the tickets above are not from the taper
and are not the original ones once owned by Mr. Tannehill; the pictures of the
tickets above
were kindly sent me by T!, an EU
collector who bought them way after the gig from some other guys who attended
the show.
This is a small article dedicated to my favourite PF gig / recording ever!
There isn't much point to list all sources that will be discussed in it, but
since there’s much confusion around this amazing recording, I felt like writing
this piece to make things clear once and for all.
here's
THE master
of
the
T
recorder
+
the
30th
Anny
edition
(REV.A)
here
is
also
a
picture
of
the
original
tapes
of
Mr
Tannehill
Only one recording seems to exist for this gig: the wonderful recording taped by
Mr. Tannehill. Although I was destined to receive periodically down the years
accounts (from generally very reliable people) of different recordings of this
gig existing, ALL these supposed alternative recordings turned out to be copies
of the Tannehill one. Some were such poor copies they sounded as though they
were indeed different recordings from Tannerhill’s original, but they were most
definitely copies!
So I did the only sensible thing, and that was to ask for details from the
taper. What I found out was even sadder than knowing no other recordings
existed. It seems that some RoIO collectors in the past (I won't mention any
names, even if that would be justifiable) scanned/photocopied Mr. Tannehill's
original list and sent it out to people claiming it was their own list, with
their own masters listed. Very sad indeed, even not bothering to produce some
original cover notes of their own, so as to at least make an attempt at a decent
fraudulent copy. Such practices probably contributed to the ‘legend’ of an
alternate recording existing, which doesn’t mean no-one else taped the show, of
course, but only one is in circulation, and that's Mr. Tannehill's.
Stating this, I must also point out some other details about this recording,
since that there are fake master clones around. So once and for all:
1. The taper never gave out any DAT clone of the master NOR any 1st Gen analogue
copies or DAT clones of 1stGen's. He sent out copies exclusively made from his
1st Gen backup tapes (so as to not to damage the masters). So the lowest Gen.
possible on any analogue cassette tapes or on cass>DAT tapes or on Reel is 2nd
Gen. Whichever recording claims to be 1st Gen, Clone of 1st Gen into DAT, Clone
of Masters into DAT, 1st Gen. Reels etc., MUST BE FAKE. And the taper also NEVER
lent his masters or 1stGen's to anybody either.
2. The ONLY version from the master in circulation is the one released by the
taper in person with the following lineage:
Mics: Sony ECM 19B > Recorder: Sony TC-152 > Tape: Sony Chrome CRO-90+2
cassettes the Original Analog Cassette Tapes > Playback Deck: Tascam 130 > Nikko
32 Band EQ > Akai DR16 Digital Hard Disk Recorder > Sony PCM-R500 DAT Recorder >
Sony DAT Tape > HHB CDR-800 Compact Disc Recorder > HHB CDR > WAV > SHN
and with the following notes:
I'm the guy who recorded this show. I have the original analog cassette tapes of
it.
Over the years I have traded analog tape copies but until now have never done a
digital transfer of it. This is the first and only time it has been digitally
transferred from the original analog cassette tapes regardless of what anybody
else claims.
I removed very little applause. I indexed it so it could be skipped when
listening. The right microphone became unplugged at the concert just before “Us
And Them”. I used the left channel for both so, technically that song is 2
channel mono.
I have also done the artwork for this version of this show. I really have never
liked the practice of giving titles to live shows but I understand one of the
reasons people do it is to distinguish between different versions of the same
show. I felt like I needed to give this one a title due to the many other
inferior versions that exist. Please keep the artwork and text file, unaltered,
together with the SHN's
For Trade or Give Away only - Do not Sell - Do not encode as MP3
Jan. 5, 2003 Tannehill
And here’s some additional notes about the gig/recording kindly by the taper:
Pink Floyd 1977-05-01 Tarrant County Convention Center Fort Worth TX Iron Pigs
On Fire (T-700)
I don't still have the ticket stubs, I know my ex-wife got one of them, she
probably got them both since I can't find the other one. She sat on the right of
me. We were seated in the first elevation above the floor on the right side of
the stage about 200 feet from the stage. On my left was a blind guy and on the
other side of him sat his friend who was explaining to him what was going on. I
was concerned that his explaining might be too loud on the tape but it's not too
bad.
T________
The taper didn't take any picture and unfortunately lost his original tickets,
but if it was hard to find any ticket of this show before, now, here they are!
kindly from an EU collector (many thanks to T!) who bought them time ago...
Other than this, what can I say? Just enjoy this astonishing performance,
perfectly taped and kindly released by Mr. T. for the pleasure all of us!
