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Pink
Floyd
Mont de L'Enclus,
Amougies, Belgium
'Amougies
Pop & Jazz Festival'
25th Oct 1969 (Complete Audience Recording)
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The
Actuel Festival was held at Mont de I'Enclus in Amougies,
Belgium. It was going to be the first ever rock festival in
France, but the promoters couldn't get a licence, so they
tried another place in France and then finally ended up in
Belgium. Pink Floyd played a couple of songs Set the Controls
and Green is the Colour / Careful with that axe Eugene. They
also played Interstellar Overdrive, but I have not got a recording
of that yet.
In Society Pages USA #2, Zappa stated unequivocally that he
did not play onstage with Pink Floyd. Then two issues later,
they turned up a photo of the jam, showing FZ ca. 1969 onstage
with a guy who is identifiably Nick Mason and another guy
with a P-Bass whose face isn't visible but whose hunched posture
is that of Roger Waters.
Complete audience recording at last, and a genuine one! Amazing
how this surfaced after almost 40 years!
The recording is very low-fi but perfectly enjoyable, a must!
This version is sourced from a safety copy of the original
masters.
notes as they came with the files:
FESTIVAL ACTUEL, AMOUGIES (Belgium) Day Two - October 25,
1969
source: audience recording Our Amougies series continues with
probably the most anticipated performance of all - Pink Floyd's.
Of course, the version of "Interstellar Overdrive" with Frank
Zappa, long presumed lost, will now be familiar to most, but
I'm sure this complete set will be of high interest to Floyd
fans. As previously stated, the taper (JJB) didn't record
everything, but when he did, he generally recorded complete
sets. There are obvious issues with the sound quality. Firstly,
the tape recorder used was way below modern standards and
the sound is nowhere near "professional" standards. Secondly,
in order to save on batteries, the taper occasionally turned
the recorder off between songs, resulting in a few truncated
introductions. These reservations aside, however, this is
simply an unbelievable document of a legendary festival, and
so our hearfelt thanks to the taper for recording this at
the time, and for allowing me to seed it here. I did my best
to document setlists and line-ups but some information is
still missing. Please help if you can.
urich21
Track
Details:
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Disc
One:
1. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [10.53]
2. Green is the Colour [3.37]
3. Careful With That Axe Eugene [10.08]
4. Tuning Up with Zappa [2:48]
5. Interstellar Overdrive [21:03] |
Disc Two:
6. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun [13:28]
7. A Saucerful Of Secrets [18:36] |
| Recording
Lineage: audience / Master > cass > wav > flac [complete
lineage not known] |
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