However it was cut, so we jump head first into “Learning To Fly”. In the shows, the fade out gives way to the AMLoR opener “Signs of Life” which sets the tone for the new songs. Otherwise the band still does a great job here. The cannon shot sound of the drums just isn’t right and the sax solo is.well being nice here it’s. So the band opted to open with a shortened version of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”. At the time Gilmour just wasn’t feeling it, and as evidenced on bootlegs had also forgotten some of the words. Early on in the tour, the band was opening with 1971’s “Echoes”. The first set highlighted AMLoR, and the second set emphasized the big hits. This leaves the remaining selection a bit disjointed. But here’s the breakdown of what you get in the double disc set…įor starters, many songs from the setlist were cut from the live show setlist for the live album. It comes off sounding somewhat cold, as many 80s live albums do. DSoT is heavy on the reverb, an artifact of 80s production. The difference in sound mix is night and day. It also had original sax player Dick Parry.
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It covers more songs making full use of the CD time constraints and contains a full Dark Side of The Moon. came out, which has become the go-to definitive later-era Floyd live album. It is all but ignored in their discography. So what makes this album the bastard child of the Pink Floyd collection? To date the album has not been remastered since its 1988 release. These were Rachel Fury, Durga McBroom, and Margaret Taylor. He is also the guy that in between notes went “UHHHHH! AThe vocals were then complete with three backing singers and swayers, who I have affectionately always called “the Woo Woo girls”. You may remember him from the live video clips as the guy with the teased monster mullet. Carin has gone on to be the keyboardist of choice for the ’94 tour, Gilmour’s solo tour and also Roger Waters’ recent tours, due to his status as quick learning understudy to Rick Wright. The sound was fleshed out with the addition of Tim Renwick on second guitar, Gary Wallis on percussion, and John Carin on keyboards.
Both acts are friends of Gilmour so this is no doubt how he was recommended. Stepping in for the departed Roger, and playing bass parts that Tony Levin (of Peter Gabriel fame) had played on AMLoR was Guy Pratt, a then little-know session musician who had worked with The Dream Academy and Bryan Ferry. This was regained by him again as the tour went on. Rick cited later that the arguments between him and Roger Waters that led to a blackmail-style firing after The Wall left him with no self confidence in his musical abilities. He was barely present on the studio album, but was thrust back out to perform during the tour.
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A plus side to this tour was that it brought keyboardist and co-vocalist Rick Wright back into the light. The debate still enrages die-hards from both sides to this day. But to the unknowing, Floyd version 1987 *sounded* more like Pink Floyd. To be fair, the album made liberal use of guest musicians and co-writers. Roger then went public about his distaste for large shows, but quipped every chance he got that this Floyd was a forgery because the lyrics had been created by Gilmour and co-writers. Floyd went on to tour their biggest show to that date to bigger audiences than ever. (I looked this one up in case anyone cares – the sound is a synthesized shakuhachi flute generated with an Emu Emulator II sampler.) So when the new Gilmour-led Floyd put out A Momentary Lapse of Reason, and much of the music had that very dreamlike feel of some of Floyd’s classic songs, many people jumped ship or chose to side with the band still called Pink Floyd. Not to mention the same synth sound from the opening of Peter Gabriel’s “Sledgehammer” that became overused for a year or two. for the first time, receiving radio waves telepathically, befriending a DJ via speech communicator, then teaching the world a lesson via a faked nuclear war scare (big breath) was all buried under drum machines (or at least drum pads) and the woo-woos of backing singers and poppy dance beats. A concept about a mute young Welsh man in a wheelchair experiencing L.A. was heavy on the lyrical concept, but on the musical side resembled the classic Floyd sound very little. Both had put out albums in 1987 within months of each other. It also marked a triumph for David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Rick Wright following a very public feud with original lyricist and bassist Roger Waters. Delicate Sound Of Thunder was the band’s first live album since their greatest successes happened in the 70s.
On Thursday, the 25th anniversary of one of the best known live albums of the 80s will come and go probably unnoticed.
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