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Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii | Extended Play Lounge Ep. 54 (Patreon)

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2023-10-17 21:34:07
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This is our first Extended Play Lounge episode where I'm reviewing a concert film instead of a studio or live album. We had a combination of concert films and live albums from big-time bands up against each other in the poll, and Pink Floyd came out on top.

I'm watching/listening to the original 1972 release. Some of these selections are now quite familiar for me, and some were brand new. I hope you enjoy!

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Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii | Extended Play Lounge Ep. 54

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Richard Moore

Yes, there is video of the band hanging out talking on the Director's Cut. Worth watching maybe once, but I'm about the music, so I prefer this original version. Careful with that Axe, Eugene sounds spookier in this version than the one on Ummagumma. Happy Halloween!

Anonymous

Need an Obscured By Clouds reaction Doug, great stuff!

John Barnett

As you noted, the band was very experimental in this period. An important root to this was Syd Barrett, who really pushed past all the pop conventions with Interstellar Overdrive from Piper at the Gates of Dawn, which in the context of the time (1967) was light-years ahead of everything else. I'm not angling for you to do a video of this song (although that would be nice), but I am suggesting it to you for you own edification.

George Davis-Stewart

Very interesting to see and hear this again, thank you, Doug. Having been caught up in the previously released versions of these pieces of music, it was indeed exciting to be able to see something of them at work. Very instructive to have your observations to point up aspects of the composition and arrangement.

Charles Falk

Doug, you were wondering about how Roger does that wild scream on Careful With That Axe Eugene. That was a trademark sound that can be heard from time to time all the way from PF's first album until Roger's solo records. He did it by screaming BACKWARDS. Basically, screaming while inhaling rather than exhaling like normal. I've tried it, and it's rather painful to do, but a) relatively little air is needed, so if you can stand the pain you can make the scream last a long time, and b) It's so uncomfortable it gives him something completely unique - I have never heard anyone else do it. Bill Brinkmoeller, I tend to agree with you, sometimes the atmosphere is a bit much, but c'mon, man, it's Pompeii! And Vesuvius. The atmosphere is unique. At least they do spend at least some time showing them actually play. When I was learning guitar in the 80s, I wore out my pirated VHS copy of this learning David's solos. Some films were truely terrible - too many tight closeups, and sometimes the cameraman seems to go wild with these new-fangled zoom lenses, LOL. Ever see Cream's final Albert Hall show in 1968. Great music, but the video is nauseating. The reason that One of These Days is basically a Nick Mason spotlight is that the footage of the rest of the band was damaged and unusable, but I think it came out interesting. I think Mason is an underrated drummer, not because he is a stellar technical drummer - he is not. But I would call his drumming very 'organic'. He plays what is needed. And in this film you can see him looking at the other band members, thinking, "what can I add here?"