Artist:    Pink Floyd
Title:     Pink Floyd Live Anthology 1972-1977

Format:    VHS video

Produced:  Hip Cat
Cover:     No artwork

Sources:   Hollywood Bowl, LA 9/22/72 (21min)
           Sports Arena, LA 4/2?/75 (17 min)
           Angel Stadium, Anaheim 5/7/77 (15 min)
           Stadthalle, Vienna 2/1/77 (20min)
           DSoT Moon Film 1974 (35min)

Unless I am no longer able to add without a calculator, it looks
as though there should be 108 minutes of film on the tape when,
in reality, there are only 86.


Tracks:    ALL songs are INCOMPLETE, except where noted.

  Breathe
  On The Run (jam)
  Money (whole)
  Us and Them
  Eclipse
  Echoes (middle section)
  A Saucerful Of Secrets (very beginning and very end only)
  One Of These Days
  Careful With That Axe (last few seconds only)
  Have A Cigar
  Shine On You Crazy Diamond
  Breathe
  On The Run (whole)
  Money
  Echoes
  Pigs (Three Different Ones)
  Welcome To The Machine
  You Gotta Be Crazy
  Have A Cigar
  Shine On You Crazy Diamond
  Welcome To The Machine
  Have A Cigar
  Sheep
  Pigs (Three Different Ones)
  Shine On You Crazy Diamond
  Money
  Us And Them
  A New Machine (Part 1)
  Terminal Frost (whole)
  A New Machine (Part 2) (whole)
  Sorrow (whole)

Quality:   Overall Rating: D (on the ABCDF scale)
     This is almost certainly the lamest piece of trash I have
ever purchased.  The video tape has numerous flaws.  The colors
are totally bleached out.  The picture is fuzzy and extremely
dark throughout the entire tape.  It is impossible to tell the
difference between the venues because all of the film is
breathtakingly bad.  Indeed, we barely see our heros at all for
more than half of the running time.  When we do see them, they
are just white blotches on a sea of darkness.
     The fan that made the film must have loved guitar solos, as
they are almost exclusively what appears on this tape.  As soon
as our heros sing more than a few lines, the song ends and
another guitar solo begins.
     The master video tape appears to have been damaged at some
point, because there are numerous times when the screen goes to
static and a loud belching noise comes over the audio.  Although
this generally lasts only a few seconds, it is extremely
annoying.
     Finally, the "DSoT Moon Film 1974" is set to NON-LIVE songs
from A Momentary Lapse Of Reason!!  What the hell???  To make
matters worse, the songs are constantly plagued by someone
sniffing (as if he had a cold) and typing on a keyboard which
beeps at him occasionally.  Although the films appear to have
come from a non-live source, they are out of focus, bleached of
color and full of video and audio glitches.
     Is this *really* the best quality available ?  Are the
master films *really* that bad ?  If so, it is little wonder that
MTV decided to dump its original premise for their special this
year.
     I implore you to not buy this video tape.  If there is
anyone who is still intrigued by it, please write to me and I'll
send you a copy for the price of the video tape.  (That way,
you'll lose as little money as possible when your hopes are
dashed.)

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It was reissued in 1995.  It is now available as two tapes(Tape one from
1967-73 and Tape two from 1973-94).  It now has Interstellar Overdrive from
Tonight, Let's All Make Love in London, Apples and Oranges from American
Bandstand in 1967, Any Colour You Like from the same show as Careful With That
Axe, Eugene.  Plus, Yet Another Movie from July, 1989, Shine On... from
Knebworth '90, On the Run backdrop film, Run Like Hell from November, 1987,
the Take it Back and High Hopes videos and Keep Talking from Foxboro Stadium
in May, 1994.  They deleted the Dance Songs and Momentary Lapse ads and the
French Windows One of These Days video.