Pink Floyd - The Dome, Brighton 1972

Here's a favourite of mine. Pink Floyd's first ever performance of Dark Side...well almost. 
January 20 1972 The Brighton Dome, Brighton.
Pink Floyd launched their latest work more than a full year before it's album release, The Dark Side Of The Moon. Although the premier didn't come off as planned, it didn't slow down the power and energy of Floyd and captures them in full flight. 
"Severe mechanical and electrical horrors” collapsed the second half of Dark Side, starting with "Money", hastily redirecting  Floyd into performing Atom Heart Mother as a substitute for the second half of Dark Side. This show is quite possibly the last live performance of Atom Heart Mother.
Personally, my favourite track in this show is the screaming hot version of Saucerful Of Secrets. I love Saucerful, and knowing this was not performed much in and beyond 1972, this is a gem. Gilmour is off the hook.

One Brown Mouse



"HERE THEY COME" (LPP)

Sound Quality Scale (G+ VG- VG VG+ EX- EX EX+ SUP- SUP)

SQ Rating: EX  

Pink Floyd
20-Jan-1972
The Brighton Dome, Brighton


Set1 44:13
01 Speak To Me 2:14
02 Breathe 2:45
03 Travel Sequence 7:51
04 Time 6:22
05 Breathe Reprise 1:43
06 Mortality Sequence 4:26
07 Money 3:37
08 Atom Heart Mother 15:10

Set2 62:12
01 Careful With That Axe Eugene 10:51
02 One Of These Days 8:37
03 Echoes 26:01
04 A Saucerful Of Secrets 16:42

Total: 106:25

* Original Notes
Source for this offer was downloaded Jan 2007 on Yeeshkul, text file doesn't indicate who uploaded it. Many thanks to taper and uploader. Original Txt file included.

Original Lineage: A(0)->HiFi VHS->DAT(2)->SHN
New Lineage: A(0)->HiFi VHS->DAT(2)->SHN-->Wav->ACL11->Wav->Flac7

Considered best source for this date. This source ran slow and had an occasional tick/crackle that apparently is not unusual for HI-FI VHS sources. Also, when Breathe first kicked in the taper was re-adjusting his levels which was a bit disruptive.

Speed corrected -3.0%, removed most of the occasional ticks/crackles, smoothed levels of first 12 seconds of Breathe. Applied very slight EQ, very slight NR and smoothed a few tape starts since taper was stopping between some tracks. Also ended Set1 after AHM since this is where they took their break.

I rarely use NR and I am not adverse to typical low gen analogue hiss since I grew up with it. I made an exception here after getting a good hiss sample and conservatively applying it. The spectrograph showed little music beyond 10k and I left more than 2k of buffer above the music. The result is perhaps a 30% reduction in hiss.

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