The Complete 1987-1988 Tour
A radical reworking of Pink Floyd's Delicate Sound of Thunder
Magna Qualitas Records production
CD 1:
01. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
02. Signs Of Life
03. Learning to Fly
04. Yet Another Movie/Round And Around
05. A New Machine Part 1
06. Terminal Frost
07. A New Machine Part 2
08. Sorrow
09. Dogs of War
10. On the Turning Away
CD 2:
11. One of These Days
12. Time
13. On the Run
14. The Great Gig in the Sky
15. Wish You Were Here
16. Welcome to the Machine
17. Us and Them
18. Money
19. Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
20. Comfortably Numb
CD 3:
21. One Slip
22. Run Like Hell
23. Echoes
24. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 1
25. Signs of Life (video edit)
26. Learning to Fly (single edit)
27. On the Turning Away (album version)
28. On the Run (video edit)
29. Comfortably Numb (video edit)
30. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part IV (video edit)
This is a composite of the audio from both the CD and the LaserDisc releases of the concerts (Delicate Sound of Thunder has never been officially released on DVD) that we've beefed up with some additions to make into a complete show.
As a bonus we've added the five songs that don't exist on any release of Delicate Sound of Thunder ("A New Machine Parts 1 & 2", "Terminal Frost", "Welcome To The Machine" and "Echoes"), the missing 38 seconds of "Signs of Life", and a couple of minutes cut from "On The Run", all sourced from bootleg soundboard recordings, thus completing the setlist.
Source list and abbreviations:
CD - obviously the CD
LD - LaserDisc
OB - Orange Bowl, Miami SBD tape
MB - Melbourne SBD tape
PH - Philadelphia SBD tape
NC ñ Nassau Coliseum SBD tape
AO - Atlanta Omni SBD tape - In 1987 three nights at The Omni were recorded and filmed with the intent of making a live album, but due to technical difficulties and lackluster performances the recordings were shelved. Only a few recordings of these shows ever surfaced officially on B-sides and in videos. New shows were recorded at Nassau Coliseum early the following year which later became the Delicate Sound of Thunder album. Now for the first time several unreleased portions of the Omni shows are seeing the light of day as part of this expansion of the DSoT album.
RTN - David Gilmour's Remember That Night DVD (used for dialogue)
DS4 - Dark Side of the Moon quadrophonic mix (used for effects)
WYWH4 - Wish You Were Here quadrophonic mix (used for effects)
AUS - The Australian Pink Floyd Show - Live at Hammersmith DVD (used for effects)
Tracklist and source details:
01. Shine On You Crazy Diamond ñ Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 20, 1988.
Source: The intro is from LD because we liked the Jacob's ladder electrical arc sounds added to the mix, then cuts to CD just before the "Syd's theme" guitar notes.
02. Signs Of Life - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 23, 1988 (keyboard half) and The Omni, Atlanta, GA November 3, 1987 (guitar half).
Source: The intro rowing sound effects are from OB, then the first half of the song is from LD, but on that version 38 seconds were cut from the second half. We used the AO recording for the second half of the song. Because this song is artificially overlapped with Learning to Fly on the video release the synth sound making up the long fade of this is spliced on from the end of the Momentary Lapse of Reason album.
03. Learning to Fly - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 23, 1988.
Source: All from CD. The dialogue after the song is from a couple of sources. Most of the dialogue is from the OB, and the "Hope you all enjoy yourselves" is from MB.
04. Yet Another Movie/Round And Around - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 19, 1988.
Source: CD
05. A New Machine Part 1 - Recorded at the Orange Bowl, Miami, FLA November 1, 1987.
06. Terminal Frost ñ Recorded at the Orange Bowl, Miami, FLA November 1, 1987.
07. A New Machine Part 2 ñ Recorded at Tennis Center, Melbourne, Australia except the second line which is punched in from the Orange Bowl, Miami, FLA November 1, 1987.
08. Sorrow - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 23, 1988.
Source: CD
09. Dogs of War - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 21, 1988.
Source: CD. Dialogue from OB.
10. On the Turning Away ñ Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 20, 1988.
Source: The first half of the song is from CD. The guitar solo at the end is from LD except for eight bars that were edited out of the video, yet existed on the CD. With the exception of this part the solo is at its full length in the video, but edited shorter and differently on the CD. Of course we used the longest version. The intro dialogue is from OB. The dialogue after the song is taken from the Remember That Night DVD. Since Dave says the same thing at every show on every tour we werenít too particular about the date as far as the dialogue goes. The minute of audience that divides the sets is taken from, of all places (.......OK, we're letting you all in on one of our regularly used tricks here.) the end credits of Iron Maiden's Live After Death video. It's over a minute and a half of continuous smooth audience noise that we like to use for a lot of things. This shows up discreetly in several places throughout this album.
11. One of These Days - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 21, 1988.
Source: CD. For most of this concert the audience sound has been enhanced and it is not mentioned in detail every time. In this song we mention it with explanation. Audience enhancement was used in this song at the start of the bass solo to account for the appearance of the pig and at the start of Dave's big lap steel solo because the light show went totally crazy in that spot at the shows.
12. Time - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 19, 1988.
Source: CD. Audience enhancement has been added at Rick's first solo vocal because he always got a big cheer when he sang the bridges in Time.
13. On the Run - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 19, 1988 and The Omni, Atlanta, GA November 3, 1987.
Source: Because the version of this released on the LD version is an edit with nearly two and a half minutes of the song missing we added a significant portion of this track from AO. The first 30 seconds or so are from the Nassau Coliseum show from the LD, then it fades to AO for about 2 1/2 minutes, and finally returns to LD for just over the last minute. Because the Omni and other SBD tapes lack the prerecorded sound effects they were dubbed in from the rear channels of the quadrophonic mix of Dark Side of the Moon. Although this is technically cheating, we find it acceptable because these sounds were on prerecorded tape at the shows anyway and would have been added in post-production by Pink Floyd when assembling the album.
14. The Great Gig in the Sky - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 23, 1988. Source: LD
15. Wish You Were Here - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 20, 1988. Source: CD
16. Welcome to the Machine ñ Recorded at Tennis Centre, Melbourne, Australia February 19, 1988.
Source: This song presented its own problems: the tape effects were not very audible on the recording we used (MB). This left the song sounding very empty because the throbbing bass synth note that drives the beat of the song was one of the missing sounds, as were all the "whoosh, swish" noises that make "Machine" so...well...machine like. We replaced the pulsing synth note from a few different sources. We sampled a couple of beats of it from one of the tracks on the multichannel mix in the 2011 Wish You Were Here box set and used it in a few spots, and thankfully The Austrailian Pink Floyd Show recently put out a live DVD where they performed the song. We took the 5.1 mix from AUS and removed certain parts of tracks (the center channel with the vocals and guitars were the first to go, and we took out the female backing vocals by editing around them) and after some clever editing and phase cancellation we were left with a backing track that contained all the synth sounds, plus the reverb from the vocals. We speed synced this to the PF version, thus replacing the missing sounds while adding little else (The only exception to this is the additional female backing vocals in the second verse that are more like the way Roger Waters performed the song on his solo tours. We couldn't cut them out of the second verse like we did the first because there was a hihat cymbal in the backing track in that verse, and to cut the vocals would have left dropouts in the percussion). The recorded intro of the song up until the guitar comes in is from NC. The door buzzer was enhanced by a sample taken from WYWH4. The tape effects at the end are from the WYWH stereo mix.
17. Us and Them - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 22, 1988.
Source: CD
18. Money - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 23, 1988.
Source: CD.
19. Another Brick in the Wall Part 2 - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 19, 1988.
Source: CD. The dialogue afterwards is from the OB.
20. Comfortably Numb - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 23, 1988.
Source: CD. Dialogue after is from the OB. An encore break was created with additional audience noise.
21. One Slip - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 23, 1988.
Source: LD
22. Run Like Hell - Recorded at Nassau Coliseum, NYC August 23, 1988.
Source: The intro is assembled from three sources: The CD, the LD, and OB (we made it longer because we just love the sounds Dave makes with the delayed guitar at the start of the song). The body of the song is from CD, but the last couple of seconds of the music at the end are from LD in order to get the explosion. We beefed up this explosion with additional explosion sounds that had more low bass, and we also added a series of explosions to the end of the breakdown after the synth solo where the pyro towers blew off at the concerts. The dialogue at the end is from NC.
(A note on the explosions: In the DSoT video the sparkler cannons are on the stage at the back because the video was filmed at an indoor venue. The majority of the tour, however, was in outdoor stadiums in which the sparker cannons were on the top of the lighting scaffolding. This was far more impressive than what is shown in the video, particularly because the video is in slo-mo and edited more complexly than necessary. What }{eywood remembers from the 6 shows he saw on this tour was much different than the official release, and is deserving of being audible on an audio-only document)
23. Echoes ñ Recorded at Lester J. Pearson International Airport, Toronto, Ontario in early September, 1987, CNE Stadium, Toronto, Ontario on September 21, 1987, JFK Stadium, Philadelphia, PA on September 19, 1987 and Municipal Stadium Chicago, Ill on September 25, 1987.
Sources: PH, HR, BBC 71 & audience tapes from Toronto, Philadelphia and Chicago. Plus 4 2006 Gilmour shows.
When }{eywood submitted the main body of work to the MQR team they suggested we find a way to include Echoes on this set, thus making the setlist complete. The problem with this was that only two soundboard tapes of this song exist: The Hangar Rehearsals tape which has several pieces missing and not the greatest effort put into the vocals, and a show from Philadelphia that starts at the beginning of the singing on verse 1. Verse 1 is also useless on the Philadelphia tape because both Dave and Rick forget the words.
This song is constructed by using PH for the bulk of the song (beginning just after the vocals). Because the PH tape is rather dull in the high end it is synchronized with an audience tape from the same show to clarify the higher frequencies and add ambience to the recording. The guitar solo, distorted guitar parts during the funky part, the whale/seagull sound and the jangly guitar leading into the third verse were separated from the SBD tape with EQ and bounced to another track. Panning and effects were added to this, and the same frequencies were removed from the main SBD tape. This allows the effected version to fill in the spectral hole and helps simulate the places where Dave's guitar is put into the quadrophonic speakers at the shows. In the middle section the spacey sound the bass makes is virtually inaudible on the AUD tape, and on the SBD tape the sound of the flanger effect is louder than the sound the bass is making, so a new bass track was composited from four shows from the On An Island tour. For the final verse a show from Chicago was also synchronized to the PH material to try to improve the vocals a bit by double tracking them. Lastly, a couple of piano notes were enhanced by doubling them from other performances. The "ping" that starts the song and the low note immediately after, and the final low note were added in to make them more audible.
The beginning of the song is constructed in a rather complicated way. We began with a decent quality recording from Toronto, WRomanus removed the bulk of the screaming audience with his (ought to be) patented cleaning method, and then synchronized this with a lesser quality recording, taper 2, from the same show. This gave us a fairly good sounding audience recording with a large amount of the excessive screaming attenuated. Then a mono SBD recording of the rehearsal for Echoes done in the Toronto Airport hangar was speed synced and laid in to clarify the instruments and take away a bit of the audience nature of the recording. Audience was added to make it more in line with the rest of the album, and to bury the remaining bootleg audience. Although this song was the opener at the first 12 shows we have moved it to the end of the set for two reasons. The first is because of the way it was constructed. The quality degrades somewhat as the song progresses, and to have something follow it would make that too obvious. The second is it is not a good opening song. The weird part in the middle was not a good dynamic for an opening number. Shine On is a much better song to open with because it builds up as the song progresses. Echoes has a weird part in the middle that is a bit of a buzzkill at the start of a show. As an encore, however, it a perfect song. It is emotionally draining and is a difficult song to follow. Therefore for this record nothing follows it. The closing dialogue is from the LIG DVD.
BONUS TRACKS:
We have included the original edited versions of the songs we expanded as well as edited versions of some of the other tracks as they appear on the LD release and the edited guitar solo version of On the Turning Away as found on the CD.
24. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part 1 - LD
25. Signs of Life (video edit) - LD
26. Learning to Fly (single edit) - LD (also released as a single)
27. On the Turning Away (album version) - CD
28. On the Run (video edit) - LD
29. Comfortably Numb (video edit) - LD
30. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Part IV (video edit) - LD
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