1972 May 22: Pink Circus

updated October 12 2005

setlist: Atom Heart Mother / One Of These Days / Careful With That Axe, Eugene / Echoes / A Saucerful Of Secrets

This is a date often snobbed by collectors, at least till some time ago... till a video has been discovered rising a new interest in this gig. Actually only a pretty bad recorder circulated (often processed on CDs) for some time, a different incomplete recorder surfaced later also of a not very good quality (in spite of the low generation) ..and now also the video is circulating.

these are some of the versions I checked of these recorders that are in common circulation:

recorder 1: includes all the songs known to have been performed. Not of a very good quality.

src1: The most common CD for this date is "The Amsterdam Rock Circus" (fanrelease) - remastered, the recently surfaced version included in the Reeling In Pink Floyd series seems to be the source of it, or at leasts it has the exact same contents and almost same SQ (but isn't NR'ed); this source has Echoes 100% complete but is missing a few bits of intermissions and the Waters' intro to CWTAE.

src2: only an untitled version presenting a GSJ-008 (Genuine Space Jewel Production) "label" surfaced that should be from the same recorder, although some little details makes me suspect they are from 2 different sources, some "bumps" on the mic evident in the other CD are actually here missing, also there are here more intermissions missing in the other CD and Echoes here starts late and fades out; if they are different recorders they come from tapers sitting very close one another anyway since almost all the claps and audience chats are the same in both sources.
recorder 2: includes Atom Heart Mother / One of These Days / Careful With That Axe Eugene / Echoes. Missing ASOS, there's some constant chatting in the back during almost all the performance. A 1stGen>DAT source is in circulation
video source: TV-edit includes only ASOS (a UMATIC tape source has been used for a DVD some time ago, an audio-only rip has been released too), the complete recording (or what survives of it) includes Atom Heart Mother, Careful With That Axe Eugene, and A Saucerful Of Secrets, in B&W - no effects and excellent sound quality.
 

to distinguish the 2 audience recordings here are some details:

AHM: on rec1 after the soundscape, when the song starts, there are just people clapping and yelling in the back; on rec2 after the soundscape, right before song starts, you can hear a guy yelling "whaa!" and then "whoo"

CWTAE: on rec1 after the intro, during the tuneups, a guy laghs for long till the beginning of the song (only on SRC2); on rec2 a guy shouts a-la-Waters and yells other ununderstandable things at the very beginning of the song, people go on chatting during almost all the song; at the end someone clearly coughs.

Echoes: both on rec1 and rec2 it starts a bit late missing the firs ping's; on rec2  a guy clearly coughs at the beginning and someone else chats and laughs clearly in the back (again, there's a constant chatting in the back on this recorder)