Pink Floyd - The Darker Side Of Rising Sun - Lunatics On The Run – Osaka 1st Night (1972-03-08) FLAC

GENRE: Art Rock, Prog Rock, Psychedelic Rock 
FORMAT: Lossless (Flac) 
SIZE: 791 mb (3% Recovery) 

CD5 & CD6 from 12×CD Box "The Darker Side Of Rising Sun (Japan 1972 Chronicles)".
Recorded at Festival Hall, Osaka, Japan, March 8, 1972.
Label: The Godfather Box - G.R. BOX 24
Released: 19 Mar 2014

TRACKLIST:

CD5
5-1 Speak To Me
5-2 Breathe (In The Air)
5-3 The Travel Section (AKA On The Run)
5-4 Time
5-5 Breathe (Reprise)
5-6 The Mortality Sequence (AKA The Great Gig In The Sky)
5-7 Money
5-8 Us And Them
5-9 Any Color You Like
5-10 Brain Damage
5-11 Eclipse
Bonus Tracks:
5-12 Atom Heart Mother (Alternate Source)

CD6
6-1 One Of These Days
6-2 Tune Up
6-3 Careful With That Axe Eugene
5-4 Tune Up
6-5 Echoes
6-6 Intermission / Tune Up
6-7 Atom Heart Mother

NOTES:

The first gig in Osaka has been widely bootlegged, and multiple sources exits for this concert, the first source was used on Fourth Eclipsed Night (Highland HL 593/594), the second source was found on Naniwa – Natural Dark In Osaka (Highland HL 665/666), and Darkest Moon (Sirene-007), and a combination of both tapes was used for Assorted Lunatics (Sigma 40). Missing Pieces: Live In Japan 1972 (Sigma 34) featured a third source for Echoes. Since I only own Assorted Lunatics that will be the basis of my review for this concert. From listening to the Assorted Lunatics release versus this new release one can determine they are not the same tape. The Godfather version is very good and borders on excellent, and just a notch below the Sapporo recording. It is clear and atmospheric, all instruments are well represented and the vocals are much more up front in the mix, there is just a touch of top end distortion at times but nothing to detract from this superb recording.

On Assorted Lunatics you can clearly hear the fumblings of the recording as he adjusts his equipment at the beginning of Speak To Me, none of this is present on this recording. Brain Damage is also complete unlike the Assorted Lunatics version that is a two source mix to complete the song. The bonus track on the first disc is an alternate recording of Atom Heart Mother, it is slightly distant but clear and atmospheric, it does not have the audience noise in the immediate area like the Assorted Lunatics recording.

The second disc has a few different sources mixed about, most notably the first 1:50 of One Of These Days and some of the tune ups before and after Echoes is from a different source although this version of Echoes is complete, there is also a source change as the band return to the stage for Atom Heart Mother. With all the small scraps of tape mix in it all flows together nicely, not too jarring and the edits themselves are very smooth making the sonic transition easier. The sound on the second disc is comparable to what is on the Assorted Lunatics second disc for the show.

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