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Previously unseen archival concert footage of Pink Floyd performing in 1977 has surfaced online.
The 10-minute clip was sourced from Super 8 reels and uploaded to YouTube by the Pink Floyd Research Group, a fan committee that restores and archives the band’s bootleg media.
Captured during Floyd’s second performance at the Anaheim Stadium in California on May 7th, 1977 — during the North American leg of their “In the Flesh Tour” — the 8mm footage includes portions of “Wish You Were Here,” “Shine On You Crazy Diamond” (Parts VI–IX), and “Money.” The publicly shot footage of the former two songs is notable for a few reasons, as outlined by the fan group in the YouTube description:
“This footage is absolutely unbelievable, and nobody can deny it. Not only is this the first real good footage of them performing Wish You Were Here in 1977, but it also captures amazing footage of pt. 6 [of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”]; great shots of all six onstage members (including [guitarist] Snowy White and [saxophonist] Dick Parry); Amazing footage of David doing the slide solo in pts. 6-9; the transitions between parts; the full pt. 7 vocal section; a very nice glimpse into the original screen-films for pts. 6-9 and Money; Dick Parry’s entire sax solo in Money; and some utterly amazing closeups of Gilmour singing and playing Money. The list goes on.”
The YouTube description went on to reveal that the reel, vaguely labeled “MAY ’77,” was the only Floyd footage the group could find in the collection of 8mm reels it originally sourced. The group bemoaned the fact that there was no footage of material from Animals, despite being the North American tour in support of that album.
“It’s important to address the elephant in the room… where the hell is Animals?! Well, we have no idea,” the group wrote. “We have gone through all of this guy’s film reels and have found zero trace of any other Pink Floyd segment. Given these are all huge 400ft reels, it’s safe to say that this is all he shot.”
Still, the group conceded that the 10 minutes it did find was “indisputably the best public footage of all three of these songs.”
Check out the concert footage below.
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