Friday, March 12, 2010

1973-01-13 Pink Floyd - Paris Master and 1st Gen (Cochon)


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Tomi said...

Pink Floyd - A Night With Roland
Roland Petit Ballet Concerts
January 13, 1973

"Roland Petit Ballet"

Cochon Production mastered by JME

Tracks:
One Of These Days
Careful With That Axe Eugene
Obscured by Clouds
When You're In
Echoes

lineage: cass[1] > CDR(?)

Audience source of the show. Some say that the Floyd did playback, and that the music is just a playback of the album versions (this is the case of the Radio source of this date, which is indeed sourced from official material) but on the other hand THIS IS really a live performance.
. One of These Days: the middle section has the same guitar arrange as on the '72 live versions
. Obscured by Clouds: Nick is really playing drums
. When You're In: when the song is finishing, they almost make a mistake
. Careful With That Axe Eugene: is played in the way of the 1970/1/2/3 live format, so you can be sure this is live
. Echoes: it is LIVE, he, besides, drum fills are the same as Nick's live playing of this song.

One thing to mention is that the first 3 songs are played in the same format as on the album versions, but as i explained above, they're absolutely live performances.

What I don't know is if they recorded this performance earlier and then did a playback of this live performance (a la Beatles 1963 TV sessions), or that they're playing live over a playback, but i don't think that was what happened, seems too complicated, better and easy to play live isn't it? Sound is a VG, maybe a VG+ but if you're very happy that day...

Comments as they came with the files: This is the Cochon release of the Roland Petite Ballet. This is the actual performance, not the audio that was broadcast on television. Very saturated in the begining, some adjustments are made and the volume finally comes to an agreeably level. Pretty plain performances, but it could not be over the top, it would have thrown off the dancers.

103 fades in/out (note by me: this is wrong, song is ok); 104 cuts short; 105 cuts short.

This is a newly surfaced source for the January 13th 1973 show (date is confirmed). This is NOT a radio broadcast, this is recorded from the audience. It was recorded on a 30 minute mini-cassette but my copy comes from a 1st generation tape of that master cassette. Obviously, 30 minutes wasn't enough to cover the whole thing, resulting in a cut during Obscured By Clouds, CWTAE and Echoes (closing in at around 15 minutes). I don't particularly like the format, so I wouldn't really put this on my top list ... Sound is VG/VG-. It tends to get saturated as soon as it gets a bit heavy. Important note: Apparently this is a live version while the TV broadcast from "Antenne 2" is not. In fact, the TV feed was overdubbed with a studio recording. So while the actual image is probably from January 1973, the sound is not. The audience recording appears to be live! Thanks to JME for the info.
-gotta_be_crazy
last edited - 2004-07-18 : orig entered - 2004-07-18

March 12, 2010 at 9:13 AM

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