Pink Floyd - Hamilton '75 Master Reel (Bootleg)
Location: Ivor Wynne Stadium, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada
Source: Master Reel>DAT>Sony TCD-D7>HD>WAV>CDR>FLAC-Source #2
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This show is from 6/28/75 in Hamilton, Ontario during their Wish You Were Here Tour. The sound quality is EX.
It's an incredible audience recording that is virtually indistinguishable from a professional record.
The stereo soundstage is wide and well defined.
Aside from the sound quality, another reason I am sharing this show is the setlist. You get the Animals album in
the form of "Raving and Drooling" and "You Gotta Be Crazy", almost all of Wish You Were Here in "Shine On You
Crazy Diamond" and "Have A Cigar", all of The Dark Side of the Moon, and half of Meddle with the "Echoes" encore.
What more could you ask for? And the performance is top-notch. Gilmour's guitar work is incredible.
The tone and sound quality overall is simply outstanding. In my view it is the number one Pink Floyd bootleg.
Let's just say the boys were at their best that night and we're lucky enough to enjoy it over and over again.
Even if you're a casual Floyd fan, this show will make you happy. It has, basically, every Floyd song the average
dude knows (not counting The Wall) in one concert.
I received this show in DAT about 10 years ago from a very reliable source. The lineage on the DAT I have says
"Unknown Mics>Master Reel>DAT" so I'm pretty positive this is a master DAT clone.
The show is one of the best audience recordings I've heard. I know there are other sources from this show that
are currently in circulation, the most recent one I'm aware of is Harvested REV A Version.
I downloaded the Steel Breeze version and although it sounds good, to my ears it appears to run a tad slow when
I compare these two files. You be the judge. This may be the best version I have heard.
Artist: Pink Floyd
Album: Hamilton '75 Master Reel
Genre: Psychedelic Rock
Audio Format: FLAC
Bit Depth: 16 Bits
Sampling Rate: 44.1 KHz
Writing Library: LibFLAC 1.1.0
(UTC 2003-01-26)
Recorded: June 28, 1975
Runtime: 2:10:07
File Size: 855 MB
Line-Up
David Gilmour - Lead Guitars, Vocals
Nick Mason - Drums, Percussion
Roger Waters - Bass Guitar, Vocals
Richard Wright - Keyboards, Vocals
Tracklist CD1
01. Raving And Drooling
02. You Gotta Be Crazy
03. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt.1
04. Have A Cigar
05. Shine On You Crazy Diamond Pt.2
Tracklist CD2
01. Speak To Me
02. Breathe
03. On The Run
04. Time
05. Great Gig In The Sky
06. Money
07. Us And Them
08. Any Colour You Like
09. Brain Damage
10. Eclipse
11. Tuning
12. Echoes
Pink Floyd first crept into my consciousness on an evening in 1973. Although I was only 15, when that stylus settled into the grooves
of a new album called "Dark Side of the Moon", I could tell that this record was special.
As a budding guitarist, I needed to hear more from this mysterious band. I immediately started buying all of their previously released
albums - allowance permitting.
Soon, I had copies of everything they'd ever done on vinyl, 8-track tape or both. Then on June 28th 1975, I made the 5-hour journey to
my very first concert experience: Pink Floyd, live in Hamilton. I was beyond hooked.
Ivor Wynne Stadium 1975 65.000 people
By July of 1977, I'd just turned 19 and was halfway through a two-year photography course in college. I was on my third copy of "Wish
You Were Here" and their latest release, "Animals", was quickly becoming my favorite album of all time. When I spotted an ad in the
Peterborough newspaper for a bus charter to see Pink Floyd live in Montreal, I couldn't pass up the chance to see them again.
I decided to take my trusty Pentax SP1000 and make it a serious journalistic endeavor. When the bus pulled up in front of Olympic
Stadium, I was a little overwhelmed by the size of the venue. Hamilton's Ivor Wynne Stadium show was huge (65.000 people) but this...
well, this was in a whole new league.
Since I had no telephoto lens in those days, I'd have to get right up to the stage if I wanted any decent pictures.
As we entered the stadium, I headed off the main gangway and through a gate leading onto the field. A security guard immediately stopped
me and yelled something in French. Summoning my cool, I replied, "Press" and flipped open the bag to reveal my camera.
He slapped a big "Pink Floyd, Montreal" sticker on my camera case and waved me through. Within seconds, I was at the foot of the stage,
mere feet from where David Gilmour would soon be standing. I thought I'd be among a gaggle of photographers but I didn't see any at all.
What I did see though, was a fellow wandering through the crowd with a large reel-to-reel tape recorder. It was a bulky home deck that
had been modified with a crude battery pack and a shoulder strap.
Two mics poked out from his hat. No one seemed to take the slightest notice of it and he made little attempt to hide it - aside from
casually draping his coat over it, which seemed more for convenience than anything else.
I thought "he must be some kind of a nut". Now, I think he was incredibly far-sighted.
It was an exciting atmosphere. Everyone seemed awed by the sheer scale of the event. The stage was massive.
The rear screen seemed bigger than I remembered. Walls of speakers appeared to reach the sky. Just before the show was about to start,
I noticed people pointing up at the rim of the stadium's roof.
Standing precariously on the edge, high over the field was a (rather brave) person. That must have been a thrilling perspective!
I took a couple of shots of that and soon, it was "time". As the members Pink Floyd mounted the stage, the crowd surged forward and I
found myself trapped in a churning mass of plaid shirts and denim vests. ~ Whay Ellis
