Foxboro

Good morning everyone, in keeping with the recent Pink Floyd activity, here is the first ever transfer of our Master VHS Cassettes into the digital domain.
The genesis of this project came about as the result of a very nice, close shot audience film from September of 1987 at Madison Square Garden. We had already seen a handful of the Momentary Lapse shows and noticied that although the MSG film was nice, it was filmed fairly close up and did not capture "the spectacle" of it all. One wild and crazy night, the idea was hatched to film one of the upcoming stadium shows from the opposite end of the arena, not so much to capture the players, but the true essence of this amazing live show. The decision was made to rent a full sized VHS camcorder and mount it on a tripod.
It was quite a team that went into Sullivan Stadium that night. At least six people, all with different componets of the mobile video lab concealed on their person. The most challenging piece was the camcorder, it was huge. One of the girls wore a wraparound, ankle length skirt.....the comcorder was tied to her waist and dangling in between her legs, shrouded by the skirt. For added effect, she used a pair of crutches, appearing disabled which served us better than expected when the arena staff went out of their way to help her get through the gates and forgot to search her in the process. I had a gym bag with the tripod in it, and while going through the gates, one of the guards patted the bag, noticing the metallic clank. She asked me what was in the bag and I replied "it's a tripod, I am going to mount a pair of binoculars on it to watch the show."
Needless to say, everyone got through, all the necessary pieces were in place. Extra batteries, video tapes, the tripod, a blanket to cover things up....all we needed were the right seats. We had really nice side tickets and headed for the back end of the stadium where we found some nice folks who were willing to trade us their "not so good" seats for a serious upgrade and a copy of the final result if it was successful.
We all sat down in a row and assembled the equipment under a blanket. Camcorder mounted on the tripod, laying on its side across our laps. As soon as the lights went out and the familiar strains of Shine On started to fill the air, off came the blanket and up went the camera. I remember more than a few of our neighbors being somewhat shocked by our brazen actions, but nobody gave us up and the concert was filmed in its entirety.
This recording circulated pretty widely back in the day, a big Floyd collector was quoted as saying "it's not the best film out there, but it is the steadiest"...... We are really happy to finally have this out of the vault and onto your hard drives,
please feel free to share it any way you want to, just be sure to give credit where it is due.
Lastly, we would like to dedicate this torrent to luciferburns who has done an awesome job spreading the BT love and keeping the spirit of Team Lampinski alive by consistently uploading rare, uncirculated recordings that might not other wise have
seen the light of day. I encourage everyone to get your collections out and about, time is our greatest enemy and there are too many priceless recordings that are a hair's breadth away from being lost forever.
The more generous you are with your music, the more it comes back to you.... thanks Mr Burns for a lot of cool music.

Without any further delay, I present for your enjoyment.
Single VHS camera on tripod from the Master VHS tapes
Filmed by: The Mad Elf Clan
Complete show, about 150 minutes

Dodano:  14.3.2021