It is impossible and useless to rank artists or art and say which is the best. But David's beautiful, melodic solo has probably touched more people emotionally than any other solo in classic rock. It must be pretty good if it makes a grown man like me cry like a baby.
There is "Music" and there is "Pink Floyd". They brings you somewhere out of your body! Pink Floyd made me fly for the last 55 years and I've been bless for that!
Pink Floyd..the best of their genre and the greatest guitar solo ever by David Gilmore. Your continuous smile said it all. Music can say more than words ever can! Great reaction. Your smile is infectious. So keep smiling.
Guy Pratt, the bassist here, still performs with David. I just saw both of them in LA a month ago, and was hands down one of the best concerts I've ever seen. Also, how in the world has someone never heard this song before?
Wow, what a emphatic and joyful reaction ... you can choose anything from David Gilmour's PULSE Concert ... maybe a good start is "High Hopes" "Sorrow" or "The great gig in the the sky"
I saw Pink Floyd on this tour in 94, as well as a few other times. The music is a life altering experience. Being there live can’t be compared to anything else.
Massive Floyd fan since 1972 when i was 10 my dad bought me Meddle my 1st Floyd LP . Seen them twice The Wall tour 1980 and this concert Pulse Tour 1994 , two of the best nights of my life
You have stumbled upon the greatest group of musicians, playing the best music you will ever hear. Please do yourself a huge favor and continue the life changing experience that is Pink Floyd. Their concert in 1994 for the release of the album "The Division Bell" is known as the "Pulse" concert, and is what you saw for Comfortably Numb. You will enjoy anything and everything from Pulse, but check out High Hopes, Coming Back to Life, Learning to Fly, Sorrow, Wish You Were Here, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, and Run Like Hell to start!
This concert is 30 years ago and is probably the pinnacle of modern music. David Gilmour (guitar and vocalist) is now 78 and has just completed a tour with his band and daughter on vocals and harp. Some video of his concerts at Madison Square Gardens earlier this month is available on UA-cam.
I've just seen him for the first time this year at the Royal Albert Hall in London . Phenomenal . Probably just ruined any other concert I attend lol Nothing wll match that night for me
Sorry to hear that you never saw them live. The Pulse concerts were probably the best live shows that ever got to tour. Although it is not the same as being there, the remastered video is fantastic especially if you can get to hear it through a home cinema sound system.
Wonderful réaction to probably the greatest guitar solo by one of the greatest bands ever to play live. That performance (which I was at) is 30 years old but the music is timeless. I am 75 now and been a Floyd fan since 1966 and still get goose bumps listening to all their music. The whole 1994 Pulse concert is incredible, great musicians and arrangements, flawless surround sound system and breathtaking visuals. If you have to pick out a couple of numbers try High Hopes, Sorrow, One of these days, Learning to fly and an epic finale Run like Hell. But their whole album catalogue awaits you. Welcome to the emotional world of Pink Floyd. My regret was that that was the last time I saw them live, they basically stopped recording and touring after the death of keyboard player Richard Wright in 2008. Dave Gilmour (guitar) has toured several times (the last ending in New York, last week aged 78). Nick Mason (drummer) has also toured playing early Floyd classics. Bassist at Pulse, Guy Pratt plays for both bands. Check out Dave Gilmour's latest tour videos. Good luck and future listening of the great Pink Floyd.
Pink Floyd is Progressive Rock. And Blues. And Funk, Country, Electronica, Classical, Folk, Orchestral, Jazz, Choral, even Music Concrète. Regardless of style, they make you FEEL. ... Nobody else does music quite like The Floyd.
Been watching this video for 30 years and I'll never get sick of seeing reaction videos. It's so cool to see people blown away by it like I've always been. That solo🤘
The PULSE Concert was a LEGENDARY show. It actually turned out to be the band's final tour, in support of “The Division Bell”, their final studio album. (They released one more studio album, some 20 years later, but it was mostly out-takes and un-used material from other albums. Not really the same.) They recorded 16 nights at Earl’s Court, in London, and crafted the PULSE recording from the best of those two weeks (so named because the original CD release had a red LED in the spine which flashed, or 'pulsed’.) Pink Floyd were musical perfectionists, so the audio from this show is immaculate. As for the light show, well……you saw it. The whole night was like this. You can watch anything from this concert and trust that it will be AMAZING, with visuals that will knock your viewers’ socks off. It was one of the very first computerized light shows, and because in 1994, no one had any idea what a computer WAS, never mind what you could do with one, the performance was literally INDESCRIBABLE to anyone who wasn’t there, because there was nothing else to compare it to. Years later, when the DVD was released, you could at least put it on, and tell people, “THAT. THAT'S what it was like to be there!” I saw this concert with 65,000 friends, and it was mindblowing. The concert was actually BETTER than it looks on video. The Floyd put speakers around the venue perimeter, so sound could come at you from anywhere, and as you see, the performance was not limited to just the stage ~ you felt like it was an Experience, and you were inside that experience. You can choose to react to “Wish You Were Here”, a poignant conversation with the memory of a former band-mate, Syd Barrett, whom they had to fire after 3 albums because of his LSD use and mental health issues. Or “Time”, about living and dying in 3/4 time. Or “Run Like Hell”, “Another Brick In The Wall (part 2)”, “Money”, pretty much anything you want from PULSE. They’re all impressive. My personal favorite for showing you what it was like to be in the audience that night is “One Of These Days”. Pink Floyd brought their own reality, and for three hours, they let us visit them there.
WOW- I had no idea it was their final tour! Before you said "It was one of the very first computerized light shows" I was thinking it must have been one of the first. To be there and experience that for the first time must have been next level! Just like you said- it must have been indescribable because the words wouldn't have even existed! I believe you that it was better in person- it always is! Just the energy from the crowd would have been mind boggling. There's a word in the Maori language that describes an indescribable- almost transcendent- experience you get from watching a performance. Your description reminds me of that (although I can't think of the word and google isn't helping to jog my memory lol). Thanks for the suggestions- I really appreciate it!
The song was already great when released on The Wall album. David transformed it into history with this concert. If you go way way back to the 60s and listen to Biding My Time off Relics album. Then start here: Pink Floyd achieved success in London's underground music scene, led by the singer and guitarist Syd Barrett.[5] They signed a management deal with Peter Jenner and Andrew King (Blackhill Enterprises) in October 1966,[6] and recorded a demo shortly afterwards to attract record label interest.[7] In 1967, they signed with EMI Columbia and released their first single, "Arnold Layne",[8] followed by the album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.[9] Barrett left following mental health problems in 1968, and was replaced by the singer and guitarist David Gilmour. Both appear on Pink Floyd's second album, A Saucerful of Secrets,[10] the first of several to feature cover artwork by Hipgnosis.[11] In 1969, Pink Floyd released a soundtrack album, More, and a combined live and studio album, Ummagumma.[12] Atom Heart Mother (1970) was a collaboration with Ron Geesin, featuring an orchestra and choir.[13] Meddle and the Obscured by Clouds soundtrack followed in 1971 and 1972.[14][15] Pink Floyd's eighth album, The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), sold more than 30 million copies and is one of the best-selling albums of all time.[16][17] It has been reissued as a Quadrophonic LP and 5.1 surround sound Super Audio CD.[18] The Dark Side of the Moon was followed by Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), and The Wall (1979); all except Animals reached number one in the US, and The Wall is the highest-certified multiple-disc album by the Recording Industry Association of America.[19][20] Pink Floyd released few singles after Barrett's departure, though "Money" was a US top-20 hit, and "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" reached number one in the UK and US.[21] The bassist and singer Roger Waters became Pink Floyd's dominant force from the mid-1970s. He departed in 1985, declaring Pink Floyd "a spent force",[1] and unsuccessfully sued to dissolve their partnership and retire the name.[22] The remaining members, led by Gilmour, continued recording and touring as Pink Floyd, releasing A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987), The Division Bell (1994)[23][24] and The Endless River (2014).[25] In 2010, Pink Floyd sued EMI for unpaid royalties payments and for publishing their back catalogue on streaming services without their consent. A settlement was reached the following year, with the publication of the individual tracks on iTunes, and re-releases of The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall.[26] In 2016, Pink Floyd established a record label, Pink Floyd Records, and launched an extensive reissue programme of their work on vinyl and CD, and a box set The Early Years 1965-1972 containing a significant amount of previously unreleased material.[27][28] In 2022, they released a one-off single, "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!", featuring the Ukrainian artist Andriy Khlyvnyuk, in protest of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Lady .. WELCOME .. To " Pink Floyd " ! Enjoy the worlds BEST no comparison ever EVER ! Best concert without a shadow of a doubt especially as this was in 1994 was there with my daughter .. Can't put it into words how we felt after the show ! Enjoy ..
Pink floyd is a rarity in that they are even better live than on the studio version . I was at this concert in 94 , and at the end I was crying knowing that I would never see another concert like this again . A truly out of this world experience .
Same, kinda. I saw this tour here in the States and I began to get teary eyed when I realized they were playing DSOTM in its entirety. DSOTM was my intro to PF back in 1973 when I was just 9. I never thought I'd ever get to see it performed....until this tour.
Ok, so your smile is a joy to behold! Totally infectious and I love it. Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands of all time. Uniquely deep and stunning in every way. David Gilmore is the GOAT on guitar!
Great reaction!! Just remember to never, ever, ever pause during a David Gilmour guitar solo!! It's sacrilege!! Let the dive down the rabbit hole commence! This was probably the greatest live show of all time! You could start with the opener: Shine on You crazy Diamond and work your way through till the final encore, Run Like Hell. Every single song is a breathtaking performance! The whole show is available on youtube. The Dark Side of the Moon is performed in it's entirety, it's a concept album so there are no breaks between individual tracks and the transitions are subliminal! You may need to react in two parts, ending with The Great Gig in the Sky and the 2nd reaction beginning with Money.... Enjoy!
If you liked that, the whole Pulse concert is full of all Pink Floyd legendary songs. It truly is on a level that few concerts could ever reach. You'll be blown away in the best possible way if you invest the time to watch it from start to finish. It will open your eyes, ears and mind to the brilliance of this band. I hope you watch it, it will leave your chin on your chest.
19yo, Denver Colorado. Still the best concert I've ever experienced. I've seen Page & Plant, The Stones, Aerosmith, The Dead, you name it. Even Chuck Berry, John Kay and Steppenwolf. AC/DC, Metallica. Slayer in a small venue. ... THIS performance is the finest thing I have ever witnessed.
Every guitar 🎸 wants David Gilmour for Christmas. PF isn’t something you listen too, it’s something you experience. You just heard one of the greatest guitar solos in rock history 🤘 and thank you for not pausing during the solo! MORE PF! React to anything from the Pulse Concert… it’s a masterpiece. You won’t be disappointed!
I was never lucky enough to bag Pink Floyd tickets . But this year a dream and bucket list came true . I got tickets for David Gilmour at the Royal Albert Hall 11th October . I dont think any concert i attend for the rest of my life will live upto that night. .
Always heart warming and touching to see people of all ages discover Pink Floyd. My son was born in 2009 and Comfortably Numb is his favourite song and me and my son both share the love for David Gilmour’s solo, which you also discovered. There is a Pink Floyd that’s named Take It Back, so you can try that one. But first you need to check out The Great Gig In The Sky, Wish You Were Here, Shine On You Crazy Diamond. All from the same Pulse tour and newly digitally renewed on UA-cam. And all of the videos from Pulse are mesmerising to watch, pieces of music history, played by one the world’s best live bands live. Also from Pulse: Sorrow, Another Brick In The Wall, Us And Them, One Of These Days
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! One for your Amazing, heartfelt Reaction. Two for reacting to this particular song in this particular concert. The Pulse concert is absolutely perfect. And three perhaps most importantly for not breaking the cardinal rule of Never, Ever, Ever, interrupting a David Gilmour guitar solo! Your Enthusiasm , your smile are infectious I look forward to seeing more of your reactions to Pink Floyd on the whole butt in particular this concert. ❤
That stage is designed as an eye! The center eyeball starts to look down and the lights focus onto David Gilmore. The light in the middle of the ball I think is suppose to be a Diamond? I was at a Punk Floyd concert in the early 90’s for the Division Bell tour. Best concert ever. Things happening all over the stadium. I wish I could have gone to more of them back then. When I got my first CD player, it’s was still a new and expensive thing. I can’t remember if my first or second CD was Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon, or Dire Straits, Brothers of Arms.
Pulse show was 1994 (I think) and was the last full Pink Floyd tour. Final ever show was 2006 at the Live8 show (includes Comfortably Numb). I think the Pulse show has the longest guitar solo. David Gilmour is one of the greatest guitarists ever for sure. He still does that song in his live show (recently finished a tour).
LOL! "This guy is pretty good." True enough. You know, I also heard that Pope guy is kinda of religious... I loved your reaction, it's always good to see someone get blown away from hearing Pink Floyd for the first time. Well done! 😊
Hi, i flew from Australia just for the PULSE concert, i have been a Floydy for over 50 years now, and taught myself to play a guitar after hearing, Wish you were here. another good song is Time (studio version). the lyrics are 100% true, and makes you think. if you want a good sound, listen to welcome to the machine, (studio version) with a good set of headphones, volume UP lights down. Every PF album is a journey and each track is a different road on that journey. 😁😁😁 David Gilmour can make a guitar, talk sing and cry all at the same time, and the song has nothing to do with drugs as many people think. It is an autobiographical song by Roger Waters the original bass play about when he got sick as a child,and again when he was on tour, the doctor was called, gave him some medication, and that's why he became comfortably numb.
Next song should be "The Great Gig in the Sky" from the same 1994 Pulse concert. That oughta blow your socks off and send you tumbling down the Pink Floyd rabbit hole.
RIP Richard and Claudia. Daft fact. The mirror ball cost about 50 grand and used a lighthouse lamp. Great reaction. No Roger here of course, but Guy Pratt does a grand job.
Watched this live on Pay Per View when they done this show, could not get any ticket's for it. i had an 8 track player and would put there tape in when i went to sleep and just listened to it over and over all night, did the same with most of the albums.
As others have already said you can’t beat any track from the “ pulse” concert. There is something to bear in mind when experiencing Pink Floyd and that is that there are some tracks that put you in the right place for the next track so under ideal conditions should be experienced together for example “ Time” followed by “Great Gig in the Sky”….
Great Reaction Sorrow from pulse concert is Awesome also Wish You Were Here, Run Like Hell both from same concert. On The Turning Away live 1988 also very good.
I was at that concert (three rows from the front, almost centre stage) and this was the 2nd encore. By the time they got to this, they had been playing for just over 2 hours. And if THAT solo had been an hour long. NOBODY there would have minded - or cared. And well done for not pausing the solo - so many others do and are rightly castigated for it. Also, the original edit is much better than this re-edited version (though the audio is the same [almost]) This version slightly edits the solo - you can tell by how fast that circular screen is levelled above them.
The ladies in the back take center stage in "The great gig in the sky" my second favorite Pink Floyd song after this one. The original by Clare Torry. The ladies from this concert did a great job and I love their version also but Clare Torry will always and forever be the GOAT for Great Gig In The Sky imo.
Some facts (no doubt on repeat). The band Pink Floyd started in 1965. David Gilmour joined in 1967/8. This song is from their The Wall album from 1979. This performance is from 1994. Gilmour (the guitarist) just finished touring the US (2024) is now 78 years old and is still killing it on guitar.
Welcome to the Prog rock rabbit hole Pink Floyd has been part of my soundscspe for 50 years. I am now 61, and I FINALLY Get the lyrics. How they wrote this in their 20's is beyond me Great reaction
The lyrics describe how Waters felt as a child when he was sick with a fever. As an adult, he got that feeling again sometimes under different circumstances. He told Mojo magazine (December 2009) that the lines, "When I was a child I had a fever/My hands felt just like two balloons" were autobiographical. He explained: "I remember having the flu or something, an infection with a temperature of 105 and being delirious. It wasn't like the hands looked like balloons, but they looked way too big, frightening. In a radio interview around 1980 with Jim Ladd from KLOS in Los Angeles, Waters said part of the song is about the time he got hepatitis but didn't know it. Pink Floyd had to do a show that night in Philadelphia, and the doctor Roger saw gave him a sedative to help the pain, thinking it was a stomach disorder. At the show, Roger's hands were numb "like two toy balloons." He was unable to focus, but also realized the fans didn't care because they were so busy screaming, hence "comfortably" numb. He said most of The Wall is about alienation between the audience and band. The line "That'll keep you going through the show," refers to Roger getting medicated before going on-stage. He explained: "That comes from a specific show at the Spectrum in Philadelphia (June 29, 1977). I had stomach cramps so bad that I thought I wasn't able to go on. A doctor backstage gave me a shot of something that I swear to God would have killed a f---ing elephant. I did the whole show hardly able to raise my hand above my knee. He said it was a muscular relaxant. But it rendered me almost insensible.
Some say this the greatest guitar solo of all time. Those who disagree are wrong. A lot of people who’ve never listened to Pink Floyd assume their are metal for some reason. They’re clearly not, bug their music somehow transcends labels. Most metalheads are also Pink Floyd fans, they tap into something similar somehow even though sonically there are few similarities
I was at at least 4 pink floyd concerts every one a great experience the music is great but the live concerts are an experience you'll never forget and are hard to describe in words to others 😊😊😊😮😮❤
Kate, nice reaction! You just witnessed arguably the best performance in the history of rock by the band that has entered the spatial tear in the universe..........and reached the space where one is divided by zero..........undefined.........Pink Floyd is my fav band of all time and my 2nd fav artist!
Great reaction , don’t forget to watch Sorrow, High Hopes, Coming Back to Life , Wish You We’re Here, same Pulse concert 👍. The whole Pulse concert is great .
I love how David Gilmour stands there in a t-shirt and jeans, looking like someone's dad about to go out and mow the lawn. Then he calmly rips your heart out with the greatest guitar solos ever.
Greatest band in history and Gilmour the greatest guitarist of all time. I grew up listening to Pink Floyd and other great bands of the greatest era of music, unlike today's rubbish
Probably the best concert guitar solo ever recorded. Thank you for not interrupting the guitar solo. If you ever do interrupt a Gilmour solo you hear about it in comments. Next song, Great Gig in the Sky. Don’t do any research on the song before hand. Just listen to it.
Check out any song from this show. They do a couple from a few different albums. "Time" and "Money" from "Dark Side" are classics. "On the Turning Away" from "Momentary Lapse of Reason" is a great one. The 50th anniversary was 2023 for "Dark Side of the Moon" as it came out during my sophomore year of high school in 1973. It also spent 900 weeks on the Billboard charts.
Thank you for your brilliant reaction. You really do need to watch 'Great gig in the sky' from the same concert. I like the original - both studio version and live (I was around back then!), but the Pulse version is something very special.
I was there, and for me that night could never be bettered. Lets not forget though the 90 people that were hurt on the first night, when temporary seating collapsed. It wasn't supposed to be that temporary.
Best live band in the history of the world
Totally agree!
facts
No doubt 👍👍
Yup.
Hard to argue that.
Congratulations! You’ve just experienced the greatest guitar solo in the world - of all time!
Edited guitar solo
@@davidboyle2476 This is true. A few verses have been cut from the guitar solo.
It is impossible and useless to rank artists or art and say which is the best. But David's beautiful, melodic solo has probably touched more people emotionally than any other solo in classic rock. It must be pretty good if it makes a grown man like me cry like a baby.
@@paanikki, as you are saying... the solo is considered to be the best ever.
Actually prefer the edited version. @@davidboyle2476
You have started down a rabbit hole from which you will never recover. Good luck. ❤
It is very deep and worth every inch. Floyd is music for a lifetime.
There is "Music" and there is "Pink Floyd". They brings you somewhere out of your body!
Pink Floyd made me fly for the last 55 years and I've been bless for that!
Me too, Brother!!!
Me too!!! ❤
I was fortunate enough to be in the crowd this night. It was the most amazing gig I've ever been too
I like the version with David Bowie and Crosby and Nash. Try that one out.
the entire pulse concert is fantastic like this, each song different and great
I was in Venezia july 1989, and personally prefer Pompei's live version.....anyway best solo ever🎉
You will love any song from the Pulse Concert😊
Pink Floyd..the best of their genre and the greatest guitar solo ever by David Gilmore. Your continuous smile said it all. Music can say more than words ever can! Great reaction. Your smile is infectious. So keep smiling.
Guy Pratt, the bassist here, still performs with David. I just saw both of them in LA a month ago, and was hands down one of the best concerts I've ever seen. Also, how in the world has someone never heard this song before?
Wow, what a emphatic and joyful reaction ... you can choose anything from David Gilmour's PULSE Concert ... maybe a good start is "High Hopes" "Sorrow" or "The great gig in the the sky"
Thanks friend. That's a great suggestion!
"Wish You Were Here"
Run like Hell from this Pulse concert which was the encore.
I saw Pink Floyd on this tour in 94, as well as a few other times. The music is a life altering experience. Being there live can’t be compared to anything else.
Massive Floyd fan since 1972 when i was 10 my dad bought me Meddle my 1st Floyd LP . Seen them twice The Wall tour 1980 and this concert Pulse Tour 1994 , two of the best nights of my life
You have stumbled upon the greatest group of musicians, playing the best music you will ever hear. Please do yourself a huge favor and continue the life changing experience that is Pink Floyd. Their concert in 1994 for the release of the album "The Division Bell" is known as the "Pulse" concert, and is what you saw for Comfortably Numb. You will enjoy anything and everything from Pulse, but check out High Hopes, Coming Back to Life, Learning to Fly, Sorrow, Wish You Were Here, Shine on You Crazy Diamond, and Run Like Hell to start!
I disagree. Metallica holds that honor.
This concert is 30 years ago and is probably the pinnacle of modern music. David Gilmour (guitar and vocalist) is now 78 and has just completed a tour with his band and daughter on vocals and harp. Some video of his concerts at Madison Square Gardens earlier this month is available on UA-cam.
I've just seen him for the first time this year at the Royal Albert Hall in London .
Phenomenal . Probably just ruined any other concert I attend lol
Nothing wll match that night for me
I never got the chance to see Pink Floyd in concert. I’ll bet it was quite an experience for those lucky enough to have seen them.
Sorry to hear that you never saw them live. The Pulse concerts were probably the best live shows that ever got to tour. Although it is not the same as being there, the remastered video is fantastic especially if you can get to hear it through a home cinema sound system.
Wonderful réaction to probably the greatest guitar solo by one of the greatest bands ever to play live. That performance (which I was at) is 30 years old but the music is timeless. I am 75 now and been a Floyd fan since 1966 and still get goose bumps listening to all their music. The whole 1994 Pulse concert is incredible, great musicians and arrangements, flawless surround sound system and breathtaking visuals. If you have to pick out a couple of numbers try High Hopes, Sorrow, One of these days, Learning to fly and an epic finale Run like Hell. But their whole album catalogue awaits you. Welcome to the emotional world of Pink Floyd.
My regret was that that was the last time I saw them live, they basically stopped recording and touring after the death of keyboard player Richard Wright in 2008. Dave Gilmour (guitar) has toured several times (the last ending in New York, last week aged 78). Nick Mason (drummer) has also toured playing early Floyd classics. Bassist at Pulse, Guy Pratt plays for both bands. Check out Dave Gilmour's latest tour videos.
Good luck and future listening of the great Pink Floyd.
Pink Floyd is Progressive Rock.
And Blues.
And Funk, Country, Electronica, Classical, Folk, Orchestral, Jazz, Choral, even Music Concrète.
Regardless of style, they make you FEEL.
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Nobody else does music quite like The Floyd.
Been watching this video for 30 years and I'll never get sick of seeing reaction videos. It's so cool to see people blown away by it like I've always been. That solo🤘
The PULSE Concert was a LEGENDARY show. It actually turned out to be the band's final tour, in support of “The Division Bell”, their final studio album. (They released one more studio album, some 20 years later, but it was mostly out-takes and un-used material from other albums. Not really the same.) They recorded 16 nights at Earl’s Court, in London, and crafted the PULSE recording from the best of those two weeks (so named because the original CD release had a red LED in the spine which flashed, or 'pulsed’.)
Pink Floyd were musical perfectionists, so the audio from this show is immaculate. As for the light show, well……you saw it. The whole night was like this. You can watch anything from this concert and trust that it will be AMAZING, with visuals that will knock your viewers’ socks off. It was one of the very first computerized light shows, and because in 1994, no one had any idea what a computer WAS, never mind what you could do with one, the performance was literally INDESCRIBABLE to anyone who wasn’t there, because there was nothing else to compare it to. Years later, when the DVD was released, you could at least put it on, and tell people, “THAT. THAT'S what it was like to be there!”
I saw this concert with 65,000 friends, and it was mindblowing. The concert was actually BETTER than it looks on video. The Floyd put speakers around the venue perimeter, so sound could come at you from anywhere, and as you see, the performance was not limited to just the stage ~ you felt like it was an Experience, and you were inside that experience. You can choose to react to “Wish You Were Here”, a poignant conversation with the memory of a former band-mate, Syd Barrett, whom they had to fire after 3 albums because of his LSD use and mental health issues. Or “Time”, about living and dying in 3/4 time. Or “Run Like Hell”, “Another Brick In The Wall (part 2)”, “Money”, pretty much anything you want from PULSE. They’re all impressive. My personal favorite for showing you what it was like to be in the audience that night is “One Of These Days”.
Pink Floyd brought their own reality, and for three hours, they let us visit them there.
WOW- I had no idea it was their final tour! Before you said "It was one of the very first computerized light shows" I was thinking it must have been one of the first. To be there and experience that for the first time must have been next level! Just like you said- it must have been indescribable because the words wouldn't have even existed! I believe you that it was better in person- it always is! Just the energy from the crowd would have been mind boggling. There's a word in the Maori language that describes an indescribable- almost transcendent- experience you get from watching a performance. Your description reminds me of that (although I can't think of the word and google isn't helping to jog my memory lol).
Thanks for the suggestions- I really appreciate it!
This was back in 1994, 30 years ago. The whole concert / production was so ahead of its time, it still feels fresh today. Next: „High hopes“!
The song was already great when released on The Wall album. David transformed it into history with this concert. If you go way way back to the 60s and listen to Biding My Time off Relics album. Then start here:
Pink Floyd achieved success in London's underground music scene, led by the singer and guitarist Syd Barrett.[5] They signed a management deal with Peter Jenner and Andrew King (Blackhill Enterprises) in October 1966,[6] and recorded a demo shortly afterwards to attract record label interest.[7] In 1967, they signed with EMI Columbia and released their first single, "Arnold Layne",[8] followed by the album The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.[9]
Barrett left following mental health problems in 1968, and was replaced by the singer and guitarist David Gilmour. Both appear on Pink Floyd's second album, A Saucerful of Secrets,[10] the first of several to feature cover artwork by Hipgnosis.[11] In 1969, Pink Floyd released a soundtrack album, More, and a combined live and studio album, Ummagumma.[12] Atom Heart Mother (1970) was a collaboration with Ron Geesin, featuring an orchestra and choir.[13] Meddle and the Obscured by Clouds soundtrack followed in 1971 and 1972.[14][15]
Pink Floyd's eighth album, The Dark Side of the Moon (1973), sold more than 30 million copies and is one of the best-selling albums of all time.[16][17] It has been reissued as a Quadrophonic LP and 5.1 surround sound Super Audio CD.[18] The Dark Side of the Moon was followed by Wish You Were Here (1975), Animals (1977), and The Wall (1979); all except Animals reached number one in the US, and The Wall is the highest-certified multiple-disc album by the Recording Industry Association of America.[19][20] Pink Floyd released few singles after Barrett's departure, though "Money" was a US top-20 hit, and "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 2" reached number one in the UK and US.[21]
The bassist and singer Roger Waters became Pink Floyd's dominant force from the mid-1970s. He departed in 1985, declaring Pink Floyd "a spent force",[1] and unsuccessfully sued to dissolve their partnership and retire the name.[22] The remaining members, led by Gilmour, continued recording and touring as Pink Floyd, releasing A Momentary Lapse of Reason (1987), The Division Bell (1994)[23][24] and The Endless River (2014).[25]
In 2010, Pink Floyd sued EMI for unpaid royalties payments and for publishing their back catalogue on streaming services without their consent. A settlement was reached the following year, with the publication of the individual tracks on iTunes, and re-releases of The Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and The Wall.[26] In 2016, Pink Floyd established a record label, Pink Floyd Records, and launched an extensive reissue programme of their work on vinyl and CD, and a box set The Early Years 1965-1972 containing a significant amount of previously unreleased material.[27][28] In 2022, they released a one-off single, "Hey, Hey, Rise Up!", featuring the Ukrainian artist Andriy Khlyvnyuk, in protest of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Run like hell, one of these days, sorrow.. all musics in pullse concert. Pink floyd the best band live in the world
Lady .. WELCOME .. To " Pink Floyd " ! Enjoy the worlds BEST no comparison ever EVER ! Best concert without a shadow of a doubt especially as this was in 1994 was there with my daughter .. Can't put it into words how we felt after the show ! Enjoy ..
Shine on you Crazy Diamond, in 2 parts, is quite extraordinary, and magical ❤
They didn't even end the show with this song! This performance was incredible, 30yrs ago!
Pink floyd is a rarity in that they are even better live than on the studio version . I was at this concert in 94 , and at the end I was crying knowing that I would never see another concert like this again . A truly out of this world experience .
Same, kinda. I saw this tour here in the States and I began to get teary eyed when I realized they were playing DSOTM in its entirety. DSOTM was my intro to PF back in 1973 when I was just 9. I never thought I'd ever get to see it performed....until this tour.
Ok, so your smile is a joy to behold! Totally infectious and I love it. Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands of all time. Uniquely deep and stunning in every way. David Gilmore is the GOAT on guitar!
Thank you Lawrence- I wear my retainer every night 🤣. David Gilmore does indeed seem like a GOAT!
Every song at that concert was amazing.
From the same show, which I was privileged to have attended two of the sixteen nights, High Hopes, Keep Talking, and One of These Days.
Great reaction!! Just remember to never, ever, ever pause during a David Gilmour guitar solo!! It's sacrilege!! Let the dive down the rabbit hole commence!
This was probably the greatest live show of all time!
You could start with the opener: Shine on You crazy Diamond and work your way through till the final encore, Run Like Hell. Every single song is a breathtaking performance! The whole show is available on youtube. The Dark Side of the Moon is performed in it's entirety, it's a concept album so there are no breaks between individual tracks and the transitions are subliminal! You may need to react in two parts, ending with The Great Gig in the Sky and the 2nd reaction beginning with Money....
Enjoy!
Thanks for letting me know Nick! I didn't even realize I did 🙈🤣
I was lucky enough to be at that concert! Absolutely unforgettable!
Great reaction! Beautiful smile!
One of the best guitar solos of all time!!!
On The Turning Away, beautiful lyrics and music.
Just start listening to all of it - Dark Side of The Moon, The Wall, Animals, it’s all high art that moves your soul.
If you liked that, the whole Pulse concert is full of all Pink Floyd legendary songs. It truly is on a level that few concerts could ever reach. You'll be blown away in the best possible way if you invest the time to watch it from start to finish. It will open your eyes, ears and mind to the brilliance of this band. I hope you watch it, it will leave your chin on your chest.
I love that description- "chin on your chest." That sounds epic!
That's exactly the reaction we had when they released that song. It was the age of real music! Thanks, for the great video!
You just heard the greatest song ever recorded! I listen to this song at least once a day. Enjoy the Floyd journey.
Yup i was there at 22 yrs old now im 52 .30 yrs ago omg. REALLY liked your reaction. Wasnt that the coolest show EVER!!!.
19yo, Denver Colorado.
Still the best concert I've ever experienced.
I've seen Page & Plant, The Stones, Aerosmith, The Dead, you name it. Even Chuck Berry, John Kay and Steppenwolf.
AC/DC, Metallica.
Slayer in a small venue.
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THIS performance is the finest thing I have ever witnessed.
Every guitar 🎸 wants David Gilmour for Christmas. PF isn’t something you listen too, it’s something you experience. You just heard one of the greatest guitar solos in rock history 🤘 and thank you for not pausing during the solo! MORE PF! React to anything from the Pulse Concert… it’s a masterpiece. You won’t be disappointed!
Saw them at the Ex for the Division Bell tour. Best live show I've ever seen.
I was never lucky enough to bag Pink Floyd tickets .
But this year a dream and bucket list came true . I got tickets for David Gilmour at the Royal Albert Hall 11th October . I dont think any concert i attend for the rest of my life will live upto that night. .
Did security for them at Knebworth and the Royal Albert hall. What a privilege!
I would suggest more Pulse Concert…Shine on you Crazy Diamond, Great Gig in the Sky…everything is awesome.
High Hopes from the same concert is amazing
Pulse concert.... All of it.. Especially Run Like Hell, One Of These Days, Great Gig in the Sky... Time
NOW YOUR IN THE FLOYD FAMILY! LIVE IT LOVE IT. WE LOVE YOU!
Always heart warming and touching to see people of all ages discover Pink Floyd. My son was born in 2009 and Comfortably Numb is his favourite song and me and my son both share the love for David Gilmour’s solo, which you also discovered.
There is a Pink Floyd that’s named Take It Back, so you can try that one. But first you need to check out The Great Gig In The Sky, Wish You Were Here, Shine On You Crazy Diamond. All from the same Pulse tour and newly digitally renewed on UA-cam. And all of the videos from Pulse are mesmerising to watch, pieces of music history, played by one the world’s best live bands live.
Also from Pulse: Sorrow, Another Brick In The Wall, Us And Them, One Of These Days
I love your energy :) Will love to watch more reactions with you ;-)
PF and the members of the band, so special. This song always makes me tear up! Ahead of their time and will always be timeless!
Well , you've sure heard of Pink Floyd now , great reaction !
This amazing performance can only be equaled by your smile and enthusiasm 🎉❤
The sparkle in your eyes! Me o my o!
Bellissima! E che sorriso meraviglioso che hai. ❤❤❤❤🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹
Another great song to see is... i wish you were here
Seem them in concert back in the day twice.
THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU!!! One for your Amazing, heartfelt Reaction. Two for reacting to this particular song in this particular concert. The Pulse concert is absolutely perfect.
And three perhaps most importantly for not breaking the cardinal rule of Never, Ever, Ever, interrupting a David Gilmour guitar solo!
Your Enthusiasm , your smile are infectious I look forward to seeing more of your reactions to Pink Floyd on the whole butt in particular this concert. ❤
Or any guitar solo….
A milestone in the history of music.... I was there -95
That stage is designed as an eye! The center eyeball starts to look down and the lights focus onto David Gilmore.
The light in the middle of the ball I think is suppose to be a Diamond?
I was at a Punk Floyd concert in the early 90’s for the Division Bell tour. Best concert ever. Things happening all over the stadium.
I wish I could have gone to more of them back then.
When I got my first CD player, it’s was still a new and expensive thing. I can’t remember if my first or second CD was Pink Floyd, Dark Side of the Moon, or Dire Straits, Brothers of Arms.
Pulse show was 1994 (I think) and was the last full Pink Floyd tour. Final ever show was 2006 at the Live8 show (includes Comfortably Numb). I think the Pulse show has the longest guitar solo. David Gilmour is one of the greatest guitarists ever for sure. He still does that song in his live show (recently finished a tour).
You are crazy!!!!! . . . . . .and I like that!🥰
LOL! "This guy is pretty good."
True enough. You know, I also heard that Pope guy is kinda of religious...
I loved your reaction, it's always good to see someone get blown away from hearing Pink Floyd for the first time. Well done! 😊
Hi, i flew from Australia just for the PULSE concert, i have been a Floydy for over 50 years now, and taught myself to play a guitar after hearing, Wish you were here. another good song is Time (studio version). the lyrics are 100% true, and makes you think. if you want a good sound, listen to welcome to the machine, (studio version) with a good set of headphones, volume UP lights down. Every PF album is a journey and each track is a different road on that journey. 😁😁😁 David Gilmour can make a guitar, talk sing and cry all at the same time, and the song has nothing to do with drugs as many people think. It is an autobiographical song by Roger Waters the original bass play about when he got sick as a child,and again when he was on tour, the doctor was called, gave him some medication, and that's why he became comfortably numb.
Next song should be "The Great Gig in the Sky" from the same 1994 Pulse concert.
That oughta blow your socks off and send you tumbling down the Pink Floyd rabbit hole.
RIP Richard and Claudia. Daft fact. The mirror ball cost about 50 grand and used a lighthouse lamp. Great reaction. No Roger here of course, but Guy Pratt does a grand job.
Watched this live on Pay Per View when they done this show, could not get any ticket's for it. i had an 8 track player and would put there tape in when i went to sleep and just listened to it over and over all night, did the same with most of the albums.
Masterpiece.
As others have already said you can’t beat any track from the “ pulse” concert. There is something to bear in mind when experiencing Pink Floyd and that is that there are some tracks that put you in the right place for the next track so under ideal conditions should be experienced together for example “ Time” followed by “Great Gig in the Sky”….
Great Reaction Sorrow from pulse concert is Awesome also Wish You Were Here, Run Like Hell both from same concert. On The Turning Away live 1988 also very good.
Thanks for the suggestions!
I was at that concert (three rows from the front, almost centre stage) and this was the 2nd encore. By the time they got to this, they had been playing for just over 2 hours. And if THAT solo had been an hour long. NOBODY there would have minded - or cared.
And well done for not pausing the solo - so many others do and are rightly castigated for it.
Also, the original edit is much better than this re-edited version (though the audio is the same [almost]) This version slightly edits the solo - you can tell by how fast that circular screen is levelled above them.
Saw them twice in the 80s. Awesome.
Got to see them 3 times ,I'm lucky
All I can say is, you should of seen it live.....unreal!!!
The ladies in the back take center stage in "The great gig in the sky" my second favorite Pink Floyd song after this one. The original by Clare Torry. The ladies from this concert did a great job and I love their version also but Clare Torry will always and forever be the GOAT for Great Gig In The Sky imo.
Some facts (no doubt on repeat). The band Pink Floyd started in 1965. David Gilmour joined in 1967/8. This song is from their The Wall album from 1979. This performance is from 1994. Gilmour (the guitarist) just finished touring the US (2024) is now 78 years old and is still killing it on guitar.
You have just experienced one of the most epic guitar solos ever!
Welcome to the Prog rock rabbit hole
Pink Floyd has been part of my soundscspe for 50 years. I am now 61, and I FINALLY Get the lyrics. How they wrote this in their 20's is beyond me
Great reaction
Take a song like time.They were young men but to have the insight that they did,or rather Roger Waters did to write such insightfull lyrics
The lyrics describe how Waters felt as a child when he was sick with a fever. As an adult, he got that feeling again sometimes under different circumstances. He told Mojo magazine (December 2009) that the lines, "When I was a child I had a fever/My hands felt just like two balloons" were autobiographical. He explained: "I remember having the flu or something, an infection with a temperature of 105 and being delirious. It wasn't like the hands looked like balloons, but they looked way too big, frightening.
In a radio interview around 1980 with Jim Ladd from KLOS in Los Angeles, Waters said part of the song is about the time he got hepatitis but didn't know it. Pink Floyd had to do a show that night in Philadelphia, and the doctor Roger saw gave him a sedative to help the pain, thinking it was a stomach disorder. At the show, Roger's hands were numb "like two toy balloons." He was unable to focus, but also realized the fans didn't care because they were so busy screaming, hence "comfortably" numb. He said most of The Wall is about alienation between the audience and band.
The line "That'll keep you going through the show," refers to Roger getting medicated before going on-stage. He explained: "That comes from a specific show at the Spectrum in Philadelphia (June 29, 1977). I had stomach cramps so bad that I thought I wasn't able to go on. A doctor backstage gave me a shot of something that I swear to God would have killed a f---ing elephant. I did the whole show hardly able to raise my hand above my knee. He said it was a muscular relaxant. But it rendered me almost insensible.
Best guitar solo ever
I suggest "Echoes" from "Live in Gdansk": stunning.
I saw them on this tour and the live show was capital-A amazing
The Guitarist; David Gilmour - A Living Legend. :)
The greatest Guitar solo ever in Rock!
Some say this the greatest guitar solo of all time. Those who disagree are wrong. A lot of people who’ve never listened to Pink Floyd assume their are metal for some reason. They’re clearly not, bug their music somehow transcends labels. Most metalheads are also Pink Floyd fans, they tap into something similar somehow even though sonically there are few similarities
I was at at least 4 pink floyd concerts every one a great experience the music is great but the live concerts are an experience you'll never forget and are hard to describe in words to others 😊😊😊😮😮❤
Kate, nice reaction! You just witnessed arguably the best performance in the history of rock by the band that has entered the spatial tear in the universe..........and reached the space where one is divided by zero..........undefined.........Pink Floyd is my fav band of all time and my 2nd fav artist!
Hear PINK FLOYD ONCE YOU'RE A FLOYDIAN FOR LIFE 😊
Great reaction , don’t forget to watch Sorrow, High Hopes, Coming Back to Life , Wish You We’re Here, same Pulse concert 👍. The whole Pulse concert is great .
I spent many hours in a darkened room with headphones just letting the musical textures wash over me.
I love how David Gilmour stands there in a t-shirt and jeans, looking like someone's dad about to go out and mow the lawn. Then he calmly rips your heart out with the greatest guitar solos ever.
Glad to see the younger people enjoying what music sounded like back when I was a teenager.
Welcome to the best musical experience you will ever have, enjoy the ride
Greatest band in history and Gilmour the greatest guitarist of all time. I grew up listening to Pink Floyd and other great bands of the greatest era of music, unlike today's rubbish
Probably the best concert guitar solo ever recorded. Thank you for not interrupting the guitar solo. If you ever do interrupt a Gilmour solo you hear about it in comments. Next song, Great Gig in the Sky. Don’t do any research on the song before hand. Just listen to it.
Love your energy.
PF is absolutely legendary.
❤❤❤
Check out any song from this show. They do a couple from a few different albums. "Time" and "Money" from "Dark Side" are classics. "On the Turning Away" from "Momentary Lapse of Reason" is a great one.
The 50th anniversary was 2023 for "Dark Side of the Moon" as it came out during my sophomore year of high school in 1973. It also spent 900 weeks on the Billboard charts.
Thank you for your brilliant reaction. You really do need to watch 'Great gig in the sky' from the same concert. I like the original - both studio version and live (I was around back then!), but the Pulse version is something very special.
"Time" can be life changing.
Thank you for noticing the keyboard chimes
I was there, and for me that night could never be bettered. Lets not forget though the 90 people that were hurt on the first night, when temporary seating collapsed. It wasn't supposed to be that temporary.