Racecourse grandstand was to be
Enshrouded by massive marquee
To accommodate daytime light-show
Supposedly amazing, immersive.
Trouble, August winds.
No chapiteau.
No lights. No staging.
Just masses of equipment
Crowding the stage.
Pink Floyd – in the raw!
Discontent evaporates.
Silence enshrouds grandstand
Haunting chords build, cymbals roll.
My tape-recorder switched on!
Bootlegger!!!*
Note:
* Yes, I illegally recorded the Randwick Pink Floyd Concert. It was on cassette and the quality was not hi-fiedlity but it wasn’t bad. It was only in the last couple of years that I discarded this tape (unplayable), still labelled in my high school handwriting – Pink Floyd – Randwick Racecourse – Aug 71. I am sure I’d copied it for others and transferred it to reel-to-reel … nowhere to be found.
** See also Short Memory #233. Between the roof & the rafters, the Penrith Poet (un)settles a restless audience.
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