page updated on: June 2007

title: -
disc/s: 2
release: Ť
date/venue:  1977 February 22 - Pavillion de Paris, Paris, France
source: audience / cass[2] - Maxell XL II High Position 90x2>playback on TEAC W-860R >SBL>CEP>wav@48KHz
tot length: 120:50
overall: EX/EX+

1 big track / raw /  unprocessed / no post-amplification:

Sheep / Pigs On The Wing Part 1 / Dogs [25:30] - cut / Pigs On The Wing Part 2 / Pigs (Three Different Ones) / Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) / Welcome to the Machine / Have A Cigar / Wish You Were Here / Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX) / Money [2:02:50]

notes:
Tape Labeled: 1977 February 20  - Sportpaleis. Antwerpen, Belguim
generation: 2nd
original 2nd gen cassette label = Maxell XL II High Position 90x2
transferred by me in June 2007 from borrowed cassette tapes with many thanks to W!:
my playback deck =
TEAC W-860R
my audio card = Sound Blaster Live
recorded into HD via Cool Edit Pro


Side A: Sheep / Pigs On The Wing Part 1 / Dogs [25:30] - cut / Pigs On The Wing Part 2 /
Side B: Pigs (Three Different Ones) / Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V) / Welcome to the Machine
Side C: Have A Cigar / Wish You Were Here / Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX) / Money
final transfer in 1 track: 122:50 minutes.

notes:
Knowing almost all the Antwerpen 77 tapes are usually mislabeled I started checking this 2nd generation copy labeled 77.2.20 with a certain skepticism honestly, but starting checking from the end (side C) on Money my hopes to find at last a genuine low generation copy of the master of Antwerpen was rising up.
Unfortunately I had to sadly state how Money coincided with the Antwerpen recording but all the rest was still from the Paris 77.2.22 one; actually Money IS from the Paris 77.2.22 recording too, which I never noticed before. So note that the Money in all the versions of the Antwerpen recording in circulation is fake!

I didn't burn this transfer on CD and I didn't split it into tracks; I'm just keeping it as reference here.
The overall sound quality is pretty nice and much sharper than the verson from the supposed masters and also than the 3rdGen I transferred before but overall not better, just sounding different with a bit of instrument definition more in parts compared to the master version which makes it still not worth editing for a final CD version to me anyway.
Also the general pitch of the tapes seems slightly slow and having not a good ear for speed-issues I didn't feel to try any general speedcorrection, there are 2 points that really needs it: 1. after the weird cut into Dogs the sound goes on sounding slower than before;
2. Pigs is strangely almost always with an incorrect speed on many recordings, this one included, it runs really slow.

joining music between the tape-sides / edits for the final version (how the final big track was put together):
- sideA has a different amplification than sideB which makes them sound slightly different one another, for this reason I didn't try to join the 2 tapesides and I left a little part of the beginning of sideB repeating the end of sideA making it fade in in the final edit;this occurs on the soundscape of Pigs.
- On the contrary I joined the end of sideB and the beginning of sideC perfectly, removing a little portion repeated, this occurs before HAC starts and it's perceptible at all.
- there's also an extraneous piece of recording at the end of Dogs which sounds like a piece of audience present in another part of the recording, just few seconds and I didn't remove it.

haha charade you are!

Waters does not reveal any number during the gig, but you can notice a bass tune instead of a number on the 3rd verse of Pigs (exactly a scale of 5 notes).

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