Setlist: The Dark Side Of The Moon / One Of These Days / Careful With That Axe, Eugene / Echoes / Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun / Blues

A Benefit For War On Want and Oxfam.

Three recorders are in circulation on CD for this excellent gig, one of which surfaced so far only as filler on another recorder:

recorder 1: the most common one and the best sounding of the 3 recorders, this includes the whole performance but is missing few intermissions sometimes filled from recorder 3 on some tapes like the ones these CDs are from: "A Benefit For War On Want", 2ndGen. Other CDs from this recorder (without filler) are the DFA's "Gathering On The Moon" and this version from 4thGen cass; a version supposed from clones of a HIFI transfer of the original master is also in circulation.

recorder 2: this surfaced some years ago from clones said to be directly from the Master; I checked 2 versions of this, one labeled as Master>DAT(?)>cdr having few static noises, the other labeled as just Master Clone having no static noise and no fadings. This recording is missing STC and Blues.

recorder 3: this surfaced on CD only as filler from recorder 1 so far, it is the only recorder having the announcement between the 2 sets; this recording should be complete.

here follows a transcription of the review of the show from "Sounds" taken from the In The Flesh book:

"From the word go, they gave the packed sadium a faultless demostration of what psychedelic music is all about. There wasn't a note or a sound, out of place during the whole evening ... For starters, on Saturday, we had that lengthy work entitled "Dark Side Of the moon", an eerie title for an equally eerie piece of music that takes the listener through a host of different moods, must of which are accompanied by unusual sounds stretching around his head by way of the group's quadrophonic sound system. The effect is quite stunning. The second half of the recital was composed of three more major pieces, and a couple of encores. The first - the riveting "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" - was obviously rehearsed, but the second - a bluesy jam - wasn't. it served a useful purpose to show that the group are not confined to playing science fiction soundtrack music all the time. The incendiary gimmicks from the stage frequently obliterated the artists. Flash-bombs erupted here and there at well timed places and Roger Waters gong actually became a blazing sun during "Set The Controls". All the time the group were effectively illuminated by their imposing lightning tower at the rear of the stage which served a dual purpose - at frequent intervals it belched out smoke which mingled with the coloured lights and the dry ice surface mist of effectively whisk us all away to Planet Floyd"

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