Pink Floyd: 1981-06-16 London, England (FLAC_AUD Source 2 1st Gen_2 CD)

This is a superb audience recording from Pink Floyd on their The Wall tour in 1981.  The information provided stated this is an extremely rare source.

This recording sounds a lot like a soundboard and just goes to show how well a person who knows how to capture a live concert can do when they want to.  There is a little hiss from the tapes that has been left.  But that is the way I like it most of the time.  Rather than take out the high end musical and similar frequencies by removing the hiss (something you don't even notice after 5 minutes of listening), it is usually better to leave the recording alone and maintain the natural, excellent sound just as it was captured in a case like this one.

LINEAGE:
Source 2 master cassette > cassette (1st Gen) > CD-R[0] > CD-R > EAC> SHN > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness and align sector boundaries) > Audacity (to view waveform, embed metadata/track titles & info, and then to re-encode) > FLAC 8 > TLH (to double check for SBE's and create and verify new ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Pink Floyd
Date: June 16th, 1981
Location: London, England
Venue: Earl's Court
Title: Warm Thrill Of Confusion
Label: Wojtek's
Source: AUD (1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 779 MB
Length: 109:49:30

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. MC intro ~ In The Flesh
102. The Thin Ice
103. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 1)
104. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
105. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)
106. Mother
107. Goodbye Blue Sky
108. Empty Spaces
109. Young Lust
110. One Of My Turns
111. Don’t Leave Me Now
112. Another Brick In The Wall  (Part 3)
113. Goodbye Cruel World

CD 2:
201. Hey You
202. Is There Anybody Out There
203. Nobody Home
204. Vera
205. Bring The Boys Back Home
206. Comfortably Numb
207. The Show Must Go On
208. MC intro
209. In The Flesh
210. Run Like Hell
211. Waiting For The Worms
212. Stop
213. The Trial
214. Outside The Wall

LINK:
(1) 1981-06-16 London, England (AUD 1st Gen)

I'm not really sure who captured this show's superb audio or where they were sitting, but they were able to keep the majority of the crowd noises out of the recording too.  I'd have to guess they were up front with directional microphones for them to have kept the audience noise out as well as they did on this show.  The stereo separation is excellent too in the recording.

The one thing I don't like, and chances are this may have been done by someone other than the taper, is the audio clipping in the waveform I see.  As I've mentioned a thousand times before, 99.9% of the listeners will never even recognize any clipping.  And I imagine the boot label may have played with the amplification or even some EQ work to raise some levels that caused the waveform (audio) to clip.  And maybe it was the taper recording with too high of a recording level for all I know?  But even with the clipped audio frequencies and my speculations as to how they happened, this is a superb sounding recording and great show.  Just listening to it as I prepare this upload makes me think of the midnight movies and seeing The Wall and other shows like The Song Remains The Same and the Rocky Horror Picture Show.  Those were the good ole days!

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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