David Gilmour - Remember that night

Pink Floyd is beyond doubt one of my favorite bands. Their philosophical lyrics, psychedelic/progressive sound and David Gilmour’s guitar(s) crunching and weeping.

When I first bought the DVD “David Gilmour - Remember that night - Live at The Royal Albert Hall” I was a bit doubtful. He left out some serious favorites from The Wall like Mother, Goodbye blue sky, Another brick in the wall, Run like hell and from the album A momentary lapse of reason, On the turning away, which I though was a bit disappointing. David Bowie also did Comfortably Numb, which coincidently is one of my favorites and the first one I looked at and immediately thought “Argh no, Bowie, your messing it up, man!”. Needless to say it grew on me. It is different as Bowie sings it as Bowie and when Gilmour takes over at the chorus, it is Pink all the way! A beautiful collaboration.

It is a fantastic show. As elaborate and spectacular as you would expect from an ex Pink member. After watching it, I watched it again. I suddenly realised that I’m not even missing those classics anymore. I still have to watch the second DVD with the bonus tracks and documentary, but for the moment I’m stuck on the music, so it will have to wait.

One Comment to "David Gilmour - Remember that night"

• Juliana said: On 02/15/2008 at 12:32 am

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  “Open Preferences, click Browsing. Click the News Items tab—to enable Flash and video, make sure the box next to Enable plug-ins is checked.

  Click the Web Pages tab and repeat to do the same thing for web pages.

  A couple things to know, though:

  1. On some machines, you may have to enable plug-ins for both news items and web pages in order to make them work in web pages.

  2. Plug-ins are off by default because they’re unstable and eat lots of memory. (Flash in particular.) So if you run into memory or crashing issues, the first thing to try is turning off plug-ins.”
  I hope that helps - disregard if you already found the answer earlier.
  Best,
  J.

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