Raving & Drooling aka Raving and drooling, I feel on his neck and screaming(Waters/1974)
This track is a pre-version of Sheep, played during the band's summer tour of France in June 1974 and through 1975 tour. It was first recorded in this form at the start of the « Animals » sessions (as recorded in the bootleg « From Abbey Road to Brittania Row ») before the switching to the Orwell’s thematic.
Roger Waters:
« (David) wanted to use some songs I’d alreadv written, which later appeared on « Animals »: Sheep, or was it Dogs, which was called Raving And Drooling then. Because it was already there, and he liked it, he thought we should use it. Id say, ‘No, this record’s («Wish you were here») got to he true to the idea of absence’, and Dave would scratch his head and go, ‘Whaaat? What are you talking about - we’e got these great songs, let’s use them’. I was, ‘No, no, it has to be coherent, it has to be about something’ ».
« Pink Floyd: Fight Club », Word, 22 December 2004
Bitter Love (Waters/1974)
Piece presumably written for the Gini TV spot. Extracts have sometimes been seen in certain saga devoted to the band (notably the one in "Culture Rock" on M6 in 1994). In reality, it's a spot shot in 1974 in a desert with very soaring music, but it's not Floyd! It seems to be nothing more than an urban myth, or at least another title given to the song How do you feel?
See this page who debunk this rumour
Interviewer : « This is a bit of an obscure question, but somebody emailed, and asked if you remember anything at all about the Gini promotion that the Floyd did around the time you were working with them? In particular, do you remember the rumoured song or songs Bitter Love/How Do You Feel, which were written and/or recorded to coincide with or in protest against the Gini ads? ».
Venetta Fields: « I know nothing about that. »
« An interview with Venetta», Fleeting Glimpse WebSite, March 2004.
You’ve got to be Crazy (Gilmour, Waters/1974)
Pre-version of Dogs, also entitled You gotta be crazy. This track was not played on the "Gini French Tour 1974" but on the following tour, the aptly-named "British Winter Tour". This suggests that it was written later than Waters' Raving & Drooling.
David Gilmour
«Once in a while I would find something uncomfortable to sing. The first lot Roger wrote for "Dogs" when it was called "You Gotta Be Crazy", were just too many words to sing. ... "Dogs" had so many words, I physically couldn't get them in. [We] just cut out two-thirds of his words, to make it possible rather than impossible»
«Interview with David Gilmour», Rock Compact Disc magazine, Issue 3, September 1992
Flight from Reality aka Flight From Fantasy (Waters/1975)
A piece written by Waters which he described as « very strange » (in an interview with his French journalist friend Philippe Constantin). Part of this work would found its way onto the album « The Pros & Cons of Hitch-Hiking », although it's not clear where! Some say it could be a pre-version for Pigs (three differents ones)!
Pigs on the wing (abridged version) (Waters/1977)
It was a late decision to cut this track in two, as heard on the "Animals" album, due to the limitations of the vinyl medium. The version featuring parts 1 and 2 and Snowy White's guitar solo should therefore have been the album version (it will be featured on the 8-Cartdrige version).
Interviewer: «How did you wind up on the 8-track version of Pigs on the Wing ?»
Snowy White: «(…) We went back in the control room after I was offered the gig. Roger said, «As long as you’re here, you might as well record something».They’d been recording Pigs on the Wing. He said, «Why don’t you do a solo in the middle ? Use any guitar you like» There was this white Strat there. I picked it up and played a solo. A few days later, Rog said to me, «We’ve got some bad news». I thought, «Oh, no. The tour is canceled or I’m not on it». He said, «We’ve decided to split Pigs on the Wing between the first half of the beginning of the album and the second half at the end. We’ve lost your solo». I said, «Is that all ?» It didn’t mean anything to me. Because of the 8-track, they didn’t used to stop. They used to turn around and carry on. They put the solo back in for that. That’s why it’s on that. I have an original here still in its cellophane wrapper, the old 8-track. ».
«Guitarist Snowy White on His Years With Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, and Thin Lizzy», Rolling Stone Website, 18 November 2020.
