page updated on: June 5 2003

title: DARK SOUNDBOARD OF PHILADELPHIA
disc/s:  1
release: HL 491 - HIGHLAND
date/venue: 1974 November 16 - Empire Pool, Wembley, London, England, UK (WNEW broadcast)
source: SBD radio / cass[?]>original silver CD>cdr[0]
tot length: 51:16
overall: VG+

tracklist:
01. Speak to Me [1:01]
02. Breathe [3:00]
03. On the Run [4:56]
04. Time + Breathe (reprise) [6:32]
05. The Great Gig In The Sky [6.39]
06. radio announcer + Money [8:03]
07. Us & Them [7:59]
08. Any Colour You Like [7:27]
09. Brain Damage [3:42]
10. Eclipse + radio announcer [1:48]

notes:

the DSoP RoIO cover shows a clear "'Live at Spectrum Theater, Philadelphia, 15-03-73 - special thanks WNEW Radio, Peley - pounder and LSD-25"; it's indeed a NY radio broadcast of a Dark Side performance, but it's the 1974 Wembley, London and not the 1973 Spectrum, Philadelphia show.
Usually HL releases are worse in quality compared with other RoIOs from the same date and this is not an exception.
The source is high (tape noise and various ‘disturbances’ included) but the sound is not so bad after all, it’s poor just if put side by side with the other superb BBC radio sourced releases.
If you’d just like to get 2 different versions of this show I can't advise you against this Highland RoIO, but if you’re looking for this show for the first time, and you’d like the best quality available, this is not for you really.
Of course the WNEW radio station got from the BBC the edited STM (no "F***ing Years" line)
NB: ALL THE ROIOS CLAIMED TO COME FROM PHILLY 73 ARE ACTUALLY FROM THIS DATE

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