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notes:
DR notes:
A pretty good audience recording from the Empire Theater, Wembley, London,
England on November 16, 1974. This is an incredible audience recording from Pink
Floyd's British Winter tour. This is the same show from which the Dark Side
suite was broadcast on the BBC. The audience recording captures the entire 130+
minute show that is missing from the 45+ BBC special. What is made even better
about this show is that we get the pre-release versions of not only the next
album with Shine on You Crazy Diamond, we also get to hear the pre-release
versions of the Animals album in the form of what would become Sheep and Dogs.
You Gotta Be Crazy even has the vocal elements from Atom Heart Mother in it. The
setlist for this show is a little bit different. Floyd starts with Shine On as
Roger introduces it as the first song of the night.
The sound is pretty darn good for the whole show, all the instruments are clear
and pretty well represented, but at times the cymbals get a little buried. The
other interesting thing about this show is the running dialog with the taper
during the song breaks. The band seems to be taking a very long time between
songs tuning and organizing, so the taper fills the void with the particulars of
what he is doing, how he is doing it, and how to trade for it. All of this is
part of a conversation with the guy sitting next to him. They don't interrupt
the songs, the taper admonishes the inquisitive fan for trying to speak during
the show. "No talking, I'm taping right now!" All in all, it really makes you
feel as if you were at the show. This production was sourced from the master
tapes, and the sound is quite clean with moderate tape hiss for the equipment
used at the time. This was a very low gen source, therefore no hiss or noise
reduction was used. If you're a big time Floyd fan, I can't recommend this show
enough. Sound quality would be VG+, and occasionally slightly better.
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