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The Great Wall
The Wall was both a huge success for Pink Floyd as well as millstone. It usurped band democracy and confirmed Roger Waters' authority. Eventually leading to the band's demise. The Wall was performed a total of 30 times from February 1980 to its final show at London's Earl's Court in June 1981.

What's on offer here is the master tape of the famous Nassau show from Feb 28. This is the source for subsequent bootlegs made in Europe and elsewhere. Apparently, the bootleggers used a copy of a copy. This version is direct from the master.

This is one of the more popular of Pink Floyd Wall shows. It has appeared several times as a bootleg - Wallpower and Great Dane's Brick By Brick are the two most popular. This audience recording uses Japanese Nakamichi microphones that capture the power, the depth and the live ambience perfectly making this recording a serious rival to the official live compilation of The Wall that Pink Floyd released in 2000.

On CD2 track 10, Run Like Hell, Roger Waters says: "Do you like our pig? What?! He's not a very nice pig, but he's a BIG pig! This is a song for all the paranoids in the audience; it's called 'Run Like Hell.' Home piggy, home!"

This phrase was spoken only at the Feb 28 show. The website Man of Leisure Music has what they call The Wall Recording Identifier, where each show is confirmed by what Roger Waters said. Check it out http://molm.org/wall/

- Two songs that were left off the studio album, What Shall We Do Now and The Last Few Bricks.

This was first shared in 2007 by the WallWeeds project, which offered every of the 30 shows from audience recordings. Here is the info they provided:

Taped by unknown using Nakamichi 700 cardiod>d5W/ Dolby B. Located on the floor section A, presumed to be in a central location just under the speakers. "This is the one that the scum sucking bootleggers got a hold of and why the Feb 26 show never circulated," posted Washac who was instrumental in seeing that every Wall show was shared freely on the net. This copy is taken from the master cassette, transferred to DAT and then CD-R.

For "Wall" aficionados, this is the best show from the first leg of the tour. While they were feeling their way with the performance which had to be precisely coordinated with the building of the spectacular white wall, Pink Floyd by the final night at Nassau were truly ripping. Roger is smoking, even gleeful in a sinister way. This one is for fans of rock grandeur, the epitome of progressive rock.

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	Disc I
Track 101	Emcee's intro
Track 102	In The Flesh?
Track 103	The Thin Ice
Track 104	Another Brick In The Wall Pt 1
Track 105	The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
Track 106	Another Brick In The Wall Pt 2
Track 107	Mother
Track 108	Goodbye Blue Sky
Track 109	Empty Spaces / What Shall We Do Now?
Track 110	Young Lust
Track 111	One Of My Turns
Track 112	Don't Leave Me Now
Track 113	Another Brick In The Wall Pt 3 / Improvisations
Track 114	Goodbye Cruel World
	Disc II
Track 201	Hey You
Track 202	Is There Anybody Out There?
Track 203	Nobody Home
Track 204	Vera
Track 205	Bring The Boys Back Home
Track 206	Comfortably Numb
Track 207	The Show Must Go On
Track 208	Emcee
Track 209	In The Flesh
Track 210	Run Like Hell
Track 211	Waiting For The Worms
Track 212	Stop
Track 213	The Trial
Track 214	Outside The Wall

Lineup:
Roger Waters - bass, vocals
David Gilmour - guitar, vocals
Nick Mason - drums
Richard Wright - keyboards

Plus
Snowy White (guitar)
Andy Bown (bass)
Peter Wood (keyboards)
Willie Wilson (drums)

And singers
Joe Chemay
Jim Farber
Jim Haas
John Joyce

emcees
Cynthia Fox, Jim Ladd and Gary Yudman

It wasn't until 2000, the 20th anniversary, that Pink Floyd put out a live performance of The Wall from the '80-'81 tour. This 2CD deluxe edition was compiled from shows at London's Earl's Court. It appears, the bulk of the material came from the 1981 shows in London. Buy it here.