David Gilmour: Remember That Night - Live At The Royal Albert Hall [Blu-ray]

David Gilmour: Remember That Night - Live At The Royal Albert Hall [Blu-ray]
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David Gilmour: Remember That Night - Live At The Royal Albert Hall [Blu-ray]

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Actor: David Gilmour
Director: david mallet
Brand: Sony
Blu-ray: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language)
Format: NTSC
Running Time: 120 minutes
Blu-ray Release Date: 2007-11-20
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Sony BMG
Product features:

1 .Speak To 2 .Breathe (In The Air) 3 .Time 4. Breathe (In The Air) (reprise) 5. Castellorizon 6. On An Island featuring Crosby & Nash 7. The Blue featuring Crosby & Nash 8. Red Sky At Night 9. This Heaven 10. Then I Close My Eyes featuring Robert Wyatt 11. Smile 12. Take A Breath 13. A Pocketful Of Stones 14. Where We Start 15. Shine On You Crazy Diamond featuring Crosby & Nash 16.

Blu-ray Reviews of David Gilmour: Remember That Night - Live At The Royal Albert Hall [Blu-ray]

Blu-ray Review: Five hours of David Gilmour
Summary: 5 Stars

Wow, over five hours of David Gilmour. I have to say first off that watching this always makes me think of Pink Floyd in Pompeii. At that time David Gilmour bore a striking resemblance to Leonardo Dicaprio, whereas in this he bears a striking resemblance to Malcolm McDowell or Terrence Stamp, but with less hair. He's onstage at the Royal Albert Hall, very much the leader of his band of 10 musicians, many of whom are there to recreate the multiple guitar parts of his Pink Floyd and solo songs. Included from his solo albums are only songs from the recent "On An Island" (nothing from "About Face" or "David Gilmour", for some reason) and he brings David Crosby and Graham Nash to sing harmonies with him. Crosby, Gilmour and Nash sound great, although Crosby and Nash look funny - the former short and paunchy with his hands in his pockets all the time and the latter both boogying and grimacing strainingly as he sings. For a hippy bluesman, it's a bit odd that Gilmour has such a posh accent, but those guitar solos are great, even if he is also a bit paunchy and makes frog faces as he makes his guitar grown and wail. He mostly plays his all-black Stratocaster, although he does pull out a gold Les Paul for a song, and also a flesh-coloured Telecaster, as well as various Turkish string instruments, slide guitars, and at one point a saxophone. Disc 1 is a full concert recording of one of the band's nights at the Royal Albert Hall. Gilmour starts the album with three songs from Dark Side of the Moon - "Speak to Me," "Beathe", they skip "On the Run," then play "Time." It's odd, to me, to not hear the full album (I never listen to single songs from that album if I don't have to) but those three songs sound good, especially the saxophone solo done by Dick Parry, the original performer from Dark Side of the Moon recording - he switches from a baritone sax to a tenor sax without skipping a beat, great stuff. Gilmour and the band then plays the full new album, and it's tight and meaty, with two songs featuring Crosby and Nash, and one with Robert Wyatt of Soft Machine playing the trumpet from his wheelchair. After a break, they come out and play "Shine On Your Crazy Diamond", which for a while is just David Gilmour and Richard Wright behind his impressive bank of keyboards. There is a very nice version of "Fat Old Sun" from the "Atom Heart Mother" album, and also an impressive "Echoes"... which does hearken the listener back to Live At Pompeii... These people have come a long way in 35 years. "Wish You Were Here" feels very personal before it picks up in a band thing. David sings "Find The Cost of Freedom" with Crosby and Nash, one of their songs, before bringing out David Bowie to sing "Arnold Layne" and "Comfortably Numb." It might be hard to imagine Bowie singing Pink Floyd songs, but he does a great great job and makes it sound natural (interesting how I also bought a Bowie CD on the same day, "Live Santa Monica "72'). The solo from "Comfortable Numb" is stunning, especially the lead-out version, which just screams and screams and screams. Dear Lord!!! The crowd were dancing in the aisles, it was terribly moving.

But ultimately, while the cameramen do get some nice shots of David soloing and do zoom in on his fingers (one of the main reasons I bought this) the concert suffers a bit from a lack of attention to this point and also some choppy jumping around from player to player, and also an odd "over-the-precipice" camera boom shot that they throw in from time to time that looks like it is the same shot over and over again (you couldnt' tell if it was taken at a different time in the concert, since it was so far from the stage). But this is not a major problem in the video, since there is plenty of everything to please the viewer and the Pink Floyd fan, especially the nuggets and the great guest features.

Disc 2 has nice songs on it, as well as some documentaries. For the songs, they do "Arnold Layne" and "Comfortable Numb" with Richard Wright instead of David Bowie from the other nights at the Royal Albert Hall and it's not quite the same - Wright does seem a bit stodgy and square, he clearly has none of Bowie's mojo. Theres also a nice version of "Wot's... Uh, the Deal" from "Obscured by Clouds", one of the nuggets they dug out and a very nice one indeed. Also some Syd Barrett songs "Dominoes" and "Dark Globe." A cool live-in-the-studio verson of "Astronomy Domine," an impromptu rendition of a part of "Echoes." There are five songs performed in the BBC Mermaid Theatre that were part of the first public performance of the album. The video for "On An Island" is very nice, especially the solo which shows David playing in his room of guitars. Smile has background vocals from Polly Sampson, Gilmour's wife, a sweet ballad.

There are also some good documentaries, such as 45-minute "Breaking Bread, Drinking Wine" about the "On An Island" tour. They band rehearse in the UK at the same production area that Roger Waters is also renting a part of, so there's a scene of the two having a brief chat and hugging (lots of hugging in this one) and also Nick Mason appearing with David's drummer Steve DiStanislao. Hanging out with Crosby and Nash and Bowie (3D, as in three Davids - Bowie, Crosby and Gilmour), David practising saxophone, and then going on tour. They play a castle in Linz, and David does "Dark Globe," his first performance since Syd Barrett died and the first time he'd ever practiced or performed "Dark Globe." They play at an old Roman amphitheatre in Vienne in France, and of course they reference Pompeii by showing the band doing "Echoes.' They play in the Florence piazza, then also in San Marcos square in Venice where they run into all sorts of logistics problems. There are fun incidents about playing water glasses onstage, and when they run into a street performer who does this in Venice they drag him onstage with them. At the end they meet Lech Walesa and play the shipyards of Gdansk on the 26th anniversary of the Solidarity movement, which is moving. Before the documentary starts a message says "when you see this special mark press enter to see extended content" which means you don't have to hunt around for secret easter eggs to access stuff like this.

A 17-minute documentary on the making of "On An Island" is not as good, although you do get a sort of tour of the Astoria, which is Gilmour's houseboat recording studio on the Thames. There are some stories about the inspirations for some of the songs, and tales of how the lyrics got added and why. There's also five minutes of backstage images from the west coast of the US, which are only interesting because Jude Law shows up, and maybe Crispin Hellion Glover (but I'm not so sure if it's him or someone else).

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Description of David Gilmour: Remember That Night - Live At The Royal Albert Hall [Blu-ray]

This Blu-ray Disc includes more than 5 hours of footage, including the concert filmed in High-Definition. It features a performance of David Gilmour's celebrated third solo album On An Island in its entirety, along with Pink Floyd classics. Plus, it has special guest appearances by David Bowie (on "Arnold Layne" and "Comfortably Numb"), Crosby & Nash (on "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and others), and Robert Wyatt. The concert audio was mixed in 5.1 Surround Sound. This Blu-ray Disc is Region A encoded.

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