Song: Money (Re-recorded in 1981 at New Roydonia Studios) Band: Pink Floyd Album: A Collection of Great Dance Songs Year: 1981 Genre: Progressive rock, blues rock, acid rock
fyi, this version has been entirely re-recorded by Nick Mason and Syd Barrett except the sax part which has been overdubbed by Dave Gilmour and the cymbals are played by Seamus the Collie
Hey, I don't see enough comments about how David Gilmour re-recorded this playing all the instruments except the sax which was again played by Dick Parry!
Linn drum machines instead of Nick Mason. David Gilmour played same whammy keyboards as Rick Wright (because Wright was forced out fo the band already). As for bass guitar, Gilmour took upon that duty several times. Since then, GIlmour has learned to play saxophone too, so a third version could perhaps... ...? :-o
@@marcelodt Not in this recording. In this specific 1981 recording David Gilmour sung and played every instrument but the saxophone, which was played again by Dick Parry, as Mike Reiss correctly stated above.
EMI wouldn’t license it to Columbia Records, and Pink Floyd had all but broken up, so David ended up re-recording it himself. The only other original player was Dick Parry on sax, but yeah, this was all David Gilmour. Kinda like a preview of things to come…
Guilty pleasure - I like this version more than the original. It's not *better* by any means, I just like it better; it's got a more raw, frenetic feel to it. Probably because it was recorded so hastily.
Rumored that Gilmour played most of the instruments, including the bass guitar. When I used to make cassettes of DSOTM for my friends, I'd insert this version seamlessly! 😉
@@ScottyKirk1 That is correct. When Columbia Records was assembling the compilation album "A Collection of Great Dance Songs", EMI refused to license the original recording of "Money" to be put on the compilation. So, to get around this barrier, David Gilmour and Dick Parry rerecorded the song. David Gilmour played every instrument, except the saxophone solo. Dick Parry reprised his role for the sax solo.
Raimundo Lanas Yes and no. You can clearly hear that the kick and snare are stock Linn LM-1 sounds, which was the only sampled drum machine available in 1981 when this was made. The only way to input tempos into the machine was by turning a dial. So it's probably Dave, Nick or the engineer turning the dial live to match the original feel of the 1973 recording as they tracked the drum machine part. Then they played just the cymbals on top of that, and maybe some live tom fills. I'm 99% sure this is the case with this version.
@@froloffanton Hey Anton, that's fantastic info. Now that I pay more attention it does sound like a linn drum machine. So, in a way this would be a 'live' linn drum performance.
Fun fact: David Gilmour completely re-recorded this playing all the instruments - except saxophone, which was by Dick Parry on the original 1973 release found on The Dark Side of the Moon.
This version is WAY better than the original - it is played with so much more aggression and enregy, which is understandable with what was going at the time in the band....
It more or less sounds the way they had been playing it live since dark side of the moon was released. I like this version but if you were to replace the original version of money with this one on dark side, it wouldn't fit well with the rest of the songs on the album.
I bought this on CD in high school maybe 1999 just because I was obsessed with Pink Floyd Just now found out that this was a newly recorded version. I guess I just skipped over it thinking it was the same as DSOTM. For some reason it makes me laugh my ass off thinking Dave had to slog through this just because of licensing issues and you can kinda hear it in the vocals 😂
According to Wikipedia, it's because Capitol Records wouldn't license the track for A Collection Of Great Dance Songs, so Gilmour remade the song so they could put Money on the album without licensing it.
David Gilmour rerecorded this song and played every instrument with his dick, except the sax, which his boy bounced on for several hours until the solo sounded just right. Obscure fact no one has ever commented.
Does anyone have any information on where New Roydonia Studios was? Any info always seems to come back to this one recording, leading me to think it was a pseudonym for another studio.
The differences are obvious but they don’t diminish the performance by any means, with one exception. Mason’s drumming on the original version is more nuanced and has more complex cymbal work. Gilmour plays the drums on this version, and while he plays the drums great for a guitar genius, it’s not as good as the original.
The sequence of cash register noise samples at the very start of the track has always been a proper head fuck for me. I don't have OCD, although it's been suggested by some that I have, or at least a bit of it. But that's not even a thing, you've either got it or you haven't. You can't be 'a little bit OCD. Anyway, I digress. I just like order, and symmetry, and rhythm. But if you listen closely (a few listens may be required to get it properly ) there are 7 noise samples strung together. It's very clever what they've done and it's a good opener for the track. But the fact it's 7 samples and not 8, or 6 niggles me. But, it's Pink Floyd, so I'm able to let it ride. This time.
its easy with practise. think of it as a bar of 4/4 with an extra 3 beats on the enf to lead back to the 4/4 bar. as long as you have a stable drum groove, 7/8 becomes very easy. but to be fair gilmour initally didnt like the idea of soloing in 7/8 because he couldnt be bothered to work out a solo so they switched to 4/4 for the guitar solo
Bass is a little on top of the beat during the guitar solo. Lil rushed. Doesn't swing and attack like Roggo. Dave's vocal is less English-accented by 81 too.
I find it interesting that Gilmour recorded all parts except sax, and that includes bass. For what was essentially a Pink Floyd best-of album, released in 1981, while Rogers Waters was still very much a part of the group. And he (Waters) didn't raise a stink about it?
David Gilmore's vocals are better in the original version. This version is good, but if you are more familiar with the original, you will notice the difference.
Well for a start the Drumming is different I could be wrong but I wanna say this ain’t nick,the difference in drumming seems more evident during guitar solo
Even though they're probably real the drums (especially the snare) have this horrible cheesy drum-machine sound to them. God I hate the '80s. Fucking ruined everything. How did everything start to suck so bad in a mere 5-6 year time frame? In 1977 Animals was the sound they were getting. Then in 81 this. Utterly cheesy. Horrible.
This is terrible. Nick mason plays those drums sooooooooooooo much better. Again, you want good, you're going to have to keep it to the 70s when musicians still gave a shit.
