Pink Floyd 1973 03 11 Maple Leaf Gardens

Pink Floyd

Collectors Edition - 24bits @ 96kHz - This is a big download

Sunday 11th March 1973 - Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto - Direct from 2nd Gen Cassettes

Sound quality is Excellent Stereo - less harsh than other versions due to 96kHz sample rate.

Taper: - Henry Boc (needs confirmation)

Equipment Used to record the show: - Uher cassette deck and AKG mic on a pole (needs confirmation)

I obtained these cassettes from Nigel Bradder who lives in the UK who was a prolific Pink Floyd collector in the 70's and 80's. He traded with a guy in Canada called Mark Lewkowicz who I believe had obtained copies of the masters of this show from the taper who I believe was called Henry Boc.

If anybody has more information about the origins of this show and who taped it please post it.

On the above basis I believe that it is most likely that these cassettes are second generation from the master.

The transfer was made using the following equipment: -

Playback via Nakamichi ZX-7 cassette deck with manual adjustment to height and azimuth of playback head to match that of the original tape recorder to optimise the sound during playback.

Direct connection to analogue input of Audiophile 2496 soundcard via high quality Clicktronic interconnects with 24K gold plugs.

This is a big download and if you want to listen to it on CD you will need to down-sample from 96kHz 24bit to 44.1kHz and 16bits join the files together
then split up on the sector boundaries.

On my cassettes the tracks are split as follows: -

Tape 1 Side 1 - Echoes, Obscured By Clouds/When You're In
Tape 1 Side 2 - Careful With That Axe Eugene, Speak To Me, Breathe, On The Run, Time, Breathe (Reprise), The Great Gig In The Sky
Tape 2 Side 1 - The Great Gig In The Sky, Money, Us And Them, Any Colour You Like, Brain Damage, Eclipse
Tape 2 Side 2 - Crowd, One Of These Days

The only track split is near the end of The Great Gig In The Sky

I tidied up the beginnings and endings and merged all four sides together then split the show into individual tracks and saved them at FLAC level 8.

Track listing: -

01 - Echoes
02 - Obscured By Clouds / When You're In
03 - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
04 - Careful With That Axe, Eugene
05 - Speak To Me
06 - Breathe
07 - On The Run
08 - Time
09 - Breathe (Reprise)
10 - The Great Gig In The Sky
11 - Money
12 - Us And Them
13 - Any Colour You Like
14 - Brain Damage
15 - Eclipse
16 - Crowd
17 - One Of These Days

Support the artist - this recording is for give away or trade only - please do not sell it.

Steven Carr - 31st May 2009