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Nice Video! Thanks! But: 12:19 I once read that this is just Roger shouting at Algie (not Alfie) the Pig, which makes its way across the audience. Makes much more sense. Eyewitnesses (including Nick Mason I think) say that the guy Roger spat on was in front of the stage all the time heckling.
@@Katoflsallaht i was at the montreal show (my first concert!) and i seem to remember him shouting at the pig , keep in mind this was over 40 years ago and i was most definitely extremely high!
I don’t blame Rodger getting angry after all you have paid to come to listen to the music after all and if the band can’t play properly because the fans are pissed or fucking around letting off fireworks and the band ant hear each other then they don’t deserve to be Pink Floyd fans and if I was Rodgers would have just said “Well fuck you all” and walked off.....
I think the main issue with Animals, if there were any issues at all, is that it had to compete with the much more commercially successful albums of Dark Side of the Moon and Wish You Were Here. It's a great album that just got drowned out by even better albums. A nice problem to have if you're a rock band.
@@AY-uf4oz I was on a chartered school bus from Ottawa that looked like a scene from Up In Smoke by Cheech and Chong. Got there early enough to get to the centre of the field so I could appreciate the quadraphonic sound system - but yeah, the sound sucked.
So, I am one of your close friends! Even if I wasn't in the chartered school bus from Ottawa. Even if the sound sucked, (mainly because of the noisy audience), it was still a great show.
@@claudepage6214 My Father was part of the people that have entred in the broken widow of the stadium( break with bricks). He don't remember a lot about the show The only thing that he remembered that he was so stone because people put in fire ,brick of Ach. My uncle was part of the security guys , when people were entering by everywhere, someone came and give 100$ because he didnt have a ticket and wanted to see the show. So my Uncle has gone and have count the 100$ for the evening during the people were stoned and there were no control.
Drove three and a half hours to see the show in Cleveland. Got there hours before the show. We were the only ones in the parking lot and had brought a couch and some chairs with us along with a cooler full of beer. It looked like we brought a whole living room with us. Every car pulling into the parking lot would drive by us really slow and say the same thing "WOW! You guys have the hot setup!" Before then, nobody partied in the parking lots before shows or football games. We invented tailgating...
This was my second concert....Anaheim Stadium, 1977. (My first was Led Zeppelin in San Diego.) It was a memorable concert. I was new to Pink Floyd, so I truly didn't appreciate it as much as I would even a year later.
@@kenquinn7755 I forgot about that. I was in high school, so I couldn't go to Friday's concert, but I went to the Saturday night show. Great concert--way ahead of its time.
There is an infinite amount of candidates, so I doubt that you'll ever find him. Roger Waters spat at a lot of people, and not all them were outside the band.
I've heard some of these stories dozens of times over but you made this still an interesting watch with the quotes you cited and audio from the incidents and images of the show etc.. Really well made and engaging!
Animals will most likely prevail as Floyd’s most prophetic, timeless, honest, and challenging album over time. Nearly 45 years later and it hasn’t aged one bit
I was living at South Lake Tahoe & my roommate had a friend at a stereo shop, who was going to hold a pair of tix to see Pink Floyd perform in Oakland ( about 4 hrs away ). We got off work to head to the store though....& the dude had already sold the tix to a higher bidder or something. It wasn't until years later, that I finally got to see post-Waters PF on their 'Momentary Lapse of Reason' & 'Division Bell' tours. 'Animals' is still my favorite album.....or the one I revisit most often.
@Steve Stone 3 of the 'Momentary Lapse' shows....2 of the 'Division Bell'.....& then years earlier... Gilmour's solo 'About Face' tour. I've lost track of how many different PF tribute bands or laser shows I've seen. There was one gig though.....The lead singer of Primus & some of his buddies did a show in Petaluma, CA in the 1990s. I only went, because an article in the local paper said that they were going to do 'Animals' in its entirety, as their 2nd set. THAT was cool.
@Steve Stone Those shows were still great. I saw Waters supporting Radio Chaos, as well. Wish they could have got along, but I'll never regret any of the shows I've seen. And, well, Gilmour is a fkg god ...
The reason there were so many technical difficulties is they primarily had to use venue staff to run parts of their stage show because of union labor laws. So you have these workers not in touch with the modern tech so most were clueless.
That bit from the Cleveland show the video played is hilarious. Before playing Money for the encore, Roger dedicated the last song to the crew. “And it’s called ‘You wouldn’t know a cue if it fell on your fucking head’ “ 😆
@@afghanwhigs01 Aw that sucks. Yeah I have the LA Sports Arena show from 75’ and that apparently is what inspired the crowd scene in the Wall movie. Cops were searching everybody, beat the shit out of few dozen kids. Governor Reagan cracking down
Absolutely loved the video! One suggestion, add subtitles during the audio bootleg samples, sometimes it's hard to understand what they're saying. Keep up the good work!
Nice. For a long time Floyd follower who knows the dark ins and outs of the band, I've got nothing to add. I particular like the way you used audio samples of the shows rather than just using hearsay.
You stole my reply! I still can't get my Flux capacitor to work properly, it either overheats and explodes or causes the passengers to get ripped to shreds.
I went to it in Chicago Soldiers Field. Loved it. Dark Side I saw in Milwaukee County Stadium. Blew my mind. Mescaline* Floyd. That's how it was in that era.
Brilliant retelling.I don’t think any music can relax me as much or terrify me as deeply. Unique....doesn’t begin to describe their cultural hold on me.
Alot of bands would of made it longer if they would of taken a break. Get away to recharge their batteries. They push themselves and medicate to keep going at a high level. They either break up or change that band mate.
i was at the animals concert in may of 1977 at angels' stadium in anaheim california. it was just a few days before my 16th birthday and the show changed me from a bubble gum pop teenager into a more introspective young man. the day after i went to the record store and bought the album,and started collecting all the previous albums as well. that summer i was immersed in pink floyd from what i recall,the pig came out during the middle section of dogs. right after the "dragged down by the stone" line. it floated up from the parking lot on the left side of the stage,traveled along a wire into the stadium (directly over my head...wow!) to the press booth. it then turned around and slowly made its way back to the parking lot. just as the band hit the final crashing note of dogs the pig exploded into a fireball ( i could feel the heat from where i was standing on the field),and the band went right into pigs (3 different ones). it was remarkable.
So I watched the runaways movie recently, and I saw this guy that looked really familiar. But then it hit me, and I said out loud, “that’s the dude from vinyl rewind holy crap!!” Movie was awesome but it was really cool seeing you in there my man lmao
So it was him, cool I recently saw the same movie and had my doubts, but indeed I think it was our great host. He looked pretty damn good in that leather outfit.
@@glenbellefonte9620 I already did. One of the great tours and yet also bizarre tours ever done by a rock band. Eh almost The Doors Miami 1969 is more bizarre. But I've always been fascinated by such events. Both the Pink Floyd and The Doors, had such Tours/shows where everything got turned upside down.
It's honestly amazing how this tour sparked what was probably the band's most iconic tour _(The Wall),_ which is another reason why I love _Animals_ aside from Waters' incredible songwriting
Eric, thanks for all your excellent videos. I was at the Chicago Pink Floyd show in 1977; one of the 95K crammed into Soldier Field. This video prompted my to blog about my experience on Tumblr. If anyone is interested, go to Tumblr and search Pink Floyd and Vinyl Rewind, you should be able to find it.
Apparently one show was so bad Gilmour walked through the crowd to the back of the venue and watched the encore from the mixing desk while Snowy White covered his guitar parts.. He said no one in the crowd even recognised him
That was the last show of the tour. 6 July 1977 Montreal Canada Olympic Stadium. Only show they played the blues encore. Show with the infamous spitting incident.
@@ScottyKirk1 yup. Final encore of the night. The crowd was close to rioting after the second, and usual final encore, Us and Them, so they had to go out for a third time, not knowing what to play, so they just played a slow blues. Gilmour was over it. I would've been too. The crew dismantled the stage setup as they played.
@@flyinpigmusic331 Awesome stuff. I wonder if that's why they played Careful at the Oakland show. I know there was an 87 tour show where the crowd wouldn't leave so they came out and played Shine On, as Echoes was still the opening song.
I was at the famous concert in NYC on July 3rd......we sat 3rd row center and witnessed the whole incident.....the show was great and they did manage to complete all their best songs
I love how the last verse of Dogs contains the line ”Who was trained not the spit in the fan”. How ironic. That line even existed in the older version of that song (it’s called ”you gotta be crazy”).
$10 for general admission in 1977. That would be equivalent to about $44 today. Can you imagine spending only $44 for GA tickets to a major band today. Wtf happened?
How awesome. I got chills from the ariel view from Soldiers Field Chicago because I was there and with a little visual and sound helper was blown away. I have pictures from the show but unlike being close in the Dark Side tour I was more in the middle. Thanks for bringing back some great memories. I had just gotten out of the service and needed it. So much has changed with Soldiers Field and time keeps marching on.
I saw this tour in Chicago. I also went to Dark side Tour in Milwaukee. Great shows. Nothing like seeing Floyd tripping. Never will sell my original mint albums. I do have a pretty big vinyl collection. I photographed many of these shows. My brother also has an amazing portfolio from all the concerts we went to. He sold his albums only to regret it and had to buy all of the albums again. Pink Floyd blew my mind! Animals at Soldiers Field Chicago. I'm getting old but am glad I saw so many of the greatest bands ever.
Nice trip down memory lane. I was at the Boston Garden show in June - totally mind blowing. Concerts in the '70s we're epic & the music timeless - genuine rock & roll before being hijacked by MTV.
Great review, Mr. Vinyl! It was quite informative and made some of us who were too young to see it live seem like we were there. It doesn't surprise me too much that Roger would lash out at his audience, considering his behavior. I did like the sponsor you had. I'm sure I'm going to either get flak for saying this or have my comments censored but your presentation worked a lot better than the way RU-vid drops advertising bombs in the middle of the video. And I would like more information about the product you endorsed.
Thank you. Sponsor's really help the channel going and I try my best to make them at least entertaining. As far as RU-vid, lately they'll automatically insert the ads for you. You go in a manually change them or delete them
I have two old vinyl bootlegs of this tour - Each one is great. Outstanding vid by the way. Unfortunately, I was just too young to attend the 77 show in Cleveland...but I knew many who did.
I was at the Cleveland show. Amazing, incredible night! Saw them in Pittsburgh in 75 for the Dark Side tour and thought it just doesn't get any better than this. Then came the Animals tour........life changing.☮️
I was at the Olympic stadium (the big O) for the final show. Let me give you a first hand account starting in the afternoon. 2 friends and myself had hitchhiked from upstate NY early in the morning and luckily we were picked up by a guy also headed to the show so we arrived just around noon. The weather could not possibly be better. There were thousands already gathered on the sloping grass areas surrounding the stadium. It was just a perfect time. Beautiful girls were everywhere and there was an abundance of substances available for enhancing the spectacle. Outside of one drug bust, there was nothing but CHOM FM playing on portable radios which was only interrupted by sound checks which caused applause to erupt. The Olympic stadium at this point in time was still unfinished although the Olympics had come and gone the year before. As it was, several large scaffolding arrays were around the stadium. The huge retractable roof had yet to be installed. As showtime approached things were definitely more intense. Dozens of people had gotten access to the scaffolds and were scaling the dome towards the huge O in the center. Another group had used large metal dumpsters on wheels to break one of the entrances open and a wave of non ticket holders got into the stadium which I learned later on was about 6 to 8,000. We made our way in and the green Buddha blotter LSD we took was just kicking in. The big O is FUCKING HUGE!!!!!!. The actual stadium is down in the ground. The outdoor part that you can see is like the top third only. So being a drummer I looked to the stage and it looked tiny. The drums were minuscule as we were moved along by a surge of people. We had general admission tickets or field tickets and by the time we were down at the field level. Our position was somewhere left outfield from the stage. The first thing that happened was the people on the top of the stadium looking down from the huge O and waving their arms. I think people were yelling “jump” up at them. The other thing was the sound of a train going round the quad speakers. Now, I was also at the Autostade stadium for the previous Pink Floyd show and people have said that was where the train sound was, not this show. So if someone heard something else, please comment. The noise of the crowd was loud. Insanely fucking loud. If I remember correctly, Roger was in a shit mood before the show even started. He said, “Shut the fuck up or we will turn on the white noise” which is used to setup the sound system. Sure enough they turned it on and it was loud, really really loud. That was pretty effective. The sound was by and far the poorest I have heard in the 5 Floyd concerts I have attended. The quad sound would shift the sound and it would drop out suddenly from the speakers nearest to us and get louder on the other side. When the ending of “Have a cigar” went to the large “Whoosh” that came directly out of the speakers nearest us and my friend Jay thought he got stabbed in the neck and clutched his his hands around his throat. Roger’s pissing match with the fans started because they could not hear the monitors for the guitar intro to Wish You were here. It went downhill after that. The next day the newspapers declared the the Olympic Stadium had passed the acid test. There were 88,000 people inside. A lifetime memory for me.
Dave, you beat me to it! Unless someone decided that folks in the USA wouldn't understand (which makes no sense as it/he was never introduced), the pig was affectionately known as Algie, short for Algernon, not Alfie!
Didn’t they have one big pig floating outside the Battersea Power station during the Uk tour that got lose and flew off towards Holland and the Floyd management had to contact Heathrow air traffic control.
No, they had one inflatable pig on a cable to shoot the Animals cover; the band didn't want it faked. If I recall correctly, on Day 1, Algie (the pig) broke free and drifted off, landing at a farm in Kent. Algie was retrieved, repaired and brought back for Day 2. In the end, the cover was faked after all. The design company, Hipgnosis, combined an image of Algie taken on Day 2 with the background shot on Day 1, using a technique called "stripping in"; Photoshop didn't exist in 1976. The stunt was repeated in 2011 to promote the album re-issues but this time the pig was better behaved!
@@VinylRewind it was all a long time ago! I enjoyed the video (I've only seen Part 2) as it brought back memories of seeing the show at The Empire Pool (now Wembley Arena), London. I recall fragments: a 'cherry picker' with a follow spot, pouring dry ice and sparks down on David Gilmour; Algie (and the inflatable family); and the end of Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part IX, when the rest of the band walked offstage leaving Rick Wright playing as the spotlights focused in on the rotating pinwheel (we called it "The Crazy Diamond"), filling the arena with white and purple (or were they pink?) beams of light. No lasers, no Vari-lites but still one of the best shows I've ever seen.
I was there for the show in Miami Baseball Stadium and it was an experience I will never forget. The giant floating pig blew my mind. The concerts of the 70s were like no other. Miss them.
July 3 MSG 2nd concert I had ever gone to. Blown away by the visuals, Money film still in my head. Well done here, thank you for sharing the backstory. This Classic Rock era is the equivalent of the Jazz era of the 1950s early 60's, not to be repeated.
Attended the Spectrum show in Philly. Am familiar with the story about Waters that inspired Comfy Numb but didn't know it was from this show. That being said, from my altered POV the concert was 💯marvelous, visually and sonically.
I remember this concert. I sat in the last row at MSG - the last row on July 4th. The wall was behind me! (A foreshadowing I guess). At the time that was their exact set lest wherein they played every song I have ever heard from Pink Floyd and no songs that I had yet to hear. Amazing show.
Five stars for your razor sharp, insightful analyses of iconic releases. HOWEVER, I want to comment on your set. As someone who lives the mid century modern lifestyle myself, ^5 on the moai mug, atomic decor and furnishings of your set! Truly a better, vanished period of our history. Keep it up!!
Hell...I'd be happy with a cleaned-up audio release from a show or two. I do have two old vinyl boots where the sound quality is damn good considering.
On some bootlegs during the song Sheep you can hear Roger Waters play the outro solo with David Gilmour. I wonder if Waters came up with that riff or was that Gilmour’s contribution? I love playing that riff during sound checks because it covers the fretboard quite well giving you a good idea of the high, mid and low tones
@@uninvitedguest9616 A lot of people don't know that Roger Waters was actually the lead guitarist of Sigma 6, the precursor to Pink Floyd before Syd Barrett joined. His bass playing is very lead guitar-like at times partially on the 1975 live versions of Echoes, Money and Raving and Drooling His blues guitar playing on Live At Pompeii's Mademoiselle Nobs and folk style playing the studio version of Grantchester Meadows from Ummagumma, demonstrates his above average competency on the guitar
This is a really cool video, only one minor quibble. There was never a Scarfe animation for Shine On I-V. The screen films used on the Animals tour were: - Syd running on a beach with the picture of a diamond superimposed for Shine On Part I - Gerald Scarfe animation for Welcome To The Machine - Gerald Scarfe animation for Welcome To The Machine - Original 1974 film for Money - Original 1974 film for Us And Them
I attended the Tampa Stadium show, and it remains the most spectacular concert I've ever been to. If there were any technical issues, I didn't notice. Of course, it was my 2nd concert ever and I was 12, but the music was incredible and the show was awesome.
Well done video. Insightful and informative. I didn’t know most of the information given. I can’t believe that their live show consisted of playing the whole animals album and THEN playing, in order, the whole wish you were here album. That’s pretty amazing. And I had no idea the amount of theatrics and objects that were used in these concerts. Definitely a precursor to the wall shows.
I was one of those lucky sods who caught the "Animals/Wish You Were Here" at Stafford New Bingley Hall in March 1977 (that's it at 3:16). I especially recall that bloody pig that flew overhead as everyone started pelting it with cans and cigarette packets! A girl sitting in front of me got hit with one of the cans! Also remember this horrible matting they had on the floor in front of the stage where we were sitting (on the floor, mind you, as there was NO seating!) as it was extremely uncomfortable with holes only big enough so only one cheek of your arse could fit into! But you really don't give a toss about things like that when you're 17 years old and watching Pink Floyd playing "Animals" and "Wish You Were Here"...and a wee bit of "Dark Side Of The Moon"! And all for the princely sum of £3.50. Aye, those were the days!
Not a huge Pink Floyd fan, yet I am in the minority in believing this is their best album/cd of all. The darkest and heaviness of all their other releases. Rogers inspiration by Orson Well's "Animal Farm" was pure genius. Of all the concerts I have seen for DECADES, my life's highlight was seeing Ping Floyd at Soldiers Field in Chicago, 1977 for their In The Flesh Tour. Nothing has ever topped it. They had no "warm-up" band and, would not play until it became dark - due to lighting effects and, the inflatables. Oh, and a QUADRAPHONIC P.A. set up. Mind blowing . . .
Discovered this channel a couple of days ago and I think it's bloody brilliant. I love the old fashioned living room set and your style. I've enjoyed the Floyd videos a lot, Thank you.
On this tour they played an extended version of Wish You Were Here at every show. Also the song was played electric instead of acoustic like it is on the album. This tour was the only time they ever did this.
I was at the Spectrum in Philadelphia. I thought it was the best the band had played until that time. The sound and special effects were something never heard or seen until then.
I was at that Milwaukee show where the pig blew up way bigger than expected....The shock wave was visible as it spread over the crowd and headed right toward us. I will never forget the day I actually saw sound before I heard it.
My cousin was at the Milwaukee show with friends and a keg in the back of his truck. He said it was great. I missed that one but really enjoyed the 1988 concert in Madison. By the way, the band's jet that buzzed Cleveland was a 727, what a great stunt!
The Geek's not wrong about how great the shows could be. The bootleg of the '77 Oakland gig is jaw-droppingly good. The audio quality is nearly professional, the band are in fine form (They actually goof around with each other!), and they even felt good enough to play a one-time only encore of "Careful with That Axe, Eugene," the last time they ever performed it. It's right here for you to enjoy: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-_08yA0ZK_mU.html
Roger has eluded to that incident in various interviews over the years, so it's great to finally hear the whole story, well told, from this perspective
