The Good... The Bad

The 2nd night at Montreux unearthed, though not in fantastic shape, this is all we could find. This came to me as a mix of 2 recorders, what i call recorder 1 sounding really nice, a nice EX (and it sounds as being an old soundboard recording... but who knows, for now, let's call it recorder 1) and recorder 2, which sounds inferior but decent really.

Both recordings are incomplete, and they were kindly given to me by Piggy, from his own Reel he got from an 'old hippy' some years ago, which he brought to a professional studio to transfer to DAT (which cost him $75!).

Was hard to compare to what we have from the night before, but after an extensive comparison of the announcements before Green is the Colour from recorder 1, and even some drum fills and patterns, we came to the conclusion that this is indeed a genuine recording from the 2nd night.

The story with recorder 1 is that it sounds as an old soundboard recording, more than an audience one, besides, from some info that Piggy gathered, it says that this recorder 1 was broadcasted on the radio, so this 'recorder 1' could be a recording from the radio, or it could be even from the EMI acetates, since both nights were professionally taped for a future release, and also, this rec1 includes an announcer, but i cant pinpoint if this announcer is right on the stage or if it's some kind of Radio introduction. Also, one of the recorders is said to be recorded on an AKAI recorder with 2 mono microphones, 6m in front of the stage, but i cant tell which one of the 2. So for now, till some info appears, we would call this 'recorder 1'.

No processing was done to the recording, only pitch and speed correction which was really needed (recorder 1 ran slow and recorder 2 ran fast, with the final portion of CwtAE being damaged and running very fast, as the reel was ending, if you know what i mean). Also, recorder 1 suffers of some channel dropping, but we decided to leave the source as we received it. There some hiss on recorder 1 too, but this is how we obtained it. Also, even though this was speed corrected, some speed fluctuations still occur. Seems this reel wasnt in the best conditions but hey, does that matter?

The performance is nice, i like it better than the one from the previous night, great versions of Fat Old Sun and Cymbaline.

I hope you enjoy this show as much as i did.

cheers,

gbc

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Original notes provided by Piggy:

The source reel was obtained from a hippie living in the swiss alps. This reel is of an unknown generation (foggy memory!) and a compilation of 2 recorders. According to the taper, one of the recorders is from an AKAI recorder, 2 mono microphones, 6m in front of the stage (don't know which one). He also mentionned that parts were
also recorded from the radio :

Here's what was on the reel:

Announcer%/Astronomy Domine*/ Fat Old Sun*/ Cymbaline*/ Atom Heart Mother+/ The Embryo (4 minutes only)+/ Green Is The Colour*/ Careful With That Axe Eugene*/ Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun*/ The Embryo (complete this time!)+/ Green Is The Colour+/ Careful With That Axe Eugene+ (end of reel).

~2 hours total.

David Gilmour is introduced as the band leader.

*: Fantastic recorder, great instrument definition, no tune-ups recorded. No audience interaction, nice and clear.

+: Lesser sound quality but still very listenable nonetheless.

The performance is very similar to that of the night before and very hard to differentiate. November 1970 still stands out as one of the best live Floyd periods.

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1970.11.21 - Roger's announcements before GitC:

"These next two things that we're gonna do, we're gonna do together. First of which is another song from the film More, it's called Green is the Colour. The second thing is an instrumental of Ummagumma and it's called Carfeful with that Axe, Eugene. - checked with the audience source from this night

1970.11.22 - Roger's announcements before GitC:

"We're gonna do two things together now, one is another song of the soundtrack to the film More which is called Green is the Colour and second thing is an
instrumental off Ummagumma and it's called Carfeful with that Axe, Eugene.

. On Fat Old Sun on the November 21st on the first 'the silver sound from a time so strange' Nick plays an strange cymbal, which can be heard perfectly on the Smoking Blues/Before the Fire and the audience source of 1970-11-21, but it's not present here, and besides the drum pattern is a bit different, more snare drum on here. And on November 21st Gilmours laughs and on November 22nd dont.

. As an additional note, because of the checking done to both nights, we can assure that The Embryo on the SBD sources (Smoking Blues/Fireman's Tapes) is indeed from November 22nd, since we checked the annoucements and they are different.
 

Dodano:  08.04.2007