Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun Oil Well RSC CD 104

Pink Floyd - Fat Old Sun
Oil Well  RSC CD 104

1. Embryo      12:20
2. Fat Old Sun    14:30
3. Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun  14:24
4. Atom Heart Mother  12:25
5. One Of These Days  3:32
Total Time: 57:13

Note:
All songs by Waters/Wright/Mason/Gilmour
Live in Lisner Auditorium, Washington DC - November 16, 1971 - Vol.1

Lineup:
David Gilmour – guitars, vocals
Roger Waters – bass guitar, percussion, vocals
Richard Wright – piano, keyboards, vocals
Nick Mason – drums, percussion

This album is a digital clone of: "Process Of Creation" - Highland – HL250/51 CD1
This is  the Volume I of a 2 disc set. Second half of recording is released on "Eugene" - RSC CD 105
Oil Well version has a fine cover, fine quality.  Limited to 200 copies only. Due to its rarity and good quality, this disc is recommended.

The performance is excellent. This is one of the last concerts from the "Meddle" tour.
Two month later, the Floyd began their 1972 tour, playing the "Dark Side Of The Moon" for the first time. Here, we have one of the very last live versions of "Embryo" and "Fat Old Sun". "Set The Controls" is very good, and is very close to the "Live At Pompeii" version (the Pompeii's sessions took place one month before, in October 1971).

This is a pretty good stereo audience recording. The audience is very quiet, and doesn't affect the listening during the songs. During "Set The Controls", it seems that the tape source had a problem with the left channel. At 5:48, the left channel is totally lost for about 2 minutes, then it reappears, but with a very low level. This problem disappears with the next track ("Atom Heart Mother").
"Atom Heart Mother" is the version without the brass section. It fades out early, after the "Funky Dung" part. Track 5 is listed "One Of These Days", but it's in fact the very end of "Atom Heart Mother" ("Remergence"). BTW, this is the same mistake as for "The Return Of The Sons Of Nothing" (Gold Standard) ROIO. "One Of These Days" can be found on the second half of this concert.

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Pink Floyd Biography
Pink Floyd were formed in London in 1965 by two Cambridge school friends - Syd Barrett and Roger Waters. They drafted in drummer Nick Mason and keyboard player Rick Wright, took their name from bluesmen Pink Anderson and Floyd Council and set about finding gigs. Having gathered attention by playing trance-like music at psychedelic clubs like UFO in 1967, they entered a phase of being pop stars, with Barrett’s beatific and whimsical observations forming the basis of their singles Arnold Layne and See Emily Play, and the album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. But Barrett, who was beginning to show signs of mental illness, left the group shortly after the album was released.

His replacement was another Cambridge friend, David Gilmour. Subsequent album releases - A Saucerful of Secrets, Ummagumma, Atom Heart Mother, Meddle - saw the band’s music change again, incorporating sonorous, spacey instrumentals with sharp lyrics by Roger Waters, much beloved of listeners to John Peel’s Radio 1 show.

The 1971 Meddle tour 
The 1971 Meddle tour was a short concert tour by the British band Pink Floyd. It began in October 1971 and ended in November of the same year. It was intended to promote their new album Meddle in the United States and Canada, however some of the album's material had already been played during the band's Atom Heart Mother World Tour. The practice of playing songs before their official release later became a tradition for the group following the Meddle tour. The set list played during the tour was varied, with the band playing material from their previous albums A Saucerful of Secrets, More, and Atom Heart Mother, plus the newly released Meddle. The tour would also feature the final time "Embryo", "Fat Old Sun" and "Cymbaline" would be played by the band live.

This bootleg is from Pink Floyd’s most extensive North American tour to date. This album features a very nice recording from Lisner Auditorium, Washington DC show on November 16, 1971
It’s just another stop along the tour but the band sounds incredible.  You can tell their having a good time.

Washington 1971 (Sigma 36)
Pink Floyd’s November 16th show in Washington DC was perhaps the most requested show to be released by Sigma.  It is a very good to excellent tape of the complete show from Floyd’s autumn tour and is interesting for being right before they entered Abbey Road Studios to record Dark Side Of The Moon.  It has startling clarity and the attentive audience don’t interfere with the enjoyment of the performance. There are times throughout the show when the right channel is favored over the left but it’s never distracting.  It was released previously on The Return of the Sons of Nothing on Gold Standard with a really nice upgrade on Process Of Creation(Highland HL250/251).

Sigma smoothed over some of the rough spots on the tape, notably the gap between “The Embryo” and “Fat Old Sun” but the sound quality between Highland and Sigma sound identical.
Lisner Auditorium, George Washington University, Washington DC – November 16th, 1971
Disc 1 (57:42):  The Embryo, Fat Old Sun, Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun, Atom Heart Mother; Disc 2 (59:59):  One Of These Days, Careful With That Axe Eugene, Cymbaline, Echoes

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