Berlin Wall Rehearsals - The London Rehearsals
| Data: 2 May 1990 Miejsce: London, England Soundboard recordings FRP CDR 032/033 |
CD 1 1. In The Flesh? 2. The Thin Ice 3. Another Brick In Thje Wall (Part 1) 4. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives 5. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) 6. Mother 7. Goodbye Blue Sky 8. Empty Spaces 9. What Shall We Do Now? 10. Young Lust 11. One Of My Turns 12. Don't Leave Me Now 13. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 3) 14. The Last Few Brick 15. Goodbye Cruel World CD 2 1. Hey You 2. Nobody Home 3. Vera 4. Bring The Boys Back Home 5. Comfortably Numb 6. In The Flesh 7. Run Like Hell 8. Waiting For The Worms 9. The Tide Is Turning 10. Waiting For The Worms (another take) 11. Stop 12. The Trial 13. The Tide Is Turning (another take) |
Please note: Both "Stop" and "The Trial" were removed from
this because the original, officially released recordings were used here as a
playback tape during the live rehearsals.
Comments: This is a soundboard recording of a rehearsal in a small London studio
with The Bleeding Heart Band. It is an absolutely clean studio take complete
with chatter between and during tracks. This is not the final, full-up rehearsal
with all of the artists that appeared in Berlin.
The story: Someone who worked in the post-production studio made a copy of the
master tape, or plugged his recorder into the soundboard. He then took a studio
stock pre-printed cassette cover and typed the title and date of the rehearsal
on it.
The cassette cover reads:
2.5.90 Roger Waters Rehearsals
The Wall Berlin
Preprinted cassette information:
The Town House
Post Production
140 Goldhawk Road, London, along with address and phone number
The studio still exists under a slightly different name.
Special thanks to The Big Pig and The Pentagon Pig at FRP for making this
available.
Remastering by MOB
Artwork created by Moonwall
Remastering notes from MOB:
For the main rehearsal (stereo) I worked on track indexing and level adjustments.
For the second rehearsal (mono, tracks 10-13 of CD2), I realized that the speed
was different from the main rehearsal. By comparing Waiting For The Worms and
The Tide Is Turning, I immediately noticed that the second rehearsal ran too
slow. My suspicion is that the end of the tape was probably copied by a studio
worker from another rehearsal tape, perhaps adding one gen to the lineage. My
applied speed correction resulted in a 98% fix. I also applied a very slight EQ
to Waiting For The Worms in order to decrease the "bassy" sound and to create a
more natural transition between the last track of the main rehearsal (The Tide
Is Turning) and the first track of the second rehearsal (Waiting For The Worms).
I also did some editing in order to smooth out the abrupt cut during the judge's
sentence in The Trial. BTW, I realized that the tape of The Trial that is played
during the rehearsal, is not simply the regular version converted to mono. The
voices are really mixed upfront and during the judge's sentence, you can hear
the orchestra, but not Gilmour's guitars from the official release. I think this
is a really unique mix of The Trial, specifically used for these rehearsals.
Added: 17.01.2008
