August 13, 1971
Festival Hall, Melbourne, Australia
Transcribed by Phil Salathe
Tuning.
Tape fade/cut, more tuning.
Tape cut -- fades into applause.
Roger: Good evening!
Pause.
Roger: One...this is called Atom Heart Mother.
Applause, AHM starts up.
Song ends, applause.
Roger(?): Thank you.
Quiet, stage noise.
Roger: [I guess now we're gonna tune] and we're going to do two
things together...the first of which is, um, a song on the soundtrack of
the film More, [??which out here is??] [?? sounds like "barrenly raid"],
and it's called Green is the Colour, and the second is an instrumental
called Careful With That Axe, Eugene.
Applause, cheering.
Tuning.
Tape cut.
More tuning.
GitC starts up; right in start, fairly near taper...
Male voice: Something like that.
Pretty slow version, then into CWTAE.
Song ends, applause.
Roger and Dave: Thank you...thank you...thank you.
Tuning.
Roger: This next thing is a new piece...and it's called Echoes,
and it's gonna take us a minute to get it together because one of our
[??lenses?? sounds like "blintzes"] is burnt out...so I'm really going
to have to [share one] drowned out by guitar. -- [share one].
Tuning, stage noises, "patch cord unplugged" amp noise.
Tape cut.
More tuning.
Another tape cut.
Organ noodling, faint "tick-tock" noises.
Tape cut into applause, "ping", Echoes starts up.
A couple whistles.
Loud shout in crowd.
Roger?: (very curt) Shhhh!
A pair of loud yawns in crowd.
Echoes has old lyrics.
Rick misses a chord before the jam section.
Song ends, no slow coda; applause.
Roger: Thank you.
Organ noodling.
Tape cut, straight into StCftHotS.
Low, indecipherable male chatter during quiet part.
Song ends, applause.
Roger: [...], thank you!
Tuning, stage noise.
Bit of footsteps sound.
More tuning.
Tape cut.
Still more tuning.
Roger: This is called Cymbaline.
Pause.
Loud yelp.
Cymbaline follows; during footsteps sequence...
Guy in crowd shouts: Take your pants off!
Crowd otherwise reasonably quiet; applause at end of footsteps.
Song ends, applause.
Roger and Dave: Thank you. Thank you.
Tuning.
Another yelp.
Tape cut, more soundchecking.
Roger: Okay, this is gonna be our last tune, thank you all for
coming, and it's called a Saucerful of Secrets, [...]
Drowned out by applause.
ASoS starts.
Very loud whistling, then a shout I can't make out -- might be
telling the whistler to shut up, because he immediately stops.
Tape cuts in Syncopated Pandemonium.
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