A Saucerful of Secrets (song) - Other Versions

Other Versions

• Pink Floyd performed the song 1968–1972, with the last performance taking place on 23 September 1972 at the Winterland Auditorium, San Francisco, California. It was regularly performed as an encore throughout that year. Nick Mason and Richard Wright briefly considered resurrecting the song for the 1987 Momentary Lapse of Reason tour, but Gilmour suggested that the song sounded too archaic.
• The version found on the Live at Pompeii: Directors Cut is seen by some as the definitive version of the song. Nick Mason's drumming is much faster, and is also featured in the last two sections. David Gilmour does the vocalisations for only the last chord progression, instead of for the last two.
• The Ummagumma live version is only slightly longer than the studio version at 12:48, this version is less freeform noise than it's studio counterpart.
• Live performances of the song initially had a length of about 12–13 minutes, but later performances commonly ran for about 17–20 minutes.
• "Syncopated Pandemonium", the second part of the track, was one of the many tracks which were played at some point or another as "Doing It" (part of the conceptual concert The Man and The Journey, the focus of their 1969 tour). Others include "The Grand Vizier's Garden Party (Entertainment)", "Up the Khyber", and "Party Sequence". All of these prominently feature drums.
• As mentioned above, the "Celestial Voices" section was used as the finale to "The Man and the Journey" concept suite. At a performance of the suite on 26 June 1969 at the Royal Albert Hall, the Floyd were joined by a full brass band and choir for the piece.