| Pink Floyd - Boston Garden (Fresh JEMS transfer) (24-96) |
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| Recorded at the Boston Garden, Boston, MA, USA. Excellent audience recording. From the info file: Pink Floyd Boston Garden Boston, MA June 18, 1975 Steve Hopkins master via JEMS 24/96 Hi-Res Raw/Speed-Corrected but Unmastered Edition Taping Gear: Sony ECM-99A > Sony TC-152SD JEMS 2012 transfer: SH master cassettes > Nakamichi CR-7A (azimuth-adjusted, Dolby B decode) > Sound Devices USBPre2 (24/96 Audacity 2.0 capture) > Peak 6.0 with iZotope Ozone > .wav (24/96) > FLAC 01 Raving And Drooling 02 You’ve Gotta Be Crazy 03 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part 1-5) 04 Have A Cigar 05 Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Part 6-9) 06 Speak To Me 07 Breathe 08 On The Run 09 Time / Breathe (Reprise) 10 The Great Gig In The Sky 11 Money 12 Us And Them 13 Any Colour You Like 14 Brain Damage 15 Eclipse 16 Echoes Again!?!? Yes again. Steve Hopkins' excellent recording of Pink Floyd at the Boston Garden has circulated for many years and appeared on a few bootlegs. It's been torrented before, too, most recently, synced with Dan Lampinski's recording from the same show (incidentally, both tapers used the exact same tape deck and slight variations of the same microphone) to create a two-source 'matrix' or composite recording of the show titled A Saucerful of Treasures. The latter work, a Herculean effort to be sure, was done by the good folks at PRRP, the Progressive Rock Remaster Project. So why torrent Hopkins' recording yet again? Well, the primary reason is that this torrent marks the first time Hopkins' master tapes were digitally transferred without a media generation in the lineage and in high resolution. There was an innocent mistake made in the info file and metadata around the PRRP release (since corrected on the DIME torrent page) that attributed the transfer lineage as: 'Master Cassettes > 2005 Digital transfer by BR > Nakamichi BX-300 > Digigram VXPocket V2 > WAV' Turns out that lineage attribution was copied and pasted from another release. The actual transfer of the Hopkins masters used for the PRRP release was done by Steve himself a few years ago and was: master cassettes > DAT > CD-R > CD-R > extracted .wav I'm not here to say any of those generations make a lick of difference, but if you're a known lineage type--and I know there are a lot of you out there--this is a purer digital transfer. The second issue has to do with pitch. When JEMS pitch tested the recording (as we do for all our analog-sourced releases) we found it ran ever so slightly fast. Steve Hopkins, independently, came to the same conclusion, and our corrected sample conformed to the adjustment he had made for his own safety copy. So this version corrects the pitch down slightly to play in tune. However, those familiar with the PRRP release will likely notice that title is pitched marginally higher. JEMS exchanged emails with the PRRP folks and we agreed that no one can declare one version 'right.' To be fair, to sync the Hopkins and Lampinski sources together, some pitch adjusting was inevitable. Given that this show seems an endless source of remasters, we thought it was only sporting that we issue a newly mastered version in 16/44.1 AND an unmastered, raw (but speed corrected) hi-res 24/96 transfer. This is the latter. Thanks yet again to Steve Hopkins for allowing JEMS to present his outstanding audience recordings in a fresh light. He also threw in scans of his ticket stub and the Boston Garden seating chart from the era. BK for JEMS |