being also a big PF/bootlegs fans , let me suggest you find the 1977 montreal show (amazing SQ and of high historic significance - it's the show where Roger snaps and spits at the fan, apparently here is where he started contemplating the alienation theme which resulted 3 years later in the making of the wall record) and i also liked very much most of the 1980/81 shows on the wall tour (which were only some very few in germany/UK/US)
cheers
Oh, I've got it, the Harvested version, HRV CDR0032, "Who Was Trained Not To Spit On The Fan."
I also have a few of the Wall shows, but I'm not crazy about that album. I know, weird.
So are these the r could endings you recommend for headphones then?
Yes, with a couple caveats. One, a few shows are on that list because the SQ is 'good enough' to bear on headphones, but more importantly there's something special either about the setlist or the particular performance. The San Diego show from 10/17/1971, for instance, is not a fantastic recording, but the version of "Careful with that Axe, Eugene" is extraordinarily better than any other time they played it that I've heard, and I've heard many dozens. Also all of the 1972 shows on the list are very good but less than excellent SQ (to my ears, but I'm picky), but are worth it for the evolution of Dark Side as they performed it for a year before releasing the album. Second, those are my picks for overall best sounding shows, but sometimes there are multiple recorders out there for one show, and sometimes the 'best' version has several versions floating around. I spent about 8 years (and more really, I still check in occasionally) on yeeshkul assembling my collection, and there are a few shows that I've upgraded more than three or four times since the first time I got a copy. Altogether I have over 40 DVD-R's full of live PF flac. It's always an ongoing effort to get the best available. And for a while it was relatively simple because there was a release group, Harvested, and you could be fairly sure with almost any show they released that it was the best one available. But, a few years ago they got a cease & desist served on them, and finding their releases isn't as easy anymore (but they're still out there).
Also, it's my personal list, so it reflects my personal tastes. I don't really like any live performance of "Atom Heart Mother" with orchestral/choir accompaniment, so even though there are a few great-sounding boots out there with AHM performed that way, they're not on that list. I prefer AHM performed by the band only. I also am pretty picky once DSotM was out, and the band started performing predominantly in large arenas and stadiums. Much more difficult to get a good recording under those conditions. And, another bit of pickiness, I don't much like saxophone in Echoes, which was the norm on the 1973 tour. I've got the shows, I just didn't convert them from FLAC to mp3 for portable use. The best recordings from the mid-70's come from a guy named Mike Millard, aka Mike the Mike. He was a despicable person for what he did, which was go to concerts pretending to be handicapped so he could bring in a portable reel-to-reel slung under his wheelchair, and get a great seat too due to his fake disability. But his boots are top-notch, there's no denying. The 1975-04-26 show in Los Angeles and the 1977-05-09 in Oakland are both Millard's, and they're excellent.
, but oh boy it sounds too good
