“1972 saw the release of ‘Pink Floyd Live At Pompeii’, a film of the band performing without an audience in the historic Roman amphitheatre of Pompeii, directed by Adrian Maben. The concert film is the 2016 re-edited version as featured in ‘The Early Years 1965-1972’ box set and will appear as part of the @YouTube Film Festival for a period of *24 hours only*.”
Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii
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I’ve only got twenty three hours left? But I’ve got a sandwich to make, the olive trees need pruning, the cat has just been sick again and that pesky woman across the road has just taken her top off again. I’d love to watch Floyd Live On Vesuvius but not sure I can fit it in to my busy, busy schedule.
ps the pesky woman is called Emilie, let’s hope she plays
I curse Emilie and her debauched mannerisms. She’s leading you down a path of distraction on the road to unbridled folly.
A path? A road? I’m on the highway to fallingasleepdom
Without an audience? How prescient of them.
I’ve got it on DVD thanks, budget price from the Co-op some years ago. Some great stuff on there like Echoes, Careful with that Axe, Us and Them in the studio. Saucerful of Secrets is a bit hard work. The ladies will love the boys with their shirts off. Proper cinematography. I expect you all know this. Nice to have lots of uninterrupted music. No annoying audience distractions. A preminition of the corona times. Actually I enjoy seeing the audience most of the time, like Monterey Pop which would lose something without those scenes. The Pompeii film is great though.
Great film. Went to Pompeii a few years ago and, despite all the great history, most of what I thought about was David Gilmour with his slide guitar bit on ‘Echoes’.
Haven’t seen this for years so looking forward to it.
I prefer the long edit where you see them having breakfast in the canteen at EMI and recording Dark Side Of The Moon. Was that only ever out on video cassette?
This film is burned into my retinas. I thought they were the coolest band in the world and I still consider Dave Gilmour’ s strat and echo effect as the height of guitar god-ness.
Went to see the latest remastered version of the film on IMAX today.
Whilst the sound was brilliant, I was a bit underwhelmed with film quality. Maybe I was expecting too much.
£23 for a ticket to the pictures too ( because it was classed as a Special Event ). OUCH !
I intend to go and close my eyes. They weren’t Pretty Things
I have been reliably informed by those who take keen interest in such things, that D Gilmour circa 1971/2 was an Extremely Pretty Thing.
Even with that greasy hair?
I guess I’ll have to have a peak. I believe they spend some time in the baking sun without any shirts.
Nick Kent and the NME at their factual best/worst…and still reverberating! Who’d a thunk it??
The one time I saw them live, they all looked like smelly hippies. But, then, so did the audience.
I bet you had a sharp haircut, pixie boots, a long raincoat and a fodera…
NB: that should be fedora (hat) – not Fodera© (guitar)…
Hush Puppies, drain pipe trousers, Fred Perry T and a sharp blazer with short, cropped hair, as I recall.
I seem to have assumed post-punk/New Romantic, rather than mod…not sure why…
That was 1973. Should have seen me in 1981!
I can attest as an entirely heterosexual man that Dave Gilmour had me thinking twice having just seen the rerun at the Olympic studios cinema
Great cinema by the way