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Post by monkybunney on Apr 4, 2013 19:55:03 GMT -5
For the inforoo peeps!
This popped up on Dime a Dozen. This boot was (and still is )circulated as "Pink Floyd: Who Was Trained Not To Spit On The Fan". This is the recording of the infamous concert in which Roger Waters spit on one of the fans attending the show. As the story goes (copy pasta):
In 1977, Pink Floyd wrapped up their Animals tour at this venue. During the performance, Roger Waters started to sing "Pigs on the Wing 2", but was interrupted by an audience member setting off a firecracker near the stage. He stopped singing and shouted out, "Oh, for Quack's sake. Stop letting off fireworks and shouting and screaming. I'm trying to sing a song." The crowd cheered at this. He continued: "I mean I don't care. If you don't wanna hear it, you know... Quack you! I'm sure there's a lot of people here who do want to hear it. So why don't you just be quiet... If you wanna let your fireworks off, go outside and let them off out there. And if you wanna shout and scream and holler go and do it out there but... I'm trying to sing a song that some people want to listen to. I want to listen to it!"
He then continued with the song. The situation continued to deteriorate, however, and during "Pigs (Three Different Ones)", Waters watched incredulously as one fan climbed the netting that separated the audience from the band. Out of disgust, Waters spat in the fan's face. Near the end of the show, Pink Floyd guitarist and singer David Gilmour was reported to have walked off the stage in disgust, sitting out the final encore. Following the performance, Waters regretted his actions, and began to lament the separation between the audience and band. It was this which caused Waters to come up with the idea of the critically acclaimed album The Wall. The band would not play at the stadium again until 1988, after Waters' departure, on their A Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. On that occasion, the performance went smoothly. They subsequently returned to the venue on their 1994 The Division Bell tour.
The 1977 show has been released as a bootleg, humorously titled "Who Was Trained Not To Spit on the Fan". This title is derived from the lyrics to the song "Dogs" - the actual lyrics are "Who Was Trained Not To Spit in the Fan."
This is a pretty seminal moment in the history of Pink Floyd. It's important because had this show been cancelled or otherwise went any other way "The Wall" as we know it might never have been made and I think some of the Floyd fans on here would be very interested in hearing it. I know not everyone who'd be interested in hearing this has a dime account and many of you that do have dime accounts also have permaQuacked share ratios . So I've stuck it in a dropbox and I'll send invitations out to any interested parties. Just pm me with your email addy.
PLEASE READ THIS PART The 13 audio files that comprise this show are in a lossless audio format called flac. I'm not sure if Windows media player supports flac or not but many free media players do. I personally use VLC for everything media on my computer. It's free, it's stable and it can play damn near any media format you can imagine. The audio is not pristine studio quality, this was taped by an audience member, but it is damn listenable and quite clear esp. considering it's from 1977.
Anyway please please PLEASE do not distribute this in a lossy format (mp3 for example). If you do torrent it on another tracker please include ALL the files, especially the "HRV_CDR_023.txt" file.
Like I said above this is a major moment in the history of Pink Floyd and I'm pretty sure we have a couple of Pink Floyd fans on here who've never heard the actual "incident". As soon as I started listening I immediately thought of inforoo and figured if any group of people would appreciate it it'd be people in this crowd!
So there it is.
If you have any questions about flac files just let me know I'd be happy to steer you in the right direction.
EDIT: Oh yeah, the set list - Disc 1:
1. Sheep 2. Pigs On The Wing (Part 1) 3. Dogs 4. Pigs On The Wing (Part 2) 5. Pigs (Three Different Ones) 6. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1 - 5) 7. Welcome To The Machine
Disc2 :
1. Have A Cigar 2. Wish You Were Here 3. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6 - 9) 4. Money 5. Us And Them 6. Blues (improvisation to get everyone to CALM THE FUCK DOWN!)
I just don't get why you are so adamant about it not being distributed in an MP3 file.. Is there something Im missing?
To preserve the quality. Most tapers will put the same request on the shows they release. No big deal to convert to MP3 for personal use, but further redistributing should be done in FLAC. People should be able to find the same shows 10 years from now without any diminished quality. You'd be surprised how many people re-encode MP3's to a different bit rate. That could happen, and for some reason that's the version that survives and 10 years later the populated version is an MP3 that's been re-encoded several times.
I just don't get why you are so adamant about it not being distributed in an MP3 file.. Is there something Im missing?
What Rothric said. It's about preserving the original fidelity of the recording. It's a very common request from tapers and traders. I have 3 digital copies of just about every boot I own flac (or shn or other lossless format), wav (easier to work with in audio editors), and mp3 (iTunes library). If I'm going to reseed something I'll reseed it in it's original format & include all original artwork and NFO file if available.
And no, I had not seen that video! Cool, thanks for pointing me to that! EDIT: I got excited for a minute thinking there was actual video lol! This is a good example of what I was talking about regarding audio quality. The audio in that video suffers and isn't as sharp as the copy of the boot I got. Most likely the result of youtube's re-encoding, also sounds like a cat hair got in the CD player, the tell tale "skiff-skiff-skiff-skiff" sound of something on the surface of the CD. Still really cool, I didn't know it existed on youtube.
I just don't get why you are so adamant about it not being distributed in an MP3 file.. Is there something Im missing?
What Rothric said. It's about preserving the original fidelity of the recording. It's a very common request from tapers and traders. I have 3 digital copies of just about every boot I own flac (or shn or other lossless format), wav (easier to work with in audio editors), and mp3 (iTunes library). If I'm going to reseed something I'll reseed it in it's original format & include all original artwork and NFO file if available.
And no, I had not seen that video! Cool, thanks for pointing me to that! EDIT: I got excited for a minute thinking there was actual video lol! This is a good example of what I was talking about regarding audio quality. The audio in that video suffers and isn't as sharp as the copy of the boot I got. Most likely the result of youtube's re-encoding, also sounds like a cat hair got in the CD player, the tell tale "skiff-skiff-skiff-skiff" sound of something on the surface of the CD. Still really cool, I didn't know it existed on youtube.
haa ya i wish it was the actual video. But ya just audio...
And thanks for the clarification. That makes a lot more sense.
Geek out freak out alert! Now this is interesting (and probably only to myself! but..)! I've listened to the audio from this video and after doing side by side comparisons with the version I just snagged 2 very apparent things jump out regarding the youtube version. 1'st the tape speed is at least 1 semi tone slower but not a perfect interval. While playing "Sheep" from the youtube video I broke out my keyboard and tried just matching the root notes and discovered it to be just slightly out of tune with D# whereas when I played along with the audio I've downloaded it falls perfectly in E. After a bit of google'ing everything I came across says the verse alternates between E minor and A minor. I'm convinced the youtube version is slowed down from how it was actually performed that night.
But that is not the most interesting part!!! On the recording I have just before Waters strikes the first teaser chord for "Pigs on the Wing (part 2)" you can clearly hear someone standing next to the taper say "Where's good old Sid?". Not on the youtube one. In fact after listening to just the audience between songs it's obvious that there were 2 TAPERS at that show.
)circulated as "Pink Floyd: Who Was Trained Not To Spit On The Fan". This is the recording of the infamous concert in which Roger Waters spit on one of the fans attending the show. As the story goes (copy pasta):
. So I've stuck it in a dropbox and I'll send invitations out to any interested parties. Just pm me with your email addy. 
