Pink Floyd
Yoyogi Olympic Pool
Tokyo, Japan
5 March 1988
"A Momentary Lapse Of Reason" tour - the second of the three Yoyogi nights

This torrent contains this one concert only. The three Yoyogi
nights are offered as three separate torrents.

Release: Sigma 216 (2018), "Definitive Yoyogi Olympic Pool 1988"
Silver press CD, unofficial release
This concert is discs 3 and 4 of the six-disc set
Source: AUDIENCE recording, from the taper's original master
cassettes
Lineage: Original master cassettes > new digital transfer > silver
press CD > EAC > WAV > flac
Format: FLAC (16bit / 44.1kHz / stereo)
Checksums: see the .ffp file included in this torrent
EAC logs: included

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SET LIST

01. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
02. Signs Of Life
03. Learning To Fly
04. Yet Another Movie
05. A New Machine Part 1
06. Terminal Frost
07. A New Machine Part 2
08. Sorrow
09. The Dogs Of War
10. On The Turning Away
11. One Of These Days
12. Time
13. The Great Gig In The Sky
14. Wish You Where Here [sic - spelling as it appears on the source discs]
15. Welcome To The Machine
16. Us And Them
17. Money
18. Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
19. Comfortably Numb
20. Audience
21. One Slip
22. Run Like Hell

The filenames have been left exactly as they came off the source
discs and have not been corrected or tidied, so that this fileset
matches other copies of Sigma 216 already in circulation and anyone
who has it can seed alongside this torrent.

Line-up:
David Gilmour - guitar, vocals
Nick Mason - drums
Richard Wright - keyboards, vocals
with Tim Renwick, Jon Carin, Guy Pratt, Gary Wallis,
Scott Page, Rachel Fury, Durga McBroom, Margaret Taylor

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CONTEXT
(translated from the label's release notes)

The 1988 Japanese leg of the "A Momentary Lapse Of Reason" tour
turned out to be the last time Pink Floyd played in Japan. The
itinerary:

2 March Nippon Budokan
3 March Nippon Budokan
4 March Yoyogi Olympic Pool
5 March Yoyogi Olympic Pool
6 March Yoyogi Olympic Pool
8 March Osaka-jo Hall
9 March Osaka-jo Hall
11 March Nagoya Rainbow Hall

Yoyogi was the three-night centrepiece of the tour.

THE RECORDING - "SIGNS OF LIVES"

To explain this release you have to start with "Signs Of Lives",
which appeared in 2010 and caused a genuine shock.

It was taken directly to CD from the master cassettes of a taper
whose work also documented Eric Clapton, Jeff Beck, Mick Jagger and
the Rolling Stones, among others - and the sound was extraordinary.
The band's first Japanese visit in sixteen years produced plenty of
recordings, but this one swept them all aside. It has the clarity
and immediacy that earns the description "like a soundboard", while
possessing something a line feed can never have: a sense of poise
and beauty in the sound world itself.

Collectors around the world were staggered. "Is this really an
eighties recording?" "What microphone was he using? I'm buying
one." A contemporary specialist magazine put it this way:

"This sound quality can only be described as astonishing. That
is down to the taper's skill, certainly, but also to equipment,
cassette and recording position all working together. Listen to
the introduction of 'Shine On' and you will notice the
overwhelming gap between this and not only the other releases,
but any audience recording made in this period. There are simply
no adequate words for it."

WHAT THIS RELEASE ADDS

"Signs Of Lives" contained only the first and second nights. The
third night had been recorded to the same standard but was issued
separately, as "Signs Of Everlife", and only on CDR because the
show was so similar in content.

Sigma 216 brought all three concerts together on pressed CD for the
first time. The earlier releases had split each show across three
discs, with the third holding only the seventeen-minute encore -
something many listeners said they rarely bothered to play. Here
each night is reorganised into two discs.

It is not simply a reissue. The original cassettes were digitised
again and remastered, and the result is clearer and more dynamic.
There is more impact, but no crude loudness-chasing. The guiding
idea behind the mastering was to reproduce the venue rather than to
flatter the recording: instead of clipping the peaks for easy
force, the natural beauty of the original sound was used as fully
as possible, each frequency band organised with care to avoid
distortion, so that a defined core and the sense of the hall - the
wide spectacle of it - could exist together.

What comes across is a sense of acoustics that belongs to Pink
Floyd specifically. To be clear, no reverb has been piled on. If
anything the playing and singing that once had people asking "how
on earth did he record this in a space that size?" are more vivid
than before, and the sheen of the room that only an audience
recording can preserve is more transparent than ever.

The value of the original tapes themselves still rests with "Signs
Of Lives" and "Signs Of Everlife", and that is not in question.
But if what matters to you is being in that room rather than owning
the document, this is the version that comes alive.

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Please seed as long as you can. Thanks to the original taper, whose
work on these three nights is remarkable by any standard, and to
everyone who has kept these recordings in circulation.

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