Meddle Tour

Meddle Tour
Tour by Pink Floyd
Start date	15 October 1971
End date	20 November 1971
Legs	1
Shows	26
Pink Floyd tour chronology
Atom Heart Mother World Tour (1970-1971) Meddle Tour (1971) Dark Side of the Moon Tour (1972-1973)

The 1971 Meddle tour was a short concert tour by British band Pink Floyd. Commenced on October 1971 and ended on November of that year. It was intended to promote their new album Meddle in the United States, although some of the album material had been played months before the album release, a common practice by the band. The set list was varied, playing material from many of their previous albums, some of them never played again by the band.

Set list

A typical set list during this stage of 1971 would include most of the following:

• "Embryo"
• "Fat Old Sun"
• "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun"
• "Atom Heart Mother"
• "One of These Days"
• "Careful with that Axe, Eugene"
• "Cymbaline"
• "Echoes"
• "A Saucerful of Secrets" (occasional)
• "Blues" (occasional)

Tour band

• David Gilmour – guitar, vocals
• Roger Waters – bass, vocals
• Richard Wright – keyboards, vocals
• Nick Mason – drums

North American Tour dates

• 15/10/1971: Winterland Ballroom - San Francisco, CA
• 16/10/1971: Civic Center - Santa Monica, CA
• 17/10/1971: Golden Hall - San Diego, CA
• 19/10/1971: National Guard Armory - Eugene, OR
• 21/10/1971: Willamette University - Salem, OR
• 22/10/1971: Paramount Theatre - Seattle, Washington
• 23/10/1971: Vancouver Gardens - Vancouver, BC
• 26/10/1971: Ford Auditorium - Detroit, MI
• 27/10/1971: Auditorium Theater - Chicago, IL
• 28/10/1971: Hill Auditorium - Ann Arbor, MI
• 31/10/1971: Field House - Toledo, OH
• 02/11/1971: McCarter Theater - Princeton, NJ
• 03/11/1971: Central Theater - Passaic, NJ
• 04/11/1971: Lowes Theater - Providence, RI
• 05/11/1971: Assembly Hall - New York City, NY
• 06/11/1971: Emerson Gymnasium - Cleveland, OH
• 08/11/1971: Peace Bridge Center - Buffalo, NY
• 09/11/1971: Centre Sportif - Montreal, QC
• 10/11/1971: Pavillon de la Jeunesse - Quebec City, QC
• 11/11/1971: Orpheum Theatre - Boston, MA
• 12/11/1971: Irvine Auditorium -Philadelphia, PA
• 13/11/1971: Convention Hall - Asbury Park, NJ
• 14/11/1971: Gymnasium - Stony Brook, NY
• 15/11/1971: Carnegie Hall - New York City, NY
• 16/11/1971: Lisner Auditorium - Washington D.C.
• 19/11/1971: Syria Mosque - Pittsburgh, PA
• 20/11/1971: Taft Theatre - Cincinnati, OH

References

External links

• Brain Damage.co.uk
• Pink Floyd Archives
• KPPC-FM INTERVIEW of NICK MASON and RICK WRIGHT on October 16, 1971