Oil Well Bootlegs - RSC CD: Pink Floyd – Green Is The Colour Oil Well

Pink Floyd – Green Is The Colour
Oil Well – RSC 018 CD

1. Grantchester Meadows 7:39
2. Biding My Time 5:23 3. The Grand Vizier's Garden Party/ Part 3-Exit 1:24 4. Cymbaline 12:49 5. Green Is The Colour 6:33 6. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 6:15 7. The Narrow Way/ Part 3 5:08 Total duration: 45:11

Note:
Live in Amsterdam, September 17,1969

Lineup:
Nick Mason (drums)
David Gilmour (guitar)
Roger Waters (bass)
Richard Wright (keyboards)

This album is a digital clone of: "Amsterdam '69" - The Swingin' Pig - TSP-CD-052.
Incomplete recording of 'The Man & The Journey' suite - Dutch Radio VPRO broadcast.
Grantchester Meadows is Daybreak, Biding My Time is Afternoon, The Grand Vizer's Garden Party (Part 3-Exit) is Doing it, Cymbaline is Sleeping + Nightmare, Green Is The Colour is The Labyrinths Of Auximines + The Beginning.

Excellent performance, from every point of view. The sound quality has been improved respect to the vinyl release. Interesting document of a period in which improvisation played a great role.
This Oil Well version has a fine cover, fine quality. Limited to 200 copies only.
Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended. This bootleg has been released also with an alternate front cover. On the front cover Nick Mason, David Gilmour, Roger Waters and Richard Wright.

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This concert has been released officially on: The Early Years 1965-1972

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The Man and The Journey
The Man and The Journey is a suite of music performed in concert by Pink Floyd during their 1969 tour. They consist of several of their early songs, some unreleased songs, and material later included on Soundtrack from the Film More and Ummagumma. The concerts featured visual performance elements such as the sawing and construction of a table, and consumption of afternoon tea onstage. The concept was first performed 14 April 1969 at the Royal Festival Hall in a show billed as The Massed Gadgets of Auximenes – More Furious Madness from Pink Floyd.

In early 1969 there started to be a major shift in the Pink Floyd’s live performances, gone were the psychedelic free from dance raves, now the band was starting to be embraced by a more intellectual crowd, one that would want to quietly listen to the music and the band’s ability to not only recreate the music on their records, but expand upon it, yes it was the early days of what would become Progressive rock. So instead of investing is lighting and projectors, the band would Cutie their wages by investing in their sound system, the early culmination of the investment was certainly the Azimuth Coordinator, a 360 degree surround sound system.

To showcase the new direction, the group would take existing material and present it in a way that would also include a bit of their theatrical influences also, the music would form two long form pieces of music, the individual songs would become movements of the main themes. These early explorations were given names, the first half would be referred to as “The Man” with a running theme of a persons routine in a daily time span. The second half would be called “The Journey”, a theme that could be more open to interpretation of an inner mind to possibly a theological journey. This early experiment would be the group’s first sojourn into a conceptual piece of music and be the foundation for much of the output of the following decade.

A truncated version of the show was recorded 12 May 1969 for the Top Gear radio programme.The 17 September performance at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is the most widely bootlegged of the shows on the tour (however, incomplete) because it was broadcast by radio station VPRO.
Plans for an official live album release of The Man and The Journey were considered, but abandoned because of overlap of material with Ummagumma. A recording of The Man and The Journey has been released as part of The Early Years 1965–1972 box set in November 2016.

Early Years 1965–1972

The Early Years 1965–1972 is a 33-disc compilation box set by Pink Floyd released on 11 November 2016. It was officially announced 28 July 2016. The set includes seven volumes with CDs, DVDs, BDs, vinyl records and memorabilia including photos, posters and tour programmes. It contains early non-album singles plus unreleased studio and live recordings. Although Volumes 1–6 have been available individually since 24 March 2017, Volume 7 – 1967-1972: Continu/ation, remains exclusive to the set. A two-CD compilation titled The Early Years – Cre/ation was also made available.

“Dramatis/ation” – the set covering 1969, the year the group put out its More soundtrack and Ummagumma double-LP – features recordings from Amsterdam and London taken from the group’s two-part conceptual live productions The Man and The Journey, which conceptually covered a 24-hour period in a person’s life. It also includes additional tracks from the More soundtrack and non-album cuts like the version of “Embryo” that appeared on a rare sampler. Its video contains footage of The Man/The Journey rehearsal

Due to an error, a CD edition of Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was also included in the box set in place of the 2016 mix of Obscured by Clouds which was placed inside the set in a cardboard wallet at the last moment. The standalone edition of 1972: Obfusc/ation contains both CDs as standard.
In 2019 many of the blu-ray discs in this set began to fail due to manufacturing defects. Warner Music and Pink Floyd announced a recall program on October 1, 2019.