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Pink
Floyd
"The Devils Inside"
Palais
des Expositions, Poitiers, France
29th Nov 1972
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RELEASE NOTES:
First of all I have to thank The Greedy for giving me the
source for this remaster and making nice artwork for this
release. The source he gave me was a slight upgrade to the
previous 3rd generation version that I had before.
This show is one of the few French concerts from winter 1972,
in terms of length probably the shortest concerts ever for
Pink Floyd (if we don't consider short festival appearances).
At that point in this European Winter Tour, Pink Floyd was
near the end of a marathon touring year with 85 gigs played
to date: two UK tours, two US tours, two European tours and
even a series of concerts in Japan. Though this was the 79th
and a half time they played the Dark Side of The Moon suite
(including the aborted premiere in Brighton on January 20th)
and though most of the album was already recorded, Dark Side
was still undergoing some changes. Remember the album was
not yet released, testify the friend of the taper asking during
the set to the taper what the names of the songs were. "They're
all unreleased!"
Typical of the 1972 performances, On The Run is still a nice
guitar jam. What was previously entitled "The Mortality Sequence"
began to sound almost like the definitive Great Gig In The
Sky. That fantastic piano composition of mr. Wright was still
lacking the now famous vocals and included a more heavy sounding
chorus portion. Since the band wasn't touring with backing
vocalists or saxophonist Dick Parry, as for Great Gig in The
Sky, Money and Us & Them sound rougher than the definitive
versions. David Gilmour and Richard Wright deliver fantastic
work to fill in the vocal and sax parts with their respective
instruments. Particularly Wright seems to have fun playing
with a wah-wah pedal effect on his organ for the Money solo.
The second set is not less typical for this tour, though it
consists of older songs, familiar to the audience which sounds
a little more receptive. First comes One of These Days, then
Careful with That Axe, Eugene, one of the 5 or 6 known versions
with Roger's Pictish rant, making the tune even more scary
and mysterious before the culminating point of the climax.
I surely would have shivered if I was there. As usually, the
audience keeps asking for Echoes, Pink Floyd's masterpiece
at that time. And that's just what they get! Nothing less
than a 22 minutes long encore.
Performance-wise, it shows the band was a little tired. Here
and there you'll spot some errors, especially during Echoes.
Once Nick changes pattern a few bars too early, another time
it's Dave who sounds a bit lost in his solo. Dark Side also
sounds a bit too mechanical at times. Still we can't call
this a weak show, but just not one of the most memorable.
Though the audience behaves most of the time, they are a little
bit more noisy than usual. Nothing compared to the typical
American crowd, but all that whistling between songs becomes
a little annoying towards the end.
Another source of noise are the taper and his friends. Not
enough of the many interferences dued to the equipment, you'll
easily notice they are drinking wine from the bottle throughout
the show. One of the guys in particular is very jovial "Il
y a encore du rouge?" (Is there some red wine left?) ; "Assis
bande de cons!" (Sit down bunch of morons) etc.
Overall, we would rate this show a 7/10 for the performance
and again 7/10 for the sound (mind that the source was barely
5/10!). Not an essential, but very enjoyable!
REMASTERING
NOTES:
Everything has been done with Adobe Audition 1.5.
The whole show has been speed-corrected, it ran too fast,
off by about 105%. I used both the cash register sound effect
from Money and the clocks from Time taken from the official
release of Dark Side of The Moon as reference point. Indeed,
it's just the same backing tape they used live :-)
About a hundred little crackling sounds of less than 0.1s
have been carefully removed throughout the whole show, either
on both channels or just one. I spent about 12 hours (for
a 95min recording!) removing them one by one, but of course
I might have overlooked a few even after a 5th listen. Some
were not to be completely removed but I have at least reduced
them a lot.
Some drops in the right channel have been corrected by mirroring
the left channel instead. Since the right channel seemed to
be a tad weaker than the left one, I mirrored the left channel
at 90% volume.
There was a huge drop+crackle in the intro of Money, I deleted
that bar and merged the previous and the next one nicely.
A big "firecracker" sound occured in the intro of U&T, exactly
the same type of sound as on the roio "cracked crackers".
I managed to reduce this noise to a minimum, what is left
is a light crackle.
It seems the tape is a little bit damaged during the first
verse of U&T, causing some mini-warbles and speed fluctuation
- nothing to do about that.
A few channel micro-drops but especially a long 7s drop of
the right channel during Any Colour You Like have also been
corrected by mirroring the left channel. This one correction,
because of it's length, might be more audible than others,
because the panning clearly changes.
There was also a cut with loss of music during ACYL (I guess
from tape flipping). I have tried to smoothen this cut with
a progressive fade out and in.
Again in the intro of Brain Damage the tape source dropped
causing a loss of 2 bars. I managed to merge the last bar
before the drop with the first bar after the drop, and I hope
quite smoothly. What you'll hear is Brain Damage with a very
short intro that is missing a few bars and therefore the lyrics
are beginning early.
The taper stopped recording during intermissions, that's why
I had a 'natural' gap between the Dark Side suite and OOTD.
Since we don't lose anything in the continuity I decided to
put OOTD on the second disc while it is actually part of the
first set, so the discs timing are more or less equal.
There is no audible gap between Careful and Echoes, but clearly
part of the intermission was cut (on the master). I did nothing
to correct the merge between those songs, I found that cut
not too annoying and hardly noticeable. That's the point I
chose for track split. However, part of the audience noise
and Roger's announcement of Echoes were repeated. This is
because on my source CD transfer Echoes was put as only track
on disc 2 and it began with the end of disc 1. Of course I
deleted this repeated segment and merged it nicely to the
previous portion.
There was constant hiss present, prominently on the left channel,
causing a very disturbing unbalanced effect. I applied very
slight curved hiss reduction with a peak of -5dB around the
16KHz range for the left channel and -4dB for the right channel,
that was a little weaker and less hissy. No worries, I do
hate the usual quickly and unintelligently applied Noise Reduction
too. I did not use simple NR but rather a process of reducing
the volume of some frequenties. Hence the depth and the sound
quality of the master are reserved. Just listen to Nick's
cymbals at the very end of GGITS during the piano outro or
during the quieter parts of the Travel Sequence (On The Run
jam) and you'll hear by yourself there's no swooshy cymbal
or any other artifact generated by this process.
Finally the last 'remastering' process I applied is making
the stereo field a tad wider for a more enjoyable listen with
headphones. I did it by mixing the new channels by 100% of
the channel + -40% of the opposite channel. This had also
as an effect to reduce the overall volume a bit, which was
very loud anyway and proach to clipping.
Enjoy!
Furry Animal zoulouy@hotmail.com and The Greedy
Released in October 2005
Track
Details:
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Disc
1: [47:22]
01. Speak To Me [2:10]
02. Breathe [2:52]
03. The Travel Sequence [6:31]
04. Time [5:10]
05. Breathe (reprise) [1:03]
06. The Great Gig In The Sky [4:19]
07. Money [5:49]
08. Us & Them [7:25]
09. Any Colour You Like [6:38]
10. Brain Damage [3:41]
11. Eclipse [1:38]
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Disc
2: [46:30]
01. Tuning Up [2:31]
02. One of These Days [8:24]
03. Careful with That Axe, Eugene [12:34]
04. Echoes [23:00]
Total Time: [93:52]
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Lineage:
Cass[M or 1] > CDR > WAV > SHN > WAV > remastering > FLAC
(sector boundaries aligned, level 8)
Software: mkwACT 0.97 beta 1 - Adobe Audition 1.5 -
CDwave 1.71 - Flac
Source: analog audience recording, equipment unknown
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