Pigs On The Wing (Parts 1 & 2) - Pink Floyd (1977) Snowy White Guitar Solo
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This video features the 8-track version of the track with Snowy White's guitar solo! To me at least, this is the definitive version of the song.
***Update***Two years after I uploaded my original video for this track, I noticed the video has finally become available for play. When I uploaded that video and realized that it would not be seen, I edited it for a live version of the song. Since the video is basically the same as featured on the currently available live version, I wanted to update it with something different, new, better....and wanted to use the version featuring Snowy White's guitar solo. Animals is probably my favorite album cover of all time (the composition, lighting and colors....especially of the sky and clouds!) and I wanted to try and light it up and bring it to life. I'm thrilled that I might finally be able to continue with some Pink Floyd vid concepts...especially the three monster tracks from Animals (and my long stalled "Echoes").
Original vid description w/Wiki information:
"Pigs on the Wing" is a two-part song by the progressive rock band Pink Floyd from their 1977 concept album, Animals, starting and wrapping up the album.
Animals ties Wish You Were Here as my favorite Pink Floyd album. It's a extremely dark album, but it captures the band at the height of their considerable musical prowess.
The song is divided into two parts, which are the first and last tracks of the album. Both are in stark contrast to the album's middle three misanthropic songs, and suggest that companionship can help us overcome our flaws. The casual listener may ignore them for the most part; however they are keys to the album, summing up the album in its entirety in their short 1:25 time spans. Roger Waters apparently refers to himself as a "dog" in Part 2: "Now that I've found somewhere safe to bury my bone/And any fool knows, a dog needs a home/A shelter, from pigs on the wing." Another allusion is found in the line "So I don't feel alone, or the weight of the stone," which refers back to the dogs being "dragged down by the stone".
According to Nick Mason, and confirmed by Waters, it is a love song directed towards Waters' new wife at the time, Carolyn. She was really the only one Roger's friends had ever met who could hold her own in an argument with him; according to Mason you had to be very good with semantics to win an argument against him. Waters wrote the song because that's all he had been looking for all along: someone who could stand up to him, an equal.
The songs are constructed simply and feature no instrumentation besides a strummed acoustic guitar played by Waters.
On the 8-track cartridge release, the song order was changed, and Parts 1 and 2 were played back-to-back at the beginning of the album. They were linked by a guitar bridge performed by Snowy White. Snowy would play the guitar solo in live performances on the 1977 Animals tour. On the last US leg of the performances, David Gilmour would play bass guitar instead of the electric rhythm guitar he played on the European and first US legs of the Animals tour.
The complete version of the song, including the instrumental bridge, was re-released on Snowy White's Goldtop compilation album in 1995.
I hope this video is (finally!) the start of several I hope to do by Pink Floyd....I won't rest until I've completed a video every track on both Wish You Were Here and Animals.....course it might take a while?! LOL!
Anyway....it's a start....hope you enjoy it.
[Lyrics]
If you didn't care what happened to me,
And I didn't care for you
We would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain
Wondering which of the buggers to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing.
You know that I care what happens to you
And I know that you care for me too
So I don't feel alone
Of the weight of the stone
Now that I've found somewhere safe
To bury my bone
And any fool knows a dog needs a home
A shelter from pigs on the wing
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My husband (who is now deceased) played this for me the night I met him. I instantly loved him and him me. This song will always remind me of him.
Aww you've brought a tear to my eye !
May he rest in peace :(
Good stuff, your husband. I like to play music for people. Share it, see if it speaks to them. RIP, sir.
God Love You , I know He did
I tried the same thing, but played "one of my turns"...no idea what her status is, but I'm quite sure she isn't watching me, and neither is your deceased love.
A touching but wonderful memory of him.
A great underrated song made even better by the solo.
True.
Underrated by whom?
@@johno4521 Me.
I'd only heard the album version before this. This is the first time I heard the solo in between. Unbelievable... POWERFUL Pink Floyd!
Snowy White is a master of the guitar...cool stage presence also.
Saw P.F. in 79,they had giant pig balloons,Did a mix from Dark Side,Wish you were here & Animals.I was 18.63 now.I will always love this magnificent band!
This song is an ode to friendship. Pure friendships.
I know this song is supposed to be a love song from Waters to his then wife. But, to me it has always evoked a sense of longing for a time and maybe a feeling that was lost long ago. Snowy's amazing, emotive solo just magnifies that feeling for me. Hard to put into words really.
Thanks OP for this version.
I’m convinced part one is him talking to his dog, and part two is his dog talking to him
I don't know who you are, but you just made me love this song even more than I already did. Thank you!
Ahaha
Hahahahaha.funny, maybe he is😂I love that solo
I can’t believe I never saw it that way. I’m not sure that’s it, but it damn fits well. Such a great pair of songs, especially when tied together with Snowy’s solo, which sounds like it could have been Gilmour.
Pretty sure Waters wrote these songs for his (new at the time) wife. But, that's also a pretty neat way to look at it as well!
Edit: I really can't tell if it's a joke or not, lel.
Snowy White is the world's most underrated guitarist.
Underrated by whom??
@@johno4521 GD stupid buzz word….
BRAVO
@@johno4521 By this mystery ratings system I keep reading about
@@johno4521 Ed Sheeran and Gerry Cinnamon fans
I'm 62 and been a big, big fan of Floyd since Meddle and had the Animals LP since it fist came out and yet have never heard this version.... Probably couldn't keep an 8 track working long enough, but feel I missed a lot and really loved this version.... Thanks for sharing... Really.....
So wonderful to hear from other fans of the music we grew up with and still love so much! Thanks for watching and commenting, solstis56.
I'm 56 & also a huge Pink Floyd- always will be!
Love this line,...and I'm always WATCHING for PIG'S on the wing...had a friend named AMY...she introduced me to Animals in 88' ...bless U Amy
I was introduced to Animals by a friend named Amey xD
I was with this girl a few months ago. She was my new girlfriend and I loved her. I played this song for her while at the Uber. She gave me the phone back and said 'Sorry I really can't listen to slow songs'. That was the moment when I knew she wasn't for me.
If you don't appreciate Pink Floyd I don't appreciate you.
Хорошо сказал
You're better off😆😆
Bullet successfully dodged, my friend.
😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 the same thing happened to me was about 20 years ago I started seeing this girl so I went round to pick her up in my car an I had my 3 daughters in the back who was only kids then we as listening to floyd on a cd witch they was all brought up on an loved it an still do , she came down an got in the car an turned it right down an said I can’t listen to that crap😡 my daughters said to me afterwards dad she’s not the one for you 😂😂😂😂😂😂 dident have another date after that
I met this really fit woman and the first time I went back to hers she said she had a strange taste in music.she put it on and it was that pink floyd album that came out in the early 2000's,a sort of best of one.,i camt think of the name now.i thought all my dreams had come at once but she was too much in the end.i had a good year with her though😉
My 17 year old learned this song in the guitar...Timeless!!!
now he is 25, wow
I can take comfort in pink floyd songs and lyrics
Thanks so much for the views and for taking the time to comment, Francie Stewart!
Snowy Is a great guitarist!
Thank you Snowy White for one of the most beautiful musical passages ever recorded…
"Now that I've found somewhere safe to bury my bone". Awesome, awsesome, awesome, brings back some incredibly great memories - thank so you much MetalGuruMessiah for putting me and my wife in a good mood on an otherwise very dreary, cloudy, rainy Sunday in New England today.
Thank you for watching the vid! It's a great tune (and album!) for a dreary, cloudy, rainy Sunday in New England! ;-)
Busbettis Polamalu I used this exact verse in my wedding vows
Uno de los solos más lindos y emotivos que escuché. Grande Snowy.
man pink floyd is so emotional for me to listen to the music is great and makes me happy but at the same time brings up so many sad memories
roger voice is beatiful.
Ikr
I prefer David
I don't find his voice at all beautiful, but it is perfect for the stuff he sings. And he always does a brilliant job of vocals that were originally DG's. He's a good vocalist and deserves respect, and if you find his voice beautiful I can't tell you you're wrong; you obviously have impeccable taste. It's just not the word I would use.
Correct my friend so simple but so good.
Yeah, he can really sing sometimes. San Tropez, Brain Damage/Eclipse, Shine On You Crazy Diamond, etc.
The brilliance of Pink Floyd.
I haven't heard this version before, that guitar solo was tastey. Cool to see the album art brought to life, great job.
That solo was actually performed by Thin Lizzy guitarist Snowy White, as he used to tour with Floyd to provide backing guitar during their live shows.
I ordered "Animals" from Listen records in Glasgow and picked it up the day it was released....then I saw Pink Floyd on their "Animals/Wish You Were Here" tour a few months later, at Stafford New Bingley Hall (which was fantastic, as you can imagine!)....yet it's taken me almost 45 years to hear this!
Life's mad, innit!
The solo... It's amazing
@X_Totowee_X…….one of the sickest solos I’ve ever heard.
My era! And yes.... I had the 8-track player installed under the A.C.... kept a matchbook and my zigzags stuck underneath the tape... so that it didn't drag! I bet you younguns don't even know what I am talking about!
This is the best song pink floyd ever did... along with "Dogs"... listened to them every day (literally every morning with my buddy "Hutch") on my way to HIGH school... along with Led Zeppelin "Presence"... which was their finest work, also ("Achilles Last Stand" and "For Your Life" are Pages' finest hour)! Wish I had a dollar for every time I played those 4 songs...
Fuck the critics.
Noone will ever know what those albums did in my soul... Changed my heart forever!
I always wondered why they did not release this version of "Pigs on the Wing" on the "Animals" record? Now I know... jealousy... wrong lead guitar player... Why else would anyone EVER leave a lead that beautiful off of an album?!
Anyway.... when Hutch and I got to the prison (I mean the "school") each morning we would all sit and discuss Animals in the "smokeshack" between 1st and 2nd period classes... (we always skipped 1st period) That's right... we actually had a school board approved, designated smoking area at the school! Can you believe it?! We all smoked cigarettes between classes! Ahhhhh....nothing like that Marlboro light before D.E. class to get those virgin lungs climatized! There was no politically correct B.S. to deal with back then!
Don't get me wrong... life sucked... but just not quite as bad as it does now. At least the air back then was still only H20 (hold the aluminum, barium, and lithium micro particles)... and there was still no drug testing!
I remember... I remember... I remember... (Bob Seger moment)...
sometimes i wanna cry if hear this song... 😐😑😃
Angga Wijaya same, this song reminds me of the first love of my Life, I will Always miss her
...any fool knows a dog needs a home...
This is the definitive version of this track including Snowy White's guitar solo, which was used for the 8-track version. I remember it well....do you?
¡Enhorabuena el vídeo es muy bueno y la música maravillosa!
La comparto.
¡Salud!
It's took some time while I've understood the role of the pigs, now I'm OK with them :))) (Y) X
Thnx MetalGuruMessiah
Absolutely. First heard it on a friend's copy of "Goldtop," many years back...and later owned it myself...wonderful.
My Uncle used to play this 8-Track in his 1976 Dodge Dart -- and drive me all over Pittsburgh --- when I was a Tadpole.
It always ended with a stop at the local pizza joint --- cuz I think he had the munchies. Fantastic post -- thanks for postin'.
For 40 years I've been watching out for those pigs
My sister got the eight track tape of this incredible album in very late '77. This guitara solo was on the tape break (with the channel change). Driving around near Hobby Airport takes me way, way back.
Help! I just listened to this version three times in a row just after listening to the whole album again!
I listened to the album 3 times over at work just today. Don’t worry about it, you’re in good company. It’s way too short and way too good. :)
Love this song, pure Pink Floyd genius!
Man I tuely love that guitar solo wish I could play like that pink floyd is truely the best rock band ever
Such a poignantly beautiful song.
One of the best David Gilmour guitar solos that never was.
It's not David Gilmour.
Yes I know. That's what I meant by the jocular expression "a DG guitar solo that never was".....;..You know, a case of mistaken identity by many people who thought that it was ... .........oh never mind.
I feel your pain.
@@chrisb1953 r/whoooosh
I would not have known had I not been told it’s not DG. It definitely has that same sound as the solo from songs that ended up on “The Wall” and “The Final Cut”. It’s simple and really ties the songs together. This is probably my second favorite alternative version of a Floyd song (behind the Stéphane Grappelli version of “Wish You Were Here”, probably my favorite all time Pink Floyd song).
FMD, where has this version been all my life? Wow, great.
Tharg 8 track tape.
Snowy White did a lot of Pink Floyd's guitar solos, both live and in the studio. This is one of them.
This is the only studio recording he played on.
And you gotta say - it's dead ordinary....
Correct but he was often the second guitar on stage for tours@@kitpalmer1583
Your's Is a True Passion ....for Pink Floyd's Interpretation...The way it was meant to be Remembered for All Time ...
this is one of many Pink Floyd songs that just makes my heart happy, Love the acoustic! Thx for posting
Sincere thanks for checking out the video kmalwz rockin, and for taking the time to comment!
Hermoso. Pink Floyd mi banda favorita! Roger, David, Nick y Richard, y el anterior Syd, genios totales!
... and Snowy White!
I found a good copy of the original 8 Track in FLAC!!
It's a quad downmix and sounds killer!!
And I found out Snowy White released it on a compilation album in 1995!!
....and you remembered that solo!? ;-) It was split in two.....faded out and then back in, so you really didn't get the full effect. The Snowy White compilation includes the definitive version of this track...for me anyways. Thansk!
I went to this concert 15 years old on PCP Cincinnati riverfront coliseum . I ran away from home Bowling Green Kentucky. Lucky to be alive today and this will always be a favorite album
Nice sob story
Best music and acoustic guitar ever!!!!
part 1
If you didn't care what happened to me,
And I didn't care for you,
We would zig zag our way through the boredom and pain
Occasionally glancing up through the rain.
Wondering which of the buggars to blame
And watching for pigs on the wing.
You know that I care what happens to you,
And I know that you care for me.
So I don't feel alone,
Or the weight of the stone,
Now that I've found somewhere safe
To bury my bone.
And any fool knows a dog needs a home,
A shelter from pigs on the wing.
part 2
You know that I care what happens to you
And I know that you care for me too
So I don't feel alone
Of the weight of the stone
Now that I've found somewhere safe
To bury my bone
And any fool knows a dog needs a home
A shelter from pigs on the wing
yes l recall this track VERY WELL.....then again l am 48. l have ALL their albums even bootlegs.....Good stuff
Snowy, heavily underrated
This is the only way i listen to the songs anymore i use to copy tapes of my albums and always combined both parts together when putting on tape but the solo ties it all together perfectly
I've always wanted to learn this one....
What a version this is! Such a gorgeous video!
Sincere thanks for checking out the video Mark Grago, and for taking the time to comment!
First time I heard it was on cassette. I think they did it to help with time continuity.
Thanks! Been Looking for this for over 40 years! Been playing it but knew I didn’t have it quite right! Played it for my new wife Gina, brought tears to. her eyes!
Glad I could help!
A tender yet humorous song like o my waters could write. I think it’s beautiful your sweetheart could appreciate it .mine didn’t.
Laura Lynn Franco
May he rest in peace, Thanx for beveling in Pink Floyd, I Love You Too.
I bevel in Pink Floyd...
@@stephenhawking4625 I I bevel the children are our future, teach them Floyd & let the bevelling go on!!! 📏📐🗜🧰🪑🖼🚝🙃
If you had not seen and heard perfection yet? Here it is!
I'm 61 now and had tickets for this concert and didn't go? Of all the bands I've seen in my life, this is the one I truly regret not seeing! I'm a guitar player and I've been stuck on Pink Floyd for some time now, and I love this song both versions,1&2! Another good one is Murder.... Check it out!
I hear ya! Man, I've whined form 20 years that, of all the concerts I attended when I was younger, I never got to see Pink Floyd.....but to have had tickets for the Animals tour and not have gone? I wouldn't want to be carrying that burden, brother!!! ;-) Yeah, I like Murder too. Thanks for checking the vid and for the comment!
My wife and I have this ongoing discussion over Floyd, before and after Waters. I said without Waters there would be no Pink Floyd, she said if Gilmore never joined, Pink Floyd wouldn't have made it. As I told her, Gilmore was, is, and always will be a replacement member for Barrett. I look at it this way: Waters wrote all of their greatest albums, but don't get me wrong David Gilmore is a guitar God. My favorite solo's of all time are by him. Now my case is you have to have both to make Pink Floyd work, it just works better that way. Her case is after Waters left they continued to be successful, I said of course they are still playing Waters songs live and using the name. It's just not Floyd without Roger Waters....
toda la razón, pienso igual
One correction: Syd already did the PF famous 😊 they only had to move on
@@Redguard677 they never left Britain until Syd left.
Not true they had already made it to the states with Barrett, they were on American bandstand and did a small tour with him of the west coast.
@@MK-nn7gm an 8 day mini tour lol. And they were still called The Pink Floyd. So my statement still stands.
Beautiful version.... finally it's put together like it should be
Happy 41st, you shining diamond of an album
My dear late friend and I used to sing this and The Final Cut together. :-)
I like that the piggy finds a mate at the end
Such a simple, beautiful, true, and prophetic song from a gem of an album, thank you!:33
Magic. Just magic.
Me is You and We are Us and Us is Ours and Ours is Eire !!
THE PERFECT ONE
Wow, what a beautiful solo. This was like a missing piece to the album; Animals was already my favorite Floyd, but now I love it even more.
It would have been interesting if the solo linked Part 2 to Part 1 rather than the other way around. As in, if you played the album on a loop the solo would lead back into Part 1 seamlessly.
That would work now. But not on Vinyl when this was recorded
@@gururajchadaga Sorry to be "that guy" but actually with the way an 8 track works is it is on an endless loop, so if the solo was after part 2, it would play directly into part 1 and start the whole record over. They did this with the Wall where it ends directly into the beginning of the record with a man saying, "Isn't this where we came in?" and with Dark Side with the heartbeat beginning and ending it
@@Jessejamesdavis thank you. I didn't know how an 8 track works.
They did that on the 8 track tapes back then and placed the solo guitar in the middle of the two.
@@gururajchadaga On an unrelated note, GYBE's album F♯ A♯ ∞ actually ends with a circular groove in the vinyl that will loop endlessly
Thank you! Wonderful work! Great video to go with this awesome song. Indeed... time is getting behind me! In 1977 I was a senior in High School. Whoa... how time flies. :)
+Vincent L. Guarisco
Time is a pig
Sincere thanks for checking out the video Vincent L. Guarisco, and for taking the time to comment!
The animations are outstanding! This is fantastic work
Glad you like them! Thanks for watching and for the nice comment!
Wow that solo scared me! haha
Gotta say, its pretty awesome
Oh yes the proper version with the lead in the middle, I don’t know why they took the lead away and made it into two songs first and last, what Beautiful lead, I seen the animals concert at Madison Square, Garden tripping my balls off
Was für ein geiles Solo
A little bit of Snowy White on the geetar!
+Earthshine Rush Love the work he did on the track! Thanks for checking it!
he fuckin nailed it amazing track, not sure why this wasn't on the album
It may have been because even David Gilmour was humbled by Snowy's performance on this track.
beautiful version!!
Love this song love. Got to hear Roger play it once and several cover bands
Pink Floyd is heaven n Meth where u still floating above dream and smiling in after death......
El 2002 en Chile tocó está hermosa canción con Snowy 😍 pero ese solo es maravilloso.
He is talking about life and people you care about solo is awesome
RIP Oscar Serrano...I'll ***never be the same without you...I'd give anything ta switch places just one day....***you'll always be missed..always Oscie.......My hear breaks everyday for you .....
The best, simply the best...
Thanks for checking the vid!
Great visual effects!
Sincere thanks for checking out the video PurpleIntoDeep, and for taking the time to comment!
One of my favorite songs. Good job on the video. Thanks
Thanks so much!
I am a huge Pink Floyd fan.
Thank you for this video.
God bless Pink Floyd.
God Bless Snowy White.
God Bless you.
Thank your for watching and for the nice comment. Greetings from Texas.
@@MetalGuruMessiah still listening to this after a year. Greetings from India.
Простенько...
Но, чёрт побери, с каким вкусом !!!
best version of this song loved it thanks uploader
Sincere thanks for checking out the video Busky42, and for taking the time to comment!
I dedicated this song to my girlfriend who became my wife going on 44 years now pink Floyd lyrics always said what I couldn't
It is nice to here Snowy White, Good job.
Wish this version would have made it on the album
I found someone. Thousand thousands miles away. There's two questions to be answered. Will I ever meet her? And And will she break my heart? My favorite song off animals on Pigs on the Wing 1 and 2 today is 12/24 2020 Merry Christmas to all Pink Floyd fans. And 2 That special lady out there.
Thank You in all your efforts for All your videos love each and everyone Thank You ✌🏽️🤘🏽✊🏽🌈🌞🌕😁
So wonderful to hear from other fans of the music we grew up with and still love so much! Thanks for watching and commenting, marion Gomez.
Thxs for a lovely blend and vid. First time I've heard both Pt1-2 together. Album 1000's.
Awesome version! Thank you so much!
After so many years I find this out
first time I heard 8 track version. Solo by Snowy White!!! Got the album when I was a kid and never heard the lead. Very interesting. Thank You MGM
amazing sound quality. thank you.
Part 1 and 2 together! Thnx a lot.
Enjoy!
This was an awesome little treat if you'd bought the 8 track. Great use of the format and an amazing solo.
Love the video. Probably my favorite floyd song and you showed it to me, at the Linden house. I hope you are doing well. Peace V Toe
Wow - so powerful - it’ll be tough to listen to the lp w/out the solo
Awesome song! Thanks for posting. I've always loved Pink Floyd's music. I grew up listening to Momentary Laps of Reason and The Division Bell, but I've only listened to little bits of Pink Floyd's music of the 1970s.
Thanks Jason! I hope you've been back into the earlier period Floyd....Momentary Lapse and Division Bell are great, but ya know, they just can't match the earlier stuff. Thanks for the comment!
extraordinary
Especially wigs on the Pig it's my favorite
wonderful .................
😭😭 I don't know why but this is sad for me...
Oh mirror mirror ...please tell me who is the best? ...Pink Floyd you said ...oh thank you my mirror ...now I know ...:) ...beautiful video my friend !
i first listened to PF Animals album 1978-79 then on i like all pink floyd albums