We were big Pink Floyd fans in high school, and the years immediately thereafter. Saw them in 75 at Olympia Stadium in Detroit, and that is a good story in itself. Anyways, everything from Ummagumma to Animals was frequently played at home and in our cars.
One day listening to Animals on cassette, while sitting in the back of my best friend's van, in that previously mentioned bean bag chair, pondering all that green shag carpeting, I mentioned that the tape we were listening to was different than the tape we heard in my Buddys 73 Nova.
When asked what I meant, I was just like, “I don’t know, but I know they are different.” I got laughed at, called a few names, and the evening continued. We did not dwell on it, but it was something that was always stuck in the back of my mind.
Many years later I happen upon this article.
Here’s a little Pink Floyd fact I never knew. When Pink Floyd released “Animals” in January of 1977, the album had a very strange track listing. It only had a total of 5 songs and two of them Pigs on the Wing (Part 1 & Part 2) were each only 1:25 long.
Side A
• Pigs on the Wing (Part 1)
01:25 (Waters)
• Dogs
17:04 (Waters/Gilmour)
Side B
• Pigs (Three Different Ones)
11:22 (Waters)
• Sheep
10:24 (Waters)
• Pigs on the Wing (Part 2)
01:25 (Waters)
Because of the strange track listing and because of 8-track technology, Pink Floyd had to make a special version of Pigs on a Wing for the 8-track release by linking part 2 and part 1 with a guitar solo.
The weird thing is the guitar solo was not played by any member of Pink Floyd, it was played by a man named Snowy White who went on to be one of their touring band members.
Roger Waters was looking for an extra guitarist for Floyd’s upcoming tour and asked White come by the studio while they were recording the “Animals” album. Waters suggested they might as well put Snowy to work because they had just messed up and deleted David Gilmour’s guitar solo on Pigs on the Wing. This “Snowy version” was only available on the 8-track tape as the song was eventually separated into two parts. Only those lucky enough to have purchased the album on eight-track got to hear the song as it was originally recorded.
Turns out the Nova had an 8-track and the van had a cassette player. Different tapes, if only because of a couple of minutes of the guitar.
One day listening to Animals on cassette, while sitting in the back of my best friend's van, in that previously mentioned bean bag chair, pondering all that green shag carpeting, I mentioned that the tape we were listening to was different than the tape we heard in my Buddys 73 Nova.
When asked what I meant, I was just like, “I don’t know, but I know they are different.” I got laughed at, called a few names, and the evening continued. We did not dwell on it, but it was something that was always stuck in the back of my mind.
Many years later I happen upon this article.
Here’s a little Pink Floyd fact I never knew. When Pink Floyd released “Animals” in January of 1977, the album had a very strange track listing. It only had a total of 5 songs and two of them Pigs on the Wing (Part 1 & Part 2) were each only 1:25 long.
Side A
• Pigs on the Wing (Part 1)
01:25 (Waters)
• Dogs
17:04 (Waters/Gilmour)
Side B
• Pigs (Three Different Ones)
11:22 (Waters)
• Sheep
10:24 (Waters)
• Pigs on the Wing (Part 2)
01:25 (Waters)
Because of the strange track listing and because of 8-track technology, Pink Floyd had to make a special version of Pigs on a Wing for the 8-track release by linking part 2 and part 1 with a guitar solo.
The weird thing is the guitar solo was not played by any member of Pink Floyd, it was played by a man named Snowy White who went on to be one of their touring band members.
Roger Waters was looking for an extra guitarist for Floyd’s upcoming tour and asked White come by the studio while they were recording the “Animals” album. Waters suggested they might as well put Snowy to work because they had just messed up and deleted David Gilmour’s guitar solo on Pigs on the Wing. This “Snowy version” was only available on the 8-track tape as the song was eventually separated into two parts. Only those lucky enough to have purchased the album on eight-track got to hear the song as it was originally recorded.
Turns out the Nova had an 8-track and the van had a cassette player. Different tapes, if only because of a couple of minutes of the guitar.
