First Time Reacting to Pink Floyd's 'The Great Gig in the Sky': Mind Blowing!
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- This song was beyond words. It didn't need them to evoke the emotion I felt. Thank you Russ for this suggestion. I need to see more.
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Listen to this song for 40 years and loved it but when I actually saw this concert and this live version I was totally blown away. I know many don’t agree but this live version is so much better!
I agree 100%
100%. The 3 different textures of vocals make it unique, and while the die hard fans will always say that the original is the best, they don't factor in that these ladies are having to do this over and over and not just one take.
I was at earls court for this very performance.
The girl next to me was so overwhelmed that her legs buckled and I was a flood of tears throughout the gig, kind of embarrassing for 43 year old Englishman who had definitely lost his "stiff upper lip".
Me2:))😊
Not the height of Pink Floyd??? This concert is greatest live performance ever!!!
Haha, idk I just assumed they got their start way earlier.
Sorrow. Same live pulse remastered.
a very STUPID comment....but well, look at the man.... he´s not a prog rock fan...! jejeje.... well, I saw them on this tour on México City, 1994 one of the best in my life.
Lol I was going to type also about that comment.
Pink Floyd is sublime, no low points at all.
They are unique.
@@antoniocarlin5026 Be nice. lol
A young man who doesn’t know what he is about to discover.
His total experience of pop / rock genres of music has been fake computer sounds written and arranged by record label ass kissers.
If I didn’t know Pink Floyd , but knew they had been around since the 1960’s , and was about to listen to them for the first time..... a 1994 live gig..... I too would assume that they were past their best. lol
Best performance from three backup singers of all time!!
Clare Torry did the original version by herself in two and a half takes. She wasn't really given any instructions the band members (mostly David Gilmour) just said think of death and sad things and hurtful things. She started off by going oo baby oo baby and things like that and they stopped her and said no we don't want that. So on her own Claire just decided to make her vocalizing as though it was another instrument and she went from there and did this off-the-cuff in 2-1/2 takes! And I would say the original version is incredible and this was a very good representation! Some people say it represents the five stages of grief and it does sound like that! Anyway the first girl is Samantha Brown the second is Durga McBroom and the third is Claudia Fontaine. They're all fantastic backup singers but they also each have albums of their own!
Check out anything from this concert and it's incredible!!!! Any song Floyd does in this concert is like almost any other bands finale!! The equipment they use for this concert tour cost 98 million dollars in 1994 dollars!
Last comment here you were impressed by that venue which is Earl's Court in London and that venue sold out 15 nights in a row for this concert tour!
She did it in a single take and appologised after because she felt she could do better.
@@-Troll- not what Tori said on her interview! I was repeating what she herself said! One take singing " oo baby oo baby" & was stopped by band members saying that's not what we're looking for". Then on her own decided to make her voice into another instrument for one take then did a half take more and said "that's all I have" & went on thinking her vocalizing wouldn't see the light of day! She was then pleasantly surprised when the album came out!!!!
@@jonhenke1504 Hmmm... I am not sure that the first version was recorded at all. My source for this was an interview with David Gillmore where he said the vocals were done in one take and Clare left, embarressed because she felt she could do better.
@@-Troll- I'm sure the truth probably lies somewhere in between which really doesn't matter, it's still brilliant no matter which way you look at!
@@jonhenke1504 I agree. 😀
The Dark Side Of The Moon, is a musical journey, and should be listened to from start to finish. Individually brilliant songs, but in entirety, an absolute masterpiece.
The Great Gig In The Sky is about the moment of death -including a little before and after-. It is one of the greatest musical creations ever and can only be compared to classical era compositions. But in terms of how the vocal element is used, it is difficult to find an exact equivalent of it as Missa, Lied or Chanson..
This masterpiece was created by Richard Wright. He recorded it as a chord progression for the electric organ in 1972, a year before The Dark Side Of The Moon (which is the album containing this original recording) , under the title of "The Mortality Sequence". Masterpieces are not always innate, sometimes they can also be created by dusting off a substrate and polishing it a bit..
Spoken Parts:
(At 0:39 -of original recording-) "And I am not frightened of dying. Any time will do, I don't mind. Why should I be frightened of dying? There's no reason for it - you've got to go sometime." - Gerry O'Driscoll, Abbey Road Studios janitorial "browncoat".
(At 3:33 -of original recording-, faintly) "I never said I was frightened of dying." - Patricia 'Puddie' Watts, wife of road manager Peter Watts.
The members of the band went around asking questions and recording responses from people working inside Abbey Road (the famous studio where the album was recorded) at the time. Among the questions, they were asked "Are you afraid of dying?". They used these two above in the recording from among the answers given.
Later on you can hear Clare Torry I believe saying faintly, "If you can hear this whispering you're dying," at the end of the second part.
@@angelagraves865 Unfortunately a very common misinterpretation, just like another one: 'I never said I was frightened of Dorothy'. 🙂
@@osmanyldran4363 Ah, thank you.
It's supposed to be representing the raw emotions of transitions into leaving life, stages of dying, Denial, Anger, Fear, Resistance and finally acceptance, Extremely Powerful !! It gives almost Everyone goose bumps when they listen to it, I'm glad you enjoyed it my friend 🙂
Every Pink Floyd tour features a different set of backup singers who have to follow the set chord progressions and try to reach the high bar set by Clare Torry on the studio album.
It was 3 different singers. Also, all live songs from the Pulse concert are mind blowing. Peace!
A perfect example of music being a universal language, not a spoken word in that song. Just beautiful!! Angels! Thank you, Nick
Every time reactors look for the lyrics of this masterpiece always cracks me up. It never gets old 😂
Hahaha just utter confusion
Dying. It's an incredible experience to see someone fight to live and then surrender to it. She is so incredible as well as the other 2 singers. ❤
This represents the transition of dying. I was a hospice case manager for 20+ years and would listen to this following my pronouncements. Comfortably Numb from this concert is also amazing.
Wow thank you for sharing. What a song to listen to beforehand
The mortality sequence... defiance, denial, anger, fight and finally acceptance. Beautiful.
Excellent choice! Makes me cry every time. Everything about this concert is 🔥
I know, it was quite beautiful =)
The song is the emotional journey of living to dying and there’s 3 vocalists. The English speaker at the beginning says “I’m not afraid of dying”.
IIRC-The guy was the janitor at the studio.
Welcome to the Pink Floyd world. All songs from the Pulse concert are amazing.
Thank you Felix!
I was at this gig in Earls Court! It was the best I ever went to and the blond woman is Sam Brown who had a number one in the 1980s with "Stop"!
I saw them perform this at Earl's Court, London in 1975 with Clare Torry. R.I.P Richard Wright, the keyboard player
Pink Floyd is Legendary, an Experience. This song IS on "The Dark Side of the Moon" album, released 50 years ago on March 1st 1973. The album, DSOTM, one of the GOATs Rock albums, maybe THE Greatest, is about Life, Death, Money, and Insanity, (see Syd Barrett).
This whole Pulse Concert is one of the greatest Live performances ever, it's part of the largest World Tour att, The Division Bell World Tour. At this point in Pink Floyds career they were easily selling out 90,000+ seat venues regularly.
They also do the entire DSOTM album at this Pulse Concert, from start to finish, like it's supposed to be listened to. Some really incredible performances at this show, "Comfortably Numb", "Sorrow", "High Hopes", "Learning to Fly" are just a few.
To think that Pink Floyd are a band from the 60's and 70's era. They were and are way ahead of their time. They are extremely gifted and talented real musicians. David Gilmour is without doubt the greatest guitarist of all time. One of Britains best bands of all time along with Led Zepplin
I don'know if anyone already made this remark, but the guitar is called a 'Steel guitar'. Thank you for your moved reaction, Nick!
The song is about the emotional path we go through when confronting our own death. Shock, anger, denial, self pity and finally, acceptance of the enviable. The great gig in the sky? Heaven?
they had the best backing singers. and let them shine here.
Yes, so cool to see them flourishing
Ah Nick, I found you via your Taylor reactions which I’m loving and so I’m diversifying as you’re listening to other stuff I like. Pink Floyd have provided the soundtrack to my life. I won a creative writing competition when I was 7 writing about their song Echoes and then they were the first band I ever saw live when I was 16 and I cried the whole way through. Independent of her work with Pink Floyd I am also a big Sam Brown fan, her voice is incredible. Sadly a number of years ago she developed a polyp on her vocal cords and had to have surgery. She has been unable to sing since then. They’ve said there is no physiological reason why but she can’t hold a note. Music is her life and she was devastated. She’s still very much a musician though and finds very innovative ways to create music.
The difference with Pink Floyd is that they can induce a psychedelic trip just through sheer musical sophistication. Shine On You Crazy Diamond is capable of transporting me to another plane of existence, but mostly just as a result of the guitar, and the rest of the band harmonizing in a singularly Pink Floyd atmospheric kind of way. There is just a level of class in their composition and performance that is essentially unmatched, at least without comparing them to the other half a dozen of the greatest bands in history.
Pink Floyd is my favorite band ever! im so excited for this! I would LOVE to hear/ watch you react to the Wall movie! its my favorite, I have a tattoo with lyrics from that album. absolutely love it.
Pink Floyd is a Soundscape!!
""I'm not frightened of Dying
Any time will do, I don't mind
Why should i be frighten of Dying ?
There's no reason for it you got to go sometime .""
If you can hear this whispering your dying " Pink Floyd The Great Gig In The Sky ,
have a look again, there are 3 singers, they are the backing singers for the whole concert, but each one is super talented,
I was at that concert tour Pulse ! in 1994 at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal ! it was so great sound ! only in memories today but priceless ! 😎
So cool!
“Vocalise”. One of the great classic vocal skills.
It’s funny how many popular music listeners seem unfamiliar with it.
Either way - holy smokes, what a performance by all three of these magnificent vocalists, what a sublime piece of music, and what a majestic concert experience this was.
Pink Floyd = One of a kind.
The blond back up singer is Sam Brown who was a solo POP artist at this time. Sam had a #1 hit single on the UK charts. She was offered an opportunity to sing with Pink Floyd as a back up singer for this series on concerts which she jumped at, putting her own career on a brief pause. Such was the respect that Pink Floyd commanded from peers.
David Gilmour is playing an electric steel guitar (also known as a hawaiian guitar because it's used on so many "island" songs). It's big in American country music as well. He hits the slides perfectly throughout the song. On the Dark Side of the Moon album, he played it at the start of the song, but not throughout the song like he does here.
Enjoyed the reaction
Of course it was such a powerful track :)
If you liked this one, then you should also listen to 'Shine on you crazy diamond' and 'Any colour you like' (and all the other songs of Dark side of the moon, they're all great)
The album Dark Side of the Moon is 50 YEARS OLD !!!
I was at one of the Earl's Court gigs,£25 was a lot of money then!🏴
The songs all have long intros to put you in a meditative state, and get your full attention. It's completely intentional. The only time they don't do that, is when the intro was the prior song on the album, and it leads directly in, with no gap.
Watch any song from the pulse concert all Awesome songs!
This is pink floyd at the height of their being a touring band, this song is actually about death, the fear of it and the realization there should be no fear, the studio version of this song was done by Clare Tory, she did the entire song alone, I suggest you listen to that version
Was hoping for the album studio version as your first listen.
Sorry 😞
The Blonde is Sam Brown. Daughter of the famous musician Joe Brown MBE.
Ahhh thank you for that context
I like the way the band so obviously enjoyed playing this.
the band was digging it!
It was not a duet. There were THREE singers doing the vocals. Cheers.
Solid reaction, man! Subscribed for more Pink Floyd and rock. As far as Floyd goes, since you already know Money, I would start with Comfortably Numb, Time, Wish You Were Here, Sheep, Hey You, High Hopes, Sorrow, Keep Talking, and One Slip. Also, anything from the PULSE concert DVD in 1994 is likely the best thing you've ever heard. It's widely regarded as the best concert ever put to video. Outside of Pink Floyd, try Heart, Genesis, Evanescence, Jethro Tull, Alan Parsons Project, and the Moody Blues to get started.
Thank you Ian! What a great list of suggestions
@Nick Forell You're welcome, Nick! Looking forward to some or all of these.
There are no words....
This is THE song I listen to when I taking off in an airplane 🤘
Honestly, I get why now
All right Nick . the first girl to sing , well not sing , but you know what i mean . Sam Brown , who had a very goood solo career in the 80s had a few hits but wanted to work with Pink Floyd so gave it up to be a backing singer ! if you can call it that . the other 2 girls were Claudia Fontaine & Durga Mabroom . Clare Torry sung the first one from start to finnish . With this tour having 3 backing singers they split the song between them . When a band gives you 40 years + of joy , nuff said
Sam Brown, daughter of 50s rocker Joe Brown. Had her own Top 10 hits; both single and albums. Sung with Gary Moore, Nick Cave, Deep Purple, etc Also close friend and fellow ukelele player with George Harrison. Sung Horse to the Water at the Concert for George.
Oh wow cool they knew George Harrison!
FYI; This concert Tour was THE CROWN OF PF, Any songs You will pick from PULSE, would be a transcendental Experience, especially Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell, Sorrow, One of These Days, High Hopes...., etc Any Songs Brother be brave and You will be PF Fan 4 life 4sure :)
Sam is awesome but on balance the Delicate Sound of Thunder performance is the best one, as is Run Like Hell. Comfortably Numb is the classic from the Pulse concert.
The spoken words are the giveaway.- I am not frightened of dying…..
This is about death. The great gig in the sky.
Shock/ disbelief, anger, fear/bargaining, grief/ sorrow. Acceptance
9:22 9:22 9:22
This concert was their last. 14 days in a row sold out 1994
Wow this was the last one? Oh my
if anyone hasn't answered, it's a "Slide Guitar". Orginialy used in Blue's, Blue Grass and Country music. On a side note one of Canada's greatest imports to the USA was Jeff Healy. He was a blind Bkue's guitarist who played his regular guitar on his lap like a Slide Guitar. After making his money he opened a Blues Club in Toronto ON Ca. till far to early death.
Yes, that's the instrument I was looking for!
I try to tell people, educate to elevate, it's all in front of you.
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She was a session vocalist on the album , who did the gig on a day pay rate ( which I guess was about 100 bucks or so in those days
The band recently gave her a small percentage, which made her millions
There is a reasonably recent interview with her on her part in this song, on youtube
Allan Parsons was the engineer on this album
Cant believe it took so long to get her royalties!
@@nickforellreacts She wasn't entitled to any royalties
She was paid the day rate that session musicians and vocalists were entitled to at the time and was happy for the work
A hundred bucks for a day's work in those days was very good money
I was on 40 bucks a week in those days and that was OK money that paid my weekly bills with a little bit left over for mischief
Please listen to and watch the concert pulse 1994 it'll blow your mind
Noted Robert! need my mind blown
The original singer was claire Torrey, it took three singers to recreate the live version,
Only takes one singer here:
ua-cam.com/video/jd9-wiT1dJQ/v-deo.html
The song is about fear of death follow by acceptance of death, the voices are from people working at the studio at the time of recording 1972.
Yes! The voices were so incredible. Adds to the ambience
I'm in the audience. Followed Floyd since the 70s as a kid running around the playground at school to another brick in the wall etc. Oh and it's 3 singers not 2, the original was just 1 and she was told to use her voice like an instrument and was brought in for that song....
Le parole che dice Richard Wright all'inizio sono sintomatiche
Try Stevie Ray Vaughan, Texas flood 🔥
Check out “Comfortably Numb” from this concert
Pink Floyd is an experience…….
3 singers at this concert.....check out the original on the Dark Side of the Moon
Only takes one singer here:
ua-cam.com/video/jd9-wiT1dJQ/v-deo.html
Pink Floyd are a journey not just music so try the pulse concert 1994 ❤the song is about dying
Thanks Tony, I definitely will now
Pink Floyd "Echoes" (Part 1) live at Pompeii 1972
A little song about all life on the entire planet and how it started in the depths of the oceans and how we are all related and should be better human beings!
Thank you Phil for the suggestions!
This versión is good...mmm ok, but the GREATEST VERSION EVER! is the versión with Rachel Fury on the lead vocals in 1988, a Momentary Lapse of Reason Tour.... AWESOME AND PERFECTION!
Okay thank you for that suggestion!
I fully agree. For any reason the version from Versailles 1988 is the best version for me as well.
The best way to experience Dark side of the moon is play it beginning to end you trip out no drugs needed. Loved it since release. Still play it. Never pick tracks.
Yes Lynette, it was a request from someone who really wanted me to look at this song in particular. I think i should do a full album review though
@Nick Forell I realise that and to see them in concert(the best ever)is also always a pleasure. The advice to play beginning to end is for your own peaceful enjoyment.
This song is anthology of the human existence - Birth to Death.
Think Angel wailing....
Listen to original track from Dark Side of the Moon and you will hear why it takes 3 singers to perform live what Clare Torry did in 2 or 3 takes ... yes these are great live performances but they dont touch the utter brilliance of the album version.
Great suggestion, so you recommend the album versions going forward?
I would love to see a contemporary singer like Lady Gaga or Adele take a shot at this. They might be as good as the ladies in this video.
Yeah... i was there. Well not this show. I first saw them in 1973 in
Tampa Fl . I was 13... Saw Zeppelin , Deep Purple , Chicago, ZZ Top, and others that summer. It was a great summer. Saw them 3 more times in Atlanta. Last the wall in 79 back when we "camped out" for tickets.
You should dig deeper into the PF catalog... Echoes David Gilmour Live in Gdansk. Comfortably Numb and Sorrow from Pulse. I could go on and on and on some more...
I absolutely will David!
Other bands that broke ground in this era. Rush 2112, Genesis Suppers ready, Yes round about, Jethro Tully Aqualung, Queen Live Aid show. Check these and understand your parents listening and going to concerts with performances like this. Compared to modern music our time was unique.
This is Sam Brown. The original singer, Clare Torry, (not a member of the band), was brought in to the recording studio to do those vocals.
Ah thank you for that info Nick
Oh... just for context. I've always seen this as the 3 phases of death. Anger, fear ,and acceptance.
Not a duet, three singers. Nick missed the transition from Durga McBroom to Claudia Fontaine.
Pink Floyd typically used three backup singers. For this concert it was Sam Brown, Durga McBroom and Claudia Fontaine (in that order in this song). The original album track was sung by Clare Torrey. Many prefer her version but I like this one better. It's Durga's part gives me the chills.
Dave Gilmour is playing a pedal steel guitar, a variant of slide guitar (you can google it)
Are you kidding me Sam Brown slays it
It’s the stages of death
....and no autotune
Right thats the key
No rappresenta la morte nelle tre fasi di dolore rabbia e accettazione
So far, no cover has ever matched the interpretation created by Clare Torry.
When Pink Floyd perform the Great Gig live, they always use three vocalists, as no one singer is able to do all three solo live. OR CAN THEY? Amy Smith of The Australian Pink Floyd Show, singing Great Gig. Solo. Live. She ALMOST reached the level of Clare Torrey (which is almost impossible), but this is BY FAR the best vocalization of Great Gig by anyone anywhere apart from the original studio version by Clare. ua-cam.com/video/ltt_YScyCVg/v-deo.html
It’s so incredible to have this kind of effect
Where do musicians go after they die? To the Great Gig in the Sky.
Define height.
This one of those rare cases where the studio recording is better than the live performance.
Ah gotcha, okay I need to listen to the studio then!
Oh well I was going to say what the last comment said, but I guess I don't need to...
Thanks for the reaction, but this version is no comparison to that on the studio album with Clare Torry. ua-cam.com/video/T13se_2A7c8/v-deo.html
Check out Brit Floyd on UA-cam with Eva Avila. She does all 3 parts on her own and is ever bit as good
Lap Steel Guitar
Ah thank you!
It’s a slide guitar.
The incomparable Sam Brown (the blonde)...welcome to the world you now inhabit...post listening to Pink Floyd for the first time.
thank you G M, it truly rocked my world
@@nickforellreacts I stood 10m from the amazing Margaret Taylor and Rachel Fury as they sang that at the 1988 Delicate Sounds of Thunder tour finale in Perth WesternAustralia...it was a night of magic and soul that had the entire crowd spellbound. Truly the greatest concert I've ever seen...and I've seen ALL the greats.
You just heard three of the finest vocalists in the world not two
Pedal steel guitar.
Ah there ya go!
The three women singing were Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine and Durga McBroom in that order. Druga is Kate Hudson's aunt. She was married to Mark Hudson until his death.
Lyrics? Where we're going, we don't need lyrics.
Who needs those?
Er, three singers...
never do live first