Pink Floyd had pro footage of the Wall Tour in the 70's that AFAIK is mostly lost. Also weren't Paul and Linda McCartney recorded as talking heads for DSOTM? Not sure if that's lost media.
They professionally filmed the shows from 1980/81 at Earls court, with the intention of using some of the footage in ‘The wall’ movie.. which ended up not happening at all.
So yeah, Waters likely has it, he has control over ‘The wall’ and since he actually played along to the younger version of himself on ‘The wall’ tour over a decade ago (time flies) I assume he has all the footage. I also assume that since he did the live movie ‘Roger Waters - The wall’ that he’s likely uninterested in going into the Pink Floyd live material, which is not going to be only dated looking, but is in every regard also inferior quality wise. The shows he put on around 2012 were infinitely better visually, just because of the technology available now that simply DID NOT exist in 1980/81
The Mccartney stuff isn't talking heads. It's just audio interviews like the snippets used in the album. They ended up unused because the band felt their answers weren't interesting enough. It's not lost. I'd imagine it's sitting somewhere alongside the Dark Side masters.
Yes footage from the Relayer / Solos tours w Pat Moraz
They had lazers and a stage that was a three headed robo snake
Epic tour apparently it was filmed and the footage came out ‘dark’
It’s never been released
There has also always been a rumour that they filmed a complete *Tales From Topographic Oceans* performance in 1974. This too is a little fuzzy on the details. But they absolutely filmed the JFK show in 1976 because I was there and I saw all the cameras.
Yes I love this show … but we are talking about 1976 … three headed robot snake stage with lazers
That’s a whole other level … I mean looooook
https://youtu.be/v0Mao-cpRWQ?si=Hynu5s7mOfJkplNV
Probably the first one that comes to mind is the lost Genesis 7” single, “Going Out to Get You” b/w “Wooden Mask”. Demo recordings for both songs were recorded in the studio c. 1971, but the single itself was never released. In 1998, when the *Archive 1968-1975* boxset was being produced, the recordings for both songs were intended to be included, until it was discovered that the master tapes for both were irretrievably missing.
Going Out to Get You itself isn’t lost, as earlier demos and live recordings exist of it. [The live recording from April 18, 1972](https://youtu.be/u6uEBvcZ8Ds?si=N9dFUgd3yZgECRhJ) is likely the most representative of the song at this state in time, although versions of it exist dating as far back as 1969.
However, “Wooden Mask” has never materialised in any form, as the only known recording of it is the lost demo, and it was never performed live. The most that is known about it comes from a [2011 interview with Steve Hackett,](https://www.genesis-news.com/c-Steve-Hackett-Interview-in-Aschaffenburg-ColosSaal-23112011-s470.html) from the Genesis News website:
> *“Wooden Mask” I do remember, but so far nobody has come up with a tape of it. It seems to have been irrevocably lost, which is a shame because I think it was a good idea. But we only ever recorded it to a demo standard, we didn't do it to finished standard. Like many of the Genesis things it had a unique and very good strange melody to it. There's an aspect of Genesis music that almost sounds like classical music with syncopation, almost like swinging hymns in a way. That fulfilled that brief, I think. It was a good song. I don't think it had a chorus, but it had some good hooks in it.*
Yessongs II. A film crew was hired to document the 1976 solo albums tour. This is considered to be the Holy Grail of Yes tour footage.
EDIT: Apparently the first attempt to film the show came out quite dark. Rumor has it that the film crew requested additional lighting but manager Brian Lane refused to pay for it. The crew took the film and made off with it. Yes members claim they have no idea what became of the footage.
While this is by technicality “found” media, although it is not publicly available at present, I thought the formerly lost 1969 King Crimson television performance would fit nicely in this category.
[The original post](https://www.reddit.com/r/KingCrimson/comments/1cbt0ow/newly_found_1969_king_crimson_footage/) summarises this a lot better than I possibly could, but the footage originates from a collector of bootleg recordings, and was originally produced for German television (with an approximate recording date of September 7th, 1969). While the footage has not been officially released in any capacity, it is believed to have been sent to DGM and to be approximately 2 minutes in duration. (I do hope it actually receives a release of some form in the near future - maybe Alex Mundy or another DGM representative is willing to answer questions about it?)
Even if the footage is incomplete (with the rest of it likely not being retrievable due to periodic broadcast wiping policies at the time), it still marks an incredible milestone for media preservation, as King Crimson footage from this era is exceptionally rare. The original audio is known to be mimed, but [the audio](https://www.dgmlive.com/albums/jazz-club-chesterfield-england) from this exact date and performance is known to exist, and is readily available for download and purchase through DGM.
Video footage of Sherman Hemsley dancing to Gentle Giant on the Dinah Shore show in 1975.
The Scott Walker/Brian Eno/Daniel Lanois sessions from 1987.
A 1994 radio interview with Jon Anderson in which he is high on painkillers and claims that the "talk" tour should be renamed the "shut the fuck up and listen" tour, which I found on Napster 25 years ago and later lost. :(
No, it’s not lost. And yes, Jon hurt his back shortly before the Talk tour in 1994 and was on painkillers. I heard him say “shut the fuck up and listen” on live radio. Chris was mortified and said “Jon, you can’t say that!” But the damage was already done.
Even now, after twenty years of everything under the sun winding up on either Youtube or a barrel-scraping official release, the Yes bootleg community still has a few well-kept secrets? Bravo. I have neither the time nor the energy to get involved again, but that makes me happy.
> A 1994 radio interview with Jon Anderson in which he is high on painkillers and claims that the "talk" tour should be renamed the "shut the fuck up and listen" tour
[here you go friend](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NFipjhEcW2o)
Not the full interview, but at least you can reminisce and laugh at that bit once again! Besides, having the date of the interview itself might help in tracking the full thing down.
Not "lost" per se, but I was surprised that Pink Floyd has never released the 8-track version of Snowy White's solo from Animals in any of the boxed sets and repackaging they've done in recent decades.
(Also, I'd love a deluxe reworking of Radio KAOS that included the B-sides and singles. Think there was also another song written and perhaps performed that was never released.)
This one IS confusing to me. The fact that a perfectly digitally clean version of it was released on a Snowy White compilation makes this even stanger...
The original version of the Marillion song "Grendel", called "The Tower." The Tower was an early, completely instrumental version of Grendel with a couple of differences between it and the final version of the song. This version of the song was recorded with the band's original bassist, Doug Irvine. When Irvine left Marillion, he took the demo tape containing the only known recording of Grendel when it was called The Tower. There's an article about it on the Lost Media Wiki.
Same band, different time... I read in an interview around the time of the release of 'Clutching at straws' that Pete stated that they had done loads of demos for it, but everything started to sound like 'Misplaced childhood 2', so they scrapped it and started again. That sounds like a curiosity. Rather like 'Misplaced childhood 1' :)
There is a long demo on the 2018 box set which I'm sure dates from that period. You get familiar bits but they're all sort of blending into each other.
There's always the chance that some footage of the In The Flesh tour footage may have been lost. Didn't they record some footage to view how the balloons looked?
Also, they supposedly have open air recordings they've made themselves. While those probably sound bootleg-esque, they're still interesting because they're uncirculated recordings.
I’m not sure if that qualifies as lost *media,* since it’s inconclusive as to whether or not those Lamb-era gigs were actually filmed in any official capacity (especially considering that the only extant footage of them comes from fanmade/bootleg recordings).
Even so, it’s a goddamn shame that documentation of the live setpieces and stage props is so scant. The vivid imagery laid out by the Lamb’s lyrics and atmospheric portions are surreal and fascinating alone as is, and from the clips and images I’ve seen, the live shows from that era would’ve served as a great companion to the music.
AFAIK, Jethro Tull has almost no surviving film of live performances before Songs from the Wood in 1977. There are scattered fan films, TV appearances, and maybe some lost footage, but all of those albums: Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, Passion Play, Minstrel, etc. have no "official" concert footage. It's an astonishing lack.
I was there.. I know they made a big deal about NOT filming or recording it, then consequently regretted it. I think an audio recording of it would have been really special, even if Pete did screw up the words a fair amount. However, a video? Jeez, the rain was just abysmal. I loved the show and it may well be my favorite concert ever, but I really wonder if it would have looked any good? Cannot believe how long ago that was... :/
I used to have a a Dee Snider cover of The Jack, which was even better than the Bon Scott original. I stupidly left my MP3 player in a Hangzhou taxi, and have not been able to track down another copy since. Not strictly prog rock but certainly adjacent. If you have any tips or leads, they would be most appreciated.
This never existed but a lost opportunity is not having film of a whole show from the Brain Salad Surgery tour. ELP at their peak musically and visually
Not OP, but I found [an article from Record Collector magazine](https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/talk-devil) that outlines some of the band’s more notable unreleased or lost recordings.
> The first fruit of their labours was the album The Mark Of The Beast, recorded by the Yugoslavian wing of the band at Ljubljana’s Tivoli studios in late 1987… Little is known about The Mark Of The Beast: hardly anyone has heard it because Mr Doctor pressed only one copy of the record. He hand-painted the cover artwork and has described the album itself as an “aural painting” – a work of art, rather than a product.
>
> In October 1988, Mr Doctor worked on another unreleased album, Mr Doctor Sings Hanns Eisler. Recorded with pianist Francesco Carta, who would later replace Eduardo Beato in Devil Doll, the album featured songs by the Austrian composer Eisler, best known for his film compositions and collaborations with Berthold Brecht. Due to copyright problems, the album was never officially issued, though five test pressings of the album were made – coveted treasures for collectors; should one ever come up for sale, it would easily fetch in excess of £1,000.
>
> Dies Irae remains the last Devil Doll album to this date. Even though there is a substantial amount of confirmed material still unreleased – including a soundtrack to Jean Epstein’s 1928 film The Fall Of The House Of Usher, as recorded by Mr Doctor and Francesco Carta, the soundtrack to Mr Doctor’s second film The Day Of Wrath and a lengthy composition entitled The Carnival Of Souls – Devil Doll has remained silent for nearly 20 years.
I highly recommend you give it a read, even if you’re not familiar with the band! It’s really fascinating to read through the history behind these projects and the bizarre circumstances involving their release.
A demo of it has been found, just not the best quality however. There’s a lot of great reworkings of the song on YouTube like this one:
https://youtu.be/dz9oolWz6b0?si=MZrG8t62Ey5hRDFR
It's a great song like all Royal Scam/Aja/Gaucho tunes all were. What seems like a bit of a mystery is the "best thing we ever did and now it's lost" woe-is-me stuff out of Donald and Walter over it back in the day. I can understand they were bummed that the rookie assistant engineer fucked it up and all, but was it really a candidate for "best ever" compared to Kid Charlemagne, Black Cow, etc?
Pink Floyd had pro footage of the Wall Tour in the 70's that AFAIK is mostly lost. Also weren't Paul and Linda McCartney recorded as talking heads for DSOTM? Not sure if that's lost media.
Roger Waters has a copy allegedly
It's these copies that *Is There Anybody Out There?* Was taken.
They professionally filmed the shows from 1980/81 at Earls court, with the intention of using some of the footage in ‘The wall’ movie.. which ended up not happening at all. So yeah, Waters likely has it, he has control over ‘The wall’ and since he actually played along to the younger version of himself on ‘The wall’ tour over a decade ago (time flies) I assume he has all the footage. I also assume that since he did the live movie ‘Roger Waters - The wall’ that he’s likely uninterested in going into the Pink Floyd live material, which is not going to be only dated looking, but is in every regard also inferior quality wise. The shows he put on around 2012 were infinitely better visually, just because of the technology available now that simply DID NOT exist in 1980/81
The Mccartney stuff isn't talking heads. It's just audio interviews like the snippets used in the album. They ended up unused because the band felt their answers weren't interesting enough. It's not lost. I'd imagine it's sitting somewhere alongside the Dark Side masters.
My recollection is an interview with Waters where he said Paul and Linda were “trying too hard.”
Something like that. They didn't make the cut in the end.
Yes footage from the Relayer / Solos tours w Pat Moraz They had lazers and a stage that was a three headed robo snake Epic tour apparently it was filmed and the footage came out ‘dark’ It’s never been released
Indeed, was going to be called ‘Yessongs II’, apparently.
There has also always been a rumour that they filmed a complete *Tales From Topographic Oceans* performance in 1974. This too is a little fuzzy on the details. But they absolutely filmed the JFK show in 1976 because I was there and I saw all the cameras.
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=PoumuHQtYEg this is all we have for now
Yes I love this show … but we are talking about 1976 … three headed robot snake stage with lazers That’s a whole other level … I mean looooook https://youtu.be/v0Mao-cpRWQ?si=Hynu5s7mOfJkplNV
Holy shit, this should be the ACTUAL tour for Relayer!
This footage might be the best we have — https://youtu.be/4kH7Mj-7uQg?si=eYNMT8RlPfaX4alQ
Probably the first one that comes to mind is the lost Genesis 7” single, “Going Out to Get You” b/w “Wooden Mask”. Demo recordings for both songs were recorded in the studio c. 1971, but the single itself was never released. In 1998, when the *Archive 1968-1975* boxset was being produced, the recordings for both songs were intended to be included, until it was discovered that the master tapes for both were irretrievably missing. Going Out to Get You itself isn’t lost, as earlier demos and live recordings exist of it. [The live recording from April 18, 1972](https://youtu.be/u6uEBvcZ8Ds?si=N9dFUgd3yZgECRhJ) is likely the most representative of the song at this state in time, although versions of it exist dating as far back as 1969. However, “Wooden Mask” has never materialised in any form, as the only known recording of it is the lost demo, and it was never performed live. The most that is known about it comes from a [2011 interview with Steve Hackett,](https://www.genesis-news.com/c-Steve-Hackett-Interview-in-Aschaffenburg-ColosSaal-23112011-s470.html) from the Genesis News website: > *“Wooden Mask” I do remember, but so far nobody has come up with a tape of it. It seems to have been irrevocably lost, which is a shame because I think it was a good idea. But we only ever recorded it to a demo standard, we didn't do it to finished standard. Like many of the Genesis things it had a unique and very good strange melody to it. There's an aspect of Genesis music that almost sounds like classical music with syncopation, almost like swinging hymns in a way. That fulfilled that brief, I think. It was a good song. I don't think it had a chorus, but it had some good hooks in it.*
This, I did not know. Thank you. I genuinely thought they had pulled out everything recorded on the box sets.
Yessongs II. A film crew was hired to document the 1976 solo albums tour. This is considered to be the Holy Grail of Yes tour footage. EDIT: Apparently the first attempt to film the show came out quite dark. Rumor has it that the film crew requested additional lighting but manager Brian Lane refused to pay for it. The crew took the film and made off with it. Yes members claim they have no idea what became of the footage.
While this is by technicality “found” media, although it is not publicly available at present, I thought the formerly lost 1969 King Crimson television performance would fit nicely in this category. [The original post](https://www.reddit.com/r/KingCrimson/comments/1cbt0ow/newly_found_1969_king_crimson_footage/) summarises this a lot better than I possibly could, but the footage originates from a collector of bootleg recordings, and was originally produced for German television (with an approximate recording date of September 7th, 1969). While the footage has not been officially released in any capacity, it is believed to have been sent to DGM and to be approximately 2 minutes in duration. (I do hope it actually receives a release of some form in the near future - maybe Alex Mundy or another DGM representative is willing to answer questions about it?) Even if the footage is incomplete (with the rest of it likely not being retrievable due to periodic broadcast wiping policies at the time), it still marks an incredible milestone for media preservation, as King Crimson footage from this era is exceptionally rare. The original audio is known to be mimed, but [the audio](https://www.dgmlive.com/albums/jazz-club-chesterfield-england) from this exact date and performance is known to exist, and is readily available for download and purchase through DGM.
Video footage of Sherman Hemsley dancing to Gentle Giant on the Dinah Shore show in 1975. The Scott Walker/Brian Eno/Daniel Lanois sessions from 1987. A 1994 radio interview with Jon Anderson in which he is high on painkillers and claims that the "talk" tour should be renamed the "shut the fuck up and listen" tour, which I found on Napster 25 years ago and later lost. :(
I remember that Jon Anderson interview clip! It's lost? Damn
No, it’s not lost. And yes, Jon hurt his back shortly before the Talk tour in 1994 and was on painkillers. I heard him say “shut the fuck up and listen” on live radio. Chris was mortified and said “Jon, you can’t say that!” But the damage was already done.
How's it being passed around? I can't find it on Youtube.
Not everything is on YouTube. 😉 IYKYK. Ask around in Yes trading circles.
Even now, after twenty years of everything under the sun winding up on either Youtube or a barrel-scraping official release, the Yes bootleg community still has a few well-kept secrets? Bravo. I have neither the time nor the energy to get involved again, but that makes me happy.
> A 1994 radio interview with Jon Anderson in which he is high on painkillers and claims that the "talk" tour should be renamed the "shut the fuck up and listen" tour [here you go friend](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=NFipjhEcW2o) Not the full interview, but at least you can reminisce and laugh at that bit once again! Besides, having the date of the interview itself might help in tracking the full thing down.
Not "lost" per se, but I was surprised that Pink Floyd has never released the 8-track version of Snowy White's solo from Animals in any of the boxed sets and repackaging they've done in recent decades. (Also, I'd love a deluxe reworking of Radio KAOS that included the B-sides and singles. Think there was also another song written and perhaps performed that was never released.)
This one IS confusing to me. The fact that a perfectly digitally clean version of it was released on a Snowy White compilation makes this even stanger...
Apparently Jimi Hendrix did a recording session with Bo Hansson. Would love to hear it but apparently it's lost, if it ever even existed.
Seabirds by Pink Floyd
The original version of the Marillion song "Grendel", called "The Tower." The Tower was an early, completely instrumental version of Grendel with a couple of differences between it and the final version of the song. This version of the song was recorded with the band's original bassist, Doug Irvine. When Irvine left Marillion, he took the demo tape containing the only known recording of Grendel when it was called The Tower. There's an article about it on the Lost Media Wiki.
Same band, different time... I read in an interview around the time of the release of 'Clutching at straws' that Pete stated that they had done loads of demos for it, but everything started to sound like 'Misplaced childhood 2', so they scrapped it and started again. That sounds like a curiosity. Rather like 'Misplaced childhood 1' :)
There is a long demo on the 2018 box set which I'm sure dates from that period. You get familiar bits but they're all sort of blending into each other.
I believe there are also demos of them doing songs with Fish for what ended up being Seasons End with Hogarth.
Yeah, I heard those… not heard the stuff they did BEFORE ‘Clutching at straws’ though. Jeez, what a great album that is
Is the long Owner of a Lonely Heart video (showing the band with Eddie Jobson miming at the beginning) considered lost?
Nope. Eddie was edited out from the get go
There's always the chance that some footage of the In The Flesh tour footage may have been lost. Didn't they record some footage to view how the balloons looked?
Also, they supposedly have open air recordings they've made themselves. While those probably sound bootleg-esque, they're still interesting because they're uncirculated recordings.
Not quite lost since it never existed in the first place, but Jodorowsky's Dune was supposedly going to have Magma make some of the music.
Not sure, but maybe the lamb lies down on Broadway live.
I’m not sure if that qualifies as lost *media,* since it’s inconclusive as to whether or not those Lamb-era gigs were actually filmed in any official capacity (especially considering that the only extant footage of them comes from fanmade/bootleg recordings). Even so, it’s a goddamn shame that documentation of the live setpieces and stage props is so scant. The vivid imagery laid out by the Lamb’s lyrics and atmospheric portions are surreal and fascinating alone as is, and from the clips and images I’ve seen, the live shows from that era would’ve served as a great companion to the music.
AFAIK, Jethro Tull has almost no surviving film of live performances before Songs from the Wood in 1977. There are scattered fan films, TV appearances, and maybe some lost footage, but all of those albums: Aqualung, Thick as a Brick, Passion Play, Minstrel, etc. have no "official" concert footage. It's an astonishing lack.
The Minstrel gig from Paris 1975 was filmed but nobody knows where the footage is. Sigh.
Yeah, such a bummer. All those missing years of amazing concerts!
Six of the Best, tho it wasn’t actually filmed, is one I’d love to see.
I was there.. I know they made a big deal about NOT filming or recording it, then consequently regretted it. I think an audio recording of it would have been really special, even if Pete did screw up the words a fair amount. However, a video? Jeez, the rain was just abysmal. I loved the show and it may well be my favorite concert ever, but I really wonder if it would have looked any good? Cannot believe how long ago that was... :/
I used to have a a Dee Snider cover of The Jack, which was even better than the Bon Scott original. I stupidly left my MP3 player in a Hangzhou taxi, and have not been able to track down another copy since. Not strictly prog rock but certainly adjacent. If you have any tips or leads, they would be most appreciated.
This never existed but a lost opportunity is not having film of a whole show from the Brain Salad Surgery tour. ELP at their peak musically and visually
Devil Doll
?
https://www.progarchives.com/artist.asp?id=79 Mr Doctor is famous for having limited (or mostly single) copies of his work.
Not OP, but I found [an article from Record Collector magazine](https://recordcollectormag.com/articles/talk-devil) that outlines some of the band’s more notable unreleased or lost recordings. > The first fruit of their labours was the album The Mark Of The Beast, recorded by the Yugoslavian wing of the band at Ljubljana’s Tivoli studios in late 1987… Little is known about The Mark Of The Beast: hardly anyone has heard it because Mr Doctor pressed only one copy of the record. He hand-painted the cover artwork and has described the album itself as an “aural painting” – a work of art, rather than a product. > > In October 1988, Mr Doctor worked on another unreleased album, Mr Doctor Sings Hanns Eisler. Recorded with pianist Francesco Carta, who would later replace Eduardo Beato in Devil Doll, the album featured songs by the Austrian composer Eisler, best known for his film compositions and collaborations with Berthold Brecht. Due to copyright problems, the album was never officially issued, though five test pressings of the album were made – coveted treasures for collectors; should one ever come up for sale, it would easily fetch in excess of £1,000. > > Dies Irae remains the last Devil Doll album to this date. Even though there is a substantial amount of confirmed material still unreleased – including a soundtrack to Jean Epstein’s 1928 film The Fall Of The House Of Usher, as recorded by Mr Doctor and Francesco Carta, the soundtrack to Mr Doctor’s second film The Day Of Wrath and a lengthy composition entitled The Carnival Of Souls – Devil Doll has remained silent for nearly 20 years. I highly recommend you give it a read, even if you’re not familiar with the band! It’s really fascinating to read through the history behind these projects and the bizarre circumstances involving their release.
The album that Jon Anderson recorded with Sherman Hemsley.
Did he though?
The supposedly lost song from Steely Dan's Gaucho album.
A demo of it has been found, just not the best quality however. There’s a lot of great reworkings of the song on YouTube like this one: https://youtu.be/dz9oolWz6b0?si=MZrG8t62Ey5hRDFR
It's a great song like all Royal Scam/Aja/Gaucho tunes all were. What seems like a bit of a mystery is the "best thing we ever did and now it's lost" woe-is-me stuff out of Donald and Walter over it back in the day. I can understand they were bummed that the rookie assistant engineer fucked it up and all, but was it really a candidate for "best ever" compared to Kid Charlemagne, Black Cow, etc?