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Dogs

Jon Carin does a great job on vocals in this live Roger Waters performance of “Dogs,” from Pink Floyd’s 1977 Animals album. This is from 2001 and the fantastic In the Flesh tour, which I saw when it passed through New York. It’s on DVD, too. (For those of you not in the know, Roger Waters was the bassist and primary composer of Pink Floyd before he left after The Final Cut [1983].)

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  • Anonymous

    Excellent. I saw the Animals tour at the Anaheim Stadium – only time I’ve seen them live. I appreciate your dropping a little music into the blog from time to time.

  • Matt S

    Animals never gets enough love.

  • Antoine P

    Dr. Woods, you just get cooler and cooler.

  • http://twitter.com/JosephMerlino Joseph Merlino

    Great to see you’re a fan of the classic progressive rock bands!

  • http://www.facebook.com/TylerKubik2 Tyler Kubik

    Gotta love this performance. Pink Floyd is the best ever

  • Matthew S

    I recently put on Roy Buchanan’s, “We Are Not Alone”. You can hear a little Gilmore and Animals in it with a dash of Jeff Beck / Al Dimiola. Amazing album, I recommend it to everyone. It is definitely a hidden gem.

  • Anonymous

    Dogs was always one of my favorite PF tunes. Many people that I’ve talked to usually put Animals toward the bottom of their list of Pink Floyd albums, it is always toward the top of my list.

    There was a period of about 5 years where every time I would get a new job that this song would come on the radio as I was driving home after my final interview. Coincidence, yes. But still kind of weird.

  • Anonymous

    Claims for Syd Barrett notwithstanding, it isn’t really Pink Floyd without Gilmore and Mason. I could have gotten a ticket to see this band, but it was like $300. I’ll pay that to see Pink Floyd, but not Roger Waters and his touring band (even though they performed fantastically).

  • Matthew S

    Catch me on the right day and I would say its my favorite. Toss up between that and The Wall.

  • Anonymous

    The top of my list in this regard actually is in the order of each album’s release. Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall. Depending upon my mood, the first two can switch places. I also dig a lot of the older stuff, even the stuff with Syd. And while I do like some of the tunes after Waters left, I mostly enjoyed them as a sleeping aid (this is not a slight, those albums are very relaxing).

  • Patrick

    I think Gilmour sings the first part, and Waters comes in at “Gotta admit…”

  • Patrick

    Ignore this…misread something

  • http://www.facebook.com/Donxon Daniel Coxon

    Animals and Meddle are my favorite Floyd albums.

  • uk6strings

    Doyle Bramhall II is a good guitarist – but “Dogs” just isn’t the same song without David Gilmour, the primary composer of the actual music of Pink Floyd.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jeremy.r.hammond Jeremy R. Hammond

    Thanks for posting, Tom! I’m a huge Floyd fan. I play guitar, and David Gilmour is one of my leading influences.

  • http://www.facebook.com/jeremy.r.hammond Jeremy R. Hammond

    Here’s me doing “Comfortably Numb”. https://soundcloud.com/jeremy-r-hammond/comfortably-numb

  • http://www.TomWoods.com Tom Woods

    Wow, great!

  • http://www.facebook.com/jeremy.r.hammond Jeremy R. Hammond

    Thanks!

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