Tuesday, April 12, 2011

PF - 1973-06-28 - Dark Age

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Dr. Forrester said...

Pink floyd
Dark Age (Siréne-236)
The Sportatorium, Hollywood, FL -
June 28th, 1973

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Disc 1: Obscured By Clouds, When You're In,
Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun,
Careful With That Axe Eugene, Echoes

Disc 2: Speak To Me, Breathe, On The Run, Time,
Breathe (reprise), The Great Gig In The Sky,
Money, Us And Them, Any Colour You Like,
Brain Damage, Eclipse, One Of These Days


from bootleg encyclopedia:

Following their legendary tour in the spring of 1973,
Pink Floyd came back for a short tour that summer.
Beginning on June 16th in New Jersey, they played
thirteen shows over two weeks and six of them have
legitimate tape sources. The June 28th show in
Hollywood, Florida is the second to last show,
followed by the June 29th show in Tampa (and released
two years ago on the Screamer label as At The Stadium
1973). Hollywood was first released on silver disc in
1995 on Not A Cloud In The Sky (SIRA 185/186) on Silver
Rarities. The master cassette was used for fan produced
ROIOs Into Little Pieces and Olympia, the latter
mislabel as June 23rd in Detroit. On the whole the
tape is very well recorded. The taper was close to
the stage and captures the dynamic of the show and
the band's unique sound system very well. Some of
the louder passages produce distortion in the upper
frequencies and there are occasional conversations
and audience disturbances scattered throughout the
performance making people standing by the recorder
to shout "sit down", similar to many 1977 tapes. There
is a cut after "When You're In" which fades into "Set The
Controls." "Careful With That Axe, Eugene", which would
routinely reach ten minutes, exists in only a four and a
half minute fragment with most of the middle missing.
"Echoes", the final number of the first set, has a small
cut at 15:01. During the second set there is tape
disturbance for forty seconds in "Great Gig In The Sky"
and a tape flip at 5:42 in "Us & Them".

This show at The Sportatorium was originally scheduled for
the amusement park Pirate's World in Dania but was switched
at the last minute. They were joined on tour by the same
female backing singers as the springtime but not with saxophonist
Dick Parry, who had prior commitments. The name of the replacement
isn't known. The "Obscured By Clouds" and "When You're In" from
the movie soundtrack is perhaps the band's greatest set opener.
The pastoral drone of the former is a perfect foil for the heavy
metal tinged latter. "When You're In" contains a dramatic guitar
solo by Gilmour. "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" is
almost ruined by the audience shouting throughout the length of
the song but it sounds like another very good version, as does
"Careful With That Axe, Eugene". It's a shame it is so fragmentary
on this tape. The audience calms down by the time the band reaches
"Echoes". This version is very tight and Wright really gets into
the seagull section. The audience reacts to the opening sound
effects in the second set with police whistles and firecrackers
before the band crashes in with "Breathe". The tape effects are
nicely recorded in "On The Run". The sax solo is kept to a minimum
in "Money" with the weight of the song falling on Gilmour's solo.
The band jam for more than eight minutes in "Any Colour You Like"
and is one of the longest recorded versions. The tape closes with
a nine-minute version of "One Of These Days" played as the encore
with shouts of enthusiasm from the audience. Dark Age is a good
document worth investigating.

Artwork, Secure EAC Log and Flac fingerprints included

excellent audience recording very much worth the download - backyardT.

April 12, 2011 at 10:03 PM

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