Pink Floyd - Live At Pompeii (Newly Released Stuff

There is nothing in this thing that is worth 10 cents, and I find it exploitive and sad. It is, nothing but just a "continuation" of "Allan's Psychedelic Breakfast" with a lot of throw away lines, and nothing really being said, and a few bits and pieces of some of the decisions that went into DSOTM's vocals, which, at the start were nice, but not very clean.

There is better, and much more interesting, stuff in the hundreds of bootlegs that brought along the sound effects that were used between their music pieces, and how they were used, which explained (eventually) how The Wall was, really, a continuation of their live experience ... make it something you are a part of with their "quadraphonic" sound ...

I doubt that the DSOTM material would be important when the film was actually done ... and as Nick said in the original ... "it's a nice home movie" ... and that is where all this stops.

I'm waiting for the kitchen and bathroom sound effects now to show up as more material from DSOTM ... which was used because there was barely any interest in the rest of the film, without it ... in fact, if you watch the movie, you don't need anything DSOTM to love the music which is fantastic ... and the stuff on DSOTM, just tells you how late, and how long it took before the film was released. Had DSOTM not become so big, I have a feeling that the film would have been trashed ... specially by fans that think DSOTM is the great plate of beans and chips and oysters in the sky!

I mean... they made The Final Cut... so it was clear they could do a LOT of wrong 

Quartet? Richard Wright was nowhere in the vicinity of that album, and Nick Mason shared the drum duties with Andy Newmark.

I was talking of the time of Pompeii, of course. Even when they did go wrong in those days (Seamus & Mlle Knobs), those rare cases could be forgiven on the avant-garde altar. 

And even then, I'm far from considering TFC from a disaster compared to the Permanent Lapse Of Reason that would ensue the band's disbanding. 

Objectively & artistically, Roger was right: Floyd was a spent force by the mid-80's. 

Only one song post-85 is worthy of the Floyd legacy: the unaptly named High Hopes.

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