| Pink Floyd - Chicago, IL, Recorder 1, 2nd gen (Neonknight) |
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| Recorded at the Soldier Field, Chicago, IL, USA. Great audience recording. From the info file: Pink Floyd 1977-06-19 Chicago, IL, Recorder 1, 2nd gen (16bit/44.1kHz) Pink Floyd Super Bowl of Rock 'n' Roll, Soldier Field, Chicago, IL, USA 19 June 1977 Lineage: 2nd gen cassettes > 48kHz DAT(0) > FLAC (16bit/44.1kHz) > Reaper v4.61 > FLAC (16bit/44.1kHz) xACT used to create FFP 01 Crowd 02 Sheep 03 Pigs On The Wing, Part 1 04 Dogs 05 Pigs On The Wing, Part 2 06 Pigs (Three Different Ones) 07 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5) 08 Welcome To The Machine 09 Have A Cigar 10 Wish You Were Here 11 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9) 12 Money Total running time 1 hour 55 mins 19 secs Most copies of Jeff J's recording doing the rounds are mono but this version is stereo and sounds much better. Having both channels makes a big difference in perspective, especially towards the end when the audience finally calms down and the recording is at its best. Don't throw out your 1st gen transfer by weedwacker, however, because it has some more content at the beginning and end. Yeeshkul member Bearfloydfan posted some interesting comments in July 2015 in reply to another version of this recording: 'This is a major one for me - thanks for sharing. The Super Bowl of Rock. First and only Pink Floyd concert I've been to. Remember getting to the stadium ~2 hours before the show was to start and the field area was packed with a sea of people (seats were general admission at the outrageous price of $11 each). Had to sit at the south end-zone in the stands about 20 or so rows up and opposite the stage near the back sound tower. Remember watching Mr Screen raised and sound engineer check of PA system with the Echoes ping (including an announced disclaimer that this was not the start of the concert). Just before the start of the concert, this enormous sound of a jet aircraft engine passing from the speaker tower behind us to the side towers to the stage towers - got my attention (this is present on Track 01). The rising sparkler fireworks display on either side of the stage at the conclusion of Sheep was very cool!! I do recall Floyd playing more songs though, specifically Us and Them as a second encore and Blues as a third with the stadium lights on as we left the stands. Would've been nice if the taper was able to captured these as well.' Goldenband asked Bearfloydfan for more detail and he replied: 'I know it's almost 40 years, but you never forget your first (and in my case last) Floyd concert. I can only conjecture for reasons the tapers didn't capture the last two encores. Cassettes in those days came in various lengths, C90's (45 mins per side) and C120's (60 mins per side) being the most popular if I recall. Nothing longer than a C120. Maybe the tapers were tape limited... Also the times between encores was really long. You can kind of sense this listening to the end of SOYCD (track 11), the Money encore (track 12), and track 13 ('Outro') with the track breaks and extended crowd noise and chants. Towards the end of track 13 you sense some excitement in the crowd which may have been when the band came back on stage...to perform Us and Them. Then more thanks and good-nights and the stadium lights came on. It was taking forever for the crowd to dissipate, when Floyd returned for the final encore and did the Blues with the stadium lights on as the crowd left. Tapers probably ran out of tape and/or left before the final encores. Again, only my conjecture.' In case anybody gets caught out, the FLAC files came to me as being by a recorder 3 who was stood next to recorder 1. Jimfisheye once pointed out: 'The big distraction here is the constant bumping of the microphone which kicks in the automatic level adjustment of the tape deck every time.' I don't think the taper had much control over this. Listen out, for example, to 46 second in to track six where he gets a big bump from somebody and says, 'Hey, those are microphones man and I'm trying to record.' I applied a blanket correction of -2.04% using élastique 2.28 Pro on goldenband's advice. Neonknight, October 2015 |