It's a talk box. The guitar tunes are sent through the tube into his mouth and he uses his mouth to control and distort the tunes. Made famous by Peter Frampton in the song "Do You Feel Like We Do".
Frampton didn't use the talk box on the original recording of "Do You Feel..." from his 1973 album "Frampton's Camel". He used it later for live performances. He used it for the 1975 "Midnight Special" TV performance of that song, which can be found here on YT. And for the 1976 live double album "Frampton Comes Alive" which is the better known version. "Show Me the Way" from that same live album also featured the talk box.
I don't remember whether Stacey has reacted to any of Animals. The talk box is what David used in his mid song pig solo in Pigs Three Different Ones. On a personal side note, I actually think this is his best solo of the night on this Pulse recording. Even if he hadn't used the talk box this would be my favorite solo of this show.
The slightly robotic voice at the start (and midway through the song) is Stephen Hawking - a theoretical physicist that suffered from Motor Neurone disease (I think that's better known as ALS in the states)and needed a computer to talk for him after he lost the use of his vocal cords. And Sam Brown (one of the backing singers) had a number of albums on her own, and also had a hit with Stop (which is worth reacting to as well)
I didn't knew it was him....I saw a several documentaries about that guy....That voice when he says: "we learned to talk", just before the drums came in is MAGIC....❤Peace from France ✌️
With the talk box, his vocal cords aren’t actually engaged. He’s just using the shape of his mouth to control the “shape” of the notes he’s playing on guitar.
The backing girls were brilliant and yet so understated in the pulse concert . We'll done ladies Be proud , you were a big contributor to one of the greatest concerts in rock history ..
This guitar tone is “tone from Heaven”. When the light turns blue, the tears come for me. One of the best performance of the talk box and impossible to reach for a cover. What an absolute masterpiece…
Had the opportunity while in the Navy and stationed in Italy to see Pink Floyd (Delicate Sound of Thunder tour) in 1989 at Cava Dei Tirreni Italy, 2nd row center. Once in a lifetime for sure.
I saw Nick Mason and Guy Pratt last week in Munich. They played as 'Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets' on Tollwood Summer Festival in Munich's Olympiapark. Nick of cause played the drums and Guy the Bass and was one of the two lead vocalists. The played all the early Pink Floyd songs from 1965 to 1972. The pinnacle of their performance was their version of 'Echoes'
That'll have been while his missus was running one of his Ferrari's up the hill at Goodwood. She was his stand in. Might have clipped a hay bale and broke a steering arm but at least she was pushing on 👌🏻😉
@@patrickwilder6492I think he’s saying that pulse was the Division Bell tour which it was and Waters was long gone by then. David was leading the band.
@@patrickwilder6492 This song, "Keep Talking" is form the 1994 album The Division Bell which in the poster's opinion is the best PF (Pink Floyd) album from the David Gilmour era.
Hi Stacey, as @russbaxter1806 mentioned below, Stop by Sam Brown, the blonde backing singer, is a great tune to check out what she can do....Classic 80's
That's called a Talk Box, it was invented in the 1969 I believe, a few players used them in the 1970s, Dave Gilmour, Joe Walsh, and Peter Frampton most notably.
You're wrong, I don't know when it was invented, I think it was the late 40's but it was being used with the lap steel in country music by Chet Atkins in the early 50"s.
I’ve been to pulse, and the memory of that incredible concert is ingrained into my memory and soul. I’ve never been to a concert like pulse before nor since that affected me on such a deep spiritual level then PF Pulse concert. I’ve been to many concerts and I have watched some of the biggest and best bands, singers etc in the last 45 years. And the Pulse concert was the first concert that I attended that everyone, and I mean everyone went silent when a song started and for the duration of the song. And it wasn’t as if the people were just listening, I believe everyone felt what I had felt and experienced that evening in Sydney so many years ago. I looked around at everyone next to me, in front of me and behind me, there was grown men crying, everyone in some state of trance. But what we witnessed and experienced was history being created, and we were there. Jaws dropped to the floor at every Gilmour solo, we were soothed by his voice, lifted to the sky by the incredible backing vocalists, and stunned into silence by the perfection of their performance as a band. Yes, it was that good.
Sam Brown( the blonde lady) had a very successful solo career before joining Pink Floyd,you should check out her biggest hit ‘Stop’, simply because it’s gorgeous
Thanks my Stacey for this réaction, you are so genius ❤Keep talking is magnificent,i love the 3 choristers and Dave my master !!! beautiful as Always ❤❤❤
The robotic voice at the start (and midway through the song) is Stephen Hawking - a theoretical physicist that suffered from Motor Neurone disease but was also a huge Pink Floyd fan.
My preferred band since I first heard them in the early 80'. Pink Floyd is one of those very rare bands whose every song makes us experience such emotions...every song, even without lyrics, is an experience in itself, a story, a message, even a poem... Pink Floyd leaves no one indifferent. Add to that a creativity and a sense of high quality visuals and you have the recipe for a grandiose and unforgettable show!
It's always extremely refreshing to me when other generations (I'm a boomer) discover, enjoy, and respect the music of the past. Pink Floyd has created some phenomenal music over the years, and your appreciation and love of Pink Floyd music speaks volumes Stacy! Check out David Gilmour's solo, self-titled album from 1978 . . . Every song is extraordinary, particularly "No Way," and "There's No Way Out of Here."
The 3 female backup singers are Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine, Durga McBroom for this Concert and a few other Floyd concerts! And Sam Brown is the Blonde in the middle just so no one is confused by the name. lol
Glad you finally got around to this one! He uses the talkbox on Pigs (three different ones) from the Animals album. Which happens to be my favourite track and the most pink floydy of pink floyd tracks
The „back and forth“ between David and the background singers is actually a musical style element called „call and response“, found everywhere (from classical music up to Jazz).
That, is the most gorgeous expressive talkbox solo I've ever heard and I've believed that since I first heard it on the album in 1994. Peter Frampton, Joe Walsh, Richie Sambora.... eat your f**king hearts out. Gorgeous, I tell you. Bloody gorgeous.
Your kitty is the spitting image of our little furball. The other one is 3 times her size, an half breed black and white norweagian woods, all fluffy. Great song and great reaction.
Floyd does a great job with lyrics structured as a conversation. This is a good example where you have a back-and-forth with David and the backing singers. Wearing the Inside Out takes it another step with lyrics from 3 points of view instead of 2.
Stevie Wonder used it before Walsh, Frampton and Gilmour. Fun fact, my Mom played pedal steel guitar and used a talkbox to do jingles for radio station call letters for IDs in the early sixties ala Alvino Rey
I was at this absolutely amazing concert, I have been to many other concerts and festivals but nothing will ever come close to the feeling of euphoria ❤
When we went to the 94 show in the San Antonio Alamodome, the applause and cheering even continued after the concert was over. As we left the building, the whole crowd continued to go crazy as we left the building and long into the parking lot. It was the second show for me, but Pink Floyd concerts will ruin you in regards to other concerts. They just don't compare. One thing I haven't heard mentioned is the sound quality during the show. Besides the big amps up front and the super deep bass from the huge subwoofers, there are also amps behind you in each corner to give you a true surround sound (quadraphonic) that has zero distortion. Just perfect!
The sound from the guitar is sent through the tube, you then use your mouth to manipulate the sound which is picked up by his voice microphone - It's called a talk box because you can form words but using the guitar as your vocal cords.
You summary is perfectly right. The ultimate lyrics (said by Stephen Hawking) are „It doesn‘t have to be like this! All we need to do u make sure they keep talking!“ (Although it‘s difficult to hear as Gilmour talks over it with his talkbox guitar solo…)
Hi, I'm from Brazil, and I am 53. I really enjoy watching your reaction. It makes me remember that moment when I listened to PF for the very first time.
I can attest to the fact that the respect a Floyd audience gives their band is real, having been to the Pulse concert in Chicago in 94, as well as the one previous to that in 88. No one standing up or standing on chairs. Near total silence as they perform their legendary music. It's a beautiful thing.
The tube takes David's voice and feeds it into the voicebox; the guitar is fed directly through the voice box, wherein the two frequencies are divided/multiplied, producing the unusual sound distortion. Well done again, lovely Stacey. When the use of the voice box started, your face was a picture to behold. Don't worry, kid. It happens to everyone on their first listen. A very curious sound! Pity it is not used much.
Not correct. The talk box sends the guitar sound up the tube, and the mouth shapes the tone which is picked up by the microphone. It has nothing to do with the players voice or vocal cords, and before you say anything, I have one.
Watching the genuine emotions play across your face when you're listening to Pink Floyd is just heartwarming and reminiscent of my younger days being blown away by the Floyd. I know everybody says this but you're obviously so authentic in your love for PF it's abundantly clear you're not faking for the camera. The voice you're talking about is professor Stephen Hawking who passed away from ALS not long ago. He communicated using a computer and that's the synthesized voice he used. Now, I'm going to reiterate the previous request that you give a listen to Jeff Lynne's ELO Live at Wembley stadium. Once you've gone through the Pulse concert, it just might be your next musical crush. The cat interruptions are not unwelcome either.🐾❤
The talkbox is rarely used. The only real famous use in pop was Richie Sambora, the guitarist of Bon jovi, using it in „Living on a prayer“ (Everybody knows the riff: „ooh-ah ooh-ah ooh-ah“) As has been explained, the distorted sound of the guitar is fed via a type into David‘s mouth and by shaping his mouth, he can adjust the sound, which is the picked up bia the microphone. Essentially he let‘s his guitar talk through him.
I remember the first time I saw and heard the talk box I was amazed. It was Peter Frampton that I first heard that. You don't have a cat if there are no kitty interruptions!
As an offshoot, you need to watch the British Telecom (the phone company in the UK) advert that Hawking's speech is sampled from, it's from 1993 and there's more of the speech to listen to. It's so majestic and really moving, and also so true - all we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
That effect is a talk box. It doesn't distort his voice, it redirects the guitar signal to blow air into his mouth and only works when the guitar is played. Same effect making the wah wah sound heard in Living On A Prayer by Bon Jovi.
Uk Floyd fans have always been like that Stacey, sit chill and watch and listen. I've seen them many times between 1975 & 1994 and the fans always the same and have so much respect for Floyd there is no shouting, screaming, whistling, wooping clapping whilst they are playing.
Love that you love the backing vocalist. They also have cool input on the song "Wearing The Inside Out " Also speaking of backing vocalist for Pink Floyd can't go without mentioning Rachel Fury from Pink Floyd's 1987 Delicate Sound Of Thunder tour. She was amazingly talented and great during the tour 💗
Another one I was waiting to see. This is brilliant, a true master piece. Here's a band I think you will like, they are "Marilian" the album "misplaced childhood" the lead singer "fish" wrote it while on LSD. They are like a Scottish pink Floyd. I think if you like pink Floyd I think you'll like them. Give em a try, maybe " intro, kayeigh, lavender" three bit one song for your first try.
The "Talk Box" is used with the guitar to amplify changes in the mouth chamber. His tongue can play a major role as he moves it back, the chamber is larger and produces a much more full sound. The opposite occurs when the tongue is moved forward, the mouth chamber is decreased, and produces a much more shallow sound. It can be done even without using the tongue at all. P.S. I loved your reaction to it, and I love the sweet little kitty! :)
Finally! I have been waiting for this for a long time! One of my favourite Pulse songs! The voice sample is actually really from Stephen Hawking, he approved the use in the song. And interestingly enough Stephen Hawking outlived Claudia Fontaine (the outer left background vocalist) by only one day. She died on 13 March, Hawking on 14 March 2018. RIP!
The voice of Stephen Hawking comes from a tv ad for a telephone company. The ad was called Keep Talking and this song was written around it by Polly Samson, David Gilmour’s wife.
My first talk box was a fan. They are so fun to play with. You should check out the "Peter Frampton Do You Feel Like We Do Midnight Special 1975" The talk box directs sound from the instrument into the musician's mouth through a plastic tube adjacent to a vocal microphone. The musician controls the modification of the instrument's sound by changing the shape of the mouth and "vocalizing" the instrument's output into a microphone. As I have said before, "watching Pink Floyd is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.”
I really enjoy your videos, you are one of the few who i really feel a connection with. You always say you want to learn to be a better human being. This is what life is about, it is about self discovery. This is of greater value than any money on the earth.
I have recently discovered your reaction videos. Pink Floyd is my favorite band. And I was fortunate to see the tour in ‘94. I have loved watching you broaden your Floyd horizons in these videos. The are many songs I could recommend. But first I would recommend you react to one of David Gilmour’s solo album songs, “There’s no way out of here”…I have so many more to recommend. But this would be a great start. Keep doing what you are doing 😊
Its called a talk box, Peter Frampton used one on Frampton comes Alive on a song called feel like we do. Its a tube that goes to a small horn and is connected to his amp and he the sound from his mouth matches his guitar.😊
I've said it before... David Gilmour is the Undeniable God of the guitar. He can get more from one note than most guitarists could get with an entire fret board. Any string instrument that Gilmour plays immediately connects with your emotions. Add the talk box and he connects with your soul and magnifies the emotion in the music. Pink Floyd tries to put all of the artists in the spot light. In this song Gilmour puts his guitar center stage and gives it its moment.
This is one of my favorite performances from the Pulse concert! I love everything about it. Also, never apologize for kitty interruptions. :) I am a 'Cat Mom' of two; my tabby, Dibs is an Internet celebrity, so I love seeing people's cats show up on UA-cam reaction channels.
Hola. He conocido muy recientemente tu canal y me encanta. Me he suscrito, naturalmente. Soy un gran admirador de Pink Floyd desde que era joven en los años ochenta . Tengo toda su obra, son los principales en la banda sonora de mi vida y los he visto en directo siempre que han tocado en España, mi país. Pero lo que más me gusta de tus vídeos es ver como sientes y vives la música. Te llega hasta lo más hondo del alma y eso me encanta. Es evidente que eres una persona muy sensible. Un saludo. Por cierto, muy bien con la tarta.
The late PF albums are super underrated. They are full of beauty from start to finish. The talk box is something that many artists used (maybe in hard rock/heavy metal more every now and then, I heard it from scorpions and bon Jovi for example), but it's more uncommon for pink Floyd or progressive rock in general. And he used it in an uncommon way during this live. The Stephen Hawking parts was something very unique, I really liked the addition.
You got all the relevant bits about how the Talk Box works and Stephen Hawking from other comments already. But what makes all of that so powerful is the how it all ties together. Hawking, one of the greatest minds of all time, could no longer talk without the use of a text-to-speech computer. If you listen to what he is saying, he is describing the importance of talking as a critical evolutionary step for humans. Ironically, the song is about someone (the protagonist, sung by David) who cannot fully use this uniquely human capability to express what he is thinking/feeling, which leads to the pleas by his partner "you never talk to me! What are you feeling? Why don't you don't talk me?" etc., in between David's vocals, which obviously cannot be heard by the woman asking the questions. The protagonist is answering, but probably, only in his head: "I feel like I'm drowning..." etc... My interpretation of the final guitar solo with the Talk Box is that THIS is how is able to express his feelings! But maybe I'm reading too much into the song. I also read somewhere once that the symbols in the lighting on stage have meaning. But I'm not sure.
I'm really glad you saw "Keep talking"👍🏼 thank you. Somehow I hope that you can watch the pulse concert on VR GLASSES with good headphones and that you can relive this concert like this 👍🏼
I love David Gilmour playing the guitarre and having so much feeling in his voice! My impression is: you feel this all as well. Like it a lot the way you react! Hope you love this music and artists as much as I do and wish you a lot of fun and joy.
Stacey Man with robotic voice at the beginning of the song was legendary Theoretical Physicist, Stephen Hawking who used voice to talk thru speech-generating device. Hawking was diagnosed with ALS or sadly called Lou Gehrig's Disease when Gehrig was playing for New York Yankees. ALS as officially known forced Gehrig to retire from baseball. Back to Pink Floyd As other comments stated here, Gilmour is using a device called "Talk Box". He, Peter Frampton, and Joe Walsh use device on their songs.
The strange device is a "voice box" famously used by Peter Frampton, the guitar is amplified, played through a loud speaker with the sound being carried up a hose beside the microphone.
The tallest woman closest to Dave on stage is Durga McBroom. She was in a band called Blue Pearl with Youth from Killing Joke. They made a bunch of videos that you would probably dig. The Floyd guys helped out with Blue Pearl and David even pops out of a flower in one of their videos. Can't wait to see you react to them.
If you want to know why Pulse is standing out, this is a good song to observe. It is in the drums. Nick Mason is here in the shape of his life. He never ‘leans forward’ in the rhythm rather backward, as if he is delaying it a bit. Check this in his fill at 6:01. This is usually a moment a drummer starts to rush it up a bit and then pulling the music a bit out of balance. Mason relaxes and keeps it simple, as he does during the whole concert and thus providing a ground layer for his band members. He secures the whole concert this way. Supported of course by the bass playing of Guy Pratt. It’s even a science called psycho-acoustics, explaining all this.
I think that it's called a talk box ,it's the sound of the guitar being played in David's mouth for him to manipulate, so when they say that David talks through his guitar, his guitar also talks through him !
Between the Delicate Sound of Thunder and Pulse tours, backing Singer Durga Mcbroom worked on a solo(ish) project. 1990 I cannot recommend enough that you check out BLUE PEARL NAKED. Truly shows off just how ludicrously talented she is. ALSO "I'm only needed for Butt Pats" should be on a tee shirt 😂 Great upload as always 👏👏👏
It's a talk box. The guitar tunes are sent through the tube into his mouth and he uses his mouth to control and distort the tunes. Made famous by Peter Frampton in the song "Do You Feel Like We Do".
On the album Frampton Comes Alive!! Another Classic Rock anthem.
Frampton didn't use the talk box on the original recording of "Do You Feel..." from his 1973 album "Frampton's Camel". He used it later for live performances. He used it for the 1975 "Midnight Special" TV performance of that song, which can be found here on YT. And for the 1976 live double album "Frampton Comes Alive" which is the better known version. "Show Me the Way" from that same live album also featured the talk box.
I don't remember whether Stacey has reacted to any of Animals. The talk box is what David used in his mid song pig solo in Pigs Three Different Ones. On a personal side note, I actually think this is his best solo of the night on this Pulse recording. Even if he hadn't used the talk box this would be my favorite solo of this show.
Joe Wash was using it way before Peter, the talk box been around from 1939 Alvino Rey
@@bl6252 I said Peter Frampton made it famous, not that he was the first to use it.
He’s the only human on earth where you really can’t tell where he ends and his guitar begins. They’re like one seamless entity.
David Guitar Gilmour!
The slightly robotic voice at the start (and midway through the song) is Stephen Hawking - a theoretical physicist that suffered from Motor Neurone disease (I think that's better known as ALS in the states)and needed a computer to talk for him after he lost the use of his vocal cords.
And Sam Brown (one of the backing singers) had a number of albums on her own, and also had a hit with Stop (which is worth reacting to as well)
She's the Daughter of early pop singer Joe Brown !!
I didn't knew it was him....I saw a several documentaries about that guy....That voice when he says: "we learned to talk", just before the drums came in is MAGIC....❤Peace from France ✌️
Also look up the song “Talking Hawking” by Pink Floyd. They used his voice for all of the lyrics in that song.
Sadly, Stephen Hawking and the backing singer on our left, Claudia Fontaine, died only a day or so apart if I remember rightly.
Hawkins also was on the big bang theory too.
Nobody reviewer ever gives the brilliant backing singers the credit they undoubtedly deserve
They're funking brilliant . Part of one of one of the greatest live concerts in modern rock
. Awesome backing singers
Xxx
the blond is Sam Brown...yes the daughter of......
With the talk box, his vocal cords aren’t actually engaged. He’s just using the shape of his mouth to control the “shape” of the notes he’s playing on guitar.
He does use his voice as well a few times to augment the sound, especially on those big dive whammy bar notes.
The backing girls were brilliant and yet so understated in the pulse concert . We'll done ladies
Be proud , you were a big contributor to one of the greatest concerts in rock history ..
This guitar tone is “tone from Heaven”. When the light turns blue, the tears come for me. One of the best performance of the talk box and impossible to reach for a cover. What an absolute masterpiece…
Had the opportunity while in the Navy and stationed in Italy to see Pink Floyd (Delicate Sound of Thunder tour) in 1989 at Cava Dei Tirreni Italy, 2nd row center. Once in a lifetime for sure.
Another great reaction/analysis! Thank you Stacy! I saw Pink Floyd in Indianapolis in 1994. Unfortunately,their last tour.
I saw Nick Mason and Guy Pratt last week in Munich. They played as 'Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets' on Tollwood Summer Festival in Munich's Olympiapark. Nick of cause played the drums and Guy the Bass and was one of the two lead vocalists. The played all the early Pink Floyd songs from 1965 to 1972. The pinnacle of their performance was their version of 'Echoes'
That'll have been while his missus was running one of his Ferrari's up the hill at Goodwood. She was his stand in. Might have clipped a hay bale and broke a steering arm but at least she was pushing on 👌🏻😉
I saw them in Milan, july 18th, one of the best concerts of my life!
Really love watching you love Pink Floyd. Don't ever stop.
You can’t go wrong with Pink Floyd, every song that you react to is great. I think your interpretation is spot on ❤️🏴🇬🇧
Saw Pulse Tour in 94 at DC RFK Staduim. I've seen ALOT of concerts before and after that show. Still to thus day...best show I've ever seen! ☘️🇺🇸
The more we understand each other the better the chance for peace. Keep Talking!
Stacey and PinkFloyd two of the best things in life ❤❤❤
Indeed!
The best thing about Pink Floyd is that their songs always have some message with their musicianship.
Division Bell from 1994, the best PF album from the David Gilmour Era.
Huhhhhh ???
I totally agree with you. All the songs are awesome.
@@patrickwilder6492I think he’s saying that pulse was the Division Bell tour which it was and Waters was long gone by then. David was leading the band.
@@carlosmarte07 It is much better than A Momentary Lapse of Reason from 1987.
@@patrickwilder6492 This song, "Keep Talking" is form the 1994 album The Division Bell which in the poster's opinion is the best PF (Pink Floyd) album from the David Gilmour era.
I liked hearing Stephen Hawking's voice during this song. David's good with that talk box also.
Hi Stacey, as @russbaxter1806 mentioned below, Stop by Sam Brown, the blonde backing singer, is a great tune to check out what she can do....Classic 80's
It’s a signature of Pink Floyd to include a sound that’s relevant to the lyrics - like a guitar talk-box solo in a song about talking :)
Thanks Stacey! I always thought this was such a unique song. The background singers are quite amazing throughout. As you have found out. 😊
That's called a Talk Box, it was invented in the 1969 I believe, a few players used them in the 1970s, Dave Gilmour, Joe Walsh, and Peter Frampton most notably.
You're wrong, I don't know when it was invented, I think it was the late 40's but it was being used with the lap steel in country music by Chet Atkins in the early 50"s.
Jeff Beck used it as well.
The Pulse Concert does not disappoint and neither does your reaction! You bring it everytime!!!
GREAT job Stacey!! It's been so fun watching you mature, and develop your craft, and become so relaxed at it! ❤❤
I love to hear comments from young people like you that love Floyd!! Definitely one of my favs of all time!!
I’ve been to pulse, and the memory of that incredible concert is ingrained into my memory and soul. I’ve never been to a concert like pulse before nor since that affected me on such a deep spiritual level then PF Pulse concert.
I’ve been to many concerts and I have watched some of the biggest and best bands, singers etc in the last 45 years. And the Pulse concert was the first concert that I attended that everyone, and I mean everyone went silent when a song started and for the duration of the song. And it wasn’t as if the people were just listening, I believe everyone felt what I had felt and experienced that evening in Sydney so many years ago. I looked around at everyone next to me, in front of me and behind me, there was grown men crying, everyone in some state of trance. But what we witnessed and experienced was history being created, and we were there. Jaws dropped to the floor at every Gilmour solo, we were soothed by his voice, lifted to the sky by the incredible backing vocalists, and stunned into silence by the perfection of their performance as a band.
Yes, it was that good.
Sam Brown( the blonde lady) had a very successful solo career before joining Pink Floyd,you should check out her biggest hit ‘Stop’, simply because it’s gorgeous
Thanks my Stacey for this réaction, you are so genius ❤Keep talking is magnificent,i love the 3 choristers and Dave my master !!! beautiful as Always ❤❤❤
You should definitely give Echoes Live Gdańsk a listen! Soooo good!
I’ve been waiting on this one from ya. Great reaction. He lets his guitar do his talking.
Out of all of Pink Floyds songs this one stands out for me - just an incredible trip into musical bliss.
The robotic voice at the start (and midway through the song) is Stephen Hawking - a theoretical physicist that suffered from Motor Neurone disease but was also a huge Pink Floyd fan.
I was at a pulse concert in '94.... I didn't even realize that it was raining the show was so good.
My preferred band since I first heard them in the early 80'. Pink Floyd is one of those very rare bands whose every song makes us experience such emotions...every song, even without lyrics, is an experience in itself, a story, a message, even a poem... Pink Floyd leaves no one indifferent. Add to that a creativity and a sense of high quality visuals and you have the recipe for a grandiose and unforgettable show!
It's always extremely refreshing to me when other generations (I'm a boomer) discover, enjoy, and respect the music of the past. Pink Floyd has created some phenomenal music over the years, and your appreciation and love of Pink Floyd music speaks volumes Stacy! Check out David Gilmour's solo, self-titled album from 1978 . . . Every song is extraordinary, particularly "No Way," and "There's No Way Out of Here."
Love the talk box. He plays the solo on the guitar as normal but the signal is sent through the tube and he can shape the notes with his mouth.
The 3 female backup singers are Sam Brown, Claudia Fontaine, Durga McBroom for this Concert and a few other Floyd concerts! And Sam Brown is the Blonde in the middle just so no one is confused by the name. lol
Glad you finally got around to this one! He uses the talkbox on Pigs (three different ones) from the Animals album. Which happens to be my favourite track and the most pink floydy of pink floyd tracks
The backing ladies do get their own song to shine and star.....The Great Gig In The Sky is their big number......and a fan favourite.
The „back and forth“ between David and the background singers is actually a musical style element called „call and response“, found everywhere (from classical music up to Jazz).
it s a talk box...he played with in "pigs three different ones " on animal album
That, is the most gorgeous expressive talkbox solo I've ever heard and I've believed that since I first heard it on the album in 1994.
Peter Frampton, Joe Walsh, Richie Sambora.... eat your f**king hearts out. Gorgeous, I tell you. Bloody gorgeous.
Your kitty is the spitting image of our little furball.
The other one is 3 times her size, an half breed black and white norweagian woods, all fluffy.
Great song and great reaction.
Floyd does a great job with lyrics structured as a conversation. This is a good example where you have a back-and-forth with David and the backing singers. Wearing the Inside Out takes it another step with lyrics from 3 points of view instead of 2.
Pink Floyd and the lovely Stacey. Here for it! 🎉
Stevie Wonder used it before Walsh, Frampton and Gilmour.
Fun fact, my Mom played pedal steel guitar and used a talkbox to do jingles for radio station call letters for IDs in the early sixties ala Alvino Rey
Perhaps your feline friend would like to hear "Lucifer Sam." It's a whimsical short tune from Floyd's first album that Syd wrote about his house cat.
I was at this absolutely amazing concert, I have been to many other concerts and festivals but nothing will ever come close to the feeling of euphoria ❤
Been waiting a long time for you to react to this because I knew how you'd react to the talk box. They are the masters of sound 👌
Pink Floyd is always impressive as are you Stacey, how you articulate your reactions to the band.
lol! 😂 I love pink Floyd but you always make me laugh because you love everything they do!
I remember at the time of release, this song was used on a British Telecom tv advert.
When we went to the 94 show in the San Antonio Alamodome, the applause and cheering even continued after the concert was over. As we left the building, the whole crowd continued to go crazy as we left the building and long into the parking lot. It was the second show for me, but Pink Floyd concerts will ruin you in regards to other concerts. They just don't compare.
One thing I haven't heard mentioned is the sound quality during the show. Besides the big amps up front and the super deep bass from the huge subwoofers, there are also amps behind you in each corner to give you a true surround sound (quadraphonic) that has zero distortion. Just perfect!
Saw this tour in Los Angeles at the Rose Bowl. You are spot on with monster amps and speakers located everywhere. what a concert!
It's a "talk box". It sends the guitar sound through that tube into his mouth......pretty cool, huh?
The sound from the guitar is sent through the tube, you then use your mouth to manipulate the sound which is picked up by his voice microphone - It's called a talk box because you can form words but using the guitar as your vocal cords.
You summary is perfectly right. The ultimate lyrics (said by Stephen Hawking) are „It doesn‘t have to be like this! All we need to do u make sure they keep talking!“ (Although it‘s difficult to hear as Gilmour talks over it with his talkbox guitar solo…)
Hi, I'm from Brazil, and I am 53. I really enjoy watching your reaction. It makes me remember that moment when I listened to PF for the very first time.
I can attest to the fact that the respect a Floyd audience gives their band is real, having been to the Pulse concert in Chicago in 94, as well as the one previous to that in 88. No one standing up or standing on chairs. Near total silence as they perform their legendary music. It's a beautiful thing.
The tube takes David's voice and feeds it into the voicebox; the guitar is fed directly through the voice box, wherein the two frequencies are divided/multiplied, producing the unusual sound distortion. Well done again, lovely Stacey. When the use of the voice box started, your face was a picture to behold. Don't worry, kid. It happens to everyone on their first listen. A very curious sound! Pity it is not used much.
Not correct. The talk box sends the guitar sound up the tube, and the mouth shapes the tone which is picked up by the microphone. It has nothing to do with the players voice or vocal cords, and before you say anything, I have one.
@@diverdown631 OK. Hands up! I was just quoting what I'd been told when asking how it worked. Misinformed!?
@@diverdown631 Oh! OK! I was just quoting what I'd been told when asking how it worked. Obviously I was misinformed. Peace and harmony.
You never know what to expect from Pink Floyd but one thing we always get is a quality performance and great music from this amazing band
Watching the genuine emotions play across your face when you're listening to Pink Floyd is just heartwarming and reminiscent of my younger days being blown away by the Floyd. I know everybody says this but you're obviously so authentic in your love for PF it's abundantly clear you're not faking for the camera. The voice you're talking about is professor Stephen Hawking who passed away from ALS not long ago. He communicated using a computer and that's the synthesized voice he used.
Now, I'm going to reiterate the previous request that you give a listen to Jeff Lynne's ELO Live at Wembley stadium. Once you've gone through the Pulse concert, it just might be your next musical crush.
The cat interruptions are not unwelcome either.🐾❤
The talkbox is rarely used. The only real famous use in pop was Richie Sambora, the guitarist of Bon jovi, using it in „Living on a prayer“ (Everybody knows the riff: „ooh-ah ooh-ah ooh-ah“) As has been explained, the distorted sound of the guitar is fed via a type into David‘s mouth and by shaping his mouth, he can adjust the sound, which is the picked up bia the microphone. Essentially he let‘s his guitar talk through him.
From A to Z, Pulse video is THE concert to own. Awesome live show.
I'm especially happy when you critique my favorite band, Pink Floyd is awesome, thanks for allowing me to come on this journey with you
I remember the first time I saw and heard the talk box I was amazed. It was Peter Frampton that I first heard that. You don't have a cat if there are no kitty interruptions!
You'll be blown away when you hear David using the same vocal device on the track "Pigs" on the Animals album Stacey.
As an offshoot, you need to watch the British Telecom (the phone company in the UK) advert that Hawking's speech is sampled from, it's from 1993 and there's more of the speech to listen to. It's so majestic and really moving, and also so true - all we need to do is make sure we keep talking.
That effect is a talk box. It doesn't distort his voice, it redirects the guitar signal to blow air into his mouth and only works when the guitar is played. Same effect making the wah wah sound heard in Living On A Prayer by Bon Jovi.
Uk Floyd fans have always been like that Stacey, sit chill and watch and listen. I've seen them many times between 1975 & 1994 and the fans always the same and have so much respect for Floyd there is no shouting, screaming, whistling, wooping clapping whilst they are playing.
It's transcending and mesmerizing, spell binding. My very first album was D S of the Moon 1970.
Love that you love the backing vocalist. They also have cool input on the song "Wearing The Inside Out " Also speaking of backing vocalist for Pink Floyd can't go without mentioning Rachel Fury from Pink Floyd's 1987 Delicate Sound Of Thunder tour. She was amazingly talented and great during the tour 💗
Another one I was waiting to see. This is brilliant, a true master piece. Here's a band I think you will like, they are "Marilian" the album "misplaced childhood" the lead singer "fish" wrote it while on LSD. They are like a Scottish pink Floyd. I think if you like pink Floyd I think you'll like them. Give em a try, maybe " intro, kayeigh, lavender" three bit one song for your first try.
Marillion
The "Talk Box" is used with the guitar to amplify changes in the mouth chamber. His tongue can play a major role as he moves it back, the chamber is larger and produces a much more full sound. The opposite occurs when the tongue is moved forward, the mouth chamber is decreased, and produces a much more shallow sound. It can be done even without using the tongue at all. P.S. I loved your reaction to it, and I love the sweet little kitty! :)
Finally! I have been waiting for this for a long time! One of my favourite Pulse songs! The voice sample is actually really from Stephen Hawking, he approved the use in the song. And interestingly enough Stephen Hawking outlived Claudia Fontaine (the outer left background vocalist) by only one day. She died on 13 March, Hawking on 14 March 2018. RIP!
The voice of Stephen Hawking comes from a tv ad for a telephone company. The ad was called Keep Talking and this song was written around it by Polly Samson, David Gilmour’s wife.
My first talk box was a fan. They are so fun to play with. You should check out the
"Peter Frampton Do You Feel Like We Do Midnight Special 1975" The talk box directs sound from the instrument into the musician's mouth through a plastic tube adjacent to a vocal microphone. The musician controls the modification of the instrument's sound by changing the shape of the mouth and "vocalizing" the instrument's output into a microphone. As I have said before, "watching Pink Floyd is like a box of chocolates. You never know what you're going to get.”
I really enjoy your videos, you are one of the few who i really feel a connection with. You always say you want to learn to be a better human being. This is what life is about, it is about self discovery. This is of greater value than any money on the earth.
I think you'd love 'Money' from the Pulse show. Great song, and you get to see the girls being a bit more light hearted.
I have recently discovered your reaction videos. Pink Floyd is my favorite band. And I was fortunate to see the tour in ‘94. I have loved watching you broaden your Floyd horizons in these videos. The are many songs I could recommend. But first I would recommend you react to one of David Gilmour’s solo album songs, “There’s no way out of here”…I have so many more to recommend. But this would be a great start. Keep doing what you are doing 😊
Its called a talk box, Peter Frampton used one on Frampton comes Alive on a song called feel like we do. Its a tube that goes to a small horn and is connected to his amp and he the sound from his mouth matches his guitar.😊
I've said it before... David Gilmour is the Undeniable God of the guitar. He can get more from one note than most guitarists could get with an entire fret board. Any string instrument that Gilmour plays immediately connects with your emotions. Add the talk box and he connects with your soul and magnifies the emotion in the music. Pink Floyd tries to put all of the artists in the spot light. In this song Gilmour puts his guitar center stage and gives it its moment.
This is one of my favorite performances from the Pulse concert! I love everything about it. Also, never apologize for kitty interruptions. :) I am a 'Cat Mom' of two; my tabby, Dibs is an Internet celebrity, so I love seeing people's cats show up on UA-cam reaction channels.
“In The Flesh?” begins The Wall album. Greatest concert opening of all time! Another great PF song for you to react to.
Hola. He conocido muy recientemente tu canal y me encanta. Me he suscrito, naturalmente. Soy un gran admirador de Pink Floyd desde que era joven en los años ochenta . Tengo toda su obra, son los principales en la banda sonora de mi vida y los he visto en directo siempre que han tocado en España, mi país. Pero lo que más me gusta de tus vídeos es ver como sientes y vives la música. Te llega hasta lo más hondo del alma y eso me encanta. Es evidente que eres una persona muy sensible. Un saludo. Por cierto, muy bien con la tarta.
The late PF albums are super underrated. They are full of beauty from start to finish.
The talk box is something that many artists used (maybe in hard rock/heavy metal more every now and then, I heard it from scorpions and bon Jovi for example), but it's more uncommon for pink Floyd or progressive rock in general. And he used it in an uncommon way during this live.
The Stephen Hawking parts was something very unique, I really liked the addition.
You got all the relevant bits about how the Talk Box works and Stephen Hawking from other comments already. But what makes all of that so powerful is the how it all ties together. Hawking, one of the greatest minds of all time, could no longer talk without the use of a text-to-speech computer. If you listen to what he is saying, he is describing the importance of talking as a critical evolutionary step for humans. Ironically, the song is about someone (the protagonist, sung by David) who cannot fully use this uniquely human capability to express what he is thinking/feeling, which leads to the pleas by his partner "you never talk to me! What are you feeling? Why don't you don't talk me?" etc., in between David's vocals, which obviously cannot be heard by the woman asking the questions. The protagonist is answering, but probably, only in his head: "I feel like I'm drowning..." etc... My interpretation of the final guitar solo with the Talk Box is that THIS is how is able to express his feelings! But maybe I'm reading too much into the song. I also read somewhere once that the symbols in the lighting on stage have meaning. But I'm not sure.
I'm really glad you saw "Keep talking"👍🏼 thank you. Somehow I hope that you can watch the pulse concert on VR GLASSES with good headphones and that you can relive this concert like this 👍🏼
Best vocals & background singers ever in the PF's tours. Sam Brown as a professional singer & songwriter is killing it.
Enjoying your channel, just subscribed!
I love David Gilmour playing the guitarre and having so much feeling in his voice! My impression is: you feel this all as well. Like it a lot the way you react! Hope you love this music and artists as much as I do and wish you a lot of fun and joy.
Stacey
Man with robotic voice at the beginning of the song was legendary Theoretical Physicist, Stephen Hawking who used voice to talk thru speech-generating device. Hawking was diagnosed with ALS or sadly called Lou Gehrig's Disease when Gehrig was playing for New York Yankees. ALS as officially known forced Gehrig to retire from baseball.
Back to Pink Floyd
As other comments stated here, Gilmour is using a device called "Talk Box". He, Peter Frampton, and Joe Walsh use device on their songs.
The talk box has been used with the steel guitar in country music since the early 50's.
The strange device is a "voice box" famously used by Peter Frampton, the guitar is amplified, played through a loud speaker with the sound being carried up a hose beside the microphone.
I really enjoy your thoughtful commentary. That room is groovy 😎
The tallest woman closest to Dave on stage is Durga McBroom. She was in a band called Blue Pearl with Youth from Killing Joke. They made a bunch of videos that you would probably dig. The Floyd guys helped out with Blue Pearl and David even pops out of a flower in one of their videos. Can't wait to see you react to them.
If you want to know why Pulse is standing out, this is a good song to observe. It is in the drums. Nick Mason is here in the shape of his life. He never ‘leans forward’ in the rhythm rather backward, as if he is delaying it a bit.
Check this in his fill at 6:01. This is usually a moment a drummer starts to rush it up a bit and then pulling the music a bit out of balance. Mason relaxes and keeps it simple, as he does during the whole concert and thus providing a ground layer for his band members. He secures the whole concert this way. Supported of course by the bass playing of Guy Pratt.
It’s even a science called psycho-acoustics, explaining all this.
You would love the story of Guy Pratt's audition for the band. It's very funny. Guy is also a stand up comic. He's really naturally funny.
Steven Hawking’s voice was featured in this song and another Pink Floyd song called “Talking Hawking” from their Endless River album.
I think that it's called a talk box ,it's the sound of the guitar being played in David's mouth for him to manipulate, so when they say that David talks through his guitar, his guitar also talks through him !
Between the Delicate Sound of Thunder and Pulse tours, backing Singer Durga Mcbroom worked on a solo(ish) project.
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I cannot recommend enough that you check out BLUE PEARL NAKED.
Truly shows off just how ludicrously talented she is.
ALSO "I'm only needed for Butt Pats" should be on a tee shirt 😂
Great upload as always 👏👏👏