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Artist:    Pink Floyd
Title:     Bytes Of The Talisman
Unique_Id: BYTETALI

Format:    CD
Catalog:   NZCD 88002  Neutral Zone 
Misc.:
Produced:
Date:      700916

Cover:     Front: sun rising from behind a pyramid ? Desert with palm
                  tree in front
           Back:  standard 'live' photo of the band with the huge screen
                  in the back and a tracklist. This is the same picture
                  as the top-back-side picture on the LP "Pink Floyd -
                  Embryo" (San Diego 1971)

Sources:   16 Sep 1970, London, England.
           16/9/70, Paris Theatre, London, UK (1-4)
           30/9/71, Paris Theatre, London, UK (5,6)

Tracks:    1. Embryo                         10:06
           2. Green Is The Colour             3:38
           3. Careful With That Axe, Eugene   7:17
           4. If                              4:26
           5. One Of These Days               6:32
           6. Echoes                         25:42

           Total recorded time 57 minutes 22 seconds

Band:      David Gilmour*
           Nick Mason*
           Roger Waters*
           Richard Wright*

Xref:

Quality:   Ex   -F

Comments:  This is a great boot.  There is strong bass throughout
           the recording, although it is sometimes slightly 
           distorted.  There is no audience noise and the recording
           is quite clean.  No drop outs.  It must have been taken 
           from vinyl, as pops can be heard, but they are barely
           perceptable.

           Embryo is fantastic with a squealing guitar like the one
           in the strange middle part of Echoes.  The scream in
           Careful With That Axe seems to hang forever, a good
           effect.  One Of These Days and Echoes are also quite nice.
           The line "One of the days, I'm going..." appears at the
           end of the song rather than the middle.  -F

   NOTE:   This information was derived from a second generation
           tape (and thus the quality of the original may be better
           than Ex).  I cannot be positive that it is Bytes, but I
           know that it is from Oct. 3, 1971.  It could have been
           made from a vinyl source, but if the CD is taken from
           the same source, it is no doubt wonderful.  -F

           Recording taken from vinyl as evidenced by pops and static.
           Otherwise, good sound; not great.  -ECM