Pink Floyd: Pulse (1995)

The Pulse Tour, the greatest concert of Gilmour's life with some of the most classic, and memorable songs in history. Songs like Run like hell, comfortably numb, The Wall, Sorrow, and a dozen others from all of his famous albums. Richard Wright who was the keyboardist, died a few years back which halted the troupe's concert tour. Yet with all of the incalculable audience members who attended the concerts throughout the years, Pink Floyd who consisted of David Gilmour, Guy Pratt, Nick Mason, Dick Parry, Tim Renwick, John Carin, and Gary Wallis gave the world a gift of the surreal, the fantastic, and the strange through their songs which will to this day survive another four decades.Like the album 'Dark Side Of The Moon' which for over twenty nine years has never left the charts of the top 100 billboard. No other group in history let alone the history of music has ever achieved such a feat. Since Syd Barret's death, David often told the audience that his music was the pinnacle to their success. With drafts of original songs, which later were recorded and labelled as some of the most ingenious material David had ever read, and sang.After the album had left the charts most of the residual singles stayed on for another 1750 weeks, which made Dark Side Of The Moon, the most successful album to date. Even in the present times, most of today's youth listen to these classics for reasons to them, that they don't sound like a classic song Eg. Run to the hills, By Iron Maiden, or Relax, By, Frankie Goes To Hollywood. With their unique types of sounds, people can distinguish those tunes as classical yesteryear, albeit for some updated renditions to fit today's crowds. Yet Pink Floyd somehow managed to keep their stories blended well enough so that they can live on further into the future.Today however, Roger Waters still hangs onto the idea that the wall is the ultimate concert. With continuous tours around Europe, his blends of singing, and keeping the band hidden away for most of the show somehow lost the audience's faith in the Genre. After some deliberations between Gilmour, and Waters who was the original song writer for the movie, The Wall... both had put away hatchets, and began to give performances again together later in the early part of the 21st century. Since then Gilmour has more or less retired from the stage to appear now and again for other up and climbing bands who play, and sing most if not all of their songs to newer audience members.Critics around the world has hailed Pink Floyd as The Ultimate Concert Band Of All Time. From the late sixties to now, this band can never falter on giving those dreamers the best way to imagine the unknown, the surreal, and the strange. Highly recommended to those over 13.

--I did not get to go. Well, a lot of people in the states did not get to go. Unless they had tickets to London. The Pulse concert was a one and only.This is a performance, it is a big stage production, a rock concert, and not a movie. But almost like a movie. Pulse was one of the largest productions of it's type, possibly ever. Woodstock 1969 could not compete with that typification, at least at least not in technical terms. There were a few very famous people up there in the video disc, I won't say who. I have the first DVD released in the U.S. of Pulse. The disc, or each disc have all types of configurations. Configuring the sound is the mainstay of the controls. There is even a "pink generator" and that is a real sound configuration found in rarer and older theater system. Also a configuration for the speakers. I do not not have a lot of concert videos, this may be something normal.There are some very cool things going on inside that wheel, which is really half a wheel. This is not to even include the lighting effects. The Pink Floyd concert includes marvelous laser light effects, but there is so much more. There are singers, for Pink Floyd's 1969 classic Dark Side Of The Moon. There are videos. There is so much included in this concert it is staggering. The first disc is music that came out later, after Dark Side Of The Moon had sold millions of copies. On that first disc is beautiful incandescent lights, not to mention the laser lights. It's all a spectacular show, and the sound of Floyd does not run second rate to the visual auras surrounding the band.An excellent show, from any point of view. Even if you do not listen to one of the original psychedelic bands from England. Turn the house lights down, please..

This DVD release of Pink Floyd's Pulse displays how great Pink Floyd was as a band after Roger Waters departed/got kicked out. Many Floyd fans think that The Floyd wasn't that great without Roger Waters. This DVD proves all of them wrong. The recording shows how amazing not only the band's music is, but how amazing their whole concert production was. The newer material that the band plays is just as high quality as the older stuff of Floyd. It is simply a different era of the band. On the production side of things, the visuals brought to us by Storm Thorgerson on the large circular screen are amazing. The whole light show raises the intensity and effect of the music to another level. The new 5.1 surround mix is also top quality. I got jumped at the beginning of the second disc when the voices came out of the rears instead of the front. I thought somebody else was in the room! Overall, this DVD is enjoyable for not only Floyd fans but for anyone that enjoys good live music. I give it a full 10 out of 10.

Absolutely marvelous Pink Floyd concert. This is proof that their careers CAN still survive without Roger Waters. I'd have to give this show 12.5 out of 10!!!David Gilmour puts on an excellent show for the Division Bell tour (the album itself is actually not as bad as a lot of people might say it is.) Gilmour's singing and guitar work are through the roof! Nick Mason's drumming was awesome. Rick Wright still plays a good synth after all these years (I liked hearing him sing "Time.")The extra musicians are also good. Guy Pratt (who is now Wright's son-in-law) is awesome on the bass and when he sings "Run Like Hell." Tim Renwick's guitar solos on "Learning to Fly" and "Another Brick in the Wall" were cool. Jon Carin is a good second keyboardist alongside Wright. Gary Wallis's percussion was okay, but he seems to be making Mason completely obsolete.They played the entire "Dark Side of the Moon" album. Amazing! The "On the Run" video was extremely weird, but the end of the song is cool with the airplane (that's as much as I'm going to tell you about that, you'll have to see it yourself.) Gilmour does just as good as Roger did on "Brain Damage/Eclipse."Also watch for the three-piece encore performance. "Wish You Were Here" (better than the original) "Comfortably Numb" (best version EVER, I wish I was there) and "Run Like Hell" (ultimate Floyd party song!!)Absolutely fabulous concert! Now if only Pink Floyd would do some new material. It's about time!!!!