The Toronto Rehearsals
| Data: 7 August 1987 Miejsce: Pearson Airport, Toronto, Ontario, Canada Soundboard recordings |
1. Tunings 2. Echoes 3. Signs Of Life 4. Learning To Fly 5. A New Machine (Part 1) 6. Terminal Frost 7. A New Machine (Part 2) 8. Sorrow 9. The Dogs Of War 10. On The Turning Away 11. One Of These Days 12. Time 13. Wish You Were Here 14. Welcome To The Machine 15. Us And Them 16. Money 17. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2) 18. Comfortably Numb 19. One Slip 20. Run Like Hell |
On 07Aug87, a TV crew filmed Pink Floyd
rehearsing for the upcoming world tour (the tour started on 09Sep87 in Ottawa),
inside a big hangar at Pearson Airport, Toronto. The total length of these
rushes filmed during the band's rehearsals is around 55 minutes.
Two different mono audio tracks were recorded by the TV cameras: one directly
from the soundboard, the other being simply the audio recorded by the cameras
microphones (technically very similar to an audience recording).
The present recording comes from an audio transfer from the master Betacam
videotapes. The soundboard source was used as much as possible, the exceptions
being On The Turning Away, One Of These Days and Time, for which only the
audience track seems to have been recorded (the worst sound quality is during
Time, when the camera was filming from the right side of the stage, capturing a
strange mix of sound coming from both the main speakers and the musicians
monitors).
The audio was carefully mastered (levels adjustments, editing, slight EQ, and
manual cleaning of some buzzes here and there). This mastering was also used for
the SBD audio track on "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason Rehearsals" DVD authored by
JME from Cochon Production.
Apart from Signs Of Life, the songs are incomplete and there are cuts during
some of them (the TV crew didn't film continuously). However, songs like Echoes,
Learning To Fly, The Dogs Of War and Wish You Were Here, are very enjoyable
because they are captured almost completely.
And the sound quality of the soundboard tracks is just fantastic!
Dodano: 02.06.2007
