What can one say, for those of us who are at an age that have had PF in our lives for more than 50 yrs. We truly were blessed. They will be played forever ❤🙏
Great to see your appreciation for this performance!!! I was fortunate to see Pink Floyd on this Pulse tour in 1994 at The Alamodome in San Antonio. There were 47,000 fans and I had 18th row seats on the floor!! I worked in the concert business for 23 years, and this was an experience of a lifetime!!! Also saw them in 1987 on The Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. Again, great reaction!!!
Pink Floyd's music is the channel that allows the lyrics to touch the deepest part of our being. What Pink Floyd does with its music is much more than simply providing a rhythm for a series of words chosen only to rhyme.
Greetings from Canada. The right word for Pink Floyd is CALM... they calmly dissect situations and do what has to be done... beautifully. Peace, love and bellbottoms.
This was the final track on the "Division Bell" - their actual last full studio album. It both chronicles their journey from inception to stardom and closure, and a final heartfelt tribute to long gone co-founder Syd Barrett (RIP) - there are multiple homages to him throughout the back-screen video - most notably the giant bas-relief. A perfect ending to 25 years of unparalleled excellence. FYI, your comment about the 'real' bell (the "Division Bell" is rung in Britain whenever a parliamentary procedure is begun or ended) - the reason that they include so many talented guest performers is to recreate their overdubbed studio sound as completely as possible without recordings. In this case, the additional percussionist backing Nick Mason is Gary Wallis, Also backing other band members are Jon Carin on keyboards behind Richard Wright (RIP) and Tim Renwick supporting David Gilmour. Bass is covered in amazing fashion by Guy Pratt. The Backup vocalists are Sam Brown, Durga McBroom, and Claudia Fontaine (RIP). The incomparable Dick Parry on Sax completes the crew. IMO, the most incredible concert tour ever, both musically and visually.
This beautiful and melancholy song always reminds me that the particular magic of youth can only be lived for short time. It’s this feeling of something forever just beyond your grasp - you can remember the feeling, you can recall some vague memory of how you felt, but you also know that you can never actually experience that exact magic again. You can make memories, accrue both achievements and losses, and you can experience different types of spiritual or life affirming magic as a mature adult, but no amount of riches or wishes can restore that special brand of magic you experienced as a child, adolescent, and young adult having incredible first time experiences before settling into maturity and responsibility. That beautiful outro guitar solo lets David wail for all of us who mourn that loss of innocence and youth. IMO, the best Floyd track after Roger left.
I really liked your reaction. Intelligent, insightful and honest. I’m an old guy who loves to see younger people experience and appreciate the music I grew up with. My top 5 bands are…..Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Steely Dan, Toto, and Kansas. Any time you are reacting to those groups, I will be stopping by for a listen. Cheers from Canada 👍🎉🎸😎🇨🇦
That guitar at the end is like the soul crying. It's just absolutely heartbreaking and I know what you mean when you talk about mourning your youth and how painful it is to do so. Man, that is so, so true. I think I live in my youth so much and this song never fails to make me cry.
Love and warm regards from Cologne Germany. I saw the concert 1994 in Rome Italy. Here any facts to the Tour: The concerts of the "DIVISION BELL TOUR" PULSE featured even more special effects ( On the day of the concerts, the airspace above the respective city was closed for several hours for safety reasons due to the laser show !!! ) than the previous tour of even other bands and artist tours ever and it was in 1994, including two custom designed airships. They also used an Antonov military cargo plane plus 2 x cargo Boeing 747s. 3 seperate stages leapfrogged around North America and Europe, each of that stages 180 feet (55 m) long and featuring a 130 foot (40 m) arch resembling the Hollywood Bowl venue. One stage in use, one being dismantled from the previous venue and one being set up at the next. They need 3-4 days to building on stage up 3 days for re-building.When Pink Floyd performed this in the US, they traveled with four 48' military grade mobile generators. 1994 there wasn't in USA a stadium built with enough electrical input to run the Pink Floyd show. That was also new for the American´s. The US Army said: "Ok, that´s cool project and makeable for us - let´s do it for the american audience - But we are always there! Is that understood and clear!?" - Answer Gilmour: "Yes Sir it is clear, thanks a lot, then let´s go. You will not regret it". I think they don´t regret it. That's what happens when you forget to give a budget figure to your lighting effects designer. That sound comes from a 220,000 watt sound system. The glitter ball from "Comfortably Numb" was over 15ft (4,6 m) in diameter, and the lasers were a new experimental design, and Pink Floyd cornered the entire world's supply at the time. All in all, the tour required 700 tons of steel carried by 53 articulated trucks, a crew of 161 people and an initial investment of US$ 4 million plus US$ 25 million of running costs just to stage. This tour played to 5.5 million people in 68 cities; each concert gathered an average audience of more then 45,000. In summary, it is the most elaborate live tour project of all times to date. The planning alone took 3 years. The tour (not the planning) was sponsored by Volkswagen. In an interview after the tour with Sam Brown (the blonde backup singer), they asked her: "How wild the band were on tour?", she said: "It was like touring with a group of forensic accountants, all very serious and just focused on giving their professional best to the music".
I traded 2 nosebleed seat tickets to see Barbara Streisand for 2 6th row center seats at the Detroit stop on this tour. Truly memorable show and experience.
Questa canzone scritta da Gilmour e sua moglie Polly che aveva sposata da poco é l'ultima traccia dell'album THE DIVISION BELL (1994)è una delle più autobiografiche della band perché ripercorre la loro storia musicale e personale guardando con un certo rimpianto e nostalgia le epoche che ne hanno segnato la storia. Dagli inizi alla prima frattura con la triste vicenda di Syd Barrett e poi i maggiori successi e quando tutto era meraviglioso e fantastico ecco l'imprevedibile abbandono burrascoso di un'anima importante della band come Roger Waters...ma poi termina con il suono della lap steel guitar magistralmente suonata da Dave che sembra lanciare nel cielo le grandi attese e grandi speranze di riconciliazione e pace interiore.
Two other versions of High Hopes worth a listen: From "Live at Pompeii 2016". David adds a much longer acoustic guitar solo to the end of the song. ua-cam.com/video/xPkTq-_C-3c/v-deo.html From "Live at Robert Wyatt's Meltdown". David replaces the electric bass guitar with a stand up bass and adds a cello to compliment his guitar. ua-cam.com/video/lgE-FNhHy54/v-deo.html
This was the last song on the last album of Pink Floyd. I consider Endless River to just be a collection of music they worked on and not a true album full of original songs. This being the last song of the last album was the perfect ending to a legendary band.
I interpret this as looking back at the place we were, but chased "dreams" of the green grass on the other side, only to chase the green grass on yet another side... again and again. At the end of it all, realizing that life WAS truly greener on the OTHER side. But we had made it impossible to go back (bridge's glowing behind us).
The video which you see playing in the back ground, was shot in Cambridge and just outside Ely, I was lucky enough to see the Ely part as I live near there. On the album cover you can see Ely cathedral between the two heads.
Now, to really make things interesting, Nightwish did a wonderful cover of this song with Marko on vocals, on their End of an Era concert. It's a brilliant version, which even David Gilmour admired. It's the same song, but beautifully Nightwished .... taking British nostalgia and upgrading it to Finnish anguish and regret. You really MUST check it out.
Great reaction! I can't help but get misty eyed with this track - it was my mom's favourite (besides Shine On), and since her passing in 2018, it hits different! Especially when Dave hits the lap steel guitar - so powerful & emotional. Pink Floyd, more than many other bands, tends to tap into my soul with their music. Cheers from Canada!
🎶 All I really would like to say in the context of this amazing song and lyric is that no matter how old we are, when a new day dawns: Come up and feel the sun, a new morning is begun. Another day shall make it clear, why our star has guided us here. ❤ Carin in Sweden
The album this is coming from "The Division Bell" is often overlooked by PF fans but there are MANY great songs on it. Personally my 4th favorite after DSOTM, SOYCD and Animals. Best PF album without Waters IMO. Good job Saeed !
Next year, I turn 70. Been listening to Pink Floyd for fifty years. You’re right. They don’t get in a hurry. Best way to listen to them is in the evening, in a comfortable recliner, with the lights down low, and with a glass of good bourbon.
Here's an obscure one you'd probably like from Pink Floyd: On the Turning Away. The lyrics were relevant when written, and have stayed relevant ever since. Edit: Warning, it's a tear-filled one
Wow. I had an urge to start clapping after the song finished. :) They made a movie called The Wall. People often react just to the songs from it, which is kind of lame, because the movie and the songs tell a story. The movie is a must watch - it has Pink Floyd music and imagery combining both animation and normal footage. When I first watched it in my teens, I was left literally speechless.
Both Aurora and Pink Floyd, me like......I think this song is the litle sister of Time from TDSOTM, i urge you to listen to that one, there are some lyric lines there who are very good
Hi, thanks for another Floydicus Pinkus reaction. Your responses are not out of line, many, many people find PF’s lyrics can set you back in your seat (as they appeared to do to you.) Pink Floyd doesn’t write love songs; they write albums. And they write about life, death, mental health (they write a LOT about that), loneliness, despair……they aren’t like any other band. One of the ways they’re different is, as you say, they’re patient with their music. Another way they’re different is more subtle. PF as a band has never been about individual fame; it’s always been entirely about the music. You can see this in something as simple as the stage lighting. None of the band members are typically lit from the front, which most major bands, and stage performers in general, are. The Floyd is often lit from the side, or even from the rear. It’s why David Gilmour shows up in a t-shirt and jeans; they’ve just never been into personal fame.
Everything Pink Floyd ever did was art. The best band ever.
The day you lose your dreams is the day you lose your connection with your soul.
you never lose connection with your soul
You're watching the best performing at their best here.
It doesn't get any better than this.
What can one say, for those of us who are at an age that have had PF in our lives for more than 50 yrs. We truly were blessed.
They will be played forever ❤🙏
As a 66 yr old Pink Floyd fan I must say that I truly, truly love listening to your reactions to this epic music. Look forward to much more !
👍👍👍
Yea he's good!
Thanks so much! That means a lot! ❤️
Same!! I’m 56 loved them almost my entire life ❤ 4:24
At least I'll die knowing I've experienced Pink Floyd, and that's good enough for me.
The Pulse Tour was the best live performance ever. The album The Division Bell is a master piece.
👍💪
Great to see your appreciation for this performance!!! I was fortunate to see Pink Floyd on this Pulse tour in 1994 at The Alamodome in San Antonio. There were 47,000 fans and I had 18th row seats on the floor!! I worked in the concert business for 23 years, and this was an experience of a lifetime!!! Also saw them in 1987 on The Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. Again, great reaction!!!
Awesome you saw them live. Great memories to cherish! Thanks for watching.
J'ai bien aimé votre réaction sur ce formidable Pink Floyd que j'adore depuis tellement d'années...
Virtually every Pink Floyd song is an Experience!
Pink Floyd's music is the channel that allows the lyrics to touch the deepest part of our being.
What Pink Floyd does with its music is much more than simply providing a rhythm for a series of words chosen only to rhyme.
Greetings from Canada. The right word for Pink Floyd is CALM... they calmly dissect situations and do what has to be done... beautifully. Peace, love and bellbottoms.
Yes! Thats it!
This was the final track on the "Division Bell" - their actual last full studio album. It both chronicles their journey from inception to stardom and closure, and a final heartfelt tribute to long gone co-founder Syd Barrett (RIP) - there are multiple homages to him throughout the back-screen video - most notably the giant bas-relief. A perfect ending to 25 years of unparalleled excellence. FYI, your comment about the 'real' bell (the "Division Bell" is rung in Britain whenever a parliamentary procedure is begun or ended) - the reason that they include so many talented guest performers is to recreate their overdubbed studio sound as completely as possible without recordings. In this case, the additional percussionist backing Nick Mason is Gary Wallis, Also backing other band members are Jon Carin on keyboards behind Richard Wright (RIP) and Tim Renwick supporting David Gilmour. Bass is covered in amazing fashion by Guy Pratt. The Backup vocalists are Sam Brown, Durga McBroom, and Claudia Fontaine (RIP). The incomparable Dick Parry on Sax completes the crew. IMO, the most incredible concert tour ever, both musically and visually.
Poles Apart 😪
This has become one of my favorites of theirs over the years.
30 YEARS AGO... This was "the" show!
This beautiful and melancholy song always reminds me that the particular magic of youth can only be lived for short time. It’s this feeling of something forever just beyond your grasp - you can remember the feeling, you can recall some vague memory of how you felt, but you also know that you can never actually experience that exact magic again. You can make memories, accrue both achievements and losses, and you can experience different types of spiritual or life affirming magic as a mature adult, but no amount of riches or wishes can restore that special brand of magic you experienced as a child, adolescent, and young adult having incredible first time experiences before settling into maturity and responsibility. That beautiful outro guitar solo lets David wail for all of us who mourn that loss of innocence and youth. IMO, the best Floyd track after Roger left.
Beautifully said!
54 year old .love this tune. Saw them once many years ago.super glad that I have that.
Awesome you had that experience!
I really liked your reaction. Intelligent, insightful and honest. I’m an old guy who loves to see younger people experience and appreciate the music I grew up with. My top 5 bands are…..Pink Floyd, Supertramp, Steely Dan, Toto, and Kansas. Any time you are reacting to those groups, I will be stopping by for a listen. Cheers from Canada 👍🎉🎸😎🇨🇦
Thanks so much for being here and the kind words. Definitely want to check out the bands you mentioned at some point too. Greetings from Belgium.
@@SaeedReacts. I guess I should subscribe in that case.😀🇨🇦
You don't just listen. You feel. Best Wishes.
Definitely with Pink Floyd. Its an experience.
Have a wonderful day.
That guitar at the end is like the soul crying. It's just absolutely heartbreaking and I know what you mean when you talk about mourning your youth and how painful it is to do so. Man, that is so, so true. I think I live in my youth so much and this song never fails to make me cry.
It really is.
Have been thinking a lot about it recently. It hits hard sometimes.
Love and warm regards from Cologne Germany. I saw the concert 1994 in Rome Italy. Here any facts to the Tour: The concerts of the "DIVISION BELL TOUR" PULSE featured even more special effects ( On the day of the concerts, the airspace above the respective city was closed for several hours for safety reasons due to the laser show !!! ) than the previous tour of even other bands and artist tours ever and it was in 1994, including two custom designed airships. They also used an Antonov military cargo plane plus 2 x cargo Boeing 747s. 3 seperate stages leapfrogged around North America and Europe, each of that stages 180 feet (55 m) long and featuring a 130 foot (40 m) arch resembling the Hollywood Bowl venue. One stage in use, one being dismantled from the previous venue and one being set up at the next. They need 3-4 days to building on stage up 3 days for re-building.When Pink Floyd performed this in the US, they traveled with four 48' military grade mobile generators. 1994 there wasn't in USA a stadium built with enough electrical input to run the Pink Floyd show. That was also new for the American´s. The US Army said: "Ok, that´s cool project and makeable for us - let´s do it for the american audience - But we are always there! Is that understood and clear!?" - Answer Gilmour: "Yes Sir it is clear, thanks a lot, then let´s go. You will not regret it". I think they don´t regret it. That's what happens when you forget to give a budget figure to your lighting effects designer. That sound comes from a 220,000 watt sound system. The glitter ball from "Comfortably Numb" was over 15ft (4,6 m) in diameter, and the lasers were a new experimental design, and Pink Floyd cornered the entire world's supply at the time. All in all, the tour required 700 tons of steel carried by 53 articulated trucks, a crew of 161 people and an initial investment of US$ 4 million plus US$ 25 million of running costs just to stage. This tour played to 5.5 million people in 68 cities; each concert gathered an average audience of more then 45,000. In summary, it is the most elaborate live tour project of all times to date. The planning alone took 3 years. The tour (not the planning) was sponsored by Volkswagen. In an interview after the tour with Sam Brown (the blonde backup singer), they asked her: "How wild the band were on tour?", she said: "It was like touring with a group of forensic accountants, all very serious and just focused on giving their professional best to the music".
best band of all times . 😎👍 next one from Pulse concert - Coming back to life . = 3 good guitar solo . 🎸🎸🎸🎶🎶
I traded 2 nosebleed seat tickets to see Barbara Streisand for 2 6th row center seats at the Detroit stop on this tour. Truly memorable show and experience.
Wow! Awesome!
Same concert...Coming Back To Life.
Questa canzone scritta da Gilmour e sua moglie Polly che aveva sposata da poco é l'ultima traccia dell'album THE DIVISION BELL (1994)è una delle più autobiografiche della band perché ripercorre la loro storia musicale e personale guardando con un certo rimpianto e nostalgia le epoche che ne hanno segnato la storia.
Dagli inizi alla prima frattura con la triste vicenda di Syd Barrett e poi i maggiori successi e quando tutto era meraviglioso e fantastico ecco l'imprevedibile abbandono burrascoso di un'anima importante della band come Roger Waters...ma poi termina con il suono della lap steel guitar magistralmente suonata da Dave che sembra lanciare nel cielo le grandi attese e grandi speranze di riconciliazione e pace interiore.
Nice reaction. I can tell you really get Pink Floyd. Stick with this Pulse concert-----you can't go wrong. Try Sorrow next.
Thanks so much! Will check it out.
Two other versions of High Hopes worth a listen:
From "Live at Pompeii 2016". David adds a much longer acoustic guitar solo to the end of the song. ua-cam.com/video/xPkTq-_C-3c/v-deo.html
From "Live at Robert Wyatt's Meltdown". David replaces the electric bass guitar with a stand up bass and adds a cello to compliment his guitar. ua-cam.com/video/lgE-FNhHy54/v-deo.html
Nightwish has been heavily influenced by Pink Floyd and they did a tribute by covering this song, which is also great.
Must check that one out!
Good one 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻 Now you need to check out Nightwish's tribute to this song. It's live from their End Of An Era concert 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Ooh! Will add that one to my list. Thanks for letting me know.
The “place of magnets and miracles” refers to the CERN Particle collider near where they lived.
One of my favourite Floyd songs great slide guitar. David is brilliant 👏
This was the last song on the last album of Pink Floyd. I consider Endless River to just be a collection of music they worked on and not a true album full of original songs. This being the last song of the last album was the perfect ending to a legendary band.
I interpret this as looking back at the place we were, but chased "dreams" of the green grass on the other side, only to chase the green grass on yet another side... again and again. At the end of it all, realizing that life WAS truly greener on the OTHER side. But we had made it impossible to go back (bridge's glowing behind us).
Thanks for sharing your interpretation!
The video which you see playing in the back ground, was shot in Cambridge and just outside Ely, I was lucky enough to see the Ely part as I live near there. On the album cover you can see Ely cathedral between the two heads.
Awesome! Thanks for sharing that.
Saeed, that is very well put! This performance was epic to the max, without overdoing it. Tasteful.
Tasteful! Thats the word. Thanks for watching.
Now, to really make things interesting, Nightwish did a wonderful cover of this song with Marko on vocals, on their End of an Era concert. It's a brilliant version, which even David Gilmour admired. It's the same song, but beautifully Nightwished .... taking British nostalgia and upgrading it to Finnish anguish and regret. You really MUST check it out.
Will do!
Dim the lounge lighting, put your phone on silent, grab a glass of The Macallan Whiskey, relax on the Sofa and listen to the Floyd. Heaven.
Great reaction! I can't help but get misty eyed with this track - it was my mom's favourite (besides Shine On), and since her passing in 2018, it hits different! Especially when Dave hits the lap steel guitar - so powerful & emotional.
Pink Floyd, more than many other bands, tends to tap into my soul with their music.
Cheers from Canada!
Sorry to hear about your loss.
Its a beautiful track.
Much love from Belgium.
🎶 All I really would like to say in the context of this amazing song and lyric is that no matter how old we are, when a new day dawns: Come up and feel the sun, a new morning is begun. Another day shall make it clear, why our star has guided us here.
❤ Carin in Sweden
Beautifully said ❤️
Probably my most favorite Pink Floyd song. Also good (and from the Division bell album): keep talking!
Keep Talking is great too!
A Pulse favorite!
Welcome back! Beautiful song and performance. Arguably the best song from the post-Waters era.
Thanks! Great song!
One of the greatest bands ever
The album this is coming from "The Division Bell" is often overlooked by PF fans but there are MANY great songs on it. Personally my 4th favorite after DSOTM, SOYCD and Animals. Best PF album without Waters IMO. Good job Saeed !
Definitely want to hear more from all those albums. Thanks for watching!
Next year, I turn 70. Been listening to Pink Floyd for fifty years. You’re right. They don’t get in a hurry. Best way to listen to them is in the evening, in a comfortable recliner, with the lights down low, and with a glass of good bourbon.
Thats awesome!
Sounds like a great way to do it.
Sober for 3 years, but i definitely get it 😄
They've been bringing that bell around for about 40yrs and it takes 3 people to lift i
Wow! 😯😯
“Is thy Charlie? Hello, Charlie………great.” IYKYK. The end of the studio album.
i knew after hearing this song pink floyd was over
So if that's the opening number of the Pulse Concert imagine how it ends! Check out 'Comfortably Numb' and 'Run, Run, Run'
Please try high hopes extended version..
It has a breath taking keyboard solo towards the end of it..
Thanks for the recommendation.
Here's an obscure one you'd probably like from Pink Floyd: On the Turning Away. The lyrics were relevant when written, and have stayed relevant ever since. Edit: Warning, it's a tear-filled one
Thanks for the recommendation!
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Wow. I had an urge to start clapping after the song finished. :) They made a movie called The Wall. People often react just to the songs from it, which is kind of lame, because the movie and the songs tell a story. The movie is a must watch - it has Pink Floyd music and imagery combining both animation and normal footage. When I first watched it in my teens, I was left literally speechless.
Definitely want to see that film.
Both Aurora and Pink Floyd, me like......I think this song is the litle sister of Time from TDSOTM, i urge you to listen to that one, there are some lyric lines there who are very good
Like them too! A lot!
I reacted to Time from the Pulse concert. Amazing song! Very thoughtprovoking.
"In a world of magnets and miracles"
Magnets? How do they work?
My 8 year old daughter just discovered magnets and moving them around with an invisible force.
It's magic!
Hi, thanks for another Floydicus Pinkus reaction. Your responses are not out of line, many, many people find PF’s lyrics can set you back in your seat (as they appeared to do to you.) Pink Floyd doesn’t write love songs; they write albums. And they write about life, death, mental health (they write a LOT about that), loneliness, despair……they aren’t like any other band.
One of the ways they’re different is, as you say, they’re patient with their music. Another way they’re different is more subtle. PF as a band has never been about individual fame; it’s always been entirely about the music. You can see this in something as simple as the stage lighting. None of the band members are typically lit from the front, which most major bands, and stage performers in general, are. The Floyd is often lit from the side, or even from the rear. It’s why David Gilmour shows up in a t-shirt and jeans; they’ve just never been into personal fame.
Such an amazing song and performance.
Thanks for taking the time to comment! Much appreciated!
When you are child everything is exciting and new , then the years pass and adulthood drags you into routine and wage earning which is the way of life
100%
Their music is one big rush!