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Manufacturer: Sony
Release Date: 2007-09-18
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Studio: Sony Music Release Date: 09/18/2007
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Summary: Best Gilmore DVD to date
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Comment: I enjoyed this DVD on all levels: the music, the performance, the visuals, and the audio. Gilmour surrounded himself with an excellent cast of musicians (most of whom you'll recognize from other Floyd-related videos) along with fellow Floydian Richard Wright, plus the guest vocals by David Crosby and Graham Nash along with David Bowie's appearance on a couple encores all fit in well.

Along with excerpts from "Dark Side of the Moon" and other standard Floyd fare, Gilmour's latest album "On an Island" was performed in its entirety, and some of the his/Floyd's less performed works were also presented to great effect. My personal favorite on this disc is "Echos" which simply blew me away.

The bonus tracks were quite good and the tour documentary video was generally interesting if a bit rambling. All in all a great package and one which will never spend very long on my shelf gathering dust. My only gripe (and it's only here in the tiny hope that concert video editors might read it) is the usual penchant of concert video editors to over-edit with way too many cuts and too many extreme close-ups, making it impossible for the viewer to truly get a feel as to what the actual stage show looked like.
Summary: Five hours of David Gilmour
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Comment: Wow, over five hours of David Gilmour. I have to say first off that watching this always makes me think of Pink Floyd in Pompeii. At that time David Gilmour bore a striking resemblance to Leonardo Dicaprio, whereas in this he bears a striking resemblance to Malcolm McDowell or Terrence Stamp, but with less hair. He's onstage at the Royal Albert Hall, very much the leader of his band of 10 musicians, many of whom are there to recreate the multiple guitar parts of his Pink Floyd and solo songs. Included from his solo albums are only songs from the recent "On An Island" (nothing from "About Face" or "David Gilmour", for some reason) and he brings David Crosby and Graham Nash to sing harmonies with him. Crosby, Gilmour and Nash sound great, although Crosby and Nash look funny - the former short and paunchy with his hands in his pockets all the time and the latter both boogying and grimacing strainingly as he sings. For a hippy bluesman, it's a bit odd that Gilmour has such a posh accent, but those guitar solos are great, even if he is also a bit paunchy and makes frog faces as he makes his guitar grown and wail. He mostly plays his all-black Stratocaster, although he does pull out a gold Les Paul for a song, and also a flesh-coloured Telecaster, as well as various Turkish string instruments, slide guitars, and at one point a saxophone. Disc 1 is a full concert recording of one of the band's nights at the Royal Albert Hall. Gilmour starts the album with three songs from Dark Side of the Moon - "Speak to Me," "Beathe", they skip "On the Run," then play "Time." It's odd, to me, to not hear the full album (I never listen to single songs from that album if I don't have to) but those three songs sound good, especially the saxophone solo done by Dick Parry, the original performer from Dark Side of the Moon recording - he switches from a baritone sax to a tenor sax without skipping a beat, great stuff. Gilmour and the band then plays the full new album, and it's tight and meaty, with two songs featuring Crosby and Nash, and one with Robert Wyatt of Soft Machine playing the trumpet from his wheelchair. After a break, they come out and play "Shine On Your Crazy Diamond", which for a while is just David Gilmour and Richard Wright behind his impressive bank of keyboards. There is a very nice version of "Fat Old Sun" from the "Atom Heart Mother" album, and also an impressive "Echoes"... which does hearken the listener back to Live At Pompeii... These people have come a long way in 35 years. "Wish You Were Here" feels very personal before it picks up in a band thing. David sings "Find The Cost of Freedom" with Crosby and Nash, one of their songs, before bringing out David Bowie to sing "Arnold Layne" and "Comfortably Numb." It might be hard to imagine Bowie singing Pink Floyd songs, but he does a great great job and makes it sound natural (interesting how I also bought a Bowie CD on the same day, "Live Santa Monica "72). The solo from "Comfortable Numb" is stunning, especially the lead-out version, which just screams and screams and screams. Dear Lord!!! The crowd were dancing in the aisles, it was terribly moving.

But ultimately, while the cameramen do get some nice shots of David soloing and do zoom in on his fingers (one of the main reasons I bought this) the concert suffers a bit from a lack of attention to this point and also some choppy jumping around from player to player, and also an odd "over-the-precipice" camera boom shot that they throw in from time to time that looks like it is the same shot over and over again (you couldnt' tell if it was taken at a different time in the concert, since it was so far from the stage). But this is not a major problem in the video, since there is plenty of everything to please the viewer and the Pink Floyd fan, especially the nuggets and the great guest features.

Disc 2 has nice songs on it, as well as some documentaries. For the songs, they do "Arnold Layne" and "Comfortable Numb" with Richard Wright instead of David Bowie from the other nights at the Royal Albert Hall and it's not quite the same - Wright does seem a bit stodgy and square, he clearly has none of Bowie's mojo. Theres also a nice version of "Wot's... Uh, the Deal" from "Obscured by Clouds", one of the nuggets they dug out and a very nice one indeed. Also some Syd Barrett songs "Dominoes" and "Dark Globe." A cool live-in-the-studio verson of "Astronomy Domine," an impromptu rendition of a part of "Echoes." There are five songs performed in the BBC Mermaid Theatre that were part of the first public performance of the album. The video for "On An Island" is very nice, especially the solo which shows David playing in his room of guitars. Smile has background vocals from Polly Sampson, Gilmour's wife, a sweet ballad.

There are also some good documentaries, such as 45-minute "Breaking Bread, Drinking Wine" about the "On An Island" tour. They band rehearse in the UK at the same production area that Roger Waters is also renting a part of, so there's a scene of the two having a brief chat and hugging (lots of hugging in this one) and also Nick Mason appearing with David's drummer Steve DiStanislao. Hanging out with Crosby and Nash and Bowie (3D, as in three Davids - Bowie, Crosby and Gilmour), David practising saxophone, and then going on tour. They play a castle in Linz, and David does "Dark Globe," his first performance since Syd Barrett died and the first time he'd ever practiced or performed "Dark Globe." They play at an old Roman amphitheatre in Vienne in France, and of course they reference Pompeii by showing the band doing "Echoes.' They play in the Florence piazza, then also in San Marcos square in Venice where they run into all sorts of logistics problems. There are fun incidents about playing water glasses onstage, and when they run into a street performer who does this in Venice they drag him onstage with them. At the end they meet Lech Walesa and play the shipyards of Gdansk on the 26th anniversary of the Solidarity movement, which is moving. Before the documentary starts a message says "when you see this special mark press enter to see extended content" which means you don't have to hunt around for secret easter eggs to access stuff like this.

A 17-minute documentary on the making of "On An Island" is not as good, although you do get a sort of tour of the Astoria, which is Gilmour's houseboat recording studio on the Thames. There are some stories about the inspirations for some of the songs, and tales of how the lyrics got added and why. There's also five minutes of backstage images from the west coast of the US, which are only interesting because Jude Law shows up, and maybe Crispin Hellion Glover (but I'm not so sure if it's him or someone else).
Summary: Great
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Comment: This DVD is very well done. The video was not the best on 1080P but is still very well done on Blu Ray. Need more Pink Floyd Blu Ray.
Summary: Great Show!
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Comment: This was a great show and a great Blu-ray release. Its NOT 1080P, its in 720/1080I only. With saying that its still an awesome Blu-ray release.
As of the audio, it doesn't get any better than this. I don't think I ever heard a 5.1 surround mix so profound and clear at the same time, incredibly well balanced instrument-wise, a treat, simply.Extras are as wonderful as you'd expect it to be, a lot of lovely features, including bonus tracks from the Royal Albert Hall shows (which is from which the release takes its material).
My final words on this are, definately, buy it. It's worth it.
Summary: best of the ones I own...
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Comment: Even if you are not a particularly big fan of Pink Floyd there's a lot here to entertain. If you are fan, put this one in your shopping cart post haste. The sound is off the charts, the picture is fantastic and the performance is great. David Gilmour is as good as he ever was, perhaps even better. His voice has held up over the years and his very recognizable guitar style continues to raise goosebumps. Something I happened to notice about this particular concert is you never see cameraman, but there are shots being taken from every conceivable angle. Hats off to the producer. I have a lot of concert dvds and this one is the best.
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