THE LA WALL
PINK FLOYD
Los Angeles 1980 [MoLM, 2CD]
Live at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, February 8, 1980. Excellent audience recording.
Put out by the Man of Leisure Music (MoLM) collective, here are some notes that accompanied this release:
Sourced and carefully re-mastered by Dan Kraft, aka Danalog.
More work went into this one than all the others combined. At least, that’s the way I remember Dan describing to me all the tweaks he made to this show to clean it up, correct the speed and bring out fuller sound.
There are many reasons why this show is such a keeper. The obvious one is that the boys pulled off a much better show than the night before. (It’s nice they didn’t ignite the curtain this time.)
There are interesting nuances to it, including what I would consider to be one of the coolest jams of the concert series! Another Brick part 3 (set one, track 12) is drawn out to an incredible 7 minutes, 45 seconds to give Wall builders that had fallen behind more time to catch up. The recorded music of the children singing during Another Brick part two fails to happen (set one, track 5, about one minute in) and the band kicks in and improvises. During Hey You, Dave sings both verses, when normally, Dave sings the first and Rog sings the second.
Disc 1
01. In The Flesh
02. The Thin Ice
03. Another Brick In The Wall (part 1)
04. The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
05. Another Brick In The Wall (part 2)
06. Mother
07. Goodbye Blue Sky
08. Empty Spaces
09. Young Lust
10. One Of My Turns
11. Don’t Leave Me Now
12. Another Brick In The Wall (part 3)
13. Goodbye Cruel World
Disc 2
01. Hey You
02. Is There Anybody Out There?
03. Nobody Home
04. Vera
05. Bring The Boys Back Home
06. Comfortably Numb
07. The Show Must Go On
08. In The Flesh
09. Run Like Hell
10. Waiting For The Worms
11. Stop
12. The Trial
13. Outside The Wall
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