Saturday, April 30, 2016

RE-UP Pink Floyd - KQED 1970




Pink Floyd
KQED (HRV CDR 034)
KQED TV Studios
San Francisco, CA
April 30, 1970

Audio Lineage: 1" or 2" station master > 3/4" U-Matic sub-master > DVCAM > WAVE (48kHz/24 Bit)
Running Time: Approx. 60 mins

FLAC
EX+

ATOM HEART MOTHER
CYMBALINE
GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS
GREEN IS THE COLOR
CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE, EUGENE
SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN

*Original Notes

We decided to create a CD from the audio of our KQED DVD release because we felt that, after much research, an audio upgrade was warranted. We only recently revisited our original source after several FM (or VPro) recordings surfaced on Yeeshkul.

Some notes from MOB:
We had 2 sources to choose from: one source from a U-Matic TV station master, the other source from a mysterious FM broadcast. The FM source was said to be in stereo, but a quick analysis clearly shows there is absolutely no stereo separation on the instruments. Further analysis of the FM source reveals that the fake stereo effect is mainly due to multiple analog generations and fluctuations in the tape channels stretching. The fact is that the original recording was done in mono, and that there's no evidence of any true stereo mix of that performance. The FM source has also the typical alterations from FM processing (levelling and limiting), and is riddled with pops and crackles, not even mentioning a 1.7% deviation from the real speed.

On the other hand, the U-Matic source has the original mono recording with a very stable and correct speed, along with excellent spectral characteristics (as you could expect from a station master). A close comparison between the 2 sources shows some evidence of the "pureness" (in terms of sound fidelity) of the U-Matic tape compared with the multiple analog gens of the other source. It is not easy to describe it with words, let's just say that if you listen to the cymbals sound during some quiet parts, you hear "dziing" on the U-Matic source, while it's "tching" on the FM source…  ;-)

Therefore, the remastering work was performed on the U-Matic source. It consisted in the following main activities: adjust the levels and EQ in order to bring clarity to the raw recording, get rid of the annoying low frequency hum that is present most of the time, and manually clean all the little imperfections of the raw transfer (mainly pops and drop-outs).

It has to be noted that, while Atom Heart Mother, Cymbaline, Green Is The Colour and Careful With That Axe Eugene were rather well recorded by the KQED sound engineers, it was much more difficult to get a good sound for Grantchester Meadows and Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun. These two tracks seem to have been captured differently by the KQED engineers and there were some bad sounding sections difficult to correct or improve (on every source we heard, these two songs are always with inferior sound quality than the four others). A possible explanation could be the specific instruments settings: acoustic guitars and vocals for Grantchester Meadows, and a lot of middle frequencies (gong, toms, lack of bass) for Set The Controls. Too bad KQED staff was not able to do a better job when recording and mixing these two tracks. (Ed: Perhaps these to tracks were recorded 1st and then adjustments/corrections were made?).

Until I hear something of better quality, I'll consider this to be the definitive version of this broadcast.
Thanks to Diego for the new 48kHz/24 Bit transfer, MOB for remastering the audio, and Big Ed for quality control.
Produced by Harvested Records

Enjoy!
RonToon (October 2008)

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RE-UP Pink Floyd - Lille, France 1972




PINK FLOYD
Palais des Sports, Lille
7th December 1972

Filling A Gap
FLAC
VG(+)

Setlist:

Disc 1: Dark Side Of The Moon
01. Speak To Me
02. Breathe
03. On The Run
04. Time
05. The Great Gig In The Sky
06. Money
07. Us And Them
08. Any Colour You Like
09. Brain Damage
10. Eclipse

Disc 2:
01. One Of These Days
02. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
03. Echoes

Taped by: ZEF

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Original Remastering notes (from MOB):

The rough recording was already very good, but needed some restoration and cleaning before being spread worldwide. Indeed, due to the age of the mastertape, a lot of crackles, tape warble and level fluctuations were present on the rough digital transfer. These have been manually cleaned as much as possible. Also, the rough version had a lot of clipping that needed to be corrected. Some frequencies with musical content were buried in the original transfer, therefore a slight EQ was applied in order to bring clarity to the recording. There were some abrupt cuts on the mastertape (two cuts during Breathe, one cut at the beginning of Us And Them and one cut in the middle of OOTD, not to mention numerous "pause" operations by the taper during some tunings and applause between songs). These have been restored by editing, so that the recording is now presented in a continuous way, with smooth transitions.

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Notes by PE:

Almost like David Vincent, it all started with a torrent which had attracted my attention :
Gong 1973-06-19, a gig at Roger Salengro's salle - Lille, chez les ch'tis.

Contact was made with the seeder (Sous-Marin) who turned out to be the taper of this show. Sewing up, and after a few blow-jobs I learned that he had recorded the Campus radio show AM original broadcast (1970) :  Pink Floyd 1970-01-23 at the Théâtre des Champs Elysées. I therefore encouraged him to torrent this recording.
Then, on his website, I saw a date which intrigued me : Pink Floyd 1972-07-12,Lille. .... Lille? le pays des ch'tis œuf course! but as far as I knew no recording
of this particular gig was reported !

With this new contact we discussed via email until I learned that the taper (named ZEF) actually taped this gig and that SousMarin owns an mp3/128Kbits recording of this show. Then began the quest for the "lossless" source of this recording ... days passing, a lot of blow-jobs again and weeks later, an email just arrived,
ZEF replied to Sous-Marin :

I had a small tape recorder, the later Telefunken (R.I.P blessed tape recorder) connected to an external microphone. I digitised the tape with Audacity (version 1.2.6) using default settings. Audacity detected my recording as being in mono. I did not correct the file or apply any filters. This was a "rough" transfer direct from tape to HD.

Bingo! we finally got it :)

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RE-UP Pink Floyd - Offenbach (yet another version) 1971






Pink Floyd
Stadthalle, Offenbach
February 26, 1971

"Motionless Pictures of Pink Floyd"
lineage: cass (unknown) > cd-r > eac > flac
FLAC
VG+

Disc 1:
1. Astronomy Domine
2. Green is the Colour
3. CWTAE
4. Embryo
5. Set the Controls

Disc 2:
1. Cymbaline
2. Saucerful of Secrets
3. Atom Heart Mother
4. Atom heart Mother (reprise)
5. Blues

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RE-UP Pink Floyd - Dallas 1972



Pink Floyd
McFarlin Auditorium, Southern Methodist University
Dallas, TX
September 10th 1972

transferred by Furry_Animal from M.B. tapes
Tape recorded on May 5th 1983

Audience
EX-
FLAC

No artwork

Side A
(44:19m): The Great Gig in the Sky (missing intro) / Money / Us & Them / Any Colour You
                 Like / Brain Damage / Eclipse / One of These Days / CwtAE (cut)

Side B
(43:13m): CwtAE (continued) / Set The Controls / Echoes

total time = 87:32m

*Original Notes
  GREAT upgrade over the T and MoLM releases, forget the distortions and turbulences from previous releases, this sounds really good and I'm very tempted to give it a full EX. Apart for some occasional skips here and there, the only portion missing is like 40 seconds of Brain Damage (from
the 2nd 'the lunatic is in my head' verse till 'starts playing different tunes' - same cut as on the previous releases). CWtAE has an inner cut due to tape flip (same cut as previous sources too). Speed seems to be right (older releases run slower). What a pitty this recording is incomplete, because it is a very good performance, great Us & Them and One Of These Days. -gbc


Bonus:
1. CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE, EUGENE (13:00m)

  Uncut version from a different tape, sounds a bit less amplified than the
  3rd generation and seems to be from a higher generation source, but decent
  sound really, better than previous releases. -gbc

Side A

Side B

RE-UP Pink Floyd - Earls Court May 18th 1973






Pink Floyd
THE WHITE BOOTLEG
Earl's Court, London, England, May 18th 1973

FLAC
Sound Quality: VG+/EX

Disc 1 (67:35m)
1. tunings (1:24m)
2. OBSCURED BY CLOUDS (5:25m)
3. WHEN YOU'RE IN (8:12m)
4. tunings (2:32m)
5. SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN (12:16m)
6. tunings (1:30m)
7. CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE, EUGENE (11:34m)
8. tunings (1:46m)
9. ECHOES (22:56m)
  
Disc 2 (59:46m)
1. SPEAK TO ME (1:56m)
2. BREATHE (2:48m)
3. ON THE RUN (5:56m)
4. TIME (5:19m)
5. BREATHE (reprise) (1:04m)
6. THE GREAT GIG IN THE SKY (6:19m)
7. MONEY (6:35m)
8. US AND THEM (8:11m)
9. ANY COLOUR YOU LIKE (7:19m) - patched from rec1 at             6:01m
10. BRAIN DAMAGE (3:48m) - from rec1
11. ECLIPSE (1:56m) - from rec1
12. ONE OF THESE DAYS (8:36m)

*Original Notes
From the master tapes of what is known as recorder 2 (same recorder as the source called '4th Gen'). This recorder is cut at the very end of ACYL, missing the end of this song and BD/Eclipse, so i patched those missing bits from the low generation source I have from recorder 1. One of These Days remains from the main source, the only bit edited out was 1:11m of audience/tunings before OOTD because it sounded very bad, as if the tape was very damaged really(some kind of channel dropping, or maybe just very heavy mic bumps).

Sound is really good, one of the best from that year
(if not the best), performance is good also.

The patch job was made using SoundForge and CDWave to split the tracks, and enco-
ding/md5 was done on Trader's Little Helper.

No EQ/NR applied to this, apart of the patch job and some minimum fade in/out, this is as raw as russian's winters.

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Thursday, April 28, 2016

Jethro Tull WNEW FM 1991



Jethro Tull - Second to None (1991)
Back with a recording of a short session Jethro Tull did at the Electric Ladyland Studios in New York for broadcast on WNEW FM.
The band was promoting the soon to be released "Catfish Rising" album.


Sound Quality: 9.5

Source: FM Broadcast

MP3 320

Track List:
1 - Doctor to my Disease
2 - Gold Tipped Boots, Black Jacket and Tie
3 - Rocks on the Road
4 - Like A Tall Thin Girl
5 - Mother Goose
6 - Bouree
7 - Aqualung
8 - Locomotive Breath

John Mayall Chicago 1970




JOHN MAYALL & his USA Union Band
feat. Harvey Mandel, Larry Taylor & Don Sugarcane Harris
1970-09-11
Aragon Ballroom, Chicago, IL

Lineage:
WXRT-FM-Master reel rec. by Bob Craig
- 1st Gen Reel -rec. by Bob Craig -
tranferred by Pat Lee 11/2006
Revox A-77 reel> Phillips 785 CDR burner-CDR-
Doc Tinker:
CDR-EAC-flac


*Original Notes
 --- Exellent FM from 1st. Gen. reel--!

This is the first  live performance with this lineup, without a drummer, I ever found!
Another missing Link, this time between  Mayall´s "Turning Point" Band, also with no drummer
& his too short "USA   Union" period !
Don Sugarcane Harris, Harvey Mandel & Larry Taylor  were sure amoung the finest musicians ever played with Mayall,
so be sure to get some great music here!
Many thanks to taperpat who send me this gem for upload here!

Setlist:
01-Intro/ You must be Crazy
02-My Pretty Girl
03-Hookers & Winos
04-Crying
05-Took the Car
06-Possessive Emotions

TT: 53 mins  

Lineup:
John Mayall: keyb., voc,harp, piano
Harvey Mandel: g,
Larry Taylor: b
Don Sugarcane Harris



Uploaded to Dime Dec. 2006 by Doc Tinker!

Friends,  here´s another  great addition to the John Mayall legacy in exellent FM quality!
Enjoy this great piece of John Mayall & Blues history!

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Ian Anderson - Berlin 1995



Ian Anderson - In A Stone Circle (Berlin 1995)

*Original Notes
Ian Anderson, the frontman of Jethro Tull with a show from the tour of Divinities: Twelve Dances with God, an album enterely instrumental released on May 1995.
Here we have a rendition of the whole album at Hochschule der Kunste in Berlin followed on the second part by some Jethro Tull tracks.

Sound Quality: 9+
FLAC
Source: Audience

Track List:

CD 1
01 - In A Stone Circle
02 - In Sight Of The Minaret
03 - In A Black Box
04 - In The Grip Of Stronger Stuff
05 - In Maternal Grace
06 - In The Moneylender's Temple
07 - In The Defence Of Faiths
08 - At Their Father's Knee
09 - En Afrique
10 - In The Olive Garden
11 - In The Pay Of Spain
12 - In The Times Of India (Bombay Valentine)

CD 2
01 - Heavy Horses
02 - Life Is A Long Song
03 - Wond'ring Aloud
04 - Cheap Day Return
05 - Dun Ringill
06 - She Moves Through The Fair / Dust Devils
07 - Jack-In-The-Green

CD 1

CD 2

Fleetwood Mac Sausalito 1974






Fleetwood Mac - Ultrasonic Studios - 10/8/74

Source:  Pinup Records - Made in France 2001

Lineage:  SBD > ? > Silver CD > EAC > FLAC

EX-

1.  Green Manalishi
2.  Spare Me a Little of Your Love
3.  Sentimental Lady
4.  Future Games
5.  Bermuda Triangle
6.  Why
7.  Angel
8.  Homeward Bound
9.  Rattlesnake Shake
10. Hypnotized
11. Black Magic Woman

Don't encode to MP3 or other lossy format.
Don't sell.
Share the music and enjoy it.

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Wednesday, April 27, 2016

Shit show

Life just drags you down sometimes. This week is one of them. I walked into work this week, Monday afternoon (as my shift would be), and was promptly invited into the boss's office, him with gleaming white papers in hand. (now when I say invited, it was more of him walking up to me within an eight foot range pointing at me, and wiggling his finger). I knew my day was going to be different. Entering his well windowed, in full view of the shop floor office, I was invited to have a seat and not introduced to the young lady to my right, apparently an HR minion. We never spoke. With greasy smile and swift gesture my virginal white papers were delivered to me with legal(ish) precision and intent. Little word and no explaination was offered, but the message was solid, I was terminated. Oh yes, the HR minion, did say I could contact her. 
Really, inside, I couldn't keep from smiling, I knew this was coming for a while. Actually I was more worried that this was a disciplinary meeting instead of the full bullet. I want the full bandage tear off, not a long slow hair pulling agony. 
I wasn't disappointed. 

Truth is, I do know why I was fired. Lets call it an incompatability issue. Their demands far outreached my resources. In other words, they worked you like an animal. Bottom line, good pay and all - I just wasn't happy.

So, as your favourite Blogger, I thought I'd share a bit of my colourful(ish) ha! life. Not that any of you care, so I'll shut up. More tunes to come.

OneBrownMouse




Saturday, April 9, 2016

RE-UP Pink Floyd - Boston 1973



Pink Floyd
Music Hall
Boston, MA, USA
March 14, 1973

Source: excellent audience recording
2 AlbumWrap Files
MP3 192
*artwork outsourced from the ol' interweb

Disc One:
1.Careful With That Axe Eugene 14:13
2.Obscured By Clouds 5:36
3.When You're In 7:13
4.Set The Controls 16:43
5.Echoes 22:28

Total 66:16


Disc Two:
1.Speak To Me2:14
2.Breathe 2:56
3.On The Run 5:33
4.Time 5:33
5.Breathe (Reprise) 1:04
6.The Great Gig In The Sky 6:03
7.Money 6:06
8.Us & Them 7:41
9.Any Colour You Like 8:30
10.Brain Damage 3:46
11.Eclipse/Audience 7:36
12.One Of These Days 9:20

Toal 66:28

Total Running Time 132:44

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RE-UP Pink Floyd - New York 1977




Pink Floyd
Madison Square Garden
New York City, New York
July 4, 1977

Shn file

Disc One:
1. Sheep
2. Pigs On The Wing (Pt. 1)
3. Dogs
4. Pigs On The Wing (Pt. 2)
5. Pigs (Three Different Ones)

Disc Two:
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
2. Welcome To The Machine
3. Have A Cigar
4. Wish You Were Here
5. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-X)
6. Money
7. Us and Them

*Original Notes
Notes: A very nice recording. The sound quality is excellent and it's a stereo recording. I'd give it an Ex- since there are some clap happy folks near the taper, but not to the point of distraction. The taper also bumps the mics a few times.

Within 10 seconds the fireworks start!  Did someone plan this? Do I detect the hand of David Gilmour in this? It's almost maddening thinking of it from Roger's perspective. The fireworks start again in the beginning of Dogs, then again in PoTW2. Roger lovingly calls this guy a "shitbag".  The performance is electric!  Dave's solo during Pigs 3DO is amazing! There are about a hundred highlights during this show in my opinion, but you'll have to check it out for yourself.

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Friday, April 8, 2016

RE-UP Pink Floyd - Quebec 1971




Pink Floyd
Pavillon De La Jeunesse, Quebec
1971/11/10

VG+
MP3 256

Disc 1
01 Introduction 1:18
02 Embryo  12:17
03 Fat Old Sun  15:07
04 Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun  12:55
05 One Of These Days 8:19
06 Atom Heart Mother  14:56

Disc 2
01 Cymbaline 12:20
02 Careful With That Axe, Eugene 12:16
03 Echoes  26:34
04 A Saucerful Of Secrets 18:16

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RE-UP Pink Floyd - Manchester 1969







Pink Floyd
69-06-22  Manchester
From The Master Tape

June 22 - Free Trade Hall, Manchester, Lancashire

Source: Audience
Comments:
CD Reference: Manchester 22.6.69, Man Chester, The Man and the Journey (ayanami)
LP Reference:
Quality: Very Good


Recording Includes:
1. Daybreak
2. Work / Afternoon
3. Doing It
4. Sleep
5. Nightmare
6. Daybreak Pt. 2
7. The Beginning
8. Beset By The Creatures Of The Deep
9. Narrow Way Pt. 3
10. Behold The Temple Of Light
11. End Of The Beginning
12. Set the Controls

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Wednesday, April 6, 2016

Pink Floyd - The Man, The Journey - "Studio Version" 1969




Pink Floyd – The Massed Gadgets of Auximenes
(soniclovenoize studio album reconstruction)


Side A – The Man:
1. Daybreak, Pt I
2. Work
3. Afternoon
4. Doing It!
5. Sleep
6. Nightmare
7. Daybreak, Pt II

Side B – The Journey:
8. The Beginning
9. Beset By Creatures of the Deep
10. The Narrow Way
11. The Pink Jungle
12. The Labyrinths of Auximenes
13. Behold the Temple of Light
14. The End of The Beginning

*Original Notes
In doing research for my previous Pink Floyd album reconstructions I discovered an overlooked “album that never was” that I found intriguing conceptually and challenging logistically.  This is a reconstruction of an all-studio version of Pink Floyd’s experimental performance piece “The Man and The Journey”, often titled The Massed Gadgets of Auximenes.  This reconstruction attempts to present a version of the performance that would have taken the place of the Ummagumma album, only utilizing studio recordings and condensing the performance down to two sides of a vinyl album.  Note that this reconstruction is conceptually not a part of my other two Pink Floyd reconstructions from this period, Vantage Point and Soundtrack To The Film Zabriskie Point; not only are there song overlaps but all three belong in different continuities of my blog.

Musical soul searching was the predominant mindset in 1969 for Pink Floyd.  The previous year had seen the band attempt to mimic their former bandleader’s singles-oriented approach to psyche-pop with their second release Saucerful of Secrets as well as the single releases “It Would Be So Nice” and “Point Me At the Sky”.  After the failure of the two singles to make any significant chart impact, Pink Floyd switched gears and focused on what the remaining four members could do the best without Syd Barrett: sprawling, experimental psychedelic jams.

Pushing this envelope to its fullest extent in 1969 gave birth to a series of performances sometimes entitled The Massed Gadgets of Auximenes but usually titled “The Man and The Journey”.  Arranged as two 40-minute movements, the first set seemed to follow the events of a typical person throughout his mundane, British, post-Industrial life—this segment was called “The Man”.  The set included the members of Pink Floyd actually building a table on-stage (to represent ‘Work’) and being served tea (to represent ‘Teatime’).  The concept of the second is less clearly defined and seemed to be largely instrumental and improvisational.  Called “The Journey”, the piece seemed to center around an individual’s journey for… well, who knows?  Pink Floyd has never given any hints of what the prize of the conceptual journey was, and the task is apparently left to the imaginations of the listeners.  My own interpretation is that “The Journey” is the evolution of agricultural mankind into industrial mankind, the quest for knowledge and technology; while there isn’t an actual Greek name Auximines, it could be stemmed from the Latin auxiliaris (to help) and the first pharaoh of Egypt, Menes (whose name translates to “he who endures”), literally a metaphor for the king (of humanity) who is assisted by gadgets (our technology) as he endures (history).

Both sets included songs that had been featured on the Soundtrack To The Film More, released earlier in 1969: “Cymbaline”, “Green Is The Colour” and “Quicksilver”.  Just as well, the sets contained songs that would eventually appear on Ummagumma later that year: “Grantchester Meadows”, “The Narrow Way” and elements of “The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party”.  The performances also contained an Ummagumma outtake “Biding My Time” and a 1968 single b-side that had created the template for this new era of Pink Floyd, “Careful With That Axe Eugene.”   Amongst these more formalized songs were improvisational jams that included elements of “Saucerful of Secrets” and “Interstellar Overdrive” as well as a few drum solos that varied from performance to performance, which would later emerge in various places as “Up The Kymber”, “Party Sequence” and “Heart Beat, Pig Meat”.  And as aforementioned, Pink Floyd were also served tea and built a table.

Although this was a wonderful performance—best memorialized as a stereo bootleg sourced from a BBC recording & broadcast of their May 12th 1969 performance—the band could not fathom how to make a studio recording of the conceptual performances and release it as a commercial product.  Pink Floyd instead chose to release Ummagumma in its place, a double album that featured a disc of live performances and a second disc of experimental studio recordings, that were essentially collected individual solo recordings by each member.  In many ways, Ummagumma seemed to be the commercial product version of “The Man and The Journey”, sharing much of its aesthetic but without its incomprehensible concept and untranslatable performance pieces.  That is, until now...

For my construction, we create an alternate timeline in which Pink Floyd never abandoned Massed Gadgets for the somewhat streamlined Ummagumma, and present it as Pink Floyd’s third studio album.  But we have two challenges: Firstly, my goal was to avoid using any actual performances of “The Man and The Journey” and stick exclusively to studio recordings.   While this seemed to work for almost all of “The Man”, it worked for only half of “The Journey” since studio recordings simply don’t exist for those missing segments.  I felt that substituting in the fantastic BBC May 12th recording would be ‘cheating’, so in these instances I’ve used approximations and substitutions that will be explained later.  The second challenge is time length: while each set ran approximately 40 minutes, this reconstruction, unedited, seemed to run 60 minutes once all studio recordings were sequenced.  Utilizing my own “less is more” ethos, the decision was made to edit each of the sets down to two 24-minute sides of an LP.  The results were obviously less sprawling than their live counterparts, but my reconstruction appeared more concise, focused and in my opinion more enjoyable.  Which leads one to the question: if “The Man and The Journey” had actually been a studio album, would it have been a single album or double?  Based on the results of my reconstruction, I believe it would have been a more abbreviated single disc.

Side A of my reconstruction—“The Man” segment—begins with “Grantchester Meadows” from Ummagumma, here titled “Daybreak pt I”.  This represents The Man waking and beginning his day, the song concluding with him running to work.  In the original live performance, this is followed by the members of Pink Floyd constructing a table to represent The Man’s day at work.  There is obviously no studio recording of this, so instead I substituted “Sysyphus” from Ummagumma as “Work”; the track seemed, to me, to sound like a chaotic work day at a factory!  The original performances followed with “Teatime”; no studio recordings exist and there really is no plausible substitution for the sound of Pink Floyd being served and drinking tea, so "Teatime" is the only song excluded from my reconstruction.  The studio outtake “Biding My Time” from Relics is “Afternoon”, The Man’s leisure after a hard day’s work.  Following is “Doing It!”, a representation of sexual intercourse.  While the band used different drum solo patterns for this track throughout the tour, I chose “The Grand Vizier’s Garden Party” as it had the best flow in-between “Afternoon” and “Sleep”.  An edit of “Quicksilver” from More is used as “Sleep”, and “Cymbaline” is used to represent the nightmare The Man has during his sleep (this being the second appearance of the track on my blog!).  The night turns to day and the never-ending cycle continues as The Man wakes in “Daybreak, pt II”, an instrumental reprise of “Grantchester Meadows”.

Side B—“The Journey” segment—is conceptually ambiguous.  Unlike the previous suite, “The Journey” concept is not self-evident, and the band has given absolutely no clues to the meaning.  Pretensions aside, we can only gather the meaning of this piece through the song titles and the mental images the music invoke, which was probably their intent.  Aptly beginning with “The Beginning”, “Green is the Colour” from More is used.  Following this is “Beset by Creatures of the Deep”, which was usually performed as “Careful With That Axe Eugene”.  Instead I used “Come In Number 51, Your Time Is Up” from Zabriskie Point (for the third time on my blog!!) as the song is essentially “Eugene” played in a different key, Em instead of Dm; because of this, it follows “Green is the Color” (in G) more harmonically as well as matching the following “The Narrow Path” (which begins with an Em drone) and staying within the same chordal family.  “The Narrow Path” from Ummagumma seems to be the start of our protagonist’s journey into the next track, “The Pink Jungle”.  Here, Pink Floyd alternated between a jam of the intro to “Pow R Toc H” or a jam originating from the brief time both Syd Barrett and David Gilmour were in the band, entitled “Nick’s Boogie”.   Since we know “Nick’s Boogie” was eventually incorporated into the second movement of “Saucerful of Secrets” (retiled “Syncopated Pandemonium”), I will utilize an August 9th, 1969 Hilversum 3 radio broadcast recording of that segment, taken from the remastered bootleg Celestial Instruments.  Our protagonist seems to exit the Jungle and enter “The Labyrinths of Auximenes”, performed as the improvised jam sections of “Interstellar Overdrive”, again taken from the Celestial Instruments bootleg.  Upon reaching the center of the maze (either literally or metaphorically, take your pick), he can only “Behold The Temple of Light”, which was a unique improvisational jam of the intro to “The Narrow Way”.  There are no studio recordings of this piece, so a loop was created from the song’s intro on Ummagumma.  Harnessing his prize, the protagonist reaches “The End of The Beginning”, here as the fourth segment of “Saucerful of Secrets”, “Celestial Voices”, taken from the Celestial Instruments bootleg.


flac --> wav --> editing in SONAR and Goldwave --> flac encoding via TLH lv8
*md5, artwork and tracknotes included

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