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ROIO of the Week [Recordings
of Indeterminate Origin]
Pink
Floyd - Hamburg 1971
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offended.
Pink Floyd
M-502
[Digital Floyd Archives, 2CD]
Live
at Grosser Saal, Musikhalle, Hamburg, Germany, February 25, 1971. Excellent
audience recording.
Spacey, cinematic
and atmospheric even. As anyone who has followed Pink Floyd knows, they
were not always the melodic hit makers as they are remembered in their
"later" years. Take their 1971 album, Meddle, for instance. The Rolling
Stone Record Guide (1979 Edition) says "here the band has at last achieved
a stylistic union of its aimless experimentalism and bland ballads."
But by 1968's A Saucerful
Of Secrets, the band was said to have crossed over from psychedelic rock
to progressive rock. As evidenced on this 1971 show, there was still a
very strong experimental edge to their songs, with stretches that drone
and tax the listener. To the audience's credit, they lapped it all up.
While none of the
songs on Meddle were performed (perhaps it was still early days), most
of the tracks played are seen as Pink Floyd classics today.
Considered by some
as the holy grail of Pink Floyd recordings of indeterminate origin, this
is what qualityboots.blogspot.com said of M-502: "M-502 is the matrix
number of the original 2-LP vinyl set that was made in Europe sometime
in the (late?) '70s. Although there are many different versions of this
show, all of them are sourced from a M-502 vinyl copy. Some sound better
than others, none of them sound anything like this. This 2-CDR set comes
from a mint condition original LP, and has been beautifully remastered
by the Digital Floyd Archives. Not only is this one of the best sounding
recordings (especially of this era), this is one of the best vinyl remastering
jobs I have ever heard."
But an April 9, 2008
update on this recording, provided by Billywiz, reveals the reason for
this release's excellent sound - it was mastered by Mobile Fidelity Sound
Labs.
This is what Billywiz
says:
"Some interesting
facts for you about this release. I personally had something to do with
the original American vinyl release of this show (as 2 LPs: Take Linda
Surfin' and The Miracle Muffler). This show was originally released in
Germany, and the CD cover art that comes with this torrent is copied from
the original German release, which had a fold-out double-LP cover. It
was pressed with high quality vinyl, and was an excellent product all
around.
"At the time a group
of us were heavy bootleg collectors in Los Angeles. We met a distributor
who often imported European bootlegs. He said he had some original metal
stampers for an unknown Pink Floyd bootleg which he offered to sell us.
He was evasive about where he'd gotten them. He had no idea which Pink
Floyd show it was, only that it was Pink Floyd. As a diehard Floyd fan,
I bought them.
"The stampers were
very heavy-duty. Whereas American-made stampers were fairly thin and could
be bent in your hands, these German ones were solid stainless steel and
weighed several pounds each.
"Then we (I won't
disclose who the other people were) found a pressing plant in LA, Mobile
Fidelity Sound Labs, which specialized in, among other things, making
reference copies of LPs (i.e. the very highest quality pressings). They
were not a known bootleg maker, which was one reason we chose them. Had
we gone to pressing plants in west LA which were known for making bootlegs,
it was likely our stampers would have been stolen or "broken" by the established
bootleggers. This had happened to a friend of ours.
"We decided to go
all out and make the highest quality pressing, to distinguish our product
from the lower-quality vinyl on the market (all that colored vinyl stuff
looked nice, but didn't stand up to wear). We paid a premium to use the
highest quality vinyl that was used for reference discs. We told the pressing
plant that it was our band. They were suspicious, and asked us what kind
of music it was. We fudged it and made up some stories. Remember, we didn't
even know which concert this was, whether it was AHM or something earlier.
"When we showed up
to pick up the discs, the managers took us aside in another room and said
"Are you telling the truth that this is your band?" We confirmed that
it was. Luckily these guys were obviously not into trippy psyched-out
English bands, because they told us they'd all listened to the records
to determine whether we were making bootlegs. None of them recognized
the music! So we got away with it. This was around 1972. 'Meddle' had
recently come out, so it was pre-Dark Side and thus Pink Floyd was still
somewhat lesser-known in America.
"Of course I figured
out the setlists, but we still didn't know the actual source of the show.
We hadn't put 2 and 2 together regarding the German bootleg. When we asked
the guy who'd sold us the stampers, he said he thought the show was from
London. So that's what we put on the covers. A graphic artist friend of
ours designed the covers. It was another bootlegger who pointed out to
us a couple years later about our mistake. When we compared the matrix
numbers, we knew he was right.
"We later sold the
stampers to another large-scale bootlegger. Wish I'd kept them as souvenirs.
It's no wonder that the later CD remasters of these shows have no surface
noise. The European pressings were good quality vinyl, while ours were
the best quality available anywhere. Even after dozens of playings, it
was rare to hear a pop on our versions.
"As an aside, we
put huge effort through our connections throughout the bootleg community
around the world to find the maker of the German original, mainly because
we wanted to find out if he had any other tapes. We couldn't trace him.
As far as I know, no one has ever discovered the original source tapes
of this show."
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,
this recording has never been officially released.
These tracks
are no longer available for download. Kindly email us at mybigo@bigozine.com
if you want to download these tracks at a later time.
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Disc
I
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| Track
101 |
Green Is The
Color (5.2MB)
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| Track
102 |
Careful
With That Axe, Eugene (14.7MB) |
| Track
103 |
Cymbaline
(15.1MB)
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| Track
104 |
The Embryo (14.6MB)
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| Track
105 |
Set
The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
part a (9.0MB)
part b (9.3MB)
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Disc
II
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| Track
201 |
A
Saucerful Of Secrets
part a (14.6MB)
part b (10.7MB) |
| Track
202 |
Atom
Heart Mother
part a (9.0MB)
part b (6.5MB)
part c (8.7MB)
part d (3.6MB)
part e (10.8MB) |
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20, 2008
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