Uploaded by BlazefireBootlegs on Jul 27, 2011
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.
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I've got the book of the film. What is the going price for it. It's in pretty good condition after all these years. I bught it probably just after watching the movie when it first came out.
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Roger Waters is capable of singing whole song. he could not let David Gilmour to sing first part of the song.
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The drum parts are pretty different though... and Gilmour signs the first part on the original.
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@unaperrson Yep... this is Gilmour on fretless bass and guitars, Wright on the keys and Nick you know where...
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sends shivers up my spine...
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Roger's demos are better than most band's final tracks
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These are full band demos, don't think Roger's quite capable of doing it all by himself.
unaperrson 5 months ago 5