I was at the Royal Albert Hall with my wife for the David Gilmour gig on the opening night, 9th October 2024. I haven't seen Dave Gilmour since Pink Floyd played Earls Court on the Division Bell tour in 1994. I was there the night that the seats collapsed. Amazing night and an amazing band! As for the critics. David hasn't been out on tour for a long time and let's not forget that he's 78 years old! He still exudes the magic that he had when I first saw Floyd in 1981 playing The Wall. Beautiful night! Again, amazing band and David is such a legend! 🔥 🎸 💥 🔥
I travelled down from Liverpool with my mates to go to Earls Court in London October 1994 for The Pulse Concert...I was sitting in the top balcony on the left hand side looking towards the stage and even now 30years on/later it still sends shivers down my spine and puts a huge smile on my face that I got to see the GREATEST CONCERT EVER MUSICALLY AND VISUALLY 🦻👀🤘...Every single song from opening of Set1 with "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" to the Encore of "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell" were a visual and musical MASTERPIECE...!! This Concert will be Remembered till the End of Time just like Pink Floyd's music will be...MIND-BLOWING PRODUCTION BY MUSICAL GENIUSES..Words don't do it justice so I'm so lucky I got to be there on one of the 10nights at Earls Court were Pink Floyd finished the Division Bell World Tour 🌎 💙 Was also tripping 😳😵💫🥴🥹🤩🤪🤣 my tits off on over a 100shrooms 🍄🍄🍄inside a flask of hot sweet mushy tea consumed in the car on the way down from Liverpool to London Earls Court Stadium 🏟..!! EVEN now 30years later it still fills me INCREDIBLE MEMORIES/TEARS OF LAUGHTER AND JOY, MUSICAL AND VISUAL SOUND EFFECTS AND HALLUCINATIONS that if I wasn't there in the flesh at the concert I wouldn't believe were real and legitimate . 👁👁👀..This night and seeing Roger Waters in 2018 in Birmingham at the US AND THEM TOUR were BATTERSEA POWER STATION rose up 200feet off the ground in the middle of the Stadium from 'Front of Stage to Back of Stadium' 200feet long + with the 4 chimneys bellowing smoke out and in between Algie The Giant Pig 🐖 🐷 off Animals floating between the chimneys..!! Pink Floyd The GREATEST MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL BAND TO HAVE EVER GRACED OUR WORLD 🌎
I done exactly the same, a coach from outside the royal court, was on my own though none of mates came with me oh how they regretted that when i got home and couldn’t shut up about it, then seeing it on the telly all nearly crying, and here i am 48 years old and still tell people how silly it was, I’ve seen loads of concerts but that was something else, think it was 14 nights wasn’t it? and a few days before i went one of the seating areas collapsed i was shitting myself in case the rest got cancelled thankfully they didn’t, on the night one of these days was on fire it was the best of the night for me oh and the second solo from `CN
@MiniShowProductions 🤪 5 of us drove down in a car with a flask of mushy tea to drink once got into London so we were all tripping our heads off 😳😵💫🥴..So each lazer was being tripled, + all laughing our heads off everything being heightened ten-fold and all the effects felt like we on another planet 😆 lol
@@martincummings7886 hahah the coach i got on i was para to fuck thinking if i cud av a J got on it all the curtains got closed an it was a party all the way ther no mushy juice tho :( lol
I was at this concert, went with a friend who wanted us to leave before the end of the gig because he was worried we'd miss the last train home from London, I refused, we saw the whole thing and we ran like hell (fittingly, considering the last song of the night was Run Like Hell!) to the station and made the last train by about 5 seconds, haha.
Thank you for posting this. This program, and particularly the breakdown of the intro to SOYCD is the defining moment when my eyes were opened to their music and legacy. I’ve wanted to see this again for 30 years
Tomorrow I will start searching… Somewhere in the attic I have the original recording on VHS tape of the BBC broadcast that night. I have played this tape over and over again. And now I cry over my youth, especially when David plays his second solo in Comfortably Numb…
It might not comfort you in any way, but I also cry over my youth listening to PF. I feel like I discovered them yesterday. In fact, I did over 30 years ago, in secondary school. And I'll be 50 next year.
I flew from Australia just for this concert, i'm 70 yrs young. and have been a Floydy for at least 50 of those. i taught myself to play a guitar after listening to Wish you were here. a life changing experience 😁
When I was nineteen I first heard pink floyd I'm 74 years young now young I was but I felt then this band is going to be incredibly popular and huge for me once you listen to anything from pink floyd your hooked the lyrics the combination of top draw musicians along with the synchronised lighting and of course back up singers and for me one of the more important qualities the common down to earth honest approach of all the band members you can see how much they enjoy what they do it's irresistible and infectious it rare for me for a day to go by without a good dose of my favourite rock band pink Floyd
I was at the concert at Earls Court ( I think it was the first night) when, unfortunately, just as the house lights went down, a rumble that sounded like thunder was heard. I was on the first floor and like many others thought it was a sound effect to launch the evening. Then we could hear shouting and screaming and quickly the news was that the temporary seating on the ground floor at the back had collapsed. Within minutes Harvey Goldsmith came on stage, announced what had happened and told everyone to leave the building and informed us that another concert would be scheduled. Thankfully no one was killed but lots of walking wounded and several taken to hospital. I was able to go the following week and it is still one of the finest gigs I have ever been to. The finale (Run like Hell) was mind blowing.
@simonm7133 In a strange way that got me tickets that seating collapsing because people couldn't get to the rearranged concert the following week and the tickets for the 10nights had sold out in hours and I couldn't get any..Well due to the rearranged I got 5 tickets for me and my mates from a Tour/Ticket selling company rung me up asking me could I make it the following week to travel down from Liverpool to Earls Court as 5 tickets had been given back as they were unable to re-attend so was lucky the seating collapsed cos I got to see the GREATEST CONCERT OF ALL TIME
I was there too, in the stand next to the one that collapsed. Always remember one guy standing up in the wreckage with a pint in each hand, don't think he'd spilt a drop. Great night at the rearranged gig.
As a general thing, other than the longer bits (from Meddle, Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and Animals), I don't particularly like most of Roger Waters lyrics. He's a bit (well, too f'n much actually) "mental" for my taste. His later narcissistic attitudes were the real turn off. I like The Wall musically, but the lyrics were too weird. Of course that could be said for all of the longer tracks. For a guy who got rich and famous early in life, he sure is a cry baby. However, San Tropez from the Meddle Album is he best work as a lyricist. I think that was way before he turned into Pinky...
It wasn't "just the band on stage" in the traditionally Pink Floyd context, they couldn't play those tracks accurately without Dick Parry on Sax, Tim Renwick on Guitar, Jon Carin on Keys, and Carol Kenyon singing Backing Vocals. The studio albums have too many layers where extra players are required to play them live.
To say that Roger's career had not flourished since he left the band, not sure that's fair. What a shame that they can't get along better, god only knows what would have come of that... Their lamentations for Syd produced some of the most profound musical empatheticals ever written, we all feel that angst in Roger's voice, and the ethereal uplift in Gilmore... what a combination. If it wasn't for the loss of Syd, none of that would have reached our ears, our souls. Syd did contribute, if only to give the band that ability to reach into the human condition and pull that music out of the aether.
I witnessed Pink Floyd live in Chicago in 1971 for the first time. This was the first time I ever heard echoes played live. Never hearing it before I was enthralled and very happy echoes is a piece of music it still runs through my veins forevermore. Pink Floyd is embedded in the souls in the minds of the onions . Only a handful of rock bands ever could accomplish this kind of attention from so many. Listening to echoes and another tune called the narrow way Hertz 1 2 and 3 from Uma Guma in the instrumentals from obscured by clouds . Honestly still give me chills to hear it I love it so much. Pink Floyd instrumentals are still the best particularly when listened to through a 5.1 surround sound system or better. Hail hail rock and roll 🤗
If Dave Gilmour held his Black Strat (now 'Black Cat' copy) on his deathbed at 100 years old, he could still scream out his greatest solos, even through extreme pain-especially both solos from 'Comfortably Numb'. His new single with his daughter is brilliant and poignant.
Les Claypool's cover of Animals is worth checking out. I took my girlfriend to see The Wall at the cinema. Neither of us could speak for the rest of the night after. I love the music, some of it has been the emotional soundtrack of my life.
@daleskidmore1685 In my opinion, Animals is as great an album as it two predecessors. I will look up Les Claypool. IMHO Pink Floyd went downhill after Animals, with too much dominance of Roger Water before they split up. Having said that, the rest of the band saved the Wall by creating some great music behind his lyrics and what turned out to be a hit single. Singles not being Pink Floyd's concern or style in the 70s.
Animals is my favourite Floyd album with all 4 band members all contributing amazing solo's from Roger's incitful and almost physcic lyrics predicting the Future (And even more RELEVANT now than in 1977 the way the World has become), Gilmour's Incredible Lead and Bass Guitar playing solo's, Rick's Amazing Keyboard parts of pure emotion and creativity and keeping it all together Nick's drumming and precussion..!! And for imo to pick a favourite Floyd album is no mean feat with all their MASTERPIECES...PS Donald Trump is 2 for 1 being a PIG 🐖and a DOG 🐕
@@PaulYoung99s Brick in the Wall was a surprise release as a single, as you rightly say. It was a perfect pop song. Dark Side and The Wall cast a bit of a shadow over most of Floyd's work in just the same way as Sgt. Pepper and Let it Be do The Beatles.
saw an interview with Alan Parsons the other day he said has been involved with remastering the Earls Court show that is shown in part at the end of this video but did not say when coming out yet
@sonnyboy5566 Not my personal favourite. I think the overall package went downhill somewhat when it was too dominated by Roger Waters, although there's no doubt he was probably the key creative force in Pink Floyd.
I have that BBC broadcast on tape somewhere and I much prefer it to the commercial releases as those have had any duff notes overdubbed. There weren't that many as I remember, but they were part of the experience and I wish they had been left, especially in the legendary Comfortably Numb solo. The occasional duff note makes David less God-like :)
Was that BBC one the recording of the 19th of October as I was there that night? The Pulse DVD is a recording of the show on the 20th iirc. My seat was on the front row of the elevated section right behind the control desks etc. It's a show I will never forget as it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life.
The Wall may portray itself as a very depressing album, yet upon closer inspection, it paves the way for that life which is beyond music. To get that Ego onto a recording and have it resonate is the alert to the misidentification that is Ego!
I ended up seeing Pink Floyd 9 times- 7 in Philadelphia June 1975- Spectrum arena June 1977 Spectrum Sept 11, 1987 JFK stadium Outdoor, threatened rain August 1988- Vet stadium August 1988 Original GIANTS stadium ( excellent!) 1994 JUNE 2, 3, 4 , 1994 Vet Stadium Pulse tour July 16, 1994 last Pink Floyd show for me and last Floyd performance in the US... DAVID GILMORE: 1984 Tower theater solo tour for first 2 Solo DG albums. 2016 MSG/ NYC ( last row our stage left- ALL the way up last row.... Rodger: June 2007. Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia ( same location as old JFK stadium.... JUNE 2007
@@martinbirch632I think many bands tried to move away from the ‘The’ part, back in the day (‘Eagles’ springs to mind but, there were many others). I think a debate occasionally surfaces over whether it’s ‘DSOM’ or ‘The DSOM’, as well!🤔😉✌️
I keep wondering if the BBC 1 broadcast concert is any different from the Premiere broadcast from germany or Pay per view broadcast from US. The Premiere showing had some different angles from the Pay per view showing, so I'm hoping this version has differences. I have a recording from the BBC 1 radio broadcast and at the end of One of These Days you can hear gilmour make an announcement for a second before it cut to the second half. Did the stage lights come on at the end of OOTD in this bbc 1 broadcast?
@nick28476 The time it took the test card to appear was actually a little bit longer than the upload. I cut a bit of time out, thinking people might stop playing believing they had got to the end of the recording and miss it!
I surprised my then wife with tickets for the Earls Court gig, she sadi no thanks, not going in spite of her knowing they were my fav band. Gave the tickets to our friends John and Cheryl and got divorced three years later. #goodolddays
Did you notice the one handed single stroke snare roll, his right hand while the left hand lit up the hi-hat with half time tsst, tsst, tsst.. etc? Its no coincidence that Buddy Richs daughter chose Neil to lead the drumming selections on a tribute album to her father entitled Burnin for Buddy. Nor was it coincidence for David Lettermans drum solo week with a different drummer each night playing a solo to close the show that Neil closed the show for the week on that weeks Friday night. The two of them wanted the best drummer on the planet, and they got him. Rip Sir. Words cannot explain how much I miss watching you play live. 🇨🇦
Big roger fan, but it always seemed he was scrambling for control of his life as a whole. When he gained control of the band as a whole, it all fell apart. Gilmour, and to a lesser extent, Wright contributed just as heavily in the glory years and Roger has always had a hard time admiting this.
who wrote ALL of DOTM and came up with The Wall. The Final Cut is a Roger Water`s Solo album which he allowed the other members to play on. Please name all the PINK FLOYD classic songs written entirely by Dave, Nick or Rick?
I think people who hate Pink Floyd just don’t get Pink Floyd. They’re definitely a band u need to listen to in the right sequence to truly appreciate. In fact, i think it’s best to start with the wall and work ur way back to dark side and wuwhere ❤
@JohnnyPaton I didn't go to the concerts at the time, but I recall I felt like you about it. However, it's all about timing, though there will be people I expect younger than us who were experiencing Pink Floyd for the first time (or at least weren't around listening in the 1960s)
enjoyed that until the end where it seemed a bit under researched! Wasnt there a court case in the late 80s involving Waters not wanting the other lads to use the PinkFloyd name etc.
@adamlock1285 I think it took the form of a bit of a promotion for their new tour as Pink Floyd without Roger Waters. They probably didn't want to, or maybe, couldn't talk about the things you mentioned.
Sadly only saw the post Waters Pink Floyd in 1987…the last …and I believe only 2nd time Pink Floyd ever toured Australia ….thankfully since then Roger Waters has toured Australia several times and even Nick Mason brought his band here in 2023
Yes I heard it on News at 10 I had tickets to see them the next day so I thought it would be cancelled but at the end of the report they said it was going ahead 🇬🇧🎸🎸
@turokforever007 Apparently Roger was annoyed when the audience seemed to be demanding what to hear and not listening to what he wanted to play. So he conceptual wanted to create a wall so he could play his music without being diverted by audience demands, I think. The wall became to represent all sorts of different barriers for different people, including the Berlin wall and its destruction, which gave it special meaning in Germany and the West.
One thing I have noticed are premium guitarists can age well or not. Dave Gilmour has aged as well like a 40 year old bottle of claret, unlike the like of one of my faves Brian May, has hung on to his skill by the skin of his teeth.
@Mattiroxx That's very interesting. I have been wondering how different, if at all, the Pulse DVD was from the TV broadcast I recorded this from. TH-cam automatic copyright protection trimmed large parts of the full concert out but didn't touch the finale I uploaded here, including Comfortably Numb. Could it be because it's not the same as the Pulse DVD version? Probably not the reason for no TH-cam trimming out, but this did cross my mind.
We ‘hyped it a bit with a gentleman whose name I wouldn’t dream of revealing’🤔 … rather suggesting, perhaps, a (1) household name (2) disgraced household name or (3) someone who went onto bigger things, either at the BBC or elsewhere?
@galileo5854 It was a BBC TV production, and someone here commented that it was different to the DVD, as I suspected it could be. However, I haven't seen the DVD, so have not been able to compare myself.
@garypcadogan8193 I liken it to John Lennon and Paul McCartney. John gave the Beatles edgy creativeness, whilst Paul added great melody and beauty. Roger gave Pink Floyd an edgy creativeness, the rest of the band added creative musicality and a great sound. Without Roger, Pink Floyd continued with a great sound, but it stuck in a groove. At the same time, Roger by himself was too self-involved and was hard to listen too.
@@PaulYoung99s Roger wrote Dark Side entirely on his own FACT. The band were about to go bankrupt before Roger came up with The Wall, basically his life story, Gilmour had nothing to do with the concept 90% of the songs are ROGER. Nobody talks about Gilmour and Waters as a song writing team!
A little biased to say Waters' post-Floyd career hadn't flourished while the Floyd's had. Commercially and financially? Sure. Artistically? It's not even close. Waters had just made Amused to Death when this doc was released. AMLOR and TDB don't come close. But it's safe to say Waters had the last laugh with his solo success in the 21st century. I think they'll all be quite content with how it's all gone.
@nectarinedreams7208 I was just looking at the song credits for Ummaguma, the album that got me into Pink Floyd. It's clear that Roger was the one who pushed into the more experimental and creative areas back then, too. It's also clear that the best music is when the whole band is involved - they add a new level of musicality. In my mind, Pink Floyd's musicality remained after Roger Waters left, but just stuck in the Dark Side era mould, which is great to listen to, but not going into new ground. Pink Floyd's attraction in the beginning was clearly their musical experimention, which took them into original crearive areas, that seems to have been lost after Roger left but suited the by then mainstream audience better.
@chloesdad1000 Actually, in my opinion, Pink Floyd's early more experimental stuff was essential to developing their later more mainstream sound, amongst my all time favourite songs are "Set the controls to the heart of the sun" Be careful with that Axe Eugence" masterpieces with amazing drama and emotion. Probably, some would be laughed at by a modern audience with more focus on Pop than leading edge experimental music (at the time)
Really? See Emily Play is absolute perfection in a 3 minute pop song. Lots of waffle after Piper till we get to Meddle, but there gems scattered through all those early records. Remember A Day?
@@paulwhite7972 Remember A Day, brilliant song and soundscape. Love Cymbaline and Cirrus Minor from 'More'. Grantchester Meadows holds up very well amidst a whole bunch of self-indulgent stuff and then it all starts coming together fantasticaly on 'Meddle'.
@freenando75 No. For simplicity, I used the "dubbing" from VCR to DVD facility on my old VCR-DVD combo machine and then copied the DVD onto my PC hard disk from my PC DVD. I think the later VCRs may have recorded better than earlier ones. Also, I only played the tape a few times ever, and it had been stored well on my shelves in my living room all its life. I have looked at AI upscalimg tools, but in my experience, they have created an artificial look, and from an accuracy and nostalgic point of view I rather prefer the idea of presenting the video as it originally looked. The only issue I have had is that after uploading the video to TH-cam, the audio has sometimes gone a little out of sync. Not sure why this happens? PS Having given further thought, I was an early adopter of Satellite TV. A lot of VHS recordings are from terrestial TV in the UK that's PAL quality. Satellite TV was transmitted in higher quality.
@@PaulYoung99s if the container is h264 mp4 or mov, there is no reason for out of sync.. never the less, when i export ( using davinci resolve) i allways use the audio option to normalise audio using the youtube preset and linear pcm audio (not mp3) at 44khz
@petermorris9818 I think Meddle was one of their best albums. My mother had an 8 track player with Meddle cartridge in her MGB. I was about 9 when I first heard and I became a Pink Floyd fan from them on :-)
I’m so glad that my favorite parts of Pink Floyd mirror the same opinions of David Gilmour and Rick Wright. I love the music from Meddle to Animals. Then Waters went on his ego trip. I was so glad to hear the Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell. Pink Floyd moved on without Waters and still made great music. Meanwhile, Waters struggled with his solo career. I guess he found out that the whole was greater than the parts and he wasn’t THE REASON that Pink Floyd succeeded.
@KH6775 I agree to a point, but it's a bit more nuanced. Roger Waters' contribution to Pink Floyd was crucial. He provided an edgy creativeness that explored new areas. The rest of the band without him later largely stuck in the 1970s groove, which is a magical sound but not creating anything spectacularly original as was the case with Pink Floyd in the 1960s and 70s. Roger's music was also much more personal and edgy, so less commercial than sticking to the style of Pink Floyd in the 70s that became mainstream but was new at the time. Rogers style is less easy to listen to because of its edginess and, as a result, not so commercial. He has written some good solo songs too. This is very emotional thought-provoking and great music. th-cam.com/video/YRWRRBX3TB0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=j0MHaZPQgrYohkwB
My old next door neighbour was an old hippy. One of his jobs was as a "journalist" with "OZ" magazine. He said he used to go to UFO, and saw The Pink Floyd every weekend for months. He was also at Led Zeppelin's first UK show.......He said they were shit..... Zeppelin that is.
@indigohammer5732 Mid-sixties must have been an interesting time to be a teenager for many, such a big new youth culture, swinging London, etc.. I was only 6 in 1966, so I was a bit too young to absorb it all, but I can remember the fashion and the bright colours. Led Zeppelin is another of my favourite groups, and their first album remains one of my favourite. Maybe your friend just didn't like their music genre. Jimmy Page was already a well-known session musician and had been in the Yardbirds and the others were all great musicians too.
It was done in the context of their comeback after the split with Roger Waters and felt to me like a like a backgrounder for their first work as the new Pink Floyd without Roger Waters and maybe an introduction to a younger/newer audience rather than an in depth detailed historical documentary.
@Andre_Ons_Marshall I can understand that. Pink Floyd was originally more "experimental" and was creating new sounds. Under Gilmour, they stuck more to the mainstream in the manificent groove of the Dark Side era, but nothing new or more "challenging"
@jamesx9881 It's just a typo. If you look through the thread, you will see I have spelt it correctly earlier. Unfortunately, being old enough to have listened to them in the mid sixties, I find typing on a mobile rather haphazard. Anyway, I have updated it now :-)
I like The Floyd and saw them once in concert, which was fun. They aren't Genesis though who are probably the best band in the world, on album and on stage where they just blew my mind.
GILMOUR not GILMORE lay off the waccy baccy and learn to spell or read . Even on Dave`s official TH-cam channel about 50% of his fans can`t even spell his name properly, yet claim he is their favourite Musician of all time. Bizzare!
Absolutely my thoughts too. He's pretty much the biggest act in the world to go see live, and has been for the last 20 years or so. His last 2 tours even (''Us And Them'' and ''This Is Not A Drill' ) have sold out all around the world, in huge stadiums and with a huge stage show. People only need search on TH-cam for footage and they'll see how well he's doing...still going strong at over 80 years old, and respected by the vast majority of people due to his integrity, honour, bravery and compassion for those whose voices need to heard..due to war crimes and genocide. Roger is an absolute legend !
@@Spirit-Of-The-Age Right on Brother. Terence McKenna once said " The truth does not need your participation, Bullshit does!" it is a shame all these so called Pink Floyd fans do not know anything about Roger.
The Final Cut is pretty much a Roger Waters solo album and even though it has its moments I find it underwhelming as a whole. The Wall was their last joint effort and to my mind the last truly good PF album. I like a few songs on their two Floyd Minus Roger albums but that's as far as it goes.
That's plain stupid and wrong. I have been a fan since DSOM, I was 13, and love pretty much everything the've done because there is a very special alchemy when they all play together. For me the clinching point is this, none of the work any of them have done seperately or in the post Roger period comes anywhere near the heights they reached together, I challenge anyone to prove me wrong.
@@darrenshaw4305 There's no accounting for taste...or lack thereof...Madonna, The Backstreet Boys, and Michael Bolton have all sold millions of records, too...
The fleeting reference to Echoes is a bit disappointing, I must say. This is the piece where it all starts to gel, post Syd and I'd have like to have learned more about how they put this together. Still one of my favourite Floyd tracks.
I was at the Royal Albert Hall with my wife for the David Gilmour gig on the opening night, 9th October 2024. I haven't seen Dave Gilmour since Pink Floyd played Earls Court on the Division Bell tour in 1994. I was there the night that the seats collapsed. Amazing night and an amazing band! As for the critics. David hasn't been out on tour for a long time and let's not forget that he's 78 years old! He still exudes the magic that he had when I first saw Floyd in 1981 playing The Wall. Beautiful night! Again, amazing band and David is such a legend! 🔥 🎸 💥 🔥
I travelled down from Liverpool with my mates to go to Earls Court in London October 1994 for The Pulse Concert...I was sitting in the top balcony on the left hand side looking towards the stage and even now 30years on/later it still sends shivers down my spine and puts a huge smile on my face that I got to see the GREATEST CONCERT EVER MUSICALLY AND VISUALLY 🦻👀🤘...Every single song from opening of Set1 with "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" to the Encore of "Comfortably Numb" and "Run Like Hell" were a visual and musical MASTERPIECE...!! This Concert will be Remembered till the End of Time just like Pink Floyd's music will be...MIND-BLOWING PRODUCTION BY MUSICAL GENIUSES..Words don't do it justice so I'm so lucky I got to be there on one of the 10nights at Earls Court were Pink Floyd finished the Division Bell World Tour 🌎 💙 Was also tripping 😳😵💫🥴🥹🤩🤪🤣 my tits off on over a 100shrooms 🍄🍄🍄inside a flask of hot sweet mushy tea consumed in the car on the way down from Liverpool to London Earls Court Stadium 🏟..!! EVEN now 30years later it still fills me INCREDIBLE MEMORIES/TEARS OF LAUGHTER AND JOY, MUSICAL AND VISUAL SOUND EFFECTS AND HALLUCINATIONS that if I wasn't there in the flesh at the concert I wouldn't believe were real and legitimate . 👁👁👀..This night and seeing Roger Waters in 2018 in Birmingham at the US AND THEM TOUR were BATTERSEA POWER STATION rose up 200feet off the ground in the middle of the Stadium from 'Front of Stage to Back of Stadium' 200feet long + with the 4 chimneys bellowing smoke out and in between Algie The Giant Pig 🐖 🐷 off Animals floating between the chimneys..!! Pink Floyd The GREATEST MUSICAL AND THEATRICAL BAND TO HAVE EVER GRACED OUR WORLD 🌎
Ditto; Friday 14th October 1994.
I done exactly the same, a coach from outside the royal court, was on my own though none of mates came with me oh how they regretted that when i got home and couldn’t shut up about it, then seeing it on the telly all nearly crying, and here i am 48 years old and still tell people how silly it was, I’ve seen loads of concerts but that was something else, think it was 14 nights wasn’t it? and a few days before i went one of the seating areas collapsed i was shitting myself in case the rest got cancelled thankfully they didn’t, on the night one of these days was on fire it was the best of the night for me oh and the second solo from `CN
@MiniShowProductions 🤪 5 of us drove down in a car with a flask of mushy tea to drink once got into London so we were all tripping our heads off 😳😵💫🥴..So each lazer was being tripled, + all laughing our heads off everything being heightened ten-fold and all the effects felt like we on another planet 😆 lol
@@martincummings7886 hahah the coach i got on i was para to fuck thinking if i cud av a J got on it all the curtains got closed an it was a party all the way ther no mushy juice tho :( lol
I got to see them in the 80s on the momentary lapse of reason tour......friggin awesome
Comfortably numb has the greatest guitar solo in rock history,
😂 😂 boring
@@SiliconMolybdenumNitrogen Naah. Stick to your Top 40 pap.
I've been looking for this documentary for years. It has always stayed in my memory. Thank you!
I was at this concert, went with a friend who wanted us to leave before the end of the gig because he was worried we'd miss the last train home from London, I refused, we saw the whole thing and we ran like hell (fittingly, considering the last song of the night was Run Like Hell!) to the station and made the last train by about 5 seconds, haha.
I am so jealous lol
Thank you for posting this. This program, and particularly the breakdown of the intro to SOYCD is the defining moment when my eyes were opened to their music and legacy. I’ve wanted to see this again for 30 years
Tomorrow I will start searching… Somewhere in the attic I have the original recording on VHS tape of the BBC broadcast that night. I have played this tape over and over again. And now I cry over my youth, especially when David plays his second solo in Comfortably Numb…
It might not comfort you in any way, but I also cry over my youth listening to PF. I feel like I discovered them yesterday. In fact, I did over 30 years ago, in secondary school. And I'll be 50 next year.
@@marcinbreczko4777 Let's all put our heads together and build a time machine, I'm sick of this "woke" world. I'd go back in time in a heartbeat. 😞
I cry when I think about the real Paul whom I loved. Sad that he was replaced with Billy.
I flew from Australia just for this concert, i'm 70 yrs young. and have been a Floydy for at least 50 of those. i taught myself to play a guitar after listening to Wish you were here. a life changing experience 😁
When I was nineteen I first heard pink floyd I'm 74 years young now young I was but I felt then this band is going to be incredibly popular and huge for me once you listen to anything from pink floyd your hooked the lyrics the combination of top draw musicians along with the synchronised lighting and of course back up singers and for me one of the more important qualities the common down to earth honest approach of all the band members you can see how much they enjoy what they do it's irresistible and infectious it rare for me for a day to go by without a good dose of my favourite rock band pink Floyd
I was at the concert at Earls Court ( I think it was the first night) when, unfortunately, just as the house lights went down, a rumble that sounded like thunder was heard. I was on the first floor and like many others thought it was a sound effect to launch the evening. Then we could hear shouting and screaming and quickly the news was that the temporary seating on the ground floor at the back had collapsed. Within minutes Harvey Goldsmith came on stage, announced what had happened and told everyone to leave the building and informed us that another concert would be scheduled. Thankfully no one was killed but lots of walking wounded and several taken to hospital. I was able to go the following week and it is still one of the finest gigs I have ever been to. The finale (Run like Hell) was mind blowing.
I went the day after that happened. We listened to radio 1 all day waiting for the announcement of whether the concert would still happen
@simonm7133 In a strange way that got me tickets that seating collapsing because people couldn't get to the rearranged concert the following week and the tickets for the 10nights had sold out in hours and I couldn't get any..Well due to the rearranged I got 5 tickets for me and my mates from a Tour/Ticket selling company rung me up asking me could I make it the following week to travel down from Liverpool to Earls Court as 5 tickets had been given back as they were unable to re-attend so was lucky the seating collapsed cos I got to see the GREATEST CONCERT OF ALL TIME
I was there too, in the stand next to the one that collapsed. Always remember one guy standing up in the wreckage with a pint in each hand, don't think he'd spilt a drop. Great night at the rearranged gig.
@@andygroves1296 Wow. You had a lucky escape. I bet the guy with the pint dined out on that story for years!
February 24th , 1980, Long Island.
I was directly.across from David ,
ON TOP OF THE WALL. UNFORGETABLE 😊
Comfortably numb has to be my favourite pink Floyd track EVER.
As a general thing, other than the longer bits (from Meddle, Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and Animals), I don't particularly like most of Roger Waters lyrics. He's a bit (well, too f'n much actually) "mental" for my taste. His later narcissistic attitudes were the real turn off. I like The Wall musically, but the lyrics were too weird. Of course that could be said for all of the longer tracks. For a guy who got rich and famous early in life, he sure is a cry baby.
However, San Tropez from the Meddle Album is he best work as a lyricist. I think that was way before he turned into Pinky...
Guy Pratt, absolute lengend.
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Guy who?? 😂
One of my fave bassist, so low-key. His work on the Delicate Sound of Thunder/MLoR tour was phenomenal.
@@grassrootsflshp Have you read his book? It’s bloody brilliant.
@@ChristopherLightfoot-zu3kb I'd love to. I'll check it out, thanks.
Saw them at Live 8. Unbelievable sound, just the band on stage, amazing foh sound, you could hear every plectrum stroke on the bass. That click.
It wasn't "just the band on stage" in the traditionally Pink Floyd context, they couldn't play those tracks accurately without Dick Parry on Sax, Tim Renwick on Guitar, Jon Carin on Keys, and Carol Kenyon singing Backing Vocals. The studio albums have too many layers where extra players are required to play them live.
I also had this taped on video back in the day. Been years since I've seen it! Thanks for the upload!
All hail to gods of rock, 🙌🏼
nobody has even come close to Pink Floyd!
An old documentary but so interesting. The two little ditties at the end send shivers down the spine!
This is 'top draw' my friend. Thank you very much.
*drawer
shoutout to Guy Pratt - picked it up and carried it
To say that Roger's career had not flourished since he left the band, not sure that's fair. What a shame that they can't get along better, god only knows what would have come of that... Their lamentations for Syd produced some of the most profound musical empatheticals ever written, we all feel that angst in Roger's voice, and the ethereal uplift in Gilmore... what a combination. If it wasn't for the loss of Syd, none of that would have reached our ears, our souls. Syd did contribute, if only to give the band that ability to reach into the human condition and pull that music out of the aether.
I was at one of the Earls court concerts what a night
I witnessed Pink Floyd live in Chicago in 1971 for the first time. This was the first time I ever heard echoes played live. Never hearing it before I was enthralled and very happy echoes is a piece of music it still runs through my veins forevermore. Pink Floyd is embedded in the souls in the minds of the onions
. Only a handful of rock bands ever could accomplish this kind of attention from so many. Listening to echoes and another tune called the narrow way Hertz 1 2 and 3 from Uma Guma in the instrumentals from obscured by clouds
. Honestly still give me chills to hear it I love it so much. Pink Floyd instrumentals are still the best particularly when listened to through a 5.1 surround sound system or better.
Hail hail rock and roll 🤗
If Dave Gilmour held his Black Strat (now 'Black Cat' copy) on his deathbed at 100 years old, he could still scream out his greatest solos, even through extreme pain-especially both solos from 'Comfortably Numb'. His new single with his daughter is brilliant and poignant.
Les Claypool's cover of Animals is worth checking out. I took my girlfriend to see The Wall at the cinema. Neither of us could speak for the rest of the night after. I love the music, some of it has been the emotional soundtrack of my life.
@daleskidmore1685 In my opinion, Animals is as great an album as it two predecessors. I will look up Les Claypool. IMHO Pink Floyd went downhill after Animals, with too much dominance of Roger Water before they split up. Having said that, the rest of the band saved the Wall by creating some great music behind his lyrics and what turned out to be a hit single. Singles not being Pink Floyd's concern or style in the 70s.
Animals is my favourite Floyd album with all 4 band members all contributing amazing solo's from Roger's incitful and almost physcic lyrics predicting the Future (And even more RELEVANT now than in 1977 the way the World has become), Gilmour's Incredible Lead and Bass Guitar playing solo's, Rick's Amazing Keyboard parts of pure emotion and creativity and keeping it all together Nick's drumming and precussion..!! And for imo to pick a favourite Floyd album is no mean feat with all their MASTERPIECES...PS Donald Trump is 2 for 1 being a PIG 🐖and a DOG 🐕
@@PaulYoung99s Brick in the Wall was a surprise release as a single, as you rightly say. It was a perfect pop song. Dark Side and The Wall cast a bit of a shadow over most of Floyd's work in just the same way as Sgt. Pepper and Let it Be do The Beatles.
@daleskidmore1685 I can't think of the right word, but one thing I like about Animals is that it is more "Rock" like in places.
saw an interview with Alan Parsons the other day he said has been involved with remastering the Earls Court show that is shown in part at the end of this video but did not say when coming out yet
I first saw them around 69 at the Santa Monica civic auditorium small venue , but great grass going around
This is great, thank you.
I’m glad The Final Cut was released. It’s a great record
@sonnyboy5566 Not my personal favourite. I think the overall package went downhill somewhat when it was too dominated by Roger Waters, although there's no doubt he was probably the key creative force in Pink Floyd.
I was at the concert on October 14th 1994, almost 30 years ago.
I have that BBC broadcast on tape somewhere and I much prefer it to the commercial releases as those have had any duff notes overdubbed. There weren't that many as I remember, but they were part of the experience and I wish they had been left, especially in the legendary Comfortably Numb solo. The occasional duff note makes David less God-like :)
Was that BBC one the recording of the 19th of October as I was there that night? The Pulse DVD is a recording of the show on the 20th iirc. My seat was on the front row of the elevated section right behind the control desks etc. It's a show I will never forget as it was one of the most incredible experiences of my life.
i was at the final night at earls court ... amazing dose not do it justice
Yes I was on the Barnes coach @ county road 🤗
I've used some of this audio, on my "Floyd Boots" video. 🙂😉🙂
Pink Floyd in both of their incarnations are immortal. Waters and his band In the Flesh are excellent as was Gilmour's Floyd in Pulse. Both brilliant.
BIG sound for a BIG band with some BIG music to play..............
Nessa época os discos do U2 eram, e o são até hoje magistrais.
The Wall may portray itself as a very depressing album, yet upon closer inspection, it paves the way for that life which is beyond music. To get that Ego onto a recording and have it resonate is the alert to the misidentification that is Ego!
Excellent, thanks for sharing! 👍
The Floyd definitely the most professional and expensive band that I'm into one of my favourites 😊😊
Wow. Thank you for sharing!
nice dig on roger at the end…”his career has not flourished since he left the band”.
I still have my unused ticket after contracting pneumonia and couldn't attend the concert....when I look at the ticket I think what I have missed
I ended up seeing Pink Floyd 9 times- 7 in Philadelphia
June 1975- Spectrum arena
June 1977 Spectrum
Sept 11, 1987 JFK stadium
Outdoor, threatened rain
August 1988- Vet stadium
August 1988 Original GIANTS stadium ( excellent!)
1994
JUNE 2, 3, 4 , 1994 Vet Stadium Pulse tour
July 16, 1994 last Pink Floyd show for me and last Floyd performance in the US...
DAVID GILMORE:
1984 Tower theater solo tour for first 2 Solo DG albums.
2016 MSG/ NYC ( last row our stage left- ALL the way up last row....
Rodger: June 2007.
Wells Fargo Center Philadelphia
( same location as old JFK stadium....
JUNE 2007
First time I'm hearing them being referred to as 'The' Pink Floyd.
I’m pretty sure they were The Pink Floyd during Syd’s era !
@@martinbirch632I think many bands tried to move away from the ‘The’ part, back in the day (‘Eagles’ springs to mind but, there were many others). I think a debate occasionally surfaces over whether it’s ‘DSOM’ or ‘The DSOM’, as well!🤔😉✌️
@@martinbirch632 That is correct.
Ahh douglas adams. Absolutely love him
LET US KNIGHT PINK FLOYD, THEY ARE DUE FOR SURE. WE CAN ALL GET IT DONE.
And its....
HIGH TIME,...CYMBALINE...
PLZ WAKE ME
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Great, really enjoyed this, amazing how time goes by. Obscured by Clouds appeared to be missing?
I keep wondering if the BBC 1 broadcast concert is any different from the Premiere broadcast from germany or Pay per view broadcast from US. The Premiere showing had some different angles from the Pay per view showing, so I'm hoping this version has differences. I have a recording from the BBC 1 radio broadcast and at the end of One of These Days you can hear gilmour make an announcement for a second before it cut to the second half. Did the stage lights come on at the end of OOTD in this bbc 1 broadcast?
I miss the BBC test card at the end and that continual tone...
@nick28476 The time it took the test card to appear was actually a little bit longer than the upload. I cut a bit of time out, thinking people might stop playing believing they had got to the end of the recording and miss it!
I surprised my then wife with tickets for the Earls Court gig, she sadi no thanks, not going in spite of her knowing they were my fav band. Gave the tickets to our friends John and Cheryl and got divorced three years later. #goodolddays
@IndaloMan Clearly, you weren't suited for each other :-)
Would never speak again
You should have divorced 3 mins after she turned those tickets down 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 you should have went with a true buddy
Good riddance
Wow man❤
I went to this gig
interesting admission of chart rigging there about the first big single... wow
Did you notice the one handed single stroke snare roll, his right hand while the left hand lit up the hi-hat with half time tsst, tsst, tsst.. etc? Its no coincidence that Buddy Richs daughter chose Neil to lead the drumming selections on a tribute album to her father entitled Burnin for Buddy. Nor was it coincidence for David Lettermans drum solo week with a different drummer each night playing a solo to close
the show that Neil closed the show for the week on that weeks Friday night. The two of them wanted the best drummer on the planet, and they got him. Rip Sir. Words cannot explain how much I miss watching you play live. 🇨🇦
Big roger fan, but it always seemed he was scrambling for control of his life as a whole. When he gained control of the band as a whole, it all fell apart. Gilmour, and to a lesser extent, Wright contributed just as heavily in the glory years and Roger has always had a hard time admiting this.
who wrote ALL of DOTM and came up with The Wall. The Final Cut is a Roger Water`s Solo album which he allowed the other members to play on. Please name all the PINK FLOYD classic songs written entirely by Dave, Nick or Rick?
animals are the best album
I think people who hate Pink Floyd just don’t get Pink Floyd. They’re definitely a band u need to listen to in the right sequence to truly appreciate. In fact, i think it’s best to start with the wall and work ur way back to dark side and wuwhere ❤
@krismckusick332 There music you listen to deeply; not music you hop around to. Some people only relate to the latter.
This tour was like a tribute band. Better than the mullet years of 1987-89 but far too glossy and perfect.
@JohnnyPaton I didn't go to the concerts at the time, but I recall I felt like you about it. However, it's all about timing, though there will be people I expect younger than us who were experiencing Pink Floyd for the first time (or at least weren't around listening in the 1960s)
Was there . August 18. Think it was the last show
Missing 'Hey You' unfortunately.
enjoyed that until the end where it seemed a bit under researched! Wasnt there a court case in the late 80s involving Waters not wanting the other lads to use the PinkFloyd name etc.
@adamlock1285 I think it took the form of a bit of a promotion for their new tour as Pink Floyd without Roger Waters. They probably didn't want to, or maybe, couldn't talk about the things you mentioned.
@@PaulYoung99s Yes maybe so
Sadly only saw the post Waters Pink Floyd in 1987…the last …and I believe only 2nd time Pink Floyd ever toured Australia ….thankfully since then Roger Waters has toured Australia several times and even Nick Mason brought his band here in 2023
Im pretty sure I remember the Pink Floyd Earls Court Gig was on the BBC News because of a Seating Area had collapsed?
@Sonny-lx7je Yes, somebody else commented on that, too.
Yes I heard it on News at 10 I had tickets to see them the next day so I thought it would be cancelled but at the end of the report they said it was going ahead 🇬🇧🎸🎸
Roger said he wanted to build the wall so the others said then what he said nothing as in building it early then just leaving it for the whole show.
@turokforever007 Apparently Roger was annoyed when the audience seemed to be demanding what to hear and not listening to what he wanted to play. So he conceptual wanted to create a wall so he could play his music without being diverted by audience demands, I think. The wall became to represent all sorts of different barriers for different people, including the Berlin wall and its destruction, which gave it special meaning in Germany and the West.
One thing I have noticed are premium guitarists can age well or not. Dave Gilmour has aged as well like a 40 year old bottle of claret, unlike the like of one of my faves Brian May, has hung on to his skill by the skin of his teeth.
This version of Comfortably numb is not on the DVD or Blu-ray. Why ? 🤷♂️
@Mattiroxx That's very interesting. I have been wondering how different, if at all, the Pulse DVD was from the TV broadcast I recorded this from. TH-cam automatic copyright protection trimmed large parts of the full concert out but didn't touch the finale I uploaded here, including Comfortably Numb. Could it be because it's not the same as the Pulse DVD version? Probably not the reason for no TH-cam trimming out, but this did cross my mind.
We ‘hyped it a bit with a gentleman whose name I wouldn’t dream of revealing’🤔 … rather suggesting, perhaps, a (1) household name (2) disgraced household name or (3) someone who went onto bigger things, either at the BBC or elsewhere?
That is a different version of CN as on DVD, isnt it?
@galileo5854 It was a BBC TV production, and someone here commented that it was different to the DVD, as I suspected it could be. However, I haven't seen the DVD, so have not been able to compare myself.
@@PaulYoung99s thanks for reply👍
Why does it have be so loud?
Thank heavens Roger declined ,,,
The dweeps spouting off is great and reinforces
Rogers greatness,,,
@garypcadogan8193 I liken it to John Lennon and Paul McCartney. John gave the Beatles edgy creativeness, whilst Paul added great melody and beauty. Roger gave Pink Floyd an edgy creativeness, the rest of the band added creative musicality and a great sound. Without Roger, Pink Floyd continued with a great sound, but it stuck in a groove. At the same time, Roger by himself was too self-involved and was hard to listen too.
@@PaulYoung99s
Really, listening to these contradicting their own statements reminds me of Yoko Ono
@@PaulYoung99s Roger wrote Dark Side entirely on his own FACT. The band were about to go bankrupt before Roger came up with The Wall, basically his life story, Gilmour had nothing to do with the concept 90% of the songs are ROGER. Nobody talks about Gilmour and Waters as a song writing team!
1:04:50 - at the end, i legit thought that little girl was holding a gun to that puppet's head at first! who else sees that? 🤔😜
A little biased to say Waters' post-Floyd career hadn't flourished while the Floyd's had. Commercially and financially? Sure. Artistically? It's not even close. Waters had just made Amused to Death when this doc was released. AMLOR and TDB don't come close. But it's safe to say Waters had the last laugh with his solo success in the 21st century. I think they'll all be quite content with how it's all gone.
@nectarinedreams7208 I was just looking at the song credits for Ummaguma, the album that got me into Pink Floyd. It's clear that Roger was the one who pushed into the more experimental and creative areas back then, too. It's also clear that the best music is when the whole band is involved - they add a new level of musicality. In my mind, Pink Floyd's musicality remained after Roger Waters left, but just stuck in the Dark Side era mould, which is great to listen to, but not going into new ground. Pink Floyd's attraction in the beginning was clearly their musical experimention, which took them into original crearive areas, that seems to have been lost after Roger left but suited the by then mainstream audience better.
@@PaulYoung99s The Beatles, Led Zeppelin and The Doors never continued as a 3 piece because they were smart enough realize it just would not work.
The early crap would be laughed at today to be honest, but everybody has to start somewhere.
@chloesdad1000 Actually, in my opinion, Pink Floyd's early more experimental stuff was essential to developing their later more mainstream sound, amongst my all time favourite songs are "Set the controls to the heart of the sun" Be careful with that Axe Eugence" masterpieces with amazing drama and emotion. Probably, some would be laughed at by a modern audience with more focus on Pop than leading edge experimental music (at the time)
Really? See Emily Play is absolute perfection in a 3 minute pop song. Lots of waffle after Piper till we get to Meddle, but there gems scattered through all those early records. Remember A Day?
@@paulwhite7972 Remember A Day, brilliant song and soundscape. Love Cymbaline and Cirrus Minor from 'More'. Grantchester Meadows holds up very well amidst a whole bunch of self-indulgent stuff and then it all starts coming together fantasticaly on 'Meddle'.
do you use any software to clean it up?
@freenando75 No. For simplicity, I used the "dubbing" from VCR to DVD facility on my old VCR-DVD combo machine and then copied the DVD onto my PC hard disk from my PC DVD. I think the later VCRs may have recorded better than earlier ones. Also, I only played the tape a few times ever, and it had been stored well on my shelves in my living room all its life. I have looked at AI upscalimg tools, but in my experience, they have created an artificial look, and from an accuracy and nostalgic point of view I rather prefer the idea of presenting the video as it originally looked. The only issue I have had is that after uploading the video to TH-cam, the audio has sometimes gone a little out of sync. Not sure why this happens? PS Having given further thought, I was an early adopter of Satellite TV. A lot of VHS recordings are from terrestial TV in the UK that's PAL quality. Satellite TV was transmitted in higher quality.
@@PaulYoung99s if the container is h264 mp4 or mov, there is no reason for out of sync.. never the less, when i export ( using davinci resolve) i allways use the audio option to normalise audio using the youtube preset and linear pcm audio (not mp3) at 44khz
@@freenando75Thank you for your help Will make a note for the future.
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"Exert" (in the title) ??
You're doing it wrong, dude.
@gavinvalentino6002 Thanks, I will change it within the 100 characters allowed.
Meddle
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The final cut is better than anything David has written outside of Pink Floyd. And Marooned while talking AMLOR?
1994? Ha! 1974, now you're talking. Dark Side, BCWTAE, Echoes et al. 18 I was.
@petermorris9818 I think Meddle was one of their best albums. My mother had an 8 track player with Meddle cartridge in her MGB. I was about 9 when I first heard and I became a Pink Floyd fan from them on :-)
@@PaulYoung99s agreed! I still love it
I’m so glad that my favorite parts of Pink Floyd mirror the same opinions of David Gilmour and Rick Wright. I love the music from Meddle to Animals. Then Waters went on his ego trip. I was so glad to hear the Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell. Pink Floyd moved on without Waters and still made great music. Meanwhile, Waters struggled with his solo career. I guess he found out that the whole was greater than the parts and he wasn’t THE REASON that Pink Floyd succeeded.
@KH6775 I agree to a point, but it's a bit more nuanced. Roger Waters' contribution to Pink Floyd was crucial. He provided an edgy creativeness that explored new areas. The rest of the band without him later largely stuck in the 1970s groove, which is a magical sound but not creating anything spectacularly original as was the case with Pink Floyd in the 1960s and 70s. Roger's music was also much more personal and edgy, so less commercial than sticking to the style of Pink Floyd in the 70s that became mainstream but was new at the time. Rogers style is less easy to listen to because of its edginess and, as a result, not so commercial. He has written some good solo songs too. This is very emotional thought-provoking and great music. th-cam.com/video/YRWRRBX3TB0/w-d-xo.htmlsi=j0MHaZPQgrYohkwB
They started with a syd song🤔
*excerpt
Talk about trial and error haha😂😂😂. The masters no doubt and what they evolved into was pretty good to say the least .
My old next door neighbour was an old hippy. One of his jobs was as a "journalist" with "OZ" magazine. He said he used to go to UFO, and saw The Pink Floyd every weekend for months. He was also at Led Zeppelin's first UK show.......He said they were shit..... Zeppelin that is.
@indigohammer5732 Mid-sixties must have been an interesting time to be a teenager for many, such a big new youth culture, swinging London, etc.. I was only 6 in 1966, so I was a bit too young to absorb it all, but I can remember the fashion and the bright colours. Led Zeppelin is another of my favourite groups, and their first album remains one of my favourite. Maybe your friend just didn't like their music genre. Jimmy Page was already a well-known session musician and had been in the Yardbirds and the others were all great musicians too.
very poor doc compared to others - not to have a go at the poster
It was done in the context of their comeback after the split with Roger Waters and felt to me like a like a backgrounder for their first work as the new Pink Floyd without Roger Waters and maybe an introduction to a younger/newer audience rather than an in depth detailed historical documentary.
The revisionism about Syd, for the past 50+ years, is disgusting.
Is withnail narrating??
I like floyd without Roger. Like Pink Floyd when Gimore took over.
@Andre_Ons_Marshall I can understand that. Pink Floyd was originally more "experimental" and was creating new sounds. Under Gilmour, they stuck more to the mainstream in the manificent groove of the Dark Side era, but nothing new or more "challenging"
@@PaulYoung99s LOOK MATE, HIS NAME IS GILMOUR NOT GILMORE. DO YOU OWN ANY FLOYD ALBUMS? LOOK ON THE BACK AND READ HIS NAME!
@jamesx9881 It's just a typo. If you look through the thread, you will see I have spelt it correctly earlier. Unfortunately, being old enough to have listened to them in the mid sixties, I find typing on a mobile rather haphazard. Anyway, I have updated it now :-)
I like The Floyd and saw them once in concert, which was fun. They aren't Genesis though who are probably the best band in the world, on album and on stage where they just blew my mind.
Genesis the best band in the world?? Guess you've never heard of a group called The Beatles.
Im with You.
@@stephenstone8480Genesis had more musical talent live then any live Beatles performances.
@@johnroberthines7811 Yeah, right...John Lennon alone had more talent than all the Genesis members put together...
@@stephenstone8480 Inconveniently for you, John Lennon was actually a big fan of Genesis in the early '70s
With Syd and old management PF would be just another, pop group... out of hundreds alike... playing nothing significant nor original
Gilmore.
Is.
God.
GILMOUR not GILMORE lay off the waccy baccy and learn to spell or read . Even on Dave`s official TH-cam channel about 50% of his fans can`t even spell his name properly, yet claim he is their favourite Musician of all time. Bizzare!
@@jamesx9881it is David not Dave
On Roger Waters "His solo career has not flourished' - they were wrong there!
Absolutely my thoughts too. He's pretty much the biggest act in the world to go see live, and has been for the last 20 years or so. His last 2 tours even (''Us And Them'' and ''This Is Not A Drill' ) have sold out all around the world, in huge stadiums and with a huge stage show. People only need search on TH-cam for footage and they'll see how well he's doing...still going strong at over 80 years old, and respected by the vast majority of people due to his integrity, honour, bravery and compassion for those whose voices need to heard..due to war crimes and genocide. Roger is an absolute legend !
@@Spirit-Of-The-Age Spot on!
@@Spirit-Of-The-Age Right on Brother. Terence McKenna once said " The truth does not need your participation, Bullshit does!" it is a shame all these so called Pink Floyd fans do not know anything about Roger.
after ROGER Pink Floyd was and is done....Dave ruined it after the final cut
The Final Cut is pretty much a Roger Waters solo album and even though it has its moments I find it underwhelming as a whole. The Wall was their last joint effort and to my mind the last truly good PF album. I like a few songs on their two Floyd Minus Roger albums but that's as far as it goes.
After Roger left, they should have renamed the band Fake Floyd.
That's plain stupid and wrong. I have been a fan since DSOM, I was 13, and love pretty much everything the've done because there is a very special alchemy when they all play together. For me the clinching point is this, none of the work any of them have done seperately or in the post Roger period comes anywhere near the heights they reached together, I challenge anyone to prove me wrong.
And the 20mins ion albums sold say different
@@darrenshaw4305 There's no accounting for taste...or lack thereof...Madonna, The Backstreet Boys, and Michael Bolton have all sold millions of records, too...
i recorded this one of my fav docos
The fleeting reference to Echoes is a bit disappointing, I must say. This is the piece where it all starts to gel, post Syd and I'd have like to have learned more about how they put this together. Still one of my favourite Floyd tracks.