1973 May 18 & 19: Earls Court Exhibition Hall, London, England

updated August 2008

 

 

 

 

 

 

1973-05-18

 

setlist: Obscured by Clouds / When You're In / Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun / Careful with tha Axe, Eugene / Echoes / The Dark Side Of The Moon / One of These Days

Waters introduces CWTAE as "another extremely oldie".

 

3 recorders are in general circulation for this gig. Only one of them seems to be complete:

recorder1: Versions of this recorder are mostly from LP's like "The Great Gig In The Sky" (RSR), like this raw transfer from LP, or this version by MoLM; versions from the LP are easy to distinguish as they have Echoes fading out at the very end, OotD fading out as well (a good many is missing) and Set The Controls is completely missing. This recording also circutaled on tape complete as this LowGen reveals, lately another LowGen version is circulation.

recorder2: This was widely aroung on CDs sourced from a 4th Generation tape, having a patch from recorder 1 from the end of ACYL to Eclipse, indeed this recorder is missing that portion of the show as it was not recorded. Versions from the Masters of this recorder are also in general circulation, it is also findable in the "Reeling In Pink Floyd" series.

recorder3: incomplete, Dark Side is said not to have been recorded by this taper, this recording circulated on CD supposedly directly from the Maser Reels(?) The discs came labeled as May 19, but it's actually May 18.

 

 

1973-05-19

 

setlist: Obscured by Clouds / When You're In / Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun / Careful with tha Axe, Eugene / Echoes / The Dark Side Of The Moon / One of These Days

 

2 recorders are known for this gig so far. Only one of them is in general circulation on CD.

recorder1: complete, this has been bootlegged several times and in several "forms", some boots only have the first set + encore like "Remergence" (unknown label), "Remergence" (DIYE 17), "If You Were A Blue Bird"; Complete versions of this recorder are around like the HRV's "Supine In The Sunshine" or the Orange Records' "Live At Earls Court 1973" that's supposed to come from the master, a version on CD labeled Master is actually around having the same contents and SQ than the Orange Records release, both the HRV's and the OR's releases are from an edited version of the recoring, that was around also on tape, like this 2ndGen reveals, Other versions supposed from the Masters also on DAT's have the uncut intermissions.

recorder2: This is only around on tape so far, the tape I checked has a weird cut at the beginning of Echoes and TGGITS incomplete.

 

 

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