I was there in BC. I will tell you this. The white light washout was exactly as you see it here. It would completely white out the band members yet be as soft as it appears on this video. And the sound? I was way in the back in the horse shoe. The entire arena was wired for sound. I had sound coming from behind me in and total quadraphonic imaging. When the show started, with the house lights still up there was a gradual almost unnoticeable sound of nature sounds that increasingly got louder of a span of at least 10 minutes. Also, I swear they were pumping in aroma that slowly hit your nostrils. once the forest sounds, Birds, trickling water reached a cresendo the house lights went down. I was in the back, and I heard clearly every scrape of Dave Gilmore's pick across his Strat and every single note of Guy Pratt's bass. Don't know who will read this, but there has never been a concert experience ever to rival this tour.
I watched The Pulse Tour in Lisbon, at the football stadium of Sporting Clube de Portugal : Alvalade Stadium, and definitely, nobody does a gig like Pink Floyd. The Pulse tour was the best live performance of music history.
Was there June, 25 1994. Myself(14), my dad, his best friend and his son my best friend at the time. Greatest concert I ever attended until October 31, 2024 when my son(19) and I saw David Gilmour live at the Hollywood Bowl. Closest thing to Pink Floyd he will ever get a chance at. I still have the same shirts that my dad and I wore, so I wore my dad's and my son wore the one I did. We replicated the picture of my dad and I as well. In the picture my dad is holding the tickets in our picture I'm holding the picture of my dad and I, a little Ummagumma esque.
One of my personal favorites. Just about growing up and looking back at the time you were younger. Many of Pink Floyd's songs are emotional, especially the way Gilmore plays.
What I remember the most from attending Pink Floyd's 94 tour at Valle Hovin in Oslo, is the amazing show and ... the sound quality. We were at a football stadium. There's no way a concert should sound that good at such a venue, but then again, it did. From before the concert even started, the sound effects they played, were like 3D effects circling around me. And they kept that going throughout the concert, and the quality was superb! I've attended countless concerts in my life, but I've never attended anything soundling like that one, before or after. With the laser show (which sadly had to wait for the sunset - the latter half - to really be appreciated), it was an experience of a lifetime. Hugs and love!
I was there on the night they recorded this. The video is brilliant especially in surround sound, but the sound quality in the arena was out of this world. Surround speakers including in the roof. I believe the sound and lights (all synchronised) cost Pink Floyd around $98million (in 1994)for the tour. No other band has ben able to match it since. Nobody listens to Pink Floyd, you experience them and at the shows on this tour you were enveloped in them and became part of the journey. I'm 75 now and still have the shivers of listening to the best band on the planet, even on video. At 78 Gilmour has just ended his latest tour. You mentioned the bass in Sorrow. The bassist Guy Pratt still plays with Gilmour but check him out. He is a legend in his own right.
Love watching your real and open reactions to Pink Floyd. Many people don't understand how much these rock bands from the 60's -70's was rooted in classical music. The William Tell overture was maybe the first metal riff. Richard Wright of Pink Floyd knew a lot of classical keyboard techniques and played them in several songs. Thank you for your reactions.
I saw this show two evenings in a row at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal. I was even surprised that the stadium didn't collapse because the sound was so loud and made the entire concrete structure vibrate.
I kept looking up to the rafters, expecting bits to start falling from the low end. Felt like my insides were going to explode n yet I was extremely happy....😂
I was at this concert the night after this was filmed. Whatever you think of the video the concert was 10 times better. You don't get a lot of the effects in the video such as the heat from the flares, the music hitting you (it was a lot louder than this video makes out), the lights from the mirror ball were incredible in Comfortably Numb, everything in the hall was covered by them as the ball was revolving. One thing I do remember is that it was unlike other concerts I've been to, usually at a rock concert you get people cheering, shouting, screaming, dancing, jumping and so on all the time, this one was different, I looked around the hall many times and people were just sat there, staring, mouths open, amazed at what we were seeing and hearing. It was incredible.
I saw them on this tour and can confirm. One actually felt the music more than heard it. Unfortunately, it was so damn good that it ruined subsequent concerts for me lol.
This is one of 14 days in a row sold out and their last. 200,000 watts of power, 128 wireless speakers , 200 ton stage and 53 semis to move. saw 5 times outdoor needed FAA clearance for lasers. So quiet when people were leaving stunned what they just saw.
What really stands out in my memory from the performance of Sorrow I saw at Earl's Court was the power of the subsonics at the end of the song. It's not something that you are likely to be aware of when listening to it on headphones, and living in a small terraced house in London I've never turned the sub-woofer up high enough to see if it is present on the DVD or CD releases.
1994 on the Pink Floyd concert in Hockenheim, Germany, which were at that days a formula one circuit. Think about staying at a heli port and the heli lands 10 Meters beside you, that what it sounds like on that Pink Floyd concert. The bass was so heavy that the earth vibrates under you feets.
Penso che questa canzone da PULSE sia una delle piu belle esibizioni live non solo dei Pink Floyd ma di tutta la musica in generale. 2 chitarristi ( Gilmour e Renwick) 2 percussionisti ( Mason e Wallis) 2 tastieristi ( Wright e Carin) 1 bassista ( Guy Pratt) 3 bravissime coriste ( Durga Mc Broom, Sam Brown e Claudia Fontaine) Show spettacolare 🔝🔝🔝
Saw them in the late 70s at Madison Square Garden. With Roger. Unforgettable. Saw this concert in the mid-90s in Miami (outdoor stadium). Unforgettable. Felt privileged.
Excerpt from an article in "Lighting Dimensions" magazine, September 1994 edition entitled: Set The Stage For Pink Floyd's 1994 World Tour. Catherine McHugh interviews Marc Brickman (show director), Robbie Williams (production director), and Mark Fisher (set designer). "With or without the benefit of mind-altering substances, even the most jaded modern concertgoer can expect Pink Floyd to put on a show that aims to rattle the senses". Having seen this show two evenings in a row at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that for them, it was mission accomplished.
i was at their AMLOR tour before pulse of which the same setup was used, and this was awesome, its a show stopper, you just feel amazed and overwhelmed and that you have seen something special, true control of a guitar, this is said to be Gilmours favourite guitar solo to play and that he created, said by him!
Saw them in 94 in Belgium , my first concert and it was a birthday present from my then girlfriend. No concert since has been better nor have the birthday gifts lol
Great reaction Brother! Virtually every Pink Floyd song is an Experience! No band like them. There are some great videos from this 1994 Pulse Concert, excellent quality, re-mastered and re-edited versions. The whole 2 &1/2 hour long concert is available online, and there are some really outstanding performances, songs like, "High Hopes", "Learning To Fly" and "Money" just to name a few. Love to see you react to some of those songs! They also perform the WHOLE, "The Dark Side Of The Moon" album from beginning to end,... the last time they performed the whole epic album live was in the 1970s. And I believe this 1994 performance of t was the last time. This Pulse Concert at Earls Court in London was one of the final shows of Pink Floyds 1994 "The Division Bell World Tour.
Jone, I was fortunate enough to have seen them on this last tour at Giants Stadium in NJ. You wanted a description of the concert, I can sum it up in 3 words, intense, beautiful and unforgettable, and you're seeing why. David Gilmour is not a shredder but the emotion he extracts from the guitar is off the charts and after all, isn't emotion from a musical instrument what we are all looking for and appreciate? Keep up the great work
This was from the Division Bell Tour in 1994. I saw them on that tour on April 14 in San Diego in Jack Murphy Stadium. The crowd was 51,610 people. The average ticket price for the show was $30. I basically had the worse seats in the house, 4 rows from the last row - furthest from the stage. But still, it was the best concert I ever saw. The big takeaways were the sound of Gilmour’s guitar and the light show. I still can’t believe how good the band sounded from those terrible seats. Thank you for the reaction. Great stuff. Consider watching “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” live from the same (Pulse DVD) concert.
Seen them 3 nights in a row in Rotterdam. Saved up to buyr a ticket for night one and sneaked in with some friends the other nigths. #F-ing unbeliebale ...Wouldn't work these days ...
Went to this concert twice in two days. Took my mom and her friend to the first night concert. Was so good I went the next day with a lady from work. Bought tickets from a scalper. (That's what we called the guys selling tickets in the parking lot). Definitely a spiritual kind of experience. Going to see Britt Floyd next week with my 30 year old son and his wife. All we have for live performances is tribute bands. Britt Floyd hopefully will satisfy. Passing the experience on to our youth. Good review you did. Thanks.
Ahoy Diamond Geezer, a friend and I took two LSD tabs each on the tube going to this show, best performance ever, my hair still hasn't grown back. Enjoying all the reactions, three cheers too you ooo thanks
I was at this show filmed at Earls Court in London in 1994. Can't believe it was 30 years ago and out of the meny concerts I've been to this was by far the best concert I've ever been to. Dave Gilmore in my mind is the greatest guitarist ever 🤘🇬🇧
I saw the tour at Sun Devi Stadium, with 70,000 of my closest friends. As another said, it was LOUD. One thing you really can’t get from the videos is just how very tightly the lights were synced to the music throughout the show. I finally had to decide to ignore them and pay attention to the music. Also, that stage was MASSIVE. It thoroughly dominated one end of an American Football stadium. Best show I’ve EVER seen, and I’ve seen my share of shows.
If you like the back up singers you'll want to check out The Great Gig in the Sky from the same Pulse concert. They put it all out there and it hits me right in the heart every single time.
Yes, a wonderful performance but it does not reach the emotional heights of the original studio recording by Clare Torry. One of the very few PF tracks where the studio version is superior to the live performance IMO.
In this song, you can really get the understanding of just how enormous that stage was. I agree with you about the drumming and editing of the video that shows exactly how good Nick Mason played them. The deep bass and guitar notes will really work and test your speakers. Side note: Your headphone wire has a bit of a loose connection and is putting a bit of an arcing series of snapping noises through your audio. It could help to clean the plugs with DeOx or something similar. 😉
I was there in 1994, ruined me for every concert since. not only is David Gilmore a master of the f=guitar, few people can evoke the emotion he can from it. He was in top form that night and also in Comfortably numb.
I saw them on this tour and it was amazing... absolutely amazing.. like too amazing actually because it kinda ruined concerts for me.. this was my 4-5 live show and I was young, so no other concert has EVER risen to this level and I'm including Page and Plant, Santana, Buckethead (though he was crazy good) and some other really notable performers.... This was, and as far as I can see, the Pinnacle experience. I just wish I had seen it later in life after I'd gotten some other shows under my belt..
I rarely listen to this PF song, it just doesn't evoke any emotions within me, unlike the guitar solo in On The Turning Away, from the Delicate Sound of Thunder concert performance. That brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to it, along with Comfortable Numb of course.
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I was there in BC. I will tell you this. The white light washout was exactly as you see it here. It would completely white out the band members yet be as soft as it appears on this video. And the sound? I was way in the back in the horse shoe. The entire arena was wired for sound. I had sound coming from behind me in and total quadraphonic imaging. When the show started, with the house lights still up there was a gradual almost unnoticeable sound of nature sounds that increasingly got louder of a span of at least 10 minutes. Also, I swear they were pumping in aroma that slowly hit your nostrils. once the forest sounds, Birds, trickling water reached a cresendo the house lights went down. I was in the back, and I heard clearly every scrape of Dave Gilmore's pick across his Strat and every single note of Guy Pratt's bass. Don't know who will read this, but there has never been a concert experience ever to rival this tour.
I watched The Pulse Tour in Lisbon, at the football stadium of Sporting Clube de Portugal : Alvalade Stadium, and definitely, nobody does a gig like Pink Floyd. The Pulse tour was the best live performance of music history.
Was there June, 25 1994. Myself(14), my dad, his best friend and his son my best friend at the time. Greatest concert I ever attended until October 31, 2024 when my son(19) and I saw David Gilmour live at the Hollywood Bowl. Closest thing to Pink Floyd he will ever get a chance at. I still have the same shirts that my dad and I wore, so I wore my dad's and my son wore the one I did. We replicated the picture of my dad and I as well. In the picture my dad is holding the tickets in our picture I'm holding the picture of my dad and I, a little Ummagumma esque.
High Hopes from the same concert is another fabulous song.
One of my personal favorites. Just about growing up and looking back at the time you were younger. Many of Pink Floyd's songs are emotional, especially the way Gilmore plays.
From the same Pulse Concert, please check out RUN LIKE HELL. Fasten your seat belt.
What I remember the most from attending Pink Floyd's 94 tour at Valle Hovin in Oslo, is the amazing show and ... the sound quality. We were at a football stadium. There's no way a concert should sound that good at such a venue, but then again, it did. From before the concert even started, the sound effects they played, were like 3D effects circling around me. And they kept that going throughout the concert, and the quality was superb! I've attended countless concerts in my life, but I've never attended anything soundling like that one, before or after. With the laser show (which sadly had to wait for the sunset - the latter half - to really be appreciated), it was an experience of a lifetime.
Hugs and love!
I was there on the night they recorded this. The video is brilliant especially in surround sound, but the sound quality in the arena was out of this world. Surround speakers including in the roof. I believe the sound and lights (all synchronised) cost Pink Floyd around $98million (in 1994)for the tour. No other band has ben able to match it since. Nobody listens to Pink Floyd, you experience them and at the shows on this tour you were enveloped in them and became part of the journey. I'm 75 now and still have the shivers of listening to the best band on the planet, even on video. At 78 Gilmour has just ended his latest tour. You mentioned the bass in Sorrow. The bassist Guy Pratt still plays with Gilmour but check him out. He is a legend in his own right.
i remember when they played this my sternum was vibrating. awesome concert
The BASS Line is AMAZING !!
Love watching your real and open reactions to Pink Floyd. Many people don't understand how much these rock bands from the 60's -70's was rooted in classical music. The William Tell overture was maybe the first metal riff. Richard Wright of Pink Floyd knew a lot of classical keyboard techniques and
played them in several songs. Thank you for your reactions.
David (I think) said once that, the as far as concerts go, the music is there as a soundtrack to the light show
One thing you can't pick up from the video is how loud it actually was in that building
I saw this show two evenings in a row at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal.
I was even surprised that the stadium didn't collapse because the sound was so loud and made the entire concrete structure vibrate.
I kept looking up to the rafters, expecting bits to start falling from the low end. Felt like my insides were going to explode n yet I was extremely happy....😂
Felt it for days afterwards! Not kidding! Was fantastic!
Great reaction!! Welcome to the machine ( that is Pink Floyd)
I was at this concert the night after this was filmed. Whatever you think of the video the concert was 10 times better. You don't get a lot of the effects in the video such as the heat from the flares, the music hitting you (it was a lot louder than this video makes out), the lights from the mirror ball were incredible in Comfortably Numb, everything in the hall was covered by them as the ball was revolving. One thing I do remember is that it was unlike other concerts I've been to, usually at a rock concert you get people cheering, shouting, screaming, dancing, jumping and so on all the time, this one was different, I looked around the hall many times and people were just sat there, staring, mouths open, amazed at what we were seeing and hearing. It was incredible.
I saw them on this tour and can confirm. One actually felt the music more than heard it. Unfortunately, it was so damn good that it ruined subsequent concerts for me lol.
I went to their show in Raleigh in May '94. Will never forget.
Sorrow has one of the best intros to any song.
Intro and outros aout there... what a way to end a song.
This is one of 14 days in a row sold out and their last. 200,000 watts of power, 128 wireless speakers , 200 ton stage and 53 semis to move. saw 5 times outdoor needed FAA clearance for lasers. So quiet when people were leaving stunned what they just saw.
What really stands out in my memory from the performance of Sorrow I saw at Earl's Court was the power of the subsonics at the end of the song. It's not something that you are likely to be aware of when listening to it on headphones, and living in a small terraced house in London I've never turned the sub-woofer up high enough to see if it is present on the DVD or CD releases.
Yup I remember the whole area shaking on the deep notes, was epic.
The sound quality was the best I've ever heard at a live show, impeccable sound!
1994 on the Pink Floyd concert in Hockenheim, Germany, which were at that days a formula one circuit. Think about staying at a heli port and the heli lands 10 Meters beside you, that what it sounds like on that Pink Floyd concert. The bass was so heavy that the earth vibrates under you feets.
To me, this is my favourite Pink Floyd song and version. Simply outstanding! 😊
Best tour I ever saw in my life and I'm quite old now so I've seen a few. Haha. Great to see new people experiencing this wonderful music.
Penso che questa canzone da PULSE sia una delle piu belle esibizioni live non solo dei Pink Floyd ma di tutta la musica in generale.
2 chitarristi ( Gilmour e Renwick)
2 percussionisti ( Mason e Wallis)
2 tastieristi ( Wright e Carin)
1 bassista ( Guy Pratt)
3 bravissime coriste ( Durga Mc Broom, Sam Brown e Claudia Fontaine)
Show spettacolare
🔝🔝🔝
Saw them in the late 70s at Madison Square Garden. With Roger. Unforgettable. Saw this concert in the mid-90s in Miami (outdoor stadium). Unforgettable. Felt privileged.
6/14/94 Hoosier Dome, Indianapolis, Indiana. Over 2 Million people saw this tour.
Excerpt from an article in "Lighting Dimensions" magazine, September 1994 edition entitled: Set The Stage For Pink Floyd's 1994 World Tour.
Catherine McHugh interviews Marc Brickman (show director), Robbie Williams (production director), and Mark Fisher (set designer).
"With or without the benefit of mind-altering substances, even the most jaded modern concertgoer can expect Pink Floyd to put on a show that aims to rattle the senses".
Having seen this show two evenings in a row at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, I can say without a shadow of a doubt that for them, it was mission accomplished.
Saw this tour at Georgia Tech collage Atlanta . on the football field, It was jaw dropping.
i was at their AMLOR tour before pulse of which the same setup was used, and this was awesome, its a show stopper, you just feel amazed and overwhelmed and that you have seen something special, true control of a guitar, this is said to be Gilmours favourite guitar solo to play and that he created, said by him!
It was the best concert I ever attended. The music flowed around and through me and the light show was excellent! Will never forget it. 🔥👏🏼👏🏼
Saw them in 94 in Belgium , my first concert and it was a birthday present from my then girlfriend. No concert since has been better nor have the birthday gifts lol
Great reaction Brother!
Virtually every Pink Floyd song is an Experience! No band like them.
There are some great videos from this 1994 Pulse Concert, excellent quality, re-mastered and re-edited versions. The whole 2 &1/2 hour long concert is available online, and there are some really outstanding performances, songs like, "High Hopes", "Learning To Fly" and "Money" just to name a few.
Love to see you react to some of those songs!
They also perform the WHOLE, "The Dark Side Of The Moon" album from beginning to end,... the last time they performed the whole epic album live was in the 1970s. And I believe this 1994 performance of t was the last time.
This Pulse Concert at Earls Court in London was one of the final shows of Pink Floyds 1994 "The Division Bell World Tour.
Money, Time, Keep Talking all three from pulse concert are awesome!
The Greatest band of all time and DG is the Guitar God.
Jone, I was fortunate enough to have seen them on this last tour at Giants Stadium in NJ. You wanted a description of the concert, I can sum it up in 3 words, intense, beautiful and unforgettable, and you're seeing why. David Gilmour is not a shredder but the emotion he extracts from the guitar is off the charts and after all, isn't emotion from a musical instrument what we are all looking for and appreciate? Keep up the great work
Try coming back to life from this show
This was from the Division Bell Tour in 1994.
I saw them on that tour on April 14 in San Diego in Jack Murphy Stadium.
The crowd was 51,610 people. The average ticket price for the show was $30.
I basically had the worse seats in the house, 4 rows from the last row - furthest from the stage.
But still, it was the best concert I ever saw.
The big takeaways were the sound of Gilmour’s guitar and the light show.
I still can’t believe how good the band sounded from those terrible seats.
Thank you for the reaction. Great stuff.
Consider watching “Shine on You Crazy Diamond” live from the same (Pulse DVD) concert.
Seen them 3 nights in a row in Rotterdam. Saved up to buyr a ticket for night one and sneaked in with some friends the other nigths. #F-ing unbeliebale ...Wouldn't work these days ...
Three nights?!! I only did two. I thought I was crazy. Good job.
Went to this concert
twice in two days. Took my mom and her friend to the first night concert. Was so good I went the next day with a lady from work. Bought tickets from a scalper. (That's what we called the guys selling tickets in the parking lot). Definitely a spiritual kind of experience. Going to see Britt Floyd next week with my 30 year old son and his wife. All we have for live performances is tribute bands. Britt Floyd hopefully will satisfy. Passing the experience on to our youth. Good review you did. Thanks.
A once in a life time performance and a never to be seen again band
Went to the Pulse Concert in 1994. What a spectacular concert it was.
You can hear music and you can hear Pink Floyd. David Gilmour takes you on another higher Level. It’s pure Art
Ahoy Diamond Geezer, a friend and I took two LSD tabs each on the tube going to this show, best performance ever, my hair still hasn't grown back. Enjoying all the reactions, three cheers too you ooo thanks
I was at this show filmed at Earls Court in London in 1994. Can't believe it was 30 years ago and out of the meny concerts I've been to this was by far the best concert I've ever been to. Dave Gilmore in my mind is the greatest guitarist ever 🤘🇬🇧
I saw the tour at Sun Devi Stadium, with 70,000 of my closest friends. As another said, it was LOUD. One thing you really can’t get from the videos is just how very tightly the lights were synced to the music throughout the show. I finally had to decide to ignore them and pay attention to the music. Also, that stage was MASSIVE. It thoroughly dominated one end of an American Football stadium. Best show I’ve EVER seen, and I’ve seen my share of shows.
If you like the back up singers you'll want to check out The Great Gig in the Sky from the same Pulse concert. They put it all out there and it hits me right in the heart every single time.
Yes, a wonderful performance but it does not reach the emotional heights of the original studio recording by Clare Torry. One of the very few PF tracks where the studio version is superior to the live performance IMO.
@@nomdaploom I disagree, but to each his own. ✌🏽
In this song, you can really get the understanding of just how enormous that stage was.
I agree with you about the drumming and editing of the video that shows exactly how good Nick Mason played them.
The deep bass and guitar notes will really work and test your speakers.
Side note: Your headphone wire has a bit of a loose connection and is putting a bit of an arcing series of snapping noises through your audio. It could help to clean the plugs with DeOx or something similar. 😉
As was there three days before this was filmed
I was there in Rotterdam,Holland,and was't a concert,but an experiance.
Sounds much better alive than studio track!!!
I was there in 1994, ruined me for every concert since. not only is David Gilmore a master of the f=guitar, few people can evoke the emotion he can from it. He was in top form that night and also in Comfortably numb.
Ruined my concert going as it was my first concert ever lol
saw this show at Ohio Stadium .....still have never seen anything like this .....ever....
Same here, but at Clemson “Death Valley” stadium. Best concert I ever went to.
There is a band touring now and next year that pays tribute to PinkFloyd and does a fantastic job. Brit Floyd. Go if you can. You'll thank me later.
My sister saw them. I plan to go next time they are around!
I saw them on this tour and it was amazing... absolutely amazing.. like too amazing actually because it kinda ruined concerts for me.. this was my 4-5 live show and I was young, so no other concert has EVER risen to this level and I'm including Page and Plant, Santana, Buckethead (though he was crazy good) and some other really notable performers.... This was, and as far as I can see, the Pinnacle experience. I just wish I had seen it later in life after I'd gotten some other shows under my belt..
Unpopular opinion: I like this way more than Comfortably numb.
I rarely listen to this PF song, it just doesn't evoke any emotions within me, unlike the guitar solo in On The Turning Away, from the Delicate Sound of Thunder concert performance. That brings tears to my eyes every time I listen to it, along with Comfortable Numb of course.
I was in Oslo -94. Killed the urge to see other bands performing live.
Please chack KEEP TALKING, ANOTHER BRICK IN THE WALL PART 2, COMFORTABLY NUMB from the PULSE concert.