The Man and The Journey
The Man and The Journey are two album-length suites of music performed in concert by Pink Floyd during their 1969 tour.[1] They consist of several of their early songs, some unreleased songs, and material later included on Soundtrack from the Film More and Ummagumma.[1] The concerts featured visual performance elements such as the sawing and construction of a table, and consumption of afternoon tea onstage.[1]
Live
The concept was first performed 14 April 1969 at the Royal Festival Hall in a show billed as The Massed Gadgets of Auximines – More Furious Madness from Pink Floyd.[1][2] A truncated version of the show was recorded 12 May 1969 for the Top Gear radio programme.[1][2] The 17 September performance at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is the most widely bootlegged of the shows on the tour (however, incomplete)[3] because it was broadcast by radio station VPRO.[1][2] Plans for an official live album release of The Man and The Journey were considered,[2] but abandoned because of overlap of material with Ummagumma. A recording of The Man and The Journey has been released as part of the The Early Years 1965–1972 boxset in November 2016.[4]
Example track list (from the Amsterdam show, 1969)
| Part I: The Man | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 1. | "Daybreak, Pt. I" ("Grantchester Meadows",[5][2] from Ummagumma) | Waters | 8:09 |
| 2. | "Work" (Percussion and vibraphone with musical sawing & hammering, similar to "The Hard Way" for Household Objects, later released in the Immersion Edition of The Dark Side of the Moon) | Waters/Gilmour/Wright/Mason | 3:50 |
| 3. | "Teatime" (Pink Floyd were served tea on stage at this point, similar to "Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast" from Atom Heart Mother) | Waters/Gilmour/Wright/Mason | |
| 4. | "Afternoon" ("Biding My Time", from Relics) | Waters | 5:15 |
| 5. | "Doing It!" ("The Grand Vizier's Garden Party (Entertainment)" [6:12 onwards], from Ummagumma, or in some performances it was replaced by a unique combination of "Up the Khyber"[2] [from Soundtrack from the Film More] and an early "Heart Beat, Pig Meat" [from Zabriskie Point]) | Mason | 3:49 |
| 6. | "Sleep" ("Quicksilver",[2] from Soundtrack from the Film More) | Waters/Gilmour/Wright/Mason | 4:40 |
| 7. | "Nightmare" ("Cymbaline",[2] from Soundtrack from the Film More) | Waters | 8:57 |
| 8. | "Daybreak, Pt. II" (alarm clock sound effects, or "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party (Exit)") | 1:13 | |
| Part II: The Journey | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| No. | Title | Writer(s) | Length |
| 1. | "The Beginning" ("Green Is the Colour",[6] from Soundtrack from the Film More) | Waters | 4:49 |
| 2. | "Beset By Creatures of the Deep" ("Careful with That Axe, Eugene"[6]) | Waters/Gilmour/Wright/Mason | 6:18 |
| 3. | "The Narrow Way" ("The Narrow Way, Part 3",[6] from Ummagumma) | Gilmour | 5:09 |
| 4. | "The Pink Jungle" ("Pow R. Toc H.",[6] from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, or in some performances a unique instrumental, similar to "Nick's Boogie") | Barrett/Waters/Wright/Mason | 4:49 |
| 5. | "The Labyrinths of Auximines" (Let There Be More Light instrumental middle section from A Saucerful of Secrets) | Waters | 6:34 |
| 6. | "Behold the Temple of Light" (A few seconds of this piece is heard on Ummagumma at the end of "The Narrow Way: Part 2", greatly expanded here) | Waters/Gilmour/Wright/Mason | 5:28 |
| 7. | "The End of the Beginning" ("A Saucerful of Secrets, Pt. IV - Celestial Voices"[6] [8:38 onwards], from A Saucerful of Secrets) | Waters/Gilmour/Wright/Mason | 6:14 |
Note, this is an example track listing only. Often, "Doing It" is cited as being "Up the Khyber", "Syncopated Pandemonium" (part 2 of "A Saucerful of Secrets" – the first show of the tour featured this) or "Party Sequence". Sometimes, "The End of the Beginning" is cited to also include "Storm Signal", another part of "A Saucerful of Secrets".
See also
References
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 Mabbett, Andy (1995). The Complete Guide to the Music of Pink Floyd. London: Omnibus. ISBN 0-7119-4301-X.
- 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 http://pinkfloydhyperbase.dk/unreleased/index.html#THE%20MAN
- ↑ Manning, Toby (2006). "Soundtracks, Compilations & Bootlegs". The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd (1st ed.). London: Rough Guides. p. 227. ISBN 1-84353-575-0.
- ↑ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tCRkf153Hak
- ↑ Manning, Toby (2006). The Rough Guide to Pink Floyd (1stchapter=The Albums ed.). London: Rough Guides. p. 161. ISBN 1-84353-575-0.
- 1 2 3 4 5 http://pinkfloydhyperbase.dk/unreleased/index.html#THE%20JOURNEY
- "The Man and The Journey" Amsterdam-recording (Podcast)
- Discussion, Track list
- The Auximines Project, which gives instructions on how to recreate the set using tracks from various Floyd albums
