waters at the same time as another concept called The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking, Waters' first demo - still uncirculated even today - was deemed unlistenable by the rest of the band, but they felt it had potential. The Hitchhiking demo was set aside, but The Wall demo was developed further. Many writing sessions later, Pink Floyd - probably with assistance from Bob Ezrin - recorded a second, more complete demo. The lyrics were not polished, and neither was the music. Thankfully, lyrics like "I am a physician/ who can handle your condition/ like a magician" would be entirely discarded and rewritten before the songs were finally committed to tape in a studio, but the rough lyrics and the risky musical experiments which appeared in that second demo have finally made it to the public. These demo tapes have circulated among just a very few collectors since about 1999. Now it is available for all fans. This recording presents the entire 'work in progress' in the best sonic quality available on CD.

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• immersion

[MatheusOliveiraRckr]

er.... this is not a bootleg right? this is the Immersion extras... right?

[BlazefireBootlegs]

@MatheusOliveiraRckr Nope. This and a bunch of these were not included on Immersion because EMI can only release so much.

[gritnom]

@BlazefireBootlegs This and others arent on the emersion release? Such a pitty. Where'd you get these then?

[BlazefireBootlegs]

@gritnom Downloaded off the internet. Google "Pink Floyd: Under Construction" and you'll eventually find a link.

[fireflyrufus19672009]

I´m listening to all bootlegs...some are amazing. It seems the original "The Wall" was darker, harder than the definitive version. Even Gilmour was creating different and new sounds (Listen to "The Doctor"). I´m rediscovering the album

[BrazilskiFarmer]

This version is incredible!!!

[IN4DWIN]

@BlazefireBootlegs it depends where you get it. If you buy via itunes for $30, there is almost nothing. If you buy the box set at say... barnes and nobles for $130 its 120 songs, 64 being demos, 30 being live and 26 being studio + 4 vidoes and all the memoribilia

[PinkFloydFan95]

@TheLairdj bud sell ur sell ur noo!! ye need this ! time tae get roger in !

[TheLairdj]

Right, ahm gonnie sell ma wife tae buy the Immersion version ae The Wall. This is brilliant! Some ae this stuff is jist,,, jist... ach, ah cannae describe how f'in' brilliant Roger and the boys are. An that wee laugh there, reminiscent ae Dark Side ae the Moon...

[TheKeytoRock]

@fireflyrufus19672009 haha same here, i thought i knew the album like my hands, but after listening to the early stuff like Young Lust's instrumental version, im reopenning my eyes.

[SherrifOfNothingham]

Unbelievable. So powerful.