Pompeii DVD

Bought the Pompeii DVD today (import). I'll post my impressions ASAP.

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"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk." Tom Waits

This is the greatest..Just having Dave going all out on Echoes...omg its soo god damn frickin awsome!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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"How long could we maintain? I wondered. How long until one of us starts raving and jabbering at this boy? What will he think then? This same lonely desert was the last known home of the Manson family; will he make that grim connection when my attorney starts screaming about bats and huge manta rays coming down on the car? If so, well, we'll just have to cut his head off and bury him somewhere, 'cause it goes without saying that we can't turn him loose. He'd report us at once to some kind of outback Nazi law enforcement agency and they'll run us down like dogs. Jesus, did I say that? Or just think it? Was I talking? Did they hear me?"

It rules. Its the BEST. All concerts , all shows. This rules them all. I love that time of music. When they played psyk rock.

Ever seen the movie True Romance? Dennis Hopper gives an explanation of how black people and italians get along really well.

I've got Pompeii DVD for a week by now and I think it's an excellent product. Not perfect but still a must buy for every Pink Floyd fan.
The Concert: I should assume everyone has seen the videotape once in his life but I have to state once again that it's a wonderful one. Pink Floyd were at their peak and the 1970-72 period is my favourite Floyd era, creativeness, madness, talent. The sound is excellent and I have no complains about the absence of a 5.1 mixing. The video quality is also very good.
The Director's Cut: It basically adds some elements to the 2nd version of the movie (the one with the Dark Side sessions): some are very interesting, some (the new CGI parts, namely) are just stupid.
Extras: The Adrian Maben interview is interesting but it's a pity we don't have some memories from the band members. The rest of the stuff is a nice bonus.

Great DVD guys, probably the best Floyd DVD out there, at the moment I'd say.


P.S.:
Never seen that one.

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"Don't you know there ain't no devil, it's just god when he's drunk." Tom Waits

What songs are on the dvd

1.Echoes part 1
2.Careful with that axe eugene
3.a saucerful of secrets
4.us and them
5.one of these days
6.mademoiselle nobs
7.brain damage
8.set the controls for the heart of the sun
9.echoes part 2

Hey everybody, I bought the DVD this morning as soon as the record store opened at 10am and I must say that Pompeii is everything I remembered it to be (although my memories comes from renting an awful VHS version... analog crap...) and more!

I have a few questions about it ... the most important of them being:

1) In "Set the Controls" is it Gilmour doing the "ah-ah-ah" parts in between the verses and the repeated "set the controls for the heart of the sun" bit? It doesn't show any of them during that bit, and you can tell it sounds different from the rest of the song, which is a double-tracked Roger in unison with himself.

2) In the interview with Maben himself, he mentions he had footage of Roger doing the "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces" vocal bit. I was always under the impression that part was Mason. So, since it actually shows Mason during that part, was it an overdubbed Mason, or Roger?

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I just bought it today to. Wow man tis like totaly trippy I felt like I was on an acid trip watching it. But tis is really cool im glad I bought. Echoes is the best song on it.

Nice.

I've also managed to take the digital audio and make a perfect CD album copy for myself! I'm pleased about that Although that's technically not legal, I still own the DVD and the copy's for myself and myself only, so whatever.

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"...Did we do anything after this?"

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Personally I'm dissapointed... Does Mr.Maben think he's George Lucas? He's messed around with his movie a fair bit and NOT given us the opportunity to view the original version! OK, so there's the 61-minute "concert only" film, but it's non-anamorphic (meaning it loses quality on widescreen TV's) and the original interviews are not present.

I don't like the fact this new version keeps CUTTING AWAY FROM THE FLOYD! I mean, Maben can mess around with it all he wants, just give us the version we know and love on DVD too!

Anyway, it was GOOD to see the new B&W footage, but I would have prefered it as an extra. Anyone know why Gilmour & Wright were recording the Echoes vocals in Paris? This wasn't the actual studio recording was it..? Surely they weren't overdubbing the Pompeii footage!

Haven't played the interview yet, maybe it'll shed some light on it.

Sorry for the rant... but I found this release aggravating!

eh, you do have the original consert, but shut up. Your takling about my wife! The dvd is very good! I really hate those who always have to look after the worst sides of things. Ffs, get a grip! You nearly pissed me off

Seen the interview now... guess they were over-dubbing in Paris!

Maybe I'm a bit harsh on Adrian Maben, as it's probably Universal's decision as to which versions they put on the disc.

Seems there were 2 versions: the original concert in 1971 and the '73 re-release with interviews... and now the 2003 version. I still think all 3 - in 16:9 Anamorphic - should have been on the disc!

And the text is too small to read on the extra's!

End of rant.

I hate to burst your bubble man, but there are overdubs on Pompeii.

As I mentioned above, it's painfully obvious that in "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun" there is a double-tracked lead vocal. Roger recorded himself over top of himself singing in unison.

And also, as somebody pointed out earlier on in this same thread, the 16:9 footage of the concert film you see on the director's cut is actually cropped from the 4:3 version in the extras section.

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"...Did we do anything after this?"

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