Since We Were Teenagers - MQR 004
Civic Auditorium - Santa Monica, CA, USA - May 1st 1970
Source: Audience
Sound Quality: EX
Total time = 121:53m
Taper: Dub Taylor
Recording equipment: Nagra R2R > 5" Reel Master
Playback: Tandberg R2R > Revox B-77 > M.M.'s 1st Generation Reels
Transfer: Reel[1] > Sony DAT > DAT(0) > Audigy 4 Pro > Nero Wav Editor > CDWav > CDR(0) > CDR(1) > EAC > FLAC
Restored and Enhanced by MQR - creamcheese, }{eywood and WRomanus
Set One 51:18
1. GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS
2. ASTRONOMY DOMINE
3. Tune Ups
4. CYMBALINE
5. THE AMAZING PUDDING
Set Two 79:08
1. Tune Ups
2. THE EMBRYO
3. GREEN IS THE COLOUR
4. CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE, EUGENE
5. SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN
6. INTERSTELLAR OVERDRIVE
7. A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS
Magna Qualitas Records is proud to present "Since We Were Teenagers", this fully restored and remastered recording from Santa Monica as our fourth release. Due to our continuing work on everything related to Zabriskie Point, which led to the new revision of the Omayyad album, we've decided to complete the restoration of this excellent recording. GBC torrented this recording (provided by Rudy and M.M.) originally a while back, and his notes reflect the many instances of dropouts, damages and cuts in the tape. All this has been restored here using pieces of other shows or relocating pieces from this show.
Originally Grantchester Meadows only ran about 30 seconds. Apparently that is where the taper started recording. We have patched the majority of the song in from the previous show in San Francisco on April 29, but since the very beginning of that fades in we decided to restore that as well from the KQED tape. We wanted the birds before the song to be there. The 30 seconds of the song that existed on the tape for this show are all there, but now the whole song exists in a form that is nearly impossible to tell its from more than one show. from 0 to 0:34 April 30 - KQED. From 0:34 to 7:13 April 29 - Fillmore East. From 7:13 to 7:37 (end) May 1 - Santa Monica
Astronomy Domine had a small part missing due to a damaged portion of the tape. This was patched with a piece from slightly earlier in the song. The buildup was a bit oversaturated and was all at one continuous loud volume, so this was readjusted to better reflect the gradually increasing intensity of the song.
The original little patch from Santa Monica 1970-10-23 is still in place in Cymbaline. It was done so well I can't even tell where it is, so why mess with perfection?
A dull spot in the tape at about 14 minutes into The Amazing Pudding was repaired.
The missing part of Careful was spliced in from Port Talbot 1969-12-06, curiously this concert was during the Sessions for Zabriskie Point. We searched long and hard through dozens of shows to find a tape where the performance was similar enough to the one at Santa Monica (and with similar sound quality) to fill the missing section. Quite a lot was missing, so it had to be done. The patch exists from 2:33 to 3:48.
Drop-outs and other anomalies were cleaned up or otherwise repaired. The volume of the whole thing was adjusted in various places to make the dynamics more pleasant, and because the tape sounds like the taper was adjusting the gain on the fly as the show went on in order to compensate for very quiet passages. A lot of the between song banter and tuneups and the tape effects during Cymbaline were very quiet, so they were brought up a bit. The distorted sections of the show were carefully restored to avoid a lot of the oversaturation they originally contained. Several spots where the high end dulled down a bit, likely from deterioration of the master, were EQd separately and patched in in order to compensate for the tonal changes. Noise Reduction was carefully applied in three stages, and the whole thing now appears for the first time in stereo due to the usage of a very sophisticated and well sounding (although freely available) stereo processing plugin. The tape flips were all patched by relocating audience from different parts of the show so the whole thing is now a continuous piece for each set.
This release is certainly not perfect. Many wrinkles and crumples were present in the master tape, and although we did our best, there's not a lot that can be done to fix them. It is, however, probably the best it has ever sounded since we were teenagers, maybe even as it ever will...
July 2011
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13 comments:
I know some people have issues with the substitution of music from other shows but really it is only what record companies have been doing for decades and usually for no reason whatsoever. You have to admire the skill and effort which goes into this kind of repaired boot, and since (unlike record companies) it's all declared it can only be seen as another excellent addition to the Floyd ROIO catalogue IMO
Big thanks as always
Always wanted to hear a "proper" version in high quality of this excellent show - thanks.
m-f
This is a small wonder - plus a lot of work, I guess. Just listened to Set the Controls....., and that is just magnificent, with a lot of energy, an amazing clarity, brilliant dynamics, good frequency response.... Fantastic that such gems are still revealed 40 years after they were recorded. Thanks a lot for this - to everyone involved
Henning2804
Denmark
100% agree with 'Anonymous 3:15PM' comments.
Usually due to technical problems or musician's mistakes, it's a very usual practice to re-record some parts in studio, not mentioning the not-so-honest practice of selling a "live" album with studio recorded tracks, adding screaming and audience noses (Stones'"Got Live If You Want It" is a good example of this).
I will not mention names here, but about 5 or 6 years ago I went to a show, and it was one of the BIG, very BIG bands we all know. It was horrible: don't know if were drugs, booze, old age (or everything mixed) but the vocals were out of tune, many errors in the guitar parts (their own songs!), etc. An official recording was released of this same show after some months and it was absolutely different: gone were the out of tune vocals, the guitars almost perfect, etc.
Many thanks Dave (and to the guys who made this available) , sure another great (and honest) Floyd recording.
Brainy1000
Wow, sounding great. Thank you very much (as always :-). All the best for you and a great weekend.
Sorry! in my previous post I was not talking about audience noses...noises, of course.
Brainy1000
Just Amazing Stuff !!!
Thanks Dave.
I get' the (+) commentary as to judicious/respectful/only-when-necessary usage of songs from different concerts; we live in a digital world of riches...we can have this 'correction' with improved sound quality...we can have 'purist' releases missing segments of music due to terrrible sound portions...or we can have (Led Zep boots come to mind) of audience pacthes to soundboards (occaisionally the converse)...its a personal preference; for me,the pure best parts (with missing segments due to sound being terrible is most preferred.
But its fun there are so many choices.
My real point of this commentary is something different...
You have just posted the 4th-of-4 releases from Magna Quality Records.
They have all been superb.
This is now
a NAME label that I will check out anything they release (ditto to the professional Godfather)
These MQR guys are just superb...excellent taste,great thought put into releases,tons of work...
...and it really shows.
My heartfelt thank you MQR guys,if you are listening; you too Dave for posting now ALL their stuff.
ericjmz
Can anyone point me in the direction to the other three MQR releases>
to The Village savant:
2 Pink Floyd pages back:-
http://qualitybootz.blogspot.com/2011/06/pink-floyd-omayyad-tmoq-edition-remade.html
and...
http://qualitybootz.blogspot.com/2011/06/pink-floyd-lost-zp-album-1969-70-studio.html
(There is an 'extended version,twice as many songs,on DIME)
I'm having a 'senior moment', and blanking on the 3rd...if it comes to me I'll post a response
ericjmz
To TVI #2:
OK..I got it!
To expand on my answer above:-
[MQR 001] 370 Roman Yards (The Lost Zabriskie Point Album)
(noted/pointed to in above answer)
[MQR 002] 1969-1970 OMAYYAD The Remaking of the Omayyad
(noted/pointed to in above answer)
[MQR 003] EXTENDED 370 Roman Yards (The Lost Zabriskie Point Album)
referenced in the above answer...NOT on Q.B. (can't find it today at least); I T_H_I_N_K I got it from DIME...maybe from Yeeshkul
and this current posting,being MQR #4.
And they are ALL wonderful release-projects...just top-of-the-line
ericjmz
all three of the others ARE here but have a "Zabriskie Point" related artwork.
Can anyone tell the diffrence - in terms of sound quality - between the MQR Zabriskie Point releases and THE COMPLETE ZABRISKIE POINT SESSIONS (Two certain somebodies SLUT002) ?
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