| Identifier | 9844561 |
| Created At | Tue May 23 2023 23:54:00 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time) |
| Media Type | FLAC |
| Sound Rating | A |
| Note | ('Canadian Bacon' Bootleg)
Maxell UD cassettes (Master) > TEAC reel to reel at 15ips using Maxell ud blanks (1st Gen) > DAT > Sony TCD-D7 > Hard Drive > WAV > CD-R > FLAC > TLH, Decode > WAV > Remaster > Flac (Level.8, Align On SBE'S) (All Tracks Tested With TLH, No Errors Occured) Label: N/A Original Taper: Henry B This is a Group/Personal Project by "Those Who Were Trained Not To Spit At The Fan", Mikey64, Kingmike, Porgie, Mark, The 7th Son, Joel, Mike, Grendel, and Acapulco Gold. We hope that whoever picks this up will enjoy this, and will pass it along and share it with others, or just pass, the choice is yours. This is not meant to be a "Definitive" edition. ******************************************************************** Notes: And Now For Something Completely Different... This project is our first attempt at remastering a Floyd tape. My friends and I have been wanting to work on a Floyd tape for a long time, but the opportunity to work on a decent sounding recording never arose until just recently when Mikey64 posted the 1st Gen version of the 2nd tape source of the bands performance at Ivor Wynne Stadium. This show is one of my favourite Floyd concerts of all time, and has special meaning for me because both of my parents attended this show (not together though, they didn't know each other at the time), and I have several friends who attended the concert and shared their memories with me. This show was one of the last concerts ever held at Ivor Wynne stadium, (home of the Canadian Football team The Hamilton Tiger-Cats). It's an open air football field (not a dome stadium like the ones built for NFL teams) and was built in 1930, it was originally built and used for the 1930 Empire Games, and after the games were over, the Tiger-Cat's moved in and have been playing there ever since. Renovations are currently being made on Ivor Wynne to accomodate athletes for the upcoming Pan-Am Games. It's a shame that the stadium was never used for more concerts because it really does have nice acoustics, but I do understand why concerts aren't held at Ivor Wynne anymore (I'll explain why later on in my notes). As I said, this show was one of the last concerts ever held here, but not the very last show ever held there. The last concert held there was Rush back in 1979, an audio recording of that concert hasn't turned up, but according to my friend Kevin (a huge Rush fan) there is apparently footage of that concert on one of Rush'srecent concert DVD's, not being a fan, I wouldn't know, but maybe someone could verify this. There were several reasons why the city stopped hosting concerts at Ivor Wynne, and the Floyd concert was mostly the cause for the ban. This show was the last performance of Floyds North American tour, so Pink Floyd's crew decided to end the tour with a bang and used up their remaining pyrotechnics around the stadium scoreboard. The explosion at the climax of the show was so intense it blew the scoreboard to pieces and shattered windows in neighboring houses. For those that may doubt this fact and say that it's impossible that the explosion was that intense, I'm here to tell you that it's absolutely true. The stadium isn't positioned like alot of major sports teams arenas, it's actually located very close to residential areas in the city, not in the downtown core of a major city, or in an industrial area or on the outskirts of the city, it's actually located fairly close to residential houses and neighbourhoods. Besides the scoreboard incident, there were also several incidents where people leaving the concert caused significant property damage to homes located near the stadium, and some fights broke out. I've often asked my parents and my friends who attended this show what it was like seeing Pink Floyd live, and they all give me different stories about the show. For my mother, the Hamilton concert was her 2nd time seeing the band live. She first got to see them play at Maple Leaf Gardens back in 1973 (the infamous "Yeeshkul" show). She's told me that she enjoys their music, but wasn't a hardcore fan, and really wasn't interested in going to either of those shows, but her "at the time" boyfriend ( who was connected to the music industry) was lucky enough to snap up tickets for both of them, really wanted to go to the shows, and she didn't want to disappoint him, so she went to the shows. Her memory of the whole show is a little fuzzy, but she does remember that she was sitting in the stands on the left hand side of the stadium, she had a fairly good view of the band and the stage, that the show was the loudest concert she's ever been to, and that she's never seen so much pot in her life. She mostly tells me that part about the concert, that people in their section of the stands were handing her joints all night long, and she just kept passing them along (because she didn't smoke) to her boyfriend (who did smoke). My friend Andre remembers this show quite fondly, he's a die hard Floyd fan and bought tickets for this show as soon as they went on sale. He and his friends were lucky enough to snap up field tickets, they loaded up on beer before and during the show and would later drop some acid as the show progressed. Even though he was quite ripped during the show, he tells me that he can remember the show quite vividly. The one thing he talks about that night more then anything is that he remembers the Hamilton police being on the field observing and trying to keep order, he also says that some of the police were on horse back. Here's a story about the concert that I found posted on the Traders Den by a collector who had posted the version of the first tape source "Steel Breeze". "Long Cold Road" By: Wray Ellis PROLOGUE: My Life Changes: June 28th, 1975 I should describe an important event that charted the course of my future. It started in the basement of my parentsí general store. It was long before any recycling programs so one of my duties was to burn paper and cardboard. One day, as I tore up the unsold Toronto Stars and tossed them into the fire, something caught my eye. On one of the pages I was about to toss into the flames, I noticed a picture of Pink Floyd. It was the inside cover photo from the album ìMeddleî. Above it, read: ìDanceÖThink PinkÖPink Floyd LIVEî. I pulled it out and read the ad. Pink Floyd (who I had recently become a great fan of) was going to play live in Hamilton at Ivor Wynne Stadium. That was a show I desperately wanted to see, but there were hurdles. A ticket cost an extravagant $8 and I was making about $2 an hour. I could just about cover that, so I immediately sent off a money order. Next hurdle: getting to Hamilton from Haliburton was a long drive ñ 5 or 6 hours. I had a car, but it was an old one: a 1964 Pontiac station wagon. It could possibly make the trip but I was still 16 and hadnít even driven on a real highway yet. And, there was no one that I could ask to drive me. My parents were more than a little concerned about such a long drive for such an inexperienced driver. But when my ticket arrived, I knew I had to make it work somehow. I asked my buddy Jack Outram to come along. He said he didnít mind going even without a ticket ñ so I finally had a plan. On the morning of June 28, 1975, I gassed up the wagon and we headed out to parts unknown ñ and off to my very first rock concert. Everything was going fine until we got to Lindsay, about half way. That's when I experienced my first blown tire. For just such an emergency, I carried my fatherís Esso credit card so I limped into an Esso station, bought a cheap tire and had it installed. We were back on the road and it only slowed us down by an hour. Amazingly, I got through Toronto traffic with no problem at all. I didnít get lost or take a wrong turn ñ which happens regularly to me even now. We easily found our way to Hamilton and from there, I basically just followed the throngs of people until we spotted the stadium. Parking was a trick though. Every driveway, front yard or side alley was already packed with cars. I spotted a kid in front of a factory who took my last $5 and showed me to his last spot. I figured he probably had no connection to the property but we were running out of time. I decided that if my car got towed, Iíd deal with it after the show. Pink Floyd was calling! We hopped out and joined the exuberant crowd marching toward the concert. It was a beautiful, warm summer night. The smell of sulpher from the steel mills would give way to something more herbal the closer we got to the stadium. Jack and I agreed to meet right after the show outside the stadium under the scoreboard and I wandered in and found my seat. I was about half way back, to the left of the stage. The place was packed: 65,000 people. As I looked out over the city, the roof of every nearby building was populated for the ìfreeî show. Iíd never been to anything like this! As soon as the music started, I became transfixed. I was amazed by the lights, sound effects and most of all, David Gilmourís guitar-playing. It was an awesome spectacle - and it was on this night that I decided to devote as much of my life as possible to playing music. Specifically, to playing the guitar. At the end of the show, I felt elated. I hooked up with Jack and was relieved to hear that heíd found a spot where he could look through the fence and see the show about as well as I did. We were both overwhelmed by the experience and I needed to walk around a bit before I could drive. Luckily, when we reached my parking spot, my car was still there and the ride home was a breeze. We probably got home around dawn, but it was worth every second. Recently, I happened to experience that very show again. Thanks to the internet, you can find an astonishing array of bootlegged concerts ñ and I found this one. Itís known as ìSteel Breezeî. Itís a wonderful show. But for me, that concert (just 2 days after my 17th birthday) was when my life completely changed ñ and I decided to be a musician. Iíve never looked back. The link to that story online can be found here: http://davisvilleproductions.com/hom...portfolio=Wray From what I know, there are 2 tape sources of this show in circulation, and there's the possibility that there is some silent 8mm concert footage (thank you to brinkhoffs for sharing that information with everyone) Both recordings are excellent, and sound quite simular to each other in someways (i.e: both sound like they were taped from the field or possibly from the lower stands) but there are some differences between them. The 1st tape source runs a little fast compared to the 2nd tape source, which runs at the correct tape speed. Also, I think the 1st tape source has a little bit more tape than the 2nd tape source, but I might be wrong about that. This being our first attempt at remastering a Floyd recording, and not knowing how our work will go over with the Floyd community, we decided to play it safe and just try to do a straight remaster of the raw transfer of 2nd tape source instead of attempting to make a merge. I do hope that I have the lineage posted correctly, if anything does need to be corrected, please let me know and I'll be more than happy to fix any possible errors. I've tried to get the lineage down as accurately as possible, but I have seen quite a few conflicting statements about the true generation of the tapes shared to the community and posted online. Mikey64's textfile states that the generation of the raw tape source is Master Reel > DAT > Sony TCD-D7 > Hard Drive > WAV > CDR > FLAC, but according to fellow Dime member "searcher2cr" the raw transfer could not possibly be from the master reel because there apparently is no master reel. The concert was apparently recorded on a Sony TC-124 portable cassette deck with no dolby using a ECM-99 1-point stereo microphone using Maxell UD cassettes. It was then transferred onto a TEAC reel to reel at 15ips using Maxell ud blanks. Thus the lineage is more likely derived from a 1st generation reel, not a master reel. But I've also heard a conflicting testimonial to what Searcher has said about this recording from TTD member Carrste, who had posted a 24 bit, 2nd Gen transfer version of this source on the Den. According to Carrste, the equipment used to tape the show was not a Sony TC-124 portable cassette deck, but a Uher cassette deck and AKG mic. Carrste's 2nd Gen version came to him from Nigel B (who taped Zeppelin at Earls Court on 5-23-75, and Floyd at Earls court in 1980), Nigel got his tapes from a Canadian trader who knew the taper (Henry B). Carrstes 2nd Gen version lineage is: Master (Henry B) > 1st gen (Mark L) > 2nd Gen (Nigel B) > Nakamichi ZX-7 cassette deck with manual adjustment to height and azimuth of playback head to match that of the original tape recorder to optimise the sound during playback > Direct connection to analogue input of Audiophile 2496 soundcard via high quality Clicktronic interconnects with 24K gold plugs. I have Carrstes version and have listened to it and compared it to the 1st gen version posted online and to me they sound quite simular to each other, which makes me wonder if Mikey's version really is genuine 1st Gen, or just the 2nd Gen transfer downsampled to 16 bit. I've decided to go with Searcher's information about this show to be the correct lineage of this transfer, as I said previously, if I'm wrong, I'll gladly correct the lineage. What we've done to make this project: - We've tried to balance the instruments as much as possible, and have tried to bring out instruments that were not as dominate in the mix as others (originally the vocals and guitars were dominating over the bass and drum fills in the raw tape mix) - We've brought down the volume to a more reasonable level, originally the raw transfer was running a little too hot. - We've tried to bring out more things that were buried in the raw recording (crowd cheers, clapping, commentary, etc). After we did the remastering on the project, we could hear things on the recording we didn't before (like the crowd clapping during "Have A Cigar"). In regards to the title: We really wanted to come up with a title that makes reference to Hamilton in some way, the city is famous for a couple of things, but it's mostly known for The Hamilton Tiger-Cats (their Canadian Football Team that plays at Ivor Wynne) and the Steel industry, at one time, Hamilton produced as much (or possibly more steel than Pittsburgh). A title that referenced the Cat's hadn't been done yet, so we tried to come up with titles referencing that but we came up short, only coming up with "Tiger-Cat Hunters" and "Hunting Tiger-Cats". We then tried to reference the steel industry, but that also came up short, and besides, the bootleg "Steel Breeze" is kind of an homage to it. So we just started thinking of clever titles that made reference to Canada and would possibly connect to the band, and suddenly it hit us. CANADIAN BACON. Hope everyone here will enjoy this. Cheers! |
| Source Info | Sony ECM 99 1-Point Stereo Microhone >Sony TC-124 Cassette (No Dolby) |
| Traded From | Daspy |
| Trades Allowed |
Performance
| Pink Floyd 1975-06-28 Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton, ON | |
|---|---|
| Set 1 | Raving And Drooling
You Gotta Be Crazy Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts I-V Have A Cigar Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts VI-IX |
| Set 2 | Dark Side Of The Moon [Speak To Me->Breathe->On The Run->Time->Breathe (reprise)->The Great Gig In The Sky->Money->Us And Them->Any Colour You Like->Brain Damage->Eclipse]
E: Echoes |
| Set 3 | |
| Comment | "Steel Breeze" & "Echoes in the Canadian Wood" |