![]() ![]() We really should have done the whole thing, filmed and recorded it properly.” “There’s certainly nothing really good, just sort of monitor mixes and so on. “The problem was we just hit a period where everyone was paranoid about bootleggers and we didn’t tape shows,” Floyd drummer Nick Mason recently told Rolling Stone. Tragically, the band made no effort to film or even record a single stop on either of these tours. Most everyone that didn’t get spat on by Roger Waters had an amazing time, and even that guy probably has fond memories of the evening. (Believe it or not, they never actually played “Wish You Were Here” on the Wish You Were Here tour.) Two years later, they played Animals and Wish You Were Here in their entirety at every show. ![]() The Wish You Were Here tour actually finished before the album came out, so they played Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety every night. These were wildly ambitious, boundary-pushing stadium shows where they flew airplanes directly over the audience, propelled inflatable pigs through the air and played their albums straight through. ![]() It’s hard to pinpoint the exact moment that Pink Floyd peaked as a live act, but most fans would point to the group’s 1975 Wish You Were Here tour and their 1977 In the Flesh tour. ![]()
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