Pink Floyd -Live- Radio City Music Hall , New York . March 17 , 1973 ( Full Concert )
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Pink Floyd
Radio City Music Hall , New York .
March 17 , 1973
01 Obscured By Clouds
02 When You're In
03 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
04 Careful With That Axe, Eugene
05 Echoes ( Incomplete )
06 Speak To Me
07 Breathe
08 On The Run
09 Time
10 Breathe (reprise)
11 The Great Gig In The Sky
12 Money
13 Us And Them ( Incomplete )
14 Any Colour You Like
15 Brain Damage
16 Eclipse
17 One Of These Days
Bonus Track 1972
18 A Saucerful of Secrets
David Gilmour - lead guitar, vocals
Roger Waters - bass guitar, vocals
Richard Wright - keyboards , vocals
Nick Mason - drums
I have a haunting feeling I've heard this before, several billion years ago when I was merely a star.
Dim Fool? Is that you?
I was at this show--15 years old--changed my life!
Me too I was 16
Roger's bass playing on echoes is phenomenal!
I took my future wife to this show and we waited on a long, cold line for hours with friends. We had to pee at storefronts it was so cold and windy. By far the most memorable concert in our lives. This is the first time I’m hearing it since 1973.
This show was general admission and started at 1:00 A.M. on St. Patrick's Day. The Floyd used the RCM Hall's rising stage and started with Obscured by clouds bathed in red light. Unbelievable. People had tears in their eyes it was so intense.
I was there...4th row center. They opened the doors at midnight and me and my friends, once inside, ran down the aisle and grabbed 4th and 5th center. We waited all that day outside, on line, and could see and hear the St. Patrick's Day Parade one avenue over. Best concert I have ever attended and I've attended shows of many great bands over the years.
I was there. Was in believable way to begin the show!
I saw Pink Floyd about 6 times between '70 and '84 and wasn't "tripping" at any of the concerts, (and yes, I'm and "old guy" :) )
WISE MAN.
I graduated high school in 73 so I'm an old guy too. Saw Pink Floyd 7 times myself.
What a waste !!
You'd have just got stoned going to the gig even if you weren't having a toke or three......
So you saw them 6 times between '70 and '81, they didn't tour between '82-'86.
Wow, I attended this concert at the tender age of 17(tripping on Blue Sunshine). Had orchesta center seats about 2/3 back from stage. This is awesome. So glad it's posted here. Have never heard a recording and thought it was lost to time. It was the very premier of Dark Side and totally wonderous. It was my second Floyd concert. I saw them the year before at Carnegie Hall, yes, tripping again, age 16. Great times.
They premiered dark side at the ch show in 71 I was there “ a piece for assorted lunatics “
The Any Colour You Like is amazing! It truly explodes and drips with vibrato, echoplex, and full blown psychedelica!
fantastic Wright
I was at this show, I was a senior in high school. It started at 2:00 AM and we walked out at daybreak. The stage came up through a layer of steam/fog and then came forward and stopped just inches from the first row. I was in about the 7th row and was blown away. Echos was just awesome, and then they come out and unleash Dark Side of the Moon on America. Probably my most awesome concert of my experience, and I have been to a lot of shows in the last 43 years...
The middle part of "Set the controls for the heart of the sun" is totally mindblowing!!
I was at this show too. It was supposed to start at midnight but they didn't even let us into the theatre until around 2AM. It was brutally cold and windy standing in line. By the time we got inside, I didn't even care if Floyd showed up. I was just happy to get warm. Then the gorgeous music started to play and the group rose up from beneath the stage to cast their spell on us all. An amazing night.
Lucky that night my friend.
I saw Gilmour with Floyd may 10th 1994 carterfinley stadium in Raleigh NC my 20th birthday division bell tour 1994...it changed my life and I had and went on to see many many shows but not like that...then about 2 years ago I got to see Waters perform his Us and Them world tour in Greensboro NC...he was remarkable especially since I had to keep reminding myself he was a senior citizen...but still A Rock ICON/GOD...August 1st I will be 5 rows back from center stage watching Brit Floyd perform in Greensboro and I am superstores about catching them on their WORLD TOUR!!!!especially with that kind of seat I'm gonna try to relive that feeling only FLOYD delivers one more time...
Lucky!
This show was for midnight???....at Radio City? That's strange...
@@shawncollins7523 Floyd without Waters is glorified elevator music. Zero fire on album or stage.
My friends and I were there....the house lights went down, and pink smoke swept across an empty stage. The first notes of music began, and the band rose up through the smoke on a hydraulic riser. We knew right then that we were in for a good show.... Saw them a few months later at Roosevelt Stadium in Jersey City....
the first date was cancelled because of rain.
Yes!! And a friend and I had travelled from Suffolk Co. on Long Island. And the had yo turn around and go home!! Bummer!!
That fist note! Heard people’s shock!
It's amazing to hear stuff from Obscured By Clouds performed live! That was the first Floyd Lp I bought.
Floyd is timeless. This was stoner music in the 70's. It's stoner music today. In Floyd is a group of musicians that matched each other perfectly, probably to never be matched again. Somebody pass me the Cheetos..
they are the sound track to life for many of us 50 something folks who grew up with that music. I have to say that their music has had more of an impact on my life and my thinking in the last 20 years, than any other genre or band that I can think off. I count Pink Floyd to be a genre of music because there isn't any other band with a sound like it. thanks for the memories
I agree...and I'm 45 :o)
I agree... and I'm 22
I agree and I'm 62...
Katt Manduu as a forty eight yo I concur
I agree and im 45
This concert was recorded when I was one month old. Pink Floyd has been my favorite group for 20+ years, and I had the privilege of seeing David Gilmour at Radio City Hall this past April. Even though I had the Flu and Pneumonia and thought I was going to fall over dead, it was still the greatest show I've ever seen. To realize he has played that same venue for over 40 years is just simply amazing.
Interesting to find this. I was one month old when this was recorded at Radio City Music Hall in 1973. I just saw David Gilmour perform at Radio City on 4-10-16...over 43 years later. That blows my mind.
I saw this show in Cincy..mar 8, 73 n Gilmour 4-12-16 n chitown n la 1 each lol
Greatest "One of These Days" I think I've ever heard. 😀 "Careful with that axe, Eugene". Is spectacular!!!!!! The recording is clearly sped up.
What an amazing show and recording. We are so blessed to have this saved for eternity. WOW
I would love to see waters and Gilmour work together for one final piece! They should write the album like they used to back in the early 70’s. Wouldn’t that be a treat?
It was mostly Waters alone who wrote the songs, the general idea and the concept of the album. In Dark side actually Wright contributed more than Gilmour as a composer: Us and Them (Waters-Wright), The great gig in the sky (Wright, Torry). In dark side there is not one single song written by Waters-Gilmour.
That's called magical thinking. Stay in the present moment...it affirms one.
Mason is such an intense drummer,live. Sounds like he's hitting the skins like his life depended on it.,specially on Obscured Much heavier than the album version.
True
great comment even more relevant today
Because he was scared shitless with a strong sense of inadequacy. Poor man.
I like Rick Wright's electric piano playing on "Money" since they apparently didn't have a sax player with them for this show.
OMG! This is amazing. The true genius of the Floyd comes shining through!
This set list is unbelievable
OMG, I remember all of this. The GD played at Nassau Coliseum on Thursday / Friday of that week. NRPS were playing at SUNY Stony brook. I had tickets to all the shows, then Pink Floyd goes on sale. If I remember, the RCMH show started at 1:00 AM. I went to see NRPS, stayed to the first brak, then drove to RCMH. I remember seeing Jerry in the men's room. When I got to my seat, Bobby and Jerry were 2 rows behind me. This was the best week of concerts I could ever imagine...
Wow. What a bonanza of great memories of a wonderful time in your life. I feel and hear you. Thanks, friend.
I was at this show too. I grew up in Stony Point 20 minutes north of the GW. We went down without any tickets and bought them 2 hours before the show. I jumped the line and sat in the third row in front of Dave Gilmore. What I remember is watching this great orange ball rise out of the stage. Then all of a sudden there was the group. Then the stage or the part they were on began moving forward towards me. Great show, great times.
"Obscured by clouds" is, by far, my favorite Pink Floyd album, but, since it was a soundtrack, there was no tour for this album. To hear the fist two songs of the album is great. So, thank you a lot!
Sitting at a friends house in Long Island and heard about the show... jumped in the car with my buddies and got there 15 minutes before the concert started... paid some guy $5.75 per ticket... front row balcony,,, best show of my life!
I was born in 1973... Never had the chance to go to a Pink Floyd concert in my life... :- ( However, I went to two Roger Waters concerts here in Portugal and I can only say that it was an out-of-body experience! The magic of Pink Floyd is unique!
I was at this show it was bloody amazing...!...{]=:
I attended this show. Great memories of seeing the stage rise, and come forward. Amazing. Stories are true, Jerry and Bobby were there. Sitting 2 rows behind me. I, like many there, had not heard "Dark Side" a lot yet. It had just been released. I wanted to hear the older stuff (it did not disappoint). But the Dark Side stuff blew me away.
I was at the April 1, 1am at Radio City (the best concert hall in the WORLD!) Speakers arranged around the hall in a 360 sound thing! First time Dark Side was played in public ANYWHERE. WOW
they played it in hollwood 72
I was also there..we purchased tkts in the train station..walked in just in time for the start of the show no time to look for seats ppl seating on the floor in the aisle, we sat down also...the Music Hall was built for music so the sound was awesome..they did Dark Side and I kept turning around to see where the ticking and the laughter was coming from...on my top 10 list
I gotta say, the best part about this besides the music, is reading all of your recollections and memories of this concert.
Tks for posting! I have been a huge PF fan almost since the beginning and I saw them around this time; don't think we even had our hands on DSOTM yet as it was just released Mar 1, and loved hearing the older stuff, which was current to us, and we were in the right state of mind for. Had 2nd row center seats; gifts from DJ friends. Gilmour was wonderfully menacing while singing One of These Days, his face lit from below, which is the main mental picture I took from that concert. Their equipment had been delayed over 2 hrs that night, and we had carefully prepared ourselves for them to go on at 9pm. So there we sat, house lights on, for hours, unable to do much, not even sure there would be a concert, while a near riot broke out due to the delay with 20,000+ stoned people. Some violence. But they did make it, and worked it out as the city let them play after midnight. We got to hear their state of the art surround sound system being set up (they used the synth intro to Great Gig in the Sky to test it), so not all was lost, as it was very interesting. And they gave a show like there had been no delay. One of the most memorable nights of my life and best PF concert experience of any I saw, mostly due to the great seats.
Oh yeah, and Echoes live was something not to be missed!
LemonLadyRecords Roger sings Carefule With That Axe, Eugene, but anyway I would give just about anything to have seen this Floyd live.
jsvkia1 Sorry I was thinking of One of These Days. Dave had such a demented look on his face, esp for the punch line! Glad I was close enough to see him well as that was only time I was.
That magic spell was spoken very softly
That first 10 minutes tho....... so sick!!!
Yes, I was there too, really and truly was. From the intimate venue that is Radio City Music Hall, then a few months later up to Watkins Glen, NY for the Summer Jam with about 500,000 other freaks. What a year for live music.....
Ken Mac
No puede ser... ESTOY SOÑANDO!!! INCREIBLE!!! BUENISIMO!!!
1973 whaou ❤
The birth of sound !!
The band's lengthy tour through Europe and North America gave them the opportunity to make continual improvements Studio sessions were scheduled between tour dates; rehearsals began in England on 20 January 1972. They then performed in Japan.After a series of dates in North America, the band flew to London to begin recording the album, from 24 May to 25 June. More concerts in Europe and North America followed before the band returned on 9 January 1973 to complete work on the album.
I saw this tour a couple of weeks later in Chicago. The DSOTM album had been released two days before they hit town. My concert buddy and I had one listen before the show and expected a song or two but not the entire record!. The light and stage show was as incredible as everyone has tried to describe. This was the third concert of my young high school life and it still ranks as my seminal concert experience. It literally changed my life. . You also confirmed that it WAS as good as I thought.
My #1 faveorite band of all time is PINK FLOYD but King Crimson rules also!!!
Please don t complain , this is all we have , every show was in the moment , people lived in the moment back then , we apreciated every day , I was there , it was fantastic !!
i was going to go but wound up in jail in maine that day..... so i'm finally at least gonna see david gilmour there on april 10th.... YES
+Duk Truker Cool story Hansel
Pink Floyd... you are music. You feel it, breathe it, write it, see it, taste it, and are it. Only fools cant enjoy this. Absolutely remarkable music. Love you all and always love you. Musically Yours, Chase
The Soundtrack of a Generation. My Generation!
Echoes 35:21 Speak to me 55:15 Breathe 58:00 On the run 59:40 Time 1:04:48 Breathe (Reprise) 1:10:15 The Great Gig In The Sky 1:11:14 Money 1:16:50 Us and them 1:23:00 Any Color you like 1:24:50 Brain Damage 1:31:40
Finding a tape of this show today not only blew my mind, but thoroughly made my day. I have heard many other recording of other dates on this tour. Having now heard this one, it's fair to say that the other ones all sound like warmups. Cramming this event into the intimate setting of Radio City Music Hall would seem to be an impossibility. I get chills hearing this tape. I had a very rough day today; this has been a great pick one-up; thanks so very much for sharing!!!
careful is just awesome....
Thanks for posting this incredible show!
I was at this show...
Peter Furlan 10 years later I was born :'(
Peter Furlan I was too it's one of the best memories of my life!
please post the video you made with your smartphone :)
20 years later I was born
Would love to see how they played
Dear The FraKtured: Thank you, thank you, thank you for your great work recently. Awesome material from/by the Floyd! You are a hero.
My first Floyd concert was "the wall" opening night in N.Y.,2-24-80. Seen Momentary lapse twice, and Division Bell. Also Gilmore's About Face tour.Love Pink Floyd. Florida's Floyd freak!!
I saw The Wall opening night in LA. The most creative show ever, Rock on.
Thanks a lot for the post Brother, no words, marvelous !!!!
Like Brian Chistmes below, i attended the Toronto show two weeks before this and am cdlighted to hear this reasonably good tape of the touring material. Album itself had only been out since March 1 so we were still absorbing it. The Toronto show was in a hockey arena with the usual echoey muffled sound so to have this relatively clear rendition is a blessing. THANKS FOR THE UPLOAD!
Grateful for every and any recording from the transcendental Pink Floyd.
Thanks for the upload. I love reading all the stories about people who were there. Too bad for me I was born in 1991.
+Luis Márquez Ok , but before ? Surely a junk over the hill ...
+plizz ligh I don't know what are you talking about.
Thanks for posting this concert. It has brought back so many brilliant memories. I was at the Floyd concert at Earls Court London in 1973 & it was the same as this one. Blew my mind too, Awesome.:-)
thank you for reliving the moment. You are a lucky person. Great history here. Peace!
I was lucky enough to see them one week earlier at Kent State in the small gym. The best concert I ever attended.
Pink Floyd done one thing bad. They didn't shoot on film any of their 70's gigs. WHY? :C
Yes I'd give my right arm for a good quality vid. Pompeii, that's it!
4k scan of original 32mm negative and release on bluray would be fine.
Main reason, it's very expensive, and you only had theatrical distribution. So, you'd someone with deep pockets, to pay for the production, then a huge distribution deal. So, a lot of prints, which cost a lot, and theater soundtracks, were not that good as well. I read Gilmour really hated the decision to shoot the "Division Bell" tour on video, instead of film, and it's 4x3 aspect ratio. That's why you generally only had festivals being shot, where you could attract a much bigger audience, with a lot of different performers.
why only theatrical distribution? I'm talking about home video stuff. And, let's be honest, Pink Floyd members have very deep pockets :D
There was not much "home video" at the time, and what there was, was bulky, and expensive, and commercial distribution didn't really exist, until the 80's.
the best live chorus on time
Glad to see these performances posted. I saw this set March 4 1973 and remains one of the most fantastic performances in memory. The show began with smoke flowing over the stage. The whole first set rocked in ways I did not expect. In Axe I turned to a friend, away from the stage, saying "Here comes the scream" so I was looking at the audience when the whole floor was blown backwards by two trash cans filled with flash powder. At the time Echoes was my favorite pop song. And it cost about $6.
Sounds good enough to be able to restore this bootleg. Anyone else interested in a restored version? Does anyone else have a second recording source?
So sad no one gave you an answer ! But I can’t help :(
TOO BAD THEY DID NOT LET PEOPLE PLUG INTO THE BOARD FEED LIKE THE DEAD DID...
No.
Very good for a 1973 audience recording! With a little EQ enhancement, this could sound even better!
They played Madison, Wisconsin a few weeks earlier. Our local "heavy" FM D.J. from Milwaukee made it up to the show. Dude was all over the radio for months about the life changing event he'd witnessed. Me? I suspect some very good acid but, to be fair, probably a series of performances for the ages if this recording from Radio City Music Hall is any indication.I think this tour is where they rolled out Dark Side for the U.S. audiences.
Roger screaming on Eugene is the best thing I've heard all week. Great upload thank you.
As a major Pink Floyd, Waters & Gilmour fan, I have heard most of the work done by them. @38 I wasn't born for 5 more years. But by all accounts this is the best recording of Pink Floyd. The sound is awesome, the set list rock's too. This is something many other Floyd minded people agree with. What a pity that there's no video of it. Definitely a must listen 🎸.. Look out, the spelling police are about... Prat
Definitely the best live recording I've come across for sure.
Find a bootleg called Rhapsody In Pink. It's live in studio and the fidelity of the recordings is like nothing you've ever heard. The ride cymbal sounds like it's in your living room.
It's GILMOUR for fucks sake. Can you not read?
Rhapsody is a compilation and I believe most of them are from BBC sessions which is why it sounds so good. Not quite the same as a full-on concert but definitely a must-have.
I have Rhapsody In Pink!! It kills!!
I really wish there was video of this performance. From the descriptions by people who were there it was quite a sight. Either way, its brilliant and I thank you for posting.
Hands down the all time best version of 'Careful With That Axe Eugene'
A note to all you Floyd fans who enjoy vinyl....the "Pulse" 4-LP box set is a must-have if you are a serious collector. GREAT recording quality, and a stunning presentation, including a beautiful full-color book. While not exactly cheap (I paid ~ $80-ish for it around 2 years ago), it makes me smile every time I play it....Highly recommended ! 7/21
No rog ={
it just isn’t real Pink Floyd though, no Roger…
god dammit, i love Careful With That Axe Eugene !
This is probably the best quality for the OBC tracks I've heard yet. I worked pretty hard to get ROIO's ten years ago, now they've got them on youtube! Amazing.
St Patrick's Day! I was there-recorded it as well on an Ampex! Great show! The band rose up thru pink dry ice! Pink Floyd at their best!!!
Is there somewhere we can get a copy of your recording?
Hi, you mentioned recording this show on your Ampex; is there a possibility that you still have this recording somewhere?
all hail Pink Floyd thank you for putting it on up here sir
Hey! King Crimson's no slouch either.
Dann DaMann I saw them at Roosevelt stadium jersey city NJ but yes Fripp and friends always put on a delig=ghtful show saw them last year at the Kimmel philpa.
bbooz so did I
before phones pure music watch listen and learn as it should be today!! greetings from from the best city in the world Buffalo NY
Great song to open with !!! Saw them in June 1973 at Roosevelt Stadium Jersey City. Outdoors with quad sound...Floyd knew how to mess with your head, in a good way.
I was at Roosevelt also. 1st time PF show. Came up from Philly on a Friday and was rained out. Radio DJ said come back Monday so we did. Smoke lights colors quad sound fantastic set list- Obscured Ummagumma Meddle then DSOTM -EXHAUSTING!!!
…and the rocketship that descended from the top of the stadium through the band and ‘crashed’ behind ! I was directly in front of Rick Wright and saw that he kept looking up, so I turned around, and WTF-here comes a spaceship !!
This is the first time I've ever heard live performances of "Obscured By Clouds"/"When You're In"! But I have actually read about this concert! It's described in Nicholas Schaffner's book Saucerful of Secrets. It's a famous Pink Floyd concert among Pink Floyd concerts! Thank you very much for posting, TheFraKctured!
boilroom54.... you saw the late show that night. Me early.... People still envy us because after that, they could never play a place as small as Radio City ever again. I remember it was St. Patrick's Day. I was never the same after that night.
Hell Yeah!!!!!!! Floyd at Floyd's finest of many finest moments! Thank you for preserving and uploading this :-) Cheers to you!
Beautiful show. 👌
Obscured by Clouds
Echoes is always great
thanks
Best show I saw back in 1973 at 1 am at radio city . People were trying to buy ticket while we were on line for $100 back then no one given their tickets had front row center balcony. That summer went to Saratoga springs to see them again. Pink Floyd blew all other rock act away then and now. Both Floyds Rogers & David bands. Hope to see them both again when there in their 70's I know they can't stop making music. Floyd, the Stones who left.
Wow Echoes back then was so amazing live.
The greatest! Ever. The Mozart and Beethoven of rock!
I was at this show.Hard to believe it was 40 years ago. I was 17 (almost 18), a senior in high school attending my first concert in NYC with two of my friends. Back then Radio City Music Hall still screened movies along with a live show with the Rockettes. Consequently, all rock concerts started after midnight. This explains why some people think the show was on March 16, but it was really the 17th by the time it started.
I have always loved Pink Floyd but the Greatfuldead got me the most ! Probably because we could c them but we did go to c the other Pink Floyd’s that came after them that David Gilmore gave permission for them to tour because they were that good !
I wsas in attendance at this show. It was St. Patrick's Day 1973. I was fresh out of college at the age of 22. The orchestra seats were ALL general admission, first come, first served. My buddy Ace and I were packed into the front of the general admission line for almost 5 hours. I thought Ace was crazy. Nonetheless, the doors opened and we stormed the orchestra section. We could have had front row seats but chose to sit a couple of rows in front of the sound boards. More to follow........
wow... the screams in careful with that axe eugene just gives me chills
Simply amazing
this is so flipping amazing
this realy was one of the best i have heard...
WOW ..WOW WOW.thank you..I like many others listened endlessly to "Dark Side of the Moon" but was never lucky enough to attend a Floyd concert..now i almost feel as though I've been!!!!
this is awesome.
I was there. With my friend, Purple Haze...They rose up from beneath the stage. They dropped this silver moon down and it appeared to explode with white light. A good time was had by all.
Thanks for this wonderful upload. I was only a baby when this concert was performed, but have seen 10 post break up shows from David Gilmour solo and Pink Floyd, and Roger Waters. We'll never see the foursome together performing, with Rick passing, but we can always cherish these musical master pieces. By the way, I love how Echoes sounds here, even though it's missing the last couple of minutes.