| Pink Floyd - San Diego, 3rd gen (Neonknight) (24-96) |
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| Recorded at the Convention Hall, Community Concourse, San Diego, CA, USA. Great audience recording. From the info file: Pink Floyd 1971-10-17 San Diego, 3rd gen (24bit/96kHz) Pink Floyd Convention Hall, Community Concourse, San Diego, California, USA 17 October 1971 Lineage: 3rd gen TDK SF90 chrome cassette > *Technics RS-B965-M > Focusrite Saffire Pro 14 > Reaper v4.61 > FLAC (24bit/96kHz) xACT used to create FFP 01 Careful With That Axe, Eugene 02 Fat Old Sun 03 Atom Heart Mother 04 Embryo 05 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 06 Cymabline 07 Blues Total running time 1 hour 29 mins 5 secs This copy of the well known stereo recording by Gordon S is my opinion an improvement on my 1st gen to DAT that I have seeded previously. I copied the whole tape at the same level and the channels are reversed. With no DAT in the lineage, this cassette seems to more naturally reproduce the original recording and to my ear it has greater ambience. It is also less worn so possibly represents an earlier transfer. Gordon S recorded on reel-to-reel and his master was lost. All known copies derive from his 1st gen cassette backup copy, which he appears to have carefully spliced together. Gordon advertised in Trouser Press magazine in the late 1970s and various collectors found him that way, so it’s possible that the 2nd gen was obtained via that route. Set The Controls is likely to have been placed between Embryo and Cymbaline because of cassette time constraints at the 1st gen backup copy stage. The correct setlist was probably CWTAE/FOS/StCftHotS/AHM//Embryo/Cymbaline/Echoes/ASoS/encore: Blues. There is currently no information about OoTD being played that night. My thanks, as ever, to goldenband for his helpful speed correction advice. A single +1.81% correction was made using Élastique 2.28 Pro. In its report about the concert the San Diego Union said: “The Community Concourse was turned into a space ship for two hours last night by English group Pink Floyd. Their music, as strange as their name, was an odd mixture of electronic effects, whispers, screams and breathy vocal intonations, which created a 2001 effect. The group showed great sensitivity for balance and continuity. Each set Floyd played created an overpowering feeling of weightlessly drifting in space. The music was uncluttered and flowing.” For more of this article see Glenn Povey’s Echoes book. Neonknight, August 2015 |