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pink floyd live at pompeii | Year: 1974 Classification: Music Video - Pop/Rock Directed: - Adrian Maben Pink Floyd on Video before anyone ever thought of MTV This classic 1974 video has been re-mastered slightly since its original release. The audio is a little better but still sounds as Roger Waters' states in one part of the "Dark Side of the Moon" recording segments "A little too toppy." The video quality is better as well but still washed out in some segments. Technical difficulties aside the reason to own this if for the sheer excitement of watching and listening to these four creative talents. You get a chance to see these guys perform in an ancient amphitheatre many of their original classics. The play list includes Echoes Part-1 and Part-2, Careful With That Axe Eugene, A Saucerful of Secrets and more. It is fun to see how they created all of the space age sounds in the days before computers, digital samplers, and fully programmable synthesizers. The video segues are creative in that transitions are done using film optics that in later days became staple effects in modern production video switchers. An example of this is the transition to the song "One Of These Days I'm Going To Cut You Into Little Pieces" with little bits of the picture appearing in cut out pieces of paper, which is the modern Matrix wipe effect. As an added bonus you will witness the tracking of "Dark Side Of The Moon" and even hear the voice of Alan Parsons though the studio PL system. A technical note in that the surround effect is good through a Dolby Pro Logic 2 system or with DTS Neo 6.1. Good effects can also be had hooking up your VHS-HIFI audio outputs to a classic Marantz Quad receiver like the model-4300 and using the Vari-Matrix function. Enjoy !!! Original Pompeii movie worth buying DVD alone Pink Floyd released their concert film Live at Pompeii in late 1972 in the UK. The original film was filmed at the Pompeii Ampitheatre in Pompeii, Italy in October of 1971 with some footage filmed in early 1972 at a Paris film studio. That original version was 61 minutes long, and consisted only of performance footage from the Pompeii amphitheatre and a Paris studio, plus some extra footage of Pompeii. This was shot in full-screen 4:3 and is presented as such on the DVD. The band gave superb readings of Echoes(pt.1), Careful With That Axe Eugene, A Saucerful of Secrets, One of These Days, Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun, Mademoiselle Nobs and Echoes(pt.2). This right here makes the purchase of the DVD justifiable. In early 1973, director Adrian Maben went to Abbey Road Studios while the band was finishing their classic contribution to rock history, the 34 million selling and counting worldwide The Dark Side of the Moon shot some documentary footage of the band recording(or pretending to record according to guitarist/vocalist David Gilmour because the band were mixing by the time these sequences were filmed) and talking. The new footage was spliced in between some of the original performances for the film and the result was released in August, 1974 here in the US and was now 80 minutes long. Unfortunately, this edit is not on DVD. Now, this new version uses the Abbey Road footage, plus some unearthed black and white footage of the band in a studio in Paris in March of 1972. Also, Maben filmed new shots of Pompeii, a whole bunch of archival footage of space exploration and new titles that look made for a straight-to-video release instead of the Godard-esque ones we had with the original. This is about 91 minutes long, and has been inexplicably matted to a 16:9 format. Gilmour was not responsible for this DVD and he is not happy with the Director's Cut. Ironically, Roger Waters is and his manager Mark Fenwick was one of the DVD's executive producers and approved of this director's cut. I say buy the DVD for the original film. This is how Floyd should be This is a great experiment with live concert recording and a movie where the only person at the show is you. A very good look at what floyd is about and how they did it. It is sort of like a bunch of music videos wraped into one until you look at the Directors Cut witch is all the good behind the sceenes stuf. A must have for any floyd fan! Buy Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii at Amazon.com Buy posters at Allposters.com Jamster - the latest ringtones for your phone!  Search with Walhello on the Internet on Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii Search with the Priority Search Engine on Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii This page in other languages: Suomeksi | Nederlands | Deutsch
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