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Now this is considered the live masterpiece of the so-called post-Waters era. While it certainly gives an excellent (acoustic) idea of what happened during Floyd concerts in the mid-1990s, it is by no means a masterpiece. Until the early 1980s Pink Floyd used to be highly influential only in terms of its studio ventures anyway, not as far as their live performances are concerned. Too big has the discrepancy between the quality of the studio recordings and their live renditions always been. If you want to listen to live recordings on which such a discrepancy is almost non-existent, you had better check out some King Crimson live albums. A nice introduction to the Floyd catalogue for new would-be fans, but no substitute for the 'real, i.e. studio, thing'.