Pink Floyd
The Wall Rehearsals–Full 90min Version
Paramount Studios
Los Angeles, CA
February 1, 1980

SBD>Normal Bias Cassette Master>Maxell XL-II(4th Gen)>EAC>Flac(8)

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01 The Thin Ice
02 Another Brick In The Wall Part 1
03 The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
04 Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
05 Mother
06 Goodbye Blue Sky
07 A Few More Bricks
08 What Shall We Do Now
09 Young Lust
10 One Of My Turns
11 Stop Building The Wall
12 The Last Few Bricks
13 Goodbye Cruel World
14 Hey You
15 Don’t Start The Tape
16 Is There Anybody Out There
17 Nobody Home
18 What’s On TV?
19 Vera
20 Bring The Boys Back Home
21 Comfortably Numb
22 The Show Must Go On

This is a new transfer from cassette of the tape we have all come to love. The sloppiness, the arguing (“Dave, why did you stop?” “I didn’t stop, Nick did” “Well why did he stop” “I don’t know why he stopped, ask him” “We must never stop”), the technical SNAFUs (“I can’t hear any piano in my cans” “James there’s no click track in the cans”). How can you not love this tape?
The reason for the new transfer is that the version available on Roio CD is a single CD that clocks in at 78 minutes. This is from a cassette that was full up. After speed correction this version runs 90:17. I think all that qas cut is some of the 2 spots where the TV goe on for a few minutes, but I though I’d offer a complete version for whomever might want it. I know everyone out there is a completest freak, so here you go.
There was a hell of a lot of noise on this tape, some stemming from the original master being a normal bias cassette, most from however many generations of tape this went through before getting to me. I used noise reduction on this, but tried to be careful. Didn’t take it all off, because it really hurt the music. There are a few artifacts from the NR, but I personally can deal with them better than that wall of hiss (no pun intended). There is an unusual squeak in the background of side 1 of the tape, kind of a tone running through the thing, that I couldn’t remove, because it is not consistent. Starts off at the beginning as one note, and by the end its several notes lower. If it were consistently one note I could use a notch filter to get rid of it, but its not, so it stayed. Also, sector boundaries on this set are NOT fixed, because this runs too long for a CD. If you want to burn it it will have to be made into 2 CDs and SBE’s fixed for each. You’re on your own.
Thanks to Quentin1840 yet again for the source tape. Perhaps you can put some towels in that closet pretty soon.