Creating the definitive Collection of Pink Floyd's Zabriskie Point Material always meant to me to add the 3 known live performances from Jan/Feb 1970. As most of us know, the quality of most of these recordings is extremely brutal. Although I think that these recordings from Fairfield Hall, Croydon 1970-01-18 Theatre de Champs-Elysees a Paris, 1970-01-23 and Town Hall, Birmingham, 1970-02-11 never sounded better, they are still an addition for the sake of completeness. What we have here are live performances of Heart Beat, Pig Meat, The Violent Sequence, Variations of Oenone, Moonhead and fragments of Rain in the Country, now rearranged in the Floyd's then brand new work-in-progress The Amazing Pudding, which during the following year's road work became the title track of their 1970 studio effort Atom Heart Mother.
The Remaster: The tracks were all -one more, one less- denoised. Nowadays Noise Reduction is possible with almost no to no NR artifacts at all, which these recordings clearly benefit from. Static Hum was removed on all tracks. The Croydon and Birmingham recordings have almost no high-end. By means of harmonic synthesis a kind of artificial high-end was added. This might sound a little „robotic“ at times, but it makes the songs far more listenable. But in the end you can't change shit into marmelade... Paris is a bit better. Sourced from the 1995 FM rebroadcast it is the most enjoyable portion of this collection. This is why I added TAP from this date instead of the 2 others, which have that track available aswell. Only the beginning of TVS had to be patch with the AM broadcast.
In the end one can only say that it is a shame that no better recordings of these dates exist as they absolutely were the climax of early Pink Floyd's most creative period. Let's close and pray for a soundboard to surface one day while diving down into some of the most mystic moments of Pink Floyd on stage...
Slightly unrelated. I noticed that quite a few of your older links - using Rapidshare - have all gone down. Will you be replacing them at some point? Thanks! Great, great site. :)
As I have been uploading shows in alphabetical order (by band name) - and seeing as how we're in the middle of "Yes", I'm sure it's not lost on anyone that we're nearing the end.
What comes after the Yes-related material is complete? No idea. But, I did think about plowing back through a bunch of Floyd material.
I'm so tickled that you used an appropriate MST3K reference that I'll not only post all of the Harvested audio but also all of the Free Range Pigs audio.
Awsome! It's always great to hear from a fellow MSTie, especally one who is also a prog-rock fan. Thanks again for making so may rare treasures available for free. Listening to your boots on headphones really helps me get through the work day. -Christian
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Creating the definitive Collection of Pink Floyd's Zabriskie Point Material always meant to me to add the 3 known live performances from Jan/Feb 1970.
As most of us know, the quality of most of these recordings is extremely brutal.
Although I think that these recordings from
Fairfield Hall, Croydon 1970-01-18
Theatre de Champs-Elysees a Paris, 1970-01-23 and
Town Hall, Birmingham, 1970-02-11
never sounded better, they are still an addition for the sake of completeness.
What we have here are live performances of
Heart Beat, Pig Meat, The Violent Sequence, Variations of Oenone, Moonhead and fragments of Rain in the Country, now rearranged in the Floyd's then brand new work-in-progress The Amazing Pudding, which during the following year's road work became the title track of their 1970 studio effort Atom Heart Mother.
The Remaster:
The tracks were all -one more, one less- denoised. Nowadays Noise Reduction is possible with almost no to no NR artifacts at all, which these recordings clearly benefit from.
Static Hum was removed on all tracks.
The Croydon and Birmingham recordings have almost no high-end. By means of harmonic synthesis a kind of artificial high-end was added. This might sound a little „robotic“ at times, but it makes the songs far more listenable.
But in the end you can't change shit into marmelade...
Paris is a bit better. Sourced from the 1995 FM rebroadcast it is the most enjoyable portion of this collection. This is why I added TAP from this date instead of the 2 others, which have that track available aswell.
Only the beginning of TVS had to be patch with the AM broadcast.
In the end one can only say that it is a shame that no better recordings of these dates exist as they absolutely were the climax of early Pink Floyd's most creative period.
Let's close and pray for a soundboard to surface one day while diving down into some of the most mystic moments of Pink Floyd on stage...
Tracklist:
Croydon, 1970-01-18
01 Heart Beat Pig Meat
02 The Violent Sequence
Paris, 1970-01-23
03 The Violent Sequence
04 The Amazing Pudding
Birmingham, 1970-02-11
05 Heart Beat Pig Meat
06 Oenone
07 Moonhead
08 The Violent Sequence
Hey Forrester.
Slightly unrelated. I noticed that quite a few of your older links - using Rapidshare - have all gone down. Will you be replacing them at some point? Thanks! Great, great site. :)
As I have been uploading shows in alphabetical order (by band name) - and seeing as how we're in the middle of "Yes", I'm sure it's not lost on anyone that we're nearing the end.
What comes after the Yes-related material is complete? No idea. But, I did think about plowing back through a bunch of Floyd material.
Haven't decided yet.
And Kate Bush, too??? You know to celebrate her new album ....
Insert Big smilie here
and a bigger thank you for all that you have given us.
Hey, Dr. F,
I'd love it if you reposted some of the Harvested material that has been taken down.
Of course, I deeply appreciate anything you do.
...push the button, Frank...
-Christain
I'm so tickled that you used an appropriate MST3K reference that I'll not only post all of the Harvested audio but also all of the Free Range Pigs audio.
Just need to finish up with Yes first.
Awsome! It's always great to hear from a fellow MSTie, especally one who is also a prog-rock fan. Thanks again for making so may rare treasures available for free. Listening to your boots on headphones really helps me get through the work day.
-Christian
Great, Doctor, looking forward to getting those Free Range Pigs dics.
Regards
Thomas
I can't quote MST3K off the top of my head BUT I would surely appreciated reposting of the few Harvest stuff I've yet to track down.
Love the site. Even though I stubbed my toe stumbling in !!!
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