Tuesday, April 12, 2011

PF - 1973-06-28 - Dark Age

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  1. 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.

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