Filling A Gap
| Data: 7 December 1972 Miejsce: Palais des Sports, Lille, France IFWT-CDR-035 |
CD 1 1. Speak To Me 2. Breathe 3. On The Run 4. Time 5. The Great Gig In The Sky 6. Money 7. Us And Them 8. Any Colour You Like 9. Brain Damage 10. Eclipse CD 2 1. One Of These Days 2. Careful With That Axe, Eugene 3. Echoes |
Remastering notes (from MOB):
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The rough recording was already very good, but needed some restoration and
cleaning before being spread worldwide. Indeed, due to the age of the mastertape,
a lot of crackles, tape warble and level fluctuations were present on the rough
digital transfer. These have been manually cleaned as much as possible. Also,
the rough version had a lot of clipping that needed to be corrected. Some
frequencies with musical content were buried in the original transfer, therefore
a slight EQ was applied in order to bring clarity to the recording. There were
some abrupt cuts on the mastertape (two cuts during Breathe, one cut at the
beginning of Us And Them and one cut in the middle of OOTD, not to mention
numerous "pause" operations by the taper during some tunings and applause
between songs). These have been restored by editing, so that the recording is
now presented in a continuous way, with smooth transitions.
Notes by PE:
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Almost like David Vincent, it all started with a torrent which had attracted my
attention : Gong 1973-06-19, a gig at Roger Salengro's salle - Lille, France,
chez les ch'tis.
Contact was made with the seeder (Sous-Marin) who turned out to be the taper of
this show. Sewing up, and after a few blow-jobs I learned that he had recorded
the Campus radio show AM original broadcast (1970) : Pink Floyd 1970-01-23 at
the Théâtre des Champs Elysées. I therefore encouraged him to torrent this
recording. Then, on his website, I saw a date which intrigued me : Pink Floyd
1972-07-12,Lille.
.... Lille? le pays des ch'tis œuf course ! but as far as I knew no recording of
this particular gig were reported !...
With this new contact we discussed via emails until I learned that the taper (named
ZEF) actually taped this gig and that SousMarin owns a mp3/128Kbits recording of
this show. Then began the quest for the "lossless" source of this recording...
Days passing, a lot of blow-jobs again and weeks later, an email just arrived,
ZEF replied to Sous-Marin :
I had a small tape recorder, the later Telefunken (R.I.P blessed tape recorder)
connected to an external microphone. I digitalized the tape with Audacity (version
1.2.6) using default settings. Audacity detected my recording as being in mono.
I did not correct the file or apply any filters. This was a "rough" transfer
direct from tape to HD.
Bingo! we finally got it:)
Dedicated to all the good people in Yeeshkul, IFWT & PRS hubs. I really want to
thanks all the guys behind this release :
MOB - for the mastering of this show,
Breathe - for his general help, and the use of IFWT label for this release.
Alex - for helping in translations,
Sous-Marin (aka AndPh.) - for grabbing the source
Raymond Dzarek (aka PhD.) - for discovering 2 years back that a recording exist!
Philippe R., - for permission to use the ticket scan. don't forget to see his
website, fool of goodies at:
http://philippe.rollin2.free.fr/INDEXES/index2.html
...and the last, but not the least, the taper ZEF (aka AndP.)!
Dodano: 08.02.2009
