Monday, July 2, 2012

PF - 1977-03-30 - Stafford

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Dr. Forrester said...

Pink Floyd
Stafford New Bingley Hall
3 March 1977

PREVIOUSLY UNCIRCULATED MASTER AUDIENCE RECORDING

Lineage: Philips 'Hipster' ALC recorder > Ancient BASF 120 cassettes > Technics deck (azimuth adjusted) > CoolEdit (bits and bobs, nip and tuck) > WaveLab (track splits) > TLH (Flac level 8)

00 Going Home Arrangements
01 Dogs
02 Pigs On The Wing pt 1
03 Sheep
04 Pigs On The Wing pt 2
05 Pigs (Three Different Ones)

06 Shine one You Crazy Diamond (pts 1-5)
07 Welcome To the Machine
08 Have A Cigar
09 Wish you Were Here
10 Shine one You Crazy Diamond (pts 6-9)

11 Money

NOTES:

As mentioned earlier (http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=341073), there wasn’t a sudden sea change from prog to punk as many would like to believe happened. We were still listening to our rock gods until (in some cases) many years after. Although this would be the only time I saw Pink Floyd, I didn’t give up on their studio recordings until after the release of The Wall film and Roger Waters’ resignation.

It had been clear for a while that Waters really wanted to make a film, and this was probably as a result of the film soundtrack work the group had been offered over the years since Syd Barrett had left, most notably with Barbet Schroeder (“More”) and Franco Zefferelli (“Zabriskie Point”).

Stafford New Bingley Hall is a cowshed, though, no matter how you light it and regardless of how many seats you install, which means that the recording here is distinctly lacking in any sonic quality. It is what it is, and struggles to rise above the atrocious acoustics of the venue. This was recorded about two thirds of the way back, and slightly to the left of the sound desk. This particular night, he Giant Pig got its snout caught on the Aerial of the sound-desk to much laughter...

Recommended Track: Pigs (Three Different Ones) – a withering song attacking the hypocrisy of politicians, and with Mr Waters’ trademark scream. It really doesn’t get much better than this. IMHO of course…

Sound quality: 6? 7? take your pick...

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starboy

mahavishnu floyd said...

The actual date of this is March 30, 1977. This particular recording is rated "P" for poor by Pink Rudy, who reports that there is a 1st gen of rec2 that sounds Ex.