Vasárnap letartóztatták a Pink Floyd gitárosának fiát, Charlie Gilmourt, aki részt vett az elmúlt napokban erőszakba torkolló londoni diáktüntetéseken. A rendőrség szerint ő is a zavargók közé tartozott, felismerték, amint egy zászlórúdon csimpaszkodott.
Meg van valakinek az a The Wall DVD, amit mostanában kapni a Tesco-ban? Sajnos nem tudtam lefényképezni a borító szöveget, de valami humoros történetről ír. Egy szkennelt vagy akár telefonos, de olvasható fotónak nagyon örülnék. :)
egyetértek.....én személy szerint örülök, hogy a The Wall-al is jön Bp.-re, nem érdekel, hogy esetleg itt-ott tátog, mint ahogy 2007-ben sem érdekelt, összességében nekem csúcs volt a DSOTM...és most talán az egyik utolsó lehetőség legalább az egyik Pink Floyd tagot élőben látni (egy Gilmour koncertre még nagyon elmennék ha lesz még valamikor a közelben), és részt venni koncerjén...nekem a Floyd a mindenem, először 76-ban "találkoztam velük" ...szegedi középiskolásként, Jugóból általam behozott bakelit formájában (nem volt egyszerű annak idején, a vámosok el akarták venni, mert az engedélyezett 2 lemez helyett én megvettem mindent amit kapni lehetett....), azóta a kedvenceim és ez már így is marad, ...playback ide vagy oda....az USA koncertekből én is letöltöttem talán ötöt...nekem szuper
LONDON - The hand-built quadraphonic mixing consoles used on Pink Floyd's Momentary Lapse of Reason and Division Bell world tours are to be auctioned at Bonhams on Dec. 15, with a percentage of the proceeds going to concert industry charity Stage Hand, the new name for the PSA Welfare & Benevolent Fund.
The consoles to be auctioned are currently owned by Britannia Row Productions (BRP), the sound company originally formed and owned by Pink Floyd. Britannia Row has been independent for the last 26 years.
Every Pink Floyd tour since the late 1960s featured quadraphonic sound - one of the many live sound and lighting effects pioneered by the band.
Sound effects including helicopters, the chiming clocks and gongs of Dark Side Of The Moon and many more. These were whirled around massive arenas and stadiums using banks of loudspeakers positioned in an approximate diamond layout, with one stack at the rear facing the stage, the two side stacks to either side on a line slightly behind the mixing desk position, with the main left-and-right PA handling the front ‘point' of the diamond. The effects were sent to the speakers using one of the special hand-built quadraphonic (quad) mixing desks.
Only six generations of quad mixing desks or external quad panning devices were made during the band's performing history between 1969 and 1994.
"We have kept these mixing desks on our stock and looked after them very carefully because of their historic place in the Pink Floyd performance legend," noted Britannia Row productions director Mike Lowe.
"With the onslaught of digital technology, the ways to deliver quadraphonic sound has radically improved, and we felt the best outcome would be to offer them to collectors at auction and in the process make a donation to Stage Hand."
Stage Hand (a.k.a. the PSA Welfare & Benevolent Fund) is a U.K. registered charity, supported by the Production Services Association (PSA), a trade body for concert and event crew. The Welfare & Benevolent Fund offers financial hardship support and retraining grants for those in the industry who are unable to work through illness or injury.
"This is a unique and exciting opportunity for a Pink Floyd fan, collector or museum to own a piece of the band's technical heritage," said Bonhams consultant specialist Stephen Maycock. "The desks are hand-built one-offs specifically designed for Pink Floyd's tours, and because the music world has adopted digital technology on a large scale, it's highly unlikely that anything similar will ever be made again."
For more information, please visit www.bonhams.com/entertainment
The Quadraphonic Sound of Pink Floyd: A Brief History
1: 1967 - The Azimuth Coordinator. A quad panning device that featured two panning joysticks in a large metal box, it was built in 1967 by Abbey Road sound engineer Bernard Speight and used for the Floyd's ‘Games For May' show at London's Queen Elizabeth Hall. It was stolen after the show.
1969 - Its replacement, a second Azimuth Coordinator, was first used at a Royal Festival Hall concert in 1969. It was also used by record producer Alan Parsons during the recording of ‘Dark Side of the Moon' (an album which was issued in both stereo and quadraphonic versions). This device is now on display in the Victoria & Albert Museum in London.
2. 1972 - British pro audio manufacturer Allen & Heath is commissioned to build the MOD1. This quad console was built for Pink Floyd's live use around 1972 and can be seen in their film ‘Live in Pompeii'. This was subsequently sold and is thought to have ended up in a lock-up garage in North London!
3. 1973 - Allen & Heath built a second quad board in 1973. This was used for the 1974 Winter Tour. Its whereabouts are unknown.
4. 1977 - Another British pro audio manufacturer, Midas, builds a pair of ‘mirror' PF1 consoles (so called because they exactly mirror each other's facilities). These were based on the Midas Pro4 console design. They had input and output sections and could be used as stand-alone consoles. They fed signals into a central, specially designed quad routing box, and were used on the 1977 ‘In The Flesh' (Animals) tour.
In 1982 a fire at Alexandra Palace in London, where Britannia Row had set up sound systems for the Capital Radio Jazz Festival, destroyed one of the Midas Mirror consoles.
5. 1982 - In response, Midas quickly built a one-off replacement to feed a quad panner built by Britannia Row electronics engineer Les Matthews for ‘The Wall' tour. This was built by and supplied to Pink Floyd by BRP. BRP is the sound company originally formed and owned by Pink Floyd, but has been independent for the last twenty-six years.
The original surviving Mirror board, the replacement for the destroyed board and the matching quad router are now on display in a Parisian Museum.
6. 1987 - The Les Mathews quad panning device went on to be used for the ‘Momentary Lapse of Reason' tour. (The tour was originally planned to last just 11 weeks, but ended up playing to 5.5 million people during 1987-89.) The device is one of the items to be auctioned at Bonhams on 15th Dec.
7. 1994 - Midas XL3 quad console. This was commissioned by BRP for the ‘Division Bell' tour in 1994. This is the second console to be auctioned at Bonhams on 15th Dec.
Both of the latter two units have been meticulously maintained in full working condition and the desk that was built for Division Bell has seen occasional use since Pink Floyd's last live touring show on October 29, 1994 at Earls Court in London.
Plébekk témában éppen ma volt yeeshkulon egy nagyon korrekt összefoglaló, alábbiak szerint már 84 óta tátog koncerten ezeken a számokon. A leginkább meglepő hogy a 2002-es (vagy mikor volt) turnén milyen keveset tátog... :-o
The Pros and Cons tour (You can already tell by the second leg his voice was beginning to go.) - Welcome to the Machine - Running Shoes ("So I stood by the roadside...") - Go Fishing ("We cut down some trees...") - Nobody Home - Every Strangers Eyes ("And now from where I stand...")
KAOS Tour - Welcome to the Machine - Nobody Home
In the Flesh Tour - Every Strangers Eyes ("And now from where I stand...")
Dark Side Tour 20xx (new vocal tracks recorded) - Have A Cigar - The Fletcher Memorial Home - The Gunner's Dream - Sheep - Time
The Wall 2010 (new vocal tracks recorded) Hey he's 67 after all. - In the Flesh - The Happiest Days of Our Lives ("But in the town it was well known...") - Mother (at least he admitted it was from the original Wall tour) - Empty Spaces (sometimes fully lip synced - others just from "Shall we buy a new guitar...") - One of My Turns ("Run to the bedroom...") - Don't Leave Me Now - Another Brick in the Wall Part Three - Hey You (last verse) - Nobody Home ("Ooooo babe when I pick up the phone...") - In the Flesh - Run Like Hell - Stop - The Trial
Ha jól rémlik Lunatic topictárs pont ezen a koncerten volt kinn és nem panaszkodott, tehát valoszinu a TV felé kimenő hanggal volt csak a gond. A többi pro shot felvételen ilyen bibi már nem volt.
Ha visszaemlékeztek a berlini Fal koncertre, neves pályájuk csúcsán lévő előadók is nagyon falsot tudtak énekelni élőben. Nem véletlen, hogy a dvd-hez újra fel kellett énekelni a hanganyag nagyrészét.
Én várom a koncertet és örülök, hogy amiről lemeradtam 30 illetve 20 éve - szent ég mekkora idő - valamilyen szinten pótlódik. Mivel a technika sokat fejlődöt azóta, biztos hogy nagyon profin kivitelezett, látványos koncert lesz.
Én már túl vagyok a "haragban a világgal" korszakomon és nem zavar túlzottan a "nem itt és most", nem keresek mindenáron okot a morgolódásra. Főleg egy ilyen kvázi zenés színházi produkciónál.
Persze jobb volna valódi live, de még mindíg jobb, ha csak tátog, mint ha agyonvágná a koncertet a fals énekkel (lásd Ozzy).
Természetesen egy klub koncerten, ahol érzed az izzadságszagot, ott nagyon zavarna a "fékezés".
Szóval én egészen biztosan élvezni fogom azt, amit az Arénában kapok majd.
