| Gilmour, David - He Spoke French! |
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| Recorded at l'Olympia, Paris, France. Very good audience recording. This is incomplete, and has most of the second set. From the info file: DAVID GILMOUR Thursday 2006-03-16 Olympia, Paris, France 'He Spoke French!' Furry Animal FA024 LINEAGE: WAV (44.1/16) > remaster (44.1/32) > WAV (44.1/16) > FLAC (8) TAPING LOCATION: First row center in front of Gilmour, seat 06 EQUIPMENT: SP-TFB-2 Sound professionals binaural mics > SP-SPSB-1 Sound Professionals Battery module + 195Hz bass roll off > Microtrack 9624 digital recorder (1/4' dual stereo line in) in WAV 44.1KHz/16bit > USB transfer to HD > remastering in Adobe Audition 1.5 in WAV 44.1KHz/32bit float > Track splitting in CDWave 1.94.6 > Flac compression and MD5 generated in Trader's Little Helper (TLH) v1.0.0 beta 1 (with flac v1.1.2), compression level 8, aligned on sector boundaries. TAPER: Audience (Furry Animal) Disc 1 [60:29] 01. Shine On You Crazy Diamond pt. 1-2 [6:00] 02. 'Qu'est-ce qu'il y a?' [1:14] 03. Shine On You Crazy Diamond pt. 2-6 [8:29] 04. Band Introduction [1:57] 05. Wot's The Deal? (sic) [5:50] 06. Wearing The Inside Out [7:47] 07. Fat Old Sun [5:57] 08. Breathe [3:12] 09. Time [5:21} 10. Breathe (reprise) [1:15] 11. High Hopes [9:20] 12. Echoes [cut] [4:06] Comments on the show: --------------------- I won't tell too much about the first set, because it's rather pointless to comment something that is not present on this recording. I liked it a lot, in spite of all the criticism about the 'On An Island' album. Suffice to say I had tears in my eyes during the HUGE surprise of seeing the terribly sexy and excellent singer Sam Brown (with her hair dyed in red and without bra under her black cleavage dress) making a guest appearance on Great Gig In The Sky. The second set was punctuated with a huge technical problem; during Shine On some loudspeaker on the right began to make a terrible humming noise, causing David to stop playing. David joked a bit with the audience asking in a funny pseudo-Parisian accent 'What's up?” 'Who is doing this? Get him!” You won't hear the buzz as well (fortunately) as I did because it was hugely attenuated by the bass roll off setting of my pre-amp. Finally David resumes Shine On in a strange fashion, with lots of reverb and echo. The audience even thought it was yet another technical problem, but it seems actually David did it a funny way :-) Hardly perceptible on my recording, a guy from halfway in the back shouted in French during the interruption 'That'll make a nice ROIO!!” The funny thing is that half the audience cheered at him, proving this gig was a gathering of bootleg collectors hehe. During the band introduction, Richard Wright was very much acclaimed and received a short standing ovation. This shows that the everlasting arranger of the Pink Floyd sound is still in the hearts of the fans. The next two songs weren't that great. 'Wot's ... uh... The Deal?' was very well played but David started to lose his voice. I saw him try to clear his throat off mic a couple of times but it didn't help much. Fortunately he recovered for the next vocal performance. Wearing the Inside out, another much expected previously-never-performed-live song, was a very nice song, but Richard has unfortunately totally lost his voice, and the P.A. balance kinda screwed the keyboards. Yet another surprise next, and this time a perfect rendition: Fat Old Sun surprisingly replaces Dominoes that was played earlier in the tour. And no Sir, not the 2002 revival, but really a 1971-fashioned version, with acoustic beginning and electric guitar end solo! David took some time to find the right guitar and plug it in for the end solo, that's why the 'Sing To Me' choir bridge before the solo is a bit long and you hear some people laughing at that, but it wasn't a big or annoying goof. Breathe and Time had nothing special, I mean worth writing hear. Great performance, in a slow mood, which reminded me a lot more of the 1972 performances (because of the orchestration) and clearly is a treat for those who found the 1994 version of Dark Side too mechanical. High Hopes now, great performance, except a little goof in the slide guitar at the end, you could see David nodding negatively as if he was terribly annoyed himself to have hit the bum note. But ack, you're apologised Sir Gilmour! And here is the big treat: Echoes! I don't know why my recorder stopped there because I surely didn't move during the song. I was simply dumb, astonished, with open mouth watching a wonder... Echoes, for the first time played in this fashion ever since 1973. ECHOES NO SAX!! That's where my recording ends, sorry for that, I have a lot more to tell and comment about what I unfortunately didn't record. But let's keep it here, I bet a complete recording will surface, with even more souvenirs :-) Comments on the recording: -------------------------- First of all, all my sincere apologies for not providing you all the complete show in the same quality. I'm quite a newbee at taping shows, and this was only the second time I used this new recorder. I didn't record the first set because of my own stupidity: I had it set on the wrong input channel so I recorder 1h07 of silence! I only noticed my goof during the intro of Shine On on the second set, that's why we miss also the very beginning of Shine On, that cuts in at the first guitar note. Then, God knows why, the recording stopped at the 1h mark. I had the HOLD switch on, was far away from reaching the maximum file size limit, so really, that remains a mystery to me. I'm pretty pissed I hence also miss almost all of Echoes and the encores WYWH and CN. So you won't hear me screaming YEESHKUL (-dotcom) nor hear me curse in French at the assholes who came to stand in front of first row leaning on the loudspeakers for the encores ('Assis merde! Bouges ton cul!') The original recording had very low levels and is almost purely mono (Omnidirectional mics aren’t made for the nicest stereo effects). Remember I was at 1.5m of the front speakers melting my earwax and with the blasting sound anyway we wouldn't have had much of a stereo effect except for the clapping of the people around me. I tweaked my original recording by arranging channel levels (there was a constant 0.22dB volume difference between left and right), Eq'ing the original dull and flat sound by arranging the vocal and guitar presence, boosting high ends and slightly diminishing the bass presence. Then I boosted the volume of a constant 13dB with hard limiting, removed some clicking handclaps, smoothened some too near shouts, avoiding saturation, then finally I slightly brightened the stereo image by mixing each channel with -20% of the other channel for better stereo separation. I hope you'll all like it nevertheless, enjoy! - Furry Animal (17/18 March 2006) Thanks to Dan for the title. Thanks to all the nice people I met at the show (including Mister Ron Geesin). Thanks to Sir Gilmour, Mister Wright, and the other musicians. This release was first shared simultaneously on YEESHKUL tracker, PINKROIOSHN hub and IN FLOYD WE TRUST hub. Thanks to those communities that share the live PF sound for free! http://pf-db.com/signup.php (pinkroioshn) http://www.yeeshkul.com http://pinkfloydsound.altervista.org (IFWT) A FURRY ANIMAL PRODUCTION *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** ** ** ** Respect the trading spirit; DO NOT SELL ** ** Respect the sound quality; DO NOT TRADE IN LOSSY FORMAT like MP3 ** ** No need to REFORMAT in other lossless format either, please don't ** ** Also, DO NOT (RE-)REMASTER THIS. There's no need really ** ** ** *********************************************************************** *********************************************************************** |