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| Recorded at the Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London, UK. Amazing audience recording, compiled from several excellent sources. From the info files: Pink Floyd - In Rainbow Light Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London UK 1972-02-20 Well here we go. The first completely complete version of the famous 4th Rainbow show. I assembled this with multiple master tapes provided to me by WRomanus. I've seen versions of the first set fixed (Best And The Rest Of Tour 72) but I was never happy with the segues. As far as it goes this is the most complete this show is going to get. The only thing I didn't include was the first 20 seconds of the beginning, as this is just mic noise as the taper sets up his gear. These tapes are of varying qualities and generations, but I've done my best to make the transitions painless. I used NR and hiss reduction only when it was necessary, mostly during the tune ups. I stereo spatialized everything not from Best Of Tour 72 so it would sound more like that does. The abbreviations for the master tapes are as follows: BOT72 = Best Of Tour 72. 1st pressing pristine vinyl. MC = Master Clone - A 2nd gen copy of what I believe to be taper 2. Not that tonally brilliant, but a good clean recording, for the most part complete. FS = Franco S., a big Italian collector living in Germany. Same original source as MC N = Nostrum, coming from WRomanus and Yogaman Collections. JG = From Jason G. USA. From this source only the phrase 'this is Echoes', because it was much more audible on this version. Probably taper 1. ACR = Atomic Crow Recording - this version is pretty much the same as MC, but claims to be 4th gen. It contains portions not on MC, so I used it as a patch. A little distortion and some NR artifacts made me not use this as the basis. CD 1 Set 1 01 Heart Beat Intro (Speak To Me) 02 Breathe 03 Travel Sequence 04 Time 05 Breathe (reprise) 06 Mortality Sequence (Ecclesiastes) 07 Money 08 Us And Them 09 Any Colour You Like 10 Brain Damage 11 Eclipse Set 2 12 Tune Ups 13 One Of These Days 14 Tune Ups 15 Careful With That Axe, Eugene CD 2 Set 2 (cont'd) 01 Tune Ups 02 Echoes/Encore Break Encores 03 Audience Requests/Tune Ups 04 A Saucerful Of Secrets 05 Something Different (Blues) 06 Encore Break/Audience Requests 07 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun For set 1 I used the BOT72. Heart Beat Intro (Speak To Me) is from FS. I filled the missing portions in Time and Us and Them with MC. Eclipse is ended with the ACR tape. The BOT72 (and all subsequent versions) slows down gradually during the second half of Money and continues until the break in Us and Them where the piece is missing. I speed corrected this. All the songs for the set 2 are from MC. The tune up before OOTD is from N. The tune up between OOTD and CWTAE is from FS. The dialogue is from ACR. Tune ups before Echoes are from FS, but the announcement of the song title is from JG as mentioned above. Tune Ups between Echoes and ASOS are from N. Tune up after Something Different is from FS. At this point the alignment of the tape seems to be real bad, but its generations down the line. I used the right channel only as the left was pretty bad. There is a 2db boost in the left channel on all content from MC beginning at CWTAE. All pieces from FS are speed corrected. The tune ups don't sound nearly as good as the rest of the tape, but I had to put this show right. (I did the same thing to Hollywood Bowl 72. Sometimes you just aren't happy with a release no matter what) If anyone out there has material to make it better, even a few seconds or something with better SQ, please let us know. }{eywood's e-mail: music_fixer_remixer@yahoo.com WRomanus' e-mail: valter.donati@poste.it I hope this pleases everyone out there. Thanks to WRomanus for the masters, incentive and critique as the process went on. Enjoy! Conceived, produced and released by WRomanus & }{eywood }{eywood Dec 25, 2007 --- Pink Floyd - In Rainbow Light Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London UK 1972-02-20 After about 33 years this dream has at last come true. It was in 1974 when I got a vinyl copy of Best of Tour 1972. It was a present from my friend Adriano going around the world with the Italian Navy. Since that time I've been searching for the rest of the show and the missing Dark Side pieces. I bought a lot of vinyl boots without success. In the late 80's I got some tapes but with awful quality. In the late 90's the trade was by mail on CD. Eventually complete versions of this show and the 3 days before surfaced. Comparing the different versions and set lists was clear that the famous boot Best of Tour '72 was from 20th February (4th Rainbow show) and not from 17th (1st Rainbow show). I wished for the opportunity to hear the complete show made famous by the sound quality of Best of Tour '72. But there was, yesterday like today, NOT a REAL COMPLETE version with the best sound quality and with all the tune ups, announcements and talking available. This since the late 90's became my goal. But I'm not that familiar in using computers and programs and I was looking for a partner to do that. In the year 2002 I talked about this project to Yogaman, Sebastien L; we started to work on it and we produced a sampler with the entire CD1. At that point Yogaman abandoned the project because his life had a big change. I accumulated a lot of info and pictures about the four Rainbow shows. Rainbow Theatre was booked for three shows for press introduction to Dark Side of the Moon but soon a fourth show was set due to the big response. This extra show was to be played on Sunday 20th February. Sunday Extra Show was originally my favorite working title before I decided for In Rainbow Light. This definitive title came soon after I created the gatefold front artwork (of which I'm particularly proud). After the Yogaman 'departure' I also took a break from trading PF shows. Came back early in 2007 and 2 main versions were now available to make a real complete show with the best possible SQ: Bestoftour72 (DSotM set only) - 1st Vinyl Pressing Restored and Rainbow Theater, London (Master Clone). Info files of these two are enclosed. But still all the tune ups and announcements I knew to exist were not in there. One day near the end 2007 I met }{eywood on the Pinkroioshn main chat. After a while I talked to him about this, and showed him my old project and all the material I accumulated over years. Great guy! I didn't have to repeat twice. So I started to listen again to all versions I have of this show finding all }{eywood could use successfully. He did GREAT and fast work even though I stressed him sometime. You know, I'm an audiophile........ Thanks to - }{eywood for knowledge, effort and patience that made him such a GREAT partner. - the 2 or 3 tapers and Prof. Stoned that made it possible. - all of those gave me all the material about this show: The Hubs, Yesshkul, Franco S., Yogaman, Jason G., Soichiro F., Hannes T. - Moonwall and Vito for help in making the back and discs artwork. - Hubble Space Telescope Project.(?) Enjoy! Conceived, produced and released by WRomanus & }{eywood WRomanus - Roma, 25 December 2007 If anyone out there has material to make it better, even a few seconds or something with better SQ, please let us know. }{eywood's e-mail: music_fixer_remixer@yahoo.com WRomanus' e-mail: valter.donati@poste.it |