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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
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Pink
Floyd
Best Of
Tour '72: RESTORED VERSION [No label 1CD]
Live at Rainbow Theatre, London, UK, Feb 20, 1972. Remastered From
Original 1st LP Pressing.
I recall in the late
'80s when CD bootlegs were just coming out that I had passed on this Pink
Floyd title. Best Of Tour '72 didn't sound terribly inviting to someone
living in Southeast Asia. It was only in 1998 that I learnt more about
this show. It was recorded during a four-night stand at the Rainbow Theatre
in London from Feb 17 to 20. Roger Waters had finally decided that the
next album would not be called Eclipse: A Piece For Assorted Lunatics.
Instead the programme for the Rainbow Concerts was printed as Dark Side
Of The Moon. These concerts were the first public performances of the
legendary album. And the quality was said to be fantastic.
"Happily, they
[Pink Floyd] felt able to pronounce the shows 'terrific'. The ordinarily
stolid Financial Times went further, proclaiming that 'the Floyd have
the furthest frontiers of pop music to themselves'. However, their [Pink
Floyd] joy was alloyed, in part, when they discovered that a quality bootleg
of Dark Side Of The Moon at the Rainbow had hit the racks at all bad record
shops. It went on to sell an estimated 120,000 and deterred Pink Floyd
from ever developing unreleased material in concert again."
- As reported in
Mojo, March 1998 "25 Years On, The True Story Of Dark Side Of The Moon".
The search began
for copies of this legendary show but the CD-Rs I obtained were unspectacular
and sounded muddy and there I let it rest.
A week or so ago,
this show made its way to a bitTorrent site, finally remastered by Prof
Stoned from one of the original vinyl bootlegs that sold 120,000 copies
34 years ago. It is obvious from hindsight that the bootlegs did not eat
into Dark Side Of The Moon's potential sales.
To date, Pink
Floyd and EMI, their record company, have sold in excess of 40 million
copies of Dark Side Of The Moon. If anything, the high quality recording
of this live concert at The Rainbow, whetted appetites of hardcore followers
and spread by word of mouth that the new album was a true rock innovation.
When Dark Side Of
The Moon was finally released early in 1973, the dam burst. On March 31,
Pink Floyd was Number 1 on the US Album Charts. Money was a Top 20 single,
Andy Warhol and celebrities came to see the band play Radio City Music
Hall in New York and their show at London's Earl Court in May 1973 was
packed with 20,000 fans.
Amazingly, the only
high quality audio artifact from this period is Best Of Tour '72. This
was a show where Pink Floyd had yet to finalise the arrangements for Dark
Side Of The Moon. Included in this performance is a lengthy interlude
[Travel Sequence which later became On The Run] preceding Time and another
sound effects tape just before Money that has since been called "Religious
Theme" with someone reciting The Lord's Prayer while a minister is administering
the last rites in the background.
This early version
of Dark Side was without the impressive sax solo from Dick Parry on Money
nor was the idea hatched to include Clare Torry's orgasmic wails preceding
Money that was The Great Gig In The Sky.
Another highlight
is David Gilmour's soloing, more rock than controlled passion, fiery than
melodic on Money. It would be toned down substantially and streamlined
on the finished album.
While the taper has
never been outed, one can make an educated guess that he used high quality
stereo mics with a quarter-inch reel-to-reel deck. He must have been strategically
located in the hall to capture this true stereo document. Again the absence
of hall echo makes this recording clear and sharp, capturing the bottom
end nicely.
When Prof Stoned
got to work on this restoration he cleaned the LP carefully for over an
hour using anti-static solutions. "Because both the sound quality of the
original recording and the mastering
of the LP are so
outstanding, I felt it would be a waste to correct anything in that aspect.
This means that no further EQ-ing or compression has been applied by me.
ObviousIy, I did not use any noise reduction; the big sin that made the
previous (and unfortunately) common CD(r) versions of this recording sound
like poop."
You now have the
opportunity to experience what 120,000 fans who bought the vinyl bootleg
of Dark Side Of The Moon felt 34 years ago. Why their anticipation did
not abate despite the long wait till March 1973 when Pink Floyd released
Dark Side Of The Moon. How music fans and their networks are now preserving
rock's history and heritage, sharing the music for free. What more can
you ask of your loyal consumers?
-
The Little Chicken 
Click
on the highlighted tracks to download the MP3s (these are high quality,
stereo MP3s - sample rate of 192 kibit/s). As far as we can ascertain,
these tracks have never been officially released.
These tracks are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at
singbigo@singnet.com.sg if
you want to download these tracks at a later time.
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| Track
01 |
Speak
to me (cuts in, only last 8 secs left) (192k) |
| Track
02 |
Breathe
(3.8MB) |
| Track
03 |
Travel
Sequence
[later became On The Run] (8.4MB) |
| Track
04 |
Time
(cut within) (8.9MB)
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| Track
05 |
Home
again
[Breathe reprise] (1.4MB) |
| Track
06 |
Religious
Theme
[later The Great Gig In The Sky replaced this sequence]
(6.0MB) |
| Track
07 |
Money
(10.7MB)
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| Track
08 |
Us
& Them (cut within, misses most)
(3.1MB)
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| Track
09 |
Dave's
Scat Section
[early version of Any Colour You Like]
(6.3MB)
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| Track
10 |
The
Lunatic Song
[early version of Brain Damage] (5.2MB) |
| Track
11 |
Eclipse
(cuts off) (1.7MB) |
Note: Text in red indicates what was finally released.
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here to to visit AllofMp3.com to buy the final version of Pink Floyd’s
Dark Side Of The Moon.
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