Pink Floyd bootleg recordings
Bootleg title Recording details Notes
Sound Resounds Around St. James Hall , Chesterfield , United Kingdom , 27 March 1969 soundboard recording including a 16 minutes version of Interstellar Overdrive and a 19:13 version of A Saucerful of Secrets
The Massed Gadget of Auximenes Royal Festival Hall , London , 14 April 1969 audience recording with a performance of The Man and The Journey
Beset by the Creatures of the Deep University of Southampton , England , 9 May 1969
From the Master Tape Free Trade Hall , Manchester , England , 22 June 1969 released by the label Ayanami , also released as The Labyrinths of Auximenes
A Man and His Lunacy Royal Albert Hall , London , 26 June 1969 audience recording
Plumpton Race Track Plumpton Race Track , East Sussex , London , 8 August 1969 audience recording also released as The Journey Through the Past , live at 9th National Jazz Pop Ballads & Blues Festival , includes a 20:26 version of A Saucerful of Secrets
Complete Concertgebouw Concertgebouw , Amsterdam , Netherlands , 17 September 1969 soundboard recording also released as A Man and the Journey , Amsterdam 69 ( Swingin ' Pig Version ) and Amsterdam 1969 ( Harvest ) , plans for an official live album release of The Man and The Journey were considered , but abandoned due to overlap of material with Ummagumma
Essener Pop Festival Internationales Essener Pop & Blues Festival , Essen , Germany , 11 October 1969 released by the label 'Man of Leisure Music ' , also released as Essen and Song Days '69
Amougies Pop Festival Amougies Pop & Jazz Festival , Mont-de-l'Enclus , Belgium , 25 October 1969 first part of a unique concert in Belgium with Frank Zappa as special guest . The complete concert was released on Interstellar Zappadrive by Harvested . The songs Green Is the Colour , Careful with That Axe , Eugene and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun are in soundboard quality , but were performed without Frank Zappa
Afan Lido Port Talbot , Wales , 6 December 1969 audience recording , released by Man of Leisure Music
Ahcid Atthak ! November-December 1969 'Omay Yad ' . Also released as 'The Midas Touch ' Includes the officially unreleased instrumental Fingals Cave
1969
Pink Floyd bootleg recordings are the collections of audio and video recordings of musical performances by the British rock band Pink Floyd, which were never officially released by the band. The recordings consist of both live performances and outtakes from studio sessions unavailable in official releases. In some cases, certain bootleg recordings may be highly prized among collectors, as at least 40 songs composed by Pink Floyd have never been officially released. During the 1970s, bands such as Pink Floyd created a lucrative market for the mass production of unofficial recordings with large followings of fans willing to purchase them. In addition, the huge crowds that turned up to these concerts made the effective policing of the audience for the presence of recording equipment virtually impossible. Vast numbers of recordings were issued for profit by bootleg labels. Some Pink Floyd bootlegs exist in several variations with differing sound quality and length because sometimes listeners have recorded different versions of the same performance at the same time. Pink Floyd was a group that protected its sonic performance, making recording with amateur recording devices difficult. In their career, Pink Floyd played over 1,300 concerts, of which more than 350 were released as bootlegged recordings (sometimes in various versions). Few concerts have ever been broadcast (or repeated once they were broadcast on television), especially during 'the golden age' of the group from 1966 to 1981. Pink Floyd was one of the mainstays of the bootleg industry in the 1970s. In 1999, the group was mentioned on BPI's list of most bootlegged British artists of all time.