| Pink Floyd - Frankfurt 2-source stereo (RMCH-2013) |
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| Recorded at the Festhalle, Frankfurt, Germany. Very good audience recording. From the info file: Pink Floyd Frankfurt Festhalle January 27th, 1977 Two source, stereo remaster A very special event, early in the Animals tour. This show was recorded by two known tapers, both with excellent equipment. For source 1, the master tape is not available but has been stored on vinyl records. Given the time limitations of this storage medium it appears that the show's recording was cut to fit the constraints of two LPs. Still, 89 minutes of the show is available. For source 2 we have the complete recording, including encore. This tape was recorded in mono rather than stereo. The two tapers seem to be in different locations. For example, some have described source 1 as mostly Roger's bass and keyboards while source 2 has been described as having a high mix of Dave's guitar and vocals. A fan can be heard blowing a whistle during the opening of Shine On You Crazy Diamond in source 1 but this can not be heard in source 2; strongly suggesting that the two tapers were separated by a significant distance. Given the outstanding quality of both recordings, the predominance of different instruments in each and the apparent separation of the two tapers, creating a stereo recording by merging both recordings seemed worthwhile. Source 1: MoLM vinyl archives Lineage: LP> PS-LX250H> STR-DE895> HK CDR26> EAC> SHN Comment: Missing most of Sheep at the beginning, the first few minutes of Shine On part 1, the last 30 seconds of Shine On part 2 and the encore Money. Source 2: Lineage: M[REEL] > DAT[4] > CD-R > EAC > FLAC Comment: Eac'd by sydb sydb@optonline.net Complete show with encore. The source is mono Disc 1 01 01 Sheep 13:40 01 02 Pigs On The Wing (Part 1) 2:05 01 03 Dogs 18:50 01 04 Pigs On The Wing (Part 2) 2:29 01 05 Pigs (Three Different Ones) 16:46 Total Time 53:50 Disc 2 02 01 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (I-V) 13:20 02 02 Welcome To The Machine 8:19 02 03 Have A Cigar 5:42 02 04 Wish You Were Here 6:24 02 05 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (VI-IX) 16:35 02 06 Money 9:15 Total Time 59:35 Remaster 01. Source 1: Repair clicks and pops, repair gaps, repair clipping, remove low frequency rumble, merge overlap sections. 02. Source 2: Re-balance sound/EQ, repair gaps, adjust dynamics, repair clicks and pops. 03. Sync sources 04. Mix sources to create stereo image 05. Correct phasing. 06. Use two channel mono source 2 in sections that source 1 is missing 07. Adjust channel balance and power 08. Track 2013: 09. Fine tune some sync points 10. Adjust speed 11. Verify pitch 12. Additional adjustment to EQ 13. Adjust pre-mix dynamics and produce new stereo image Notes During Dogs Nick forgets to hit first cymbal crash. During Dogs Dave's guitar comes in nicely on the Left for the leads while keyboards and dog barks are heard on the right. During the second interlude of Dogs, initial synthesizers and keyboards are almost exclusively right channel while vocals alternate between channels. At end of Dogs, most barks are heard on the right but occassional bark heard only on the left. Pigs grunting almost exclusively in the right channel. At the beginning of SOYCD part 1, Dave's guitar is heard on the left while keyboards and a fan's whistle is on the right. The beginning of Welcome To The Machine has mostly right channel bass and rumble then Dave's guitar and vocals come in on the left. Roger's vocals during SOYCD part 2 are mostly in the right channel with Dave's guitar on the left. From Melody Maker: It had been an evening totally without mishaps. The 12,000 natives packed into Frankfurt's Festhalle for the second successive night on Thursday were in a generally friendly mood, for the Floyd hardly attract the standard aggro crowd of people like Zep or Purple. But in an audience that size it is a statistical certainty there are bound to be some nutters, like those who were throwing cans and bottles during the first set. An announcement in the first interval to desist, bitte because delicate equipment was getting damaged. I saw another bottle smash on Nick Mason's Hokusai painted drum kit - evidently a full one, for it sprayed his face with foam. In the shadow of the PA columns, a group of 'plain clothes' polizei, about as inconspicuous as a panzer armoured division in their uniform anoraks and regulation length haircuts, took photographs of the crowd to see if anyone was smoking dope. Their American counterparts in the Military Police also ranged through the crowd, checking IDs of hapless GIs out of the camp for a little night music, searching if they were AWOL or carrying exotic substances. The band's special effects department still hadn't got the highpoint of their contribution to the show quite yet. In the middle of the 'Pigs' section, which closed the first half, a gigantic inflated porker is meant to fly over the PA, emerging out of a cloud of smoke, clearing the stacks by a few inches, and making a circuit of the hall over the heads of the audience. Well, Mr. Pig made it over the stack all right without toppling the driver horns on the top, but the trouble was the smoke. The first three nights of the tour they couldn't get enough product out of the rented fog-machine, so they tried a smoke bomb instead. That worked rather too well for comfort, filling the hall with billowing clouds of acrid, throat strangling murk, through which it was barely possible to see that something was happening on stage. |