page updated on:  July 27 2003

 

title: GROOVING WITH A PICT
disc/s: 2
release: Hip Cat ?

date/venue:  1970-11-27 Neidersachsenhalle, Hannover, West Germany (most of the tapes were then relabeled as 1970 November 14 - Ernst-Merck Halle, Hamburg, Germany) *****

source: audience / Recorder 1 / cass[?]>cdr[?]
tot length: 124:33
overall: VG+
CD1
01. Astronomy Domine [9:17]
02. Fat Old Sun [11:36]
03. Cymbaline [11:30]
04. Atom Heart Mother [16:44]
05. Green Is The Colour [4:36]
06. Careful With That Axe, Eugene [11:26]
CD2
01. improvisation + Embryo  [26:44]
02. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun [12:43]
03. A Saucerful Of Secrets [19:54]

notes:

update:  this is 1970-11-27 Neidersachsenhalle, Hannover, West Germany (most of the tapes were then relabeled as 1970 November 14 - Ernst-Merck Halle, Hamburg, Germany) *****


Let's get it, you must get it, this is compulsory, wonderful show, amazing!
Waters raving a lot here and there, not only on the rare improvized performance known as Grooving With A Pict ... I just love to listen to Mr. Waters in wild spirits. The crowd is more than thrilled indeed, and you'll be too when you'll gotta listen to this piece of eccentricity ... you'll get excited for sure ...
but let's talk about the editing-work, that's probably the only thing that's not so good here.
the sound quality is very good, even though I don’t think it was mastered from a very low gen. tape, there is evident hiss and the volume is actually low.
There are also some editing inaccuracies, few creaks sometimes and some interesting pieces, as the tunings and the Waters' voice 'exercises’, were cut.
I do think it's fair to get the whole performance including tunings here really, it's a recording of Historical significance, any fragment is precious. I don't know if the Hip Cat tried just to cut the audience portions here, or if they got a tape already having these cuts, but the result is that here are missing interesting pieces of recording.
There's a sad cut also at the beginning of Fat Old Sun too, it fades-in missing some seconds of music.

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