Pink Floyd - Gothenburg, Sweden (raw files) (rolly69) (16-48)
 
Album info
 
Recording Date  : 11-11-1970
     
Length  : 94:45
Format  : FLAC
Track List
 
01 Astronomy Domine 08:37
02 Fat Old Sun 12:51
03 Cymbaline 12:22
04 Atom Heart Mother 19:56
05 Embryo (fade out) 10:34
06 Green Is the Colour (incomplete) 00:52
07 Careful With That Axe, Eugene 10:16
08 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 13:28
09 A Saucerful Of Secrets (incomplete) 05:49

Notes
From the info file:

Pink Floyd
Göteborg, Konserthuset, Sweden
11 November 1970

01 Astronomy Domine
02 Fat Old Sun
03 Cymbaline
04 Atom Heart Mother
05 Embryo (fade out)
06 Green Is the Colour (incomplete)
07 Careful With That Axe, Eugene
08 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
09 A Saucerful Of Secrets (incomplete)

Total running time: 1 hour 34 mins 44 secs

Lineage: C-90 Cassette(0) > Reel to Reel tape (0) > DAT(0)(48kHz) > wav (16bit/48kHz) > flac (16bit/48kHz)

Playback Deck: Reel to Reel Tape - Revox A77 4-Track (azimuth adjusted) / DAT Tape - Fostex D-5 (even recording)

This is the raw files, no processing was applied, nothing's changed.

The Reel to Reel tape was transferred to DAT June 1995

The DAT tape was transferred to wav April 2016



The story behind the recording:
The story begins in a record store in Gothenburg 1994.
I was familiar with the owner of the record store and he knew that I was an avid collector of Pink Floyd. One day when I came to the store the owner had talked to a customer who told that he had seen Pink Floyd in Gothenburg in 1970 and his friend had recorded the concert on cassette tape. Of course, he asked about the cassette tape was still there! But the customer had no contact with his friend anymore but had shortly after the concert made its own copy to open reel and the open reel he thought maybe was left somewhere in a box that was in the attic of his parents' summer home.
The customer promised to look for it so that I could borrow it.
Time passed and after almost a year, I had given up hope, then finally the customer finds the open reel and I could borrow it.
It was a tremendous filing to borrow and listen to this recording.
At that time I worked in a sound studio which was equipped in professionally equipment. As the open reel is transferred to a proffisionellt way.




Notes from the customer at the record store (1995):
The recording was made by my friend from the 10th row on a so called reporter's tape recorder (cassette used for interviews ect). I sat on 28th row and experinced my first real consert. Later I transferred the casette to open reel. My friend only had a C-90 tape with him and noticed that the time went, especially in the very long instrumental tunings between each song. He made a few adjustments in a few places (fade out, fade in). A Saucerful Of Secrets was interrupted when the casetten runs out, unfortunately. Astronomy domain is halfway recorded too high before it is discovered that it is too loud. When it comes to high volum the konsert is still unbeatable. The song with the footsteps going / running (Cymbaline or Embryo, I do not remember) was the concert Hall completely black during this time and the steps ran around the speakers around the 360 degrees, already then an odd event that causes laughs heard on the recording.




Newspaper Review from 'GT' the day after the concert, translated to English (Sorry for my bad English):
Some evil forebodings was there on the way to the concert hall last night. Pink Floyd makes great music on their recordings. But often groups of their caliber more or less fall apart musically on stage. But it did not do so in this case, rather the opposite. If most groups produce good music Pink Floyd makes enormous music. It is music of dimensions that are difficult to explain. The difference between them and most other is like the difference between black and white film in the usual format and color film in Cinemas Cope.
Within the so-called classical music are you currently almost desperate search for new forms of expression. They are experimenting with electronic sounds and new instruments and tools. So far it has not accomplished any sense. It would have been useful for these 'seekers' to sit in the concert hall yesterday along with the rest of us is to say the 1,300 who got site.
Pink Floyd is child of its time. We are living in the space age, we have advanced electronic technology of good and evil. Yesterday Pink Floyd showed on the good opportunities. In addition to conventional instruments they used echo machines, startling sound distribution system, delay machines and tone generators. It never got any feeling that the technology had to take over, but it was ruled to full of the 4 musicians.
I just want to mention one track by all the group had time for during the approximately three-hour concert (!).
'A Saucerful Of Secrets' consists of two parts. One where you totally blow your head off a cacophony of sound that torture was followed eventually by a clear Bach inspired second part that slowly relentlessly built up a completely fantastic final. If Bach had been there yesterday, he had rejoiced !! I do not care to describe something more. Let me just say that the evening was an experience of tremendous size. One more minute and you had been carried home!

rolly69
April 2016


Uploaded for the first time ever. Torrented at Yeeshkul tracker April 2016