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                [Originally] compiled by David Schuetz
                      (dschuetz@is-next.umd.edu)
                  With help from all over the world!

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The FAQ is broken down into four sections, as follows:

        Section 1 - General Information
                      The first section is general information, and
		      includes stuff like Echoes subscription procedures,
		      lists of tour personnel, set lists, etc.

        Section 2 - The Early Years
                      The second section covers their "early years," that
		      is, Piper through Obscured by Clouds.

        Section 3 - The Glory Years
                      The third section is the "glory years" (and any
		      discussion regarding this time frame *not* being
		      the time of their greatest glory will be ignored).
		      This section covers DSOTM through the Wall.

        Section 4 - After the Wall, Solo Albums, and Other Stuff

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Section 3 - The Glory Years

01.  "What is that 'twist' or 'wow' in 'The Great Gig in the Sky'?"
02.  "What's the music at the end of 'Eclipse'?"
03.  "Where did the voices on DSOTM come from?"
04.  "Doesn't 'Great Gig' say something like 'You are dying'?"
05.  "The 'Brain Damage' and 'Eclipse' on _Works_ sound strange..."
06.  "Have Pink Floyd ever done any advertisements?"
07.  "Why are the 'black label' DSOTM discs so expensive?"
08.  "Where do the different parts in 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' start/end?"
09.  "Who is Roy Harper, and why did he sing 'Have a Cigar'?"
10.  "Didn't the Pig fly away once?"
11.  "Didn't the Pig fall into the audience once?"
12.  "What album did Snowy White play guitar on?"
13.  "What were the original lyrics to _Animals_?"
14.  "Who is 'Whitehouse'?"
15.  "What cities did the Wall tour go to?"
16.  "Why isn't 'Hey You' in the Wall movie?"
17.  "What is 'When The Tigers Broke Free?"
18.  "What is said right before 'Empty Spaces'?"
19.  "What's said at the beginning and the end of _The_Wall_?"
20.  "What was the original order of the _Wall_?"
21.  "Who sang 'The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot'?"
22.  "What is sung by Pink in the stall in the 'Wall' film?"
23.  "How can I tell where a particular Wall concert was recorded?"
24.  "There's an error in the lyrics for Dogs."
25.  "When was DSOTM first played, anyway?"
26.  "Is the Wall soundtrack available on CD?"
27.  "When and why did Richard Wright leave the band?"

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01.  "What is that 'twist' or 'wow' in 'The Great Gig in the Sky'?"

Exactly that--a tape anomoly.  It is possible that the Floyd never
noticed this when they recorded the song, or they did, but it was so
faint that they didn't care anymore, or perhaps it happened long after
the tape was finished and the master just got damaged.  In any event,
if you listen very closely  to the end of the song, you can hear the
last low note sort of "burp" a bit.

Others have argued that Pink Floyd are too much of a "purist" in
terms of their work and would never have allowed a glitch like that to
be distributed without having some reason.  What that reason is,
however, is anybody's guess.


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02.  "What's the music at the end of 'Eclipse'?"

Nobody knows.  But everyone seems to have heard it at one time... If
you listen to the very very end of "Eclipse", and turn your volume up very
very high, you will very very faintly hear some music.  This has been pointed
out on Echoes several times, but nobody has ever been able to pinpoint 
exactly what the song is.  Some think it's a Beatles song, others, classical
music.  And why is it there?  A studio trick?  Or just sound bleeding through
from another studio?  Truth is, we'll probably never know...

Apparently, however, the original "Black Label" Harvest CD does *not* have
this music.  Curiouser and curiouser....

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03.  "Where did the voices on DSOTM come from?"

People.  Lots of people.  Just like you and me (sort of).  What the band 
did was this: they prepared a bunch of questions, questions like "When was
the last time you thumped someone?" "Why are you frightened of dying?" and
"Were you in the right?"  Then they took people off the streets, out of other
recording sessions, and from within the Abbey Road staff, sat them down in 
front of a microphone, and handed them a random card, instructing them to 
say whatever comes to mind.  Answers like "I haven't had a good thump in 
years, absolutely years" and "I don't know [if I was in the right], I was 
really drunk at the time" made it on to the album.  Most of the voices are
completely anonymous, but the "stoned laughter" (along with the "short, 
sharp, shock" bit) from "Brain Damage" are from roadie "Roger the Hat," and
the Irish Doorman to Abbey Road is the man saying that "there is no dark side
of the moon, really...as a matter of fact it's all dark."


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04.  "Doesn't 'Great Gig' say something like 'You are dying'?"

No.  It doesn't.  Absolutely not.  And if you are convinced that it
does, then, sorry, you're wrong.  [my apologies for the stern answer--this
has been a topic of debate just a few times too many for me. -- djs]

At about 3:32 into the song, there is a background voice.  It's of a
woman, and the what she says is "I never said I was frightened of
dying."  Presumably, the question she'd been asked was "Why are you
frightened of dying," and this holds for the other voices on that
song, as well.  A common mis-interpretation of this phrase is "If you
can hear this whisper, you're dying."  That's not it...


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05.  "The 'Brain Damage' and 'Eclipse' on _Works_ sound strange..."

That's because they're different!  The versions on that album are
not from the regular DSOTM mix, but rather from the quadraphonic mix
(I know this, I've actually compared it with my quad lp).  This would
make sense, actually, when you consider that _Works_ was an American
release, from Capitol, and that Capitol's first DSOTM CD was taken
directly from the quadraphonic LP master.  Anyway, the only real
difference is in the voices of "Roger the Hat," the roadie who
supplied a lot of voices to the album.  In the regular mix, he talks a
bit in the background of the song, in the quad mix, he just laughs
(and laughs and laughs....).

Also, some people have said that the version of "Set The Controls For
the Heart of the Sun" sounds much clearer on _Works_ than on ASOS.


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06.  "Have Pink Floyd ever done any advertisements?"

Yes.  In 1974, Pink Floyd were approached by a French soft-drink
company that produced a bitter lemon drink called "Gini."  The idea was
that the Floyd would appear in some magazine ads for the company, and
the company would in turn help the band with the tour, resulting in
cheaper tickets for the fans, and more money for the band.  What could
be better?  

However, this was ten years before such corporate sponsorship would
become commonplace, and fans reacted badly to the advertisements, as
did the band. Waters wrote a song about selling his soul in the desert
(called "Bitter Love," or "How Do You Feel?"), and the band donated the
money Gini paid them to charity.

The band has, in late 1993, entered into some sort of
advertising/promotion arrangement with VW.  This may very well be to
help finance their upcoming tour.  Many bands seem to be doing this
nowadays, as tours become more and more difficult & expensive to
produce.


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07.  "Why are the 'black label' DSOTM discs so expensive?"

[From an article in Record Collector magazine:]

In the early 1980s, when the compact disc first appeared, the discs themselves
were imported from Japan, which was at that time the only country with the
facilities to manufacture the new format.  Initial British issues of 
_Dark_Side_, _Wish_You_Were_Here_, _Meddle_, _Animals_, _The_Wall_ and 
_The_Final_Cut_ had "Made in Japan" on the discs themselves, while the inserts
stated the country of origin as the U.K.

These early discs - which are said to be superior to standard U.K./U.S.
issues - can easily be distinguished because they have an all-black label
side with silver lettering.  These Japanese-manufactured CDs are now highly
prized by hardcore collectors, both for their vastly superior sound quality
and for their rarity.  Expect to pay around #20 [20 UK pounds] or so for
copies.

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08.  "Where do the different parts in 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' start/end?"

"Shine On" was originally supposed to be a side-long composition,
but it grew to more than a side (it's about 30 min. long), and the
band decided that it'd work better with the three other songs in the
middle.  In any event, the song is divided into nine parts, but
naturally it's rather difficult to tell where they start and end.
Here is something, pulled from Guitar magazine by Chris Walsh, that
should help figure them out:


 Part I - Gilmour soloing, orchestra-like keyboard chords, some synth horn. 
 Part II - Begins with "Syd's Theme", the four note (Dah DAH dah DAH..) riff 
          that is repeated throughout this part of the song. (3:35)
 Part III - Rick's synth horn solo. (6:29)
 Part IV - Vocal section. (8:42)
 Part V - Sax solo. (11:10)

 Part VI - Odd-sounding synth, then goes into some decent lap steel by Gilmour.
 Part VII - Second vocal section. (4:52)
 Part VIII - Rather jazzy synths. (6:04)
 Part IX - Closing funeral dirge-like synth horn solo. (9:09)

The CoGDS version consists of parts I, II, IV and VII. The DSoT version
consists of parts I - V.


[and below are excerpts from the interview with David Gilmour that the
above was gleaned from:]

"Side one begins with "Shine On, You Crazy Diamond", the ambitious
nine-part epic song cycle. 'Part I' commences with an opening
orchestra prelude...."  "David Gilmour's blues-infected guitar voice
enters (at 2:09) in response to the horn line, as if to officially
announce the sound of Pink Floyd."... "A strong thematic idea,
affectionately dubbed 'Syd's Theme', is played at 3:35 and signals the
beginning of 'Part II'."... "In 'Part III' (6:29), a hint of the
funeral mood of the coda is heard in the somber horn melody of the
next blues transformation - now a slow straightforward Gm blues
12-bar..." "'Shine On, You Crazy Diamond, Part IV' contains the
classic vocal sound of the cycle (8:42)."... "At 11:10, a model jazz
sax solo, by guest perfomer Dick Parry, is brought in, improvising
over the drone of 'Syd's Theme', signalling a transition to 'Shine On,
You Crazy Diamond, Part V'"... "The overlapping synth noise is a segue
back to 'Shine On, You Crazy Diamond, Part VI.'"... "By 2:32, the
slide guitar dominates [Part VI] and delivers two dramatic choruses of
portamento bottleneck lines over the new 12/8 shuffle feel, setting up
the move to 'Part VII'. Here, a recap of the guitar melody from 'Part
IV' acts as a retransition [into the vocal theme]"... "In 'Part VIII',
a fingerpicked arpeggio variant of 'Syd's Theme' is heard (6:04) over
a sustaining synth tone.  This creates a transitionto a new mood
(6:30), a strutting Gm jazz/funk groove.."... "The last section
(coda), 'Part IX', is introduced by a synth pedal point, which grows
in volume as the previous goove dissipates. A slow 4/4 funeral march
(9:08) becomes the parting musical eulogy to Syd."


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09.  "Who is Roy Harper, and why did he sing 'Have a Cigar'?"

Roy Harper is a "street singer" from England, popular in the 1970's.  
Waters didn't like the way he was singing "Have a Cigar," and Harper was
in another studio at the time making an album.  So, they brought Harper
in, and had him sing it.  Though Waters feels that Harper did "a fine job
of singing it, a song can never sound quite right to the person who actually
wrote it."

Roy Harper is also the subject of a Led Zeppelin song, "Hats Off to Roy
Harper," from their third album.

A bit more information, courtesy of Scott Lindsey:

Harper is much more a song-writer much more than a musician, in the same
way Bob Dylan is.  He's been recording since the late '60's and has 
released about 18 or so albums, including the duo effort with Page, "What 
Ever Happened to Jugula?" which also featured Gilmour.  Like Dylan, he 
doesn't have the greatest voice, but it is somewhat unique, albeit not 
as recognizable as Dylan's.  Much of his released material is simply vocal 
with acoustic guitar.  He's very British and at times very political - very 
much the cynic.  His music isn't for just anyone and for some is an 
accquired taste.  What some find "pointed" others find "grating."  
Definitely not pop music.  Not even as pop as someone like Peter Gabriel.
He tends to be admired by other musicians, though, including Floyd, Zep,
Gabriel, and Kate Bush.  If you're someone who can appreciate good songs,
overlooking (or accepting) a rough performance style, Roy Harper's 
definitely one to check out.


There is also a Roy Harper mailing list.  Harper also helped out David 
Gilmour on his first solo album, helping to write & sing "Short and Sweet."

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10.  "Didn't the Pig fly away once?"

Yep.  When they were photographing the cover for _Animals_.  They did the
photography on two different days.  The first day was kind of dark and 
dismal, and the pig simply wouldn't float (not enough helium or something like
that).  So they all "took some photographs, had some champagne, and went
home."  The next day was a beautiful day with nary a cloud in the sky, and
the pig floated up fine.  In fact, it floated too well--it broke away from
its mooring and reached a height of nearly 10000 feet before heading back
down to Earth, scaring quite a few pilots in the process.  

The cover of _Animals_ is a combination of the two photographs--the 
dismal power station from the previous day, and the floating pig from the
day it flew away.  The film for "Pigs (3 Different Ones)" used on the tour
was taken that second day.


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11.  "Didn't the Pig fall into the audience once?"

Not to my knowledge.  One thing that did fall on the crowd, though,
was a big pyramid, as Waters described what happened in a radio 
interview:

  We started doing outdoor gigs, so we had to have a roof, so
  I thought "I know what we can do...why don't we build an
  enormous pyramid, and we could fill it with helium, and at
  the end of the show we could let it go." This was 60 foot--the
  base of this thing was 60 feet.  There was a lot of
  trouble getting that past the rest of the lads.  Nicky was
  always a great ally, Nick Mason, was always a great ally in
  all of these things.  He liked the idea of it, and finally we
  did it, and it was unbelievable.  It was at Three Rivers
  stadium in Pittsburgh, and suddenly this thing went WHOOSH!
  It was on a cable, you know, so that we could try and get it
  back again.  Then it turned upside down and the balloon that
  was inside it short off into outer space and the rest of it
  fell to the earth in the crowd and was ripped into a million
  pieces and they all took a bit home.


According to Ted Clement, a roadie risked falling on the crowd once:

  On May 6, 1988, I attended Pink Floyd's MLoR Tour performance at
  Sullivan Stadium, Foxboro, Massachusetts. It was an evening concert,
  and the weather wasn't cooperating (cool and breezy with heavy drizzle).
  As you can well imagine, the show was rife with mechanical failures due
  to the environmental conditions.

  During the show, the wind changed direction, blowing drizzle directly
  toward the band. Whole banks of lights, amplifiers and other electronic
  equipment shorted and shut down. None of these failures, however, were
  as dramatic as what happened to the pig:

  A steel cable was strung across the stadium, and during the show, the
  pig emerged from under a canvas covering at the stage end and moved
  out suspended over the crowd. The pig was an anatomically-correct boar,
  with evil, glowing red eyes and large white tusks. The pig turned
  wildly, snout toward the ground, as if it were deciding which direction
  to charge, its blood-red spotlights piercing the crowd.

  When the stage crew tried to retrieve the pig, it got stuck out over
  the crowd and wouldn't reel in. Some crazy-ass roadie crawled out on
  the cable, hand-over-hand, out to where the pig was. As he got closer
  to the pig, his body weight drew down on the cable, lowering the pig
  closer and closer to the crowd. The fans were going bezerk! Some people
  were climbing onto others' shoulders, reaching up as the pig came down
  into reach. Somebody got hold of the pig's tail and ripped it off. The
  whole thing deflated as the crowd ripped the tail into take-home pieces!

  In an incredible feat of strength, the roadie pulled the deflated pig
  carcass (together with the hardware which made it move) back toward the
  stage. Through the whole incident, the band continued to play. 

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12.  "What album did Snowy White play guitar on?"

Animals.  Sort of.  They were setting the album up to be released
on the US 8-track tape (remember those?) and needed a bit of music to
bridge the two versions of "Pigs on the Wing."  He was "available" at
the time, and recorded a short guitar solo.  To the best of my
knowledge, this extra bit of music is currently unavailable.

Apparently, there is more than one version of this tape.  The best we 
can guess, the tape was originally distributed such that you'd hear the 
beginning of "Pigs on the Wing (part 1)" when you first listened to the tape.
Then, you'd hear the rest of the album, as you'd expect, and finish up with
"POTW (2)," which would then fade into the Snowy White piece, and then 
back into POTW1.  Which would mean that you'd have to be in the *middle* of
program one to listen to the album from the beginning.

However, a couple Echoesians claim to have a copy of the 8-track, that 
had POTW1-->Snowy White-->POTW2.  Which would really screw up the running
order of the album, since the album is *supposed* to be "bracketed" by the
two shorter POTW songs.  

Anyway, regardless of how the Animals 8-track was arranged, we have it on
good authority that this is the only Floyd album on which Snowy White
appeared.  He has also appeared with the Floyd in a couple of tours.

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13.  "What were the original lyrics to _Animals_?"

Pink Floyd toured in 1975 with the following new songs:  "Shine On,"
"You Gotta Be Crazy," "Have a Cigar," and "Raving and Drooling."  Two were
later recorded and released in late 1975 on WYWH, but the other two were
shelved until they reappeared in 1977, modified, on Animals.  Here are the
lyrics as they sounded in 1975, taken from a tour program [thanks, Tom Hood]:

[from Bruce Hammerle:]



Raving And Drooling

   Raving and drooling I fell on his neck with a scream
   He had a whole lotta terminal shock in his eyes
   Thats what you get for pretending the rest are not real
   Bubbling and snapping at far away flies
   He will zig zag his way back through 
   Memories of boredom and pain
   
   How does it feel to be empty and angry and spaced
   Split up the middle between the illusion of
   Safety in numbers and the fist in your face

Gotta Be Crazy
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You gotta be crazy, you gotta be mean
You gotta keep your kids and your car clean 
you gotta keep climbing, you gotta keep fit
You gotta keep smiling, you gotta eat shit

You gotta be small to be a big shot
You gotta eat meat to stay at the top
You gotta be trusted, gotta tell lies
You gotta be able to narrow your eyes


You gotta believe the've gotta believe you
You gotta appear easy to see through
Gotta be sure you look good on T.V.
Gotta resemble a human being

You gotta one eye over your shoulder
Gonna get harder as you get older
Gotta fly south and hide in the sand
Gotta forget your gonna get cancer

And when you loose control, you'll reap 
   the harvest you have sown
And as the fear grows, the bad blood 
   slows and turns to stone
And it's too late too lose the weight you
   used to need to throw around
So have a good drown as you go down alone
Dragged down the by the stone

Gotta be sure, you gotta be quick
Gotta divide the tame from the sick
Gotta keep some of us docile and fit
You gotta keep everyone burying this shit

I gotta admit to a lot of confusion
Pain in the head is the child of collusion
Gotta resist the creeping malaise
You gotta believe in the way you 
   out of the maze
But you, you just keep on pretending
You can tell a sucker from a friend
But you still raise the knife to
   Stranger, lover, friend and foe alike

Who was born in a house full of pain
Who was sent out to play on his own
Who was raised on a diet of shame
Who was trained not to spit in the fan
Who was told what to by the man
Who was broken by trained personnel
Who was fitted with bridle and bit <??GRIT??> [makes sense now]
Who was given a seat in the stand
Who was forcing his way to the rails
Who was offered a place on the board
Who was only a stranger at home
Who was ground down in the end
Who was found dead on the phone
Who was dragged down by the stone

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14.  "Who is 'Whitehouse'?"

In "Pigs (3 Different Ones)," there's a line "Hey you, Whitehouse/Ha ha, 
charade you are."  This isn't referring to the "White House" in Washington,
but instead refers to Mary Whitehouse, a British "moral majority" type 
person.  At one point she was head of the "National Viewers and Listeners
Association," which campagins for broad national moral standards in radio
and TV.


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15.  "What cities did the Wall tour go to?"

   Los Angeles, California  7-11 February 1980
   (During the first performance the curtain caught on fire from 
   pyrotechnics used early in the show.)

   New York, New York  24-28 February 1980

   London, England  4-9 August 1980

   Dortmund, Germany  13-20 February 1981

   London, England  13-17 June 1981


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16.  "Why isn't 'Hey You' in the Wall movie?"

"Hey You" was originally going to be in the Wall film, and pictures
from the shot footage can even be found in the picture book of the
film (with lyrics), but it was left out.  The following is taken from
the "Behind The Wall" interview with Roger Waters & Ray White.  It
was recorded (7/19/90) the week before Roger's Berlin Wall concert.

White>  Were you pleased with the movie?  I was kind of disappointed
        with the movie.
Waters> So was I.  I sat with Alan Parker when we fin... and we had
        a....  It was a nightmare making it.  We just screamed and
        screamed at each other, particularly through the editing of the
        thing.  Then, then I dubbed it with James Guthrey reel by reel
        and as we got the the end of each reel we would look at the
        reel and go "Hey, that's not bad you know.  It's a little bit
        busy, but it's okay."  But then when we put all 13 reels together
        and sat and watched it, I felt my heart going lower and lower
        and lower and sank into my boots.  I found it almost unwatchable.
        Which is why I think it's so successful on video; 'cause you
        don't have to watch the whole thing.  You can watch your favorite
        bits or you can fast forward or you can... and you don't have to
        sit there and be bombarded with this unremitting assault on the
        senses, like you had to in the cinema.
White>  In a huge... with a huge screen and big sound system.
Waters> Yea, with all that boom boom up and so um....  In fact when we
        finished works on these 13 reels I potted off to the bar and
        Alan came through and we stood in the garden and both felt very
        depressed.  We were hardly speaking when Stanley said "What
        d'ya think?" and I said "We've got to cut out reel 7." and he
        went "Okay... What else."  and uh....
White>  What was reel 7?
Waters> Hey you.  Just threw it away.  The thing was just too long and
        too... and on it's own it's great.  It's been destroyed unfort-
        unately; I tried to find it and ah about 6 months ago.  It was
        all kinds of stuff with lines of um British Bobbies in riot gear
        and uh you know.  There was lots and lots of rioting.  Which was
        very prophetic.  This was 3 years before the Brickstone riots
        which was the first time their new riot gear was used.


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17.  "What is 'When The Tigers Broke Free?"

"Tigers" is a song written for the Wall film about the British
invasion of Anzio, Italy during WWII.  Roger Waters' father, Eric
Fletcher Waters (to whom _The_Final_Cut_ was dedicated) died in that
invasion, so it is partily (if not wholly) autobiographical.  The song
was split into two parts in the movie, and released as a single.  The
single came in a special picture gatefold sleeve, had the movie
version of "Bring The Boys Back Home" as a B-side, and featured the
note "Taken from the album _The_Final_Cut_" (which, of course, never
featured the song).  It is also available on a special DJ sampler CD
issued to highlight the more recent achievements of Waters' career as
a marketing thing for the Berlin concert.  This is the only place that
it is available on CD (it is, of course, available in digital sound on
the Wall videodisc, but it's broken up into two parts).


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18.  "What is said right before 'Empty Spaces'?"

The soft gibberish you can hear in the background here is a
backwards message.  When you play it backwards, you hear:

   "Congratulations.  You have just discovered the secret message.  
Please send your answer to Old Pink, care of the Funny Farm, Chalfont"

and, in the background, after that, even softer:

   "Roger, Carolyn's on the phone!" <pause> "Okay."


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19.  "What's said at the beginning and the end of _The_Wall_?"

At the very very very end of _The_Wall_, very quietly, is said "Isn't
this where" and at the very beginning, "we came in?"  It has been pointed
out that this kind of makes _The_Wall_ a complete musical "cycle,"
right down to the note.  


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20.  "What was the original order of the _Wall_?"

Originally, _The_Wall_ was supposed to include the song "What Shall We Do
Now?" but was cut because of time limitations.  The change was made so late
in the game, that the album sleeves had already been printed including the
lyrics and the original order.  

"What Shall We Do Now?" was to come right after "Goodbye Blue Sky," followed
with "Empty Spaces" showing up later (before "ABITW 3") as a sort of reprise.
Also, on side 3 of the album, they had planned to place "Hey You" after 
"Comfortably Numb," but that too was changed at the last minute.


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21.  "Who sang 'The Little Boy that Santa Claus Forgot'?"

This song appears at the beginning of the film "The Wall" (while slowly 
tracking down along the floor of the hotel corridor), and was sung by Vera
Lynn, who was a popular singer during World War II.

The Little Boy Who Santa Claus Forgot 

    Christmas comes but once a year
    for every girl and boy.
    The laughter and the joy
    they find in each new toy
    I'll tell you of a little boy
    who lives across the way
    The little fella's Christmas
    is just another day

    He's the little boy that Santa Clause forgot
    And goodness knows he didn't want a lot
    He sent a note to Sanda
    for some ??????? and a drum
    His broken little heart
    when he found that none had come.

A ROIO ("The Film") of the movie also includes at the end of side three
another song sung by Vera Lynn, "We'll Meet Again."  This is the song that
Waters was alluding to in "Vera," and goes something like this:

    We'll meet again,
    Don't know where,
    Don't know when,
    But I know we'll meet again,
    Some sunny day.

The song also appeared at the very end of the movie "Dr. Strangelove," when
the world was being destroyed by the "Doomsday Machine."


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22.  "What is sung by Pink in the stall in the 'Wall' film?"

When Pink is sitting in the bathroom stall, he sings, of course, "Stop."  
However, before he sings that, he sings scraps of other songs he has been
working on, reading them from his songbook.  These later became parts of
"Your Possible Pasts" from _The_Final_Cut_ and "The Moment of Clarity" from
_Pros_and_Cons_of_Hitchhiking_. 
 
Here is what he's singing:

    Do you remember
    The way it used to be?
    Do you think we should have been closer?

    I put out my hand
    Just to touch your soft hair
    To make sure in the darkness
    That you were still there
    And I have to admit
    I was just a little afraid
    Of the ones living under
    Their dirty old macks
    And the ones who were pointing
    The guns in their backs


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23.  "How can I tell where a particular Wall concert was recorded?"

It's not terribly easy to tell.  According to bear, here's what's on a
"claimed" Earls Court London 1980 recording:

  [before Young Lust]
	thank you!
	good evening!
	welcome!
	well at least neil diamond's not here.
	this is called "young lust"
	sorry neil, only joking

  [before Run Like Hell]
        welcome!
        are we gonna have a good time?
        does anyone hear like pigs?
        this is for all the weak people in the audience.
        is there anyone here who's weak?
        this is for you, it's called "run like hell."
        let's all of us clap

  quite possibly the only thing that will tell is the sound from the tv's
  during the show -- they were reputed to be the actual local broadcasts.

And, according to Douglas Whisler:

  What's most important is the pre-In-The-Flesh announcer and his/her
  remarks.  In London in '80, it's an American who identified himself
  as Gary Youngman.  His 'slo-motion' remarks prior to InTheFlesh indicate
  a London show.  (If it's auf Deutch, it's Dortmund...)  If it's a
  female voice listen for anything about "the marijuana initiative",
  this points to LA.

  We/I think most recordings are of London, even one claiming to be NY.
  (Until someone who saw the NY shows can tell us anything different.)


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24.  "There's an error in the lyrics for Dogs."

Yep. On the lyrics sheet (and also the on-line files, I believe), one of
the last few lines of the song reads something like:

    Who was given a seat in the stand

But the line that is sung is:

    Who was given a pat on the back

Why is it different?  Who knows.  Maybe it was changed by Waters at the
last minute, and they never bothered to change the lyrics sheet.

                                    

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25.  "When was DSOTM first played, anyway?"

The very first time they played it was on 20 January, 1972, though they 
stopped somewhere in "Money" due to technical problems.  They didn't return
to the piece until they held a gala "premiere" concert at the Rainbow in
London on 17 February, 1972.


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26.  "Is the Wall soundtrack available on CD?"

Nope.  It's never been released, in spite of the fact that the movie includes
the note "Soundtrack available on Columbia records and tapes" near the
end of the credits.  There have been a couple ROIOs of the soundtrack,
but your best bet would be to buy the Hi-Fi videotape of the film (or
get the new LaserDisc, and you'll have a digital copy of the soundtrack!)

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27.  "When and why did Richard Wright leave the band?"

During the sessions for _The_Wall_, Richard Wright was basically forced
out of Pink Floyd.  One story holds that Waters had even gone so far as
to threaten to destroy all the working tapes if Wright didn't leave.  Another
quotes David Gilmour as saying that Wright wasn't contributing much of 
anything, and hadn't been for a couple years, partially due to something of
"a bad cocaine habit."  He did play with the band on _The_Wall_ tour, but not
as a full member of the band.  Being paid on a wage, he was the only "member"
of Pink Floyd to actually make money on that tour (yes, the Floyd "lost 
their shirts" on that tour--it was so phenomenally expensive to put on, and
they did so few shows that they couldn't recoup their investment.  The rest of 
the band were "investors," as it were, but Wright's role was same as that of 
the roadies--fixed dollar amount per night or somesuch.  So he didn't get 
reamed like everyone else).


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