Pink Floyd - Rotterdam Live (1967)

Pink Floyd
Hippy Happy Fair
De Oude Ahoy Hallen, Ahoy Heliport
Rotterdam, The Netherlands
November 13th 1967

01 [01:19] Audience/Tuning
02 [04:13] Reaction in G
03 [11:53] Pow R Toc H
04 [04:37] Scream Thy Last Scream
05 [10:07] Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
06 [14:02] Interstellar Overdrive

== [46:14] Total

Notes:

Given the late 1967 date for this gig anybody unfamiliar with it might expect to find a poor performance from an exhausted Syd. Some commentators describe the gig as weak but I believe the opposite is the case. Richard Wright provides typically accomplished keyboard playing and holds the arrangements together. He is backed ably by pounding rhythms from Roger and Nick. Syd drifts in and out and when he is in full flight his playing is both radical and mesmerising. The high point is Interstellar Overdrive, which sounds nothing like earlier versions or those that the band played after Syd left. It is arguably amongst the Floyd's best recorded work.

It is recommend headphones to help bring out the acoustics of the hall, which amazingly, can be heard on this version.