Its OK having an album of two halves split over two discs but shouldn’t the programme number match for the second half on the second disc? I should be silent. This is where the problems begin if you just get the Experience edition as the first half of the recordings are Programme 2 on Disc 5 but the second half is Programme 1 on Disc 6 which is confusing as the programme numbers are different! At least confusing to me, but I am quite dim.

Roger Waters Original Demo And Band Demos are, I presume, studio recorded demo version of the album that Roger did with some songs augmented with help from the band as the album evolved.

That is not a bad thing as most of them would be unlistenable so the listeners experience is enhanced by not having to listen to it all! Some of them are very excellent though and extend to a couple of minutes. No problem here if you just want to hear Roger’s recordings of his album although this is sound clips from Roger’s oroginal demos and not the full demos.

Roger Waters original demos feature on disc 5 in its entirety without spreading onto other discs.

I think it is unnecessarily confusing to have split the various demo programmes over two discs in the way they have but obviously EMI want to do this to make you purchase the Immersion boxset rather than the Experience edition! You can see visually what has been done in the track listing table below. The demo suites are grouped into programmes and consist of: The band correctly chose The Wall that day in July at Britannia Row studios where they, amongst other things, held their band meetings!

The latter was rejected by the rest of the band and later became a Roger Waters solo album, although Pink Floyd manager at the time Steve O’Rourke preferred The Pros and Cons. Some months later in July 1978, Roger presented the demo in the form of a 90 minute cassette tape of the album (then titled “Bricks In The Wall”) to each member of the band along with “The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking”. But what an idea!”īy January 1978, Roger Waters had organised the songs he was writing into a conceptual form.

Nick Mason would comment on the sound quality of the recordings saying, “He’d always overload his recorders, so the songs needed developing. Discs 5 and 6 from the Immersion Edition of The Wall will allow you to catch a fleeting glimpse of Pink Floyd developing these “appalling demos” that Roger Waters had started writing in September 1977 and recording at home.

Pink floyd the wall album amazon