Strathclyde

This recording used to be known as Strathclyde 1971 but then, for reasons which have been lost to the sands of time, collectors started listing it as being from Stirling, 18 May 1971.
Lordsnooty recently met up with a collector who has an old reel and established that the recording is almost certainly from Strathclyde after all, so I am amending the date for this release.
The reel lordsnooty has seen is labelled as May 1971 and has no specific date. Old lists from the 1970s and 1980s say Strathclyde 1971. Vernon Fitch's Pink Floyd booklet from about 1987 was the first time lordsnooty saw an 18 May attribution. In this edition Vernon listed tapes as being from Strathclyde University, Stirling. Strathclyde University is in Glasgow, which is 30 miles away from Stirling.
To give a flavour of the various biographies, Miles got it right in his Visual Documentary book in 1980 where he states that they played Stirling University on the 18th and Glasgow on the 20th. In 1976 Rick Sanders included Stirling on the 18th in the rudimentary list at the back of his biography but was unaware of Glasgow. In April 1988 Andreas Kraska also stated in his Pink Floyd The Records book that the band played at Stirling University, Strathcylde on 18 May, adding that they were in Glasgow on the 20th.
When I received my tape in 1996 from a collector who started trading in the 1980s, it was labelled as being probably from Strathclyde 1971.
In 1998, Vernon Fitch wrote in his A Collectors Guide to Pink Floyd Audio Recordings 1966-1983 & Solo Tours booklet that "Strathclyde University, Stirling 5/18/71 is really from Stirling University, Scotland 5/18/71." By that stage it would appear that people were recognising problems with the location described in 1987.
Stratcat58 wrote to Vernon on my behalf to see whether he could help and unfortunately he doesn't remember anything in respect to the dating of the concert. Vernon possibly had nothing to do with the 18 May labelling.
Littlepieces seeded a Nakamichi 581 and Edirol USB soundcard transfer of my tape in 2009. Both my cassette player and soundcard were inferior to what I use nowadays and I'm confident that most people will be able to hear the difference. Littlepieces chose to drop the left channel because it was weaker and, after various comparisons, I concluded that this was the correct decision, so have done the same.
This is a raw transfer. My copy of the recording is never going to sound great but it would benefit from various noises being removed and a speed correction.
Neonknight, April 2017

Dodano: 11.12.2018