Live in London Empire
Pool, Wembley, November 16 1974
30th Anniversary Edition
Source : PreFM Master (Digitally Restored, Remastered, Re-Edited )
01. Speak To Me 2:36.146
02. Breathe 2:55.880
03. On The Run 5:05.760
04. Time 6:40.986
05. The Great Gig In The Sky 6:51.280
06. Money 8:03.320
07 Us And Them 7:57.813
08. Any Colour You Like 7:40.173
09. Brain Damage 3:40.093
10. Eclipse 1:52.160
11. tune up 1:57.613
12. Echoes 23:48.573
Total running time: 1:19:09.800
Why a new version of the November 16, 1974 Pink Floyd concert at the
Empire Pool, Wembley? Despite the fact that a great number of different
audio sources exist for this concert, none of them seems to be as good
as required. Although the 'PreFM Master' source is, to my knowledge, the
best one available, it suffers from various audio flaws like:
- presence of noise (hiss and clicks) and saturation,
- wrong speed,
- signal drop-out and stereo image losses,
- ‘parasite’ signal on ‘On The Run’ (end) and ‘Time’ (beginning),
- wrong equalisation and dynamics of the audio signal.
The restored version proposed here, mainly based on the 'PreFM Master'
source, is an attempt to correct, as far as possible, these different
flaws. First, all the kind of noises have been removed and a correction
of the speed, based on the BBC6 2003 broadcast, has been applied. Then,
most of the signal drop-out and saturation have been attenuated.
Concerning the so-called ‘parasite’ audio source (that you can still
hear at 04:08 from the beginning of ‘On The Run’) this one has
eventually been masked by the add of the clock 'tick-tock' that is
listenable on the BBC6 2003 broadcast previously mentioned.
The crowd noise has been
added at the beginning of the show by reference to what you can ear on
the ‘Completely Brain Damaged Vol.3’ bootleg.
During the making off this
project, another source containing a very good audio quality of ‘Echoes’
emerged from sharing communities, I decided to include this number in
this project. Although a doubt remains concerning the origin of this
source (mp3 sourced?), I chose to preserve this piece because of the
historical nature of the performance (sax and female voices). Finally,
an equalisation and a modification of the dynamics were applied to the
whole of the project in order to obtain a good final mix. The best
efforts were produced in order to obtain similar sounds for ‘DSotM’ and
'Echoes'.
Because of the lack of
source of equivalent audio quality for the other played titles on this
day ('Shine On You Crazy Diamond', 'Raving and Drooling' and 'You've
Gotta Be Crazy'), these ones were not included in this project. If
someone could provide a very good recording of these tittles I would be
delighted to provide an add-on for the TSPDP09.
Although this anniversary edition is not totally flawless (is an
official release will surface some day?), I hope that you will enjoy
this
new remastered version of this Pink Floyd performance.
Acknowledgements: I would wish to thank the ‘Sharing The Groove’ (www.sharingthegroove.org)
and ‘EzTorrent’ (www.easytree.org)
communities as well as the Direct Connect one ‘PiNkRoIoShN’ (pinkroioshn.myftp.org)
for sharing all the sources used in this project.
Last but not least, I would like to specially thank ‘Tattieboggle’ for
providing the BBC6 2003 broadcast of this show.