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Music CD - Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut)
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Music CD: Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut)
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Manufacturer: Hip-O Records
Starring: David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Roger Waters, Richard Wright (II)
Directed By: Adrian Maben
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Audience Rating: G (General Audience)
Binding: DVD
EAN: 0602498609460
Format: Anamorphic
Label: Hip-O Records
Manufacturer: Hip-O Records
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Hip-O Records
Region Code: 0
Release Date: 2003-10-21
Running Time: 91
Studio: Hip-O Records
Theatrical Release Date: 2003-10-21
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Summary: This is creative trash
Comment: Hey, Pink
I hope I am not being presumptuous by using your first name, but familiarity seems appropriate in this case. I have a question for you. Exactly what were you trying to prove in Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii? I have been to Pompeii. I have been to the mountaintop of Vesuvius. The souls of those who died in the volcanic eruption one millennium, nine centuries, one score and five years ago heard your performance and they are groaning.
You were given four pieces of electronic equipment and told to do something with them. The implication was that you were going to do something musical with them. What you concocted was a piece of work that only someone savoring the effects of an ecstasy-marijuana-crack cocktail could begin to understand.
Pink, that was not music. Count Basie was music. Frank Sinatra was music. The Beatles were music. Pavorotti looks like music. The Miracles and the Temptations were real music. Aretha Franklin defines music. What you presented will probably cause Vesuvius to come to life again.
You are beginning to make me think that Camille Paglia was correct when she said rock musicians should be forced to have classical training before they are allowed to create their own art. I will take it one step further. I say artists such as Pink Floyd should be forced to sit at the feet of the classical artists to learn a thing or two. Since the classical artists are all dead, that will solve the problem.
Pink, I suggest you relinquish your rights to the name. You are an insult to all that is pink. Even the panther is having second thoughts about being associated with the color.
Sincerely
Loup
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Summary: Like All Legends, Time Adds To The Telling
Comment: First off, I am listening to 'mometary lapse' whilst writing this, so yes I 'like' Floyd. As with most things, floyd are divided into two categories, those who love them and those who haven't spent time listening to them. If you're considering buying this dvd or are reading this, then you fall into the former. Therefore it really means that a true review is irrelvant to a certain extent, as like me, you'll want to see this, irrespective of opinion to a large degree.
With that I mind I keep this review simple. The music is floyd, the cinematography is excellent, yes it is old and therefore not as 'flashy' as newer music videos, or even waters concerts for those lucky enough to have seen them. But it's floyd, their music, their personas on screen and we get what we floyd fans want.
One thing I will say is that this movie is better for time, to see the band talk and interact with each other at a time when they worked together and had a lot of common musical goals is incredibly interesting, especially in light of where they are now, the issues, the 'reunion' and the ongoing solo works.
This is a movie worth watching for them music, the people and the history.
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Summary: What an experience!
Comment: I saw this video before but not in total. Last weekend I watched it and I was impressed, again....What a great recordings! Great images, fantastic music :) and also the interviews between the songs are great. An absolute recommended dvd for the fans of psychedelica...
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Summary: Just the Floyd !!
Comment: This is awesome. It is just Floyd, their sound crew and the film crew in an ancient amphitheater in Pompeii, Italy. What REALLY makes this great is it is just them. Only the four guys - no second guitarist, no second drums, no second keyboard, no backup singers - just them. PLUS they play Echoes Live !!
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Summary: Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii (Director's Cut)
Comment: Frankly I'm a tad disappointed. I still love the film but feel that the Pink Floyd "mystique" was better captured and portrayed in the original release (which I have on VHS). The out-takes that have been put in detract from that mystique and make this seem a bit more of a joke. The visuals of celestial bodies and outer space don't add much eaither. Perhaps if I were not jaded by knowledge of the original I would be gushing about this the director's cut. Still, the film captures a time when there were plenty of new barriers to be broken and a new age seemed to be dawning. It's textures remind me of Nicholas Roege's "Walkabout"--filmed in the early 70's too when lenses, light and spetral seperation thereof WAS the extent of "special effects". I was lucky enough to see Pink Floyd in concert at Carnegie Hall in NYC soon after this film was shot and they really had an aura of other-worldliness. I think this film portays that and is worth having (even with the warts added in the director's cut).
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Editorial Reviews:
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Conceived by the French director Adrian Maben as "an anti-Woodstock film," Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was shot in October 1971 in a vacant, 2,000-year-old amphitheater--a venue chosen to accentuate the grandeur and spaciousness of the band's Meddle-era music. This disc contains a new, 90-minute director's cut as well as the original 60-minute concert film, whose production and effects feel inescapably dated. Maben's cut goes to great lengths to lend the film a more contemporary feel, but it's the earlier version that makes this disc such a gem, being more focused on the music and more wholistic in vision. The anamorphic, 16:9 director's cut interweaves the Pompeii performances with fascinating but distracting interviews and music snippets filmed later (mostly during the recording of Dark Side of the Moon). The movie was originally prepared in a 4:3 aspect ratio, however, and the widescreen version crops perfectly framed images like the nine-square mosaic of drummer Nick Mason in "One of These Days." The original offers plenty of closeups of fingers on frets and keys, with shots that are often luxuriously long in duration. And the picture quality from Pompeii is revelatory: outstandingly sharp and clear, rich in subtle grades of light and color. Generous extras include everything from original posters, reviews, bootleg album covers, and song lyrics to a 24-minute interview with Maben. But for all the director's talk of the glorious acoustics in Pompeii's amphitheater, there's little natural ambience to be heard. The Dolby Digital 2.0 sound is clear, dry, and two-dimensional, though notably better than any previous video release. --Michael Mikesell
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