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Liner Notes: Uncharted Territory

Is there any point continuing with Pink Floyd? A question that many Floyd fans were asking themselves after the aptly titled Final Cut album was released and the on-running troubles within the band came more to light. In an interview from 1984, David Gilmour answers this question as well as a few others.... "I don't know. There may or may not be a point in it. What can be achieved when Roger and I work together and put our minds to it and want to work together could still be good. There are still things which could be done which could be great. So from that point of view it is possible that one might want to do something again; and if we did we could do something great. I'm certain of it." Looking back on it from a 1995 Guitar Magazine interview, Mr. Gilmour summarizes the feeling in the band at the time... "It was difficult to do another Pink Floyd record until Roger actually said, 'I am out of here. I am leaving.' When he declared that, it actually made it easier to get on with it. Because, you know, the last five official years with Roger, from 1980 onwards, were torture for all of us - including him. I couldn't see us putting it back together and going in [to the studio] and seeing whether he'd show up, and seeing whether he'd be helpful or destructive or what it was going to be like. I always thought that we would carry on, and when he said in December 1985 'I am leaving,' it actually sort of opened the door for us. So, while I can certainly see myself doing another solo project, I certainly didn't then - or now - see that I should be forced to start my career again as a solo artist."

But during the production of his second solo album in 1984, David Gilmour was unsure of the future of the band. Still, he moved forward on his own, stating, "It's not really so much finding an outlet for my own ideas as finding an outlet for me to be able to work. Pink Floyd don't always work when I want to. It's hard to get everyone organized and agreeing to do something at the same time. So it's very nice to have a career where I can make the decisions about what I want to do and when I want to do it. I've always got tunes around that I can start working on when I've got the time. I've wanted to make a solo album since I did the last one... it's quite nerve racking, quite frightening, but we'll go ahead and do it and see what it's like. I don't know what it's going to be like. I haven't done that sort of thing for so long, or on this sort of a scale, but I'm sure I'll bluff it out."

For the tour, he assembled a group of musicians that was different than the main musicians who appeared on his album. In 1983 Mick Ralphs (Bad Company) was forming a solo group and asked bass player Mickey Feat of Van Morrison and drummer Chris Slade from Manfred Mann to join him. Gilmour recounts how he got Mick and the others to join him…..”he's a friend of mine, we live close by and I see him a lot, and I was telling him I was coming out on the road and he said, 'ooooh, I'd love to go, can I come?' so I said 'sure.'” At that point he added Raff Ravenscroft to play sax and Greg Dechart to play keyboards. Jodi Linscott rounded out the team as the percussionist.

The tour was a success and David Gilmour went on to sell over a million copies of each of his solo albums. In addition, he contributed to Pete Townshend's White City, Supertramp's Brother Where You Bound?, and Paul McCartney's Give My Regards To Broadstreet. When asked in 1995 to look back at the prospects of a long term solo career, Gilmour was very clear about who he was and his plans for the future…. "I have to confess to a certain sort of jealousy of Eric Clapton's position, where he has his wealth of material, and he's such a consummate blues player that he's got a wealth of other people's material that he can play that's not so well known. He can take out a new band every time, and do his stuff - and that would be a nice position to be in. But I'm not in that position. I have spent my entire adult life working on Pink Floyd. I mean, I've done a couple of solo projects and I've thoroughly enjoyed them, and learned an awful lot from them, but my life's work has been Pink Floyd."

Fortunately for Pink Floyd fans, A Momentary Lapse of Reason would mark the return of the band and the creation of more Pink Floyd music. Reuniting with Richard Wright and Nick Mason gave David Gilmour the opportunity to continue his life's work, putting his solo career on hold……until 2006.

Notes from the Re-Master

This project began with a digitized copy of the uncirculated master tape. This master tape is a different source from the well circulated version of this show. In this source, there is no cut in All Lovers Are Deranged and no skip in Comfortably Numb. However, there was a large gap in Near the End which was patched using the well circulated source. A better sounding patch could have been used to make the imperfection less obvious but philosophically we felt it was better to use only material recorded during this show. The recording itself is outstanding and comes from a well respected taper in the Boston area. The show was recorded using Nakamichi CM-100/CP-1 > Sony WM-D6 > Maxell XLII-S tape.

The remaster project began by adjusting the tonality of the show. The bass was heavy that night and even caused rare points of distortion that could not be repaired. Still, adjustment of the tone and attenuating of the excesses improved the show greatly. The audience was a bit rowdy that night and different techniques were needed to attenuate the contributions by the audience members. This included yells, whistles and claps. Occasional recorder noise was found, particularly in the left channel. This was also repaired. The balance was adjusted to provide equal power in each channel. Dynamics were adjusted to enhance the recording and return some of the intended volume variability often lost in venues. The speed was then checked and compared to standard references. The speed was found to be correct so no speed adjustment was necessary. The gap found in Near The End was patched using the second source for this show. The recording was then tracked and split into two discs.

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