The Man and The Journey


The Man and The Journey is a suite of music performed in concert by Pink Floyd during their 1969 tour. It consisted of several of their early songs, some unreleased songs, and material later included on Soundtrack from the Film More and Ummagumma. The concerts featured visual performance elements such as the sawing and construction of a table, and consumption of afternoon tea onstage.

Live

The concept was first performed 14 April 1969 at the Royal Festival Hall in a show billed as The Massed Gadgets of Auximenes – More Furious Madness from Pink Floyd. A truncated version of the show was recorded 12 May 1969 for the Top Gear radio programme. The 17 September performance at the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam is the most widely bootlegged of the shows on the tour because it was broadcast by radio station VPRO. Plans for an official live album release of The Man and The Journey were considered, but abandoned because of overlap of material with Ummagumma. A recording of The Man and The Journey has been released as part of The Early Years 1965–1972 box set in November 2016.

Example track list (from the Amsterdam show, 1969)

All songs written by David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Rick Wright, except where noted.
Note, this is an example track listing only. Often, "Doing It" is cited as being "Up the Khyber", "Syncopated Pandemonium" or "Party Sequence". Sometimes, "The End of the Beginning" is cited to also include "Storm Signal", another part of "A Saucerful of Secrets".

Release

A live recording of The Man and The Journey was released for the first time in 2016 as part of the boxset, The Early Years 1965-1972, included in the volume. This was recorded in Amsterdam on 17 September 1969. The "Teatime" part of the recording, which runs for 3:36 min and consists of only some barely audible noises, wasn't used for the release.
The track list for this version is as follows:
  1. "Daybreak" – 8:14
  2. "Work" – 4:12
  3. "Afternoon" – 6:39
  4. "Doing It" – 3:54
  5. "Sleeping" – 4:38
  6. "Nightmare" – 9:15
  7. "Labyrinth" – 1:10
  8. "The Beginning" – 3:25
  9. "Beset by Creatures of the Deep" – 6:27
  10. "The Narrow Way, Part 3" – 5:11
  11. "The Pink Jungle" – 4:56
  12. "The Labyrinths of Auximines" – 3:20
  13. "Footsteps" / "Doors" – 3:12
  14. "Behold the Temple of Light" – 5:32
  15. "The End of the Beginning " – 6:31

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