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Artist:    Pink Floyd
Title:     Violence In Birmingham

Format:    2LP
Catalog:   RSR225 International Records (Matrix no.)
Misc.:
Produced:
Date:      700211
Unique_Id: VIOLENCE

Cover:     Photos of Rick and Roger

Sources:   11-02-70 Birmingham
           Birmingham, Town Hall, England, 11th February 1970

Tracks:    Side 1:
            1. Embryo
            2. Main Theme from More

           Side 2:
            1. Careful With Your Axe, Eugene
            2. Sysyphus

           Side 3:
            1. The Violent Sequence

           Side 4:
            1. Atom Heart Mother

Band:      Roger Waters 
           Rick Wright 
           Nick Mason
           David Gilmour

Xref:      included in Pink Floyd In Memoriam

Quality:   G   -ANON
           G Stereo -PIET
           Quality starts of not so good in the beginning, but improves as
           the album progress.

Comments:
        This album captures one of the weirdest floyd shows in existence. There
        aren't many ROIOs around that have this track.
        Embryo is a pretty normal recording, then follows a 10 or so minute
        jam, loosely based on More's main-theme, there's even some babbling
        from Roger about this track being the main theme from a movie ``you've
        probably never seen''. Then comes Carefull, followed by Sissiphus,
        which is a pretty astonishing song (if it wasn't for the not so good
        Sound quality), the band is into it, and Roger even starts doing his
        Mad Scotchman act ...
        Then we get The Violent Sequence, which showcases Nick Mason. As you
        most likely know, TVS is divided in 4 parts, parts 1 & 3 are drum based,
        while part 2 & 4 are piano based. Part 1 really rocks, and gave me some
        strange looks from my colleague when I played it on my office tape
        player. Atom Heart Mother is actually still The Amazing Pudding, and
        again features some really good drumming from Nicky.

        Global comments:
        The bandmembers most prominently ``there'' on this album are Rick &
        Nick, there's  lots of Piano & Drum instrumentals on this album. If the
        soundquality of this album was better then the G- to VG- it is now,
        this record would rank very high among my favorite ROIOs. 

        Gerhard