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Notes
that came with the files:
Source: audience recording / recorder 1* + recorder 2
Low gen sources > Scotch Reel > DAT(0) > WAV@48Khz > Speed & Pitch
Correction > FLAC@48Khz
The 2nd night at Montreux unearthed, though not in fantastic shape,
this is all we could find. This came to me as a mix of 2 recorders,
what i call recorder 1 sounding really nice, a nice EX (and it
sounds as being an old soundboard recording... but who knows,
for now, let's call it recorder 1) and recorder 2, which sounds
inferior but decent really.
Both recordings are incomplete, and they were kindly given to
me by Piggy, from his own Reel he got from an 'old hippy' some
years ago, which he brought to a professional studio to transfer
to DAT (which cost him $75!).
Was hard to compare to what we have from the night before, but
after an extensive comparison of the announcements before Green
is the Colour from recorder 1, and even some drum fills and patterns,
we came to the conclusion that this is indeed a genuine recording
from the 2nd night.
The story with recorder 1 is that it sounds as an old soundboard
recording, more than an audience one, besides, from some info
that Piggy gathered, it says that this recorder 1 was broadcasted
on the radio, so this 'recorder 1' could be a recording from the
radio, or it could be even from the EMI acetates, since both nights
were professionally taped for a future release, and also, this
rec1 includes an announcer, but i cant pinpoint if this announcer
is right on the stage or if it's some kind of Radio introduction.
Also, one of the recorders is said to be recorded on an AKAI recorder
with 2 mono microphones, 6m in front of the stage, but i cant
tell which one of the 2. So for now, till some info appears, we
would call this 'recorder 1'.
No processing was done to the recording, only pitch and speed
correction which was really needed (recorder 1 ran slow and recorder
2 ran fast, with the final portion of CwtAE being damaged and
running very fast, as the reel was ending, if you know what i
mean). Also, recorder 1 suffers of some channel dropping, but
we decided to leave the source as we received it. There some hiss
on recorder 1 too, but this is how we obtained it. Also, even
though this was speed corrected, some speed fluctuations still
occur. Seems this reel wasnt in the best conditions but hey, does
that matter?
The performance is nice, i like it better than the one from the
previous night, great versions of Fat Old Sun and Cymbaline.
I hope you enjoy this show as much as I did.
cheers, gbc
Disc
1 - Recorder 1 (62:50m)
1. Announcer (0:10m)
2. ASTRONOMY DOMINE (9:08m)
3. FAT OLD SUN (12:36m)
4. CYMBALINE (10:54m)
5. GREEN IS THE COLOUR (4:05m)
6. CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE, EUGENE (12:21m)
7. SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN (13:36m) |
Disc
2 - Recorder 2 (41:23m)
1. ATOM HEART MOTHER (17:10m)
2. THE EMBRYO (12:07m)
3. GREEN IS THE COLOUR (3:10m)
4. CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE, EUGENE (8:56m) |
Original
notes provided by Piggy:
The source reel was obtained from a hippie living in the swiss
alps. This reel is of an unknown generation (foggy memory!)
and a compilation of 2 recorders. According to the taper,
one of the recorders is from an AKAI recorder, 2 mono microphones,
6m in front of the stage (don't know which one). He also mentionned
that parts were also recorded from the radio :
Here's what was on the reel:
Announcer%/Astronomy Domine*/ Fat Old Sun*/ Cymbaline*/ Atom
Heart Mother+/ The Embryo (4 minutes only)+/ Green Is The
Colour*/ Careful With That Axe Eugene*/ Set The Controls For
The Heart Of The Sun*/ The Embryo (complete this time!)+/
Green Is The Colour+/ Careful With That Axe Eugene+ (end of
reel).
~2 hours total.
David Gilmour is introduced as the band leader.
*: Fantastic recorder, great instrument definition, no tune-ups
recorded. No audience interaction, nice and clear.
+: Lesser sound quality but still very listenable nonetheless.
The performance is very similar to that of the night before
and very hard to differentiate. November 1970 still stands
out as one of the best live Floyd periods.
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SHOW IDENTIFIER:
1970.11.21 - Roger's announcements before GitC:
"These next two things that we're gonna do, we're gonna do
together. First of which is another song from the film More,
it's called Green is the Colour. The second thing is an instrumental
of Ummagumma and it's called Carfeful with that Axe, Eugene.
- checked with the audience source from this night
1970.11.22 - Roger's announcements before GitC:
"We're gonna do two things together now, one is another song
of the soundtrack to the film More which is called Green is
the Colour and second thing is an instrumental off Ummagumma
and it's called Carfeful with that Axe, Eugene.
. On Fat Old Sun on the November 21st on the first 'the silver
sound from a time so strange' Nick plays an strange cymbal,
which can be heard perfectly on the Smoking Blues/Before the
Fire and the audience source of 1970-11-21, but it's not present
here, and besides the drum pattern is a bit different, more
snare drum on here. And on November 21st Gilmours laughs and
on November 22nd dont.
. As an additional note, because of the checking done to both
nights, we can assure that The Embryo on the SBD sources (Smoking
Blues/Fireman's Tapes) is indeed from November 22nd, since
we checked the annoucements and they are different.
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A VERY BIG thanks to The Hippy on the swiss alps and Piggy
(Philippe) who provided this amazing source to be shared freely
with all the Floyd community
- produced by buffalofloyd and gbc with the supervision of
Phil
- pitch, speed correction and encoding by buffalofloyd
- artwork by Philippe
- moral support by The Hot Nurse! |
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