Today there is a new thread on the forum from a guy who has had his order for this DVD cancelled by Amazon. So I decided to do some more research.
"KQED Concert: There was a PBS
"concert" (without an audience) recorded by KQED TV on 29 April 1970.
They played "Atom Heart Mother," "Careful with that Axe, Eugene,"
"Cymbaline," "Green is the Colour," "Grantchester Meadows," and "Set
the Controls for the Heart of the Sun." It has never been commercially
released." - from Brain Damage fan-site [probably the best fan-site]
"recorded 4/29/70 KQED tv San Fran. vhs 60 min great quality ( I belive it was recorded at the filmore w/out audience. tracks; atom heart mother, cymbaline, grantchester meadows, green is the color, careful w/ axe, set the controls" - from the Pink Floyd ROIO Database [ie they believe it to be a bootleg]
"This DVD is a combination of 2 sources. A VHS tape recorded directly from the rebroadcast was used for the video. while the audio was sourced from a 3/4" station master." - From the actual DVD insert
"DVD produced by Harvested" - From the actual DVD insert [Harvested is a well known producer of ROIOs & VOIOs]
" A Message from Harvested
Harvested Records is a myth. It exists in the minds of its creators. It is
make believe. We are NOT a bootleg company! We're just a few guys who have
been collecting Pink Floyd audio and video recordings for 4 decades and now want to preserve
the best of our collection in the digital realm. The chosen medium at
this moment is CDR for audio releases and DVD-R for video releases.
Sometimes the process can be very tedious, but it's always a labor of
love. We've decided to share many of our projects with other Floyd
collectors, originally through the Echoes community and now through
[email protected]. None of these titles are for sale and
we highly discourage the practice... in fact, it would be an insult to
what we are trying to do. We keep regular track of eBay and request
that all of our titles be removed from auctions.
Our releases are often offered through a
"weeding" process via our Yahoo group. A post is made to the message
board offering copies to 3 individuals at no charge. The 3 agree to
distribute perfect CDR clones to 3 other Yahoogroups members, free of
charge, who agree to do the same, and so on. Once the weed reaches
saturation on the Yahoogroups site, weed obligations are met by
offering the title to the burnerless and/or people in other trading
circles (like Yeeshkul and Dime a Dozen, two bit torrent websites). All
of our audio releases are traded as Shorten (.shn) files on data discs
in order to maintain file integrity.
We
do not invite offers of any kind for these titles including trades. "
- from the Harvested website at http://www.harvested.org/ - http://www.harvested.org/ I think this is conclusive proof that this is an unauthorised release and should not be on PA. Shame you already have a review and several other ratings! Regards
EDIT: if and when Classic Rock issue something then I imagine it would be properly authorised but it would seem they are having probs with it!
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