Comments on: Pink Floyd – Animal Cops (Sigma 30)

By: sionxxii

sionxxii — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 18:33:13 +0000

Ps A lot of my older friends were at this show. 77 was great year for shows.

By: sionxxii

sionxxii — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 12:35:29 +0000

It was rough at first, but after 78 there was no stopping me. My friends dad was Jon Scher’s accountant so we “lived” at the Capitol Theater in Passaic, NJ.

By: wgpsec

wgpsec — Sat, 27 Oct 2012 02:45:23 +0000

I feel your pain. My parents wouldn’t allow me to go see Queen and Billy Squire at The Boston Garden with my older brother and his wife in 1982. At least I have the show on bootleg now.

By: gsparaco

gsparaco — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:18:44 +0000

Your mom too??? My mother allowed me to go concerts only at the Nassau Coliseum with my older brother because of the violence in the city.

By: sionxxii

sionxxii — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 17:07:50 +0000

I remember reading in Circus magazine, a story about Jimmy Page being hit by a thrown firecracker. Someone getting stabbed at a Santana concert almost prevented me from going to see Kiss at MSG in ’77. I was 13 at the time and my Mom was very nervous.

By: cgil

cgil — Fri, 26 Oct 2012 13:02:49 +0000

it seems like 1975-78 were the firecracker concert years. I remember Ian Anderson saying “silly fuckers” during one tull show in ’78. concerts were alot different back then. a free for all actually. too young to drink (except outside in the parking lot)too stupid not to smoke weed. those days are long gone. some great concerts however. no it’s over priced nostalgia greatest hits tours with one or two original members.

By: sionxxii

sionxxii — Thu, 25 Oct 2012 12:43:50 +0000

I’ve got the Holliday Dogs version of this and man, it must have been crazy in there that night. Firecrackers are one thing, but someone lights a blockbuster in there and I’m sure a few seats were thrown by the blast. If the crowd made it past their reckless youth, alot of them would be about 55-60 years old now, eh?

By: sionxxii

sionxxii — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 12:49:20 +0000

I’m assuming fireworks the cause of Roger’s line flub on Dogs at the July 4th gig.

By: DLee

DLee — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 02:25:58 +0000

Relayer67, I certainly agree those are great choices for the ’77 tour, but what about Sigma’s “Definitive Oakland”? Also, the Ft. Worth (TX) show of May 1st & the Boston show of June 27th are very nice too.

By: relayer67

relayer67 — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 01:17:12 +0000

Great review and comments, the NYC 77 shows are favorites and this release along with the Sirene Prog King and The Roar Ends are IMO highlights of the tour.

By: DLee

DLee — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:31:51 +0000

Finally got mine a couple days ago after having waited for it to take forever to arrive. Anyway, I pretty much agree with most everything. The artwork is also impressive – not only the front cover but the rear cover as well and the photos inside too. I curiously wonder, however, if Sigma is going to continue using the old “Animals” font on the front cover of each & every single one of their ’77 tour releases. It’s cool that Sigma chose to patch up the July 4th ‘Pigs (3 Different Ones)’ with the inferior source rather than leave it incomplete or screwed-up. Overall, Sigma has done an excellent job, not only with this particular title, but with almost all of their releases so far, however, I think they still could do a somewhat better job of normalization, as the July 4th show is noticeably somewhat louder than the July 3rd one. Both Sigma & Siréne have a few releases between the two of themselves that have similar normalization issues. Still, Sigma 30 is a considerably excellent item to collect.

By: DLee

DLee — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 04:51:42 +0000

Many thanks for this excellent review – especially satisfying my curiosity about how Sigma dealt with the numerous edits, cuts, etc. known to be on other versions of ‘Pigs (3 Different Ones)’ of the July 4th show. Mine should be arriving any day now, as it’s actually already a few days overdue (should have come by now!).