Pigs On The Wing Part 1
Dogs
Pigs On The
Wing Part 2
Pigs (Three Different Ones)
intermission
Tour dates:
Nearly identical to the album except for a slower tempo. Roger's solo acoustic guitar and vocals are backed by soft keyboards and a hint of electric guitar.
Dave sings nearly the whole song except for the last vocals upon which Roger takes over. Roger does harmonize on a couple lines like "you'll get the chance to put the knife in" and "you believe at heart everyone's a killer." The rest of the band in turn "echoes" Roger's lines on the last verse; i.e. "breaking away from the pack…" In the age of stadium rock, Dave's blend of warm rhythm and frosty leads, coupled with Floyd's trademark visuals must have been a mesmerizing spectacle. Having seen the song performed live by Roger Waters' solo band; I can honestly say the bitterness of the lyrics really came across through his vocals. It wasn't a pop sing-a-long, it wasn't a cigarette-lighter-waving ballad; it was the show centerpiece that they'd been perfecting for 3 years and stands out among the best Floyd performances.
Again, nearly identical to the studio recording except for an extended chord progression with a heartfelt solo, not unlike the additional solo to Mother during the Wall tour.
This is definitely the most different song of the set in comparison to the album. At roughly twice the length of the studio version, the band gets plenty of time rock out like the old days. There is a surprise guitar solo after the second chorus with a slightly different chord progression, which segues into the "you're nearly a laugh..." bit. This is followed by another chorus, which leads into the longer middle section complete with keyboard solo. After the second guitar solo there is a bluesy keyboard melody with a half-time feel before the song picks up again and finishes with a big finale.
Shine On You
Crazy Diamond Parts I-V
Welcome To The Machine
Have A Cigar
Wish You Were Here
Shine On You Crazy
Diamond Parts VI-IX
encore
Money
Us And Them
January 20: "Animals" was played on John Peel's BBC show, which annoyed Nicky Horne, who was going to play it exclusively on the 21st.
January 21: Nicky Horne plays "Animals" during part 6 of his "Pink Floyd Story" on London's Capital Radio.
January 23: "Animals" officially released, Floyd played Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, West Germany.
January 24: Westfalenhalle, Dortmund, West Germany.
January 26-27: Festhalle, Frankfurt-am-Main, West Germany.
From Melody Maker:
It had been an evening totally without mishaps. The 12,000
natives packed into Frankfurt's Festhalle for the second
successive night on Thursday were in a generally friendly
mood, for the Floyd hardly attract the standard aggro crowd
of people like Zep or Purple. But in an audience that size
it is a statistical certainty there are bound to be some nutters,
like those who were throwing cans and bottles during the
first set. An announcement in the first interval to desist,
bitte because delicate equipment was getting damaged.
I saw another bottle smash on Nick Mason's Hokusai painted
drum kit--evidently a full one, for it sprayed his face with foam.
In the shadow of the PA columns, a group of "plain clothes"
polizei, about as inconspicuous as a panzer armoured
division in their uniform anoraks and regulation length
haircuts, took photographs of the crowd to see if anyone was
smoking dope. Their American counterparts in the Military
Police also ranged through the crowd, checking IDs of
hapless GIs out of the camp for a little night music, searching
if they were AWOL or carrying exotic substances. The band's
special effects department still hadn't got the highpoint
of their contribution to the show quite yet. In the middle
of the "Pigs" section, which closed the first half, a
gigantic inflated porker is meant to fly over the PA,
emerging out of a cloud of smoke, clearing the stacks by a
few inches, and making a circuit of the hall over the heads
of the audience. Well, Mr. Pig made it over the stack all
right without toppling the driver horns on the top, but the
trouble was the smoke. The first three nights of the tour they couldn't get enough product
out of the rented fog-machine, so they tried a smoke bomb
instead. That worked rather too well for comfort, filling
the hall with billowing clouds of acrid, throat strangling
murk, through which it was barely possible to see that something
was happening on stage.
January 29-30: Deutschlandhalle, West Berlin, West Germany.
February 1: Staehalle, Vienna, Austria.
February 3-4: Hallenstadian, Zurich, Switzerland.
February 17-19: Sportpaleis Ahoy, Rotterdam, Netherlands.
February 20: Sportpaleis, Antwerp, Belgium.
February 22-25: Pavillion de Paris, Porte de Pantin, Paris, France.
February 27-28: Olympiahalle, Munich, West Germany.
March 15-19: Empire Pool, Wembley, Middlesex, England.
The original tour dates were for the 17th-20th but for some
reason they played one day earlier. They also had to add an
extra date to deal with the high demand to see the show, which
was already sold out.
From Melody Maker:
The time has come for the Pink Floyd to
completely rethink their stage act. They play in a vast, windy
auditoria and do nothing to turn their concerts into human
events. The ambience they encourage is that of a few thousand
robots responding to a computer. Last Wednesday evening
at Wembley's Empire Pool was no exception. It was rather like sitting
at home in the dark listening to their albums a lot louder than the neighbors
would permit, with more treble than anyone would wish and
a giant inflatable pig hanging over your head. And this
is rock? A band playing though their two latest albums
with as little variation as possible? It was all so cold, clean
and cynical. The Floyd have altered the whole concept of
rock; they've turned the stage into a one-take recording
studio, dispensing with the human bond between artist and
audience.
March 28-31: New Bingley Hall, Stafford, Staffordshire, England.
April 22: Miami Baseball Stadium, Miami, Florida, USA.
Due to technical difficulties, the trademark Floyd
circular screen couldn't be put into place. To make things
worse the flying pig (on a flag pole during the show) caught
fire instead of exploding on cue.
April 24: Tampa Stadium, Tampa, Florida, USA.
April 26: Omni Coliseum, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
April 28: Assembly Center, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, Louisiana, USA.
April 30: Jeppesen Stadium, Houston, Texas.
May 1: Tarrant County Convention Center, Fort Worth, Texas, USA.
May 4: Phoenix Coliseum, Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
May 6-7: Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, California, USA.
May 9-10: Oakland Coliseum Arena, Oakland, California, USA.
May 12: Memorial Coliseum, Portland, Oregon, USA.
June 15: County Stadium, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, USA.
June 17: Freedom Hall, Louisville, Kentucky, USA.
From the Louisville Courier Journal:
A 30 by 15 foot helium-filled pig with glowing amber eyes.
Two human counterparts in a helium husband and wife. Billowing
green smoke and fireworks. A spellbinding animation film
in which raw nerve is strung up on a meat hook only to be
ripped off by a wild animal, who is then devoured himself.
That and more made up the spectacular fusion of music
and theatre that was the Pink Floyd concert at Freedom Hall
last night.
June 19: Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Even though the concert was a success, there were accusations
of fraud attached to this concert. The actual box-office
figure claimed attendance at 67,000, but Floyd was suspicious
commissioned a helicopter, attorney and photographer to give an accurate
count. It turns out that there were really about 95,000 people
there, which meant Pink Floyd were ripped off by several
hundred thousand dollars!
June 21: Kemper Arena, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.
June 23: Cincinnati Gardens, Cincinnati, Ohio, USA.
June 25: Municipal Stadium, Cleveland, Ohio, USA.
June 27: Boston Garden, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
June 28-29: The Spectrum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA.
Interestingly, Roger did not participate in the encore
song Us and Them on the 29th.
July 1-4: Madison Square Garden, New York, New York, USA.
From NME:
Not only was it the eve of July 4th, but it was also the week
that marijuana had been decriminalized in New York state.
The surprisingly young audience was thus inevitably out of it.
Blitzed young men from the Bronx would periodically rise
to their feet, extend their clenched fist and bellow,
"Flooiiiid!" before sinking exhaustedly back to their seats.
July 4th, is of course when all the fireworks go off. Quite
a few had brought them to the Garden and even before the
concert began, firecrackers were spluttering in the upper tiers.
One set fire to the T-shirt of a guy five seats away while on
stage Roger Waters was playing Pigs On The Wing. The fireworks
were making the audience edgy--those of them that could
still feel anything--and it was a while before the Floyd were
able to pull together the 20,000 sellout crowd and get them
involved. Gilmour seemed able to used the tension to put
an edge on his guitar licks, but Waters was obviously not
happy. Roger's lyrics came through clearer and louder
than any others of the evening: "You stupid motherfucker
and anyone else in here with fireworks! Just fuck off
and let us get on with it."
July 6: Stade Du Parc Olympique, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
This was the famous incident where
Roger Waters spat in the face of a rowdy fan in the front row. Waters,
horrified with what he had done, penned his feelings of isolation from his audiences in the
form of music. Those demos eventually became the next Floyd album, The Wall.
Although it was somewhat successful, the 1977 tour was a disappointment to the band. David Gilmour was so frustrated by the last show that he sat out the last part of the show, letting rhythm guitarist Snowy White play a 12 minute solo while Gilmour sat by the mixing desk.
August 28: In Rhodes, Greece, Rick Wright got in a fight with the Chief of Police of Lindos, a small vacation island where the Floyd had a villa. Rick Wright and his children's tutor filed lawsuits against the police chief for "ill-treatment." At dawn the police went to a party because of complaints about the noise, and an argument ensued and the tutor was arrested. Wright and his wife Julia went to the police station to ask why Smith was being held, Wright said "when I and my wife went to the police station, the police officer threatened us with his revolver, beat me in the face and pushed my wife violently. I have bruises in my eye and my lips are cut." The police stated that there would be an investigation.
