Pink Floyd - BBC Sessions, Volume 6: Wembley Empire Pool, London, Britain, 11-16-1974

Here's one of the all-time great Pink Floyd concerts. If you don't have this, you really need to get it. Technically, it's a BBC performance, but it's really just a full concert from 1974, over two hours in length, that happened to get recorded by the BBC, so it has outstanding sound quality.

All of the material here has been officially released. There's even a Wikipedia page for it:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Live_at_the_Empire_Pool

But that Wikipedia page is strange, because no such album with that title actually exists. Instead, parts of it have been released on three different albums. One has to put them together to get the full concert, which is exactly what I did here.

For once, there are no sound quality issues at all. (And by the way, there appears to have been no talking between songs whatsoever.) So instead I'll comment on the material. I think the most interesting part are the first three songs. The first one, "Shine On You Crazy Diamond," would become a big part of Pink Floyd's next album, "Wish You Were Here," released a year later. The next two songs, "Raving and Drooling" and "You've Got to Be Crazy," were also supposed to go on that album. The three songs were all so long that when combined they made 51 minutes of music, more than enough for an album. But instead, the band shelved "Raving and Drooling" and "You've Got to Be Crazy," worked on them some more, including changing lots of the lyrics, and released them as "Sheep" and "Dogs" respectively for their 1977 album "Animals."

After those three songs, the entire "Dark Side of the Moon" was played in order. A 25-minute long encore of "Echoes" finished the concert.

Later, I'm planning on posting a 1977 concert, so one can hear live versions of the "Wish You Were Here" and "Animals" albums.

01 Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Parts 1-9 (Pink Floyd)
02 Raving and Drooling [Early Version of Sheep] (Pink Floyd)
03 You've Got to Be Crazy [Early Version of Dogs] (Pink Floyd)
04 Speak to Me [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
05 Breathe (Pink Floyd)
06 On the Run [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
07 Time (Pink Floyd)
08 The Great Gig in the Sky (Pink Floyd)
09 Money (Pink Floyd)
10 Us and Them (Pink Floyd)
11 Any Colour You Like [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
12 Brain Damage (Pink Floyd)
13 Eclipse (Pink Floyd)
14 Echoes (Pink Floyd)

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I could be wrong, but I think the cover art photo comes from the exact concert in question. At the very least, it comes from the same 1974 tour.