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David Gilmour
Heineken Music Hall, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
19th March 2006

The first of two nights at the Heinken Music Hall on the outskirts of Amsterdam, recorded from the Black Box at Row 23 Seat 1. As I was right at the far right facing the stage near to the bar (which was thankfully closed), I stood up for the entire show, to get the best sound quality. There were lots of other people stood up to the side as well.

I did have a bit of a problem with my recording of these shows, in that the sound (probably bass drum) was often too much for my microphones and caused what I would call a distortion spike, like a tiny click. Fortunately I have been able to remove these tiny clicks with Adobe Audition without any detection. Some songs had a lot more clicks than others and it has taken hours to remove all these but it was well worth doing. It was at it's worse during powerful climaxes in Take A Breath, Echoes and Comfortably Numb. Here is an example to show you what I mean from High Hopes before (358kb) and after (357kb).

Musicians performing: David Gilmour: guitar & vocals, Rick Wright; Keyboards, Guy Pratt: Bass, Phil Manzanera: Guitar, Dick Parry: Saxophone, Jon Carlin: Keyboards and Steve DiStanislao: Drums.

Where you see this speaker symbol you can listen to a sample of that track
Disc 1 [77.13]
1. Castellorizion
2. On An Island
3. The Blue
4.
Click to play sample Red Sky At Night (1154kb)
5. This Heaven
6. Then I Close My Eyes
7.
Click to play sample Smile (1016kb)
8. Tuning
9. Take A Breath
10. Band Introductions
11.
Click to play sample A Pocketful Of Stones (1032kb)
12. Minor Technical Hitch - Lost a Bit of Guitar
13. Where We Start
Intermission
14. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
15.
Click to play sample Wots Uh The Deal (1309kb)
Disc 2 [70.50]
1. Wearing The Inside Out
2.
Click to play sample Dominoes (977kb)
3. Breathe
4. Time
5. Breathe Reprise
6.
Click to play sample High Hopes (1130kb)
7.
Click to play sample Echoes (985kb)
8. Applause for Encores
Encores:
9. Wish You Where Here
10. Comfortably Numb
Lineage Details:
Master (MD) MZ-R55 with tiny mics on collar > Wav[Edit] > CDR

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