RE-UP Pink Floyd - Tempe AZ 1975

Pink Floyd
ASU Activity Center, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ
1975-04-20
Unknown Gen Cassettes

Here's another gem from the scratch and dent section. Pink Floyd in Tempe AZ is most definately a collector or completionist only recording. The sound is ragged and the tape player is doing somersaults. Nevertheless, it still has some value. The original notes are below.

1 x TDK SA90 Cassette, recorded sometime in the 90's.

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Nakamichi ZX-7 > Tascam HD-P2 > WAV (24/96) > FLAC 8

Apple MacBook / Adobe Audition CS6 used to remove preceding and trailing silences, and to split into tracks. XLD used to encode to FLAC.
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Transfer by Beechwoods, 3rd November 2013.

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84'09" - Excluding 'Shine On...'
90'28" - Including 'Shine On...'

Part 1
01. Announcements and Audience
02. Raving And Drooling
03. You've Got To Be Crazy

Part 2
04. Speak To Me
05. Breathe
06. On The Run
07. Time
08. Breathe Reprise
09. The Great Gig In The Sky
10. Money
11. Us And Them
12. Any Colour You Like
13. Brain Damage
14. Eclipse

Part 3
1. Echoes (cuts) only the first 8 mins
  *Shine On You Crazy Diamond parts 1-5 (cuts)  only the first 6 mins

  * Quite possibly not from the same show.


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*Original Notes
From my own unknown gen tape. A picture is included in this package.

This recording is pretty ropy. Unlike the circulating 'Tempe' transfer though, my tape actually sounds like the band are playing in the same room, rather than sounding like the taper was stood in the carpark! The taper's equipment struggles badly with the volume of the show. The audience are absolutely mental! Listen to the start of 'Breathe'! It must have been an incredible show.

This transfer betters the Tempe release in a number of ways. It is more complete in terms of announcements and audience prior to 'Raving And Drooling' - almost a minute more content here. 'Speak To Me' is also more complete; one and a half minutes longer prior to the point 'Tempe' kicks in to the track.

My tape ends with 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' which cuts after about 6 minutes. The sound of 'Shine On' is different to that of the rest of the show. The audience are definitely from the US, and quite intrusive, but the sound is wider, and clearer. Given 'Shine On parts 1-5' would have been performed between 'You've Got To Be Crazy' and Dark Side, I'd expect the sound to be consistent with those parts. And changing batteries would have seen a sustained improvement in sound through and into Dark Side, which is not apparent here.

I've not been able to identify the source of Shine On, but it shouldn't be too difficult given the constant mic-bumping and distinctive audience chatter.

Anyway, this is a very worthy upgrade to 'Tempe'. I hope you enjoy it.

Beechwoods
14th November 2013

Part1

Part2

Part3