PINK FLOYD

Shine on, indeed! Jerusalem is the crazy diamond of our Jewish People!

New transfer of an old classic, cited as EX+, looking forward to hearing this this.

Pink Floyd - Rolf's Pepperland Bomb - MQR 012
Pepperland Auditorium
San Rafael, CA, USA
October 16th 1970

ource: Audience
Sound Quality: EX+
Tapers: Jay D. and Ron C. ...They sat 10-12 rows back, left of center.
Recording equipment: Sony TC-126 with Powered Single Point Stereo Microphone, using either Sony Red or Green cassette tapes

Lineage:
Oct. 1970. Recording equipment > Sony TC-252 7" Reel to Reel Recorder >1/4“ Scotch 140 RtR Tape (Jay D. copy).
Jun. 2011. 1st gen 1/4“ Scotch 140 RtR Tape > Baking process > Revox A77 RtR Deck > Tascam US-200 > Adobe Audition 24/96.
2013. 50 Hz dehumming in iZotope RX 2 Advanced > EQ > NR1 in RX > 1st Manual cleaning and restoring iZ RX2 A> NR2 in RX >
2nd Manual cleaning iZ RX2 A > EQ and MB compression > Balancing > Adobe Audition 1.5 for some manual dynamic adjustments>.....
a) 24/96 version - TLH for SBE fix and FLAC Level 8.
b) 16/44.1 version - Conversion and manual dynamic adjustments done with Adobe Audition 1.5 > TLH for SBE fix and FLAC level 8.

Remaster and Artwork made throughout the whole 2013 by MQR - creamcheese, WRomanus and }{eywood
Released on 17 December 2013

DVD Audio 2:12:05 - (Disc One 69:05)

03:14 - 01. Astronomy Domine (1st Attempt - Tune Up)
03:58 - 02. Astronomy Domine (2nd Attempt - Tune Up)
09:03 - 03. Astronomy Domine (3rd Attempt - Tune Up)
06:07 - 04. Astronomy Domine (4th Attempt)
00:27 - 05. Tune Up
12:09 - 06. Fat Old Sun
00:46 - 07. Tune Up
11:09 - 08. Cymbaline
01:53 - 09. Tune Up
20:19 - 10. Atom Heart Mother
.................................. (Disc Two 63:21)
01:13 - 11. Tune Up
11:01 - 12. The Embryo
01:26 - 13. Announcement - Tune Up
03:24 - 14. Green Is the Colour
10:52 - 15. Careful with that Axe, Eugene
01:14 - 16. Tune Up
12:06 - 17. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
01:27 - 18. Tune Up
20:37 - 19. A Saucerful of Secrets

The following notes were written by WRomanus and }{eywood based on the recollections of Rolf, Mike K., Ron C., Duckpont49, creamcheese and WRomanus.

Pepperland resided in San Rafael, CA, USA from September 1970 to the end of January 1972.
Prior to that it was known as Euphoria (though only for the summer of 1970) Bermuda Palms, and Lichfield's.
Pepperland was a Beatles-themed hall that featured a quadraphonic sound system designed by sound engineer John Meyer, who later built custom PA systems for the Grateful Dead.
It was 2 large rooms joined together with a partial wall separating both rooms.
This wall was opened up and later removed. The Room had a very low ceiling less than 10 feet high, creating excellent sound.
The support girders for the hall’s roof were adorned with painted portholes that mimicked the windows of the Yellow Submarine.
Even the sound system blended into the décor, with the speakers molded into huge fiberglass cones in which people would often be found sitting.
There was very poor ventilation. Lots of pot and cigarette smoke. No air conditioning. No HVAC.
Very cold in winter, too hot the rest of the time.

For Pink Floyd's shows there the band needed to use the ballroom floor to accommodate all of their gear, which took up two trucks to transport.
PF was set up against the back wall opposite the entrance on a very low riser.
The big Glyph horns were set up in the corners and there were Shure vocal columns set up every 20 feet or so along the walls in between.
There were slide projectors up in the metal rafters projecting fisheye photos of farm animals into the painted portholes on the walls in reference to the Atom Heart Mother cover.
A few steps up at the back of the performance space was another space with a trippy sculpture in the center, a female hand holding up a glowing sphere surrounded by "angel hair" and all under a plex dome.
There were no more than 500 people present, sitting on the floor in the center, with some folks sitting up inside the big Glyph bottom horns.

Pink Floyd were on tour promoting their new album, Atom Heart Mother, which had just been released a few days before.
They played there two nights, the 16th and 17th, returning to California for the fourth time in their career.
As with everytime they came to CA they felt at their best and their performance was really hot.
This time, though, was the first time they didn't play Interstellar Overdrive, an omission not lost to the Californian fans who considered it a certainty.

That first night there were many problems with the power.
The club's system was unable to deal with the multichannel sound system the Floyd brought, and several power outages marred the performance of Astronomy Domine.
Three more small outages occurred during the crescendo of A Saucerful of Secrets, but this time the band forged on and finished the song in spite of them, much to the fans' delight.

The show was originally recorded by Jay D. and Ron C. with a Sony TC-126 with Powered Single Point Stereo Microphone, using either Sony Red or Green cassette tapes.
They sat 10-12 rows back, left of center.
When the boys got back home, they instantly made two copies onto Scotch 7" Reel, one for Jay and one for Ron C.
The Master Cassettes were re-used for next day's Jethro Tull show in Berkeley.
They were usually never kept, due to the unreliability of cassette transport mechanisms at the time.

Thanks to this recording the show was soon famous amongst the fan trader circles and many bootlegs were released with at least some of these songs, especially the four attempts at Astronomy Domine.

Jay D. never traded this item so all copies around came from Ron C.'s reel copy which went rotten in the early 90's.
Rolf Ossenberg managed to get the Jay D. 1st gen reel copy which would no longer play back at all.
With the invaluable help of Mike K., the reel was baked in June 2011 (the morning after Roger Waters' show in Düsseldorf) and transferred from Revox A77 into Tascam US-200 to a 96KHz/24bit file.
Rolf was really nervous about baking the Scotch tape.
The issue is that the binder used was incorrectly made so it absorbs moisture.
This is believed to be a problem with all old Scotch/Ampex reels.
This moisture interferes with the adhesive so during playback you get lots of sticky gunk (yes, that is the technical term for it) collecting on the playback head and it impacts playback quality and even speed.
So you have to fix it. Rolf had bought a well-controlled oven specifically for this purpose.
They baked at 53C to 55C for 3-4 hours to drive the moisture out without damaging the plastic backing, let cool down to room temp, and voila' ... The tape plays back with no problems for a month or so.

oh yeah! that looks great... can't seem to get enough of this period.

That's because... wait for it... PINK FLOYD RULES!

when I was in s. carolina last month the backstage of this club had this magnificent painting. it ruled.
https://31.media.tumblr.com/82662f4929d8eb8d53796729aa73b703/tumblr_my469igzkv1qzy30io1_500.png

One of my FB friends has posed this question, why did Nick Mason sing the main vocal on Scream Thy Last Scream, anybody know definitively?

Oh, and I will happily get a link going for non-Dimers of the above, if anybody is interested then hollaback - crawfordiblair at gmail dot com

that's nick mason on Scream Thy? It rly sounds like Syd to me!

syd sings the "she'll be scrubbing floors on all fours" bit

That Pepperland show is great - each attempt at Astronomy Domine gets more and more furious.

http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs71/i/2012/142/3/d/pink_floyd_inspired_wall_by_illuminationwallart-d50ot5w.jpg

Listening to the '72 show from Chicago on the Dark Side tour and this is great. The first thing in years that's made me excited about Dark Side again.

what does your wife think of the new paint job in the bedroom?

jealous btw

cosign

She was up for it, but she says the Halo 3 poster has to go.

wait wait whoooooa back up

you mean DARK SIDE is not enough to get you excited about Dark Side?????!

smdh

lol no, i mean i've probably heard it a bajillion times in my life and i got a little tired of it. was just like the last PF album i'd reach for, but now i'm all about it again.

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and if yall start chiming in with 'yeah i got tired if it too yeah totally' I'm starting my own thread & no-one's invited

/jk

:)

pink floyd was my gateway drug into all kinds of ridic music, mostly on the new agey and keyboard and drone and echoing guitar tip. i listen to all kinds of music and i think i can trace it back somehow to the floyd.

*steeples fingers* tell me more abt ridic new agey keyboard drone music

Christmas Eve, I had dinner with one of my best friends and his girlfriend. I listened to Dark Side of the Moon for the first time. After the first side, I was very surprised that we were already halfway through, that it's only a single album.

We did the whole stupid Wizard of Oz thing 15 years ago, and one of my friends whom I thought had listened to every record ever recorded leans and says, "Huh, that Dark Side album wasn't what I was expecting." I'm incredulous, "What? THAT was your first time hearing that record? Here on the floor of Josh's house with Judy Garland on the VCR?"

He says yeah, didn't realize that there would be all those snippets of people talking.

lol Mr Veg and I did the Wizard of Oz thing not long after we met - accompanied by a box of lol whipits

I feel like I saw maybe 5 minutes of the actual thing and spent the rest of the movie having much better dreams about it

The Echoes/2001 thing works better and, Lord, only takes 20 minutes.

ridic new agey keyboard drone music could easily be another board on ILX.

.....a board I would regularly visit.

i spent two years of lolcollege living with huge stoners, so we did the Oz/Dark Side thing quite a few times. we also did the Wish You Were Here/It's a Wonderful Life one but i hardly remember anything about it other than it being a huge stretch.

I still love it, but I listen to DSOTM the least out of the middle period. However the parallel dimension early mix on the Immersion box is interesting to listen to.

as long as we all agree that PINK FLOYD RULES then any views on DSOTM are cool

DSOTM is sometimes my most favorite floyd album

The rest of the time, it's "Animals," as with all right-thinking people. RIGHT?

was there ever a bootleg of the interview answers that McCartney did? he did sit down and do the Q+A supposedly.

xpost yeah, pretty much

but sometimes it's also Meddle, Piper or The Wall.

I've been listening to More and Obscured By Clouds on recent bike rides.

There was a plan to remix OBC because they weren't happy with the production, dunno if that has been junked. The early years box set is still on the cards though, what form it will take is uncertain.

was there ever a bootleg of the interview answers that McCartney did? he did sit down and do the Q+A supposedly.

― piscesx,

McCartneys!

Marcello went long with The Final Cut with his usual aplomb:

http://nobilliards.blogspot.co.uk/2014/01/pink-floyd-final-cut.html

THE PINK FLOYD RULES
http://youtu.be/uTfDUyUkVYE

I'm finally reading Nick Mason's book Inside Out. Nick rules, even if there is roughly zero insight into anything.

i wonder what this Hans Keller thought of them after 10 years or so
xpost

xps the 'one can only imagine a __-year-old disaffected blond boy in washington state must have heard _________ and oh how the world was forever changed' construct gets less effective with each use

"This Hans Keller" was a very important figure in contemporary classical music in the UK, but he always liked his stuff with a bit of a tune.

this hans keller was an asshole as far as i can tell from this interview

He could really play and worked hard to expose high quality modern music on the tv. He was also an Austrian snob. No contradiction there.

who puts "an important figure in classical music" to judge rock acts on tv?
well, it was the sixties on the other hand..

He had a famous bit where he got a couple of stage hands to beat on some drums and play with some oscillators, and he introduced it as an important new work by modern Polish composer Piotr Zak. The "a-ha!" reveal came a few weeks later, but its impact was dulled when most of the critics he thought he'd embarrass called the work crap.

I just love that there was a time when a TV host would introduce a band he was hosting on his show by saying he found them "quite boring".

Also, they should have kept the "The" in their name, fo sho

"Have you encountered any hostility towards your creations?"

"Yes, from you about ten minutes ago, asshole."