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We recently reported
that a vast cache of rare concert recordings made by the Bill Graham
concert promotion company from the 1960s onwards, had been discovered
in a warehouse.
Ongoing efforts are being made to
catalogue, clean up and, where possible, release the recordings - and
one of these that can now be heard is part of a Pink Floyd performance
from 1977.
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Bill Graham and his concert
promotion company, Bill Graham Presents, produced more than 35,000
concerts all over the world, performed by the likes of the Floyd, Jimi
Hendrix, Janis Joplin, The Doors, The Grateful Dead, Jefferson
Airplane, Otis Redding, Marvin Gaye, Led Zeppelin, Eric Clapton, Bob
Dylan, and many more. A number of these were recorded for posterity.
The concert tapes lay dormant
until the Bill Graham archive was acquired by Wolfgang's Vault (Bill
Graham's given first name was Wolfgang) in 2003.
Wolfgang's Vault has, for a while, offered a good selection of very rare Floyd items, that you can view through this special link. They have now also added onto their site, Vault Radio
which is playing selected tracks from a number of concerts in an
FM-quality, 128K digital radio stream. Songs will be added to and
removed from the radio show on a regular basis.
On the current playlist, is Pink
Floyd's performance at Oakland's Coliseum Arena, on 9th May 1977. You
can hear the band run through "Have A Cigar" - a nice, tight
performance, in very good sound quality.
As this is a radio stream, you
might have to be patient, and listen for a while before the Floyd
performance comes round, but it is worth it. Many of the other artist's
selections are good to listen to, as well - and the site asks for
feedback on the service. You could easily ask for more Floyd, and even
put in a request for a complete show to either be aired or released on
CD! The feedback form is there - make sure you use it if you want to
hear more! Remember, they possibly have recorded shows dating back to
1967... a tempting proposition!
Our thanks to all those who wrote in about this, in particular RonToon, Jon Rosenberg, and Jerome Calderone.
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