Monday, June 27, 2011

Roger Waters - 1987-11-21 - Middlesex, London

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Dr. Forrester said...

Roger Waters
Wembley Arena, Wembley
Middlesex, England
November 21, 1987

There are four different versions of this show I've found, 1, 2, 3, &4 CD versions. The 1 CD version is an FM broadcast, the 2 CD is a consise version, the 3 CD starts at Tempted, and the 4CD is the entire thing. This is a new transfer from another copy of the tape used for the 4 CD version. The person who made the 4 CD version used too much noise reduction and the final product is pinched sounding and has little high end. After listening to it I decided that it didn't stand up to the tapes I had, so I made a new transfer. It DOES, however, fit on 3 CDs, so I didn't go for the overkill of 4. I did use noise reduction, but with more care than the previous recorder, ans I EQd it to get the most out of the high and low end. The tape is, however, quite midrange heavy and weak in the low end, so I couldn't get a lot of body or bottom out of it. There are also a few flaws, notably a tiny little blank spot in Jim's intro, and a wrinkly sound in Roger's calls from the hall for a second, but that's what you have to deal with with 20 year old cassettes sometimes. I also had to shuffle some audience noise around from different parts of the show to cover the tape flips and make the CDs run smoothly.
So now you are currently in possession of the most complete KAOS show that I know of, including a portion of the set break, with the added bonus of The Great Gig In The Sky featuring Clare Torry (this chick does not know this song very well; she never should have been awarded writer credit on it. I've heard her do it live on 5 shows [2 in 73, 2 in 87 and 1 in 90] and she's awful. Gives you an idea of what the master takes must have been like before Parsons, Gilmour and Waters edited the decent parts into a composite take). The only thing missing from my tapes was Jim playing Radioactive by The Firm, which I haad to cut in from the 4 CD version. This has noticeably different quality, but hey, go listen to the album if you want to hear it that bad (hehe).
Thanks to Quentin1840 for providing another great tape for me to work with. How big is your closet, Q?

101 Intro To Jim Ladd
102 Jim Ladd
103 Radioactive
104 Call From The Hall #1
105 Club Nowhere
106 Call From The Hall #2
107 Tempted (Paul Carrack)
108 Radio Waves
109 Welcome To The Machine
110 Who Needs Information
111 Money
112 In The Flesh
113 Have A Cigar
114 Pigs (Three Different Ones)
115 Wish You Were Here
116 Mother

201 Molly's Song
202 Me Or Him
203 The Powers That Be
204 Intermission - Jim Ladd Intro
205 Calls From The Hall #3-#6
206 Shredding Alternative
207 Going To Live In LA
208 Sunset Strip
209 The Fish Report With A Beat
210 Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
211 Southampton Dock
212 Arnold Layne
213 If
214 Every Stranger's Eyes
215 Not Now John

301 Another Brick In The Wall Part 1
302 The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
303 Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
304 Nobody Home
305 Home
306 Four Minutes
307 The Tide Is Turning
308 Band Intros - Encore Break
309 Breathe
310 The Great Gig In The Sky
311 Brain Damage
312 Eclipse

June 27, 2011 at 7:11 PM

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