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Just bought the DVD...

posted 16 years ago by CDN_Dragon
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...and I was in shock on how powerful and personal the concert was. Though I am a big Pink Floyd fan, I was never a big fan of Gilmour's and Water's solo projects.

Even David's last solo album, 'On an Island', which is not bad but not very exciting, came alive on this DVD. It was beautiful (no other word) to listen to as he played the complete album live. I was expecting to start fast forwrding to the 'good stuff', but I let the whole 2 1/2 hours play out.

Crosby and Nash harmonizing on 'Shine On...' and 'Find the Cost of Freedom' with Gilmour brought out goose bumps and David Bowie on 'Arnold Layne' and 'Comfortably Numb' was stunning.

'Echoes'!!!!!.....they played 'Echoes'...that's all I can say....you have to watch and listen to even understand the experience behind watching them play....'ECHOES'...

The personal feel from Gilmour and the band as they crafted each of the songs, as in NOT watching a Pink Floyd concert with some solo songs included, but watching an up-close and personal introspective/retrospective performace that had the feel of everyone PLAYING the songs as they were meant to be felt as opposed to a 'note-by-note' renditions of the same old songs.

I was disappointed with Gilmour's last live DVD...'David Gilmour in Concert'; but 'Remember The Night' is up there with 'PULSE' and Water's 'In The Flesh'; but stands alone on it's own merit.

Watch it on a Widescreen TV with 5.1 surround sound...and be amazed....

The poster formally know as LVS

[–] liquidmuzic 16 years ago

Yeah, it's a great concert! I did like the previous live dvds but this is on a much bigger scale. The lighting is stunning and like you say Echoes is amazing. Worth the price of the dvd alone...

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[–] PACman66 16 years ago

Wonderful DVD...
Makes me wish I had been there...
I guess this puts the final stake thru the heart of Floyd? That was like the one big group left I had wanted to see perform... I missed the bus... :o(

Trust me,
Swan

[–] CDN_Dragon 16 years ago

There is an easter egg to see an acoustic version of 'Echoes'

On Disc 2...with the listing of additional songs....if you click on 'Dark Globe' instead of 'play all'... after DG plays...you'll see David and the boys horseing around in a studio and start playing echoes..it's actually funny and pretty good...lasts about 7 minutes or so...

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[–] davemx 14 years ago

i've been very critical about Dave, for god reasons that i've already explained, but the live performance of Echoes on this DVD is simply amazing, i think it's even more powerful than the Meddle album version, the solo is absolutely brilliant, i couldn't care less for the other stuff in this concert, maybe Time, but that's that, i mean, Echoes alone is worth the price, Richard's and Dave's vocal harmonies are perfect here and Roger's lyrics stand out from the uninspired Gilmour solo work.
I then bought the Gdansk box set to compare the Echoes version there, and it is nowhere near as flawless as RTN's. i just don't get why Dave felt the need to release two live shows of a really dull album, On An Island is completely forgettable, but he knows by including Floyd classics he'll fill his pockets.