Cluster One live

Was it ever played live??

I really wish I had a recording of this tune.

Maybe it's just me, but Cluster one is so powerful. It starts as random feelings, then it gains momentum and it focuses in an amazing argument between two entities who appear through the piano and the guitar, it reaches a climax and then it dissipates. Fucking awesome

To be perfectely honest I don't believe it ever was...just one of those songs that was either never played live and/or played live but not that often much like Wearing The Inside Out was only performed live mainly on the OAI tour...or like Childhood's End, great song, rarely played live

dunno if that answers your question or not

Personally I hated that they didn't use cluster one to start Pulse. SOYCD is hreat but its been done before: Delicate sound of thunder

I don't see why such a great instrumental couldnt have been used as an intro

But thats just me

I personally would have loved to hear Marrooned on pulse...or perhaps some Cluster One/Marrooned half breed medeily(medely? mediley? beats me you know what I mean)

Marooned will be on the pulse DVD...its a shame because its never coming out.

No, it's not just you, I totally agree here. I remember buying TDB back in '94 and coming back home anxious to play it. When "Cluster One" began I thought at the beginning "well, one more nice intro instrumental alla Signs of Life". But then the piano comes in and changes everything. It sets that sad/melancholic feeling that runs all through the album. But what I inmediately thought was "Hey! It's good old Rick back on board!". That interplay between guitar and piano is so beautiful. I have always thought that the best of those boys came out of their collabortive efforts ("Echoes", "Shine On", "Dogs", "Comfortably Numb"...)

No, it wasn't. It was the only song from the DB album not to be played live on the "Division Bell Tour".

Wearing The Inside Out wasn't played either. David's tour did it justice at last because, despite that, the song eventually became a fan favourite.

Yes, you're right. "Cluster one" is the only song from the DB album that was never played live.

Actually, parts of "Cluster One" opened the 1994 shows every night as part of their intro tape.

The sounds of the earth's crust cracking (which are heard at the very start of "Cluster One"), along with many other effects, were incorporated into the ambient soundscape that played for over 45 minutes as the audience was filing into their seats. Part of this was included on the Pulse audio cassette... but it's pretty boring and sometimes downright irritating to listen to, on its own.

You can hear a tiny bit of this during the intro to "Astronomy Domine" on the live CD - some of the spaceship noises from it were crossfaded into Rick's morse-code keyboard riff.

I happen to think that the song itself is a bunch of noodly twaddle, mind you. If they ever did play the whole thing in full, next to "Shine On", it would ridiculously derivative. On that note: how on earth did Gilmour & Co. find the ability to play "Poles Apart" and "Wish You Were Here" in the same two hours of stage performance without their ears burning in embarrassment?

I was 13 when I heard it and it completely blew me away. Yes I know its a subtle piece but its amazing. Good Job RW

12 years have passed but I remember that! But it wasn't included in any setlist.