Pink Floyd, Last Brick Blues. Improvisation Live Feb 1980 

It sounds like the baseline to Breathe, has the tempo of breathe, it sounds like a Jam to the sound of Breathe

It's the final breath of that classic early Floyd sound never to be seen again at this strength.

@@madcap_9539 Definitely. You have just hooked the target.

I saw opening night in New York,2/24/1980. I was standing between lower and upper bowls. When Comfortable Numb came on, David was DIRECTLY ACROSS FROM ME!

I feel your pain etc, I was lucky enough to see the original show in London in 1979. I went to the Pulse tour in the 90s in London and was in the crowd when two sections down where my daughter and I were sitting collapsed and they had to stop the show after about 45 to 50 seconds. (And they were playing Shine on you Crazy Diamond! Probably my favourite song ever) Luckily we were not hurt, but many were and they rescheduled the show and it was amazing. The mirror ball is still one of everlasting concert memories.

When did PF ever really improvise? I don't count blues jams. That's not real exploration.

@@floepiejane When Syd was in the band their live sets were primarily improvised or played songs with long improvised sections. Have you ever heard Intstellar Overdrive? There were many other songs that left plenty of room for non-blues based improvisations like Careful with that Axe, Saucerful of Secrets, Echoes, Any Colour You like, and Shine on You Crazy Diamond to name a few.

@@manonthemoog none of those were improvised. What do you consider improvised? Really, we need some links here with timestamps.

@@floepiejane Maybe I wasnt clear. I listed those songs as examples of songs with sections where there were usually non-blues based improvisations from Gilmour and or Wright. During money, for example, Dave usually improvised blues-based solos in the middle and end of the song. Technically a lot of their music was first conceived while jamming live or in the studio, but that is not the point I am trying to make.

@@manonthemoog that's not improvisation. Listen to some jazz, or some Grateful Dead. THAT'S improv. Some variant on a blues lick is just that.

Absolutely...EPITOME OF MUSIC 🎶 (SHINE ON 💎) 🎼☮️👊🇨🇦

Lol. If Rodger was going to train-wreck that great thing called Pink Floyd, he could do us the favor and end it on a good album.

or an instrumental "Breathe"

How? They never jammed after roger left. David also refuses to release these performances (every US 80 show is circulating in collector circles lol)

@@Dillpickles_ They jammed when they were making The Division Bell. This album arose from those jam sessions in Nick Mason's and David Gilmour's studio "for two weeks" as he described this process (here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-HvRnsRmq0G8.htmlsi=fGjpOWvupF3NLM73) and the press widely reported. The Endless River was also a part of this process.

​ It's Roger who holds the final veto for anything Wall-related, not David.

@TerrencesClassicRockCorner24 One song being slightly altered in the middle doesn't really amount to much when every tour up till 1977 had their own quirks and basically changed the songs for the better. The money "Jam" only serves to lengthen an already long song, a curse which had bestowed money since like 1977 lol. Even back then it was getting toooooo long. Saying David Gilmour would release stuff is pretty stupid when you consider that David hasn't released any of their recordings from the vaults, which I would argue are more important than the wall concert. David only releases stuff when it fits in with his revisionist agenda to keep the band an "enigma". David refuses to release the countless Soundboard recordings and Open Air Recordings that are in their archives due to the simple fact they can't be edited in any way. On top of that, there are rumors of every show being filmed via VTR post 1975 and that some collectors have these films. Even the live stuff we did get from their golden era are pure fabrications. Wembley 1974 is an autotuned mess with different nights spliced in to correct for David's mistakes. Quite frankly roger was right about ITAOT... It's quite frankly the worst thing James Guthrie ever put together, its filled with Frankenstein'd songs with different nights for every fucking word in some cases. Another thing, David was the one who vetoed any live release for the Animals 2018 mix, Andy Jackson prepared a release for it and was turned down by David. David Gilmour is just as guilty as roger for hating the band's legacy.

​@TerrencesClassicRockCorner24 The agreement says Roger owns The Wall. ITAOT would not have happened without his consent. He contributed to the liner notes, he gave interviews about it and he even signed copies for an EMI giveaway in Europe. As for the artwork - he will have signed off on that just like he did on the Animals Remix artwork, which was also done by Storm's colleague Aubrey Powell (based on an idea by Roger).

Actually is included, the name is The Last Few Bricks.

And, ironically, the only 'member' of the band to make any money from this tour😂 Karma.

Rick was the soul of this band. And they still let him stretch out during the "PF on Ice" tours after Roger left. At every show, there were a few moments when they turned off all the sequencers, tapes, and videos and let Rick blow for a minute or two.

I was at the second show of that tour and sat in a loge seat with some friends. We paid $16.00 for our seats and thought that was alot. Still for us then and now, the magnum opus of concerts.

I suppose I could but there's plenty of versions of that last one to be found on youtube.

It was right near the end of the first half with only Goodbye Cruel World before the interval, so therefore didn't interfere with anything else that was synchronised. It was only because the wall builders were quite a way behind with where they were supposed to be that the band started improvising. 7 Feb 1980 was the first night of the the tour and the same night the fire broke out and they stopped at What Shall We Do Now. Full recordings of all these dates can easily be found on RU-vid.

Surely the whole point of this section was to allow time for "the extra bricks" to be added (and thus improvised to allow for the extra time required).

Because that's the time limit on RU-vid unless I upgrade to premium which I'm not intending to do...

@@andygookey Understood. What a heartbreaker, though. I was there the 2nd night Nassau Coliseum. Exciting times!

@@andygookey Upgrade to a premium service??? I never heard of that, all I had to do was verify my account through my phone

@@dalekofdoom maybe I should investigate further, thanks...

Yeah, except on those 5 nights that medley wasn't quite long enough....

The full concert for all of these dates can be found on RU-vid. See for yourself....

@@andygookey i definitely could have phrased that better, I meant more it sounds like any color you like. Great music either way, thank you for posting it.

Curious thought, especially when for most of their careers they've been miles ahead of their time....

That's somewhat true. David doesn't go much beyond minor blues scale, aeolian and dorian modes. Occasionally he shines on the major scale, like in the first solo of Comfortably Numb. But that's about it. He noodles around live without much freedom with phrasing. Rick is even more limited. But they've always done a fantastic job in studio, where they can craft the solos and distill the improvisations. I think their greatest skill was in crafting songs, creating atmosphere and using beautiful tones. Their playing served the music, which is the right approach. In other words, they had great taste.

@andygookey They were of course. But more as the visioners and architectors of sound. I was talking about their playing abilities, which is shown during melodic improvisations. They were great at soundscapes, yes. But listen to Dave's soloing on live recordings from Shine On 2 from 1977 tours or Rick's soloing on live Another Brick 2 from 1980-81. Or Blues from 1970-71. One word - limited, rather. They were great as Pink Floyd, definitely!)

@@andre.1984 Exactly my thoughts

@@shlomopolonsky Also, to be fair, we have to look at them in context. Those were the sounds and styles of the time, many of which they created themselves, co-creating the soundtrack of a generation. Their legacy is huge, and many guitar/keyboard virtuosi don't have the privilege of belonging to that category. The music of Pink Floyd speaks to many.

and yet masterpieces like Interstellar Overdrive and virtually everything pre Dark Side was all improvisation, the very reason their live bootlegs were always so popular...

@@andygookey Did you ever listened to pre DSOTM shows? The only period when their shows were mostly improvised was arrond late '66 to early '67. Then they started playing structured songs, most of them were extended compared to the studio versions. But that is what most rock bands do at the time.

@@rc4a0frios I've listened to everything that still exists from the earliest demos ('65/'66) and the earliest gigs, (including those in really poor quality). The only gig that still exists from early '67 was from Roundhouse in Feb and only snippets at that.

Careful With That Axe, Eugene

That CD was compiled from the August 1980 and June 1981 concerts from Earl's Court and they didn't need the extra improv by then...