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- The Wall by Pink Floyd is one of the most ambitions musical concepts ever recorded, producing a platinum double album, a phenomenal theatrical live show and a Hollywood film directed by Oscar nominated director Alan Parker. On today’s episode, learn how Pink Floyd made the album, the tour and the film. #musichistory #PinkFloyd #vinyl
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Watching this documentary makes me realize how focussed and hard-working progressive rock musicians were. Most musicians would be too busy partying and boozing to ever get projects like this to see the light of day. Incredible work ethic
Exactly. And the lyrics to Echoes, even mention the band getting up in the morning! Hard to believe, I know. "Cloudless every day you fall, upon my waking eyes, inviting and inciting me to rise. And through the window in the wall, come streaming in on sunlight wings, a million bright ambassadors of morning..." so on and so forth.
According to Mason, following Dark Side of the Moon the whole band excepted Waters struggled to get any once of motivation for the next album. Waters would ultimately force them, the band would produce a masterpiece and the cycle would repeat each time until hé just stopped asking them to write anything new. Even during intensive recording weeks the others would leap on any occasion to run away and do anything unrelated to the band, to Waters dismay. It’s crazy to imagine how many parts of their most iconic songs were initially just them procrastinating in the studio.
I didn't like or even listen to Pink Floyd earlier in my life cause the scene that people painted to me about the band and its music was "Stoner and psychedelic hippie rock" and "music to listen when you are high" (I mean you could why not) but my god how confused people are in identifying music, sure the early albums are psychedelic rock but from meddle onwards its a very different genre and really their music is so professional and introspective not in a snobby and pretentious way but in a humble and very human way.
Another band that worked unbelievably hard was Frank Zappa and the Mothers. I believe he was the only artist to ever actually play as a guest with Pink Floyd as early Pink Floyd like Piper was immensely influenced by Zappas first record Freak Out!
The interviews with the band members are good, as well I listened to the Genesis interviews, and they were very much the same. Not only were they up at nine working full days, but both bands were literally performing almost every day. Thats definitely one thing that separated them from a lot of bands, their dedication to working.
I saw the concert twice at Earls Court. And I've still got photos I took! Amazing experience.
Omg can you send/post the photos!? I would love to see them!
What a lucky Man you are ! I was to young in 1980 ...
I'm so jealous!
Post it on youtube!
Maaan I'm jealous. I was only 9 back then but I got to see them 1994. Wasn't the same thing without Roger. But a great show nonetheless 😊
Some time in 1979, when I was 9, we had relatives coming to visit our family, and when I told my cousin that I loved Pink Floyd's song 'Another Brick In The Wall', he got excited and said he'd bought the 'The Wall' album and that it was amazing, and he told me he'd copy it on tape for me - I'm still waiting for that tape today! x-))
@@mbear14 - Thank you! 😄
wow ask him
@@ledzeppelinrestores - LOL! Maybe I should!? 😄
ha ha same, but sex pistols never mind the bollocks. if he only still had it it's worth a few quid now.
you can make a copy of my album the final ship!
Gilmore solo on top of wall was the coolest live concert moment I have ever witnessed. The wall show was to far beyond any other live anent at the time. What a fortunate life moment. The opportunity to see Floyd perform the wall live at Nassau Colosseum. I still get chills when I think about it. Oh and the ticket was $15.00.
amazing... your generation had EVERYTHING... and now you guys are free to retire and become the landlords that collect rent from us the youngest, making everything unaffordable for us... "Renovating" the world.... nice fucking job... nice legacy for the world... take take take and leave nothing back
O man I bet! That’s my favorite guitar solo ever n love playing n that’s awesome you got to see them n the wall live. I saw roger waters do the wall in 2010 n was fucking brilliant n nick mason was there for the last 5,6 songs, but no David or Richard n Gilmores voice is the best n his playing is very inspirational to me. Lol I bet it was just $15, when my dad saw ozzy n Metallica in 1986, I think he said it was $18. Man, how times have changed both would be 10 xs that now. I saw roger a few weeks ago ( fucking excellent no shock there) but it was $115 for 2nd from the very very top of the arena, I imagine the floor was somewhere from $1000-$2000, but was amazing, absolutely loved it
@@codyjohnson4174 In December 1979, scalp tickets for the Wall concert in Madison Square Garden were $100. I don’t remember the actual ticket price (because they were impossible to get from the ticket office).
My sentiments exactly. I saw that show on the 3rd night in LA. My only regrets were that I wish I had been older and more aware of the backstory. Arguably one of the greatest rock shows ever. And it cost $15 in LA as well, but they only sold blocks of 6 by lottery. Great job of robbing the scalpers of their business. You had no Idea of what major celebrity might be sitting within a few seats of you
Jealous I was born in 1990. I consider myself lucky to have seen roger waters do dsotm and the wall and one of this other tours. I’d give a nut to be able to see them in their prime in the old barn
I waited 12 hours to see The Rolling Stones in 2006 under the sun in a stadium in my city, I would wait for days for a Pink Floyd concert today
What for?
Without Waters and Wright?
You can watch a Gilmour or Waters solo show instead.
Btw, saw two Waters shows and they were much better more exiting than every Floyd show without Waters.
Same ❤️
On the lighting, they were also planning to films the shows for a movie, but the lighting was not good enough for a good film, so we only got the see this show through bootleg films!
To contrast, I wouldn’t cross the street to see just about any so called band of today ! Sad for a generation to have no real talent left to follow.
Seen the Stones in 95 and Pink Floyd twice in the 90s as well. Fantastic shows worth every cent. Screw Roger Waters... If you're a millionaire you might actually get a seat where you can see the stage on his latest tour...
I just love that the idea was born out of such a personal experience that isn't relatable at all to us non rockstars (The disconnect between yourself and your audience), but so many of the songs on the album are relatable and speak to me personally.
Roachdogg Jr lol
That's kind of the thing of it though is that alienation is a universal experience. Rejecting that fact strengthens it even. This simple fact is lost on anyone experiencing alienation in the moment, in fact that kind of is what it is fundamentally
Well we can all relate to the ideas of building a “wall” to isolate yourself from the world in some way, but the specifics are very…. specific.
My father used to play "The Wall" for me when I was a kid, before I was old enough to discover my own music. It was one of my favorites among his extensive LP collection. He has since passed, I think about him and how much he would have enjoyed seeing this documentary, along with all the other album-related docs online. I wish he could be with me now so we could enjoy them together. Rest in Peace, Dad. And thank you for introducing me to Pink Floyd. I love you.
I was lucky enough to have see Pink Floyd twice in the 90s... Your Dad gave you a gift that will last forever...
@@prospero11 Apologies if you're being deadly serious but your phrasing at the end there made me LOL. Glad you're here to tell the tale!
Your Dad gave you a life gift of his experience
Of all that’s
FLOYD.
This is great, I consider this the best The Wall project analysis I have ever seen, it includes the original and rare material and is worth of using it as a lecture material
Agreed
and then ruined it by stating it was all because Roger spat at/on a fan/attendee, . . . was quite solid as a Documentary till then. = IMO
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@@theicebolt4361 I thought it an excellent example of Shakespeare’s “Why, then, ‘tis none to you, for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so.“ -Hamlet
[Pink Floyd fan since 1969]
@@theicebolt4361 why? Roger Waters even said that's the moment he hit rock bottom, from where came the impetus for The Wall. You just looking to take dumps on the internet all day, or what?
I would say he's put it in perspective, I always assumed it was because Roger was an arsehole. Now things make more sense.
Here's the super cut of all three making of The Wall videos. I read through all your comments on the three previous making of The Wall videos and made some minor changes. Most notably clarifying that fact that The Wall represents the last time the classic Pink Floyd lineup ever recorded together, I also cut out calling Snowy White a "roadie", my apologies to Mr. White and to those who pointed out my poor word choice. Thanks again for watching and stay tuned for a couple more Floyd related videos
Animals!
Or a Dark Side "redemption" Video. The last one was more about LSD than the music.
@@Always8Baka ah man I wish, I cover Animals at some point but DarkSide will be after that
@@VinylRewind That would be so so awesome 😍
Thanks by the way for your great reviews. Thanks to you I finally tackled the Wall.
Love from Germany!
Great job.I am now a subscriber.
Animals?!?
Rogers voice and growl after he spits on the fan just gives me crazy chills. You tell he was starting to go mad and you can feel his frustration
Richard Wright was done so wrong during this era, he contributed so much, but it wasn't apparent until they let him go. Thankfully David picked him up, and brough his enormous talent back to life, what a dude! The way Wright was treated is what solidified my opinion of Roger, and it has not changed, that's doesn't take anything away from his talent, but that's not all that matters.
Nah, he got a real taste of the good life based on the sheer brilliance of Roger’s visionary leadership and David’s guitar prowess. He’s lucky to have been a part of it. He got bullied by Roger a bit, but he had a quite amazing life. Even in his bad times, who wouldn’t have traded places with him overall?
THEY didn't do him wrong. Roger did him wrong. Roger was starting to shut Rick out during the recording of Animals.
@@jjmah7 Don't kid yourself. You're not a true Pink Floyd fan.
@@AFloridaSonDavid agreed with Roger, and even wanted Nick to go as well
The more time goes on the more Roger Waters is vindicated as one of the few people in the industry with integrity. I hate that David Gilmore sold out so hard
Props to this guy. He redecorates his shelf every time.
I saw the show in L.A. and it's still the most jaw-dropping theater experience I've ever had. Even with all of today's techno stages, The Wall as a live analog spectacle is beyond anything I've witnessed. Literally breathtaking artistry and sophistication. We were in the middle of the balcony, directly in the spotlight shining out from behind Gilmore as he played that solo atop the wall and it was a religious moment of light and music and emotion.
Technically, it was something that you just had to be there for. Like the giant puppets, the lighting rigs for the performers slowly moved around the stage with these ominous beams of light. During the recorded part with the groupie in the hotel room, the whole arena went dark and the sound was so clear it seemed like I was actually there in that little room.
One of the great showmanship qualities of The Wall was how throughout the whole first act and into the intermission, the tension of bricking away the band was a constant concern. What happens when everyone's behind the wall? I never knew what was coming next, but when it did it was jaw-dropping. The room coming out of the wall? Fantastic! The animation was genius and just went on and on, the images completely captivating and mesmerizing.
Just a few memories to share for those who are interested...
This video answered so many questions I've had since then. I've been so curious how the tech worked. Really enjoyable, minutely researched, and informative video. Thanks so much.
you are so fortunate to witness that, cheers!
@@beanzburriton4263 True, but still... LA?
I don't think I'd go there even to see _this_ concert.
@@ezekielbrockmann114if pink floyd performed on skid row id still go
@@corporalclegg. lol, no
Roger Waters wouldn't ever face the consequences of the boneheaded politics that he pushes, he'd never go to Skid.
1979 , my girlfriends mother entered the ticket selection lottery for the first 2 shows , one on the East Coast , Boston or New York , and the other on the West Coast in Los Angeles at the Sports Arena . We got nose bleed , cheap seats , about 50 ft. From the stage and an elevation of maybe 80 ft. above the floor seating . Turned out to be excellent seats as we could look down above the Wall to see all the action behind the stage , and actually see how the bricks were being moved and manipulated , behind the Wall . One of the most memorable of maybe 80 concerts I’ve been to in my life . This video explained everything !
One of my favorite shots from the original Wall live is during Hey You... there’s a moving shot of the band behind the wall and the camera rises above the wall to a shot of the crowd. Your comment reminded me of that shot. Lucky guy to have seen both perspectives
Came down from Canada to see them play in L.A. I recall a line of policemen with shot guns watching us cue up to enter the arena. Great vid . Also explains why they only played the Wall and not sure if the extra drummer was from Toto.
@@rickszabo4312 I think you were smoking some of that Canadian stank weed, I highly doubt there were shotgun toting police watching Pink Floyd fans enter an arena.
Billy clubs maybe,but shotguns? In 1980 ? No way!! Pics or it didn’t happen
This is by far the best and most accurate narrative about the album.
My girl friend and I drove almost 500 miles to LA to see this show. Seeing the show footage brings back so many memories. We had no idea what to expect and it blew everyone away. I’ll have to look for the pictures I took at that show 42 years ago.
Iv been there 1980 in Dortmund. The comfortably numb solo when David was standing alone up there was indeed unforgettable. the rest of the musicians were playing behind a wall, almost the entire 2nd half of the show. at the end, it collapsed. goosebumps for everyone in the audience for 2 hours.
Sounds amazing 🔥
though your experience is enviable it is quite similar to the one I had at Rice Stadium in Houston in 1994....seeing Gilmour leaning into the wind as the lasers lit up the rain and he smashed that amazing solo from Comfortably Numb is something I'll carry with me forever
I put The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking to be as good as any Floyd album. I saw Roger play it live with Clapton on guitar in 1984. It's an album about a young man picking up a hitchhiker while speeding through his youth and middle years, by the end of the album the character is an older more mature man who becomes the hitchhiker as he slows down and appreciates life - he seems to travel from the East Coast to the West Coast as a younger man, and as and older man begins hitchhiking back to the East. You have to listen to it over and over like all Floyd albums to pick up all the literal and metaphorical nuances, the story line.
Holy, Hell!! Your time and effort making this video is nothing short of spectacular!! Well freakin’ done....
77’ Pink Floyd concert so long that David Gilmore had time to leave the stage, watch show from mixing board, the band hired a guitar player to play the rest of set, by the time the whole concert finished it was 1978
Not from being so long. He knew it was a bad show, and wouldn’t play anymore! Probably disgusted by Roger’s outburst as well!
@@Geezer-yf8hv last i checked thoes were 2 different shows
🤣🤣😂😂
Saw the wall concert about the 3rd or 4th show... It was my 2nd of 3 shows and it was more amazing than you can just imagine.... When the helicopters flew in you thought they were inside the arena. Noise of the engines, the air from the blades blowing down on you , and the lights of the air craft making you believe they were mounted to something big. The Animals concert at the Anaheim Stadium was my first and just as impressive. At the Division Bell it dawned on me , waiting for the band to start playing was part of the experience. And when they did they wait was forgotten as your senses came to life watching the show.
It's interesting how Roger went to school for architecture and created such fantastic concept albums. Architecture but on a musical and lyrical scale.
The Wall is one of the greatest albums ever created by one of the greatest bands ever.
Roger wishes the film had more humor when he had one of the funniest lines ever.
"If you dont eat your meat, how can you have any pudding."
Chocolate Mousse?
I think that line was on was actually on the album
Lego Droideka yes it is
Apparently Roger stopped working with Storm (Hipgnosis' founder and an old buddy of theirs from Cambridge) because he took credit for the Animals cover, when it was actually Roger's idea.
Good thing Gilmour patched that up. AMLOR will always have my favorite cover of any Pink Floyd album.
@@Pr0jectFM I mean I agree, while I kinda hate anything post-Roger, both AMLOR and TDB have amazing covers, although I have to say that The Final Cut also has a very good one. But anyways, in this case, Storm was pretty nasty.
Storm Thorgerson still carried on with Pink Floyd Dave Gilmour and the rest of the band. And lots of other top Rock bands. What an Artist R.I.P.
That's typical Waters: I had the idea, so nobody else should take any credit.
@@str.77 He had the idea tho this time. I don't think he'd take cretid for Dark Side or Meddle, or stuff like that. He specifically said about this one, which is why The Wall and The Final Cut don't have his art.
Never knew Gilmour sat out the encore at the final Animals show. Got tickets to see Roger this summer. My first show in ages. Great job on this video.
If you never saw Roger before, oh boy hang on
I saw him this year in Philadelphia and man it was amazing!!
What an excellent narrator with a good knowledge of the band. An obvious fan like myself of one of the finest and greatest bands of all time.
Pink Floyd sold out a week of shows then in '80. I had ordered up my tickets with the first advertisement, in the 'times'. And, i remember going to the show, opening nite of THE WALL concert at the L.A. forum like it was yesterday. Coolest thing was overhead curtains that became engulfed in flame from on stage fireworks, during the first act. Burning embers falling on the stage that that Roger and David were dodging as they fell on the stage. Everyone thought it was part of the act and CHEERED until the show had to be stopped and the fire put out. Man, what a party....e.
It's a little-known fact that Richard and Roger actually reconnected in a way in 1999, when Rick came to one of Roger's show (he was invited by keyboardist Jon Carin, who pleayed in the 1987-1994 Pink Floyd live band but then would go on to actually join Roger's outfit). Rick was invited backstage and apparently the two men talked, although not many details about that are known. You have to bear in mind that while Rick was not part of the court case in the mid 80s, that was basically Gilmour-Mason vs Waters.
there couldn't literally be a better man than Brickman for the light show of a tour called "The Wall"
I know this was likely a ton of work, but I would absolutely LOVE if you did more content like this for other classic albums with interesting stories. This whole series on The Wall was so ridiculously uniquely and brilliantly done.
Certainly got into the gritty of this time and where little of it has been spoken of in terms of inner band difficulty, the tour, how all that worked, etc. Nice job. If I had to chose, I still agree with David Gilmour: "...I think we did a damn good job on it [The Wall]...but it...slightly lacks soul to me." Far from my favorite of their works, too. Couple good tracks here and there. Mostly filler.
The host told the story really well and this was a great documentary. I love that 1970’s room the host is in. I think my mom and dad had a lot of the furniture and decorations he had.
I remember when I lived in cambridge seeing Syd Barrett wandering up and down Mill Road completely in a different world back in the 90s. The lights were on, but, nobody was home...such a tragedy to see such a musical legend end up passing his time shouting random nonsense to passers by... You couldn't even talk to him...
He was that crazy diamond...😞
the moral of the story: spit on a fan out of frustration, make a masterpiece of a musical experience 5 years latee
And blame it all on others...
I have always thought it ironic that The Wall is such a history of mental disintegration and the descent into depression and madness which was ultimately the CAUSE of Rick's own path into depression. You have seen this very much from Roger's perspective (understandably, given it really was Roger's baby). The other fascinating fact is that after Roger fired Rick, he re-hired him as a simple musician. The whole production cost so much that "Pink Floyd" as an entity LOST money. As a hired musician, however Richard Wright was the only one who actually made any money! One in the eye for Roger, but I don't think it ever made up for the way Roger treated Rick.
Ehh, maybe, this is a little ramble-y to me
@@davidbanan. I AGREE
@@davidbanan. How can you think the comment is rambly when it is a description of the entire process of the wall which also is a reference to Syd Barrett who was a member of PF and had a tragic end to his musical career and had multiple references to him in previous Floyd albums while also putting a new light on their creative processes which set the stage for a new era but also resulting in the breakup of the band but had some positive outcomes in terms of Water's solo career as well as Gilmore's Pink Floyd while being a commercial success and Waters autobiography played out in music and on film.
Sheesh, I didn't find it rambly at all.
@@jacknewman9256 because some out there are dumb like David and just say dumb things...sometimes it's just that simple
@@jacknewman9256 reflective and hilarious.
I was at the Los Angeles show. My favorite part of the whole night was when Gilmore did comfortably numb. As he stood on top of The Wall there was very bright lighting behind him which cast a giant shadow at the opposite end of the statium. Larger than life in all respects.
I want to live in that set.
No joke.
This video was awesome BTW.
I hope someday we get a Wall concert film.
I don't care if the film is underexposed do to poor lighting.
Take the footage they have, put it on DVD or Bluray and let me buy it, damn it!
The movie was featured at the midnight movies selection for a few years while I was a teenager pretty much every weekend. We'd be like, "Dawn of the Dead was last weekend, what ya say, The wall again? Sure 7 times a charm."
I was 15 when wall came out. Loved it and still listen to it. 1st night of wall tour in 1980 at Nassau Coliseum. Crowd outside was nuts. We couldn't get in. Music started. A guy went nuts took a barricade from police set up and threw it into window. We went in together ran in behind the wall . Chased by security we out ran them got around to the right side of the wall. It was incredible. 😎
1985 Kingston Ontario Canada we finally got a VHS copy of the movie just when my buddies and I got home from a Greatful Dead tour and had a Dozen sheets of SUPER CLEAN ACID. We popped some doses and watched the movie whilst tripping our balls off then spent the rest of the trip around a bonfire listening to Roy Harper "What ever happened to jugula", as that album was awaiting us too.... That's my memory of the Wall movie!!!
Saw The Wall @ Nassau Coliseum, February 1980. Best concert of all time!!!! The only photos I have are in my photographic memory! lol
I'm glad Geldof agreed because when I listened to the album for the first time, that's exactly what I imagined Floyd Pinkerton looks like.
Excellent Review! Loved every minute of this! After seeing Floyd's Animals concert at Anaheim stadium in 77, I was not about to miss the Wall tour and fortunate to see this concert on Feb 10 which happened to be me and my best friends birthday. The only way to get tickets for that show was by mail in. They weren't offered at Ticketron, so we sent in a copy of our licenses with a note and the cheque and received 6 awesome seats. It was my 18th and this was without a doubt the best birthday memory of my life. Combined with the movie a few years later, which was the beginning of my experimenting with psychedelics in life. Floyd was the soundtrack of my youth! By the way, at the time I had no idea who Bob Geldof was. Pink Floyd will always be my favorite band of all time!
Exceptional video. There was very little I didn't know about Pink Floyd and the Wall album. I am a huge fan of Pink Floyd. I enjoyed some of their concerts as well as David's concert or Roger's concert after the band dissolved.
But this video is so well put together. I learned here that Bob Geldof refused the role in the film originally.
His exceptionally bored and ignorant performance makes so much more sense now.
It is my opinion, and always has been my opinion , that the Brits are the greatest musicians in the world. The list of brilliance coming out of the UK is endless.
Great video 👍
I was at the opening night show in Los Angeles with my mail order only tickets.
2nd row loge seats, about 8ft. from the wall. Could see visuals on the front of the wall,
as well as the band playing behind it. Also, was right next to the spot where Roger is
in the hotel room. Also, was the person spot lit during the song "In the flesh pt. 2" as the
one smoking a joint. lol...oh, and a fire onstage they had to pause the show for. Best live show i have ever seen..by far.
I could literally listen to you talk about The Floyd for hours and hours. Thank you for making these amazing videos about my all time favourite band.
Stress always brings out the best in proffesionls. The best albums usually come from iron sharpening iron and everyone trying to show how good they are. These are four of the greatest musicians of all time.
Seeing Roger Waters on his Us + Them tour in 2016 was one of the best live shows I've ever seen. Also, I totally understand why Roger had his "meltdown" on stage at their last In The Flesh tour show. He'd finally had enough of the disrespect and snapped. I don't blame him.
It’s just amazing when you get artists together to accomplish something THE WALL is a Masterpiece! Till this day!
This album mesmerized me from the first time I heard the entire thing, and I've always loved it! Sadly I never got to see the original tours, but was able to see one of Roger's tours, and was blown away!
When I started this video I wasn't planning to watch all of it at once! Great job!
Saw them play at Earls Court in 1980 and 1981. At least no one pinched my sleeping bag.
Did you take any photos?
@@ThePFRG err this was 1981, when general audience would not be expected,or allowed, to take camera to a concert.
@@juleswombat5309 Polaroid was around then right?
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i remember my mother getting one of the first digital cameras.....i think it took 3.5 inch floppy disks....
she left it on top of her car..... semi hit it
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but it literally took potato quality pictures
They were great shows the first year I was at the back but due to the booking system the second year we were 3 seats back fom the front the projections and sound made it seem a lot darker.Afterwards we drove back to Wiltshire and straight into stonehenge for a week.
6 März 2021 00:56 AM Happy Birthday Sir David Gilmour.
Long life SIR DAVID GILMOUR,
Hip Hip Hurra .... I Salut You 75. Birthday ....
Thank you so much for all of the Nite & Songs of Music that you have written
and that always bring joy to your fans around the world.
That's all I have to say
This guy is like the best narrator i've ever watched, hands down. Fantastic work.
An absolutely fantastic job, thanks! As a devoted Floyd fan for 35 years (which includes writing an 8-part radio documentary on the band's history) I was surprised by the massive depth of research and balanced insight reflected here, - and by how much I didn't yet know! Bravo!
And yes...
Before the wall..
You can truly hear Richard White contribution to Pink Floyd.
Being a Pink Floyd fan..
But during the wall and the Final Cut not at all..
Until David Gilmour told Rodger Waters the f*** off.
Then we have momentary lapse of reason and The Division Bell.
And Richard Wright was there..
Until the endless river..
Some of those songs sounds like they should have been on wish you was here...
Richard Wright
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Never got into Pink Floyd until ABITW II came out. My interest slowly grew. Glad it did. Helped me get through the darkest times in my life.
Ok, so I have something important to say: people think the fueds and breakup of Pink Floyd is due to clashing Egos, and to an extent they're correct, but Pink Floyd was never a pop band - they were lyricists and musicians trying to lay bare their thoughts, emotions and opinions in a creative way. They all felt a strong entitlement to the name, because it was under that banner by which they had bared their souls for decades, and when viewed through that lens, the "I will have sole creative lead" thing makes infinitely more sense, even if it's still a little immature.
Roger is a Genius ! We might sometimes blame him, but without Roger, no Dark Side, no WYWH, no Animals and no Wall. WYWW has been my favorite Floyd albums until lately but I realize more and more how good and well produced is the Wall.
This album truly shaped me as a being at a young age I used to fear death not mine but those I love this helped me cope with it.
The first time they did The Wall, in Los Angeles, they started a fire on stage and had to stop the show. I was there. They took a break to clear the air, then Waters had to direct them to back up the film until it was at the right spot...then they continued from where they stopped. Fireworks (that they backed off on for future shows) lit a curtain up above the stage on fire. A couple guys rode it down, to make it come down faster...and the flames kicked up and they jumped before it got all the way down.
I also saw the premier of the movie release in Westwood. It was supposed to be one show for fans and celebs, but it was so many people Waters made the celebs wait and let us fans see the first showing!
I was there at the very first show also. Everything you say is correct. It sucked that it got stopped but we got to see that part twice. That worked for me. Loved that show. Saw the Animals tour, my second concert ever. They played Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and Animals all in one show. Most of Dark Side. Both shows were awesome.
@@williammckay9229 Awesome!!!!
I have seen Roger perform the wall back in 2010 and to this very day it has been the very best live music / theater shows I have ever seen or heard the sound quality was like listening to a recording at home it was truly epic . The other I would say equally best concerts with equal sound and great light / visual etc.etc. was Ironically with the David Gilmore, Richard Write and the comparable Nick Mason on July 12th 1994 @ Soldier Field in Chiraq in the rain tripping balls on majic mushrooms that was a just almost life altering event and we honest to goodness had the best seats in house we could see every thing and we were protected from the rain because we were under the sky box suites .
Wow, that was incredibly well done. As a Floyd fanatic, I can tell you did the most thorough of research, since there were plenty of tidbits of information I didn't know. You must have read every Floyd biography ever written, haha.
Fantastic, I thought I knew a lot about P.F., now I do. This was the most enjoyable 38 and a half minutes I have ever had on CZcams, artfully done, bravo!
I absolutely can’t stop consuming The Wall and adjacent media, like this great video, recently. In love with this album
Congratulations, this is so well documented . You've touched greatness, sir.
Fun fact: Richard Wright ended up being the ONLY core member to make a profit playing on the tour since he was no longer a "member of the band", he was paid his wages as a "backup musician" & thus had no stake in the debt the band was trying desperately to correct...
The automation for it absolutely gorgeous and terraforming at the same time
I was at the second show of the Wall in L.A. There was a hole in the wall before they completed it. Twenty feet to one side and about 30 feet above the drum kit. In the middle of a song every member of the band appeared in that whole, including Nick Mason.
I agree quality content Dude knew what the hell he was talking about and had great tidbits of information.
The fact that ''What shall we do now'' was cut from the album is an absolute crime. To me the jump from ''Empty spaces'' to ''Young lust'' is too abrupt without it, doesn't flow as well. Thankfully it was included in the movie soundtrack 🙏
"Empty Spaces" is actually a reprise of "What Shall We Do Now" and was meant to appear before "Another Brick in the Wall, Part 3". They were separate songs...
I attended the show in Earls Court London, it was truly spectacular. As you pointed out Comfortably Numb was epic with Roger on a single spotlight standing at the top of the wall. It was pure theatre and musical genius. I can still picture in my mind's eye being at the gig and seeing and hearing the music.
My favorite Pink Floyd album...it was so important to me as I was growing up coming of age time...
Wish You Were Here is still their greatest album and the final one where all four members fully participated.
You are half right. Shine on, as great as it is, is too long. Shorten each half by 5 minutes and you're getting closer to perfection. Still needs alot of work to make it interesting.
@@punker-gamer-trucker-guy which is in your opinion better then?
@@punker-gamer-trucker-guy I disagree
No dark side of the moon is there greatest album
@@MarkAndrews12 it’s all a matter of opinion, buddy.
My favorite is The Wall. We all have the right to our belief :)
However great they are for me, they are #2 after the Beatles. And there's absolutely nothing that could be done to schange this sequence. But, PF is the only group on my list I could go and see on a stage if they were performing. But that's least important to just simply having their records and being able to turn the player on and enjoy any time. This is priceless. Thanks to the Universe for giving PF to us!
I was there for the opening show at the LA Sports Arena. David at the top of the wall was fantastic. It was the best SHOW I have ever seen.
I did love that bird turning into a bomber in the Goodbye Blue Sky sequence,and then at the end, gracefully folding up into a monolith.
it has been almost 40 years since the concert, and we have still yet have a dvd of the entire performance.
Sure was a different world in 1979... I miss it
what Waters and Gilmore don't get is that they were both genius savants in their own right, and both very talented, but in very different ways.. and it was the unique fusion of their very different talents that made this band what it was... alone they are great, but together they are the stuff of legend.
Yeah, always wished they would have realized this and made peace!
Excellent review of The Wall in all of its parts. I love that you brought in the different perspectives of the various people involved in the project, rather than villianizing anyone. I learned a lot, both about the actual making of this creative masterpiece, and about the various pitfalls of having so many creative people try to work together to make such an ambitious project successful.
Here’s my first story related to Pink Floyd. Crack open a nice cold one or burn one down as I take you back to the summer of 1970 where I spent in Europe with two college pals. We had just bought a VW bug in Amsterdam for $250 (sold it at the end of the trip for same amount) and headed down to Rotterdam for the Holland Pop Festival.
The first day featured the Jefferson Airplane and Santana. The vendors were openly selling hashish, magic mushrooms etc but we decided to take some LSD and danced away the night. The next two days were nonstop rain and we found ourselves pretty burned out and soaking wet, so on Sunday the three of us decided to leave early and drive to Paris. Sitting in the bug at the time seemed more appealing than sitting in the mud. As we packed up to leave, a Dutch fellow we’d met looked at us in shock. “How can you leave before Pink Floyd? It’s why everyone is still here. You’re going to regret it!” I can still recall my friend Zeke blurting out, “Pink Who?” as we loaded up and drove off on a very gray morning. And yes I will always regret that decision.
Thank you, thank you, thank you.....this is a great analysis of one of my favourite albums and groups.....I've really loved this "Wall series" of videos......great insites into not only the production of the album,concert tour and movie but also he machinations of the band at that time that sadly led to Roger parting company with the group......can't wait for your next instalment.....thank you again and cheers mate.
Great analysis, the making of the album is a saga unto itself - totally in line with the albums theme. In spite of this being Rogers complete idea and work, the album does illustrate what it is that made Pink Floyd who they were. The demos are totally complete in idea and structure but Gilmour made the album sound like Pink Floyd, something Roger could not do on his own. If you listen to Pros and Cons it is immediately glaring what's missing. They needed each other. Its a shame that neither party would ever admit that.
Rick Wright was also majorly addicted to coke during this time. Also, see at 13:28 where Roger's staring towards the stage left wings with his hand extended? Syd Barrett was watching from somewhere in the wings that night, although I don't know if Roger could see him or knew exactly where Syd was; before their performance, the four members told Syd they wanted him to come out and join them at the end, but in the end, Syd declined.
So, I’ve had a week off work and essentially youtube has kept me more than entertained for the entire duration due to endless, brilliant content like this. Extraordinary.
One of the best albums ever!
Sad that there was conflicts between band members, I guess that's what happens when egos gets in the way.
Dude, this is amazing! Perhaps you could break down the White Album or Physical Graffiti next.
Too young to have seen the original, but I've been lucky enough to see Roger play Dark Side and The Wall several times. The Coachella performance was particularly amazing.
The Wall rebuilt - This was very good indeed. Enjoyed. "It takes a village to make a film." I thought that was good. I think all film lovers need to appreciate that. Thanks for the immense production efforts and uploading - Liked.
This is the best historical video documentary I've seen concerning this time period of Pink Floyd.
Thank you so much , and I know it's not much,
but I've subbed and belled you because of your hard work.
Again,thank you . A huge Pink Floyd fan .
Wow, that was a mouthful, thank you for this! I love Pink Floyd and glad you worked so hard on this! xD
I was at The Wall Concert at the Nassau Coliseum in Uniondale NY in February in 1980. Unbelievable Show, the scale of which I've never seen before or after! Incredible and phenomenal are two words that come to mind!
I saw the Wall 2-26-80.
I was there! It was unforgettable. Luckily I was able to share the experience with my son's in 2010.
This is.......amazing! So informative. Connects everything and puts things in the right perspective. Thank You!
That tour sounds exhausting.
Only if I was alive back then. It would’ve been awesome to see them in concert
Opening night in NY!2/24/80. Comfortably Numb alone was worth the $50 I paid. Scalpers were asking 200 and up. The show was a bit uneven, but unforgettable!!
One of the greatest albums ever made
I saw roger waters do this concert live on May 1st 2011. Still puts on the best show