Now, do you guys remember that Yessongs was also released in Quad for cinemas?
Hint hint nudge nudge!
Hint hint nudge nudge!
Now, do you guys remember that Yessongs was also released in Quad for cinemas?
Hint hint nudge nudge!
WHAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!????????????????????????
Heya, I figured this would be a good place to ask this since all the big time Floyd guys are reading this. Is there any known source for the background films from Dark Side of the Moon concerts. You know, the trippy films played behind the band. I've been wanting to make a DVD with the original quad audio, and the video being the old screen films. I'm not sure if copies of these exist in entirety?
Whoops! Thanks A_L! I guess that goes to show how closely I looked at that release. I may have to go ahead and get it, cause I have been dreaming about having those films for years. I always thought that would be amazing combined with the quad mix!
I haven't picked up the blu-ray of this yet but I suspect their video presentation isn't what we're hoping to improve here. The quad audio is what we're pining after! And of course I'd be just ecstatic to be able to work on that!If anyone can source a print of YesSongs I'd be happy to do a 2K transfer and grade of it!
Note also that the 4th magnetic track used for surround effects is half the width of the other three on the film print so doesn't offer as good audio quality.
Thanks for commenting. I was surprised to find no thread (or at least any I can find!) for the latest surround version of this (on Obfusc/ation, 2016). My daughter has just given it to me as a present and I have yet to hear the blu-ray, but I am now very much looking forward to it. I liked the stereo remix on CD, and quite enjoyed the sewn-together Echoes. (And I don't recall Rick Wright's keyboard work standing out so much before? It's great!)I've always loved this soundtrack/concert and converted the laserdisc soundtrack to a CD so I could listen to it in the car clear back in the 1990s as it has the absolute best version of Careful With That Axe Eugene and Echoes, IMO. I've now got the soundtrack in quad now and OMG it's unbelievably good! I don't know how I feel about them combining both parts of Echoes (I kind of liked them separate), but that's minor compared to how well it's done. So many surround albums "blend" into the surrounds, even in discrete rather than putting strong discrete instruments in places around the room and this one is very discrete. Just awesome!
Thanks for commenting. I was surprised to find no thread (or at least any I can find!) for the latest surround version of this (on Obfusc/ation, 2016). My daughter has just given it to me as a present and I have yet to hear the blu-ray, but I am now very much looking forward to it. I liked the stereo remix on CD, and quite enjoyed the sewn-together Echoes. (And I don't recall Rick Wright's keyboard work standing out so much before? It's great!)
I've heard it now and I love it. Very satisfying surround sound mix. James Guthrie, I suppose. I'm looking forward to playing it loud when I get the chance.My favorite part on that version of Echoes (stereo or quad) is Roger Waters' modified bass line in the middle section where the camera starts panning by the "Pink Floyd - London" amp stacks. That extra note at the end of each bass line repeated twice somehow makes a big difference for me compared to just playing the same note pattern over and over on the original one. I do miss the crashing ending of the Part 1 version when they were separate, though. I'm not a big fan of the "bird sound & guitar" effects in the middle on any version and so I tended to play Part 1 by itself a lot more than Part 2. I do rather like Gilmour's "acoustic" version of Echoes from his one concert DVD, though (it's only Part 2; I wish it had the whole thing).
Meanwhile, Careful with that Axe Eugene is lightyears better than any other version I've ever heard on Live At Pompeii, surround or stereo. I was never that crazy about it on Electric Moo and Relics, but it's one of my favorites on Pompeii!
I've heard it now and I love it. Very satisfying surround sound mix. James Guthrie, I suppose. I'm looking forward to playing it loud when I get the chance.
And I'd quite forgotten about the crashing ending of Echoes Part 1. That always felt a little jarring for me, because I'd usually be mesmerised by that stage of the song and suddenly jolted out of it ... so while I'm personally OK without it, I get how one could miss it too. And I like the new approach, just entirely focussing on the music, and the incorporation of CGI was interesting ... though I do miss the short scene with them fetching their meals at the canteen buffet.
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