Goteborg

(speed-corrected and edited version by tezeta)

This excellent performance came around a couple years ago, as result of a remastered version of a concert supposedly from this date/location I uploaded. rolly69 then announced that they had a genuine recording from this date and summarily shared it with us.
It is a pretty rough recording, but as good as we could hope for really with a dictation-type audience recorder from this era. Performance-wise, I consider it a priceless live document of Floyd mk. 1970. Each tune is performed with remarkable confidence and ease, and the audience is quite receptive as well. It is shame how some tracks are abridged, but what was captured is nonetheless fantastic.
My work on this mainly consisted of speed correction and editing out obtrusive audience noises, dropouts, and recorder sounds at the tracks' starts/ends. "Astronomy" had many such noises and dropouts during the organ intro, as did "Cymbaline" during the footsteps section, all of which I removed to the best of my ability.
The most significant edit is in "Cymbaline", just after the footsteps section. The recording drops greatly in volume when the band resumes, and when the volume picks up again, the recordist is clapping with microphone in hand, which results in a series of annoyingly loud bumps. Thus, I faded the end of the footsteps section directly into the bass figure leading into the verse.
The other significant edits were making the tuneup sections seperate tracks, and patching a brief dropout in the latter, instrumental section of "Astronomy" with some of the bars preceding.
The speed was slow overall and varied from track to track, as there are cuts between nearly every tune. I dealt with the speed on a track-by-track basis and was mostly successful with flat adjustment values.
"Careful..." had some brief but significant drops in tape speed during its first half, which I tackled with Reaper's stretch marker tool for sliding pitch shifts. There were other drops in speed during the recording, but they were too subtle to be addressed.
All speed adjustments and edits were done with Reaper 5.17 and Elastique 3.1.4 Pro, after decode to wav and DC bias adjustment in Adobe Audition 3. The final tracks were exported as 16bit-48khz FLAC.
I will make a CD-compatible version of this by request.
My utmost thanks go out to rolly in this for preserving and sharing this invaluable live Floyd document for the community. Without great people like them, we'd understand so much less about the Floyd's incredible development as a live act.

The story behind the recording:
The story begins in a record store in Gothenburg 1994.
I was familiar with the owner of the record store and he knew that I was an avid collector of Pink Floyd. One day when I came to the store the owner had talked to a customer who told that he had seen Pink Floyd in Gothenburg in 1970 and his friend had recorded the concert on cassette tape. Of course, he asked about the cassette tape was still there! But the customer had no contact with his friend anymore but had shortly after the concert made its own copy to open reel and the open reel he thought maybe was left somewhere in a box that was in the attic of his parents' summer home.
The customer promised to look for it so that I could borrow it.
Time passed and after almost a year, I had given up hope, then finally the customer finds the open reel and I could borrow it.
It was a tremendous filing to borrow and listen to this recording.
At that time I worked in a sound studio which was equipped in professionally equipment. As the open reel is transferred to a proffisionellt way.

Notes from the customer at the record store (1995):
The recording was made by my friend from the 10th row on a so called reporter's tape recorder (cassette used for interviews ect). I sat on 28th row and experinced my first real consert. Later I transferred the casette to open reel. My friend only had a C-90 tape with him and noticed that the time went, especially in the very long instrumental tunings between each song. He made a few adjustments in a few places (fade out, fade in). A Saucerful Of Secrets was interrupted when the casetten runs out, unfortunately. Astronomy domain is halfway recorded too high before it is discovered that it is too loud. When it comes to high volum the konsert is still unbeatable. The song with the footsteps going / running (Cymbaline or Embryo, I do not remember) was the concert Hall completely black during this time and the steps ran around the speakers around the 360 degrees, already then an odd event that causes laughs heard on the recording.

Newspaper Review from "GT" the day after the concert, translated to English (Sorry for my bad English):
Some evil forebodings was there on the way to the concert hall last night. Pink Floyd makes great music on their recordings. But often groups of their caliber more or less fall apart musically on stage. But it did not do so in this case, rather the opposite. If most groups produce good music Pink Floyd makes enormous music. It is music of dimensions that are difficult to explain. The difference between them and most other is like the difference between black and white film in the usual format and color film in Cinemas Cope.
Within the so-called classical music are you currently almost desperate search for new forms of expression. They are experimenting with electronic sounds and new instruments and tools. So far it has not accomplished any sense. It would have been useful for these "seekers" to sit in the concert hall yesterday along with the rest of us is to say the 1,300 who got site.
Pink Floyd is child of its time. We are living in the space age, we have advanced electronic technology of good and evil. Yesterday Pink Floyd showed on the good opportunities. In addition to conventional instruments they used echo machines, startling sound distribution system, delay machines and tone generators. It never got any feeling that the technology had to take over, but it was ruled to full of the 4 musicians.
I just want to mention one track by all the group had time for during the approximately three-hour concert (!).
"A Saucerful Of Secrets" consists of two parts. One where you totally blow your head off a cacophony of sound that torture was followed eventually by a clear Bach inspired second part that slowly relentlessly built up a completely fantastic final. If Bach had been there yesterday, he had rejoiced !! I do not care to describe something more. Let me just say that the evening was an experience of tremendous size. One more minute and you had been carried home!

rolly69
April 2016

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