Pink Floyd - Pulse Live (Concert Plus Features - 2 Discs) New Dvd Region Free (2006)

I was born in 1964, so was not of concert going age during the Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, or even Animals Tours. However, I worshipped Pink Floyd, and would play their albums until the grooves were worn to nothing. Like most teens growing up in the 1970s, Dark Side was my all time favorites, and was especially enjoyed with headphone while, um, let's just say enjoying certain libations not approved by Nancy Reagan. By the time I got to see Pink Floyd live, it was after Roger Waters had left, and a nasty lawsuit between him and the remaining members was over, leaving Gilmour and the others with the right to continue under the same name. The excitement of going to the show was somewhat less than it would have been had the group been unchanged. I was always one of those who thought that Roger was Pink Floyd....and I could not have been more wrong. The "Momentary Lapse" album was outstanding, as was the concert at Tampa Stadium in the mid 1980s. While Roger's contribution to the group can not be overstated (He wrote almost all of their stuff, including all of Dark Side), he is simply, and unfortunately, not needed at all for the PERFORMANCE of their music. Almost all of the vocals on Dark Side come from one of the greatest guitarists of all time, David Gilmour (save Brain Damage, which actually sounds just as good with Gilmour singing). If their were a trial on whether Pink Floyd can perform without Roger at the same level, then this DVD, PULSE, would be Exhinbit 1. In fact, it would be the whole trial, and the case would be closed. Pulse was performed in London in 1994, and David, Nick, and Richard are at the very top of their game. Sure, by now David is in his 50s, and may not have quite the voice he did in his 20s, but you would never know it. The production of this concert is "insane good." One of my favorite parts of the DVD is the end of side one, when they perform "One of These Days," featuring David Gilmour haunting riff on the lap slide guitar. This pre-Dark Side song, which was released as the first track on Meddle, would be seemingly difficult to play in concert with all the multitracking they did in studio production, but the concert version is even better. Side Two of this DVD is worth the purchase price alone. I mean, "Dark Side" played in concert, all the way through, without interruption? WOW. Pink Floyd was always famous for it's props and light shows, and this concert does not disappoint. Again, the Director of Photography, Editors, and Production Team do just an incredible job of capturing what is going on during this performance. The only draw back during Dark Side is no one can match Claire Torrey's vocals on Great Gig, but the back-up singers do an admirable job trying to fill her shoes. That may be the only song that can never be truly reproduced in concert (and to think that she came into the studio in 1972 during mixing of Dark Side pulling what amounts to a one hour "session" shift for $50, crying towards the end of her shift, upset at the "bad job" she had done). The Curtain Call songs on Pulse were perfectly chosen. The Band comes back on stage to play a set starting with Wish You Were Here, written at the time in the 70s as a song for Syd Barrett, the original leader of the band who was replaced in the 1960s due to severe mental illness. One is left to wonder if this was now included as a message to Roger (or, was the acrimony still too fresh from the bitter lawsuit, and perhaps me just wanting to believe they could want to re-unite at some level). Wish you were Here is then followed by two great songs from The Wall, Comfortably Numb and Run. This is 5-Stars, and it is not even close. I wish I could give it 10 stars. As I started, "I almost feel bad for Roger." I have seen Roger Waters no less than four times in concert, and while he is great, it is his shows, albums and performances that have greatly suffered from his departure. Sure, he is the genius who wrote almost all the post 1970 stuff for Pink Floyd, including Dark Side and The Wall, but, frankly, his talent is not needed at all to perform these masterpieces. I mean, I love Roger, but by the time he writes "The Final Cut" the band was being dragged down by his obsessive predisposition towards dark war-time music. "Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking" can only be enjoyed by someone like me, who is a true fanatic, but the album is pretty lame and sounds more or less like an extension to The Final Cut. While Roger was writing Pros and Cons in yet another attempt to illustrate his angst at a-hole war time leaders, David, Nick and Richard were getting on with their lives, and coming out with "Momentary Lapse"....pulling off what many thought impossible without Waters: A Quality Pink Floyd Album true to their heritage. By the way, you can tell that this concert is recorded in the 1990s, because during "Brain Damage," when the song starts "The Lunatic is on the Grass", the overhead movie shows George Bush, SR standing outside on the grass. If the concert were more modern, say, 2005, then one has to believe the entire movie would not have been of Sr, but rather........... well, you decide.

What a great DVD set. Especially considering that it was recorded in 1994 when the audio/visual technology was still far from the high def/digital audio available today. The picture quality is crystal clear, and the audio has been enhanced to provide you with two Dolby 5.1 choices (448kbps & 640kbps). The sound is incredible, especially with the 640 option. A stereo option is also available if you don't have a Surround system. Enough of the technicalities...the performance was spectacular. David Gilmour, Nick Mason and Richard Wright were all perfect. 8 others joined the band, including Guy Pratt who filled in the gaping duet hole for Roger Waters in Run Like Hell. Disk one, or should I say Pulse One, features Shine On You Crazy Diamond, Learning to Fly, High Hopes, Take It Back, Coming Back to Life, Sorrow, Keep Talking, Another Brick in the Wall (part 2), and One of These Days. Pulse Two is The Dark Side of the Moon disk. You get: Speak to Me, Breathe in the Air, On the Run, Time, The Great Gig in the Sky, Money, Us and Them, Any Colour You Like, Brain Damage, Eclipse, Wish You Were Here, Comfortably Numb and Run Like Hell. There are tons of bonuses that include screen films, Bootlegging the Bootleggers and other shorts...2 hours of bonus material in total. Everything is here that a Pink Floyd fan could want...except Roger Waters. What a shame that whole thing is. How I wish...how I wish you were here. But rest assured that this is an absolutely amazing and fulfilling show. No expense was spared on the theatrics either. Very cool lights, video and stage. And everything from the performance to the stage show is captured expertly...especially the performance. The video never jumps around before you have a chance to take the shot in; you feel like you're sitting in the front row...not watching a DVD. I'm not the biggest Pink Floyd fan out there. I don't have all their albums; I have the studio versions of the recordings that any rock fan has. But let me just say that I was blown away by this DVD release. It goes without saying that true Pink Floyd fans don't need to be told to add this upgrade to DVD from video to their collection. It might need to be said that if you've ever listened to Pink Floyd or enjoy their music at all that this DVD needs to be added to any rock fan's cart. It is superb, and a valuable addition to any music collection. Buy it!

Love this dvd

I bought the VHS of this when it came out and thought it was good. But this is AMAZING! The remastered sound is incredible. All the musicians are totally on for this performance. David is one of the most passionate and soulful guitar players out there. His solos are so tasty. His tone is magnificent on this concert: Each song is dialed in perfectly from clean, to gritty to heavy distortion. His singing is great too. I love the dancing/singing ladies - they really liven up the performance. The light and laser show is beyond amazing. The only bummer is they didn't get this on film. They video quality is limited and doesn't capture the full grandeur of the light show. But it still is amazing. I have many concert DVDs & BluRays and have seen quite a few shows in my day. This has to rank as one of the all-time best rock concerts, ever. My friend, that lucky duck, saw them in the US on that tour and said it was beyond amazing, a religious experience. I'm jealous as I'll never see them.

I attended four of the performances at Earls Court. Having flown from South Africa to London, I was hardly going to attend just once. The opening night's show was actually cancelled/postponed after a section of the stadium seating collapsed and sent a few fans to hospital (they were lucky enough to be visited in hospital by some of the band the next day.) The cancelled show was re-held a few days later. Of the four shows that I saw, each one had minor variations in the set list. Two of the four featured the full Dark Side of the Moon performances. The shows were spectacular and the band right "on" each night. It's been a long wait for this classic show to make it out on DVD and the wait is finally nearly over! Those of us who "met" on the 'net over the weeks prior to the show and congregated at the White Horse (pub near Parson's Green tube stop) please try and contact me via email: white-horse-inn at KuyperHoffman dot com UPDATE post release: I have not actually yet had a chance to watch this (maybe this evening?) but first note is that it has been distributed as a Region-Free (Region 0) set! This is wonderful news and brings hope for those who fear one day moving to a different country and face replacing their entire collection of DVDs (or "breaking the law" by copying their discs with a region-breaking app or hacking their DVD players.) Political BS, this region encoding. I am really looking forward to watching this and reaching my own conclusions regarding the A/V quality. Finally, also to chip in on the 4:3 vs 16:9 aspect ratio - as much of a widescreen fan as I am, I would also hate to see the video refactored by the studio - if you want to watch it in widescreen, simply use the zoom feature (never use "stretch") on your TV/projector - it will just as easily throw away the top and bottom of the screen as the producers would have. [RANT ON]Stretch is dreadful as it warps the image, making objects at the edges appear fat and distorted. TNT have a nasty habit of applying stretch to some of their "hidef" programming. Horrid, just horrid. [RANT OFF] Enjoy this concert for what it is and also take its ultimate release date as a fitting tribute to Syd's passing.

Yes, Walter, you have a bad copy. Return it. This is a 4 1/2 star production to me. The video from THIS DVD concert, has been re-done, and looks spectacular on modern large TVs. It chronicles an incredible concert, (however I am still awaiting the Delicate Sound of Thunder DVD, another phenomenal Floyd Concert from the late 80s), captured in October 1994 at Earls Court in London, topping off their US tour of April, May and June of 94. There is a lot of good news and a bit of bad in this release. YES, the audio is far, far superior to the VHS version which was reverb-y and filled with audience noise and mush. This is pristine, wonderfully remixed from the masters, music. Most artists do NOT bother to go directly back to the original masters. Dave and Co. Did. However, it comes at a slight cost: One of These Days was butchered. They left off all the special fx material following Guy Pratt's bass feature in the middle, leaving Rick Wrights superb, ingenious hi freq, cross channeling space music on the cutting floor, and the wonderful echoplex-like digital delay on Dave's pedal steel guitar was woefully dropped in favor of the more staid, cleaner master mix direct to the board from the instrument. I object, respectfully, David. Put it back. I know they are thinking about their legacy, and striving for peak musical performance, but, and it's a big but, the deleted track leaves a big hole in everyone's favorite metal Floyd song, flying Pig included. One the plus side, I love the Bootlegging the Bootleggers tracks! On the Turning Away is simply staggeringly good. This was Floyd and Gilmour at the very best, with Dave's strat, and his array of HiWatts turned up loud, and ad-libbing and improving left and right with brilliant material and great lead guitar work, despite the accidental laugh at the beginning of Dave's singing after the a ca pella. Marooned is similarly spectacular. I saw several of their concerts, and this is what they were like live most of the time, creative, doing different shows in different cities, even re-arranging the same songs in consecutive nights. The audio is SO good, you can hear one of Tim Renwicks guitar amp speakers blow a voice coil in one song. That is pretty clean. AND you get the choice of 400 or 600 KBPS audio. That is dandy. For those familiar with the prior PULSE VHS, this is that concert, just looking and sounding better than you could EVER have imagined. I also really like having the films behind the band, chronicled for closeup viewing to music, in special features. I wish they would have included some material for concert B (which started with Astronome Domine, not Shine On), but, hey, you can't have everything. Simply put, a spectacular concert by a spectacular rock giant. I love it. Now, for Delicate Sound DVD. I say bring it on, Dave, the sooner the better. I love Pink Floyd. Had they left the One of These Days material in, I would have given it a 5. Four and a half stars for a great group of musicians and singers; Pink Floyd, THE premier British music institution of the 80s and 90s. Zep owned the 70s.

As a recent, uh, Pink Floyd/David Gilmour fanatic (like, umm 50 years late for this boat sailing), I saw the few videos on Youtube of these concerts, and I just HAD to buy this DVD. I was not disappointed. Nope. As for the seller: Excellent! Received it earlier than expected, even if it's final stretch getting to my house was via the USPS (no offense, but jeeze, there are only 2 houses on my block and half the time my neighbor gets my mail!). Quick and prompt. As for the actual DVD: Was a bit disappointed with the "booklet" that came with the DVD, and the fact that subtitles were not included. There was a warning about "infrequent, moderate course language." Well, if there WAS any, I didn't hear it, so... Spoiler Alert: The British crowd was ridiculously respectful. Kept to their seats and "oooh'd" and "awwed" at the appropriate times. The last song, though--"Run Like Hell?" Jeezy Petes! Nearly wet my pants (figuratively AND literally). Like the finale of a spectacular fireworks display on the 4th of July, without the mosquitoes. Well worth the price of the DVD (which was extremely reasonable, IMHO) just for this ONE song, and if you watch it on Youtube, you will find my honest "course language" in the comment section. Seriously. Holy flippen f-bomb. Yeah. So buy it. Wowza.

Nice concert.

Perfetto!!! 5 stelle sia per il venditore che per il concerto fantastico!

"THE" Floyd! Que dire de plus... Magique, exceptionnel, toujours aussi envoûtant, toujours aussi parfait sur scène, le Floyd quoi ! Ca se passe de tout commentaire. Âgé de 57 ans et fan inconditionnel depuis toujours, Pink Floyd reste, et restera pour moi, le plus grand groupe de rock progressif/psychédélique de tous les temps. Musicien, mélomane, j'ai pourtant écouté à peu près tout ce qui se fait je pense. Beaucoup sont bons, très bons, voire excellents; certains les frôlent, mais aucun à mon sens ne les égale. De la création à l'interprétation. Du génie musical à l'état pur! Merci Messieurs et hommage à Syd et Rick😪

... oder doch eher eine Galaxie über allen anderen Musikern? Ok mit meinen 24 Jahren gehöre ich nicht unbedingt zu der Zeit, wo Pink Floyd ihre Höhepunkte hatten. Man kann auch sagen das die 70er und die 80er ein bisschen an mir vorübergingen. Allerdings konnte ich mit dem Möchtegern-Techno der 90er und dem peinlichen Einheitsbrei von heute auch nichts großartig anfangen. Trotz alle dem besitze ich heute eine stolze Plattensammlung und bin stolz ausschließlich gute Musik mein eigen nennen zu dürfen: Peter Gabriel, U2, Prefab Sprout, Kraftwerk, Human League, Duran Duran, A-ha... sind nur einige Beispiele. Aber ich habe mir überlegt: Jetzt besitze ich alles was gute Musik ausmacht, aber was ist mit Pink Floyd? Mein Vater ist von denen begeistert, ich selbst kam mit den langsamen Midtempo-Bombaststücken nicht so zurecht. Habe deren Musik also nur oberflächlich gehört was ein großer Fehler war! Als dann die DVD P.U.L.S.E von den Legenden erschien, wollte mein Vater unbedingt das ich mir das mal ansehe. Zuvor hatte er mir das Konzert von Roger Waters The Wall in Berlin geschenkt. Da ich davon begeistert war habe ich gedacht, gut warum nicht. Eine CD von diesen Legenden muss man eh in einer sehr guten Plattensammlung haben .Also ok heute hingesetzt, Dolby-Anlage auf... ... und erst mal alles verarbeiten. Anders kann ich es nicht beschreiben. Man kann diese Musik nicht beschreiben! Diese Dynamik, diese Präsenz, die Stimme von David Gilmour, diese Gitarrensoli, also so etwas geniales als Live DVD habe ich noch nie gehört. Sogar bei “Wish you were here“ kamen mir die Tränen! Das hat keine Band jemals bei mir geschafft! Aber mir ist das nicht peinlich. Das alles sollte eigentlich für die Qualitäten dieser Band sprechen. Zudem lassen die überarbeiteten Live-Versionen der Songs ihre alten Albumversionen zum Teil komplett alt aussehen. Bei der Aufnahmetechnik hat sich eben einiges getan. Vergleiche ich jetzt nach dem ich das gesehen habe, diese Musik bzw. Konzert-DVDs mit anderen Künstlern, ist das einfach eine andere Liga was die Floyds da zelebrieren. Ich habe auch andere tolle Musik-DVDs aber dass rockt ja wohl alles weg! Vor allem bei “Comfortably Numb“ das nun viel frischer und rockiger klingt, stockt einem bei dem unglaublichen (!) Gitarrensolo eh der Atem! Auch die Lichtshow sucht ihresgleichen. Man bekommt hier einiges geboten für sein Geld. Fast schon peinlich das ich um diese Band so lange einen großen Bogen gemacht habe. Eigentlich will ich jetzt nichts anderes mehr hören. Technisch ist die DVD auch einwandfrei. Das Bild wurde ganz gut auf das 16:9 Format übertragen, hier und da ist das Bild aber zu verrauscht und unscharf. Das Material war aber von 1994 also verzeihbar. Dafür punktet der Sound der vor allem bei den Drums und beim Bass druckvoll zeigt, was der Subwoofer leisten kann! Man sollte allerdings seine Anlage etwas lauter stellen, da zumindest bei mir das Konzert einen Tick zu leise abgemischt wurde. So und jetzt höre ich weiter!

Há anos que tento encontrar esse DVD. Consegui. Nota 10. Comprem imediatamente.

Pulse fue la última gira de Pink Floyd y para muchos la mejor del grupo. El concierto es un repaso a su historia tras publicar The Division Bell y no baja de la excelencia tanto en la puesta en escena como en la interpretación, desde el principio con Shine On You Crazy Diamond hasta el apoteosis de los bises (Comfortably Numb y Run Like Hell), pasando por temas de sus épocas sinfonicas y sicodélicas. Es una pena que no exista en versión Blue Ray aunque dudo que la calidad de imagen original diera para mucho más (la relación de aspecto era por aquella época 4:3). El sonido sí que está a la altura y se puede (casi diría que se debe) escuchar en Dolby Digital 5.1. La carpeta es de cartón e incluye un libreto de 4 hojas con créditos, fotografías y una guía de los menus de ambos discos. En el hipotético caso de alguien no conociese a Pink Floyd, este doble DVD podría ser la mejor tarjeta de presentación. Para el resto de gente me extrañaría que no tengan una copia de este clásico de la historia de la música del siglo XX