Pink Floyd The Wall 1981 Rare 35mm Footage
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- čas přidán 3. 10. 2014
- Hello to all! And here comes my latest video editing endeavour. And this time it's Floyd... As some of you may know, when Floyd returned to play The Wall once more in Earls Court in 1981 it was specifically for the purpose of shooting footage for the Wall film. By the time the film was released, they had gone through two directors and there was to be no concert footage. The footage was shelved, but occasional snippets have appeared on documentaries such as Behind The Wall and recent EPKs promoting Roger Waters' modern take on The Wall. I've pieced together the bits that are coherent and now I present four incomplete songs to you:
The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
Another Brick In The Wall Part 2
Mother
Hey You
Is There Anybody Out There?
NOT TO BE CONFUSED WITH the videotape footage from the 1980 shows available on bootleg, with snippets also appearing on the aforementioned documentaries.
Like or dislike, share or don't but above all ENJOY!!! - Hudba
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Mind blowing footage. This has simply got to be released. No excuses.
No more excuses!
nah roger has plenty of excuses, mostly the fact that the longer he waits, the more money he'll get.
@@thatmatt41 ouch lol
It's released right here
From what I've gathered they never could figure out the lighting and alot of the footage is just too dark to be worth anything
3:18...Roger singing behind the wall and on the other side thousands of people...What a powerfull image..
It is indeed powerful and so unique. Who else has even attempted something so strange?
I'm just curious, though. For how much of the concert was the band completely behind the wall? I mean, I could tolerate it for one or two songs, but that's it. After that, it would start to piss me off.
@@thehighllama8101for Hey You and Anybody Out There, the entire band was behind the wall. From Nobody Home to Bring The Boys Back Home, Roger would go outside the wall as a mini hotel room was pushed through the wall, and he’d be inside that room, singing. In Comfortably Numb, Roger would be standing in front of the wall and David would appear on top of the wall to sing and play guitar. After that, the band went back in front of the wall, then it’d get torn down at the end of The Trial
It's also ironic that on this specific angle, all the other band members appear isolated and trapped on their own cages, separated but more on the same style, more up the same with each other sharing something in common. Roger is the only who is different and isolated from everyone! Inside AND outside of the Wall.
I was at one of these shows at the Nassau Coliseum in Long Island. February 1980. The show cost so much to set up, do, build the wall, tear it down, etc, they only did 6 shows on each coast in the US.
The rest of the band may not have been completely on board letting Roger do this whole album but there is no mistake the music, visuals and writing are second to none.
Uh, they are very far second to Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here, Animals and Meddle for starters…
Im glad that in his This Is Not A Drill tour for the most part he is doing songs from the wall
@@vaportrails7943 nah. Maybe as individual songs, but as a whole The Wall is far superior to every single one of those albums
@@CaptainTrips560 You have extremely poor taste in music, but also a whole lot of people disagree with you. Dark Side Of The Moon is the 4th highest selling album of all time, and holds the record for the longest time on the charts of any album. The Wall was Roger Waters’ self-absorbed vanity project, and the rest of the band barely had anything to do with it. And then they broke up after an even worse album. I guess you like listening to a rich rock star moan about being a rich rock star for hours. Good for you. I’ll pass.
i think the wall sounds pretty bad honestly, there are only a few songs i like
That footage of Hey You behind the wall is just magical to watch.
David and Roger have two of the most unique voices in rock. They really compliment each other
Roger’s vocal tone here is unreal! The best rendition of Hey You ever ❤
It's insane this hasn't been released. It looks outstanding, and is one of the greatest rock tours of all time. Cmon Roger, release the dang thing.
Thank you soooooo much! I was at this concert! My parents very reluctantly had to let me go after having forbidden it the year before and on the flimsy premise that if they ever played again I could go( The word was that the band were about to split, so they thought they were safe!) I saved up Persil coupons to get train tickets from Scotland to London and had a seat very near the stage on the left hand side( paid for by an after school and Saturday job). My friend and I had to leave before the encore as we were under pain of death to be back on the last train at 11.30pm to Edinburgh, and as we were leaving by the exit next to the stage we actually met David Gilmour as he was preparing to go back on stage.. a moment I shall never forget! I was 16 years old and had an English Higher to sit the next day... I achieved an A-Band 1 thanks to not being another brick in the wall! Even after all these years, it remains the best concert I have ever been to, so thank you once again for this reinforcing gem!
great story, man.
Best story ever
Fantastic story and a great touch meeting Gilmour.
Amazing mate. Are you still in Scotland? Are you going to see Roger?
You posted this comment eight years ago and I’m just seeing these clips for the first time. BTW are you still out there??
I was also 16 when I got to see one of the Los Angeles shows. It was incredible. I had spent so much time learning the album, the stories Waters told on LA FM radio with Jim Ladd, I had stared at the animation while reading the lyrics more times than I could count. Yes, The Wall concert was one of my first and still to this day with hundreds of concerts in my life from every artist from Allman Brothers to ZZ Top, this one stands at the top.
I’m guessing the entire show was filmed. I can’t imagine why it has never been released. Baffling.
01:20 that shot of Roger is so awesome
This snippet has me begging for more. The searchlights scanning the crowd as Roger is singing “is there anybody out there.” So theatrical. Wish I had been old enough to attend.
I was there
This entire show will be released eventually. Roger screened it for his bandmates before they set off on the 2010 tour. I just can't believe he's waited so damn long to release it.
Where is it?!
@@l.f.r.6523 I don't think Roger will release the whole show while he's alive. This unfortunately might come from vault digging several years from now.
@@MidwestMidnight that or he may be unable to release it due to the other members. Yea, he has full control of The Wall, but maybe because the concert has the other members, there’s some legal jumbo there. Either way I wouldn’t think he plans on releasing it, on account of him being Roger Waters
@@Ayden_B so damn frustrating. After seeing the beetles get back which is absolutely amazing I just need to see this.
Well. 7 years later and past the 40th anniversary of this tour and Roger still hasn't released the damn footage. 💔
I LITERALLY get chills on my scalp while watching Roger intro "Hey You" from behind the wall and with David getting positioned in the cage. What a mind bender.
God damn this gives me chills. We need the whole show.
this is the only pink floyd content I care about: An HD remaster of these concerts. Pink Floyd in their entirety performing their biggest album. And there's no sign they're making it.. 😔
Roger's voice in Hey You.. awesome..
I went to "Their Mortal Remains" in Toronto. They show an amazingly cleaned up version of The Happiest Days of Our Lives from this performance. I'm sure they must have a complete copy of this show for release.
over 43 years since i saw this live in los angeles. my memory is fading fast! please release it roger! it would look amazing on an IMAX screen.
Actually Roger owns this film himself. But releasing it might be a different story. That will carry the Floyd name, although technically the post-1987 Floyd's corporate name is "Pink Floyd 1987 Ltd". If the new Animals mix, and Rog and Polly's Twitter wars are any indication, it's probably an uphill battle unfortunately...
@@ScottyKirk1 polly samson...don't get me started!!!
I was at the LA show in 81. As I remember it, they only played in LA and New York. My memory is a little hazy as well. Not my favorite Pink Floyd album by any means, still, it was worth hitching down from Anacortes Washington to see it.
I was at the first LA show. After the first song (played by “The Surrogate Band} they set off some indoor fireworks. Some embers from the fireworks landed on the rolled up curtain above the stage. During the first part of the show, the musicians were dodging burning bits of curtain material floating down. When the schoolmaster puppet appeared it’s eyes seemed to focus on the area where the embers were falling. I’m sure a large part of the audience thought it was part of the show. I was looking for a exit route, just in case. Eventually they stopped the show and the fire department took down the curtain and put out the fire. After they got the smoke to clear the show restarted. I was amazed they were able to just rewind things and restart where they left off.
One of the most exciting things in this show was Gilmour’s Comfortably Numb solo which he performed from the top of the 40 foot wall. Just an incredible memory.
@@robertforman3494 i can't remember which night i went,but it wasn't the first night. the fire has become part of pink floyd history though. the comfortably numb segment was genius theater. everyone was focused on roger at the bottom of the wall, then suddenly a spotlight hits gilmour at the top and the audience collectively shifted their gaze to him. if you were on the floor or the risers where i was sitting it was very effective. i'm sure i heard an audible gasp followed by cheers when it happened. i still get chills thinking about it. if we live another 6 years maybe we'll finally get to see the footage roger has locked up on the 50th anniversary.
Stunning. Roger and Dave need to sort something out to get this released
That last part of The Happiest Days of our Lives going into Another Brick in the Wall pt. 2 sounds and looks just so good. The vocal harmony by David is awesome, and the background choir sounds amazing as well! Edited amazingly
Was lucky enough to be at this show still the greatest concert I ever seen by far!!!!
Are you able to elaborate on your experience?
Floyd used 360 sound back in the day sound quality was awesome stage show and set was massive that's why it was only in two cities show opens its 2 drummers playing in perfect unison such power the show was like u where livin through a dream just amazing
@@ronlips6452 Спасибо за ваш рассказ!!
I was also there in June 1981.
Did you enjoy starring at a wall the whole concert 🙄
Some of the close up shots of Roger remind me of apocalypse now. Beautiful lighting and cinematography. At this point I don’t put much faith in this being commercially released. Thanks for posting, I come back to it from time to time.
2023, and this album still tugs at my emotions. What a treat, to watch a few moments of the band performing from behind the giant wall on stage. What a monster achievement of Roger Waters, the album and the subsequent show.
An album and show so good it basically killed there band. One of the craziest things about the movie Bob Geldof when first approached to play Pink in the movie he was very vocal saying how much he couldn't stand Pink Floyd and hated there music and said no to the part when first approached. And he's so fucking good in that movie, never cared much for the Boomtown Rats...
“ Is There Anybody Out There” - December 2000, The Best!
The footage of them 'waiting behind the wall', incredible.
THIS is the footage style I was looking for, it lines up with what my dad told me growing up about the tour set, I'd love to see the full concert footage one day.
Gotta love when things like this are capable of being in 8k resolution yet we're forever stuck with low res 480p scans 😞
Rogers voice is great here
I was at one of their concerts at Earl’s Court in 81. A performance I’ll never forget.
I saw this show at Earls Court four times, in 1980 and 1981. An amazing and immersive spectacle, along with incredible surround sound.
I worked on the 81 earls court show and on some locations for the film The Wall. I was 21 yrs old..Great times and memories.
Me and my younger brother went to one of the Earls Court shows, he was 13. The year before we both saw Zeppelin at Knebworth. Not bad for your first 2 gigs
Skipped school with my friend to see this very gig - good decision!
Thanks for this - My first concert as a 15 year old, still watching and enjoying Waters !
I wasn't born in 1981 but I saw Roger in 2018 and had my mind completely blown!
@@MrKayley10 What a concept surely has to be one of the best rock shows ever, I was proud to take my daughter to the Waters London show so she can tell her mates about it at parties when she's older !
@@MrKayley10 Роджера Уотерс был великолепен и 3 дня назад в Кёльне!! Он старый... но он потрясающе красив!!! Красив в служении и человечности!!!
I was 12 years old and got to see this show in June 1981.
What a brilliant clip, never seen that one before, I was there in 1980, and 1981 too......
No, not really.......just enjoyed the shows, as there was a LOT going on all the time......
This film concert should have been released in this format, it definitely increases its epicity. It would have been one of the most impressive and important filmed concerts in rock history.
This is the best live band I have ever seen!!!!!! The whole show was incredible.
My god that was incredible. I want this entire concert 😢
OMG, this is amazing - I would PAY $200 for the full concert foootage!
C'mon Pink Floyd!
"The Wall" is the biggest masterpiece in rock history, period
RiP pink Floyd
The video is grainy, but I’d still LOVE to see it. The sound quality is incredible!!
THANKS for sharing. This footage is good quality. I refuse to believe there isn't release-quality footage of a whole show, or enough to be edited to completion. But now it would be in competition with Roger's upcoming solo DVD of _The Wall Live._ Granted, his solo shows were a lot more interesting, and on a much more massive scale, but there remains a certain mystique about the original Pink Floyd shows.
I'm really glad you included the ending of "Hey You", because it reminds me that Roger used to really sing the hell out of that fucker! Very few male singers can sing those high notes, and Roger did it every night. Amazing.
Agree with you
+Ben Culture In the book, "Making of The Wall", Roger and Gerald Scarfe discuss that the footage was tricky, and that there was very little that would have been acceptable for film use. As for the audio, it could have been ripped from other parts of their 1980-1 tour, as I think it's from their live album...
+beatles7798 I have that book too. I just don't care about their high standards. Roger Waters has always been quite a perfectionist, and Pink Floyd has a reputation for raising the standards of sound quality.
I've heard that if a salesman wanted to sell you a big expensive stereo system, he would probably put on _Dark Side of the Moon,_ because it's going to sound great on any system.
I would not mind at all if the audio was ripped from the live version and synched to film from another night. With digital they can do anything to synchronize. But maybe Waters and Gilmour both have to die for that to happen. :( Waters has a tendency to announce projects but never release them. I'm excited about his upcoming Wall Live movie, but I'm also angry we haven't gotten the _DSOTM Live_ video his manager Mark Fisher announced.
Ben Culture Yeah, I am really excited for Waters' new album too!
+beatles7798 Has he announced a release date for a new studio album?
I know he has said he's recorded about an hour's worth of material, but I didn't think he'd put together a complete album yet.
We need the entire show !!! mind blowing !!!
Another mind blowing trip in the Pink Floyd Time Machine. Thank you!
Basically a crime of history that these amazing shows were not recorded for the time capsule of music supremacy. Hard to believe the technology has improved so much is such a relatively short time. I was lucky enough to witness one of the nasa Coliseum shows from this tour which is etched so beautifully in my mind
No kidding, the biggest band in the world, a rare concert tour and a spectacular stage show, and no film. ???
My God Pink Floyd....the Wall..property some of the best musicians ever. Every one of them studied Music probably genius anyway I am 61 Oh PINK FLOYD ARROWHEAD STADIUM KANSAS CITY MISSOURI 🙏
My girlfriend and I drove 13 hours to see this in LA. Then drove home right after. Incredible one of a kind experience.
Well done bless u
That had to have been one of the best shows to have ever been seen. So epic.
Dude if we don't get this footage, we have the bad timeline. If we don't get any Animals footage either then we have the worst possible timeline
We’re already in the bad timeline, the good timeline is Roger not being as petty as he was in the 80s and instead making amends with Rick and the rest of the band, doing some more group albums with them and maybe doing more than just one reunion performance for all the newer fans.
too bad the band never filmed anything from 1973-1977.
@@kitsune630It's over!! Get with it.!!
Insane. Imagine if they took all the footage and re-scanned it today in 4K and released it....
So cool you can see David and Nick counting in to the transition
I was borm a year before this concert, but man I wish I had been born decades earlier so I could have seen them live in their prime. Imagine seeing concerts where people only had lighters and weren't constantly recording the show on their phones, only to not watch it later. People were present in the moment, enjoying the show and having a good time. I wish time travel were possible for events like this. I know tensions were high during this time, but what an incredible spectacle this would have been to see in person. I love this band so very much.
Brave (and unusual) choice putting a wireless mic on Rog back then.
Perfect quality. It is not possible for the quality of that footage to be any better. Great job boss.
For a band as documented as Pink Floyd, I can't believe this is about as good as it gets during this time. I equate it to when I do a DIY project at home, take a picture of the finished product, and then say, "Damn it! I should have taken before-and-during photos, too!" You'd think every show would have been recorded in 35mm and a mobile unit captured every sound. Unreal.
Roger sounds AMAZING
Has this convert ever been released on its entirety? This is a treasure.
Wow imagine seeing this complete...fantastic
Awesome footage, good mix of songs, always loved that short bass solo in Hey You!
Even the Queen gig couldn't hold a candle to this one , baby..
Thank You for such a great revisiting! :)
I agree with the others 100 % that this should be released on bluray/dvd. The main complaint back in the day was that the band wasn't happy with the footage quality. But now in regards to the bad relationship between Roger and Dave I think we can forget about it. The Wall was Roger's idea, so I don't think Dave would like to promote him any further in that regard.
Absolutely, Fantastic. Absolutely, it is Pink Floyd. geniuses of music. thanks so much for posting. fabulous. Good time for you. Excellent video and sound quality.
Sound quality is absolutely tops here.
Thank you so much for sharing this! I only hope that one day the whole footage is put together in some form or other.
Absolutely unbelievable…thank you for this
Holy shit this footage is amazing. Why haven’t they released this in a proper 4K version??
ask Roger Waters
Cause it doesn’t exist
Roger and David need to agree to release it. And they don't agree on anything anymore.
Having just recently seen a Genesis concert from the Batoclan,France circa early 70's in the most glorious almost HD format imaginable, we can only but hope something equivalent exists for this concert, supporting the best imho concept album of them all ? I don't dig heraldic enoblements personally but why isn't it Sir Roger and David these days ? I doubt Roger would stoop so low as to accept (npi) ?
@@earlgrey691 Mr Waters is too much of a socialist rebel to be offered an honour, and I doubt he'd accept. Bowie didn't either, by all accounts.
The shot of Roger looking at richard is very interesting
Saw this in 1981. Still the best concert I've attended.
Seen the Wall live twice. Best show on Earth!
I have heard over and over that the footage they shot was unusable because it was underexposed could be that they found a way to scan it digitally And pop up the brightness
I was at the Garden in New York at The Wall concert in the early 80's.......they did an announcement they were recording the whole thing. I think there is more than one recording out there they should release.
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Haunting..."is there anybody...out there?" 🤘
Man to have been able to see them during their prime. Nice video
sigo sin creer lo rarisimo que es encontrar estos videos, tomando en cuenta la escala del evento que fue the wall... pero desde luego que es de agradecer a quienes los publican!!!
Libera o show completo aí Rogério Águas 😢
Será que existe mesmo filmagens nessa qualidade do show?
@@GledsonRodrigues-tb2ij acredito que sim
This is very important to Pink Floyd history though I feel the fans are dying for more live footage post dark side peer the wall that small frame from 1972-1979 if we had the infamous 1977 show in full that would be a treat though I’m sure a lot of it either doesn’t exist or has been lost to time the band is an enigma and we need more roger and Dave’s solo ventures will never be the same each and every show you see if there’s your thinking about how amazing it would be with the other I with back in 2005 they toured instead of just the one off show and then the time Dave and nick showed up for roger waters the wall in 2011 and I personally feel the endless river was a massive middle finger to the fans if your not gonna come back to go out with a bang than just don’t come back at all sadly after Rick Wright dying in 2008 I doubt they’d ever even consider touring under the Pink Floyd name
I just wish roger would just release the concert film now
Thanks for posting!
I was at the show on the East Coast. Will never forget it. What a great show!
Mind blowing ! I was there at the front best rock concert ever !
If you were a teen when this album was released, you how PF ruled the world at that time. Another Brick was EVERYWHERE!
Roger all I can say is that I really really like it , and it's great to hear your voice ! Love ,Lara G.
Roger and David together rule Rock. The genius and best session guitarist in world. ❤
This is a essencial video to every Floyd fan
So rare that it's been on CZcams for 8 years😂
Still so captivating.
I would pay a lot for the whole show in this quality👍⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Wow how did you find this. This is rare as hell!
That was awesome, thanks for sharing !!
It feels so nice seeing them altogether
Wow, that's a very good quality footage.
Roger how about some mercy!!
Release The Wall concert footage!!!
I saw them play the Wall at the Nassau Coliseum in NY on 2/28/80. Saw two Animals show at the Garden NYC 7/77.
Unbelievable stuff! Sad they weren’t filmed for real during the Animals tour!!
~~ same for the entire 70's - not one complete show properly filmed - except for "Live at Pompeii" - and while it was a live performance (actual performance date was early October 1971) - it was not a regular concert - but nothing from the DSOTM tours '73 - '74 - nothing from WYWH - '75 - and nothing from Animals '77 - what the F were they thinking ??
Damn, wish they will write some day “Well.. uhm.. actually, we have full version of this gig. So, here is the bluray”
If you watch the pulse footage 20 years later the audience is still sitting awe…
Nice editing!
Beautiful, stunning, amazing, I'm gonna be needing more, please
Wow! High quality footage!!!
Fantastic!
Thanks for sharing
The Pink Floyd I knew and I miss.
It is now evident that the 81 Earls Court footage exist at this standard. I was there for 2 of the 5 shows and groups of three or four 35mm cameras were set up in in different locations on the two nights I was there, standard practice I guess, film 5 shows, move the cameras each night for maximum shots/angles covered. The problem I believe is Waters, he wants to direct us all to his 2010 - 2013 Wall Live film and even the 1990 Berlin show. It probably grates him to know (and he must) that the real fans want THIS footage above all else. Just my opinion. Such a shame.
Man I’m 20 years old and I need to see this before I die.. damn shame indeed man
@@chrisisnothere8548 I was 20 years old back then for those shows. To this day, many years and hundreds of gigs later (including Roger's 2010 - 13 wall shows & Berlin in 1990), the 1980/81 shows at Earls Court London were and still are the greatest gigs I've ever seen. Particularly the sound which has never been matched. The last night of the '81' run of 5 shows, 17th June, was particularly amazing, and as it turned out poignant. We had to wait until 2005 to see Waters, Gilmour, Wright and Mason on the same stage again. Sadly never to happen again.
Hey there. Do you remember which specific nights you went to? (Night 1, 2...) and where you sat?
@@ThePFRG Hello, in 1980 I believe I went on the 5th August. In 1981, I know I was there for the last night 17th June and one other night 2 or 3 days before but I can't be sure which date. In 1980 I was seated balcony, a few rows from the front stage left, at about level with the crashing plane as it passed by quite close. In 1981 the first night I attended (day/date unsure/forgotten) I was seated on the floor 11 rows back, stage centre. I have some very poor quality images from one of those compact 110 cameras back in the day, shameful I know, but does help with the memory. On the 17th June 1981, I was seated balcony, few rows back, stage right, excellent view of the best show I've ever seen and I've seen many since. Thanks for asking :)
@@BaffledApe If you still have those 110 pics, I would absolutely love to see them, I've been collecting photographs of this tour for years and any new additions are welcome! :) I can always help with identifying the shows!
I attended this gig. Earls Court. I queued outside for six hours to get tickets.
The audio footage was released a few years ago but they thought that the video footage wasn’t good enough. Maybe it has been enhanced and could be released in the future
Live in Earls Court.