Pink Floyd - 1975-04-26 - Los Angeles CA (Ex Aud)

Pink Floyd

1975-04-26

The Forum

Los Angeles CA

Excellent Audience recording

256 kbps

Artwork Included

CD 1:

01. Raving And Drooling

02. You Gotta Be Crazy

03. Shine On You Crazy Diamond I-V

04. Have A Cigar

05. Shine On You Crazy Diamond VI-IX

CD 2:

01. Speak To Me

02. Breathe

03. On The Run

04. Time

05. The Great Gig In The Sky

06. Money.

07. Us And Them

08. Any Colour You Like

09. Brain Damage

10. Eclipse

11. Echoes

Pink Floyd - 1975-04-26 - Los Angeles CA (Ex Aud) 

Pink Floyd 1975- Back to Back - #1: After only playing only 27 shows in 1974, all in Europe, Pink Floyd launched a full scale North American tour on April 8, 1975 that ran all the way to June 28. The tour was unique in several respects. First, while the shows were often referred to as the Wish You Were Here tour, the album by that name would not be released until September of that year. The band did play both the Shine On You Crazy Diamond suite (all 9 parts) and Have A Cigar from that soon to be released disc, but they had not yet completed either the title track or Welcome To The Machine. Second, the opening 2 songs of each concert, Raving and Drooling and You've Got To Be Crazy, were actually early versions of Sheep and Dogs, two tunes which would not appear in final form until the release of their 1977 album, Animals. Finally, for the last part of each show, Pink Floyd played the entire Dark Side of The Moon album, the last time the band would do so with Roger Waters. This excellent audience recording, from legendary taper Mike Millard, captures Pink Floyd near the start of the tour, in Los Angeles on April 21, 1975, 47 years ago today.  Download this one, then come back tomorrow for the 2nd half of this Back To Back set.