September 23rd is one of the red-letter holidays in the pop calendar, this day is not only the “anniversary of the liberation of Batonia”, but Omega gave their first concert on this day in 1962, and September 23rd was the last concert in Budapest Youth Park, B-Mobile 1984 Electric funeralAnd on September 23, 1979, Pyramids was organized. The big party As well as his concert recording, which is considered the best Hungarian music album ever.
It is known that the album depicting the climax of Pyramids contained half of the entire concert and focused mainly on new songs, so Nagi Boli can also be considered a semi-new album. It is also known that the band wanted to release the entire concert on a double disc, and according to legends, a double bag called the Gate Bag was prepared for this purpose, but no one saw it.
need for completion
Obviously it would have been better if it had been released, and the album containing the entire concert in the form we can now get our hands on, had been released in 2024, on the 45th anniversary of the concert. But not only has the original pocket plan been lost, but a high-resolution photo of the concert itself has never been found; one that would have been able to fit on the cover in print quality.
Moiras Records, which published the album, eventually produced four covers, each side of the album receiving a semi-cover. It is true that the cover should not lie, so to speak, and not put on it a concert photo that was not taken at that concert, but at the same time the cover of Nagi Boli does not show the photo from the concert on September 23, 1979. If you can believe it honor To an orchestral performance of a song called Impossible.
Bigger, longer and uncut
This is how they present Révész:Another person was left behind, dancing in the middle of the stage, in white up to his feet…Well, if this is a true description, we can see: the cover photo wasn't taken at that party, where Rifi is seen wearing black leather pants, a leather jacket, and a sailor-striped shirt. Additionally, the new album features an inside pocket photo, which was actually taken at The Big Party, but is actually there. white to the inside Reefs can be seen.
So the original post itself was a good scam,
Not to mention the improved audio recording, but they played around with it too. More on that later.
The Moiras team did not commit any kind of fraud, they searched for almost a year for photographic documentation about A grande buli, but they could not find a cover image of the right size, so the appearance of the album does not even reflect the dynamism that characterizes the concert material.
At the same time, it does not give false illusions: there are no overdubs or overdubs in the recording, we hear what was recorded on the tape recorder. Sound engineer Attila Virányi carried out an artistic restoration only to improve the quality. (By the way, Virányi is also known as the guitarist of Metropol in Nagyvárad.)
Which big party is the real one?
It's a matter of taste, the whole concert gives a more authentic picture, but at the same time, all the same, mixing, and introduction to the album released 45 years ago. (“Good evening, Budapest“) has become part of rock history. For many, it's almost 40 minutes of the concert itself, while the last song wasn't Becsület, but the last song. Wandering AngelThe party hasn't even started yet, as Reeves says,It starts here, this is the beginning… Good evening, Budapest!”Before that, the orchestra plays it. you have to burn and I have grown so much Songs.
That's the whole story.
The question is, do you miss the missed shots? Well, for those who know all the parts of the album from 1979, and who perfectly imitate the accents of the shouts, maybe not, but still: it is very important that the entire A nagy buli is accessible, because that is the case, that is how the story ends. The entire concert was a great treasure for bootleggers, and the writer of these lines kept it on CD for more than twenty years, and then it was also uploaded to the Internet, but not in the same quality as can be heard on the album released in 2024.
It was published by Proton in 1989. gift Unpublished recordings of the concert on the Piramis compilation tape include The Wandering Angel, in a mix in which Révész's vocals are not heard, only the chorus of the enthusiastic audience, but on the 2024 album we hear the song with Révész's vocals, with a more modest applause.
Overcoming the crowd noise
The question is: How far can you touch an audio material so that it retains its historical authenticity? It is also known from this tape that it was recorded at the big party. The song Recorded under the title, the crowd noise was also suppressed here, but at least Révész's vocals weren't mixed in. This also led to a more balanced final result in the 2024 version.
It's also interesting how the setlist for Piramis was put together, at the height of his career. We hear four new songs (Darkness Calling, Demon of Love, No Mercy, Just a Few Good Numbersö), which was not previously available on audio media. It was released as a single only. Accelerator '77 He heard it in a competition called “Egni köllt”. This could probably also have been applied to the original 1979 release. Surprisingly, only three songs from the first disc are played (SBorn in foam, in the shadow of the shining pyramids, Honor), a If I had two lives It was missed, even though it was one of the biggest hits in the band's history.
In the shadow of the pyramid
At the same time, probably no one but Lajos Som liked the orchestral recording “Fénylő piramisok szányájasad”, so they solved it with a 3-4 minute solo… Well, we think there was a moment at the concert when the kids went to the cafeteria.
They drink the legendary diluted beer in the park.
The second disc was the backbone of the concert, with five songs being heard on it (I want to live honestly, Just a short time, Come closer, The next day the world became very big.Ajándék), while only three of the trilogy's albums had been released a few months earlier. I've Grown Too Old, The Song and The Wandering Angel, only the last in the block of appearances.
“Now listen carefully!”
Linguists can have a great time comparing the 1979 album to the 2024 version, but you don't have to dig deep into the material to notice that the 2024 version of The Devil of Love lacks “I will find you! A scream can be heard on the 1979 record.
How could this be? Revises thisDid you sing it in the studio?
The song also contains a lyric error, which was not heard on the 1979 LP, so the 1979 intrusions are obvious, but this has also happened with many other famous concert recordings. (Judas Priest is also from 1979. Unleash the East The album, considered the best live heavy metal album, is also the result of subsequent embellishment.)Now listen carefully!, I would like that!) also.
Good evening, Budapest!
However, the 2024 double album is definitely better because it highlights Peter Gallay's keyboard playing. Although the organ sometimes sounds a bit distorted, his playing – part of which was mixed on the 1979 album – adds an extra layer to the recordings.
Twenty years ago, I spoke to Reeves, who told me that when he came home from the big party in September 1979, hundreds of young people were waiting for him in their apartment building, who just wanted to thank him for the party, Out of gratitude They wanted to offer him a sip of wine. The real toast came 45 years later, amid the joy of the release of the uncut, colored vinyl version of the most amazing Hungarian rock album ever.
Pyramid: The Big Almost Complete Party
Moira
16 songs, 90 minutes
