No, it is really a $1 question.
All those guys who crossed the Rubicon back in the 70s to achieve great commercial success with the
New Thing do not have patience and money for any archival underground releases catering to a niche audience. Actually they rarely decide about anything - for such a dirty job they have specialists hired, who usually come up with an idea of a new greatest hits collection, super-deluxe edition of their
Big Album or a great opportunity to lease a track to a movie.
And those hired experts do not want to come back with the news that a live tape from ancient times, whose assembling cost a fortune (rich people are always overcharged), DID NOT sell well, has been savaged by mass media and is not played in the radio/TV because of THAT HORRIBLE sound. That is not a kind of reception any big rock star has been used to for decades.
Maybe with the current demise of mass music market and the advent of specialized collectors market of physical media the Pink Floyd camp will gradually change their minds. I only hope that they will rather choose the Queen's way (which finally gave green light to the affordable "
Live at the Rainbow '74" packages) and not the Rolling Stones' path (which offered an exclusive $700 boxset with the Brussels '73 live recording).
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