Pink Floyd - Celestial Voices (Radio shows from 1968-1969)

(Radio shows from 1968-1969)

Celestial Voices is a brand new 2007 bootleg from Rover Records. They offer a recently uncovered lost recording from August 9, 1969. According to a review at boot-review.com: "The first four songs come from a recently surfaced soundboard tape of a recording made of Pink Floyd at the Paradiso in Amsterdam on August 9, 1969. The band's set was professionally recorded with the intention of broadcast on Hilversum 3 Radio. When this tape first surfaced it was said there was a malfunction with the microphone for the vocals and the band were forced to play the songs as instrumentals. This isn't exactly accurate because Waters does still sing in Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, Careful With That Axe, Eugene, and in the latter part of A Saucerful Of Secrets. The vocals are present but barely audible. "Neither the audience nor the band seems to notice this and it leads one to the conclusion that the band's PA wasn't malfunctioning but the radio station's equipment was. Since the tape was unusable for the radio, Pink Floyd returned to Amsterdam the following month and be recorded by Hilversum 3 again on September 17th at the Concertgebouw, the famous The Man And The Journey tape." The other two shows here have both been released before. The best versions [and this is subjective] appear on the Harvested label's BBC Archives 1967-1969: Revision A. The versions of both these shows [May 12, 1969 and June 25, 1968] on the Celestial Voices boot are equally brilliant. The show at the Paris Cinema in London on May 12 precedes the Malaysian riots by one day. The last tune played that day was called The Narrow Way. It's chilling how that can describe the political fortunes of both Malaysia and $ingapore. This period of Pink Floyd was also their most liberating with all four members equally in charge and contributing. By the time Dark Side Of The Moon was made, Roger Waters was in control.


Live at Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, August 9, 1969
01 Interstellar Overdrive (part) 4:18
02 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 12:23
03 Careful With That Axe Eugene 10:10
04 A Saucerful Of Secrets 13:04

Paris Cinema, Lower Regent Street, London, England, May 12, 1969
05 Daybreak (Grantchester Meadows) 3:47
06 Nightmare (Cymbaline) 3:37
07 The Beginning (Green Is The Colour) / Beset By Creatures Of The Deep (Careful With That Axe, Eugene) 6:58
08 The Narrow Way (Narrow Way Part 3) 4:48

BBC Studios, 201 Piccadilly, London, England, June 25, 1968
09 Top Gear introduction 0:19
10 The Murderotic Women or Careful With That Axe Eugene 3:38
11 The Massed Gadgets Of Hercules (A Saucerful Of Secrets) 7:18
12 Let There Be More Light 4:33
13 Julia Dream 3:35
14 Top Gear conclusion 1:10

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