16.8.08
Atom Heart Mother... as it was
This first video is (unlikely) a partial footage of Pink Floyd performing what is in my humble opinion the very best musical suite ever written in the 20th century, Atom Hearth Mother. It was shot in the early '70s in Saint Tropez. I think this is a quite interesting performance since the band is not backed by the full ensamble of orchestra and choirs. To cope with this limitation David Gilmour leverages on a set of delays and echoes through which his mic's signal is headed.
This second shot was taken in Hamburg. Here the band is backed by a full-fledged orchestra... really a nice result, but unlikely this is even shorter than the former one.
This third version, even if the worst one in terms of quality, might be interesting to somebody since it was directed by Ron Geesin ("the fifth Floyd" in the composition of Atom Heart Mother and revolutionary British composer of the '60s) in the flesh.
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