Sound Quality: C+
Performance: B+
Overall: 2
Bad recording, ordinary performance.
Track Breakdown...
Grantchester Meadows: Nice rendition, nothing out of the ordinary, bird noises are clear and vocals are good.
Astronomy Domine: By Contrast to the previous track the vocals here are hardly audible (because of the last one was acoustic), the music side of things is not bad, a bit booming. The last 3 minutes can be skipped for those of you who are so inclined because it contains some speaking by Roger and a comment by Dave, just to the crowd upstairs should come down because of the lack of speakers upstairs.
Cymbaline: Suffers from the same issue as the last track, the bass is distorted and the sound has that booming quality like it was too much for the recording equipment.The vocals are a little better because the music is gentler. Sound effects segment is clear and nicely recorded. Another 3 minutes or so at the end can be skipped if you wish, it contains tuning this time.
Atom Heart Mother: Although it is introduced as having no title it will eventually become 'Atom Heart Mother' so I will refer to it as such. Suffers from the same issues as the rest of the recording, distorted bass etc but having no vocals there are no issues there. There is also a couple of recording problem spots.
Intro & Rant: Not really a typical Roger rant really subdued, skip if you want.
The Embryo: Bass distortion continues into the second set so it seems like that will be the case with the whole show. The vocals are better now, but not by much. Nice version though, couple of minutes of tuning and stuff at the end.
Green Is The Colour: Even though this is a gentler song so the vocals are good in places there is a heavy bass note here which is horrible sounding.
Careful With That Axe, Eugene: This is killed by the bass issues, it is one of the important parts of the piece and is horribly distorted so it totally blunts the edge of the axe, so to speak. Minute or so of tuning at the end before the next song. Roger introduced the next track by saying that he is not sure what the song is about but he knows what it is called.
Set The Controls For The Heart of The Sun: The vocals on this track are normally lower volume by design but here they are hard to hear. Minute and change of tuning and introduction to the next track.
A Saucerful Of Secrets: Cut! we only get about 2 and a half minutes.
Leave this one alone.
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Original info...
Pink Floyd
Capitol Theater, Port Chester, NY
4/22/70
source: unknown audience
Disc I
1. Granchester Meadows 08:42
2. Astronomy Domine (1) 13:06
3. Cymbaline (2) 16:24
4. Atom Heart Mother(3) 20:37
total time- 58:52.51
Disc II
1. Intro & Rant(4) 00:54
2. The Embryo (5) 15:36
3. Green is the Colour> 03:36
4. Careful With that Axe, Eugene (6) 13:52
5. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (7) 17:18
6. A Saucerful of Secrets// 02:38
total time- 53:56.19
(1) Roger: If there's anybody sitting upstairs, I suggest they come downstairs to the right because of speakers that we're playing tapes and things through they set out around the hall. We didn't have enough to fit speakers upstairs as well as downstairs. So if there's anybody up there in that blackness, my advice would be to get down ???
Another band member: 'Cause there's plenty of seats.
(2) Roger: This next thing is a song that we recorded for a French film called "More" that's, um, it's called "Cymbaline."
(3) Roger: This next thing we're going to play is a new number ??? that we're recording for our new album and uh, after we finish this one we're going to take a break, regroup.
This Doesn't have a title yet, so if you think of anything clever let us know...
(4) Roger: ??? the album cuts, we'll do that later ??? Anyway, this is a song you've NEVER HEARD BEFORE, unless you've heard it before (drum roll/cymbal crash). I think they had a bit more electricity at the Fillmore than they have here. ??? Something was different ??? we got it all working, right Nick?
So anyway, this is called "The Embryo."
(5) Roger: We're going to play two things cleverly run together now, the first of which is a song called "Green is the Colour" and the second is an instrumental called "Careful With that Axe, Eugene."
(6) Roger: So that was an instrumental about foul murder. This is a song about... actually I'm not quite sure what this song is about but I know what it's called and it's called, "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun."
(7) Roger: All right. This is the last tune we're going to play and it's off the album before last, before last and it's the title track and it's called "A Saucerful of Secrets."
Thank you all for coming. It's been nice seeing you,
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