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The most phenomenal recording in rock & roll history is thoroughly examined in Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon. The Floyd's 1973 masterpiece remained on bestseller charts for nearly 14 years, and its enduring importance is honored here by all four members of Pink Floyd and key personnel (engineer Alan Parsons, mixing supervisor Chris Thomas, sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, and others) who played essential roles in the landmark album's creation. Produced for the Classic Albums series that originally aired on VH-1, this thorough and thought-provoking study highlights a track-by-track dissection of the LP's master tapes (including the spoken-word passages that bookend the album), superbly interlaced with archival footage, early demo tapes, concert animations, and latter-day acoustic performances by David Gilmour, Roger Waters, and Richard Wright to demonstrate each track's contribution to the final mix--a sonic exploration that extends to the illuminating bonus features. Informative interviews abound (including Rolling Stone senior editor David Fricke), and much-deserved credit is given to saxophonist Dick Parry, solo vocalist Clare Torry, and former Columbia Records chairman Bhaskar Menon, who fostered the album's U.S. commercial success. For Floyd fans, musicians, and studio technicians alike, this is a must-have addition to any DVD library. --Jeff Shannon
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Not a music DVD (2006-04-20)  This DVD is not a concert or video DVD!! Do not be fooled by the ambiguous description. It is a TV broadcast - put on DVD and advertised as a "Dark Side of the Moon" DVD. There are NO songs played in their entirety. There are NO songs clips more than 20 sec. long!! WASTE OF MONEY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
The workings of the Floyd and more... (2004-07-16)  This is one of the best "Classic Albums" series on video. I think for people just discovering the band and picking up the SACD CD, it's a nice way to see how they made the album and what it took (lots of teamwork behind the console as well as in the studio). The video has the original made for TV part, but the best parts are in the extras, which are about as long. It's unfortunate that the band never filmed the "Dark Side" tour, and resorted to using a "Set the Controls" promo from the same time period, even though there is 8MM footage out there. Thankfully, some of the "Live at Pompeii" film showed the making of at the time, which they used to great effect, and then showed them in the present day. It's too bad PF neglected to film any of their shows from DSOTM to Animals... there's probably some "lost" footage floating around somewhere that they never knew about. But a lot of the "video" footage they used for the screen during the shows is also shown throughout the show, hopefully one day can be used as part of a video collection (supposedly, Nick Mason is putting one together). It's too bad they weren't willing to be in the same room with each other during the filming of the show though. A lot of it is really interesting to see Roger, Rick, and Dave break down their songs. But I did think that Dave's voice is starting to show wear, which may be why he is reluctant to do a full Floyd tour and is doing the acoustic shows. Hopefully they can do one show together for posterity at least, covering all eras. Overall, I don't know if this is something that will be played on the DVD player that often, but it's definitely worth watching at least once.
Superb document on a classic album (2004-07-01)  Pink Floyd's The Dark Side of the Moon had a well deserved 30th anniversary. First was the SACD issue and then came this DVD documentary which looks at how the album was made. All four members of the band's classic lineup Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright are featured in new and exclusive interviews. Roger, David and Richard play songs and demonstrate themes from the album. Rick demonstrated on Breathe how he came up with that weird chord to go to E minor after hearing Miles Davis. David's hilarious demonstration of the On the Run synth loop and Roger's funny country twang version of Money. Original engineer Alan Parsons sifts through the original multi-track tapes isolating some parts of songs. Also, rare concert footage from 1972 and pictures and interviews with Chris Thomas(mixer), David Fricke(Rolling Stone and life long Floyd fan), Storm Thorgerson and many others flesh out this great docunentary. There are also extra features with more demonstrations from Dave on guitar parts, unplugged versions of Brain Damage and Breathe and more interviews. I got this DVD the day it came out and had to buy another as my first copy cracked after awhile. Highly recommended!
This is NOT a concert DVD - Thank God! (2004-06-26) This DVD is a selection from the "Classic Albums" series which originally viewed on VH1. As the title of my review indicates, this is NOT a concert or a re-release of the album. Rather, it is an in-depth look at how the album was created. The documentary doesn't use a narrator, but rather incorporates several voices to tell a story, including contributions from all four members of the group, the engineer (Alan Parsons), the mixer (Chris Thomas), the cover/liner design man (Storm Thorgenson), the record company head who pushed and prodded the toads at Capitol Records to get behind the album (Baskar Menon) and several journalists -including David Fricke from Rolling Stone. All of them have "things to say" about the nuts and bolts of record producing, the marriage of art and commerce, and the place of this album in the pantheon of modern popular music (one british journaist calls it "among the most important artistic and musical statements of the last 50 years"). The nearly hour-long "main" presentation is fairly linear, starting with background info from the time that Syd Barrett lost his mind to the formation of the main themes and music for the album before they ever started recording it, to a breakdown of nearly every song in order (with the lone exception of "Any Colour You Like"). Of special note: One gets to see Richard Wright play several pieces of his finest compositions ("Great Gig in the Sky" and "Us and Them") explaining how he came to write them and under what circumstances (his mention of "the jazz" and Miles Davis were fabulous); David Gilmour demonstrates the Synth V.A. - the first sequencer used for "On the Run" and he plays parts of his guitar solos on "Time" and "Money." Nick Mason offers some nice (but too brief) insights into the psychology of the band, and Roger Waters talks a bit about his the impetus behind his lyrics and demonstrates the original bluesy demo of "Money."The bonus material has some great stuff on it as well - in fact some of it far outstrips the aired material - including : David Gilmour's outstanding acoustic version of "Breathe" and Waters soulful acoustic version of "Brain Damage." The bonus section also gives a great deal of time to Roger Waters' explanation of how his politics and his life experiences shaped his lyrics and music. On the whole this is an outstanding piece of film-making, highlighting an important piece of music history. If you are a fan of Pink Floyd this is an indispensible DVD. If you are curious about how great art is created, this is an inexpensive way to find out.
A great look & listen behind the "Dark Side" (2004-06-19) The "Classic Albums" series, which began as a program on VH-1, takes one popular rock record and - using demo tapes, separated recorded tracks, archival footage and interviews with artists, producers and engineers - tells the story of its creation by dissecting it, song by song. The series previously took engaging looks into The Grateful Dead's "American Beauty" and Steely Dan's "Aja," among others, but "Classic Albums: Dark Side of the Moon" may be its best volume yet. Pink Floyd's "Dark Side of the Moon" LP is the 1973 "space rock" aural masterpiece that catapulted the group into the big leagues; the record spent a mind-boggling 741 weeks within the Billboard Top 100 and still remains a cultural and musical touchstone. Through conversations with band members Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Rick Wright, Nick Mason, engineer Alan Parsons and various critics and artists, the documentary reveals how the group did it, how they created such a unique and innovative soundscape in an era before personal computers, sampling and modern synthesizers (short answer: with talent, hard work and lots and lots of tape machines). After years of the bickering and legal brawling between Waters and Gilmour, it's nice to see them happily chatting in agreement on at least one thing: that, together, they made one of the greatest rock albums ever. The documentary also gives a face to the lesser-known voices on the album, including the amazing singer Clare Torry, as well as the random people who supplied the album's strange, background conversations (one of whom was a doorman at Abbey Road Studios). But the most interesting revelation the film provides is that, behind all its sound effects and echo chambers and searing guitars and concept-album subtexts, "Dark Side" is really just an album about singing the blues.
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