This version of this bootleg was new to me, but it looks like it was posted by Jimfisheye and neonknight back in 2023. They did a ton of work on it. I've included a text file from them that details all that. The key is that the concert was being performed in quadrophonic sound, meaning there were four main speaker areas, and each one was broadcasting a slightly different mix, emphasizing different instruments. So the output sounded a bit different depending on where you were sitting in the venue. This would be hard to adequately capture by a taper. But luckily, for this concert, there wasn't just one taper, by six. All were operating independently at the time. But later, when their efforts were combined, it turned out they had a good spread, capturing all music from the four main speaker areas. Then a lot of work was done by Jimfisheye and neonknight to combine all those recordings into one stereo mix.
Thus, before I even touched this, it sounded impressive. But there were problems, in my opinion. The main one was that sometimes there were people sitting near one or more of the tapers who made noise, sometimes carrying on entire conversations, that was captured and could be heard in the final mix. Now that it's 2026, and audio editing technology keeps getting better and better, we're able to get rid of most of that. So that's what I did, using the MVSEP program. I also had some help from Mike Solof with splitting the files and putting them back again. That took a lot of work, because we split the files multiple times, getting rid of crowd noise, boosting the vocals relative to the instruments, and other similar changes.
In my opinion, this now sounds as good as typical bootlegs of the era. And that's a great thing, because there don't seem to be any actual soundboard recordings of a 1972 concert like this that has survived and become public. The classic "Dark Side of the Moon" album wouldn't be released until 1973, but the band performed the entire album for most of their 1972 concerts, and that's the case here. Slowly but surely, they were making improvements. A couple of songs still were to undergo big transformations, as you can see in the song title list.
But the "Dark Side" part is less than half of the entire concert. That lasted 45 minutes. Then the band played another hour and 15 minutes performing songs from earlier albums.
This album is two hours and four minutes long.
01 Speak to Me [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
02 Breathe (Pink Floyd)
03 The Travel Sequence [Early Version of On the Run] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
04 Time (Pink Floyd)
05 The Mortality Sequence [Early Version of The Great Gig in the Sky] [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
06 Money (Pink Floyd)
07 Us and Them (Pink Floyd)
08 Any Color You Like [Instrumental] (Pink Floyd)
09 Brain Damage (Pink Floyd)
10 Eclipse (Pink Floyd)
11 One of These Days (Pink Floyd)
12 Careful with That Axe, Eugene (Pink Floyd)
13 Echoes (Pink Floyd)
14 A Saucerful of Secrets (Pink Floyd)
15 Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun (Pink Floyd)
https://pixeldrain.com/u/atJB7TnX
alternate:
https://bestfile.io/en/lyLi4KEjGgECTwx/file
I couldn't find any good photos or posters from this exact concert. But I found a poster for a concert that took place just a few days later, at the HEC Edmundson Pavilion, University of Washington, in Seattle, Washington, on September 29, 1972. In order to use it though, I had to crop the rectangular poster into a square shape. I also added some text right underneath the band's name.
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