Pink Floyd - From Oblivion
Pink Floyd
From Oblivion
Community Concourse, San Diego
October 17, 1971
discs: 2
recording type: AUD
shn: yes; book/page: 1/47
quality rating: A
[disc 1] (70:34)
1. Careful With That Axe, Eugene (13:09)
2. Fat Old Sun (16:03)
3. Atom Heart Mother (16:04)
4. The Embryo (12:04)
5. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (13:12)
[disc 2] (60:14)
1. Cymbaline (11:55)
2. One Of These Days * (6:12)
3. Echoes * (24:07)
4. A Saucerful of Secrets ** (6:28)
5. Green is the Colour *** (6:00)
6. Pink Blues (5:29)
bonus tracks:
* 9/30/71 - Paris Cinema, London
** 6/25/68 - 1st Top Gear session w/ David Gilmour, 201 Piccadilly Studio 1, London
*** 5/12/69 - a Top Gear show, BBC, Paris Cinema, London
http://www1.pf-roio.de/bda/int/pffan/roio/roio-cd/from_oblivion.cd.html
Xref: Embryo San Diego, 1971, Embryo San Diego, 1971, Life Could Be A Dream, The Heart Of The Sun, Echoes, Eclipse, The Floyd's of London, Londonfields, Meddler, One Of These Days, Rhapsody In Pink (The Psychedelic Years), The Complete Top Gear Sessions 1967-1969, The Embryo, Music For Architectural Students, Phenomena, Ultra Rare Trax Vol. 3
This is an amazing audience recording. Sound is very clear and instrument are well defined, and the performances are great This is absolutely a must have. Hunt it! - FERNANDO
San Diego tracks: Ex-, Bonus BBC tracks Ex/Ex+
I must add some of the tracks are not from the San Diego show, but from the BBC sessions.
Green Is The Colour is actually The Beginning from May 12th 1969, broadcast by BBC on May 14th. The track ends some seconds into Beset By Creatures Of The Deep (CWTA,E).
A Saucerful Of Secrets is actually The Massed Gadgets Of Hercules, from June 25th 1968, broadcast by BBC on August 11th. This version is very similar to the one on the album.
Echoes and One Of These Days are from Sep 30th 1971, also from the BBC sessions, available on countless roios. Clearly mastered from vinyl, but the sound is amazingly clear. - FERNANDO.
4 tracks are not from the San Diego show. "One Of These Days" and "Echoes" are taken from the 1971 BBC show, Paris Theatre, London, September 30, 1971. "A Saucerful Of Secrets" is from the first Top Gear session with David Gilmour,
that happened on June 25, 1968. "Green Is The Colour" was also recorded
for Top Gear, on May 12, 1969.
I compared 3 different RoIOs of the San Diego show:
"From Oblivion", "The Heart Of The Sun" and "Life Could Be A Dream".
First, about the sound quality. All these RoIOs come from the same source: an excellent stereo audience recording. One can hear the same people clapping and chatting between songs (BTW, audience is very quiet). So I think they all come from the same recording, but probably from different generation tapes. "The Heart Of The Sun" RoIO seems to suffer from some noise reduction technique: the sound is good, not too hissy, but the high frequencies are muffled. The sound on "Life Could Be A Dream" RoIO is very clear, but there's a lot of tape hiss. "From Oblivion" RoIO is better than the others: the sound is very clear, and with almost no hiss!
Secondly, about completeness. "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" is missing on "Heart Of The Sun" RoIO. "Cymbaline" and "Blues" are missing on "Life Could Be A Dream" RoIO. "Atom Heart Mother", on "Life Could Be A Dream" RoIO, fades out too early (the last 30 seconds are missing). The most complete RoIO is "From Oblivion". It contains "Careful With That Axe, Eugene", "Cymbaline", "Blues" and the end of "Atom Heart Mother".
About the recording speed, I noticed that the speed on "The Heart Of The Sun" RoIO is too high! For instance, "Atom Heart Mother" lasts 15'11", although it's complete (the version on "From Oblivion" RoIO has the correct speed and lasts 16'05"). The wrong speed is noticeable (voices and instruments are a too high, and the tempos are too fast), and listening to "The Heart Of The Sun" RoIO soon becomes very annoying!
So, I recommend "From Oblivion" RoIO above the two others: best sound quality, more complete tracklist, and correct speed. - MARC-OLIVIER.
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