Английская Википедия:Dark Side of the Moon Tour
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The Dark Side of the Moon Tour was a concert tour by English rock band Pink Floyd in 1972 and 1973 in support of their album The Dark Side of the Moon, covering the UK, US, Europe and Japan. There were two separate legs promoting the album, one in 1972 before the album's release and another in 1973 afterwards, together covering 128 shows.
Pink Floyd had worked out a basic structure of Dark Side of the Moon in late 1971, and played it at almost every gig the following year, alongside a set of earlier live favourites. Various changes to the structure were made throughout this time, as songs were tightened up and arrangements changed. By 1973, the album was finished and the live performance resembled the completed work. To re-create it in concert, the group added saxophonist Dick Parry and female backing singers to the show. The stage performance was enhanced with extra visual effects and an improved quadrophonic sound system. The success of Dark Side of the Moon and the US top 20 hit "Money" increased Pink Floyd's profile and they began to play sell-out stadium shows, though the audience changed from being one that would quietly listen to one that just wanted to dance and hear hit songs.
1972
Pink Floyd planned their first UK wide tour since 1969 for the start of 1972.Шаблон:Sfn They were worried that their stage show was becoming stale, and decided they needed a new piece of music for the upcoming tour.Шаблон:Sfn Shortly after the release of the album Meddle, the group booked Decca Studios, Hampstead from 29 November – 10 December 1971 to write new material that would form part of a stage show.Шаблон:Sfn The group booked a warehouse owned by the Rolling Stones in Bermondsey to rehearse the new suite of music, followed by a dress rehearsal at the Rainbow Theatre, London, where they tested a new Watkins Electric Music PA system designed by Bill Kelsey, which had a complete quadrophonic sound system. The group hired lighting engineer Arthur Max, who they had met two years earlier playing at the Fillmore West, San Francisco, to design a new rig for the tour.Шаблон:Sfn
Playing 89 shows in 1972, the most until 1994, Pink Floyd debuted the new suite live on 20 January at the Brighton Dome. Partway through, when playing "Money", a lack of power led to the backing tape slowing down and going out of time, causing the group to stop. After a break, they came back and played "Atom Heart Mother" instead.Шаблон:Sfn The first complete performance was the following day at the Portsmouth Guildhall.Шаблон:Sfn At the Free Trade Hall, Manchester, the power failed 25 minutes into the show, and the rest of the concert was abandoned.Шаблон:Sfn Two extra shows were booked on 29 and 30 March to make up for this.Шаблон:Sfn
The title of the suite was originally Dark Side of the Moon – A Piece for Assorted Lunatics, the name under which it made its press debut in February 1972.Шаблон:Sfn The title was changed to Eclipse after it was discovered that Medicine Head had released an album with the same name.Шаблон:Sfn The title changed for the first part of the US tour to Eclipse (A Piece for Assorted Lunatics) during April and May before reverting to Dark Side of the Moon – A Piece for Assorted Lunatics at the end of September for the second part of the US tour, and finally released in 1973 as The Dark Side of the Moon.Шаблон:Sfn
Dark Side of the Moon was performed differently to the finished album, and evolved over the year. Although Pink Floyd had previously rehearsed material before recording it, taking it on tour first allowed the piece to be improved and strengthened.Шаблон:Sfn They also knew that their audience were happy to sit patiently and listen to the group, which gave them the confidence to play over 40 minutes of new material they had not heard.Шаблон:Sfn "On the Run", whose working title was "The Travel Sequence", was at first a guitar and keyboard jam and would remain so for the rest of the year's performances.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn "Time" was played at a slower speed, and the line "Lying supine in the sunshine" was sung instead of "Tired of lying in the sunshine".Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn "The Great Gig in the Sky", whose working title was "Religion" or "The Mortality Sequence", originally consisted of an organ solo and various tapes of "preachers" either preaching or reading from such passages as from Chapter 5, Verse 13 of Ephesians, a book of the Bible, or reciting the Lord's Prayer, including soundbites from broadcaster Malcolm Muggeridge.Шаблон:Sfn Initially, the suite ended with "Brain Damage". Roger Waters felt there needed to be a suitable ending, and wrote "Eclipse" as a finale.Шаблон:Sfn It made its debut at a gig at De Montfort Hall, Leicester on 10 February.Шаблон:Sfn
The first London performance, and the first to the press was on 17 February 1972 at the Rainbow Theatre,Шаблон:Sfn where the band played for four consecutive nights, following which the group took a break from touring to work on the soundtrack album Obscured By Clouds.Шаблон:Sfn A bootleg recording of the concerts was released and sold 100,000 copies, annoying the band as it was still a work in progress.Шаблон:Sfn The tour then moved to Japan for five shows,Шаблон:Sfn and then to the US and Europe. The group headlined the British Rock Meeting festival at Germersheim, West Germany on 21 May and the Amsterdam Rock Circus at the Olympic Stadium, playing "Atom Heart Mother" instead of Dark Side of the Moon.Шаблон:Sfn
Following the European shows, recording began on The Dark Side of the Moon on 24 May, beginning with basic backing tracks derived from the live versions.Шаблон:Sfn As a replacement for the first Brighton Dome show which was abandoned during Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd gave two concerts at the venue on 28 and 29 June. The latter show was filmed by Peter Clifton for inclusion on his film Sounds of the City. Clips of these were occasionally aired on television and the performance of "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" was on the various artists video Superstars in Concert.Шаблон:Sfn
The tour moved to the US in September. Engineer Alan Parsons was asked to run the front of house sound, setting a trend for Pink Floyd inviting studio personnel out on tour.Шаблон:Sfn Richard Wright had now written the piano music to "The Great Gig in the Sky", replacing the earlier "Mortality Suite" piece, and it was performed in the arrangement per the finished album, without vocals.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn On 22 September, the group played the Hollywood Bowl, which featured eight powered searchlights beaming rays from behind the Bowl's amphitheatre.Шаблон:Sfn They then played two dates at the Winterland Ballroom, San Francisco on 23 and 24 September.Шаблон:Sfn The group returned to the UK to play a sell-out charity show at the Empire Pool, Wembley on 21 October, supporting War on Want and Save the Children.Шаблон:Sfn This was followed by shows in Europe to the end of the year, with the final date at the Palais de Sports, Lyon on 10 December.Шаблон:Sfn By then, Dark Side of the Moon sounded close to the final album, except without any female vocals or saxophone, which would follow the next year.Шаблон:Sfn
Set list
First set – Dark Side of the Moon – A Piece for Assorted Lunatics or sometimes Eclipse – A Piece for Assorted Lunatics (except 21–22 May)Шаблон:Sfn
- "Speak to Me"
- "Breathe"
- "The Travel Sequence" (precursor to "On the Run")Шаблон:Sfn
- "Time"
- "The Mortality Sequence" (early version of "The Great Gig in the Sky" without female vocals)Шаблон:Sfn
- "Money"
- "Us and Them"
- "Scat" (early version of "Any Colour You Like")
- "Brain Damage"
- "Eclipse" (after 10 February)Шаблон:Sfn
Second setШаблон:Sfn
- "One of These Days"
- "Careful with That Axe, Eugene" (sometimes not performedШаблон:Sfn)
- "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (sometimes as an encore)Шаблон:Sfn
- "Atom Heart Mother" (20 January, 6 March, 16 April, 21–22 May)Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
- "Echoes" (occasionally as an encore)Шаблон:Sfn
Encore (when played):
- "A Saucerful of Secrets" (occasional, until 22 September)Шаблон:Sfn
- "Blues" (occasional)Шаблон:Sfn
- "Childhood's End" (1 and 9 December)Шаблон:Sfn
Roland Petit Ballet shows
In November 1972, during the middle of the tour's European leg, and again in January 1973, Pink Floyd performed with the Roland Petit Ballet. The set list for which their portion of the ballet was choreographed to was "One of These Days", "Careful with That Axe, Eugene", "Obscured by Clouds", "When You're In" and "Echoes".Шаблон:Sfn Some of the 1973 shows only featured the ballet playing to pre-recorded tracks, as the group were trying to finish recording The Dark Side of the Moon at this time.Шаблон:Sfn One of the last pieces to be recorded was Clare Torry's lead vocal on "Great Gig in the Sky" on 21 January during this run.Шаблон:Sfn
1973
Following the Roland Petit shows and the completion of the album, Pink Floyd booked further rehearsal time at the Rainbow Theatre from 19 to 21 February 1973 for an enhanced stage show based on the final recordings. Dark Side of the Moon was moved from the start of the show to the end of the main set. For the first time, the group took additional musicians with them; saxophonist Dick Parry (an old childhood friend of David Gilmour) and three female backing vocalists who had been touring with Leon Russell. The tour began in Madison, Wisconsin on 4 March.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn On 17 March, they performed at Radio City Music Hall, New York City at 1am, being transported onto stage from one of the elevators surrounded by dry ice, which drew strong press reviews. The show made use of a 20-speaker quadrophonic sound system.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
Following the US tour, the band played two nights at Earl's Court on 18 and 19 May. In "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", a gong played by Waters was lit up with flames. During Dark Side of the Moon, a Шаблон:Convert plane crashed into the stage at the end of "On the Run".Шаблон:Sfn
The group returned to the US in June. Dark Side of the Moon had now topped the Billboard charts, and the single "Money" had become a top 20 hit. Having previously played halls and theatres, the tour now covered stadiums for the first time.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Although all the shows sold out, the audience now included people who wanted to hear the hit singles and "boogie", in sharp contrast to earlier audiences who were happy to listen to whatever music Pink Floyd were playing.Шаблон:Sfn The tour closed with two European shows in October.Шаблон:Sfn
On 4 November 1973, Pink Floyd played two charity shows at London's Rainbow Theatre as a benefit for Robert Wyatt, formerly the drummer of UFO Club contemporaries Soft Machine, who had become paralysed after falling out of a window. The concerts raised a reported £10,000 for Wyatt.Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn Clare Torry sung her vocal to "The Great Gig in the Sky" as it had appeared on the album.Шаблон:Sfn Pink Floyd then took a lengthy break from touring and did not play any further shows until June 1974.Шаблон:Sfn
Set list
First setШаблон:Sfn
- "Obscured By Clouds"
- "When You're In"
- "Childhood's End" (6–10 March)Шаблон:Sfn
- "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" (11 March onwards)Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
- "Careful with That Axe, Eugene"
- "Echoes" (opening number from 4–12 March)Шаблон:Sfn
Second set – The Dark Side of the Moon
- "Speak to Me"
- "Breathe"
- "On the Run"
- "Time"/"Breathe (Reprise)"
- "The Great Gig in the Sky"
- "Money"
- "Us and Them"
- "Any Colour You Like"
- "Brain Damage"
- "Eclipse"
Encore:
- "One of These Days"
Tour dates
1972
1973
Cancelled shows
| Date | City | Country | Venue |
|---|---|---|---|
| Шаблон:Center | Plymouth | England | ABC Theatre |
| Шаблон:Center | Yokohama | Japan | Kemin Hall |
| Шаблон:Center | Bièvres | France | Bièvres Festival |
| Шаблон:Center | Verona | Italy | Verona Arena |
| Шаблон:Center | St. Petersburg, Florida | United States | Bayfront Center |
| Шаблон:Center | Saratoga Springs, New York | United States | Saratoga Performing Arts Center |
| Шаблон:Center | Frankfurt | West Germany | Sandrennbahn Altrip |
Source : Povey 2006 pp. 164–179
Personnel
Pink Floyd
- David Gilmour – guitar, vocals
- Roger Waters – bass, vocals
- Richard Wright – keyboards, vocals
- Nick Mason – drums
Additional musicians
- Dick Parry – saxophone (1973)Шаблон:SfnШаблон:Sfn
- Nawasa Crowder, Mary Ann Lindsey, Phyllis Lindsey – backing vocals (March – June 1973)Шаблон:Sfn
- Blackberries (Billy Barnum, Venetta Fields, Clydie King) – backing vocals (October 1973)Шаблон:Sfn
- Vicki Brown, Liza Strike, Clare Torry – backing vocals ("A Benefit for Robert Wyatt", 4 November 1973)Шаблон:Sfn
Additional personnel
1972Шаблон:Sfn
- Chris Adamson, Seth Goldman, Bobby Richardson, Brian Scott – technician / stage crew
- Mick "The Pole" Kluczynski – tour manager
- Arthur Max – lighting technician
- Chris Mickie – front of house sound
- Peter Watts – head of PA
1973Шаблон:Sfn
- Chris Adamson, Robbie Williams – PA and stage technician
- Mick "The Pole" Kluczynski – tour manager
- Arthur Max – Production manager and lighting technician
- Robin Murray – Lighting technician
- Alan Parsons – front of house sound
- Peter Watts – head of PA
Notes
References
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External links
- 1972 and 1973 dates – brain-damage.co.uk
- Pink Floyd Archives
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