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Pink Floyd - End Of The Rainbow (Moon Walk Part 2) (1972)

Track listing:
  1. Echoes 24:45
  2. A Saucerful Of Secrets 15:53
  3. Second Cud (Blues) 8:10
  4. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun 13:02

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Pink Floyd - End Of The Rainbow (Moon Walk, part 2)

These recordings were made by myself at the Rainbow Theatre, London, on Sunday, 20 February 1972, using a Dixons 'Prinzsound' portable tape recorder with a half-decent mic. (smuggled in under my smelly Afgan coat!) Although the quality is not fantastic, it is a lot less muffled than the 'official' 20.2.72 bootleg CD called 'Moonwalk'. It is, however, not the whole show, as I will explain later (having said that, neither is 'Moon Walk'). I apologise for the 2 or 3 glitches during Echoes and Saucerful...my original tape jammed, and I had to pull out all the stops to transplant it to another cassette case. History nearly went down the pan!!

I have never copied these to anyone else, so this is a first. Maybe the PF ROIO people would be interested ?

I lost my first tape that contained DSOTM, One Of These Days, and Careful With That Axe, Eugene (the first 3 songs performed by the Floyd on that date).

Consequently, I have entitled this collection 'End Of The Rainbow', because that is exactly what it is...the last 4 songs played by the Floyd at the Rainbow Theatre that year, before moving on to their next venue.

On a personal note, I found Dave Gilmour's guitar work on 'Echoes', and the incredible soaring, echoing quadrophonics on 'Set The Controls', absolutely mind-blowing. Unfortunately they don't come across as well in low-fi mono!! There are some 'funnies' when Second Cud has to restart, and the audience cause problems before Saucerful Of Secrets, with a witty response from the band!