Show #56, Release date: 28. April, 2006

Originally Show #19, Air date: 7. August, 2004 - The Boston Garden was a great place to see a concert.  It was built at the cost of 4 million dollars in 1928 by the same people who built New York's Madison Square Garden.  It was originally called  Boston's Madison Square Garden and eventually "Madison Square" was dropped from the name.  The Garden was demolished in 1997.  Today, everything in the photo to the right, is gone.

The Floyd live at The Garden, 18. June, 1975.  Most enjoyable are the performances of You Gotta Be Crazy, which is different from both the 74 and 77 Dogs versions.  The set also has very good versions of Any Colour You Like and one of the last pre-87 performances of Echoes.

1. Arnold Layne [Paramount Theatre, Oakland, Cailfornia, 17. April 2006]

Set 1
2. Raving And Drooling
3. You Gotta Be Crazy
4. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (1-5)
5. Have A Cigar
6. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (6-9)

Set 2
7. Speak To Me
8. Breathe
9. On The Run
10. Time
11. Breathe (reprise)
12. Great Gig In The Sky
13. Money
14. Us And Them
15. Any Colour You Like
16. Brain Damage
17. Eclipse

Encore
18. Echoes

Show #55, Release date: 14. April, 2006

David Gilmour opened his North American On An Island tour at New York City's world famous Radio City Music Hall ten days ago.  The concert was absolutely mesmerizing.
I was fairly close to the band, nine rows back.  It was GREAT, however while people up front had the better view, anyone towards the back of the venue had the better sound.  This recording was done by Dan Lynch from the rear, left side of the venue.  In less than 24 hours after the show, he had the concert available on various trading groups on the Internet.
I raise my beer glass to you Dan. 

The sound is excellent!  I did however run it through a cool device to bring it out more.  So if you have a good sound system or headphones... just close your eyes and you are there. 

David was amazing and Rick was incredible.   It sucked that Nick wasn't there and Roger for that matter, but I kept thinking, "This is at least half of Pink Floyd, or 2/3 of post-Waters Floyd."  Not bad considering it's the closest thing you'll get.  

Set 1
1.  Castellorizon
2.  This Heaven
3.  Smile
4.  Red Sky at Night
5.  Take a Breath
6.  Then I Close My Eyes
7.  On An Island*
8.  The Blue*
9.  A Pocketful of Stones
10.  Where We Start

Set 2
11.  Shine on You Crazy Diamond*
12.  Wearing the Inside Out
13.  Dominoes
14.  Fat Old Sun
15.  Breathe
16.  Time
17.  Breathe (reprise)
18.  High Hopes
19.  Echoes

Encore
20.  Wish You Were Here
21.  Find the Cost of Freedom
22.  Comfortably Numb

* with David Crosby and Graham Nash

Here are few images from my cell phone... 1  2  3  4  5  6  7  8 
all images copyright 2006 thedoctor.cc

Show #54, Release date: 31. March, 2006

Tennis Center, Melbourne, Australia, 19. February, 1988. This is
a soundboard, concert recording that surfaced last summer. I'd love to know how this came to fruition because it's the best of an '88 gig you'll find.  It has a few flaws however.  There were some slight  mixing issues plus the encore and other small parts were missing.  My guess is that a crew member had recorded this for their own posterity.  Anyway, I tried my best to patch it up just to make the ride less bumpy and added a fantasy encore, if you will, for good measure.  Oh and almost forgot, speaking of patching things.  This podcast opens with a very nice soundboard version of Echoes, however incomplete from 1987, but that's patched up too.  I explain more in the podcast.  Hope you dig it.

1. Echoes (rehearsal) [Air Canada Hangar, Lester Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Ontario, Canada, 7. August, 1987]

Set 1
2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 1-5)
3. Signs Of Life
4. Learning To Fly
5. Yet Another Movie (Round And Around)
6. A New Machine (part 1)
7. Terminal Frost
8. A New Machine (part 2)
9. Sorrow
10. The Dogs Of War
11. On The Turning Away

Set 2
12. One Of These Days
13. Time
14. On The Run
15. Wish You Were Here
16. Welcome To The Machine
17. Us And Them
18. Money
19. Another Brick In The Wall (part 2)
20. Comfortably Numb

Encore
21. One Slip [Omni Coliseum, Atlanta, GA, 4. November, 1987]
22. Run Like Hell [The Grand Canal, Venice, Italy, 15. July, 1989]

Colin Turner, webmaster of Pinkfloydz.com and super genius, has written a cool article where he recounts his time seeing the Floyd at the Tennis Centre here.

*photo: http://www.spencertunick.com/