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notes:
Tape Labeled: 1980 August 09 - Earls Court Exhibition Hall,
London, England
generation: ? - recorder: 1 / ? Gen cassette label = TDK SA-60x2
transferred by me in May 2005 from borrowed cassette tapes:
my playback deck = Philips (FCD485)
my audio card = Sound Blaster Live
recorded into HD via CEP
cass[?] - TDK SA-60x2 > playback deck Philips (FCD485) > SoundBlasterLive > CEP
> wav@48KHz
sideA: ITF? ... Mother
sideB: GBS .... GCW
sideC: Hey You ... ITF (beginning)
sideD: ITF (from the beginning) > The Trial + OTW (fake from different
date)
approx. tot length of sode ABC = 120minutes (runs slow)
notes:
From the circulated audience source of the gig, this tape is a nice little
upgrade to my previous
CD version
of
this
recorder.
The recording is still pretty poor if compared to other amazing sources
available for this tour, but this at least is a decent version of this recorder.
The sound quality is really better then the other version circulated, with no
bass rumbling and an overall more distinct stereo definition and vocal/music
clearness, although there is pretty marked hiss and some volume fluctuations
(actually drops on channels) etc...
The tapes used to run very slow, I had to speed them
up of a 10% and maybe the speed isn't right yet, my other
version sounds faster indeed, but a bit too fast to me; I chose the speed I
though was the most decent one.
About the contents:
First of all there's an integral intro, longer than on
the
commonly
circulated version (there
it was edited a bit). The other edits (reported below) are here like they also
were in
the
commonly
circulated
version, but here I left them evident, in the other version
they were "fixed"..
I
prefer
not
to fix points that are clearly "cuts":
- There's a little cut between Mother and GBS due to change of tape side, only
little intermissions are missing, I've left the cut noticeable. Same between
another couple of songs, like between CN and TSMGO (very evident cut)
- Joined 2 different cuts into OOMT:
1. the first occurred without any particular reason, after "And I can feel one
of my turns coming on. I" > stop/silence > "feel cold as razor blade..."; I just
removed the stop/silence and turned out joined perfectly without anything
noticeable or anything missing.
2. the second one occurs after "Would you like something to eat?" > stop >
reprised on "learn to fly?. Would you like to see me try? ...."; missing
essentially "Would you like to (learn to fly)" ... I left the cut untouched and
well noticeable.
- Joined side C & D at the best I could, the 2 tapesides sound differently,
being side D slightly more hissy. So I found the exact point to join the
beginning of ITF but the point turned out noticeable because of this difference
of SQ, it's at min 0:15 inside the ITF track.
ITF has other cuts too:
1. right after the announcer a little piece is missing (cut left untouched)
2. after Water's sings: "...and another with spots. If I had my way" > there's a
cut, it's missing "I'd have all of you shot"> ... the song is reprised soon
after that.
3. I removed some seconds repeated soon after ITF, before the Waters' intro to
RLH. (point of junction is not noticeable on the cds)
Last but not least: OTW is here not genuine from this date, it wasn't genuine in
the
commonly
circulated
version too (same fake song) so I assume there's no tape with the
genuine encore in circulation, or it was even not taped at all by this taper...
I didn't include the Fake song in my CDs, making the recording stop at the end
of The Trial, before the patch starts.
before RLH Waters says "Do you still like the pig? He's an old pig, but he's
still a big pig. This next tune is for all the paranoids in the audience. It's
called 'Run Like Hell,' 'Run Like Hell!' It's called 'Run Like Hell!" |
