My girlfriend bought me Magic Fly Space for mu birthday 
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@ewemon Sapporo was an audience recording (albeit quite a decent one for 1972). The radio broadcast you’re thinking of is from Tokyo on March 6th. This is incomplete (patched together with bits of audience recordings) and even the surviving pro recorded parts suffer from distortion and dropouts, and the mix isn’t great. But the biggest problem with the Tokyo tape is the performance - the band sound nervous and their playing is leaden. Even if the original tape survives I’d think it unlikely that it will be used by Sony. But who knows?
On another note, bootleggers often label their products “radio broadcast” or “FM broadcast” to get round a loophole in the law. There are loads of dodgy audience tapes masquerading as FM radio broadcasts but usually they’re nothing of the sort.
The very first performance of DSOTM was at Brighton Dome on 20th January but that show was famously aborted after technical problems at the start of “Money”. To compensate fans, the Floyd returned to the Dome in late June, and it was these shows that were (at least partially) recorded and filmed.
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@DrDavid Pink Floyd (or Sony) does these live show dumps to comply with European “Use It or Lose It” copyright laws. If unissued sound recordings are not released within 50 years of their recording, the material enters the public domain, allowing anyone to legally release and profit from it.
So these dumps are really about not letting bootleggers profit from releasing them rather than a serious archive project… that’s why the recordings are often poor quality and why they’re quietly deleted after a couple of weeks.
So I think anyone believing that the band is sitting on a huge archive of live recordings is going to be disappointed.
One set of recordings that I think will get a release at some point are the four Montreux shows from 21 and 22 November 1970; and 18 and 19 September 1971. These were all recorded to a very high standard (and a Montreux version of AHM from 21/11/70 appeared on The Early Years) and the performances are good.
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Hmm.
We already have ‘MB- the Best of’, ‘Collected’, ‘The Collection’, ‘Song of Ireland (comp CD)’ and ‘Twenty Five Years’.
Sorry Mary, love ya to bits, but is this just a cash grab ?
I didn’t buy but it was given to me by the daughter of a friend, she works at the venue. Not sure if it was cracked before I loaded it into my Core. One thing is clear just how thin the disc is compared to others, any thinner and it’d be classed as a floppy disk.
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Mike Oldfield - ‘Tubular Bells’. The 25th. Anniversary reissue released in 1998. Part of a 5 for £1 promotion at a local charity warehouse, this week.
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Today, visited town briefly.
Came home with this new release and looking forward to listening to it - maybe tomorrow - Sunday morning listening, with a nice coffee…
@Rob.Steele just seen you’ve picked this one up too. Let me know your thoughts ?
Best wishes
R
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Hey. Hope you are well and enjoying this Sunday morning. So my thoughts are this…it seems a more driven and clinical album, definitely a BoC album, especially the third track. It seems more darker and harsh at points, not really into computer generated voices, but it seems to work. I may get the deluxe version, as it’s apparently all done in one long track. Definitely worth a second listen later in the day, maybe dusk time when the lights are going down. Very atmospheric.
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Bought on vinyl, yet to hear it.
But a glass of Rioja and a warm summer evening beckon
Couple of Analogue Productions sacds, Roberta Flack ,Killing Me Softly and Stephen Stills debut solo self titled album.
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Two wonderful albums
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Having escaped home for the first time for a while I’ve been trawling Havant’s charity shops, there was an entire shelf of classical CDs which generally isn’t the case, there are fewer now…
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I like those prices 
. Might have to pop over and take a look on Thursday…after meeting up for lunch with my ex-colleagues, aka The Grumpy Old Men’s Club.
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Arundal Street?
Yep
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