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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THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

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Pink Floyd: From Abbey Road To Britannia Row - The Extraction Tapes (FLAC_SB/Studio_1 CD)

This is a very interesting and short upload.  It is recordings of alternate, unreleased versions of songs off of the Pink Floyd 1975 Wish You Were Here and 1977 Animals LP's.  The songs are very different sounding too.

LINEAGE:
Unknown lineage > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness) > TLH (to check for SBE's & other file details and verify ffp & md5 files) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Pink Floyd
Date: 1975 to 1976
Location: Unknown
Venue: Unknown (studio)
Title: From Abbey Road to Britannia Row - The Extraction Tapes
Label: Unknown
Source: SB/Studio
Format: FLAC
CD's: 1
Artwork: No
Size: 443 MB
Length: 73:24:10

SETLIST:
01. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-9)
02. Welcome To The Machine
03. Have A Cigar
04. Sheep (Raving and Drooling)
05. Dogs
06. Pigs (Three Different Ones)
07. Sheep Sound Effects

LINK:
(1) From Abbey Road To Britannia Row - The Extraction Tapes

The original party that shared this did a great job and did the extras I like doing like embedding the metadata and song titles into the tracks.  So that's saving me some time and made it where I can just upload what they've done without doing much more than checking the files.

I hope you enjoy the recording...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!

Pink Floyd: 1977-07-04 New York, NY (FLAC_AUD Master?_2 CD)

This is an excellent recording and Pink Floyd show from one of my favorite eras in their music (1975 - 1977).  This recording is a transfer of the master tapes (one way or another) and it sounds excellent.  I think I actually had bought a silver CD of the second disc (different label and not from the master necessarily) back around 1996.  There were so many shows at Madison Square Garden (MSG) in a row here in 1977 it's hard to say for sure without comparing them closely.  But this recording being shared here today is the whole show and not just part of it.

The lineage was not written very well and is short and confusing.  But it is clearly stated this is the master copy too.  And if I determine it is a 1st generation copy and not a digital clone of the master, I'll come back and update the information.  But the resources I've used all say it is a digital copy of the master in one way or another.  I believe the lineage prior to me is saying it is the analog master (audience 2 discs) put to 3 different CD-R copies.  Or, the master tape was transferred to two analog sources and then to CD-R?  I'm keeping it as it's being called for now and that is a master copy.

LINEAGE:
Analog master recording - A2 > CD-R3 > SHN > me > TLH > WAV (to test for lossiness and align sector boudaries) > 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: July 4th, 1977
Location: New York, New York
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Title: Madison Square Garden 77, Day 4
Label: Master Tape (non bootleg, fan label)
Source: AUD (Master or possibly 1st Gen)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Size: 723 MB
Length: 121:50:50

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Sheep
102. Pigs On The Wing (Pt. 1)
103. Dogs
104. Pigs On The Wing (Pt. 2)
105. Pigs (Three Different Ones)

CD 2:
201. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
202. Welcome To The Machine
203. Have A Cigar
204. Wish You Were Here
205. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-X)
206. Money
207. Us And Them

LINK:
(1) 1977-07-04 New York, NY (AUD Master)

I have a busy day today so I don't have a lot of time to critique the recording.  But I can copy and paste some of the original sharing party's notes.  I'd credit them but I have no idea who they may be.  Here's a copy and past of some of their shared information:

"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...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."

I hope you enjoy the show...

Bootradr

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THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

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Pink Floyd: 1975-04-26 Los Angeles, CA (FLAC_AUD Master_2 CD)

This is better than a superb sounding recording captured by one of the best bootleggers in the California area.  This is from the master tapes of the late Mike Millard.  He is very well known in music circles because of the quality of his stereo audience recordings from the LA Forum, Sports Arena, and numerous other California concert venues.  To me, this is better than a soundboard recording.

This is another show I really don't need to do much on in order to upload it.  I'm leaving the file set the way I got it and only adding my own text file and md5 checksum file to my upload.

LINEAGE: (none given but here's what I know)
Mike Millard master cassette > unknown > Digital Reproductions > me > created a text file > TLH (for md5 file creation for my upload, for ffp file verification, to check for SBE's & lossiness...neither found, and for all created files verification) > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Pink Floyd
Date: April 26th, 1975
Location: Los Angeles, California
Venue: Sports Arena
Source:AUD (Millard master)
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes
Label: Digital Reproductions
Title: Echoes From The Past (Platinum Edition)
Size: 814 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. intro
102. Raving And Drooling
103. You've Gotta Be Crazy
104. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1 - 5)
105. Have A Cigar
106. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6 - 9)
107. band talking before break

CD 2:
201. Speak To Me
202. Breathe
203. On The Run
204. Time
205. The Great Gig In The Sky
206. Money
207. Us And Them
208. Any Colour You Like
209. Brain Damage
210. Eclipse
211. Echoes

LINKS:
(1) 1975-04-26 Los Angeles, CA (AUD Master/Millard)
(2) 1975-04-26 Los Angeles, CA (AUD Master/Millard)

This has to be one of the top ten, best audience recordings I've heard.  Pink Floyd sounds really incredible and Millard's capture of the band sounds stunning.  The mix is perfect and all instruments and vocals are as clean and clear as they could possibly be.  I honestly would think this was a soundboard recording if I walked in on it playing somewhere.  It's that stunning and has to be one of Millard's best recordings.  And he made a lot of recordings too.

It's snowing here today, I have the second CD playing right now, and I'm enjoying being stuck in the house and listening to this show!  I hope you enjoy listening to it too...

Bootradr

SPECIAL NOTICE TO ALL!!!

THESE DOWNLOADS ARE FOR FREE ONLY!  NEVER BUY OR SELL ANY LEGALLY RECORDED BUT ILLEGAL TO SELL SHOWS LIKE THIS ONE.  THIS IS FOR FANS AND FUTURE FANS WHO WANT TO HEAR THE ARTIST'S MUSIC RAW & LIVE BUT NOT OFFICIALLY AVAILABLE OR RELEASED.

ALWAYS REMEMBER TO SUPPORT THE ARTISTS BY BUYING THEIR OFFICIALLY RELEASED MATERIAL TOO.

KEEP IT FREE, KEEP IT AVAILABLE, AND MOST OF ALL; KEEP IT LEGAL!!!

Pink Floyd: 1977-07-02 New York, NY (FLAC_Master AUD_2 CD)

This specific source for this show is very rare and it is the raw and unprocessed show from the master cassette tape(s).  This excellent show and recording is reportedly one the best Pink Floyd audience recordings to have surfaced over the years.  You really find yourself saying "is this a soundboard recording" throughout the show.  This is an example of what we all strive for when we record shows.

This upload is a digital transfer of the master tape(s) used to record the show and it is the full, complete show.  There are some earlier versions that have surfaced through the years.  But they are not not sourced directly from this master tape transfer, and it sounds as if they may have some parts (small parts) missing too.

I've noticed there are split second gaps (or silence) in between tracks however.  I'm not sure if this master source being used was transferred using DAO (disc-at-once) settings creating the tiny gaps or if there's another reason for them.  I'll do some more research and see what I can find out about this.

Even if you aren't a huge Pink Floyd fan (I like them a lot, but I'm not the hugest of fans myself), this one is worth downloading just to hear how clean, clear, and excellent it is.  My favorite song (the different parts of course) is "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and David Gilmour's guitar playing in it. This is the definitive copy of this 1977 show!

LINEAGE:
Master cassette(s) > DAT > CD-R (burned to CD-R and tracks renamed using Nero 6) > EAC > shn > Media Monkey (for conversion to FLAC level 6 > my download > TLH [to (1) test FLAC files for SBE's and there were none/no errors and to (2) create ffp and md5 files for verification] > you

DETAILS:
Artist: Pink Floyd
Date: July 2nd, 1977
Location: New York, New York
Venue: Madison Square Garden
Source: AUD Master
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (by "Wojtek")
Label: unsure
Title: In The Grassland Away
Size: 781 MB
Length: 2 hours, 5 minutes, 14 seconds

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Sheep
102. Pigs On The Wing (Pt. 1)
103. Dogs
104. Pigs On The Wing (Pt. 2)
105. Pigs (Three Different Ones)

CD 2:
201. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pt. 1 - 5)
202. Welcome To The Machine
203. Have A Cigar
204. Wish You Were Here
205. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pt. 6 - 9)
206. Money
207. Us And Them

FileFactory Links:
Part 1 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/3fe3cejh44l5/
Part 2 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/5ddtqtstgsg9/
Part 3 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/40mtbuewq387/
Part 4 - http://www.filefactory.com/file/39gonx2ois2t/

I wish I could talk to the original taper and ask then just what they did to get such an excellent recording.  It has such a perfect, full range of sound (both the high end and low end).

So, enjoy a night from just a little short (less than two months away) of 36 years ago.  And then pass it on to share with your friends too...

Bootradr

Pink Floyd: 1977-04-30 Houston, TX (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

This is a very good audience recording of Pink Floyd at a venue I'd never heard of (until recent years) in Houston.  I was just a kid, but I had been living in Houston for about 8 months when this concert took place.  I vaguely remember commercials on the radio for this show too.  I recall Pink Floyd and Queen radio commercials seemed to be on every 5 minutes for concerts they had in 1977.

This show is one of those good recordings where, even though you can hear the occasional conversations going on (by the friends taping it I think), they still got a good recording.  There are some shows where this type of chatter can ruin the recording.  But in this case, it adds to the ambiance of the show and makes you feel like you were there.  The recording has its flaws, but overall, it is a great snapshot in time of what it was like being there in 1977.  The music has a good, full range of sound to it and no distortion to interfere from what I've listened to.  I got this show within the last two years, but for some reason, and until I finish this post, I've never burned it to CD yet.  I can fix that mistake as soon as I'm done here!

I wish I'd remembered to upload this show as planned  on Tuesday.  That would've made it 36 years ago that day.  So instead, it was 36 years, 5 days ago today :-)

DETAILS:
Artist: Pink Floyd
Date: April 30th, 1977
Location: Houston, Texas
Venue: Jeppesen Stadium (University of Houston)
Source: AUD
Format: FLAC
CD's: 2
Artwork: Yes (lots of artwork but there doesn't seem to be any back art)
Label: unsure
Title: Pink Floyd - Animals
Size: 683 MB
Length: 1 hour, 14 minutes, 48 seconds

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Sheep
102. Pigs On The Wing (Pt. 1)
103. Dogs
104. Pigs On The Wing (Pt. 2)
105. Pigs (Three Different Ones)

CD 2:
201. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pt. 1 - 5)
202. Welcome To The Machine
203. Have A Cigar
204. Wish You Were Here
205. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Pt. 6 - 9)
206. Money
207. Us And Them

LINKS:
(1) 1977-04-30 Houston, TX (AUD)
(2) 1977-04-30 Houston, TX (AUD)
(3) 1977-04-30 Houston, TX (AUD)
(4) 1977-04-30 Houston, TX (AUD)

I saw Pink Floyd for the first time a decade later (1987) in Houston.  It was a great, extravagant show but was also after Roger Waters had split from the band.  My personal favorite era of Pink Floyd was their 1975 and 1977 touring years.  And some superb recordings have surfaced through the years of many of these shows.

Anyhow, I hope you enjoy this show from an era of music that would be lost if it weren't for recordings like this one documenting it and keeping it alive today...

Bootradr

Pink Floyd: 1975-06-28 Hamilton, Ontario, Canada (FLAC_AUD Master Reel_2 CD)

This is by far one of the best audience recordings I've ever heard.  Half of the time, I forget and think I'm listening to an excellent soundboard of the show!

I got this show a long time ago (different source) on a silver CD.  It wasn't the complete show of course, but it sounded so good, I wasn't concerned with it being incomplete (then).  As the years went by and our collecting passion went from trading/mailing shows to sharing them like I am here via the internet, I saw another copy or two of the 2 CD versions of this show.  And they sounded great too.  At least one or two of them ran fast though.  But this version here, sourced from the master reel, is the best sounding version I've ever heard and the pitch and speed is spot on (perfect/correct).  I doubt there is any better recording of this show out there.

I am a little baffled as to whether this is a second source for this show or not.  I'll include the lineage below and you make the decision.

LINEAGE:
Master Reel > DAT > Sony TCD-D7 > Hard Drive > WAV > CDR > FLAC - Source #2

DETAILS:
Artist: Pink Floyd
Date: June 28th, 1975
Location: Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Venue: Ivor Wynne Stadium
Source:AUD (master reel source)
Format: FLAC
CDs: 2
Artwork: Yes
Label: none
Title: Master Reel
Size: 784 MB
Lengthe: 2 hours, 14 minutes, 30 seconds

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Raving And Drooling
102. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt. 1
103. Have A Cigar
104. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt. 2

CD 2:
201. Speak To Me
202. Breathe
203. On The Run
204. Time
205. Great Gig In The Sky
206. Money
207. Us And Them
208. Any Colour You Like
209. Brain Damage
210. Eclipse
211. instrument tuning
212. Echoes

LINKS:
(1) 1975-06-28 Hamilton, Ontario (AUD Master Reel)
(2) 1975-06-28 Hamilton, Ontario (AUD Master Reel)
(3) 1975-06-28 Hamilton, Ontario (AUD Master Reel)
(4) 1975-06-28 Hamilton, Ontario (AUD Master Reel)

This show will blow you away with the quality of the sound and recording.  I've collected an number of these superb sounding Pink Floyd 1975-06-28 audience recorded versions that are available.  Is this one the best?  I cannot tell you for sure.  But if there is a better sounding version to have surfaced, please let me know.  I really do believe this is one of the best sounding rarities to ever surface and hit the trading circles.  I listened to it once again last night and was enjoying it from beginning to end.

I hope you enjoy this show.  If you don't, then it's because you don't like Pink Floyd or you cannot hear... :-)

Bootradr

Pink Floyd: 1987-11-18 Houston, TX (FLAC_AUD_2 CD)

Here's a very interesting show that it took me right at 25 years to finally find.  And thanks to a few friends on Dime, I now have it!

I was at this show with a friend.  What a great night that was.  While I didn't record the show myself, thankfully, someone in the audience (somewhere) did.  This was my first Pink Floyd concert and it was their first tour after the years of battling that had been going on within the band.  This was the first tour, "A Momentary Lapse of Reason", without Roger Waters in the band anymore.  And it was a spectacular show too.

DETAILS:
Band: Pink Floyd
Location: Houston, Texas
Venue: Houston Astrodome
Date: November 18th, 1987
Label: none
Title: none (if I had the right to name it, I'd call it "Wish You Were Here...Oh Yea, I Was")
CDs: 2
Type: AUD
Artwork: No (I did add my ticket scans but I didn't record this show)
Size: 764 MB

SETLIST:
CD 1:
101. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
102. Signs Of Life
103. Learning To Fly
104. Yet Another Movie_Round And Round
105. A New Machine (Part 1)
106. Terminal Frost
107. A New Machine (Part 2)
108. Sorrow
109. Dogs OF War
110. On The Turning Away

CD 2:
201. One Of These Days
202. Time
203. On The Run
204. Wish You Were Here
205. Welcome To The Machine
206. Us And Them
207. Money
208. Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)
209. Comfortably Numb
210. One Slip
211. Run Like Hell (some type of tape issue/has sound though)

LINEAGE:
(1. unknown year...from trader's notes) Mics and recorder unknown >
cassette generation unknown (but it's got to be low) > Playback Deck: Tascam 130 > Nikko 32 Band EQ > Akai DR16 Digital Hard Disk Recorder > Sony PCM-R500 DAT Recorder > Sony DAT Tape > HHB CDR-800 Compact Disc Recorder > HHB CDR > WAV > SHN
(2. 2012) CD-R trade > Creator Pro 2010 for naming tracks & converting to FLAC > Trader's Little Helper to create and verify checksum and toirrent > you

LINKS:
Part 1 - 1987-11-18 Houston Astrodome
Part 2 - 1987-11-18 Houston Astrodome

Dime Torrent - http://www.dimeadozen.org/torrents-details.php?id=416048
NOTE: I created a torrent and posted it on Dime.  If your a Dime member, you'll know what to do.  If not, sign up for a free account and READ THE RULES.  Go to http://www.dimeadozen.org for their home page.  And remember to keep your sharing ratio at 0.025% or higher so as to not get banned.  It's a much faster download almost always!  Now, back to the original blog post.

The seating my friend and I had for this show was astonishing.  I know we were dead center on one of the first few rows.  However, looking at my ticket it looks confusing.  I'm not sure what "Section M" refers to (maybe "Middle"), but I know where we were :-)

It was a miracle that we found our vehicle after the show.  We never paid any attention when parking and there was a ton of people, all parked around the venue.  I think this was a sold out show too.  But by some stroke of luck, we walked out and just happened to walk upon our vehicle (one in a multi-thousand shot).  Sitting in traffic, and even afterwards getting on Loop 610, was a nightmare.  It was hard enough walking to your car and getting out of the parking lot was next to impossible.

I crack up looking at the $20 price tag on the ticket :-)  And those were the days of rising ticket prices too.

A special THANK YOU goes to "led boots" for getting me this 2 CD copy of the show.  Every site I looked at that had this show had either dead torrents or no listing at all for the show.

I'm not sure why the last track, "Run Like Hell", has a scratchy sound in it.  But there is a skipping type of sound.  The song doesn't skip.  I'm not really sure what's up with that, but it is the last song too.

Finally getting this show, just short of 25 years later, goes to show that you should never give up on searching for those concerts you attended but didn't record.  I knew that one day it would be found out there.  And thanks to fellow traders who helped me out, I finally found it!

What a night to remember, and for those who grab this show, I hope you can get close to the enjoyment I had being there.

Enjoy the show...

Bootradr