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Franck's Collection

Pink Floyd   11/21/1970

Altes Casino, Montreux, Switzerland
Source AUDVictor's 2009 transfer: 2 x Sennheiser MD-421 > Uher 4200 reel recorded at 7.5 ips > Audio CD > EAC > FLAC "The Good" recorder: unknown gen > Scotch Reel > DAT(0) > WAV@48Khz > Speed & Pitch Correction > FLAC@48Khz
Media FLAC/CDR   2 discs
Notes The Montreux 40th Anniversary Series
"Too Late For Mind Expanding" (HRV CDR 036)
This new Harvested release provides the first of the two Montreux 1970 concerts in the most complete form and with the best possible quality. The main source was Victor's raw master transfer already shared last year. The ending part of Green Is The Colour and the following track Careful With That Axe Eugene, not present on Victor's master, were taken from "The Good" recorder that surfaced some years ago on "The Good... The Bad" RoIO ref. FA033. Victor's master is a superb audience recording and a compilation cassette he did in the past from both concerts was copied by someone and ended up on the 1995 "Smoking Blues" bootleg ("Smoking Blues" is therefore at least 1st or 2nd gen, and even with that lineage some people thought it was from soundboard or from some EMI acetates that are most probably pure legend). Embryo, Just Another Twelve Bar and More Blues from "Smoking Blues" are from 21Nov70, but the versions presented here are upgrades, coming directly from the master and with an uncut More Blues (fading out on "Smoking Blues").
This is a rare case where all the stars were aligned: we have the best audience recording from that era, and at the same time the Floyd performance was really magic that night.

MOB (November 21, 2010) Harvested Records
Trades Allowed Yes
Ratings Sound: A/+
Owned by Franck · Last Updated May 23, 2023