Clearly with this live album, Floyd reaches its early peak (in concert anyway) and this will be the backbone for the next few years (there are still three from the four tracks featured on the Pompeii movie) and it will take DSOTM to finally bump most of these out of the set list. Apparently, Floyd had also planned to include a version of Interstellar Overdrive, but sadly it was left out and inexplicably never added as bonus in CD reissues. The closing Sauceful Of Secrets track is probably the closest to its studio version (although slightly elongated), but the four movements are so much more naturally linked together. Heart Of The Sun also sees its length greatly increased, Floyd trying a light, celestial and graceful improv in the middle section. Eugene is also much-enhanced and is really the live disc's high point, showing Floyd extremely tasteful use of dynamic peaks, and in itself blows the illustrated version featured in Antonioni's Zabriskie Point movie. All four tracks featured are in a fairly to very different version of the original studio version, with Astronomy Domine being lasting a good 9-mins+ and losing their vocals, gaining much power, even if Mason's drumming is perfectible. The first disc nears perfection, being a selection of their best moments live in concert. If the live disc is outstanding, the least we can say is that the studio concept disc is heavily flawed. Coming with an uninspired picture in a picture in a picture from Hypgnosis, one can only regret that the back cover did not become the front cover. Lindy Mason / penny whistle & flute (14,16) Releases informationР”Р„rtwork: Hipgnosis with Storm Thorgerson (design & photo)Р”СћxCD Capitol Records РІР‚Р‹ CDPB 7 46404 2 (1987, US)Р”СћxCD EMI United Kingdom РІР‚Р‹- CDEMD 1074 (1994, Europe) Remastered by Doug Sax with James GuthrieР”СћxCD EMI РІР‚Р‹- 50999 028937 2 3 (2011, Europe) Remastered by James Guthrie with Joel PlanteР”Р„fter the parenthesis of More, Floyd comes back with a new album that they chose a double (very en-vogue back then) but unfortunately, this will prove a little ambitious for them yet. Nick Mason / percussion & drums (1-4) and timpani & tape (14-16) Roger Waters / bass & vocals (1-4) and tape, guitar & gong (9,10) Richard Wright / organ, keyboards & vocals (1-4) and Mellotron & piano (5-8) David Gilmour / lead guitar & vocals (1-4) and piano, Mellotron, organ, bass & drums (11-13) * Recorded at Mothers Club, Birmingham & Manchester College of Commerce, April & May 1969. Grand Vizier's Garden Party: Entertainment, Pt. Grand Vizier's Garden Party: Enterance, Pt. Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict (4:59)Р”РЋ4. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (9:12) *Р”РЋ0. Roger Waters' 'Grantchester Meadows' was a lyrical folk-like number unlike almost anything else the group ever did.2. The studio LP was more experimental, each member getting a certain amount of space on the record to make his own music - Richard Wright's 'Sysyphus' was a pure keyboard work, featuring various synthesizers, organs, and pianos David Gilmour's 'The Narrow Way' was a three-part instrumental for acoustic and electric guitars and electronic keyboards, and Nick Mason's 'The Grand Vizier's Garden Party' made use of a vast range of acoustic and electric percussion devices.

'Astronomy Domine,' 'Careful with That Axe Eugene,' 'Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun,' and 'A Saucerful of Secrets' are all superior here to their studio originals, done longer, louder, and harder, with a real edge to the playing. They also sound like they've got the amplifiers to make their music count, which is more than the early band had. Featuring the band's second lineup (i.e., no Syd Barrett), the set shows off a very potent group, their sound held together on-stage by Nick Mason's assertive drumming and Roger Waters' powerful bass work, which keep the proceedings moving no matter how spaced out the music gets. The live set, recorded in Birmingham and Manchester in June 1969, is limited to four numbers, all drawn from the group's first two LPs or their then-recent singles. For many years, this double-LP was one of the most popular albums in Pink Floyd's pre-Dark Side of the Moon output, containing a live LP and a studio LP for the price of one.

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