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beer_good_foamyThese days, when everyone carries around a mobile film studio in their pocket, it's hard to remember how many great things happened relatively recently but were never caught on video.
Take Pink Floyd at their greatest, for instance. Apart from the official oddity Live At Pompeii there are the odd TV appearances, especially from the pre-Dark Side era, a scant few bootlegs of official but unreleased concert films, and bits and bobs of dark, fuzzy audience recordings using Super 8 and early camcorders, and... that's about it. A band that was always very visual, but almost none of it preserved for posterity until the post-Waters tours in the 80s and 90s finally saw some proper home video releases.
So this is something of a miracle: Someone sat down and put together what existing video footage there is of Pink Floyd performing Dark Side of the Moon back when it was brand new in 1972-74, creating almost a complete concert film.
Not the greatest quality, but damnit, it's Pink Floyd when they could still jam on stage, before they became locked in to performing to expectations and pre-recorded effects, performing possibly the greatest album of all time.
There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark.
Take Pink Floyd at their greatest, for instance. Apart from the official oddity Live At Pompeii there are the odd TV appearances, especially from the pre-Dark Side era, a scant few bootlegs of official but unreleased concert films, and bits and bobs of dark, fuzzy audience recordings using Super 8 and early camcorders, and... that's about it. A band that was always very visual, but almost none of it preserved for posterity until the post-Waters tours in the 80s and 90s finally saw some proper home video releases.
So this is something of a miracle: Someone sat down and put together what existing video footage there is of Pink Floyd performing Dark Side of the Moon back when it was brand new in 1972-74, creating almost a complete concert film.
Not the greatest quality, but damnit, it's Pink Floyd when they could still jam on stage, before they became locked in to performing to expectations and pre-recorded effects, performing possibly the greatest album of all time.
There is no dark side of the moon, really. Matter of fact it's all dark.
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Date: 2020-09-14 05:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2020-09-16 08:30 am (UTC)If you've never listened to the studio album in its entirety before, take 42 minutes out of your day and do so. I don't know any other album that just sucks you in like this one does. There's a reason it spent about 20 consecutive years on the US album charts...
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Date: 2020-09-20 03:28 am (UTC)I also quite like Wish You Were Here.
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Date: 2020-09-17 10:32 am (UTC)Amazingly enough, they managed to do a reasonably good job of putting the original "Bohemian Rhapsody" video together. It's got some fuzzy spots and some blips, but most of the picture is HD quality!
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