Pink Floyd ROIO - 1980-1981 Is There Anybody Out There? Bootleg Representative

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Is There Anybody Out There? Bootleg Representative

Data: 1980-1981
Miejsce: Earls Court, London, England

CD 1

1. Master Of Ceremonies

Ø August 9^th 1980 (first half)

Ø August 7^th 1980 (second half)

2. In The Flesh?

Ø August 7^th 1980 (beginning/second half of vocals/ending)

Ø August 8^th 1980 (“Lights”)

Ø August 9^th 1980 (first half of vocals/”Roll the sound effects”-“Drop it on them”)

3. The Thin Ice

Ø August 9^th 1980

4. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1)

Ø August 7^th 1980

5. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives

Ø August 7^th 1980 (main)

Ø August 8^th 1980 (fragment)

6. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)

Ø August 8^th 1980 (main, David Gilmour’s solo first phrase, Snowy White’s and Richard Wright’s solos)

Ø June 14^th 1981 (David Gilmour’s solo excerpt, a small fragment of which gets repeated)

Ø Unknown (David Gilmour’s solo excerpt)

Ø August 9^th 1980 (excerpt from Snowy White’s solo)

7. Mother

Ø June 16^th 1981

8. Goodbye Blue Sky

Ø June 17^th 1981

9. Empty Spaces

10. What Shall We Do Now?

Ø June 14^th 1981 (main song)

Ø June 17^th 1981 (ending)

11. Young Lust

Ø August 7^th 1980 (introduction/vocal fragment/guitar solo/last chorus)

Ø August 8^th 1980 (main instrumental/most vocals)

Ø August 9^th 1980 (vocal fragment/organ solo/outroduction)

Ø Unknown (“Get down, baby!”)

12. One Of My Turns

Ø August 7^th 1980 (instrumental/most vocals)

Ø August 8^th 1980 (vocal fragments)

Ø August 9^th 1980 (vocal fragments)

13. Don’t Leave Me Now

Ø August 7^th 1980 (most vocals/main instrumental)

Ø August 8^th 1980 (vocal fragments)

Ø June 17^th 1981 (coda)

14. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 3)

Ø August 7^th 1980 (keyboard textures/some vocals)

Ø August 8^th 1980 (main instrumental/most vocals)

Ø August 9^th 1980 (vocal fragment)

15. The Last Few Bricks

Ø August 8^th 1980 (main)

Ø August 7^th 1980 (introductory textures)

16. Goodbye Cruel World

Ø August 8^th 1980

CD 2

1. Hey You

Ø June 16^th 1981 (instrumental/most vocals)

Ø August 8^th 1980 (coda vocals)

Ø June 17^th 1981 (last note)

2. Is There Anybody Out There?

Ø June 15^th 1981

3. Nobody Home

Ø June 17^th 1981 (most vocals)

Ø June 16^th 1981 (some vocals)

Ø June 14^th 1981 (vocal fragment)

4. Vera

Ø June 15^th 1981 (most)

Ø June 16^th 1981 (vocal fragment)

5. Bring The Boys Back Home

Ø June 15^th 1981 (most/vocal fragment)

Ø June 16^th 1981 (most vocals)

6. Comfortably Numb

Ø June 14^th 1981 (main instrumental/most first verse/first solo/some Roger vocals/some solo parts/second solo extracts)

Ø June 16^th 1981 (most Roger vocals/Gilmour vocal fragments/second solo extracts)

Ø June 17^th 1981 (some Roger vocals/second solo extracts)

Ø June 15^th 1981 (second solo fragment)

Ø Unknown (fragments of second solo)

7. The Show Must Go On

Ø June 16^th 1981 (most)

Ø August 8^th 1980 (vocal fragment)

8. Master Of Ceremonies

Ø June 16^th 1981 (instrumental/most vocals)

8. In The Flesh

Ø August 7^th 1980 (most)

Ø August 9^th 1980 (vocal fragments)

Ø August 8^th 1980 (vocal fragments)

10. Run Like Hell

Ø June 17^th 1981 (main/most vocals)

Ø June 15^th 1981 (introduction fragment/Gilmour vocal fragment on 1^st verse)

Ø June 14^th 1981 (introduction fragment)

Ø June 16^th 1981 (bass guitar fill/all Gilmour vocals on 2^nd verse)

11. Waiting For The Worms

Ø June 15^th 1981 (instrumental/some vocals)

Ø June 16^th 1981 (banter/some vocals)

Ø August 8^th 1980 (some vocals)

Ø August 9^th 1980 (vocal fragment)

Ø June 14^th 1981 (vocal fragment)

12. Stop

Ø August 8^th 1980

13. The Trial

Ø August 9^th 1980

14. Outside The Wall

Ø August 8^th 1980 (song)

Ø Unknown (goodbyes)

I really would like to know what Pink Floyd has against listing dates and being clear about their documentation. In my view, this aspect is really important from a historical perspective, and perhaps even for some of us to have an idea as to how they take care about their archives. Sometimes it is nice to be open about it and engage those of us who take interest, just like Robert Fripp, Alex “Stormy” Mundy and David Singleton do with King Crimson-related affairs.

Once again, a Floyd release has none of these: “Is There Anybody Out There?” is a mystery as far as compilation efforts go, and we don’t even have any help with exact dates, London 1980-1981 being the only clue to what’s inside. So I went on a listening measure again, and, needless to say, or perhaps not, this one is even more uncomfortable listening. But remember I’m sharing with you who are also interested in these aspects so many bands forego.

And yes, I know Wikipedia also has sketchy info on this, but we shouldn’t trust it, should we? I’m pretty sure we should not, because it was I who edited it first to add those dates, doing only tentative listening in hopes someone would join me in the discussion… Well, I guess I just had to do it way more carefully, and am not surprised about how much seems to be wrong there. I hope you agree with me if you join together.

It is interesting to listen to bootlegs and realise how much was taken from a particular night and how much was left out. On this one, the official version, everything is pretty much honest-to-performance, but sometimes it jumps from so many sources that it is hard to keep track of. It is funny how Disc 1 seems to be mainly composed of 1980 and Disc 02 is equal for 1981, and, of some interest, I couldn’t identify anything from June 13^th – it is AWOL from the whole thing, in my opinion.

After my slight misstep with Immersion Bootleg Representative, on this one I chose to list unknown sources as such, part also of trying not to pretend to be putting an end to things, but to further the dialog between us. Here we have a few, and most during David’s celebrated solos.

Sources I used:

All Wallweeds remasters for each respective date, except one of two for August 9^th 1980, which is the raw Recorder 3, and the only one for June 16^th 1981, which is G. R. 311/312 – “Watching The World Upon The Wall”.

Dodano: 1.4.2018