Jake,

Interested in all these. Do I send you my address here or is there some other vine area to sign up?

Hope everyone is well.

Merry Christmas!

The 4-part Led Zeppelin vine was so well-received that I had to do it for another of our favorite classic rock bands. So here it is, the long-awaited, much-hyped first part of a Pink Floyd vine. This part contains 4 FLAC discs and covers 1969-1972, from the Man of the Journey in '69, through the great Fat Old Suns, Atom Heart Mothers and Echoes of '70 and '71, to the pre-album-release versions of Dark Side of the Moon. The '70 and '71 shows are my favorites (along with '77, which will come later), but let me note how interesting these early versions of DSOTM are. Some songs are played too slow, see Time especially, and were much-improved by the time of the album's release. Others, like On the Run, I think lost something when technology and tape loops replaced musicianship. Come to your own decisions, my friends, and enjoy everything under the sun...

Part 1 includes:
5/9/69 AUD A-
8/9/69 SBD A
9/17/69 SBD A
2/28/70 AUD A-
3/20/70 AUD A-/A
4/29/70 (no grade, if I recall this is probably a SBD A)
5/1/70 AUD A-
7/16/70 SBD A+
9/26/70 AUD A
10/17/70 AUD A-
11/12/70 AUD A
11/21/70 AUD A/A-
2/25/71 AUD A/A-
6/5/71 AUD A-
6/26/71 AUD A-
9/18/71 SBD A-
9/23/71 AUD A-/A
9/30/71 (no grade, probably SBD or AUD A)
10/10/71 AUD A-
10/17/71 AUD A
11/6/71 AUD A
11/20/71 AUD A/A-
2/17/72 AUD B+/A-
2/18/72 AUD B+
2/19/72 AUD B+/A
2/20/72 AUD A/A-
3/7/72 AUD A/A-
3/13/72 AUD A/A-

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2012/11/26/121126fa_fact_paumgarten?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true

A good read from the New Yorker about the Dead and us, the listeners. Nothing new but enjoyable