More Blues

Pink Floyd recorded More Blues as an improvised detour within a larger project. The piece was born as part of the soundtrack for the film More, a work that took them to Ibiza in 1969 to film scenes with Barbet Schroeder as director. It wasn't a song intended for the stage, but rather an instrumental fragment that served as a bridge between scenes, yet it ended up becoming one of the few pure blues tracks the band ever recorded. At just two minutes and thirteen seconds, the song is built on a repetitive groove reminiscent of the roots of British rock in the late sixties, when blues and psychedelic still coexisted in the same setlist.

The track was credited to the four members of the classic lineup at the time — David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright — though its sound evokes more of a jam session than a composed piece. More Blues never appeared on the charts, but it did sneak into the band's concerts during the early seventies. In fact, in 1977, during the final show of the Animals tour in Montreal, the group resurrected it as an encore, with Snowy White on lead guitar following Gilmour's abrupt exit from the stage. A detail that shows how a minor track ended up becoming part of the collective memory of the most dedicated fans.