PINK FLOYD
Review - Pink Floyd Boston 1972
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The Boston Pink Floyd faithful
become impatient during the very long heartbeat intro to the Dark
Side Of The Moon suite.
Once the band get into ”Breathe” we are in for another tape from the
Joe Maloney cache, posted on the internet recently and released
simultaneously label last week as Boston 1972 on Sirene and
Mademoiselle Pink on the other big progressive rock label in Japan.
This is a good to very good sounding audience recording with hiss
evident and several cuts scattered throughout. “On The Run” has two
cuts at 2:22, 3:32, “Us & Them” is cut at 7:07 and “Any Colour You
Like” is cut at 5:17, plus one at 2:53 in “Brain Damage” that loses
some music.
It’s a notch below the 1973 tape released earlier this year but
still very enjoyable with minimal audience interference.
The first set is the Dark Side LP, announced by Roger Waters as “Eclipse”,
played a year before it’s actual release.
In an early stage of development the spring performances in 1972
were interesting but nothing like the final product.
The tapes from
this year show the band gaining confidence in the material to where
there are very dramatic versions by the autumn.
“The Great Gig In The Sky” was changed between the Japan tour in
March to the US tour, being now swirling psychedelic organs with a
voice reciting the Lord’s Prayer and another speaking about progress.
“Money” has a good keyboard solo in lieu of the saxophone, and “Us &
Them” was always the most advanced number in the suite.
The second set gains the better reaction from the audience and is
much more effective overall.
The blues encore goes on for about
twelve minutes and is very mellow.
Sirene claim to not have simply downloaded the file from the
Internet but utilize a digital copy of the original master cassette.
The photo on the inside is very interesting with the whole road crew
sitting around the stage and Nick Mason off to the side looking very
glum.
This is another very good release, limited to only 150 copies,
and another piece of Floyd’s live history surfacing after
thirty-three years. |
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