page updated on: April 7 2004

title: ELECTRIC MAGIC
disc/s: 3
release: Akashic AKA-26
date/venue: 1974 November 15 - Empire Pool, Wembley, London, England, UK
source: audience + SBD / audience recorder 2 / cass[?]>cdr[?] >EAC>WAV>archived in shn
tot length: 145:30 + bonus (54:18)
overall:  VG+

CD1
01. tuning [1:47]
02. Shine On You Crazy Diamond [12:43]
03. Shine On You Crazy Diamond [10:09]
04. tuning [3:50]
05. Raving And Drooling [14:45]
06. tuning [3:16]
07. You Gotta Be Crazy [18:10]
CD2
01. Speak To Me [4:40]
02. Breathe [2:58]
03. On The Run [5:01]
04. Time / Beathe (Reprise) [6:28]
05. The Great Gig In The Sky [7:21]
06. Money [8:42]
07. Us & Them [8:01]
08. Any Colour You Like [8:09]
09. Brain Damage [3:39]
10. Eclipse [1:58]
CD3
01. Echoes [23:44]
Wembley 1974.11.16 (SBD)
02. Speak to Me [2:13] (...I've been mad for f***ing years)
03. Breathe [3:00]
04. On the Run [5:12]
05. Time + Breathe (reprise) [6:43]
06. The Great Gig In The Sky [7:00]
07. Money [8:16]
08. Us & Them [8:14]
09. Any Colour You Like [7:48]
10. Brain Damage [3:44]
11. Eclipse [2:02]

notes:

mm this sounds more or less like the version from the 4th gen. (maybe they used that as source?)
this Akashic release was noisereduced, amplified and speedcorrected (that's why it lasts more than the 4th gen. ; there's nothing more included here that's not in the 4th gen.).
the 4th gen. sounds really crispier than this.
It can be nice if you don't have another version from this 2nd recorder of the gig (that was till now quite rare to find) but it's surely not the best version around.
the bonus tracks (Wembley November 16 1974) are from the common SBD source in a not very good condition.
they got the version with the "fu**ing years" line present but mixed differently from the original (the line is audible in the back).
NB: the spectral analysis reveals a clear lossy source, since these files are supposed to have been ripped out from an Akashic's silver copy (or 'official' copy, I dunno if silver) I guess the Japanese men released this directly from a lossy source ... make your conclusion ...

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