| Pink Floyd - Texas Stadium Master (Mjk5510) |
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| Recorded at the Texas Stadium, Dallas, TX, USA. Great audience recording. From the info file: Pink Floyd Texas Stadium-Dallas, Texas April 28, 1988 Recording: 2 X Sony ECM33F Mics > Marantz PMD430 (DBX On) > Maxell XLIIS Lineage: Audience Master > Marantz PMD430 (DBX Off) > Macbook Pro > Peak Pro XT (indexing/volume smoothing) > xACT 1.59 > Flac > Dime Disc One 01 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) 02 Signs Of Life (minor splice) 03 Learning To Fly 04 Yet Another Movie 05 Round And Round 06 A New Machine (Pt. 1) 07 Terminal Frost 08 A New Machine (Pt. 2) 09 Sorrow (Cut at very end) 10 Dogs Of War 11 On The Turning Away 12 One Of These Days Disc Two 01 Time 02 On The Run 03 The Great Gig In The Sky 04 Wish You Were Here 05 Welcome To The Machine 06 Us And Them 07 Money 08 Another Brick In The Wall-Part 2 09 Comfortably Numb 10 One Slip 11 Run Like Hell (minor splice at very end) Friends, here we have a show that was almost lost to the ages. Taping today or yesterday is not an easy task regardless of the equipment size. For the most part in the 80's the set ups were large and bulky and if you wanted halfway decent quality you were burdened with not only a fairly large bulky deck but large bulky mics (I used 2 mics at shows). I think it is safe to say if you tape or taped with any type of consistency there were those venues that you dreaded each time a show was booked there. I rarely had any problems with the arenas and clubs throughout Texas and Oklahoma, it was generally a smooth entry if you kept your cool and generally if you got caught inside you just weren't paying attention. But one venue I always dreaded was Texas Stadium. Not only was it a huge cavernous football stadium with a big hole in the roof but I knew there would be hand held metal detectors at the entries. In cases like this, patience and observation almost always paid off and you could find someone not quite doing the job as well as others. Which brings us to this show, after about a half hour observing people going in I landed on the entry I was going to try and with a little repositioning cruised through the entrance. At this point you'd think I was home free, well here is where the bonehead play of that year comes in. While standing off the entry against a wall waiting for my buddy to come through, I apparently didn't have a good enough hold on the deck's strap and it fell out from under my jacket to the ground (fortunately only about a foot or less drop so no damage to the equipment). Out of hundreds and hundreds of concert goers surrounding me the guy standing not 3 feet from me just so happened to be a security guard. As I scooped up my deck and tried in vain to get 'lost' in the crowd a hand grabs my shoulder. After taking me to the head of security's 'work post' and being given the lowdown on the evils of bootlegging and how I shouldn't have even thought about bringing recording equipment in I was un-ceremoniously escorted out of the venue. At this point I was po'd with myself and the whole situation and wasn't about to not get this show taped so I proceeded to find an acquaintance in the parking lot I had seen coming in earlier selling tickets and he was kind enough to sell me a ticket at face value to get back in (I had my fairly good seats stub still in hand), he found my plight all too funny but hooked me up. I go through the whole metal detector scenario once again, through the same entry and same wanding security guard (entry once was bad enough but twice through the metal detector was getting annoying) and proceeded to my seat. My buddy, who witnessed the whole thing, about fainted when I walked up, sat down and set up the recording equipment. As for the recording itself, Texas Stadium is simply a huge stadium with a hole in the roof. My seat was decent, not the best but not the worst, the hole in the roof was actually beneficial in that the sound didn't bounce around the stadium but had an exit. That coupled with Floyd's top notch sound system made for a recording much better than I thought it might be at the time. I have supplied copies of this from the master tape in the past on cd, however, I consider this an upgrade in that this version was played back on the exact same deck used at the show to tape it (finally retrieved from storage for future mastering of my shows). As with all my audience recordings, samples below. I've had some traders ask about the equipment I used to tape the majority of my shows so I've also posted below a photo of the equipment used to tape this particular show. So here you have the show that was almost lost to the ages from my master tapes transferred finally using the original equipment. Enjoy! Mjk5510 |