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.

Wolfgang's Vault Radio

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.