Tag: 1969

Pink Floyd – Amougies, Belgium (10/25/69)

Pink Floyd
1969.10.25
Festival Actuel Mont de L’Enclus
Amougies, Belgium

  1. Astronomy Domine [10:30]
  2. Green is the Colour [3:29]
  3. Careful with that Axe, Eugene [9:46]
  4. tuning (with Zappa) [2:43]
  5. Interstellar Overdrive (with Zappa) [20:18]
  6. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [13:00]
  7. A Saucerful of Secrets [17:58]
  8. Green is the Colour [4:09]
  9. Careful with that Axe, Eugene [9:18]
  10. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [11:02]

Pink Floyd – London, England (04/14/69)

Pink Floyd
Royal Festival Hall, London, England
14 April 1969

Royal Festival Hall Rehearsals
HRV DVD 008 Rev. A

DVD Audio rip

Lineage: Original 16mm Film > Submaster > DVDR(0) > DVDR(x) > DVD video files > DVD Audio Extractor > wav@16/48 > *flac@16/48

  • Tracked with CD Wave, encoded to flac 8 with Flac Frontend, tagged and verified

16/44.1 flacs included in separate folder, downsampled with Adobe Audition 3.0.1, pre-post filltering set to high

To achieve a better flow for the benefit of the enjoyment of the rehearsals and the discussions between I deleted a few spots of silent footage which you can admire on the original DVD if you like but would be out of place on this audio rip:

  • 15 secs of silence (screen credits) at the start
  • 1 min 10 secs silent footage from stalls between Drum Instrumental and Organ Music
  • 13 secs of silence at the end

Resulting track list:

  1. Afternoon (Biding My Time) / Discussion / “Wild Tape” (4:20)
  2. The Beginning (Green Is The Colour) / Beset By Creatures Of The Deep / Discussion (2:29)
  3. Discussion / Nightmare (Cymbaline) / Discussion (3:33)
  4. Drum Instrumental (Ummagumma) (0:37)
  5. Organ Music Take 1 – A Saucerful Of Secrets (End Part) / Organ Music (3:20)
  6. More Organ / Instrumental (5:50)
  7. Chucking Out Time (Anthony Stern getting busted) (3:08)

(All songs are fragmentary)

Total time: 23:21

Apart from this unusual and fascinating chance at hearing the Floyd rehearse at this early point of their career, the discussions (well, discussions… it’s mostly Roger making observations) between rehearsals and at the end (where Anthony Stern is asked to leave) alone are worth the price of admission in my opinion.

Bert13/pernod
Sat 24 April 2010
Torrented at Yeeshkul! tracker

Original notes from HRV DVD 008 Rev. A (with thanks to RonToon and the Harvested team):

This is about 20 mins of b/w footage shot at the Royal Festival Hall by Anthony Stern (it sez so right there on the opening slate). It seems that Stern was called earlier that day by the band to shoot this amazing and unique performance. Unfortunately, he didn’t go through all the proper channels, and only got permission from the RFH to shoot the rehearsals and only in certain areas of the venue. This becomes apparent when the venue’s security “busts” him and orders him to turn over all of his equipment. This all takes place while the camera is still rolling, but with audio only! You can hear the escalating dialogue between Anthony and security/management as he pleads his case. Too bad he didn’t go through the proper channels and pay for the rights to film the actual show, as he was evidently prepared to do, but at least we have this incredible rehearsal footage to marvel at. That’s the story as Stern has pretty much confirmed.

It seems that the last bit (Rick playing the final part of ASoS of the huge house pipe organ) was outta synch, but I was able to fix that properly. Other songs include Biding My Time (with Rick briefly on trombone), Green is the Color, Cymbaline, and ASoS… all incomplete but still wonderful to watch!

This Rev.A is a substantial upgrade from the original release. The picture is much less washed out and the contrast is a lot better (the blacks ar darker) w/o any video enhancement.

This time around I can take an educated stab at the gen:

The original 16mm film was transferred at a professional studio. I’m not sure what tape stock it was transferred to, but there is a good chance that a DVD was made at the same time. I can only assume that a clone of that DVD was passed on (if it was done properly, it should be the same, but I can’t know that for sure). I then received a perfect clone of that DVD which I converted to an NTSC MPEG-2 stream (CBR 8) and a
PCM stream. My previous release came from an unknown PAL VHS source.

Enjoy!
RonToon

Pink Floyd – Manchester, England (06/22/69)

Pink Floyd
June 22nd 1969
Free Trade Hall, Manchester, England

  1. [02:53] Daybreak (Part 1)
  2. [01:06] Work
  3. [02:45] Afternoon
  4. [03:33] Doing It!
  5. [05:30] Sleeping
  6. [07:45] Nightmare
  7. [01:50] Daybreak (Part 2)

The Journey

  1. [03:20] The Beginning
  2. [07:27] Beset By the Creatures of the Deep
  3. [05:34] The Narrow Way
  4. [01:53] Behold the Temple of Light
  5. [08:11] The End of the Beginning

Encore

  1. [11:42] Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun [63:36] Total

Pink Floyd – London, England (06/26/69)

Pink Floyd
Royal Albert Hall
London, England
June 26th 1969

Disc (79:29m)

  1. AFTERNOON
  2. DOING IT
  3. SLEEPING
  4. NIGHTMARE
  5. DAYBREAK (pt. II)
  6. THE BEGINNING
  7. BESET BY CREATURES OF THE DEEP
  8. THE NARROW WAY
  9. PINK JUNGLE
  10. THE LABYRINTHS OF AUXIMINES
  11. BEHOLD THE TEMPLE OF LIGHT
  12. THE END OF THE BEGINNING
  13. Encore: SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN

Pink Floyd – June Laying the Embryo, 1969

Pink Floyd
June Laying The Embryo
Embryo 3 Different Ones
June 1969 Abbey Road Studio 3

Lineage??>Cass(chrome)>SoundForge>SHN

  1. Embryo listed in the collectors guide to Pink Floyd PF archives booklet. Could be either 1st or 2nd one here, the third being the radio broadcast before it was usually traded.

Laying Down Tracks – June 1969
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2.Radio 3 Emi Studios London – I always thought this came from a TV broadcast but is it just radio??

Johnny Rotten talks about Syd Barrett/Sid Vicious date??
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  1. Short interview response.

Pink Floyd Interview with Roger Waters by Brian Mathews BBC Radio 1 Top Gear June 25 1968
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  1. For some reason this never turns up where it should i.e. with all the 67-69 radio shows. Here is the transcription.

InterviewerBM: Now meet Roger Waters of Pink Floyd.
Roger your kind of music doesn’t usually find its way into the
charts these days do you find there is still a demand for it.

RogerWaters:Um, recording wise there’s quite a big demand for albums.

INT: Yes

RW: There isn’t a demand for singles. It’s not that kind of market.

INT:Right but you can’t live by records alone. What about the live scene?

RW:Well, so far as we’re concerned most of our live work now is out of england and the live work that we still do in england is at universities and the odd quotes ‘underground club’ that’s still happening. Most of these/those scenes have packed up now.
It was a big thing last year.

INT: How do you, listening to you just now, rehearsing one or two of the things you’re doing,
how do you begin to create these sort of very complex sounds?
Are they built up gradually or…

RW:Um Yes they are built up gradually or not as the case may be some of them are some of them aren’t. It’s very difficult to say it’s you know what works for one number doesn’t work for another.
Just improvise until we hit on something that’s nice.

INT:Yeah. Good.

RW:Then we can reconstruct…

INT: And you have got a relatively new lp on release.

RW:Yes it’s out next week.

INT:Well let’s I see you listed one or two of the numbers on it, Let There Be More Light is on it isn’t it.

RW: Yep

INT:Good here we go.


Pink Floyd – Abbey Road 3, London, June 1969

The second track of three Embryo’s on “June Laying the Embryo” is presented here.

This is just the file which is supposed to be the outtake. The file on the earlier upload has a Windows noise that I had missed. Too many late nights and this was transferred a while ago at another person’s house on another late night.

I am sorry but I do not have the technology here to fix the earlier upload and so apologize for this extra splicing.

-MomentsLostHisMind

Pink Floyd – Celestial Voices, Celestial Particles (1968-1969)

Pink Floyd
Celestial Voices & Celestial Particles


“Celestial Voices”
Rover Records (RR CD 002)

-The Paradiso, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (August 9, 1969)

  1. Interstellar Overdrive (Segment)
  2. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
  3. Careful With That Axe, Eugene
  4. A Saucerful Of Secrets

-BBC Session, Paris Cinema, London, England (May 12, 1969)

  1. Daybreak (Grantchester Meadows)
  2. Nightmare (Cymbaline)
  3. The Beginning (Green Is The Colour) / Beset By Creatures Of The Deep (Careful With That Axe, Eugene)
  4. The Narrow Way (Part 3)

-BBC Studios, 201 Piccadilly, London, England (June 25, 1968)

  1. ‘Top Gear’ Introduction
  2. The Murderotic Woman (Careful With That Axe, Eugene)
  3. The Massed Gadgets Of Hercules (A Saucerful Of Secrets)
  4. Let There Be More Light
  5. Julia Dream
  6. ‘Top Gear’ Conclusion

Celestial Particles

  1. Interstellar Overdrive
  2. A Saucerful Of Secrets
    Shrine Exposition Hall Los Angeles CA
    27th July 1968
    Lineage: Silver>EAC(offset corrected)>Wav>Traders Little Helper>FLAC8
  3. Astronomy Domine
  4. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
  5. Interstellar Overdrive
    First European International Pop Festival, Piper Club, Rome, Italy. May 6th, 1968. VPRO Rebroadcast
    Source: fm > unknown > cdr > shn
  6. Green is the Colour
  7. Careful with that Axe Eugene
  8. Set The Controls for the Heart of the Sun

Mont de L’Enchus Amougies Pop & Jazz Festival Belgium October 25 1969

Belguim Radio source taken from HRV CDR031