This concert took place one month before their album 'Meddle' was released. So if you liked that one, you're sure to like this one.Ī couple of the songs played in that 1970 concert are played again here: 'Fat Old Sun' and 'Embryo.' But there are only five songs played in all, because the emphasis is on instrumental jamming.

Like the other show, he did all the talking between songs. Even the host was the same, famous BBC DJ John Peel. The format was the same: an hour-long concert in front of an audience, played live on the radio. This is basically the exact same deal, except 1971 instead of 1970.

The album also has the dubious honor of containing the song most often voted by Floyd fans as the group's worst: the slow, bluesy 'Seamus,' complete with howling dog.I recently posted an album of Pink Floyd performing for the BBC in 1970. The version we play on 'Floydian Slip' is the gold Mobile Fidelity Ultradisc II pressing, which is the version pictured. The song was released as a single in the United States, backed with 'Fearless.' The album peaked at number 70 on the Billboard chart in the States. 'One of These Days' features drummer Nick Mason in his only lead vocal, if it can be called that. 'Echoes' has remained one of the Floyd's longest studio recordings, clocking in at more than 23 minutes.īefore 'Meddle' was finished, the band moved the project over to Air Studios and Morgan Studios, so that it could use one of the first 16-track recorders available in England. Passed through a Leslie rotating speaker, keyboardist Rick Wright's 'ping' kicked off side two of the album, an opus that began its life with working titles such as 'Return of the Son of Nothing' and 'We Won the Double,' but, like 'Atom Heart Mother,' was renamed at the last minute before a group appearance on the John Peel radio show. The album's centerpiece began with a simple keyboard note, that would go on to become perhaps the most recognized single note in the Floyd catalog. Not surprisingly, progress along that route was slow. David Gilmour has said that in an attempt to stir the creative juices, they even went so far as to record separate instruments on different tracks, with each musician not having heard the previous tracks. The group booked Studio 2 at EMI's Abbey Road facility for the month of January 1971, without so much as a stitch of a song written ahead of time. Floyd took a different approach when recording its 'Meddle' album.

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