Love Scene (Version 4)

Song infobox
Name = Love Scene (Version 4)


Artist = Pink Floyd
Album = Zabriskie Point
Released = January 1970
track_no = 8 of disc two
Recorded = 1969
Genre = Instrumental rock
Length = 6:45
Writer = Rick Wright (credited to David Gilmour, Rick Wright, Nick Mason and Roger Waters)
Label = MCA
Producer =
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"Love Scene (Version 4)" is a Pink Floyd composition for the film "Zabriskie Point". Although it is credited to the whole band, as all Pink Floyd songs on "Zabriskie Point"´s soundtrack, "Love Scene (Version 4)" can be seen as Rick Wright's solo number. The song didn't find its way to the film, nor to the original soundtrack. It was, in any case, released as the final track on the bonus disc of the album's 1997 re-release.

Overview

Consisting only piano, "Love Scene (Version 4)" is very different than the other Floyd songs on soundtrack. In fact, it's the most minimalistic of the songs Wright has made for Pink Floyd. "Love Scene (Version 4)" sounds completely different than "Love Scene (Version 6)", the longer one of the two Floyd Love Scene versions, which is more bluesy and contains guitar soloing. In the reissued soundtrack's booklet, David Fricke writes: ""Love Scene-Version 4" is an entirely different approach, a languid exercise in galactic-lounge jazz performed on piano and what sounds like a vibraphone – closer to the Modern Jazz Quartet than A Saucerful of Secrets."

"Love Scene (Version 4)" is one of the instrumental tracks that were candidates to a desert sex episode of the movie. The song that actually played in "Zabriskie Point" was a Jerry Garcia improvisation track featuring edits from his full-length studio improvisations. That song was named "Love Scene" in the original soundtrack release. The 1997 bonus disc features four tracks of Garcia's Love Scene improvisations, two otherwisely unreleased Pink Floyd tracks "Country Song" and "Unknown Song" plus the two Pink Floyd's Love Scene instrumentals: Version 6 and version 4. According to Fricke, there was also an earlier Pink Floyd version that "is a long blue-water stretch of humming keyboards and guitar dreaming, marked at points by the tidal wash of Mason's cymbals and moments when Gilmour's guitar sounds like a flock of agitated seagulls."