1970 November 12: Falkoner Centret

upadated June 8 2004

pix by Jørgen Angel (click on the pic to to to the website)

setlist: Astronomy Domine / Fat Old Sun / Cymbaline / Atom Heart Mother / Green Is The Colour / Careful With That Axe, Eugene / Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun / A Saucerful Of Secrets / The Embryo

2 tapers are in general circulation of this wonderful 70 gig in Copenhagen.

the most famous (common) recorder is incomplete and versions directrly from the master are circulating, previous low gen.s of this recorder were filled with the second one for the last 2 missing songs (ASOS, The Embryo); second recorder is complete but sounds worse, at least the versions circulating are far from sounding as much good as the first recorder, but it's still around the VG. Below are some of the versions I checked of the 2 recorders.

recorder 1: incomplete, missing ASOS (there's just the Waters' intro essentially) and The Embryo; versions from this recorder are: untitled master; "Falkoner Centret" RoIO (filled with recorder 2); "Falkoner Centret 1970"; "Copenhagen Sequence" (has last 2 tracks filled from another recording / different date); untitled complete CD2 (supposed entirely from the second recorder but really a mix of the 2 recorders (again)

recorder 2: complete recording, generally used to fill last 2 songs of the other recorder; versions from this recording are: untitled cass[3]>DAT (complete recorder 2); last 2 tracks of "Falkoner Centret"; last 2 tracks of the untitled complete CD2.

very easy to identify the 2 recorders, both from the sound quality and from the fact that the second taper chats really a lot!

here are 2 distinctive points anyway:

at the very beginning, as soon as Waters says "good evening" on recorder 2 the taper's friend (a lady) repeats "good evening"; at the beginning of Cymbaline the taper of recorder 2 talks a lot.

interesting collection of reviews about this gig kindly posted by Claus Rasmussen:
FRIDAY 70.11.12.- Falkoner Centret, København, Denmark (show at 20:00 and 22:30)
1st show - Songs: Astronomy Domine, Fat Old Sun, Cymbaline, Atom Heart Mother, Green Is The Colour, Carefull With That Axe Eugene, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, A Saucerful Of Secrets, Embryo Part II (Audience recording, 2 different sources)
2nd show - Songs: not known.
"Pink Floyd impressed still another time here in Falkoner Centret, 3,800 in the audience, with their cosmic sound, the four English guys dominated the technical equipment to a scary degree. Pink Floyd are distinguished exponents for the most experimenting part of the beat scene, they are the future? Hardly, but it is exiting". (BT November 13, 1970, p 30)
"I do not think that Pink Floyd is that dedicated to the trip, it seems that they directs and programs the trip, in this way they give us the opportunity to take part in this mental trip. When I see Pink Floyd on stage, I feel they miss one dimension, the body is not involved in their trip, no spontaneity. The question is does Pink Floyd want this close contact to their audience, this night at Falkoner Centret it looked like it is the audience who has the will to begin this contact." (Ekstra Bladet November 13, 1970, p 20)
"And the galaxy sang, we laughed at Cymbaline, breathless they left us for two and a half hour, with open mouths and pressed throats, if anything is a trip, it is Pink Floyd". (Politiken November 13, 1970, p 16)
"Pink Floyd's concerts is still a confrontation between planets, and the best of all is that it is a combination of modern technique and the sound of the future and still it is so beautiful and warm". (Jyllands-Posten November 15, 1970, p 2:25)

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