Tuesday, April 5, 2011

PF - 1972-02-20 - The Best of Tour '72


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Dr. Forrester said...

Pink Floyd - The Best of Tour 72 Completed and Restored -

Live at the Rainbow Theatre, Finsbury Park, London UK, 1972-02-20

Set List (in brackets the position on the original first issue LP, side a, side b)

01 (a). Heart Beat Intro (complete) 2:51
02 (a). Breathe 2:46
03 (a). The Travel Sequence 6:08
04 (a). Time (complete) 6:51
05 (a). Home Again 1:02
06 (a). The Mortality Sequence 4:23
07 (b). Money 7:45
08 (b). Us and Them (complete) 6:51
09 (b). Dave's Scat Section 4:36
10 (b). The Lunatic Song 3:51
11 (b). Eclipsed (complete) 2:58

We made this operation more than one year ago with the release of "In Rainbow Light".
This release goes even further and upgrades, restores and completes the content of the original LP version of The Best of Tour 72 only, primarily for those older collectors who have had it for many years.
A sort of emotional commemoration of another famous and time honored bootleg LP.

The first edition was released on black vinyl in 1972 in Europe by the Tour 72 label.
Pink Floyd were excited to be able to develop new material on the road but were horrified to learn of a bootleg album that was released containing a complete performance of the piece recorded in February of 1972 at the Rainbow Theatre.
The bootleg was issued a mere six weeks after the concert, about a full year prior to an official release.
Professionally packaged, the unit reportedly sold in excess of 100,000 copies, many thinking it was the real thing.
Trivia note: around this same time the Omayyad LP was released in USA.

The Best of Tour 72 had large success and was reissued and re-bootlegged many, many times due to the stunning sound quality and the full presence of unissued songs.
Four songs were shorted: Heart Beat Intro, Time, Us and Them and Eclipsed.
We don't know why. May be the reason was the tape length or some problems on it or the capability of the LP to support the whole suite.
Here you can AT LAST listen to the whole Dark Side suite in the best Sound Quality ever, without having to be "traumatized" as we were for more than 30 years by the cuts.

The Rainbow Theatre was booked for three shows for press introduction to Dark Side of the Moon but soon a fourth show was set due to the big response.
This extra show was to be played on Sunday 20th February 1972 at 8:00 p.m.
For the first time the title Dark Side of the Moon was used.
In "The Free Program of Rainbow Theatre, n.13" we can read: "The Dark Side of the Moon - A Piece for Assorted Lunatics"
A month before they were in this theatre to rehearse for three days, to try the new suite together with the new mixer, the new quadrophonic system and the new light show.
The suite was performed ten times around England before the Rainbow' nights.
It already changed a little from first couple of nights in Brighton and Portsmouth.
Eclipsed was added. More changes would occur before the end of the year.
A generation and more of fans thought this album was recorded on the 17th of February, but many years later we all learned that it was the 20th, the fourth Rainbow show.

April 5, 2011 at 10:14 AM

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