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Pink Floyd   12/01/1972

Palais des Sports, Saint Ouen, France
Source AM Radio Broadcaast
Media flac   2 discs
Notes Harsh Realities [1972 RTL AM broadcast restored]
}{eywood / eckoes 2011

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Details:

Date: December 1st, 1972
Venue: Centre Sportif de l'Ile des Vannes, Saint-Ouen, France

Original Source: AM radio brodcast
Channel(s): Mono (1.0)

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Notes:

In 1972, RTL was one of the most popular radio station in Europe. Despite having their studio in France (they were the intended audience), they had an insanely powerful transmitter in Luxembourg to overcome the French legislation that banned private broadcasting at the time. Because of this, they could be heard all over Western Europe, even in Scotland during beautiful days. At the time, Pink Floyd were very popular in France. They knew it and toured extensively there. It's nonetheless quite surprising that the band agreed to broadcast live one of their shows from there because they only dealt with the BBC for this before and after this show. Well, if you consider that RTL was sponsoring 9 of their concerts in french-speaking Europe at the time, it's not that surprising, maybe it's part of the deal. The show we're talking here is the second from those 9 dates (the original poster for this mini-tour is included in this package). It's their last live broadcast on any media 'til the 1989 Venice TV show (one of their shows was recorded in November 1974, but was edited prior to broadcasting many months later).

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Concert:

That night was special in many ways:
-"Blues" jam, generally played as an encore in a few show, is part of the concert.
-"Childhood's End" make it's live debut in that show. It was played sometimes that month and at a few show in March 1973 before disappearing completly from their setlist. In fact, it's the very first time a song from the album "Obscured By Cloud" (released 6 months before) was played live.
-They played an entire proto "Dark Side Of The Moon" live on the airwaves, almost 4 months before it's release. One can hear that "The Mortality Sequence" is on it's way to become "The Great Gig In The Sky", "The Travel Sequence" jam is still there, and that some arrangements are not quite finished.
Trades Allowed Yes   Traded from: Raving and Drooling
Ratings Show: a-    Sound: a-
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