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David Gilmour: Remember That Night [Blu-ray]
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Blu-ray Heaven from Pink Floyd's guitar hero (2008-11-09)  Specifically from the blu-ray version experience, this disc is almost state of the art HD home theatre right now for rock concerts.Visually stunning and creatively filmed.The sound is clear, spacious and at times, breathtaking. It could only be better if it were DTS.Performance is first rate - the band is basically who has been performing Pink Floyd tunes since Roger Waters 'split' and with the absence of founding drummer Nick Mason not noticable here to me. Instead, you get Phil Manzanera (Roxy Music, 801, Eno) on second guitar, David Crosby and Graham Nash on background vocals and the late Richard Wright featured prominently on vocals and keyboards. Honestly, I do not miss either Waters or Mason. If you are a Waters fan, he is of course doing PF his own way and this isn't all about the Floyd anyway. I was surprised by how fresh the songs from DG's "On An Island" sound live. I wasn't a big fan of that disc but I am surprised by how much this concert gets you into them. And as mentioned in other reviews, David Bowie guests on "Arnold Layne" and "Comfortably Numb" adding his unique voice to create definitive versions of each IMHO. Preciously short, the harmonies DG adds to Crosby and Nash's "Find The Cost of Freedom" make you long for more Crosby, Gilmour and Nash :-) Other songs getting an upgrade are "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Echoes" - the latter being worth the price of this blu-ray alone.This is the kind of disc that you put in when you want to show someone just how good the HD experience can be at home. It is the first time that home theatre has rivalled a real concert experience for me. Highly recommended!
What a Night it Was ! (2008-09-02) "Remember That Night" is one of the very best music DVD's of all time. It shares that rarified air of the pinnacle in the genre with releases like Peter Gabriel's "Growing Up Live" and Talking Head's "Stop Making Sense". it just simply doesn't get any better.There is so much talent, such extraordinary skill and awe-inspiring beauty on this DVD it's almost unbelievable. The filming of it is amazing, the sound is crystalline and pure, the editing actually aware of the nuances and key points of the music. The packaging and artwork are gorgeous and Gilmour's performance, most of all, is top notch.It is still unfortunate that most people will want to go directlly to part 2 to hear the Pink Floyd material, skipping the quieter, more pastoral "On an Island" here performed in full, slightly re-arranged. Gilmour knows his audience and graciously accepts that most of the punters were there to hear the Floyd stuff, but still delivering a fully committed and inspired performance of his new material. It is one thing to be a Pink Floyd fan and quite another to really admire Gilmour and his work as an artist. Yet when he does do the Floyd material he blows everybody right clear out of the water.As far as Gilmour is concerned Pink Floyd is a thing of the past. It's his heritage and he's justly proud of it, but he has moved on and I say thank god for that, as much of a Pink Floyd fan as I've been. No one was more excited to see him do pieces like "Fat Old Sun", always a favourite of mine and of course, the massive epic "Echoes" - the only song, by anyone, I've ever seen audiences go completely BERSERK over on hearing just one single first note, that legendary, archetypal "ping". "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is given a slightly new treatment with the verses being sung quietly, in gorgeously rich vocal harmonies along with David Crosby and Graham Nash. It makes me think that Gilmour, Crosby, Nash and Richard Wright, who lends HIS wonderful and underrated voice to the music, should do an album together. These four sound so good throughout the show it seems like a match made in Heaven. Gilmour and Wright together in Floyd were truly a sumptuous vocal mix and Gilmour makes sure "that night" that Wright gets the recognition he richly deserves, sharing much of the vocal executions with him.It is actually heart-warming to see Wright's performance. He's on fire, playing and singing better than he did in Floyd since "Wish You Were Here", their last real group album. Gilmour's friendship and solid support seem to have brought Wright back from the dead. In the supplemental extras in this package he says of Wright, "he's become almost ballsy" and it's great to see him full of life, even playfully cavorting around with the other musicians in the band. Gone are the days when Waters' cruel, acerbic, vitriol all but crushed the man's soul to death. So it is something wonderful to see THIS half of Pink Floyd really flourishing and giving it all.The only reservation I have, and have always had when it comes to this song, is the inclusion in the program of "Coming Back to Life" from "The Division Bell". It's a song of great personal signficance to Gilmour, I'm guessing, but he can't sing it any more. It's just too high in pitch and here he squawks horribly on it, as he does whenever he sings it live. He sounds so damn good in the rest of the show that this one stands out painfully. Why he doesn't do something like "Take it Back" from the same album instead, is a mystery to me."On an Island" sounds even better live than it does on record. I could easily have gone home after hearing it and not heard a note of Floyd and been fully satisfied. "Island" is so inspiringly beautiful, a brilliant and supremely crafted work of art it almost seems abrupt to follow it with anything. But the intermission gives us time to come down a bit off the "cirrus minor" Gilmour glides us up to in the first part of the show. I was floating in bliss after it and I guess it set me up for the spectacular showcasing of Pink Floyd music that followed.The invitation of David Bowie to sing "Arnold Layne" is genius. I don't think anyone else in the biz has quite the right voice to cover Syd Barrett or the rapport with the material that Mr. Jones has. Bowie's almost boyish thrill at being able to join Gilmour, Wright and band in doing "Layne" and then reprising with a knock-out "Comfortably Numb" is clearly and nakedly visible - it's a great emotional climax to the show."Remember That Night"? I can imagine all those who were there will be saying that for the rest of their lives. If you weren't present this DVD gets you just about as close as you can get to the experience as it possible. When I watch this I am so completely blown away that I think that any Pink Floyd reunion would be just damn stupid. I was and am, still a huge Floyd fan, I saw them on every tour since "Dark Side", sometimes driving hundreds of miles to see them. But I really don't think a reunion would benefit anyone except the "machines" Floyd themselves sang about in "Have a Cigar". I deeply hope that Gilmour will continue to work with Richard Wright and even perhaps good 'ole Nick at times but it is VERY clear here on this DVD, that Gilmour no longer needs or even desires to return to Floyd. He is WAY past it. I say right on.
Echoes (2008-03-23) Echoes was, and still remains, to me the best piece of music ever written by Pink Floyd. It stretches the ears and imagination of the listener...going from melody to rock and roll lyrics to seemingly improvisational flights and then suddenly returning to the original echo. A must "listen again" even 30 years after I first heard it as a teenager in high school. David Bowie is brilliant on Arnold Layne, (how we miss Syd!)and does a good job on Comfortably Numb...the dvd is a full set of David Gilmour's excellence.
What a show!!!! (2008-01-22) I was lucky enough to see this concert live in Toronto two years ago and it was great to relive it at home. David Gilmour is a GUITAR GOD!!!!! The first half of the show highlighted his new CD "On an Island". That was a little disappointing at the time because honestly we were there to listen to Pink Floyd tunes, but the second half blew me away. Shine on your crazy diamond, Echoes and Comfortably Numb were awesome!! This DVD brought it back to life. SUPER!!!!!
Amazing! Almost better than Pink Floyd!!! (2007-10-04) For those who search what's in this dvd : DISC ONE - Live At The Royal Albert Hall: 1 Speak To Me 2 Breathe 3 Time 4 Breath (Reprise) 5 Castellorizon 6 On An Island featuring Crosby & Nash 7 The Blue featuring Crosby & Nash 8 Red Sky At Night 9 This Heaven 10 Then I Close My Eyes featuring Robert Wyatt 11 Smile 12 Take A Breath 13 A Pocketful of Stones 14 Where We Start 15 Shine On You Crazy Diamond featuring Crosby & Nash 16 Fat Old Sun 17 Coming Back To Life 18 High Hopes 19 Echoes 20 Wish You Were Here 21 Find The Cost Of Freedom featuring Crosby & Nash 22 Arnold Layne featuring David Bowie 23 Comfortably Numb featuring David Bowie DISC TWO -- Bonus Features:Documentary: The Making Of 'On An Island'Documentary: The West CoastMusic Videos: 1. On An Island 2. SmileBonus Track: Island Jam 2007Photo Gallery and more!This DVD is amazing!! David Bowie is Syd Barret 2. His voice in Arnold Layne is incredible. Many songs from pink floyd and others from gilmour's solo album ''on an island''. It's not an accoustic version, it's all electric with visual effects!! Buy this you won't regret.
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