Pink Floyd - 1970-04-30 - San Francisco, CA (DVDfull pro-shot)

(DVDfull pro-shot)

Live at KQED

DVD5 | 59mins | MPEG2 | PAL | 720x480 | 4:3 | 25fps | AAC 48kHz 224kbps | 3.9GB
Language: English | Publisher: Hawklord HWKDVD001
Included: more than 2 hours of bonuses (clips, interviews, etc…)

“Very few Pink Floyd's shows have been recorded, especially dating from the 'golden age' of the Floyd (early 70's), when they invented a new style of rock.
This is one of the more celebrated recordings of The Pink Floyd filmed in KQED studios in San Francisco on the afternoon of April 29, 1970. ”

01 - Atom Heart Mother
02 - Cymbaline
03 - Granchester Meadows
04 - Green Is The Colour
05 - Careful With That Axe, Eugene
06 - Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

“The cheerful freaks who floated over stange fumes during the concerts of Pink Floyd's tour " Ummagumma " in 1969/70 had the privilege to see and hear the Graal, the electrical version of "Atom heart mother", never recorded under this form, as it was, from July, 1970 and the concert of Hyde Park, mixed with an arrangement of cords and brass orchestra which killed in the egg all its rocky lightnings. Since then, the fevered quest did not stop of filmed clips, bootleg albums, then at the age of the net, fragments of concerts with a more or less good quality in Florida or in Japan, of a show in BBC or a concert in Saint Tropez. And miracle, the without-public concert done for QKED was recorded with high video and audio quality, and reappeared recently.

In a studio without public, on April 29th, 1970, Pink Floyd on stage play a show where in an hour, alternately acoustical or electrical.They are going to build a mosaic of their three albums an hour, " Ummagumma ", "More" and "Atom heart mother".
It opens with " the thing ", 19 minutes of "ATM", its topic, its guitar riff, its cosmic ravings and final. "Cymbaline" and "Grantchester meadows" follow, and electricity again with "Green is the colour" chained with a furious "Careful with that axe Eugene" to finish in a languid way with "Set the controls for the heart of the sun".
The sound is very good, perfectly restored (from the 3/4" original master) and pictures come from a rebroadcast of the show in August, 1981. The film starts and ends with pictures of in-flight fields taken in low flying, with hyper-saturated colours, a bit "forced " but as a result well-deserved psychedelic style.
For those for whom true Pink Floyd is that former "Dark side of the moon", this concert will be the object to be cherished, so much the concerts of this tour were artistic and emotional peaks of the band. Each of four members is on his place, but with all his place, necessary piece of an enchanting jigsaw puzzle.