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Paul Chang
02-13-2002, 06:56 PM
I stumbled on this documentary series Wish You'd Been Here: The Pink Floyd Story (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/inside/pink_doc_home.shtml) on BBC's web site today. It has RealAudio streaming of the first program (divided in two parts) with the second program coming "on the site next week", plus a 10 miniute David Gilmour interview in 2001, which coincided with the release of the "Echoes" compilation album. He also touched many other subjects including briefly, Syd Barrett's LSD trips and breakdown that some of us discussed recently. It's kind of amusing that the last of the four audio links, which is titled "Roger Waters in 2000", is actually a 32.5 second clip of Water's performance of "Brain Damage".

By the way, the 2000 Roger Water interview, the aforementioned clip and three others could be found on the Amused To Death - Roger Waters On BBC Radio 2 (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/inside/feat_rogerwaters.shtml) page.

In the two separate interviews, Gilmour and Waters both sounded very cool about Pink Floyd outsold Roger's Radio KAOS tour in 1987. I'd better stop right here before spoiling the whole thing for you. Wish you would enjoy it. :)

Paul Chang
02-16-2002, 01:10 AM
BBC has put the second program (parts 3 & 4) of Wish You'd Been Here: The Pink Floyd Story (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/inside/pink_doc_home.shtml) on its web site.

Links to both programs and the interviews of Gilmour and Waters are listed here for you convenience:
1. The Syd Barrett years. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/realmedia/pink_doc1.ram)
2. Ummagumma to Dark Side of Moon. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/realmedia/pink_doc2.ram)
3. Dark Side takes off, Wish You Were Here appears. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/realmedia/pink_doc4.ram)
4. The Floyd live experience, on through The Wall and beyond. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/realmedia/pink_doc3.ram)
David Gilmour in 2001. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/realmedia/johnniew_bb22_g2.ram)
Roger Waters in 2000. (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio2/realmedia/waters1_interview_g2.ram)

Wish you would find these interesting. Any comments? :)