Pink Floyd Pulse DVD

 

PINK FLOYD PULSE DVD FINALLY ANNOUNCED

Pink Floyd's PULSE coming on DVD...finally!

The long-awaited, and much delayed, 2DVD release of Pink Floyd's PULSE has finally been announced. To hit the stores on 5th December (with slight variation to this date depending on country), the discs have been filled with some interesting additional material.

PULSE is a recording from the band's run of 14 shows at London's Earl's Court, the final full concerts performed (to date). A lot of work has been done to improve the sound and picture quality, and to source a selection of suitable extras.

Along with the DVD menus and screens, the DVD cover has been designed by Storm Thorgerson, and will be a variation on the "balls" picture used to promote the 2003 Interstellar exhibition in Paris. As yet, the cover image has not been made available, but Brain Damage had a sneak preview of it at the end of last year. It is a suitably intriguing image, similar to that shown in Storm's book "Mind Over Matter" but with some important differences.

Pink Floyd's well-respected engineer James Guthrie has been the man looking after the surround sound mixes, and the new, Dolby Digital 5.1 remastered soundtrack reportedly sounds superb.

We know that you'll want to know what's been included, so without further delay, here's the detail:

DISC 1
 
Concert Part 1:
Shine On
Learning To Fly
High Hopes
Take It Back
Coming Back To Life
Sorrow
Keep Talking
Another Brick In The Wall (part 2)
One of These Days
 
Screen Films:
Shine On
High Hopes
Learning to Fly
 
Bootlegging the Bootleggers:
What Do You Want From Me
On The Turning Way
Poles Apart
Marooned
 
Shorts:
Time (Eames)
Money (Alien)
Speak To Me 1987
Pulse TV Advert
 
Videos:
Learning To Fly
Take It Back
 
DISC 2
 
Concert Part 2:
Speak To Me
Breathe
On The Run
Time
The Great Gig In The Sky
Money
Us And Them
Brain Damage
Eclipse
Wish You Were Here
Comfortably Numb
Run Like Hell
 
Screen Films:
Speak To Me (graphic)
On The Run
Time 1994
The Great Gig in the Sky (wave)
Money
Us And Them 1987
Brain Damage
Eclipse
 
Alternate Screen Films:
The Great Gig In The Sky (animation)
Us And Them 1994
 
Behind the Scenes Footage:
Goodbye to Life As We Know It
 
Wish You Were Here:
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony
 
Photo Gallery

It's very interesting to see how all the screen films have been included on the DVDs. This is something that many fans have been keen to see. From our point of view, it's great to see that the Money alien film is included - few people seem to have heard of this hilarious alternate version, and this is their chance to see it.

"Bootlegging The Bootleggers" seems to be a way at getting back at those who release unauthorised footage of the band in action - as we understand it, they have sourced audience-shot material of these tracks for inclusion. Ironically, Pulse is one of the biggest bootlegged titles on DVD, with loads appearing on eBay and other online sites each day.

With behind the scenes footage, a photo gallery, and the band's performance at the US Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame induction ceremony back in 1996, this new release promises to be a very interesting collection of material.

Ordering details will be available shortly. It is worth reiterating that any versions of Pulse currently being offered on DVD in various places worldwide, are all fakes. This includes copies that proport to be official limited edition pressings from a few years back.

 

taken from:http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/

 

I think I'll defently have to pick this one up, anyone else gonna get this?

roaryg wrote: Nah. Boring old gits. They ran out of steam after Animals. Just kidding, sounds great. What year was that concert.

 

 

 

you are boaring..

roaryg wrote: Nah. Boring old gits. They ran out of steam after Animals. Just kidding, sounds great. What year was that concert.

1994 at Early Court. The concert is simply amazing with one of the best light and laser shows you'll ever see....not to mention the music. I'd be surprised if this doesn't top the rankings for Prog DVD's within the first week or so.

They have been working on the sound mix for over a year now so it should be superb and given how perfect pink floyd make everything else this should be imaculate.

Dissapointing not to see Astronomy Dominie on there as they did an awesome version of it on this tour however with all those extras Im not going to be disabointed.

I got a boot of it that's been tiding me over the past couple years. But no doubt I'll frisbee that once I get this one. I hope they include DTS on this as well. I think that's the best sound format.

Still bring these concerts up in conversations. Just thinking about the light
show still gives me goosebumps, especially Comfortably Numb when the
Glitterball comes apart and then is hit by lasers.

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I hope they give some of the DVDs a flashing spine like they did with the album version. 

Live at Pompei director's cut is much better live than pulse.

 

This was the series of gigs at Earls Court which started less than well for Floyd; on the first night an entire section of the audience seating collapsed 5 minutes into "Shine On..". Luckily nobody was seriously hurt, but the gig was naturally re-scheduled (one of my mates was there, but couldn't make the re-scheduled gig ).

Shryker wrote: Ironically, Pulse is one of the biggest bootlegged titles on DVD, with loads appearing on eBay and other online sites each day

This one's dead easy for the bootleggers, as the BBC showed one of the concerts in its entirety on TV; the video machines of England probably went into meltdown that night (including mine ), especially as the concert film followed (as I remember it) a one hour documentary on Floyd.

I, too, am now completely torn - do I get Yesshows or Pulse?

...Or both?

Incidentally, I noticed at the weekend that HMV are selling the Pulse double CD at the bargain price of £35.99 (for you American chaps out there, that's around $60.00) - and they complain that people download music, or buy online... but that's an argument for another day/thread.

Back on thread - er - Hooray!



Edited by Jim Garten