Pink Floyd - Brescia (LDB Special Series #390 - RLR collection)
 
Album info
 
Recording Date  : 19-06-1971
     
Length  : 120:35
Format  : FLAC
Track List
 
01 Atom Heart Mother 15:17
02 Tuning Up - Careful With That Axe Eugene 13:56
03 Tuning Up - Fat Old Sun 15:02
04 The Embryo (intro cut) 11:01
05 Return Of The Son Of Nothing 22:13
06 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 12:23
07 Tuning Up - Cymbaline 12:07
08 A Saucerful Of Secrets (incomplete) 18:36

Notes
Recorded at the Palazzo Delle Manifestazioni Artistiche, Brescia, Italy. Great audience recording.


From the info file:

LDB Special Series #390 (RLR collection)

Out of my 7,000+ shows and radio broadcasts, I have many concerts that were special for some reasons: the setlist, the
musicians, the venue or unexpected events. These are the ones I'd like to propose you. Most of these come from my
cassettes collection, so they will be released at a slower pace than my Master Series! But you won't be disappointed!
I will try to gather the most unusual things I have in my collection and, as always, your feedback and comments will be my
reward for all the work involved in this project.

DO NOT share this music on mp3, just convert it for your own use. Sharing mp3's is the right way to make me stop sharing
music here.

Finally, some notes about your truly ldb: I have been a fan of live music since I was 9 years old (that is where
I attended my very first show, a PFM/De André gig at Milano's Palalido) and my first taped show was at 11 using
a crappy portable cassette player with embedded microphone. I become more serious about taping in 1983 when I
started to record every show. In 1991 I acquired my first Sony Professional and in 2000 I moved to MiniDisc to
finally settle on R-09 in early 2008.

I have seen over 500 shows in my career. Most of them were taped but for others bad luck struck and I could not
record it: on top of my mind there's a Paul McCartney show in 1993 in Milano where I was caught by the security or
Porcupine Tree in Roma in March 1999 when the DAT machine would seem to work but listening back to the tape there
would just be a long bunch of silence. Or during a Y.Malmsteen show where I got so annoyed that I left halfway
through the show and erased the tape and finally on a PFM show in Milano in 2007 where I had to leave before the
encore because the baby-sitter had to leave early that evening. Some other times I was very close not to tape or
had to do it in extremely difficult situations: for the four Peter Gabriel shows at Earls Court in 1987 security
was checking tapers with metal detector; at the David Gilmour comeback show in London in 2001 at RFH I had the
security guy sitting next to me but I managed to tape the show without checking one single time my MiniDisc!

There was a time I was travelling anywhere in Europe to see shows, especially if there was no touring in Italy: I
remember Rush in Paris in 1992 when the trio did not even know what Italy was. I have seen shows at stadiums
(Genesis at Wembley) and in places with 30 people (Porcupine Tree in Milano in 1997); bands that would later
become huge (Pearl Jam in a free show for 150 people) and masters of jazz (Miles Davis or Sarah Vaughan). Shows
I will never forget (Pink Floyd at Versailles castle) and some I would rather forget (no comment...).

I truly believe that live music is what keeps music alive, what make us enjoying it together, what allow us to
have deep feelings and transmit it to others. Studio records are nowadays 'commodities': you can buy online as
anonymous wav files and listen in your iPod or at home. Live music will always imply an effort to buy the tix,
travel to the venue, see the show, think about it when coming back home.

PINK FLOYD
Brescia, Palazzo Delle Manifestazioni Artistiche
June 19, 1971

01.Atom Heart Mother
02.Tuning Up / Careful With That Axe Eugene
03.Tuning Up / Fat Old Sun
04.The Embryo (intro cut)
05.Return Of The Son Of Nothing
06.Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
07.Tuning Up / Cymbaline
08.A Saucerful Of Secrets (incomplete)

TT 120:34

Lineage: Unknown recording device > n generation tape > Teac Tape Deck AD-RW900 > Creative Sound Blaster Audigy > HD >
SoundForge 7.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6)

I was transferring a bunch of Floyd tapes from RLR collection and bumped into this pack of 1971 shows. RLR mentioned
to me that the italian shows (Brescia and Roma) were from low generation although he could not track which generation
exactly. So I compared this one with the 2nd generation source that is circulating and came up with these results:

- these RLR tapes come from the same source of the '2nd generation'. Cuts in between the recording are the same
- however RLR version if better soundwise and recording levels seem higher
- unfortunately this version has Saucerful missing the final couple of minutes (2 c60 tapes could not have the whole 120+ mins show)
- during Echoes there is a section not in the '2nd generation' source, approximately at 3´50'. Soundwise this come
from the same source and you can also hear people speaking italian with a northern accent, so I doubt this comes from a different
show or from the Roma show the day after

I did not want to patch the missing part of SoS with the other source to keep this one intact. You could do it for your own
enjoyment.

I will then move to the Roma tapes...let´s see what happens.

ldb