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  • @swordmonkey6635
    @swordmonkey6635 Год назад +978

    The fact that the studio version was sung by one singer and she had no idea what was expected of her until she was in the studio is a testament to her talent. I'm paraphrasing here, but she asked the band "where are the lyrics" and they replied "no lyrics, just sing."

    • @METALYOGAVEGAN
      @METALYOGAVEGAN Год назад

      @@ThisIsTheMajor Yes Claire Tory is the ONE. I found this amazing Singer Viviane Donner from the Pink Floy Tribute Band from Brazil this version.
      ruclips.net/video/kK0rpKOEAt0/видео.html
      I hope you enjoy it. 🎶❤️🙏🏼

    • @jarednicholson1042
      @jarednicholson1042 Год назад +69

      Claire rightfully has a writing credit on this song now. Her studio performance is incredible. This is a helluva live performance though.

    • @stellagirl7625
      @stellagirl7625 Год назад +10

      Have you heard Eva Avila? AMAZING! 👏👏👏

    • @Frank-pe9pk
      @Frank-pe9pk Год назад +30

      And did it in one take!!

    • @chrissmithi8859
      @chrissmithi8859 Год назад

      Along with what sword monkey said, once she was finished recording she told the band members, I'm so sorry. She thought she did terribly. They told her, no, that was great. That's exactly what we wanted. We wanted it to sound as if someone is dying, hence the name, Great Gig in the Sky.

  • @EricManktelow
    @EricManktelow Год назад +272

    I was at this show and it was life changing.
    If you don't feel anything in this song, you don't have a pulse.

    • @davidellinsworth3299
      @davidellinsworth3299 Год назад +25

      "pulse".... I see what you did there 😉🤣

    • @MegaForrestgump
      @MegaForrestgump Год назад +1

      that was a bit heavy handed. I love it!

    • @sneakyfox4651
      @sneakyfox4651 Год назад +8

      A very fitting remarks since this song is apparently about the different emotional stages of dying; anger, denial, remorse, sadness, e.t.c., and then finally acceptance.

    • @kveldulvistkrieg
      @kveldulvistkrieg Год назад +7

      This song makes me cry all the time ❤️😭

    • @gregmortimer
      @gregmortimer Год назад +6

      I was at the gig the day before they did this filming - like you say, life changing. I feel so privileged to have been there. This edit misses my favourite moment. In the DVD version, when Sam brown really belts it out in the middle of her section, the camera switches to Nick Mason, who flips his head round and nods in appreciation of what she's doing. Gets me every time.

  • @germantoenglish898
    @germantoenglish898 Год назад +638

    This is brilliant but Clare Torry's original version on Dark Side Of The Moon will always be my favourite. 🥰

    • @rogerbianchini2982
      @rogerbianchini2982 Год назад +5

      But you realize that is Clare Torry up first, right? - almost 100% sure it's her

    • @germantoenglish898
      @germantoenglish898 Год назад +4

      @@rogerbianchini2982
      Here is the line-up for that gig in Earl's Court on 20 October 1994:
      *Pink Floyd*
      David Gilmour - lead vocals, guitars, lap steel guitar, talk box
      Richard Wright - keyboards, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "Time" and "Comfortably Numb" (verses)
      Nick Mason - drums, gong, roto-toms
      *Additional personnel*
      Guy Pratt - bass guitar, backing vocals, co-lead vocals on "Comfortably Numb" (verses) and "Run Like Hell"
      Jon Carin - keyboards, programming, backing vocals, lead vocals on "Comfortably Numb" (verses)
      Sam Brown - backing vocals, first lead vocalist on "The Great Gig in the Sky"
      Durga McBroom - backing vocals, second lead vocalist on "The Great Gig in the Sky"
      Claudia Fontaine - backing vocals, third lead vocalist on "The Great Gig in the Sky"
      Tim Renwick - guitars, backing vocals
      Dick Parry - saxophones
      Gary Wallis - percussion, additional drums (played and programmed)

    • @mspicer3262
      @mspicer3262 Год назад +14

      This is a great performance, but Clare's version can bring a tear to my eye, no-one else can that...

    • @DjOdyssey1971
      @DjOdyssey1971 Год назад +10

      @@rogerbianchini2982 Nope, not Clare Torry.

    • @slim56100
      @slim56100 Год назад +10

      @@rogerbianchini2982 it’s Sam Brown, obviously and famously.

  • @murrannlehovitch6204
    @murrannlehovitch6204 Год назад +306

    I was privileged to see the original Pink Floyd perform the entire Dark Side Of The Moon album in Detroit. I’ll never forget that concert. At 70 years old I’m still continuously blown away with this band.

    • @alhaskell242
      @alhaskell242 Год назад +5

      I was at that concert also,Masterful.BTW I’m 71.

    • @romanjohnston
      @romanjohnston Год назад +8

      I was there with you on that July night at the Silverdome. I had ticket for BOTH shows....and was not sure why the universe guided me to buy both shows.....till I went to both shows. It was my birthday present to myself. I have seen a lot of bands....a lot of insanely good bands. Floyd is so far beyond any of them. I was dead center 13th row for one and 17th row for the other one. Got up at 4:00 AM to stand in line to get tickets. It was so impactful I remember it like it was yesterday.

    • @Obi-J
      @Obi-J Год назад +3

      My 19yr old self saw this very show at Earls Court, London and mere words aren't adequate enough to describe just how life changingly awesome it was to experience.🤩❤️‍🔥🌑🌈🪩🎸

    • @Obi-J
      @Obi-J Год назад +1

      I had such a crush on Sam Brown as well🥹🤭

    • @fw1421
      @fw1421 Год назад +3

      I feel the same way. I saw them at Tampa Stadium in 1974. Amazing concert. Tampa was one of the best areas for concerts back in the 70’s. I grew up in Clearwater and went to every rock concert I could make it to. Pink Floyd to this day is one of my most memorable bands to see.

  • @RB747domme
    @RB747domme Год назад +64

    RIP Claudia Fontaine (one of the black singers). She was just 35 when she was singing on this concert, and died at age just 57. So tragic, and a sad loss to the music world.

    • @eshuorishas9987
      @eshuorishas9987 2 месяца назад

      I think the first woman had the best voice but that Claudia had such emotion it touched my soul.

    • @Radwar99
      @Radwar99 Месяц назад

      @@eshuorishas9987 The first woman is Sam (Samantha) Brown who had a successful single, Stop in the '80's. Search "Sam Brown Stop" on RUclips, her voice is amazing in this as well.

    • @ontherun8
      @ontherun8 25 дней назад

      ​@@eshuorishas9987 First vocalist was Sam Brown... unfortunately in 2013 she had serious problems with her vocal cords and since then she has not been able to perform as well as she once was. :-(

  • @taylortyler1867
    @taylortyler1867 Год назад +83

    This is the only song that makes me cry, which is weird b/c there are no lyrics. I've heard it a thousand times and it _STILL_ makes me cry. I prefer the original studio version though.

    • @dkjens0705
      @dkjens0705 Год назад +4

      You are NOT the only one.

    • @intenseblackie
      @intenseblackie Год назад +3

      EVERY.TIME.WITHOUT.FAIL..... Same here. 😊

    • @begogaro8192
      @begogaro8192 Год назад +5

      The song Great Gig in the Sky is about dying. The first part is the final fight for life until the lull, then acceptance of the inevitable.

    • @davepfizer
      @davepfizer 5 месяцев назад

      Every time for me too. My wife says its just a screaming noise but then she has no appreciation of anything this far up the adult scale. Absolutely wonderful. I still don't know how Clare did the original. You can see the work it takes to make that sound from all three of the ladies. Magnificent

  • @joygernautm6641
    @joygernautm6641 Год назад +87

    This song is about the stages of grieving and death.
    1. Shock and denial
    2. Pain and guilt.
    3. Anger and bargaining(often confusion at this point).
    4. Depression, reflection, and loneliness.
    5. Acceptance.
    If you closely listen to the candour of her voice. You can see her go through all of these stages.

    • @ozono2585
      @ozono2585 Год назад

      Escucha adiós Nonino de Astor piazola

    • @kennethward4985
      @kennethward4985 Год назад

      Its also the sound of women I have made love to.

    • @51Dss
      @51Dss Год назад +3

      I always thought it was about:
      1.The shock and fear and anger of being born - taken from the safe and warm womb and pushed into the harsh unfamiliar environment of life outside the womb
      2. pain and confusion and Anger
      3. Resolution to the reality of it all in the end

    • @Anners1982
      @Anners1982 Год назад

      I thought it was about a wonens life from start and to the end.

    • @greyarea3804
      @greyarea3804 10 месяцев назад

      I have always felt that way since the first time I heard this

  • @johnk8441
    @johnk8441 Год назад +52

    "It's like the sound of the Universe." Perfect comment. That's how we all feel listening to Pink Floyd.

  • @philipkudrna5643
    @philipkudrna5643 Год назад +54

    The blonde background singer on the pulse tour was no one less than Sam Brown, who had a chart hit on her own at the end of the 80ies („Stop“). The other two ladies are Claudia Fontaine and Durga McBroom. It‘s clear that Pink Floyd, who spent loads of money on sound technics and the computerized light show did not go for less than high class vocal artists for their background vocal singers! Please react to „High hopes“ of the same concert!

    • @grahammaguire404
      @grahammaguire404 Год назад +1

      High Hopes is Quessesntialy English from beginning to the end. David Gilmours vocals and guitar along with Richard Wright's ghostly and goose pimple inducing playing and Nick Masons accompanying drumming are from a massively superior band at their superior finest and outstanding no contest nobody comes close BEST, the Division Bell a highly underrated and magnificent album...

  • @craigdoriety9798
    @craigdoriety9798 Год назад +49

    Imagine being 13 in 1973 and listening to Dark Side of the Moon for the first time. 63 now and it's been an incredible journey.

    • @josephjuno9555
      @josephjuno9555 4 месяца назад

      THANK YOU for not interrupting this song!

    • @steveboyes2090
      @steveboyes2090 4 месяца назад

      Me too

    • @johncall293
      @johncall293 Месяц назад +2

      Same with me I’m 64, I’ve never gotta tired of them. Been listening since the album came out.

    • @rizkhan3368
      @rizkhan3368 16 дней назад

      I was only 2 years old, but bang 1979, listened to echoes at Pompeii......and then it was just floyd forever

    • @doubleubee7523
      @doubleubee7523 16 дней назад

      I am about five years younger. These songs were getting plenty of airplay, so I knew the songs. Then, one day, I heard the entire album, and music, all music, changed for me.

  • @Divedown_25
    @Divedown_25 Год назад +39

    The song is about the fear and then the acceptance of death. very powerful song

    • @TheHunterGracchus
      @TheHunterGracchus Год назад +4

      As far as I'm concerned, there are two great depictions of death in Western art, "The Great Gig in the Sky," and Emily Dickinson's "I heard a fly buzz when I died." Perhaps, too, Mozart's Requiem and Hamlet's "The rest is silence."

    • @Divedown_25
      @Divedown_25 Год назад

      @@TheHunterGracchus interesting reflections. like it

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 Год назад +3

      Actually, it represents the multiple stages of death, and includes feelings of shock, denial, fear, pain, guilt, anger, confusion, bargaining, loneliness, despair, reflection, and acceptance. Some experts say there are up to 7 stages.

  • @kevingill648
    @kevingill648 Год назад +26

    I've been a Pink Floyd fan since 1969, this song is taken from IMO the greatest album ever written! Dark Side Of The Moon. I have played it thousands of times through the years, their music will live on forever!

    • @RayEttler
      @RayEttler 10 месяцев назад +1

      those early albums are hard stuff which i find unenjoyable tbh

  • @julianlawrence-ball2279
    @julianlawrence-ball2279 Год назад +59

    It is frankly astonishing that Clare Torry just banged this out in an afternoon recording session, and it takes 3 separate singers to perform it live

    • @svgs650r
      @svgs650r Год назад +3

      Except that's not what's going on here

    • @LT99_
      @LT99_ Год назад +2

      I’m pretty sure all of them could do the whole thing if they wanted but they share it out

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 Год назад +2

      It was a Sunday evening session. She came in with no idea what PF wanted her to do.
      Everything was totally improvised. She got paid £30 for her work.
      Here's an interview with Clare Torry about her work on "The Great Gig in the Sky" studio track: ruclips.net/video/mIW7xZSlZoM/видео.html

    • @cr10001
      @cr10001 Год назад +2

      Bear in mind they're performing it live every night in a full 2-hour concert. Yes any of them could do the whole thing but - every night?

    • @soultraveller5027
      @soultraveller5027 Год назад +2

      All the singer's could do a fair representation of the song in there own way agreed but end of the day Clair Tory the original artist owns this song pretty much

  • @j0hnn13K
    @j0hnn13K Год назад +185

    This being an epic performance of it's own, the extreme rare case arises here that the studio version is the absolute best version of this song.
    There was only 1 (session) singer on that, and she displayed even more raw emotion, she's phenomenal. (her name is Claire Torry)
    And there is actually a story being told, a story portrait of "the sense of gradual passage from life to death"
    She did two takes of the song and was asked to do a third take, she did but stopped halfway because she felt she already gave the best she had.
    From those two and a half takes, they edited the vocal track we know and love, and it might be the reason they use three singers during live performances.

    • @0ParisFrance
      @0ParisFrance Год назад +3

      CLARE, not CLAIRE !

    • @j0hnn13K
      @j0hnn13K Год назад +2

      @@0ParisFrance i wasnt sure

    • @nikkihayes5411
      @nikkihayes5411 Год назад +10

      Also didnt have to do it nightly on tour. Three singers means less vocal straining

    • @babylonsister118
      @babylonsister118 Год назад +2

      There is a live version with Clare Torry, as well!

    • @ellingwood1
      @ellingwood1 Год назад +2

      And she sued them some time after for rights to the song.
      Not taking anything from her, it was a striking performance. Just thought I'd throw that in.

  • @coot1925
    @coot1925 Год назад +66

    The original version can not be replicated and nor should it be, but this tour was 110 concerts. As I'm sure you will understand, and as a backing vocalists myself of some 45 years, this puts a lot of wear and tear on the vocal chords. Also, this is not the only song where they're giving it their all. So as impressive as the original Dark side of the moon version is, there's a big difference in getting it right once and getting it right multiple times, plus all the rehearsal time before hand. Fun fact...Sam Brown (blonde lady) is actually a
    ukulele playing folk singer. She had a hit called "Stop" which is when I first noticed her immense power and versatility. She's also the daughter of Joe Brown, a skiffle singer from the 60s. ✌❤🇬🇧

    • @catzenhouse
      @catzenhouse Год назад +1

      And Sam Brown has lost her singing ability for several years now, sadly. Vocal chords are all messed up. She stole the show at the Concert For George with "Horse to the Water".

    • @stevem-h3562
      @stevem-h3562 Год назад

      No one is trying to replicate it.

    • @mikemaricle9941
      @mikemaricle9941 10 месяцев назад

      I was at one of them.

    • @LonesomeTwin
      @LonesomeTwin 9 месяцев назад

      @@catzenhouse
      Thx for that, didn't know she'd done this. So sad about her illness, singing was so obviously her life

  • @osmanyldran4363
    @osmanyldran4363 Год назад +18

    Great reaction, thank you. It's nice to see someone feel what we've been feeling for 50 years while listening to songs from this album. The Dark Side Of The Moon will turn 50 on March 1. Without a doubt, The Great Gig In The Sky is one of the unique treasures of this album. They set the standard of music to a different level 50 years ago. It's still there...

  • @kennethflegel5736
    @kennethflegel5736 Год назад +17

    That emotion you were feeling was the seven stages of grief. I've listened to this song at least a thousand times and it still gives me chills. If you like this put yourself some headphones on and listen to the original on the dark side of the Moon

  • @samwhite1631
    @samwhite1631 Год назад +17

    I can't tell how many times I have listened to this live version of The Great Gig In The Sky, probably hundreds of times, and every single time I get goosebumps.

  • @dazzar7633
    @dazzar7633 Год назад +7

    Just don't need lyrics for this one. RIP Richard Wright you are sadly missed. Greatest band ever.........

  • @arclight545
    @arclight545 Год назад +12

    The greatest gift someone can have is the ability to sacrifice for someone else's benefit. The band giving the spotlight to the the ladies, allowing them to shine. A wonderful gift to those who support them.

  • @trufflehund
    @trufflehund Год назад +2

    Not sure you could have handled Rachel Fury doing this live in "Delicate Sound of Thunder" concert, for me the gold standard live. 🙂 Sam Brown does have an earthiness I like. Remember Claire Torrey sang full voice as well, and not falsetto

  • @MCLBC
    @MCLBC Год назад +138

    I'm so happy the younger generation is finding Pink Floyd. This is real music, played by real musicians. 💯

    • @yourkiwimate
      @yourkiwimate Год назад +4

      its to good for them

    • @watersmoke1114
      @watersmoke1114 Год назад +2

      I'm a bit scared to see musicians discovering this for the first time at this point of their life I must say...

    • @yourkiwimate
      @yourkiwimate Год назад +2

      @@watersmoke1114 lol fiddling around on the computer is not making music - well at least not great music anyways

    • @dapto234
      @dapto234 Год назад +1

      Its great when you see a band actually use their own instruments to creat the sound...rather than sone bloody computerised crap music.

    • @FlamesCagney
      @FlamesCagney Год назад +1

      This is what music sounded like before the turntable became a musical instrument

  •  Месяц назад +4

    Been a fan since '73'. Dark side of the moon came out my first year at Humboldt State. Saw them in '94' in Oakland at the Coliseum. By far the greatest concert I ever attended. Our seats were about 10 rows from the stage. They shot lasers at a hanging 8' disco ball and it looked like a moving, liquid plasma. Goosebumps were EPIC. SHEDMEN

    • @AB-C1
      @AB-C1 Месяц назад +1

      As I said above ;
      "No offense but Sam Brown (The Blond one WAS/IS FANTASTIC ON THIS!.And in general!) In think the black singers were to add points (early DEI)! The second woman is 'good' but 'not that good'! - or good ENOUGH to end that performance! Now with hindsight and What's happening now in ENGLAND/UK/IRELAND, This is another example of DEI SHARP tip of the BIG ICEBERG that was to come! (Out of touch middle class OLD fellas playjng their idea of God!) - SAD TIMES!"

    • @williamgood1402
      @williamgood1402 5 дней назад

      I was there( you had better seats) fantastic show

  • @daveleeroy
    @daveleeroy 8 месяцев назад +12

    I love how David and Richard look at each other and smile. They truly love playing music together.

    • @SamJ_1980
      @SamJ_1980 5 месяцев назад +1

      We'll never hear David play Echoes live ever again. That's how much he loved, admired and respected Rick.

  • @chrismyers99
    @chrismyers99 5 месяцев назад +7

    You're not crazy, the sound of the universe is exactly what it is.

  • @allenhuling598
    @allenhuling598 Год назад +11

    One of my personal favorite vocal performances, ever!! There is a reason that PF is, and has been, the favorite band of millions for many years now!

  • @gregw4602
    @gregw4602 Год назад +41

    the original studio version with Clare Torry is still incomparable.

    • @stevem-h3562
      @stevem-h3562 Год назад +2

      too much whataboutery from the Torry purists.
      What you people refuse to understand is that this was not only 20 years after DSOTM, but that it also was a bloody long world tour. No one is denigrating what Claire did with the original track, but this ridiculous putting down of the performance of Sam, Durga and Claudia is just more irritating musical snobbery. The only ones who are comparing this performance with the original is people like you who are determined to put it down without realising that context is everything.

    • @Goerup
      @Goerup Год назад +2

      @@stevem-h3562 Very well put, and my thoughts exactly. I am so very very(very) tired of the constant comparison, when both have their own greatness. Why not admire both?

    • @stevem-h3562
      @stevem-h3562 Год назад +1

      @@Goerup yep. I totally agree.

    • @davidheiser2225
      @davidheiser2225 Год назад +3

      @@Goerup one can admire both while still greatly preferring one. As good a job as others may have done imitating her, Clare Torry not only sang the wheels off it, she created it out of basically nothing. Took her years to get that writing credit.

  • @TheDreserDeviant69
    @TheDreserDeviant69 Год назад +9

    Studio version is one of the greatest singer solo if not the greatest ever of all the time

    • @open_water2411
      @open_water2411 3 месяца назад +1

      I can’t think of anything that gets close to the original.

    • @TheDreserDeviant69
      @TheDreserDeviant69 3 месяца назад +1

      @@open_water2411 THERE IS NOTHING "CLOSE" TO THE OR THE REMOTE CLOSE TO ORIGINAL!.

  • @thomas909
    @thomas909 Год назад +9

    This is not only a song, this is a masterpiece

  • @benbarnard8280
    @benbarnard8280 Год назад +6

    I love watching your reaction to Pink Floyd, you feel and show the emotion that is Pink Floyd, just love your reviews.

  • @grahamhowes6904
    @grahamhowes6904 Год назад +5

    Clare Torrey was the original singer. This was Rick Wright’s contribution - Clare was a session singer and didn’t know what to sing so was doing ‘yea baby’ and Rick said it should be like the pain of dying and acceptance of dying. She took her session fee but was bothered that this masterpiece should exist without her contribution being Co credited - which now it finally is.

  • @jc5247
    @jc5247 Год назад +2

    I knew like all else reaction I have seen would blow you away. Music was written by Rick Wright ( keys) for a movie the director didn't like it. they got a session singer to come in and sing with no lyrics. Told her "The Gig in the sky" was " life then are you afraid of death then accepting death. Watch any Floyd song at "Pulse " you will she your stage presents . "Sorrow" High Hope" " Run like Hell" ************** the final song where they use all 200,000 watts of power

  • @raypearson2461
    @raypearson2461 Год назад +5

    The album version is the definitive rendition, Claire Torry voice is unbelievable.

  • @davemadman7093
    @davemadman7093 Год назад +5

    Awesome performance from them girls. Great reaction Janet, and you didn't cry 🤣👈anyways pink floyd are masters.

  • @bonnieshaw858
    @bonnieshaw858 Год назад +6

    It is amazing to watch someone hear this for the first time. I have loved this song for many many years. Any singer that can pull that off is amazing!

  • @robertevans2450
    @robertevans2450 Год назад +5

    A point to go with your stage presence and confidence concept... at the time of this performance, Pink Floyd had amassed multiple accolades and award-winning albums, let alone a number of notable singles. They had the album on the top 100 for the longest consecutive running weeks and overall, another album reached such fame as to place them in the Rock N Roll Hall of Fame just from it, and a movie made from the hypothetical character it created. They had come back albums after from recovering the split up of the band. They had multiple substitutions for significant contributing members, including the three ladies singing the part of a single woman doing backing tracks. They had nearly 30yrs of band history to decide which tracks to play on tour and which would be left off, and yet they made sure this song, which had 0 awards, was the 5th track on its album, was one of 3 total songs in all the Pink Floyd catalog of songs to not feature a band member singing, had been marred in legal battles over royalties, and which had no lyrics, just 3 wonderful backing vocalists...and yet they had the confidence to put this song as a staple of this tour, with the stage presence to create the ambiance and mood but also the humility of just being an audience member in being entertained by the ladies performance, as seen so clearly on David's face.

  • @geraldherrmann787
    @geraldherrmann787 5 месяцев назад +4

    When you´re the greatest band in the known universe, you have the best background-singers.

    • @DarkSim77
      @DarkSim77 4 месяца назад

      They weren't that well known before DSOTM came out..

  • @arclight545
    @arclight545 Год назад +15

    Sam Brown, Durga McBroom, and Claudia Fontaine absolutely Crushed it. It's clear why the band put the ladies front and center in that performance. Yes the studio version was just one singer, but this performance is the preeminent rendition of this song

    • @Tarkus_
      @Tarkus_ Год назад

      I think the Delicate Sound of Thunder version is my overall favorite, but Sam Brown's performance was the best of all six ladies in the two live versions.

    • @jonathanmurphy3141
      @jonathanmurphy3141 11 месяцев назад

      Sam Brown, a talented musician herself, several albums (I have a few) She sang back-up for the Floyd this tour,..and she is not always blonde haired.
      Sam’s father Joe Brown was friends with The Beatles, he played ukulele, as well as guitar. He and Sam both joined the many friends of George Harrison, in 2002 for an amazing tribute concert. Both Joe and Sam sang for George (you know with Eric, Paul, Ravi, Tom, Ringo, Billy, Anushka,…a few others)

  • @grahammaguire404
    @grahammaguire404 Год назад +4

    It's not just the vocal performance that encapsulates this song RICHARD WRIGHT'S awesome keyboard is magnificent on a unparalleled scale to the extent he does take you to the DSOTM and brings you back.... A BETTER HUMAN BEING LIKE NEVER BEFORE OR AS CLOSE he's simply spellbinding RIP.

  • @deanx002universityofminnes4
    @deanx002universityofminnes4 Год назад +6

    Absolutely the greatest piece of music ever written. I get goosebumps whenever I hear it.

  • @Tampahop
    @Tampahop Год назад +5

    This music is so timeless. It feels like it could have been written yesterday (if they still made music this good).

  • @joeovington2891
    @joeovington2891 Год назад +2

    Sam Brown is a tour-class , ROCKIN vocalist ! Absolutely adore her !

  • @jimfox6920
    @jimfox6920 Год назад +6

    This song always gives me chills. Especially since it first came out on Dark Side Of The Moon. That album was #1 for like 1 ór 2 years

    • @Lazrid1
      @Lazrid1 Год назад

      The Dark Side spent years.. yea, years in the top 100 albums . Even after discovering Pink Floyd almost 50 years ago now, Dark Side has always been in my music collection in some form . Dont leave home without it !!

    • @craigdoriety9798
      @craigdoriety9798 Год назад

      Yeah, I listened to it with my best friend for the first time in 73 when we were 13. Sadly, he went to his gig back in 94.

  • @philshorten3221
    @philshorten3221 Год назад +3

    Stage Presence.... Pink Floyd?
    The only band to literally build a giant brick wall between themselves and the audience.
    Some bands / performers excell at "stage presence" and demand you don't take your eyes off them.
    And then there's a level above excellence / greatness, and just above that you'll find Pink Floyd.

    • @TheHunterGracchus
      @TheHunterGracchus Год назад

      To be honest, I love the fact that after the Syd Barrett era (which was amazing in its own right), Pink Floyd just went out in tee shirts and jeans and played music, while other people were doing costumes and make up and flying around on stage on wires.

  • @emptyk8662
    @emptyk8662 Год назад +4

    Pink Floyd is the greatest band in history. Just simply marvelous

  • @johnfloyd4166
    @johnfloyd4166 Год назад +1

    Sam blows all small time singers out the water..fact..❤❤

  • @TrojanRabbit521
    @TrojanRabbit521 Год назад +3

    I drove 14 hours one way to catch this tour. Think it’s obvious why.
    This song is the 5 stages of grief in sound. Love that no lyrics were used but we all feel what they are saying.

  • @markbennett2284
    @markbennett2284 9 месяцев назад +1

    Sam brown's voice is absolutely amazing, claire would have so proud, Pinkfloyd are f##king class, best band that ever was and will ever be.

  • @winstonhewett6679
    @winstonhewett6679 Год назад +3

    There are mulitple live versions of this song from different tours, with different vocalist singing these parts. As an earlier comment said one woman did the original recording, but it's interesting to hear different ladies sing this "lead guitar, vocal solo's!" AMAZING!!!

  • @salamanca1954
    @salamanca1954 Год назад +1

    Clare Torry's version is the first, the best. She composed it on the spot at the moment. Every version after by really good singers, is just covering her tour de force.

  • @basdebruin2355
    @basdebruin2355 Год назад +3

    My best friend died a few month ago. The two of us great Pink Floyd addicts… This is soul shredding to the max. First the man’s voice talking about passing away and than the soul shredding voices… so painfully beautiful…

  • @albacore101
    @albacore101 Год назад +2

    Greetings from Oregon. Phido my 24 year old cat and I welcome you to our generation. Peace and love

  • @toucan1262
    @toucan1262 Год назад +4

    The original on DSOTM is the bench mark. For live performances I would easy give it to the girls on DSOT. Rachael just totally nails the opening section vocally. But if we’re talking stage presence, I don’t think there’s a better example than her performance. First saw it 24yrs ago and I still dream of her performing that.
    WOW, 😮🔥❤️

    • @Forest_Fifer
      @Forest_Fifer Год назад

      Try this one from the Brit Floyd tribute band, it's astonishing.
      ruclips.net/video/jd9-wiT1dJQ/видео.html

  • @Frank-pe9pk
    @Frank-pe9pk Год назад +1

    This on the album follows Time. Someone should play it that order.

  • @joydivider42
    @joydivider42 Год назад +3

    Actually this version works extremely well. There will be further interpretations of the music of life and death.....that is what the track is all about..... improvisation and true emotion from the soul. You can't just say that Clare Torry is the only version because you heard it first...maybe the best is yet to come

    • @davidheiser2225
      @davidheiser2225 Год назад

      But, as I have pointed out to others here, Clare Torry's version wasn't just singing. They never told her what to sing so she had to make it up herself. She eventually was given a writing credit for the song. So while others may sing it well, they are only copying what she created.

  • @jukeboxdave6026
    @jukeboxdave6026 Год назад +1

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  • @richmckinney7231
    @richmckinney7231 Год назад +4

    Claire Torry was the first.
    i saw an interview where she said that she laid a couple of tracks and went on with her life. it was months after when she ran into a friend that knew she had that session, and told her she was on the radio. she said she had not even thought about it until then.
    you should check that interview out, it is amazing that so little had turned into soo much. TRULY, HISTORY IN THE MAKING!

    • @0ParisFrance
      @0ParisFrance Год назад

      CLARE, not CLAIRE !

    • @stevem-h3562
      @stevem-h3562 Год назад

      too much whataboutery from the Torry purists.
      What you people refuse to understand is that this was not only 20 years after DSOTM, but that it also was a bloody long world tour. No one is denigrating what Claire did with the original track, but this ridiculous putting down of the performance of Sam, Durga and Claudia is just more irritating musical snobbery. The only ones who are comparing this performance with the original is people like you who are determined to put it down without realising that context is everything.

    • @richmckinney7231
      @richmckinney7231 Год назад

      @@stevem-h3562 i wasn't putting down anyone. i was referring to how claire was not even aware of what they did with her tracks that is all i said. so please take your angry a$$ on home and learn how to read properly! it was just a cool fact.

  • @40grit1
    @40grit1 Год назад +2

    This song and this album would be nothing without Alan Parsons.
    He is and was the genius behind this album.

  • @kevinmalone2218
    @kevinmalone2218 Год назад +4

    I'm 63 years old and I've seen Pink Floyd live twice and every time I hear this it brings a tear to my eye. And I've heard this thousands of times.

    • @craigdoriety9798
      @craigdoriety9798 Год назад +1

      Yeah. I heard it back in 73 when I was 13. Literally changed my life as far as music is concerned.

  • @brianmoser3947
    @brianmoser3947 Месяц назад +1

    Sooo Beautiful , including your presence and commentary! Thanks 🙏👍

  • @arclight545
    @arclight545 Год назад +3

    Pink Floyd understands the connection between the visual and emotion. They then became the God's of performing Live and giving every audience member a visceral experience. Every special effect is designed to illicit an emotional response. The solo in this song is more than 5 min long and tells a complete story all by itself

    • @MisterTMH
      @MisterTMH Год назад

      It is said that Gilmour in 1977 asked Waters" do we really need all these lights and stuff?". Waters said people at the back of the football stadium need to be able to see 'something'.

  • @AB-C1
    @AB-C1 Месяц назад +1

    No offense but Sam Brown (The Blond one WAS/IS FANTASTIC ON THIS!.And in general!) In think the black singers were to add points (early DEI)! The second woman is 'good' but 'not that good'! - or good ENOUGH to end that performance! Now with hindsight and What's happening now in ENGLAND/UK/IRELAND, This is another example of DEI SHARP tip of the BIG ICEBERG that was to come! (Out of touch middle class OLD fellas playjng their idea of God!) - SAD TIMES!

  • @anthonymiller6081
    @anthonymiller6081 Год назад +3

    Greatest band to ever exist. I grew up listening to the Floyd

  • @neilgrimshaw3962
    @neilgrimshaw3962 Год назад +2

    You have to listen to Clare Torry singing the studio version, realizing she had no practice sessions. Also, she did the whole song herself.

  • @bakerj85226
    @bakerj85226 Год назад +3

    Wright's amazing piano work so often gets lost behind the incomparable vocal of this song. He was genius, and with Syd/Dave the musically innovative and creative heart and soul of the band from day 1.

    • @johnsurch6774
      @johnsurch6774 Год назад

      Roger /Syd don’t you mean

    • @bakerj85226
      @bakerj85226 Год назад

      @@johnsurch6774 imho, there was a musical synergy between Syd and Wright (I hear it in live performances) then between Gilmour and Wright (e.g. Echos). Waters’ profound contribution was in other areas.

  • @brianmoser3947
    @brianmoser3947 Месяц назад +1

    " I know it sounds crazy?" Yeah, maybe cuz so many are so deceived 😂❤❤

  • @DUBEE43
    @DUBEE43 Год назад +3

    There's no words to describe the song with no lyrics.💗

  • @PeterDay81
    @PeterDay81 Год назад +1

    Pink Floyd keyboard player Rick Wright wrote this song, which is about life, gradually descending into death.

  • @drjohnsmith5282
    @drjohnsmith5282 Год назад +4

    This might be blasphemy, and no disrespect to the original recording, but Sam Brown (the lead vocalist here) is simply brilliant. Best version in my humble opinion
    The raw animal in her voice in 2:31 and onward is just amazing. Can there have been a dry eye in the house (mine certainly aren’t when I hear that).
    The five stages of grief in a song. What an amazing piece. Great reaction too

  • @Jesusistheway5724
    @Jesusistheway5724 Год назад +2

    Lovely reaction ❣️, great song!
    Please react to the song:
    Marillion - Sounds that can't be made 🙏🙏
    (live, Marillion weekend Holland. Yes, a whole weekend! I think Marillion is the only band in the world that organizes a whole weekend for their fans!!)
    This band is as good as Pink Floyd, imo, but only much more unknown.
    ...One day I'll play you sounds that can't be made
    They'll sing in you from somewhere inside your head
    You'll hear it happen inside you
    Silent and high
    Only love can stop you from merely existing
    Play me sounds that can't be made...

  • @DjOdyssey1971
    @DjOdyssey1971 Год назад +1

    Good version, but NOWHERE near as good as the studio version with Clare Torry

  • @brianmoser3947
    @brianmoser3947 Месяц назад +1

    In 2024 to observe women observe and comment on each other in a loving but non romantic or sexual way is bliss, and I want to thank YOU for all that.

  • @zztuber
    @zztuber 11 месяцев назад +1

    You now realize why P. Floyd has been around for decades. And will ultimately be around till the End...

  • @francovaderno3532
    @francovaderno3532 Год назад +1

    Make a video about a video. And someone else makes a video about your video about the first video! Ans so on ...
    Is that just crazy or just craving for recognition? Had a difficult childhood?

  • @brianmoser3947
    @brianmoser3947 Месяц назад +1

    " I love that there are no lyrics"? Do you about the groanings of The Holy Spirit?

  • @gaius_enceladus
    @gaius_enceladus Год назад +1

    Arrgh...... you should have listened to the *studio* version!
    There is no comparison!
    This is a Lada compared to the studio-version Lamborghini! I kid you not!

  • @InterestedAmerican
    @InterestedAmerican Год назад +1

    Clare Torry's original version of Great Gig In The Sky, on Pink Floyd's, Dark Side of the Moon (studio album), was much better. There might even be a video where she performed it live with Pink Floyd during an early tour.

  • @Bluelagoonstudios
    @Bluelagoonstudios Год назад +1

    Please listen to the performance from Clare Torry, it's so much better, the blonde is Sam Brown, and she lost her voice, unfortunately.

  • @stever7732
    @stever7732 Год назад +1

    No Pink Floyd live performance I’ve seen the video of comes close the the original studio recording.

  • @ronaldr9911
    @ronaldr9911 Год назад +1

    This is brilliant but Clare Torry's original version on Dark Side Of The Moon will always be my favourite

  • @MThrow
    @MThrow Год назад +1

    Saw this in concert with the wife, and to be honest, the album version is better. On the album, Clare Torry sings ALL the parts herself, and it's superior to this version. Again, great review!

  • @AliasMark69
    @AliasMark69 Год назад +2

    Is this song about death or dying?…. No. I met David Gilmour back stage at a concert in California 1984. I asked him about the meaning - reason for “Great Gig In The Sky”…. David’s answer was something like…. .I was asked if Pink Floyd would ever do a song about Religion like some others have… so I said, You are referring to the great gig in the sky they call “God“. What words could be used to describe all the pain and suffering caused by religious beliefs. All the crying and wailing from mothers who lost their husbands or sons in a war fought over religious differences. The only vocals should be just the sound of a mothers crying with pain and suffering. That’s the true intentions of the song. We didn’t want to make that public so as to avoid any religious boycott like what happened to the Beatles after Lennon made his comment about Jesus. We could not tell the singer so as to avoid her making any comments that would end up in the media. The speaking heard at the beginning was recorded at Apple records prior to the recording of the song. Roger Waters placed a recorder at the door asking anyone who walked by to answer some questions into the microphone. The janitor stopped and recorded his answer to the question….”Are You Afraid Of Dying”?. It was decided to add the recording to the start of “Great Gig In The Sky”. It leads people to believe the song is about dying, but that is actually not the case. The Great Gig In The Sky…is GOD … The incredible vocals from Clare Torry happened when she did not know what they wanted. David Gilmour told her to pretend her voice is a Saxophone like on other songs on the album, no words, just tones. Results are legendary.

  • @chebrneck
    @chebrneck Год назад +1

    the studio version was done by one woman. While this performance is spectacular, it'll never compare to the original.

  • @dpv1269
    @dpv1269 Год назад +1

    There are so much interpretations of this song...but no one like Clare Torry....

  • @thepunadude
    @thepunadude Год назад +1

    THAT IS NOT THE ORIGINAL SINGER ... GO TO THE ORIGINAL ALBUM ... DONT ACCEPT 2ND BEST, KNOW THE WHOLE STORY

  • @niteshkanu3403
    @niteshkanu3403 Год назад +1

    The orginal is much better and too much fake expression in your reaction.

  • @TheMiket0
    @TheMiket0 Год назад +1

    Nothing beats Clare Torry’s original version. An extraordinarily talented singer. You might like to get a listen to it?

  • @gl5616
    @gl5616 Год назад +1

    Dark side of the moon. Why the album is so great. Roger Waters tour was one of my greatest concert experiences in Calgary.

  • @grumpy4882
    @grumpy4882 Год назад +1

    I believe the blonde is Sam Brown. A successful artist in her own right.

  • @dmhboag5882
    @dmhboag5882 9 месяцев назад +1

    Th Blond Singer is Sam Brown, a successful artist in her own right!

  • @bentley684
    @bentley684 6 месяцев назад +1

    This may be useless information to many but a friend of mine was a roadie for floyd and when I got married he gave me a huge card with a large musical note on it signed by the band and all the roadies as a wedding present. Every other present was quite irrelevant after that.

  • @stevep5819
    @stevep5819 Год назад +1

    As I understand it, Clare Torry was shown video of war refugees in all the fear and pain of their circumstance and asked to just sing what she felt while watching it. The result is the sound of raw emotion. How better to turn emotion into song?

  • @dyanyork5027
    @dyanyork5027 Год назад +2

    This song is about the journey {stages} we all face in accepting the eventuality of death. Re-listen, It becomes clearer. It is so beautiful....in a way ~

  • @kmack8634
    @kmack8634 Год назад +1

    Listen to the original off the album no one has ever come close since Clare Torry on the album❤❤❤ only one woman originally

  • @marcchapleau8343
    @marcchapleau8343 Год назад +1

    They are very good. They give another flavor and feel to it. Still, no one beat Clare Torry's version. ruclips.net/video/mIW7xZSlZoM/видео.html

  • @glennaston2412
    @glennaston2412 Год назад +1

    So many extolling Claire Torrey but for me, Sam Brown nails it.

  • @dhtm3577
    @dhtm3577 Год назад +2

    Thanks for taking my suggestion to react to Great Gig in the Sky! This is SO moving. Now you need to react to Time! Thanks a bunch and congratulations on 100k!!! Keep it coming🙏👏👏👏❤️

  • @ruthtoner3936
    @ruthtoner3936 10 месяцев назад +1

    You really need to go watch all of the original versions of theses songs you watch or just listen to the originals

  • @arieswar4770
    @arieswar4770 Год назад +1

    Clare Torry's was a wonderful accident ;-)

  • @jimmykerr2983
    @jimmykerr2983 Год назад +1

    Yess girl u were not ready for this girls voice 😊 JAKX