Indeed. I was thinking about that when I was listening to the long extended live versions of Fat Old Sun and Cymbaline recently, how the post-Waters Floyd would have done those live (making the former less boring along the way, and getting rid of that nightmare segment nonsense on the latter). Another one is Embryo, an updated live 10+ minute version for The Delicate Sound of Thunder or Pulse. Many folks would have bought the record just to have that.Hudini wrote:I wish they did more refreshed versions of old and half-forgotten songs like that
Nick wrote in the concluding pages of the Inside Out that there were things still left undone, such as an unplugged take on a few old numbers. David (...sort of...) did that on his own, on his live DVDs: brave minimalistic acoustic version of Shine On recorded for in Concert (sadly, again split into two halves) and an underdeveloped rehearsal-quality chunk of acoustic Echoes as a bonus feature on Remember That Night. Acoustic unplugged versions of full length Shine On (for A-side) and Echoes (for B-side) would have been enough for a stand-alone LP. That would have been a live Pink Floyd record coming from the left field, wouldn't it?
By the way somebody recorded a complete Breathe as a studio cover version, and placed it on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_DUqfQEwv4). It goes (in Dark Side record terms) as "Breathe / Any Color You Like [aka Breathe (second reprise)] / Breathe (reprise)". It is a very thin version, but illustrative of what I am talking about.
I think that there is a released studio cover version of complete Another Brick in the Wall (1-3) out there, by some metal band, it goes for 10 minutes or so. Again, not my cup of tea, but illustrative of the possibility.