Pink Floyd
Alameda Stadium
Oakland, CA
Novemnber 22, 1988

16 bit version

From the collection of koondog a/k/a Rush-Fan

Taper: Karl Lundmark
Gear: Aiwa CM30a mic > Sony WMD3
Transferred & mastered by }{eywood
Lineage: TDK SA90 cassettes (1) > JVC TD-W354 playback deck > Adobe Audition 1.5 (recording to .wav @ 24/96, EQ. click repair, peak limiting, splits & fades) > Xrecode II (conversion to 16/44.1) > TLH (sector alignment, flac 8)


The Pink Floyd Concert Database (www.pf-db.com) lists three recordings for this show: an FM broadcast, an audience tape made with Schoepes mics and a third that just says low gen aud. I'm sharing this because it may be uncirculated, or at the least an upgrade to the low gen recording. This is a known 1st gen. I wish I could claim it was a better recording than the others, but...well, read on.

This recording is plagued by many unavoidable technical issues. The crowd is loud and rowdy at this show, typical of these late 80s shows. I know. I taped three Toronto shows myself, and it was impossible to find a quiet spot to record from. Based on the tape, it sounds like Karl was looking for such a location throughout most of Shine On. There are a lot of mic bumps throughout this tape from audience jostling. I turned down the intensity of many, but they're still audible.

I'm not sure where Karl eventually situated himself, but the quad effects are really audible. You can hear voices and sounds that are buried in the mix on the albums (you can make out what the voices in Terminal Frost are saying, for example). I love that.

It was a windy, rainy night in Oakland. Wind rumble is apparent in this recording in set 1. In the second set it starts pouring rain, which lasts until nearly the end of the set. People covered up with plastic, and you can hear the rain on the plastic. I cleaned about 200 loud pops from raindrops hitting the mics during On the Run and Great Gig. By the end of Money it seems to have let up.

Tapeflips at a show like this where the music pretty much never stops are hard to gauge, and inevitably portions were missed. There is a crossfaded edit near the end of Sorrow that I made to cover a flip. You likely won't notice this one. The flip after WYWH, however, loses a good part of Welcome to the Machine (in parts, possibly because Karl was trying to keep the deck dry), and because I could not accept a hole this big in an otherwise complete show I patched this with parts of Nassau Coliseum Aug. 19, 1988, one of the shows recorded for Delicate Sound of Thunder (this doesn't infringe on any official material because Machine doesn't appear on either the audio or video versions of DSoT). In all about 3 minutes of the 8 minute WttM is patched from Nassau, in three different pieces. A similar patch appears in One Slip, but this one was edited from within the song, not another show (this was the most difficult patch to do. Not because it was technically hard, but because I had to listen to the chorus of One Slip, the worst song PF ever did, repeatedly. A song about a one night stand that leads to an unwanted pregnancy? Really Pink Floyd? Kill me now).

BTW if anyone out there has the FM version of this please PM me. There is some argument between me, koondog and Karl over whether this actually exists or not.


01 Shine On You Crazy Diamond Parts 1-5
02 Signs of Life
03 Learning to Fly
04 Yet Another Movie / Around and Around
05 A New Machine Part 1
06 Terminal Frost
07 A New Machine Part 2
08 Sorrow
09 Dogs of War
10 On the Turning Away

11 One of These Days
12 Time
13 On the Run
14 The Great Gig in the Sky
15 Wish You Were Here
16 Welcome to the Machine
17 Us and Them
18 Money
19 Another Brick in the Wall Part 2
20 Comfortably Numb

21 One Slip
22 Run Like Hell