Your series on The Wall has been the best in depth analysis of a Pink Floyd record on youtube, I really hope you can cover more of the Pink Floyd catalogue at some point.
When I hit record, I expected to talk for about 5 min, didn't realize I had so much to say! Who would you have picked to direct The Wall? If not Bob Geldof, who would you have picked to star as Pink? Who you would pick for a remake / sequel of The Wall? Also, be sure to vote if you want to see a video on The Black Strat!
Vinyl Rewind I’d love to see a remake with Denis Villeneuve directing (a great psychological director) and Jared Leto as Pink (I know that might turn people off, but his edgier acting and attitude would be great for the character, and he can sing too).
If the Wall had to be remade I think Luca Guadagnino( director of Suspiria 2018) could make a pretty great movie. Especially the way he incorporates music with Suspiria. I'd choose Eddie Redmayne or Jake Gyllenhaal because of his performance in Nightcrawler
RICHARD WRIGHT: Underappreciated, to say the least. On the early Pink Floyd records, when they were working up songs as a band. Richard's songwriting contributions were always a deeply satisfying pause and sigh on those albums. On other albums, MEDDLE and The Dark Side Of The Moon are immediate thoughts his co-lead vocals with David Gilmour are glorious, vulnerable, and border on perfectly beautiful sadness. He was an incredibly irreplaceable part of the "sound" of Pink Floyd.
Funny enough, Kubrick approached Pink Floyd to use Atom Heart Mother in A Clockwork Orange. When the condition was the music could be edited as he saw fit, Roger Waters refused. Twenty or so years later, when Roger Waters approached Stanley Kubrick for the use of sound from 2001: A Space Odyssey in Amused to Death, Stanley refused him. Needless to say that he didn't take it well =D
The band is notorious for not giving what the fans want. David Gilmour refused a enormous sum to reunite the band in 2005. Cannot ask to much of them these days. I think Roger's solo tour was successful enough to give The Wall closure. He renewed the story for another generation, with the writer given full credit. I personally love to see footage of Dark Side played live in the 70s, like in Wembley. If a film is to be made, I don't want a remake of PFTW, but rather a biopic. The Pink Floyd legacy is so rich and interesting. It can be divided into two parts, part 1 being Syd Barrett's downfall, ending with his 1975 visit, part 2 being Roger's own downfall (I'll see in the dark side of the moon), ending with live 8. I love this channel. Not only would I love to see a overview of the black strat, but also a vid that documents Pink Floyd's history as a band, the many eras, the change of sound, and the beautiful conclusions etc.
The closest that crossover will ever happen is the syncs on RUclips of Pink Floyd X 2001: A Space Odyssey lmao Man...the what could have been is always bittersweet
The Wall will always be important to me because of how it made me feel at age 16, and how it makes me feel at 23 years old. I often talk about and reference this album in therapy because I feel like it describes my bipolar disorder perfectly, and the connections I made with it during my psych ward stay and everything. the movie is also extremely important to me because it's one of the films I wish I could make now that i'm studying film- and for the record, I would love to have seen Kubrick direct this.
I was lucky enough to see The Wall at Earls Court. My stepmum bought me and my brother tickets, we were put on a bus and sent to London. . I was only 15 and it blew me away. The bits I remember the most was the plane on the wire... the hotel scene..and David Gilmour playing comfortably numb.. I thoght the animation was really cool too.
Roger has stated in recent interviews that they had the whole The Wall bluray remaster ready to go and were about to work on remastering the tour footage to release with it... but David refused to have it released. David apparently also refused to approve the Animals box set which is why that was never released either. This is what Roger has said at least. Roger said it was all ready to go. I wish I knew why David approved the box sets for all the other albums except Animals, and why he is the one hold up of having The Wall tour footage remastered and released... Hopefully we will see it one day.
I didn't think of Terry - nice one. That would of been interesting and I think great visuals would of been achieved. Regarding the story of the album, Roger Waters on BBC radio (1979) In case not heard: ruclips.net/video/T8Z5VnoTACg/видео.html
Hmmm, Gilliam or any other visual director would have clashed with Scarfe & all his pre-production & it would have gone horribly wrong. Remember Parker was originally the producer, anybody else in the hot seat and it probably wouldn't have been completed given Waters & Scarfe had no idea how to get nor spend $12M on a feature film.. At the end of the day, the weakness of the film is not the director but the screenplay, the story of alienation and self-destruction is pretty vague which you can get away with on a 'concept' music album but not for 90 minutes on a 30' screen - there's only about 3 lines in the film, try directing that! (As Steven Spielberg the master story teller himself said, what the hell was that all about?). Essentially an epic pop video which I love with all it's faults!
And the story ends. Or rather, begins again, with a faint voice asking. Isn’t this where…we came in?“ Those fans who like resolute endings cast about for one, turning to Pink Floyd’s follow-up album (the last one recorded with Roger Waters at the helm), The Final Cut, finding (or perhaps forcing) remarkable similarities between Pink and the narrator of many of the latter album’s songs. Some go so far as to tout it as a loose sequel to the Wall, one that gives possible hints about Pink’s fate after the last of his bricks fell. Considering that The Final Cut is composed of songs deemed not suitable for inclusion on The Wall, this idea may very well be a fact rather than a theory. Regardless of whether one finds echoes of Pink in other albums, the Wall itself concludes inconclusively. That is to say, it circles back on itself, ending where it started. Like Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Mariner’s compulsive need to tell his tale to anyone who will listen, the album cycles back to the beginning for a retelling to another audience; and like the wedding guest to whom the Mariner related his story, we are left a sadder and a wiser man. Through the imaginative storytelling and a metaphor that translates equally well to both the microcosm of the individual and the macrocosm of society, we are certainly wiser to what Waters' sees as the detrimental, soul-robbing effects of personal and social isolationism; though still, sadder all the same to the notion that even after the collapse of one wall, another is built and the cycle repeats. Yet in the end, Pink’s story becomes less about a singular rock star and more about us, the audience, and the world we live in. Similarly, the characters in Pink’s story are just as universal as its protagonist. While they are never given names throughout the entire album, their roles in Pink’s life define their personalities as Mother Father, Teacher, and Spouse, possibly mirroring those very same characters in our lives. These could very well be our Mothers, Fathers, Teachers, and Loved ones. Accordingly, Pink’s story could be our own. In a sense, Pink’s story IS our own. Though the details are no doubt different, the underlying themes of humanity and its subsequent degradation as a result of personal and societal disconnection are universal. These themes apply to our lives and our world just as much as they apply to Pink’s fictional (yet just as authentic) story. Just like the bleeding hearts in Outside the Wall Pink Floyd has taken it upon themselves to convey this timeless story of personal decay, perhaps in the hopes that these omnipresent patterns, these cycles of violence, might be averted. Such is the ultimate aim of art: to illuminate, to edify. Pink’s story is finished. He constructed his wall, fell into moral decay because of it, and ultimately destroyed this isolating barrier. Our story, however, is still taking place. What happens to Pink soon becomes nowhere near as important as what happens to us. How do we live our lives? Are we currently constructing or tearing down those hindrances that produce disconnection and degeneration? How do our personal walls contribute to those of our nation, our world? How much of the world’s ills are we really responsible for? Most importantly, which versions of Pink will we choose to be? As for Roger Waters, the man whose autobiographical blood and bones prop up the flesh of the character Pink, the story is similarly unending. Leading up to his 2010 - 2011 world tour with the Wall 30 years after the album’s original tourWaters spoke of his own wall to Rolling Stone magazine, saying It comes down brick by brick. That’s what growing up is. I would suggest [growing up is] a dismantling of our wall, brick by brick, and discovering that when we let our defenses down, we become more loveable. I’m not saying I’ve discarded my wall or walls entirely,“he concludes. "But over the years, I’ve allowed more of it to crumble - and opened myself to the possibility of love.” Both Pink and Waters, it would seem, finally found their way home. -Extracted from genius.com
I’m aware you’re planning on a lot of other stuff (and will probably forget about this suggestion) but it would be cool to see some more KC reviews. As always, this channel deserves way more subscribers and views! Keep up the good work!
Very good love your historical description of the album and the tour. I was at the first concert in LA and was waiting for you to talk about when the fire works started a fire in the curtains. Surprised you missed that. Looking back that was pretty freaky now. Saying that it was the greatest concert of all time for me.
Thank you for an exhaustive review on this album (plus more). I find you to be an excellent deliverer of the appropriate information. Well researched and well produced as always. Thanks and well done! Regards, Dave ✌️
The Wall is the Wall. Whatever you can say about it, it's a masterpiece that touch us deeply in our heart and mind. There is nothing much more to say about it. Just one of if not the greatest album of all time period.
What you have done with your videos about The wall is just amazing, very complete, many thanks! A video on that guitar would be awesome, it is an iconic instrument.
IIRC, the song "The Final Cut" off the album of the same name is supposed to be an extension of The Wall that could work as the ending you're thinking of. There's a series of lines in the middle that go, "If you negotiate the minefield in the drive / And beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes / And if you make it past the shotgun in the hall / Dial the combination, open the priest hole / And if I'm in I'll tell you (what's behind the wall)" with the parenthesized words covered by a gunshot that means whoever he is speaking to wasn't able to reach him. The ending of the song is Pink saying that despite wanting to die he never managed to kill himself out of fear. It was originally supposed to be on The Wall but it was slightly rewritten to better fit the PTSD and anti-war themes of The Final Cut and be slightly more autobiographical (even though much of The Wall is inspired by Roger's life).
It's a good thing to have this level of critique. Coming from an expert in film industry. Pumps up the discussion. Thanks man, for having your own voice, and not being another fanboy
The wall came out the year I started to work so for me it has a special place in my life and listening to it on cassette tape recorded from the original vinyl was awesome.
Appreciate your insight and spirit- The Floyd will forever be comfortably numb as a work in progress ; a portrait of the band from a trillion miles beyond the moon.
Definitely agree about how the Wall concert footage from the early 80's should be restored and released. I would also like to see a new deluxe edition of the original album with bonus stuff like the full What Shall We Do Now and the longer promo mix of Young Lust with options to listen in stereo or surround and also I think a way to make a better Wall movie would be to not bother with live action and make it an entirely animated movie based on Gerald Scarfe's artwork.
This was a very interesting video, thanks for sharing your thoughts and I agree with most. This is hands down in my opinion the greatest album ever made and of course we want to see a video on Gilmour's guitar! Keep up the amazing work!
RICK WRIGHT was a big part of the floyd sound. Just imagine the music without keyboards. A perfect example of how Wright came up with ideas, watch the Dark Side of the Moon documentary.
A buddy of mine and I found a bootleg of most of the tour on limewire back in the day and made a DVD copy of it and I still hold on to it this day. Some stuff we had to record his computer screen with a camera to get some of the footage and did our best to line up "Is There Anybody Out There?". Not the greatest thing in the world but it's the best I'll get for now.
Fantastic series on The Wall - thank you! Sorry, it may already be in the comments, a 25th Anniversary edition of the movie was released in 2005: Hi Def transfer, 5.1 Dolby. Waters and Parker had ducked into an afternoon cinema and came away a bit chagrined thinking they could have tightened it up a bit, so they did for this DVD release.
Due to the constant modifications, the only original parts on the guitar, apart from the body, are believed to be the pick up selector switch and (possibly) the bridge plate.
Comments concerning the concert film footage: The issue of lighting was not so much aesthetic but more for technical reasons as film emulsions were still not sensitive to low-light situations, which it most certainly was given it was more theatre than anything else. Now, as scanning has improved significantly over the years, you could scan the negatives (and I assume this was 35mm ... if it were 16mm, you had even less latitude and thus light becomes more important) at 4K (8K is overkill and that's enough used for 65mm film elements ... only a handful of films have ever been digitized at that resolution ... 12K is about IMAX level). Thus you could make a really solid visual record of what happened those nights at Earl's Court in 1980. As far as "reluctance", it's less being reluctant and more they are perfectionists and commandeering in their own right. They are not going to do something unless they are in some kind of agreement (which has gotten better over the years). It's probably more Roger's call as he does own relevant rights to The Wall (this is why he was able to stage it in Berlin in 1990). And who's to say something is not being done as we speak? After all, we have had the vinyl reissues of both The Piper at the Gates of Dawn *and* A Saucerful of Secrets in *mono* for Record Store Days 2018 and 2019 respectively. Also, we had the Early Years set issued several years ago and it contained a lot of material over the course of five years or so. At this point, anything is possible. It has been joked and rumoured amongst fans of the Criterion Collection that Pink Floyd The Wall would be issued by them at some point.
I like how you made a lot of videos about it, since it's one of my favourite albums. Also i found your channel through your trilogy on how The Wall was made
I would love to see a video on the black strat and for the film I would have Danny Boyle direct but idk him for animated scenes as that's really not his thing
As for the concert footage, one can speculate that if Roger does have the tapes and if he applies the same kind of quality control as he does his albums that to make it into something watchable would be hugely laborious. Also, in interviews he's made it clear that he doesn't want to revisit that time (in so many words). I can only say wait and see.
Having lived through that period as a young (and stoned) man, what had happened to the band is similar to what had happened to our peers in the counter culture as well. The bad things they said about money happened anyway, and we all succumbed to the pressures that brought about that need and not always lusted after. Pink Floyd started as a somewhat artsy group, and through their experimentation (and the generous patience of their record company) laid the groundwork for what would become their more successful albums - but it came at a price. What happened to David Wright would've been no different had it happened to someone similar in a big company. I write this alone in my apartment, having lost whatever camaraderie I had enjoyed through living life (things like death of friends, betrayal and so forth). As one David Bowie biographer put it, "it was too utopian to work". And I did attend the L.A. Sports Arena show - looking back, it was the beginning of the end of rock concerts for me.
amazing way to close this series of videos of the wall, love your content , I'm always trying to let everyone I know bout your channel. keep it up and we'll catch you on the flip side 😃
I had the movie quite early. When the album was first released, it was evident to me that the art depicted on the album was possibly going to be part of a movie. I kept investigating, and sure enough I found out that a movie was in the works. At the time, Video Store Galore was the only video store in my area, and I pre-ordered the movie, which took many months to arrive, but I finally had it in 1982 on VHS. Some friends, some Blue Hawaiian, and some strange morphing flowers! Good Times.
I agree with you on the movie. I always found that the first half of it is great, but by the time the wall is built it kind of loses steam and seems to rush to the ending. It also isn’t nearly as psychological as the album is, and I would’ve loved to see them dive more into Pink’s inner psyche using means other than vague hallucinations. For a modern remake, I’d love to see Denis Villeneuve direct it and have a character actor like Jared Leto play Pink (his edgier attitude and acting would work wonders on this character, and he can sing too as a plus).
That sounds cool. The movie tried too hard to express the aggression to the audience that Parker felt on the shows (someone said that Roger was almosrt trying to intimidate the audience). So he went heavy handed on the violent side of things, omitting the psychological details (i. e. the unspoken fear inflicted on baby pink on the thin ice, the sexual repression, the growing resentment and the ambivalence of Pink between asking for help or not). Parker tried to blow our minds, and he succeeded on that, but there's more to it on the studio album.
I really, really enjoyed your casual discussion and retrospect of The Wall without a script or a practiced structure. I really felt like I was there having this discussion with you. Unfortunately, there simply is not enough room here to type all my responses and personal insights on all the discussion points. I will add this piece of info. All things Pink Floyd are voted on by the band members including Roger. This was mentioned in an interview with Roger. He basically said that he will never be able to influence Pink Floyd because he can (and probably always) be voted down. So any action or involvement regarding release of old video or new material needs a majority vote by the remaining members. This "majority rule" was put in place following the lawsuit between Dave and Roger over ownership of the Pink Floyd back in the 80's. I can't tell you off hand what interview that was, but it has to be out there somewhere if anyone wants confirmation. Thanks for a awesome job on "The Wall". Oh, and I voted yes for a story on the Black Strat.
There can never be too many articles about black strat... and I have seen them all. I coveted that guitar for 2 decades and even made my own version from an early 90s am std. It broke my heart that he sold it because it meant that it was over. Gilmour would never again wail out the time solo on its original axe.
1) Amazing video as always!! 2) I would absolutely LOVE a video on The Black Strat 3) I think who would've been a cool director for The Wall film would've been David Lynch. Very dark, very visual. Especially knowing all of his particular skills and know-how in directing and sound. Eraserhead in particular comes to mind thinking about this, especially since it was released in 1977. 4) This is going against the rule of realistically picking an actor from the exact specific time of the filming, but an interesting actor I think would've been mid-80s Nick Cave. Another punk singer with a nack for acting, he did appear in a few roles in the late 80s (though his appearance in Wings of Desire was more a cameo than anything). I'm basing this choice off his live performances with The Bad Seeds during the 80s as he could be at times a terrifying figure who was very direct with the audience. Examples of this would be the videos (on RUclips) called "Nick Cave Live Hamburg 24/05/84," "Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Posthof, Linz, Austria (09-10-1986)," "Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity (Live 1989, Pro-Shot with well-balanced audio)," and "Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: "The Carny" - live at Roskilde Festival 1990." I will say though, if you haven't already listened to Nick Cave's 80s discography, I would recommend doing that first before watching any of these. Another thing that makes me want to put 80s Nick as the role of Pink is how hard he was falling during the 80s as a rock star due to a heroin addiction. He also tended to write dark music during the 80s, particularly albums like "From Her To Eternity" and "Your Funeral... My Trial" being his darkest works. Nick Cave also has know-how of writing and portraying character not just through his descriptive lyricism but also in books he's written. Knowing his presence during the 80s, and also knowing that he was also in a similar place to Roger, I think he would've made a great Pink.
For me the movie accomplished everything I was hoping for, the graininess, the charm of the style of animation, as well as the avant garde, underlying sarcasm, which I must say, ended very poignantly with the small children almost unknowingly, and robotically, gathering bricks to build their respective walls with. I shed a tear at the end, which is a testament to the impact of the message, for those with eyes, and ears to see, hear, and perceive.
I think getting Roger and David to agree on anything with anything would be a miracle. It also depends what elements do exist. The live footage goes back to me like the Beatles let it be. The fans want it but trying to go back through to a time someone would like to forget is another reason. Plus, where do the rights lie with the movie and the live footage.
The film was definitely shot, as I was there in the crowd near the front of the stage. I even managed to sneak my camera in and shot a couple of rolls of slide film. The story I heard was the footage was not used in the film as the English audience were too well behaved, when they were looking for more active involvement.
“Roger doesn’t realize, he’s an old guy” He know’s more than you and me pal, he knows that they can rip and capture the negatives in 4k. I’m sure there’s another reason why The Wall movie and live show aren’t available in FHD or UHD.
Oh yeah I would really like a video on the black strat!! Also, can you make videos on the rest of the pink floyd albums and break them down like you did with The Wall? Maybe there is less to them, but it would be interesting nontheless. Great video as always!!
Not necessarily relating to this video, but I have a suggestion. Not sure if you do this already, but I’m sure a lot of viewers would love to give you a band or album to make a video on. Sort of like a “suggestion box”, a way viewers can tell you what they would like to see. For example, I would strongly enjoy seeing a video, or a series of videos on the band Dire Straits. They had an amazing history of shows and produced some incredible albums. Really one of the most underrated rock bands of the 70s-80s era, and I think you’d enjoy them. I’ve watched your videos for quite some time now, and I really like the way you dive deep into the many layers in a musical work (like analyzing the tour, album, and movie, in the case of The Wall).
As for the footage, there's one from the Nassau Coliseum shows, too - kind of home movie quality. The lighting used at these concerts was exceedingly bright, and could have been a factor in the picture quality. Anyone who has taken pictures with their camera phone knows about this (never have the light source behind the subject you photograph, etc.).
You know an album is good when theres like, 5 endings to this series lol
Right!
I'd love to see a video on Animals or Wish You Were Here.
I wanna more about animals so much
Hey you're the man who uploaded the wall concert!
or an actual review of dsotm
Cigar imagine a movie on either of those albums like there was for the wall
Ayy cigar
Your series on The Wall has been the best in depth analysis of a Pink Floyd record on youtube, I really hope you can cover more of the Pink Floyd catalogue at some point.
Polyphonic‘s Series in Dark side of the Moon is also really good
When I hit record, I expected to talk for about 5 min, didn't realize I had so much to say!
Who would you have picked to direct The Wall?
If not Bob Geldof, who would you have picked to star as Pink?
Who you would pick for a remake / sequel of The Wall?
Also, be sure to vote if you want to see a video on The Black Strat!
Vinyl Rewind probably a colaborar between the original cast and the director of Bohemium Rhapsody
Honestly, I don't think The Wall needs a remake.
Vinyl Rewind I’d love to see a remake with Denis Villeneuve directing (a great psychological director) and Jared Leto as Pink (I know that might turn people off, but his edgier acting and attitude would be great for the character, and he can sing too).
@@NicBrandon interesting choices
If the Wall had to be remade I think Luca Guadagnino( director of Suspiria 2018) could make a pretty great movie. Especially the way he incorporates music with Suspiria. I'd choose Eddie Redmayne or Jake Gyllenhaal because of his performance in Nightcrawler
This is still one of my all-time favorite albums and holds up even today. Just an amazing masterpiece
Well said.
RICHARD WRIGHT: Underappreciated, to say the least.
On the early Pink Floyd records, when they were working up songs as a band. Richard's songwriting contributions were always a deeply satisfying pause and sigh on those albums.
On other albums, MEDDLE and The Dark Side Of The Moon are immediate thoughts his co-lead vocals with David Gilmour are glorious, vulnerable, and border on perfectly beautiful sadness.
He was an incredibly irreplaceable part of the "sound" of Pink Floyd.
Kubrick and Roger would have killed each other.
walrusonion dude totally 😂
walrusonion hahaha true!!
Funny enough, Kubrick approached Pink Floyd to use Atom Heart Mother in A Clockwork Orange. When the condition was the music could be edited as he saw fit, Roger Waters refused.
Twenty or so years later, when Roger Waters approached Stanley Kubrick for the use of sound from 2001: A Space Odyssey in Amused to Death, Stanley refused him. Needless to say that he didn't take it well =D
@@DerekPower facts
I hate say it but how about Tim Burton?
This is Vinyl Rewinds “ Spare Bricks”
You should definitely make a playlist containing all of your videos on this album. Fantastic series!
That animals album is just looming in the background
Don’t do that. Don’t give me hope.
Vinyl Rewind: *keeps talking about The Wall*
Animals: "Sup bitch"
@@csigunner5087 "Nice place. When am I getting reviewed."
@@arbyw.1889 Yessss
Your videos on "The Wall" made me a subscriber. Thank you for your hard work and your amazing analysis!
The Wall should had been a triple album including the Final Cut wich is a absolute masterpeice.
The band is notorious for not giving what the fans want. David Gilmour refused a enormous sum to reunite the band in 2005. Cannot ask to much of them these days.
I think Roger's solo tour was successful enough to give The Wall closure. He renewed the story for another generation, with the writer given full credit. I personally love to see footage of Dark Side played live in the 70s, like in Wembley.
If a film is to be made, I don't want a remake of PFTW, but rather a biopic. The Pink Floyd legacy is so rich and interesting. It can be divided into two parts, part 1 being Syd Barrett's downfall, ending with his 1975 visit, part 2 being Roger's own downfall (I'll see in the dark side of the moon), ending with live 8.
I love this channel. Not only would I love to see a overview of the black strat, but also a vid that documents Pink Floyd's history as a band, the many eras, the change of sound, and the beautiful conclusions etc.
A remaster could be going on in secret and just waiting for a specific anniversary to be released.
There's no official live footage of Pink Floyd between 1973 and 1977, unfortunately.
A biopic would be a very bad idea imo.
@@4ctmam Biopic would not be a worse idea than bohemian rhapsody or rocket man, and the former two garnered mainstream attention.
@@BlizzyFoxTF I know they did. I haven't seen Rocket Man but IMO Bo Rhap was awful. Just a personal opinion.
Pink Floyd and Kubrick? Yeah the relationship between them would make that impossible, which is sad since it would be amazing
I know right, too bad
I like your profile picture, where is it from?
It would be sick
The closest that crossover will ever happen is the syncs on RUclips of Pink Floyd X 2001: A Space Odyssey lmao Man...the what could have been is always bittersweet
The Wall will always be important to me because of how it made me feel at age 16, and how it makes me feel at 23 years old. I often talk about and reference this album in therapy because I feel like it describes my bipolar disorder perfectly, and the connections I made with it during my psych ward stay and everything.
the movie is also extremely important to me because it's one of the films I wish I could make now that i'm studying film- and for the record, I would love to have seen Kubrick direct this.
You have "amazing powers of observation"! I love your reviews of Pink Floyd! You really GET IT, and have great passion!
I was lucky enough to see The Wall at Earls Court. My stepmum bought me and my brother tickets, we were put on a bus and sent to London. . I was only 15 and it blew me away. The bits I remember the most was the plane on the wire... the hotel scene..and David Gilmour playing comfortably numb.. I thoght the animation was really cool too.
The Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking is a MASTERPIECE.
Roger has stated in recent interviews that they had the whole The Wall bluray remaster ready to go and were about to work on remastering the tour footage to release with it... but David refused to have it released. David apparently also refused to approve the Animals box set which is why that was never released either. This is what Roger has said at least.
Roger said it was all ready to go. I wish I knew why David approved the box sets for all the other albums except Animals, and why he is the one hold up of having The Wall tour footage remastered and released... Hopefully we will see it one day.
I think Terry Gilliam would have made an amazing Wall Movie. I still love Parker’s, but Gilliam would have knocked it out of the park.
I agree, but Gilliam wouldn't have done it without complete control.
I didn't think of Terry - nice one. That would of been interesting and I think great visuals would of been achieved.
Regarding the story of the album, Roger Waters on BBC radio (1979) In case not heard:
ruclips.net/video/T8Z5VnoTACg/видео.html
Hmmm, Gilliam or any other visual director would have clashed with Scarfe & all his pre-production & it would have gone horribly wrong. Remember Parker was originally the producer, anybody else in the hot seat and it probably wouldn't have been completed given Waters & Scarfe had no idea how to get nor spend $12M on a feature film..
At the end of the day, the weakness of the film is not the director but the screenplay, the story of alienation and self-destruction is pretty vague which you can get away with on a 'concept' music album but not for 90 minutes on a 30' screen - there's only about 3 lines in the film, try directing that! (As Steven Spielberg the master story teller himself said, what the hell was that all about?).
Essentially an epic pop video which I love with all it's faults!
Would love to see in-depth analysis of Echoes. Great show man, much love.
Stumbled into your channel while researching another project. Masterful work. Thanks for The Wall series.
Every time I click on a video of yours, I get this new vinyl scent..... I do love the smell of vinyl in the morning!
And the story ends. Or rather, begins again, with a faint voice asking.
Isn’t this where…we came in?“
Those fans who like resolute endings cast about for one, turning to Pink Floyd’s follow-up album (the last one recorded with Roger Waters at the helm), The Final Cut, finding (or perhaps forcing) remarkable similarities between Pink and the narrator of many of the latter album’s songs.
Some go so far as to tout it as a loose sequel to the Wall, one that gives possible hints about Pink’s fate after the last of his bricks fell. Considering that The Final Cut is composed of songs deemed not suitable for inclusion on The Wall, this idea may very well be a fact rather than a theory. Regardless of whether one finds echoes of Pink in other albums, the Wall itself concludes inconclusively.
That is to say, it circles back on itself, ending where it started. Like Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Mariner’s compulsive need to tell his tale to anyone who will listen, the album cycles back to the beginning for a retelling to another audience; and like the wedding guest to whom the Mariner related his story, we are left a sadder and a wiser man.
Through the imaginative storytelling and a metaphor that translates equally well to both the microcosm of the individual and the macrocosm of society, we are certainly wiser to what Waters' sees as the detrimental, soul-robbing effects of personal and social isolationism; though still, sadder all the same to the notion that even after the collapse of one wall, another is built and the cycle repeats.
Yet in the end, Pink’s story becomes less about a singular rock star and more about us, the audience, and the world we live in. Similarly, the characters in Pink’s story are just as universal as its protagonist.
While they are never given names throughout the entire album, their roles in Pink’s life define their personalities as Mother Father, Teacher, and Spouse, possibly mirroring those very same characters in our lives.
These could very well be our Mothers, Fathers, Teachers, and Loved ones. Accordingly, Pink’s story could be our own. In a sense, Pink’s story IS our own. Though the details are no doubt different, the underlying themes of humanity and its subsequent degradation as a result of personal and societal disconnection are universal.
These themes apply to our lives and our world just as much as they apply to Pink’s fictional (yet just as authentic) story. Just like the bleeding hearts in Outside the Wall Pink Floyd has taken it upon themselves to convey this timeless story of personal decay, perhaps in the hopes that these omnipresent patterns, these cycles of violence, might be averted.
Such is the ultimate aim of art: to illuminate, to edify. Pink’s story is finished. He constructed his wall, fell into moral decay because of it, and ultimately destroyed this isolating barrier. Our story, however, is still taking place. What happens to Pink soon becomes nowhere near as important as what happens to us. How do we live our lives?
Are we currently constructing or tearing down those hindrances that produce disconnection and degeneration? How do our personal walls contribute to those of our nation, our world? How much of the world’s ills are we really responsible for? Most importantly, which versions of Pink will we choose to be?
As for Roger Waters, the man whose autobiographical blood and bones prop up the flesh of the character Pink, the story is similarly unending. Leading up to his 2010 - 2011 world tour with the Wall 30 years after the album’s original tourWaters spoke of his own wall to Rolling Stone magazine, saying
It comes down brick by brick. That’s what growing up is. I would suggest [growing up is] a dismantling of our wall, brick by brick, and discovering that when we let our defenses down, we become more loveable. I’m not saying I’ve discarded my wall or walls entirely,“he concludes. "But over the years, I’ve allowed more of it to crumble - and opened myself to the possibility of love.”
Both Pink and Waters, it would seem, finally found their way home.
-Extracted from genius.com
i forgot about that
Amazing content man. Im glad I came across this channel
I do like the idea of Instrument Biographies not just for David Glimour but any artist's instrument and variants.
I’m aware you’re planning on a lot of other stuff (and will probably forget about this suggestion) but it would be cool to see some more KC reviews.
As always, this channel deserves way more subscribers and views! Keep up the good work!
Very good love your historical description of the album and the tour. I was at the first concert in LA and was waiting for you to talk about when the fire works started a fire in the curtains. Surprised you missed that. Looking back that was pretty freaky now. Saying that it was the greatest concert of all time for me.
Thank you for an exhaustive review on this album (plus more). I find you to be an excellent deliverer of the appropriate information. Well researched and well produced as always. Thanks and well done! Regards, Dave ✌️
The Wall is the Wall.
Whatever you can say about it, it's a masterpiece that touch us deeply in our heart and mind.
There is nothing much more to say about it. Just one of if not the greatest album of all time period.
What you have done with your videos about The wall is just amazing, very complete, many thanks! A video on that guitar would be awesome, it is an iconic instrument.
Children going into a giant meat grinder you: THAT IS AMAZING
But it is amazing, disturbingly amazing
IIRC, the song "The Final Cut" off the album of the same name is supposed to be an extension of The Wall that could work as the ending you're thinking of. There's a series of lines in the middle that go, "If you negotiate the minefield in the drive / And beat the dogs and cheat the cold electronic eyes / And if you make it past the shotgun in the hall / Dial the combination, open the priest hole / And if I'm in I'll tell you (what's behind the wall)" with the parenthesized words covered by a gunshot that means whoever he is speaking to wasn't able to reach him. The ending of the song is Pink saying that despite wanting to die he never managed to kill himself out of fear. It was originally supposed to be on The Wall but it was slightly rewritten to better fit the PTSD and anti-war themes of The Final Cut and be slightly more autobiographical (even though much of The Wall is inspired by Roger's life).
It's a good thing to have this level of critique. Coming from an expert in film industry. Pumps up the discussion. Thanks man, for having your own voice, and not being another fanboy
Tim Burton in his glory days would have been a good director for a new version of The Wall.
We can digitally adjust the brightness and colors with today’s technology for the concert. It would be a cake walk for Weta Studios.
This series has been really interesting and informative, thank you for taking your time to make it!
The wall came out the year I started to work so for me it has a special place in my life and listening to it on cassette tape recorded from the original vinyl was awesome.
You should talk about pros and cons of hitchhiking. One of my favorite records ever.
I really like bob in the wall. He gives a really good performance
Great series and enjoyed the in depth view. Awesome work as always and definitely want to see The Black Strat!!
Appreciate your insight and spirit-
The Floyd will forever be comfortably numb as a work in progress ; a portrait of the band from a trillion miles beyond the moon.
Definitely agree about how the Wall concert footage from the early 80's should be restored and released. I would also like to see a new deluxe edition of the original album with bonus stuff like the full What Shall We Do Now and the longer promo mix of Young Lust with options to listen in stereo or surround and also I think a way to make a better Wall movie would be to not bother with live action and make it an entirely animated movie based on Gerald Scarfe's artwork.
This was a very interesting video, thanks for sharing your thoughts and I agree with most. This is hands down in my opinion the greatest album ever made and of course we want to see a video on Gilmour's guitar! Keep up the amazing work!
Yes! Yes I would love to see a bio on the strat! Thay would be awesome 👌
GOD, YES. With you 100% on the movie. The story ought to be expanded a great deal. Two movies, even, as is _de rigueur_ in these times.
Very well put, i admire your great understanding and passion for this album it's like the ark of music, what an absolutely unbelievable masterpiece 👌🏻
RICK WRIGHT was a big part of the floyd sound. Just imagine the music without keyboards. A perfect example of how Wright came up with ideas, watch the Dark Side of the Moon documentary.
Re-animating the wall would be an amazing idea. I’m totally in!!!
A buddy of mine and I found a bootleg of most of the tour on limewire back in the day and made a DVD copy of it and I still hold on to it this day. Some stuff we had to record his computer screen with a camera to get some of the footage and did our best to line up "Is There Anybody Out There?". Not the greatest thing in the world but it's the best I'll get for now.
Ethan Lechner would you share the DVD ?
@@hiterss sure I can dig it out of the basement
@@elech77 awesome !! Let me know when you Rip the DVD , please and thank you
I'd love to see a video on the black strat. Being a guitarist and a massive Gilmour fan, i would love to know the history of it
The Wall was the last of the Classic Rock concept albums.
Floyd has given us so much, there was no need for them to continue.
Fantastic series on The Wall - thank you! Sorry, it may already be in the comments, a 25th Anniversary edition of the movie was released in 2005: Hi Def transfer, 5.1 Dolby. Waters and Parker had ducked into an afternoon cinema and came away a bit chagrined thinking they could have tightened it up a bit, so they did for this DVD release.
I'm fairly certain that the universe would have imploded upon itself if you tried to make Roger's ego and Kubick's ego work together...
To your last question pertaining to the black strat.........YES!
Some/most of us are waiting for the tour screenfilms
Like if the wall is your favorite floyd album
With The Final Cut hot on its heels!
@@foxpianocovers I second that! That album has seriously grown on me. Love the WWII stuff.
@@foxpianocovers Final cut is like a sequel to the wall there both my favorites from pink floyd
Still prefer Wish You Were Here as my all time favourite.
more soundtrack
you idea about a 'black strat' documentary reminds me of the film 'the red violin' which follows the history of the instrument....
Due to the constant modifications, the only original parts on the guitar, apart from the body, are believed to be the pick up selector switch and (possibly) the bridge plate.
Yes, a video on the Blackstrat!
+ Animals
+ Wish you were here
+ The division bell
Comments concerning the concert film footage:
The issue of lighting was not so much aesthetic but more for technical reasons as film emulsions were still not sensitive to low-light situations, which it most certainly was given it was more theatre than anything else.
Now, as scanning has improved significantly over the years, you could scan the negatives (and I assume this was 35mm ... if it were 16mm, you had even less latitude and thus light becomes more important) at 4K (8K is overkill and that's enough used for 65mm film elements ... only a handful of films have ever been digitized at that resolution ... 12K is about IMAX level). Thus you could make a really solid visual record of what happened those nights at Earl's Court in 1980.
As far as "reluctance", it's less being reluctant and more they are perfectionists and commandeering in their own right. They are not going to do something unless they are in some kind of agreement (which has gotten better over the years). It's probably more Roger's call as he does own relevant rights to The Wall (this is why he was able to stage it in Berlin in 1990). And who's to say something is not being done as we speak? After all, we have had the vinyl reissues of both The Piper at the Gates of Dawn *and* A Saucerful of Secrets in *mono* for Record Store Days 2018 and 2019 respectively. Also, we had the Early Years set issued several years ago and it contained a lot of material over the course of five years or so. At this point, anything is possible.
It has been joked and rumoured amongst fans of the Criterion Collection that Pink Floyd The Wall would be issued by them at some point.
I like how you made a lot of videos about it, since it's one of my favourite albums. Also i found your channel through your trilogy on how The Wall was made
Hell yes, I’d love to see that video on the Strat!!!
I would love to see a video on the black strat and for the film I would have Danny Boyle direct but idk him for animated scenes as that's really not his thing
As for the concert footage, one can speculate that if Roger does have the tapes and if he applies the same kind of quality control as he does his albums that to make it into something watchable would be hugely laborious. Also, in interviews he's made it clear that he doesn't want to revisit that time (in so many words). I can only say wait and see.
Please make a video on David's guitar. It will be pretty cool to see its journey and hearing you narrate it will top it all. (y)
Having lived through that period as a young (and stoned) man, what had happened to the band is similar to what had happened to our peers in the counter culture as well. The bad things they said about money happened anyway, and we all succumbed to the pressures that brought about that need and not always lusted after. Pink Floyd started as a somewhat artsy group, and through their experimentation (and the generous patience of their record company) laid the groundwork for what would become their more successful albums - but it came at a price. What happened to David Wright would've been no different had it happened to someone similar in a big company. I write this alone in my apartment, having lost whatever camaraderie I had enjoyed through living life (things like death of friends, betrayal and so forth). As one David Bowie biographer put it, "it was too utopian to work".
And I did attend the L.A. Sports Arena show - looking back, it was the beginning of the end of rock concerts for me.
Keep up the great work and passion.
We need that petition!!!
amazing way to close this series of videos of the wall, love your content , I'm always trying to let everyone I know bout your channel.
keep it up and we'll catch you on the flip side 😃
YOU ARE AMAZING! THANK YOU FOR EXISTING.
I had the movie quite early. When the album was first released, it was evident to me that the art depicted on the album was possibly going to be part of a movie.
I kept investigating, and sure enough I found out that a movie was in the works. At the time, Video Store Galore was the only video store in my area, and I pre-ordered the movie,
which took many months to arrive, but I finally had it in 1982 on VHS. Some friends, some Blue Hawaiian, and some strange morphing flowers! Good Times.
Aw yeah. Got "Animals" sitting in the background. And that Easter Island-esque candle couldn't be more fitting (The Division Bell).
Or maybe it’s the stone 🗿 that rog gets dragged down by
Right?? Dragged down by the stone x127
I would really appreciate a video about the Black Strat! And thanks for these final thoughts
Yo that color combo is dope as hell. Blue tie, burnt orange button up and off white blazer
I agree with you on the movie. I always found that the first half of it is great, but by the time the wall is built it kind of loses steam and seems to rush to the ending. It also isn’t nearly as psychological as the album is, and I would’ve loved to see them dive more into Pink’s inner psyche using means other than vague hallucinations. For a modern remake, I’d love to see Denis Villeneuve direct it and have a character actor like Jared Leto play Pink (his edgier attitude and acting would work wonders on this character, and he can sing too as a plus).
That sounds cool. The movie tried too hard to express the aggression to the audience that Parker felt on the shows (someone said that Roger was almosrt trying to intimidate the audience). So he went heavy handed on the violent side of things, omitting the psychological details (i. e. the unspoken fear inflicted on baby pink on the thin ice, the sexual repression, the growing resentment and the ambivalence of Pink between asking for help or not). Parker tried to blow our minds, and he succeeded on that, but there's more to it on the studio album.
I really, really enjoyed your casual discussion and retrospect of The Wall without a script or a practiced structure. I really felt like I was there having this discussion with you. Unfortunately, there simply is not enough room here to type all my responses and personal insights on all the discussion points. I will add this piece of info. All things Pink Floyd are voted on by the band members including Roger. This was mentioned in an interview with Roger. He basically said that he will never be able to influence Pink Floyd because he can (and probably always) be voted down. So any action or involvement regarding release of old video or new material needs a majority vote by the remaining members. This "majority rule" was put in place following the lawsuit between Dave and Roger over ownership of the Pink Floyd back in the 80's. I can't tell you off hand what interview that was, but it has to be out there somewhere if anyone wants confirmation. Thanks for a awesome job on "The Wall". Oh, and I voted yes for a story on the Black Strat.
The Wall is my favorite album of all time. The story is great, the music is great, everything is great
There can never be too many articles about black strat... and I have seen them all. I coveted that guitar for 2 decades and even made my own version from an early 90s am std. It broke my heart that he sold it because it meant that it was over. Gilmour would never again wail out the time solo on its original axe.
It would be cool if you did the black strat and Rogers black p bass which is pretty iconic to roger.
1) Amazing video as always!!
2) I would absolutely LOVE a video on The Black Strat
3) I think who would've been a cool director for The Wall film would've been David Lynch. Very dark, very visual. Especially knowing all of his particular skills and know-how in directing and sound. Eraserhead in particular comes to mind thinking about this, especially since it was released in 1977.
4) This is going against the rule of realistically picking an actor from the exact specific time of the filming, but an interesting actor I think would've been mid-80s Nick Cave. Another punk singer with a nack for acting, he did appear in a few roles in the late 80s (though his appearance in Wings of Desire was more a cameo than anything). I'm basing this choice off his live performances with The Bad Seeds during the 80s as he could be at times a terrifying figure who was very direct with the audience. Examples of this would be the videos (on RUclips) called "Nick Cave Live Hamburg 24/05/84," "Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds - Posthof, Linz, Austria (09-10-1986)," "Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds - From Her To Eternity (Live 1989, Pro-Shot with well-balanced audio)," and "Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds: "The Carny" - live at Roskilde Festival 1990." I will say though, if you haven't already listened to Nick Cave's 80s discography, I would recommend doing that first before watching any of these. Another thing that makes me want to put 80s Nick as the role of Pink is how hard he was falling during the 80s as a rock star due to a heroin addiction. He also tended to write dark music during the 80s, particularly albums like "From Her To Eternity" and "Your Funeral... My Trial" being his darkest works. Nick Cave also has know-how of writing and portraying character not just through his descriptive lyricism but also in books he's written. Knowing his presence during the 80s, and also knowing that he was also in a similar place to Roger, I think he would've made a great Pink.
This is the second CD I owned double CD so good listened and got away from my worries for awhile listened all the way through many times
I think that if the film was made today, I think that Jack Black would be a pretty good role for pink because not only is he a actor, but a musician.
For me the movie accomplished everything I was hoping for, the graininess, the charm of the style of animation, as well as the avant garde, underlying sarcasm, which I must say,
ended very poignantly with the small children almost unknowingly, and robotically, gathering bricks to build their respective walls with. I shed a tear at the end, which is a testament
to the impact of the message, for those with eyes, and ears to see, hear, and perceive.
Love to see a video about the black strat!
He really did make that guitar sing. The guitar story video would be an excellent idea!
A Guillermo Del Toro directed remake of The Wall would be AMAZING!!!
I would love to see a video on Wish you were here and The Animals plus guitar take your time love you ❤️❤️❤️❤️
Imagine if Peter Jackson got his hands on The Wall footage
Kubrick directing Malcolm McDowell as Pink!
I think getting Roger and David to agree on anything with anything would be a miracle. It also depends what elements do exist. The live footage goes back to me like the Beatles let it be. The fans want it but trying to go back through to a time someone would like to forget is another reason. Plus, where do the rights lie with the movie and the live footage.
The film was definitely shot, as I was there in the crowd near the front of the stage. I even managed to sneak my camera in and shot a couple of rolls of slide film. The story I heard was the footage was not used in the film as the English audience were too well behaved, when they were looking for more active involvement.
“Roger doesn’t realize, he’s an old guy”
He know’s more than you and me pal, he knows that they can rip and capture the negatives in 4k. I’m sure there’s another reason why The Wall movie and live show aren’t available in FHD or UHD.
Great video as always! And yes, please make a video about the Black Strat!
Oh yeah I would really like a video on the black strat!! Also, can you make videos on the rest of the pink floyd albums and break them down like you did with The Wall? Maybe there is less to them, but it would be interesting nontheless. Great video as always!!
Not necessarily relating to this video, but I have a suggestion. Not sure if you do this already, but I’m sure a lot of viewers would love to give you a band or album to make a video on. Sort of like a “suggestion box”, a way viewers can tell you what they would like to see. For example, I would strongly enjoy seeing a video, or a series of videos on the band Dire Straits. They had an amazing history of shows and produced some incredible albums. Really one of the most underrated rock bands of the 70s-80s era, and I think you’d enjoy them. I’ve watched your videos for quite some time now, and I really like the way you dive deep into the many layers in a musical work (like analyzing the tour, album, and movie, in the case of The Wall).
These are so great. I really enjoy them. It would be great to have a video or two done on albums from Jack White's Third Man Records.
Oooooaaaaaa the show must go on..you have some good points..i love your look into the best band that has came out of gb in my opinion.
As for the footage, there's one from the Nassau Coliseum shows, too - kind of home movie quality. The lighting used at these concerts was exceedingly bright, and could have been a factor in the picture quality. Anyone who has taken pictures with their camera phone knows about this (never have the light source behind the subject you photograph, etc.).
7:12 *Roger will remember that*
PUT THAT SILLY REVIEWER UP AGAINST THE WALL!