| Pink Floyd - Smoking Blues |
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| Recorded at the Montreux Casino, Montreux, Switzerland, on 21 and 22 November 1970. (22nd: all tracks from disc 1 and track 1 from disc 2; 21st: the remaining tracks on disc 2). From pf-roio.de: 'This information is taken from Ian and Glenn's wonderful book, In the Flesh. Everyone must own a copy! 21nov70 - Montreux AD, FOS, Cym, AHM, TE, GitC/CWTAE, StCftHotS, ASOS encore: IO 22nov70 - Montreux AD, FOS, Cym, AHM, TE, GitC/CWTAE, StCftHotS, ASOS encore: Just Another 12 Bar, Blues 'Both Montreux shows were recorded and EMI pressed white label acetates which included interviews with Gilmour in French. However, it it likely that these would have been intended as promotional tools, not for commercial release. 'Just Another 12 Bar' is a title shown on the acetate and is simply an improvised blues instrumental.' The CD roio Smoking Blues is apparently from these acetates and has tracks from both performances.' From the info file: PINK FLOYD > Title: Smoking Blues > Format: 2CD > Catalog: FBR 001/002 - Funny Boot Records > Produced: 1995 > Date: November 21 (+22?), 1970 (incorrectly dated from 1969 on the inside front cover) > Place: Montreux Casino, Montreux, Switzerland > Quality: EX Soundboard Recording > Lineage: My Brand-new Silvers > EAC > WAV > FLAC > Comments: Here's a classic Pink Floyd bootleg, I saw it several times on various trackers but never from original silvers & with clear lineage. I have finaly found these silvers today at a record fair (still sealed!!!) so I share it with you folks ;-) This is a soundboard recording and well worth seeking out, but one can see why it was not officialy released: Dave has one of his trademark laughing attacks during 'Fat Old Sun'. Also, during the closing segment of 'Cymbaline' (after the footsteps sequence), there is a particularly bad and prolonged problem with the sound system, causing Dave to burst into laughter once again. Roger introduces the show with a 'good morning' and introduces 'More Blues' with remarks about it being 'too late for mind expanding music, so we'll play some music to calm down by', presaging his words years later before the concluding encore of the infamous Montreal '77 concert. There is a minor amount of tape hiss, and a somewhat more annoying distortion during loud passages which prevent a EX+ rating for this CD, but then again how often does a newly uncovered Pink Floyd soundboard recording like this appear? The most important thing is Disc2, Track 3 'Just Another Twelve Bar' It's the first available recording of this blues number Here are the songs intros by Roger: - Astronomy Domine: (someone yells 'Roger!') 'Good morning, this is called Astronomy Domine' - Fat Old Son: 'This one's Dave's and it's called Fat Old Sun' - Atom Heart Mother: 'We've got a new album out at the moment and it's called Atom Heart Mother and there's a track on it called AHM, which is got brass instruments and a choir, as well as us, but we do a version without the brass and choir and we're going to do that now and then we're going to take a break' - Cymbaline: 'A song we recorded for a film called More. The song is called Cymbaline. - The Embryo: 'This song is called The Embryo' - Just Another Twelve Bar: No intro - More Blues: 'Ok, it's a bit late for mind expanding, so we're going to play music to calm down to' (song fades out before it's finished, so there are no further comments). > Band: Roger Waters David Gilmour Rick Wright Nick Mason > Tracklisting Disc 1: 1. Astronomy Domine 2. Fat Old Sun 3. Atom Heart Mother Disc 2: 1. Cymbaline 2. The Embryo 3. Just Another Twelve Bar 4. More Blues (fades out) length expanded size cdr WAVE problems filename 10:35.58 112150460 --- -- ---xx D1_Track01.flac 14:06.42 149333228 --- -- ---xx D1_Track02.flac 18:36.48 196975340 --- -- ---xx D1_Track03.flac 11:41.70 123821084 --- -- ---xx D2_Track01.flac 13:09.47 139290188 --- -- ---xx D2_Track02.flac 5:29.33 58113260 --- -- ---xx D2_Track03.flac 9:17.57 98388908 --- -- ---xx D2_Track04.flac 82:57.55 878072468 B (totals for 7 files, 0.6019 overall compression ratio) Enjoy, Share & Preserve Quality !!! Brought to You by BP [August 2006] |