Friday, May 29, 2009

PF - TPR CD 003 - The Toronto Rehearsals


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  1. PINK FLOYD - The Toronto Rehearsals
    [ This Place Records TPR CD 003 ]

    Toronto, Pearson Airport, 07Aug87

    01. tunings
    02. Echoes
    03. Signs Of Life
    04. Learning To Fly
    05. A New Machine (part 1)
    06. Terminal Frost
    07. A New Machine (part 2)
    08. Sorrow
    09. The Dogs Of War
    10. On The Turning Away
    11. One Of These Days
    12. Time
    13. Wish You Were Here
    14. Welcome To The Machine
    15. Us And Them
    16. Money
    17. Another Brick In The Wall (part 2)
    18. Comfortably Numb
    19. One Slip
    20. Run Like Hell

    Source: Mono SBD audio track from Master Betacam tapes
    except tracks 10-11-12:
    Mono camera audio track from Master Betacam tapes

    Details:

    On 07Aug87, a TV crew filmed Pink Floyd rehearsing for the
    upcoming world tour (the tour started on 09Sep87 in Ottawa),
    inside a big hangar at Pearson Airport, Toronto.
    The total length of these rushes filmed during the band's
    rehearsals is around 55 minutes.

    Two different mono audio tracks were recorded by the TV
    cameras: one directly from the soundboard, the other being
    simply the audio recorded by the cameras microphones
    (technically very similar to an audience recording).

    The present recording comes from an audio transfer from the
    master Betacam videotapes. The soundboard source was used
    as much as possible, the exceptions being On The Turning
    Away, One Of These Days and Time, for which only the
    audience track seems to have been recorded (the worst
    sound quality is during Time, when the camera was filming
    from the right side of the stage, capturing a strange mix
    of sound coming from both the main speakers and the
    musicians monitors).

    The audio was carefully mastered (levels adjustments,
    editing, slight EQ, and manual cleaning of some buzzes
    here and there). This mastering was also used for the SBD
    audio track on "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason Rehearsals"
    DVD authored by JME from Cochon Production.

    Apart from Signs Of Life, the songs are incomplete and there
    are cuts during some of them (the TV crew didn't film
    continuously). However, songs like Echoes, Learning To Fly,
    The Dogs Of War and Wish You Were Here, are very enjoyable
    because they are captured almost completely.

    And the sound quality of the soundboard tracks is just
    fantastic!

    Enjoy!

    MOB.

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