{"id":24428,"date":"2023-01-09T05:30:59","date_gmt":"2023-01-09T10:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/?p=24428"},"modified":"2022-12-08T09:20:44","modified_gmt":"2022-12-08T14:20:44","slug":"book-review-pink-floyd-the-animals-tour-a-visual-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.musoscribe.com\/index.php\/2023\/01\/09\/book-review-pink-floyd-the-animals-tour-a-visual-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Book Review: Pink Floyd: The Animals Tour \u2013 A Visual History"},"content":{"rendered":"

With both the recent 45th<\/sup> anniversary of the release of Pink Floyd\u2019s Animals<\/i> and the reissue of that album in upgraded format, now is the perfect time to revisit the band\u2019s 10th<\/sup> album. And with his well-established reputation as a Pink Floyd authority extraordinaire, Glenn Povey (founder-editor of the Floyd zine Brain Damage<\/i> and author of the authoritative performance history of the band) would seem to be the man to write a book about Animals<\/i>.<\/p>\n

And Pink F<\/i>loyd: The Animals Tour<\/i> is indeed visually impressive. It\u2019s filled with all manner of images \u2013 color and black-and-white photos (many of which haven\u2019t been seen before), tour souvenirs, concert tickets, badges (Americans call them pins or buttons) and the like \u2013 liberally scattered throughout the book, gracing every page.<\/p>\n

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For fans who are seeking documentation of what shows Pink Floyd played on its tours in support of Animals<\/i>, the book is a worthy resource. The location and set list for each show is listed. It\u2019s worth noting that for nearly every date on the tours, the four-man group \u2013 augmented by second guitarist Snowy White and saxophonist Dick Parry \u2013 played Animals<\/i> in its entirety, took a short break and returned to perform 1975\u2019s Wish You Were Here<\/i> LP start to finish. The occasional encore (\u201cMoney,\u201d \u201cUs and Them,\u201d \u201cCareful With That Axe, Eugene\u201d) withstanding, it was the same show night after night.<\/p>\n

Aside from lists and images, Povey goes remarkably light on words. Four brief essays \u2013 an introduction plus sections on the tour, the making of the album and a quick discussion of tour bootlegs \u2013 total a mere 3500 words. In a text-only book, this new book\u2019s word-count would work out to about nine pages.<\/p>\n

The essays are well-written and demonstrate Povey\u2019s command of the subject, but offer little in the way of new information or insight, especially for those who have read his previous and essential books on the band. Pink Floyd In The Flesh: The Complete Performance History<\/i> was published in 1997, and it was revised and republished a decade later as Echoes: The Complete History of Pink Floyd<\/i>. To be fair, both of those titles are long out of print. Povey\u2019s 2016 tome, The Complete Pink Floyd: The Ultimate Reference<\/i> remains available and is highly recommended. Still, a remarkable amount of the content in Pink Floyd: The Animals Tour<\/i> is simply recycled material from those books.<\/p>\n

And even with the supporting material, Pink Floyd: The Animals Tour<\/i> clocks in at under 70 pages total. In sum, Povey\u2019s latest book is best considered as a coffee-table book: worthwhile as a kind of souvenir for hardcore fans who don\u2019t own his other books, but ultimately redundant and short on Pink Floyd information that its author hasn\u2019t shared before.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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