Performance: B-
Overall: 3/5 Storage
Hopefully if I now mention is have ben stuck in a rut of mediocre boots I will have a change of luck. The one is pretty good sound quality there is a noticeable volume drop in the middle of CWTAE but other that that it is easily listenable. The small cut mentioned in the original info in ASOS is noticeable but only just, it sounds like they all come to a dead stop at the same time, it doesn't spoil the album in any way.
The performance isn't bad but pretty uninspiring in my opinion, the only real standout for me was 'Interstellar Overdrive' which had lot of great improvisation on it and some different parts I had not heard before. The rest was ordinary. I feel I am becoming spoilt already in my process with a lot of bootlegs still to go.
Pick this one up if it presents itself to you but don't work for it.
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Original Info…
Pink Floyd:
Beset By Creatures of the Deep
Format:
CD
Catalog:
HL194 Highland
Misc.:
Audience recording
Produced:
1998
Date:
690509
Matrix:
Disc: 1
Cover:
Front: White bordering with Pink Floyd written on top and "Beset by Creatures or the Deep" written on bottom. Centered is a photo of the Floyd that looks '69ish where the bank is playing on a small stage in what appears to be a small venue. Back cover contains another photo from same show but different angle (front cover appears higher; back cover is lower than stage looking up from Gilmour's feet). Track listing and venue info listed in back. No booklet, but backside of front cover contains backstage photo and behind the CD the clear case reveals a photo from the Floyd's '68-69 publicity shot in front of the old bi-plane (as seen inside spread from "A Perfect Pair".
Sources:
09 May 1969, University of Southampton, Highfield, Southampton, Hempshire UK 5/9/69 (Late Evening Show)
Tracks:
Disc: 1
1. Astronomy Domine 9:13
2. Careful with that Axe Eugene 7:46
3. Interstellar Overdrive 12:03
4. The Beginning (Green is the Colour)- 3:29
5. Beset by Creatures of the Deep 5:22
6. A Sauceful [sic] of Secrets 11:50
Total Time: 49:44
Band:
Roger Waters
Nick Mason
David Gilmour
Rick Wright
Xref:
<no info>
Quality:
• VG+ -PIG1DO
Comments:
Not sure if the date is presented in US format (month/day/year) or European (day/month/year); package says 5/9/69. Can use a crosscheck reference (Miles) to confirm if they were in UK at this time on. A GREAT performance. No cuts on all tracks. IO is great, albeit without Syd. Astronomy and ASoS are also great. A lot of improvisations on these tracks Definitely complements the first half of Ummagumma. Rogers introduces some tracks, and after CWtAE he lets out a crackle reminiscent of Several Small Creatures and/or PowR TocH. Slight tape hiss during quiet sections. I notices most just at the beginning before all instruments are heard on Astronomy. Otherwise not noticeable. All instruments and vocals are clearly audible. -PIG1DO
There _are_ cut(s) in songs on this record, at least in my version. At 06:38 in ASoS (section 'Syncopated Pandemonium') there's a cut with 2 seconds of silence, and after that the song leaps back into 'Storm Signal'-section. Great performance though, despite this cut (which is btw the only I noticed on the record).
Violent and haunting version of IO, really great (as the commentor above mentioned). Mason really seems to enjoy this song and this style of playing, and so do I.
Sound quality is really good considering the age and origin of the master tape.
Spoken parts/announcements: Between AD & CwtAE, Dave: "Thank you." Roger: "This is a much newer thing than that one, which is very old. And it's instrumental. It's called 'Careful with that axe Eugene'. It has got a very quiet start."
Between IO & Green, Dave: "Thank you."
Between Beset by creatures & ASos, Roger (or Dave): "Thank you." Roger: "This is going to be the last thing we do and it's the title [song/show?] of the last album we released, and it's called 'A saucerful of secrets'."
After ASoS, Roger: "Thank you."
The 2 seconds long cut in ASoS I mentioned earlier appears at 44:33 into the record, which makes me think that it's most likely caused when the person(s) recording the show inserted a new tape or switched sides of the tape (because of the 45-min standard there usually is on tapes).
At the end of AD there it sounds like there are vinyl pops and clicks, like it's been remastered from a vinyl. There's even a larger click which makes the song go back 2 or 3 seconds, making you hear the applause for AD twice. However I don't think it's been mastered from vinyl, because I haven't noticed these pops and clicks on other tracks on the record. It's not a very disturbing thing, and I think the record is really great. Too bad about the cut in ASoS, though, because it's occurs just where Gilmour is showing off his cool guitar w/ feedback&echo stuff.
The crowd is polite (as always at that time), no shouting or whisteling during songs. Only small talks here and there during the whole record, but it's never disturbing. Sounds just like the band's playing in front of a picnic or something :-) . Judging from the amount of applause it seems to be not a very large audience. -ANDREAS
It appears that the actual date for this show is May 9 1969, not September 5 1969. -EDEN
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