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Summary: Pulse - Beats At The Speed Of LIFE
Review: Like most Floyd fans, I enjoyed Delicate Sound of Thunder as a satisfying live Floyd concert video...but then came "PULSE".... and made DSoT pale in comparison. From the opening "Shine On..." to the explosive closing of "Run Like Hell" your visual and auditory senses are assaulted with essentially the best of "Division Bell", a small taste of "The Wall" and "Wish You Were Here"..but the cream of the concert is the complete performance of "The Dark Side of the Moon"!!!The light and laser show that accompany the songs, as well as the inclusion of filmed shorts make the whole experience mesmerising. There are so many great moments in the video, such as Gilmore's solo in "Comfortably Numb" blares on as the lights cascade off the separating glitter ball, the computer graphic short used in "Time", the opening of "The Wall-Part 2" as well as the best rendition of "Wish You Were Here" I've heard; which begins a 3 song encore. For VHS, the quality is outstanding for both the visual as with the sound presentation. Though I have owned the VHS taps since it was released; I will replace it with the DVD version when it eventually comes out. Highly recommended for all fans of Pink Floyd, as well as fans of great live concerts.
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Summary: To be released Mid-2005
Review: Very reputable sources say that Pink Floyd Management stated on February 15, 2005 that they just finished re-doing parts of the concert video in order to improve visual quality. They are now reviewing additional special features that have been submitted in order to make a final decision about what to include.
These revisions have given this DVD a very tentative mid-2005 release date.
The reputable source also states:
"It is worth reiterating that any versions of Pulse currently being offered on DVD in various places worldwide, are all fakes. This includes copies that proport to be official limited edition pressings from a few years back."
PS James Guthrie is currently re-mixing Wish You Were Here for a surround SACD release by the end of the year.
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Summary: Pulse DVD confusion
Review: Im farely new to the Pink Floyd dvd scene if you will, lovin the music and just started getting into the video. Now ive seen this Pulse DVD on amazon, is this the same one you guys are talking about? maybe im a little slow and its been released. But is this the same PULSE everyone is hyping about? And also ive heard about an LED type thing in it. Anyways, somebody please give me some fresh air on this subject. Is it released? Will it be?
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Summary: Someone tell me why
Review: I went to this concert in 94-95 and absolutely loved it...I have killed 2 VHS tapes and still love this thing. The music is 100% incredible....lights and special effects like no other... have been to many concerts and this one takes the cake....over the stones, Eric Clapton, The Who, Peter Gabriel....and the list goes on. I would highly recommend this product if it EVER GETS ON DVD!!!!!! ITS BEEN 10 Freekin YEARS....get on with it.
Why is it taking so long....they can produce an entire movie from scratch in less time. I was hoping this DVD would be here for Christmas....but maybe 2005.
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Summary: Anticipated release
Review: The VHS version of "Pulse" is as good as it gets in concert films. The rerelease will only be better,and hearing "Dark Side of the Moon" in its entirety live will be worth picking it up for. If Pink Floyd never do another live concert again, this is a spectacular ending to a decade-spanning career, although people still want one more show to include Roger Waters (and Syd Barrett).
Hopefully there will be additional songs, "behind the scenes" and the promo videos (when will they put out a video collection??) from "The Division Bell" on the DVD release.
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Summary: The best concert of all time
Review: This DVD is the epitome of concerts. The guitar work is excellent, the bassist, Guy Pratt, add hilarity to the show, and the drumming by Nick Mason and gary Wallis is superb. But on to the show!
The show opens with a medly of Shine On You Crazy Diamond(I-IV)/Shine On.. (V-IX)/Learning to Fly. After this spectacular opening has finished, Gilmour welcomes the fans and immediatly begins the awesome High Hopes, complete with a crazy video presentation that will make you wonder what he was on when creating it. After this is a medly of Take it Back/Coming Back to Life. This is awesome and needs not to be described, but seen! After this is Sorrow, a mammoth song with an awesome guitar solo at the start(The effects during this are wild!). Following this, they do Keep Talking, where theegyptian writing streaming across the stage, complete with lasers, adds to the already great song. They then follow with the only low point of the show; a medly of Anoter Brick in the Wall pt. 1/pt. 2. This starts out promising, but then the vocals come in. Pratt and Gilmour are not suited to this song, as you will see. However, the other guitarist, Tim Renwick, saves the day with an awesome solo following Gilmour's. Now, the next song is One of These Days, which to this day is one of the coolest things I've ever seen. You must see this to believe it.
On to the second set. Here the band does a perforanc of the entire Dark Side of the Moon album, with On the Run, Time, Us and Them, and Brain Damage/Eclipse being total highlights. Sadly, Money is drawn-out and the solo isn't done as well as before. After this, Gilmour thanks the fans and the band walks off. The encore begins with Wish You Were here, where most of the audience is holding out lighters. After this is the best performance, Comfortably Numb. Gilmour goe son this solo for roughly 5 mintues, and all of it is wild. To end the show, they chose Run Like Hell. This may seem odd, but when you see it, you'll know why.
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Summary: DVD release?
Review: From http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/
"We spoke with Pink Floyd's management today to get an update on the long-anticipated release on DVD of the live concert video, PULSE. Whilst it now seems to be developing into a bit of a long-running saga, getting it released on DVD, they are now hoping for a 1st December release worldwide, with the exception of the US, where the aim is for Thanksgiving - 25th November. This is by no means confirmed though - but just what the band and management are currently aiming at.
One of the reasons for the delay, is to make some technical adjustments and improvements. This particular DVD has a lot of complex features, and some adjustments to things like the menus has had to be done. The band want to make sure that this release represents the pinnacle of live concert DVDs, and so are happy to delay it if it means that the quality is just right."
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Summary: when is the release date?
Review: is it confirm this DVD is release in october 2004?
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Summary: Awesome Concert
Review: Gee, I had the chance to see these guys back during this tour in Philadelphia, but did I like them then, nooo, of course not- (kicks own ass). Sure, during this tour I think I was in 2nd or 3rd grade and during that time, my parents would only play Floyd CDs all the time, so it got a little tiring and of course, god forbid I gave in to their Adult music instead of the current Aerosmith fling I was on at that time...grr. But watching this concert always gives me the chills...especially the end of Comfortably Numb...Well, just watch what happens at the guitar solo at the end of the song and watch the crowds' reaction. Its an amazing scene. Anyone who has anything bad to say about this video except that its too short...needs to be dragged into the street to be beaten by a piece of heavy mining equipment and left bleeding in the moonlight. Almost sounds kinda romantic, lol. Overall, definately the BEST live video I've ever seen. Scared the crap out of some of my friends though, but for different reasons. One was totally at awe over the video and actually seemed to be in a trance because he was drooling, lol. The others' reaction was mainly, "hey who are these guys; I know this is a Pink Floyd song...But who are these old guys?"
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Summary: Thoroughly Disappointed
Review: What is all the hype about?!?! Out of all the Pink Floyd concerts I have on DVD (Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii, Roger Waters - In the Flesh Live, Roger Waters - The Wall live in Berlin, Pink Floyd - Pulse) this one is at the bottom of the list... and doesn't come close to comparing to the others. I searched far and wide to get my hands on this rare, limited release DVD. After watching it I can't believe the undeserved hype it has received on this and other review websites. Here's the main problem (among others): Hey, I'm trying to watch my favorite band perform live... could you please get that obnoxious giant circular video screen out of my line of vision!!! That's right folks - throughout this concert footage there are two main camera perspectives: One is a wide shot that is so distant in order to frame the gigantic circular video screen that you can't really see the band, and the other is more close up. But wait there's a catch. In the close up footage the producers have decided to superimpose that giant circular video screen again. It's baaaack. When viewing my monitor during these scenes I estimate that David Gilmour gets to occupy about 1/10th of the overall image. In fact, most of the time he is literally partially cut out and hidden behind this thing. It's really bizarre. In a nutshell, it's as if the producers are demanding that we watch their 'cool' film clips instead of the band. These clips run the gamut from the usual psychedelics to actual newsreel footage (some of which include images of George Bush, Bill Clinton, Vladamire Putin, Tony Blair etc. - Gee, thats something I look forward to in my Pink Floyd concert experience). YAWN! In all fairness the camera does occasionally go up on stage and roam amongst the band. But even here the cinematographers were trying to be really fancy and used blurring effects, overexposure and monochrome lighting and it just didn't work well. When the credits rolled I couldn't remember 'seeing' this band.
The performances are lackluster and I'm sorry to say that that includes Gilmour. The one exception to this is whenever Gilmour does go to town on his famous leads - all of which he does amazingly. But when the other accompanying lead guitarist takes the spotlight he takes too many liberties (see Another Brick in the Wall when he decides to do some Eddie Van Halen-esque fret tapping - man did that irk me). Unlike other Floyd concerts I own, here the backup female vocalists don't get a lot of attention. Perhaps that's not so bad because also unlike other Floyd concerts I own, here they are unremarkable.
I must agree with others who have reviewed this concert and say it is an awesome production. The light show, the pyrotechnics, the laser lights... amazing. But that's not why I bought this DVD. As concert footage, and as concert performance, indeed as an overall concert experience attempted to be captured on film, this is a huge disappointment. Granted, the encore performance builds to a musically and visually stunning climax but if you're a huge Floyd'o'phile like I am, be prepared to endure some frustration to get there.
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