The lighting & the sound equipment everything cost 98 million dollars in 1994 money!! That included three sets of equipment! One set moving to the next city, one set being used wherever the current concert was and one set being taken down in the previous venue!! The lighting was done by a guy named Marc brickman of which the Floyd guys basically handed him a blank check and said see what you can do! Well you got to see what he can do. The lighting & sound equipment had 233,000 watts of power pushed through it with speakers on stage behind the audience on both sides of the audience and above the audience putting them in an enveloping giant set of headphones!! They only turned it up about 2/3 of the way so there is absolutely no distortion to perfect sound! I've seen them live 4 times in three different decades and I've seen around 100 concerts and nobody ever put on a better show than Floyd period!!!!
I didn’t see this particular show, but I saw them on this tour at The Rose Bowl. I’ve been to a lot of concerts, but this one will never be topped. Even with all the technology now, and maybe because of that… the effort that was put into every detail was just perfection. The stadium was lined with surround sound speakers, it was completely immersive. No matter where you sat, you got something that other people didn’t. If I could back in time, I would go to multiple shows and sit somewhere different at each of them. I was mid field, right next to where the giant disco ball lotus orb emerged during Comfortably Numb. Had no idea that was going to happen. The flaming pigs at the end of the first set during One of These Days. No idea how much that must have cost, but they only came out for half of one song. That’s how intricately they planned and executed these shows.
The effect is called a talk box. The guitar's sound is piped up the tube and Gilmour shapes the sound, and sometimes vovalizes along to the sound with his mouth into the microphone.
@lesblatnyak5947 on the Division Bell tour I saw them in Vet Stadium in Philly. Instead of playing music before the show there was simply a lawn mower moving about the quad system. It was oddly amazing
The talk box - A mini driver sends the guitar note up through the tube in his mouth, which allows him to shape the notes and alter the notes. Also made famous by Peter Frampton and Joe Walsh in the '70s (among others later on).
If you had been around in the 70s you'd be very familiar with that instrument (sound) he uses at the end. It's called a talk box. Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, among the classic rock artists of the decade who made a mark with it. You need to check both of them out as well. Be it traditional electric or acoustic guitar, steel lap guitar, or voice box, you just never knew what Mr Gilmour would pull out of his bag of genius, next. The impact David Gilmour had on Pink Floyd... vocals, guitars, and composition, cannot be overstated.
@@MusicForTheSoulReactions check out "Pigs" from their classic "Animals" album. You hear him use it again there quite extensively. Almost makes the whole song. (Except for the amazing guitar solo at the end of course).
That's called a Talk Box, probably first brought to the mainstream by Peter Frampton on "Do You Feel Like We Do" from his massive "Frampton Comes Alive" album. It was also used on Joe Walsh's big hit "Rocky Mountain Way." Of course, Gilmour makes great use of it here, as you'd expect. It's a great complement to his guitar soloing.
@@alanwaine4186 No, it's on that one too, but I think it's more notable on "Do You Feel Like We Do." And I think that was the song where the general public really took notice of that unique sound.
@@Tarkus_interesting. Never heard of that song you mentioned, since I'm not a Frampton fan so decided to play it and the talk box comes in after 7 minutes, yet "Show Me The Way" was a huge hit and it comes in immediately.
@@alanwaine4186might be because in Do You Feel Like We Do he actually talks (speaks words) through it. Don’t think he does that in Show Me the Way, where it sounds a bit more like a wah-wah effect. But your point is well-taken!
When you play a note, the sound of guitar comes up the tube, distort by the mouth actions, and out of mouth into the microphone instead of via direct guitar amp
It's called a Talk Box, it melds the guitar and the human voice together to create all kind of great sounds and tones. A few guitarists in the 1970s used them, Gilmour of course, and Peter Frampton, Jeff Beck and others. It was invented originally invented in the 1940s.
@@MusicForTheSoulReactions I'm not sure how it actually works, but I do recall those guitarists I mentioned using the it when I was a teenager in the 70s. It was quite an experience to first hear it back then. The first time i heard one was on Peter Frampton's 1976 live album, "Frampton Comes Alive".
This is one of my favorite Pink Floyd live performances! You are right about the darkness, the intensity, the sci-fi feel. David Gilmour is using a talk box, which was popularized in the 1970s by artists such as Joe Walsh (on 'Rocky Mountain Way'); Peter Frampton (on 'Show Me the Way') and Bon Jovi ("Living on a Prayer'). I was fortunate to see David Gilmour on his solo tour in 2016, when he performed many Pink Floyd classics, complete with a laser light show. However, I still think Pulse is the gold standard. :) I just came over here from your Rush reaction, and as you mention sci-fi here, I suggest you check out the Rush song 'Natural Science', live from the Molson Ampitheatre from 1997. It's an epic song with an eerily beautiful vocal introduction and hard-driving instrumentals.
You are quite right man... that WAS Stephen Hawking during the track... As for the lights.... Pink Floyd should have got it right by now... The light show was as much a part of their show as the music right from the beginning... from 1965/6.... HAHAHA.. and No, David was not snogging the microphone.... there is a plastic tube going up the microphone stande and into his mputh... it takes a feed from one of his guitar speakers and he not only plays the guitar notes he also shapes what they sound like with his mouth. It was called a TalkBox. Peter Frampron and Joe Walsh use it to great effect but David uses it as an effect on the album "Animals"... He plays some of his most vicious guitar leads on that Album... it's one of my favourites of theirs. Normally he is gentle, emotional, etherial, soaring.. but on "Animals" he just lets goes and gets vicious with his guitar lead breaks.
Pulse 1994, actually the show was the Division Bell tour, the live album and DVD were named pulse. This was the third Pink Floyd Concert I saw live, I also saw A Momentary Lapse of Reason in 1988 and The Wall in 1980.
It's a guitar vocoder a/k/a a "talk box." Probably most famously used by Peter Frampton on "Frampton Comes Alive." It's not an easy thing to play. The sound of the guitar is fed to the tube, which you then manipulate with the shape of your mouth while you're playing, which is why Frampton makes it sound like his guitar is talking. A good friend of mine in college had one, and all I thought was "dude, it's hard enough to play and sing at the same time--that thing is freaking bonkers."
Written for when Syd was in a bad way in a hospital. Did you know Nick Mason, the drummer, races cars? Minis a lot of the time. David is using a voice box, often used by Peter Frampton too.
Put yourself in an altered state of mind…. Weed, hash, drop some acid, mushrooms… hang a Do Not Disturb sign, turn out the lights, put headphones on.. listen to the entire album… of any Pink Floyd. You will not be the same after that.
Its a voice box.The guitar is amplifide then fed through a tube into DG's mouth so he can then manipulate the sound with his mouth movements. The sound is then picked up by the vocal microphone. I think he also used one on Animals. Peter Frampton also used to put the voice box to good use back in the seventies.
The Stephen Hawking sample was from an interview and Hawking approved the use in this song: „For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened that unleashed the power of our imagination - and we learned to talk“ And before the solo: „It doesn’t have to be like this. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking!“
The staging was so complex they needed two complete and hugely expensive lighting/stage rigs for these shows, one for 'tonight', whilst the other was being set up at the next venue.
Well….i wasn’t kidding when I made my comment. Floyd is one band that you’re supposed to immerse yourself in and go with the vibe. When you talk through it, the people watching, like myself, can see pretty easily that the vibe is not getting through. Floyd, for many, is almost spiritual, so talking over it is hard to take. And yeah, it’s a reaction channel. I get it. But many many reactors either wait to the end, or pause once or twice to share their thoughts. They don’t carry on a monologue over the song. I like Steve ( it is Steve , yes?) and he’s a newbie. I subbed for Zeppelin. But Floyd is my number two band. I’m hoping to witness a reactor get caught up in the power and majesty of their music, not a stream of consciousness of every thought. It disappoints me that they weren’t really “reached” by the music. I’ll get over it. And with most other bands I don’t care as much. But Steve, if you talk over a Jimmy Page guitar solo, we’ll have to have a conversation. 😉
I don't know, at this point I was over with Floyd. It all kinda sounded the same. I'm sure all the lights and special effects made up for, it, basically, the same Floyd song we've heard from The Wall till their last album. For me, the best Pink Floyd song after the Wall is "Fox on the Roof" by Steve Mason who was in the Beta Band. Check that song out, imo, better than anything they did after The Wall, and I'm nor big on that album either. US Roadie 1 signing off.
@@helenespaulding7562 No, I just wasn't that much interested after "Animals" and my tastes were changing. New Wave, punk, alternative, college radio, electronica were more interesting. Imo, they were running out of ideas. You couldn't say that about Fripp and King Crimson, or even Genesis, Collins, Gabriel and even Yes.
@@Pcrimson1 got it. I share to some extent. But there are songs in Division Bell that I find incredible. And, frankly, I just like their vibe and sound
You really should have done the studio version first. You would have heard what Stephen Hawking was saying quite clearly, and other nuances that doesn't quite come across in the live mix of the video. Sure wish more people would abide by that rule. 🫤
The lighting & the sound equipment everything cost 98 million dollars in 1994 money!! That included three sets of equipment! One set moving to the next city, one set being used wherever the current concert was and one set being taken down in the previous venue!! The lighting was done by a guy named Marc brickman of which the Floyd guys basically handed him a blank check and said see what you can do! Well you got to see what he can do. The lighting & sound equipment had 233,000 watts of power pushed through it with speakers on stage behind the audience on both sides of the audience and above the audience putting them in an enveloping giant set of headphones!! They only turned it up about 2/3 of the way so there is absolutely no distortion to perfect sound! I've seen them live 4 times in three different decades and I've seen around 100 concerts and nobody ever put on a better show than Floyd period!!!!
And a significant proportion of that lighting and sound equipment is now in the possession of The Australian Pink Floyd Show, which is brilliant.
The lighting on its own is rumoured to have cost two million pounds for one set.
I didn’t see this particular show, but I saw them on this tour at The Rose Bowl. I’ve been to a lot of concerts, but this one will never be topped. Even with all the technology now, and maybe because of that… the effort that was put into every detail was just perfection. The stadium was lined with surround sound speakers, it was completely immersive. No matter where you sat, you got something that other people didn’t. If I could back in time, I would go to multiple shows and sit somewhere different at each of them. I was mid field, right next to where the giant disco ball lotus orb emerged during Comfortably Numb. Had no idea that was going to happen. The flaming pigs at the end of the first set during One of These Days. No idea how much that must have cost, but they only came out for half of one song. That’s how intricately they planned and executed these shows.
@@mikewatts867 that's so impressive! Unbelievable level of detail that went into those shows! Glad you got to see them, sounds like an amazing time!
I saw the same show but at Clemson Football Stadium in May of 1994 and was the best concert I've have ever been to.
@@darylabbott2032 judging by what I've seen so far, I'm not surprised by that at all. Glad you got chance to see them
I listened to the show at the Rose Bowl from my condo balcony a block away 'cuz I was pulling babysitting duty. Greatest show I almost saw...
@@Bigdave1369 😂 "greatest show I almost saw" - Love this!!
The effect is called a talk box. The guitar's sound is piped up the tube and Gilmour shapes the sound, and sometimes vovalizes along to the sound with his mouth into the microphone.
Floyd had quad sound live, and it was better than headphones
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@lesblatnyak5947 on the Division Bell tour I saw them in Vet Stadium in Philly. Instead of playing music before the show there was simply a lawn mower moving about the quad system. It was oddly amazing
Gilmour using a talk box, literally making the guitar sing.
The talk box - A mini driver sends the guitar note up through the tube in his mouth, which allows him to shape the notes and alter the notes. Also made famous by Peter Frampton and Joe Walsh in the '70s (among others later on).
@@williamosborne6866 what an incredible and ingenious piece of kit!
If you had been around in the 70s you'd be very familiar with that instrument (sound) he uses at the end. It's called a talk box. Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, among the classic rock artists of the decade who made a mark with it. You need to check both of them out as well.
Be it traditional electric or acoustic guitar, steel lap guitar, or voice box, you just never knew what Mr Gilmour would pull out of his bag of genius, next. The impact David Gilmour had on Pink Floyd... vocals, guitars, and composition, cannot be overstated.
It certainly had the desired effect on me, I was mesmerized as I was equally confused! Appreciate the comment.
@@MusicForTheSoulReactions check out "Pigs" from their classic "Animals" album. You hear him use it again there quite extensively. Almost makes the whole song. (Except for the amazing guitar solo at the end of course).
I saw them on this tour. Incredible show. Even with shit seats at Earls Court, it was an unforgettable evening.
Consider me extremely envious! I can only imagine how amazing of a show it was Live!
That's called a Talk Box, probably first brought to the mainstream by Peter Frampton on "Do You Feel Like We Do" from his massive "Frampton Comes Alive" album. It was also used on Joe Walsh's big hit "Rocky Mountain Way." Of course, Gilmour makes great use of it here, as you'd expect. It's a great complement to his guitar soloing.
Do you mean Frampton's "Show Me The Way" ?
@@alanwaine4186 No, it's on that one too, but I think it's more notable on "Do You Feel Like We Do." And I think that was the song where the general public really took notice of that unique sound.
@@Tarkus_ appreciate the info about the talkbox as it absolutely spangled my head watching that!
@@Tarkus_interesting. Never heard of that song you mentioned, since I'm not a Frampton fan so decided to play it and the talk box comes in after 7 minutes, yet "Show Me The Way" was a huge hit and it comes in immediately.
@@alanwaine4186might be because in Do You Feel Like We Do he actually talks (speaks words) through it. Don’t think he does that in Show Me the Way, where it sounds a bit more like a wah-wah effect. But your point is well-taken!
Def do some more reactions to Pink Floyd songs from PULSE, we’re all in!
@@melvinroebuck1160 it looks like one of the best concerts I've ever seen captured! Looked amazing!
When you play a note, the sound of guitar comes up the tube, distort by the mouth actions, and out of mouth into the microphone instead of via direct guitar amp
Gilmour's one of a number of guitarists using a talk box, others include Richie Sambora on Bon Jovi songs like Livin' On A Prayer and It's My Life. 🙂
The technic used by Mr Gilmour is called a Talk Box. Of course he uses it by a song that is called Keep Talking.
It's called a Talk Box, it melds the guitar and the human voice together to create all kind of great sounds and tones. A few guitarists in the 1970s used them, Gilmour of course, and Peter Frampton, Jeff Beck and others.
It was invented originally invented in the 1940s.
@@scozz6139 so does he sing or literally talk into it or make noises and it transforms it? Appreciate the info
@@MusicForTheSoulReactions I'm not sure how it actually works, but I do recall those guitarists I mentioned using the it when I was a teenager in the 70s. It was quite an experience to first hear it back then. The first time i heard one was on Peter Frampton's 1976 live album, "Frampton Comes Alive".
Joe Walsh famous for it.
@@helenespaulding7562 Oh yes, I forgot about him!
This is one of my favorite Pink Floyd live performances! You are right about the darkness, the intensity, the sci-fi feel. David Gilmour is using a talk box, which was popularized in the 1970s by artists such as Joe Walsh (on 'Rocky Mountain Way'); Peter Frampton (on 'Show Me the Way') and Bon Jovi ("Living on a Prayer'). I was fortunate to see David Gilmour on his solo tour in 2016, when he performed many Pink Floyd classics, complete with a laser light show. However, I still think Pulse is the gold standard. :) I just came over here from your Rush reaction, and as you mention sci-fi here, I suggest you check out the Rush song 'Natural Science', live from the Molson Ampitheatre from 1997. It's an epic song with an eerily beautiful vocal introduction and hard-driving instrumentals.
@@sarastromseth-troy3323 great comment. I'll certainly look to check out that rush song, added to the list 🙂
You are quite right man... that WAS Stephen Hawking during the track... As for the lights.... Pink Floyd should have got it right by now... The light show was as much a part of their show as the music right from the beginning... from 1965/6.... HAHAHA.. and No, David was not snogging the microphone.... there is a plastic tube going up the microphone stande and into his mputh... it takes a feed from one of his guitar speakers and he not only plays the guitar notes he also shapes what they sound like with his mouth. It was called a TalkBox. Peter Frampron and Joe Walsh use it to great effect but David uses it as an effect on the album "Animals"... He plays some of his most vicious guitar leads on that Album... it's one of my favourites of theirs. Normally he is gentle, emotional, etherial, soaring.. but on "Animals" he just lets goes and gets vicious with his guitar lead breaks.
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Beauty Steve mate.....loving it mate... later our kid
Pulse 1994, actually the show was the Division Bell tour, the live album and DVD were named pulse. This was the third Pink Floyd Concert I saw live, I also saw A Momentary Lapse of Reason in 1988 and The Wall in 1980.
@@angusrobertson2515 you lucky thing getting to go to 3..
I repeat 3 pink Floyd shows! Epic!
Next: „High hopes“ from the Pulse Concert!
It's a guitar vocoder a/k/a a "talk box." Probably most famously used by Peter Frampton on "Frampton Comes Alive." It's not an easy thing to play. The sound of the guitar is fed to the tube, which you then manipulate with the shape of your mouth while you're playing, which is why Frampton makes it sound like his guitar is talking. A good friend of mine in college had one, and all I thought was "dude, it's hard enough to play and sing at the same time--that thing is freaking bonkers."
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Written for when Syd was in a bad way in a hospital.
Did you know Nick Mason, the drummer, races cars? Minis a lot of the time.
David is using a voice box, often used by Peter Frampton too.
@@tonybaker55 I did not know that. As if being a rock star wasn't enough, speeding around in mini's to pass the time too sounds cool!
Put yourself in an altered state of mind…. Weed, hash, drop some acid, mushrooms… hang a Do Not Disturb sign, turn out the lights, put headphones on.. listen to the entire album… of any Pink Floyd. You will not be the same after that.
@@paperbagfilms I can only imagine the journey that would take you on 🤯
If you havent saw Sorrow from pulse concert also a must see
Its a voice box.The guitar is amplifide then fed through a tube into DG's mouth so he can then manipulate the sound with his mouth movements. The sound is then picked up by the vocal microphone. I think he also used one on Animals. Peter Frampton also used to put the voice box to good use back in the seventies.
It's rude to speak while David is singing. It's BLASPHEMY to speak while David's guitar is speaking
The Stephen Hawking sample was from an interview and Hawking approved the use in this song: „For millions of years mankind lived just like the animals. Then something happened that unleashed the power of our imagination - and we learned to talk“ And before the solo: „It doesn’t have to be like this. All we need to do is make sure we keep talking!“
@@philipkudrna5643 thanks for the clarification, really appreciate it
The staging was so complex they needed two complete and hugely expensive lighting/stage rigs for these shows, one for 'tonight', whilst the other was being set up at the next venue.
this is what you get with a blank check
@@jeffreywolff329 simply amazing!
very fun reaction...I think we all like you well enough to put up with your talking during songs. Just kidding. Uh,, Yeah just kidding
Well….i wasn’t kidding when I made my comment. Floyd is one band that you’re supposed to immerse yourself in and go with the vibe. When you talk through it, the people watching, like myself, can see pretty easily that the vibe is not getting through. Floyd, for many, is almost spiritual, so talking over it is hard to take. And yeah, it’s a reaction channel. I get it. But many many reactors either wait to the end, or pause once or twice to share their thoughts. They don’t carry on a monologue over the song.
I like Steve ( it is Steve , yes?) and he’s a newbie. I subbed for Zeppelin. But Floyd is my number two band. I’m hoping to witness a reactor get caught up in the power and majesty of their music, not a stream of consciousness of every thought. It disappoints me that they weren’t really “reached” by the music.
I’ll get over it. And with most other bands I don’t care as much. But Steve, if you talk over a Jimmy Page guitar solo, we’ll have to have a conversation. 😉
Shhhhhhhhhh. Please don’t talk over. Get in the vibe. It’s not chatty music. 😘
I don't know, at this point I was over with Floyd. It all kinda sounded the same. I'm sure all the lights and special effects made up for, it, basically, the same Floyd song we've heard from The Wall till their last album. For me, the best Pink Floyd song after the Wall is "Fox on the Roof" by Steve Mason who was in the Beta Band. Check that song out, imo, better than anything they did after The Wall, and I'm nor big on that album either. US Roadie 1 signing off.
Sounds like you’re more of a Roger Waters fan?
@@helenespaulding7562 No, I just wasn't that much interested after "Animals" and my tastes were changing. New Wave, punk, alternative, college radio, electronica were more interesting. Imo, they were running out of ideas. You couldn't say that about Fripp and King Crimson, or even Genesis, Collins, Gabriel and even Yes.
@@Pcrimson1 got it. I share to some extent. But there are songs in Division Bell that I find incredible. And, frankly, I just like their vibe and sound
You really should have done the studio version first. You would have heard what Stephen Hawking was saying quite clearly, and other nuances that doesn't quite come across in the live mix of the video. Sure wish more people would abide by that rule. 🫤
@@flubblert good to know, appreciate the advice. I go wherever the requests take me 🤷🏻
@@MusicForTheSoulReactions yeah, well, you can always check out the studio version on your own. I think you'll see what I mean.
@@flubblert always happy to take advice from those that know more than I do, I'll give it a watch
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