"One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces" must be one of the best lyrics in a song without any lyrics. Also, Pink Floyd is not ahead of their time... They exist outside of time, timeless, immortal
The show that I went to in 1994 in Columbus Ohio this is the song that ended the first half of the show. When the first explosion took place and the pigs came out. A guy behind us stood up and yelled "the F'ing pigs are going to kill us", and the ran out of the stadium! My uncle looked at me and told me never to take drugs!
I was at that show in Columbus and you are correct. I was thinking of the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour when the opened the 2nd set with One of These Days.
I didn't go, but I remember well when that concert occurred - at the time I was a senior in college at Toledo and two of my [younger] friends went (I, an engineering student, was "too busy"). It was described as "legendary". Ah, regrets!
Dont forget Syd Barret! The legend of "Echoes" and so much more. But yes. That man, in the keys and special imaginative instruments and sounds...MAGIC!
Flawless performance. This was the closer for the first half. After break they play Dark Side in its entirety. Props to Guy on the bass! And of course David on slide. What a show!
On the original studio recording it's a bit more buried in the mix, and if you don't know it's there you might not even notice it in the flow of electronic noise. I've known this song since I was around ten years old, and bought the Meddle album when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until several years later that I consciously noticed that there was a lyric there - before that I had just thought of that bit as "treated vocal grunts" without any words to them.
@@louise_rose They also brought the 'Dr Who' theme more to the front. The lyric was directed at Jimmy Young a Radio 2 DJ who said that Pink Floyd was just noise. (Radio 2 was station that played easy listening).
@@garyanning9731 Mmm. :) This track could well be called "proto-industrial rock". - Even though I didn't notice the lyrics until after I had turned twenty, ,I think the sense of anger and frustration in the middle section of the track is something I registered early on.
Fun fact: Nick Mason fondly remembers when he played this song back in Pompeii, the film director had lost a lot of the footage of the other players, so what we get to see most was his drumming
The alternate set list had Astronomy Domine start the show with just 4 players on stage, none of the touring musicians (aside from Guy Pratt) played on that one.
I saw this show at the Pontiac Silverdome. My friends and I were 15th row, on the floor, stage right. When this song played I couldn't belive how intense the heat was from the flames lighting at the front of the stage. There were 80,000 people there. My friend, that I drove there with, and I got there late because the traffic was so heavy. The security was so tight in there and they checked your ticket about every 20 feet to make sure you were going where you were supposed to be. So, when we walked into the stadium, Shine On You Crazy Diamond had just started. By the time we got to our seats they just started playing the third song. To this day it is still the best, most mind blowing concert I have ever witnessed. I still occasionally wear the concert shirt I bought.
At the Montreal concert, this song was the 9th played, right between "Keep Talking" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)". You're absolutely right about the audience remaining seated and focused during the songs, but loudly expressing their appreciation at the end of each song. I saw this concert two nights in a row at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, and I certainly don't regret it, it's the best show I've seen in my entire life.
The band were big fans of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's electronic music and sound effects output at the BBC that began in the late-1950s, early-60s. The Workshop were group of electronic engineers and mathematicians at the BBC that used old electronic machines, scientific reading equipment and anything to hand to create special sounds. They're most famous for the 'Doctor Who' theme, composed by Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire back in 1963. Pink Floyd have said that the Dr Who theme really made an impression and influence on them in their early years that they incorporated a small section of the theme into One of These Days to pay homage to the theme, Delia and the Workshop and can be heard at the 3:35 mark.
The intro for the concert is called "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", "One Of These Days" wraps up the first half of the night; then, "Speak To Me/Breathe" opens the second half and "Run Like Hell" is the grand finale. Indeed, "One Of These Days" is the first song of their album Meddle, tho. Considering you fangirling to David's glances and faces, I highly recommend also checking out "Remember That Night", "Meltdown Concert", "Live in Gdansk", "Live at Pompeii" and "Live in Wroclaw". All of those are concerts from his solo career.
I feel so privileged to have seen them live in person in Madison, WI, and especially to hear them play the Doctor Who for me. I mean us. And in the rain!! But we didn't care. Incredible musicians.
Great reaction Stacey!! Nope - that's intermission! Set 2 was the live performance of the entire Dark Side Of The Moon album. What a way to end set 1! The concert opening track was Shine On You Crazy Diamond! My jaw was on the floor seeing this song's performance for the first time! They really ramped up the sonic bombardment over the studio version! Special note to Dave on this - yes, I love his 'knowing' smile during this performance - he's probably thinking 'oh boy, just you wait, we're going to go CRAZY!!' (in the most British way possible). And yes - that bassline is beyond fire! Cheers!!
This was the opening song for Pink Floyd at the 1972 Second British Rock Gathering, in Germersheim, Germany! And ever since, it is my favorite PF song! I don't drink coffee, so to get going in the morning I put this on and turn my amp up to 11! 😊 Glad you liked it....🎵
This was an absolute highlight when I saw them on that tour. 100,000 people screaming and pointing at the pigs in amazement. Keep it coming Stacy. You're ready for Shine on you crazy diamond. Bom bom bom bom...if you know, you know fellow Floyd fans
Nice reaction Stacey, The lyric is "one of these day's I'm going to chop you into little pieces" I saw them twice on the delectate sounds of thunder tour in 88 and they were just amazing. The drummer Nick Mason now tours with his own band A saucerful of Secrets who play old Floyd pre Dark side and this is off Meddle and I saw them last Wednesday when they finished with this. If you get a chance to see them then do as though not the full Floyd experience they are really amazing. Highlights for me were See Emily Play, Atom Hart Mother, Echoes and Set the Controls for the Hart of the Sun. They had also managed to lift Sid's vocals off a demo tape from an unreleased song from before they had a record deal in 1965 and with modem tech played Sid's vocal and they played the music.
Me...1994 at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse NY...seated close to the stage, but off to the left side about 12 rows high...tapping on someones shoulder..."Um, you see giant pigs with laser eyes staring at us too....right?" Only could happen at a Pink Floyd show!!! 😂😂😂😂 I was only drinking and maybe breathing some concert aroma....with the lights and incredible music....I was starting to question what I was seeing! Those pigs were scary as heck from where I was sitting, the one on my side would have been in my lap if it didn't stop!!! At it keep looking around like it was looking for the person it wanted as a snack after "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little peices!" This was the first concert I ever left feeling like I didn't pay enough for the experience...don't recall the ticket price....but, I would have paid 10 times the amount and not felt like it was enough for the incredible memories.
I caught it the first time I heard the song. But I wasn’t 100% sure, because I had never seen an episode. But I still thought it was rebel cool to put a somewhat obscure (in the US, at least) TV show theme within their music. 😎
Love your reaction to PF as always. I just scored tix to David Glimour's show in NYC this November!!!! So excited. Will be my first time ever seeing/hearing him.
The instrument David is playing is called a "peddle steel guitar". It is used a lot in country music. Of course David Gilmour plays it amazingly. And the one line of words in this song is "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces".
I saw Pink Floyd live at the Division Bell concert in Ames, Iowa, back in 1994. The line of cars to the stadium was never-ending, and it felt like we spent forever just trying to get close. We eventually found a spot near the venue, and by then, the party had already started. People were everywhere, smoking openly. To my surprise (and relief), the police decided to turn a blind eye (thank goodness). Inside, the stadium was decked out with massive inflatable pigs, The Wall hammers, and animated characters from the movie. Unfortunately, most of the concert is a blur for me... let’s just say there were so many joints being passed around that at some point, I forgot where I was. But wow, what an experience! The sound system was incredible-speakers perfectly placed to give this crystal-clear stereo sound, making you feel like you were literally inside the music. Now, here’s a side story: as we parked, I spotted a concert ticket lying face-up on the sidewalk. It was like fate! I had two tickets to Pink Floyd! Coming from Chile, I knew this would be my only chance to see them live since they never toured my country. So, I waited outside the stadium, holding on to that extra ticket until I found the right person to give it to. Right before the show, I saw this guy-heartbroken, in tears, walking around like he'd just lost everything. He’d dropped his ticket. I went up to him and said, “Hey man, here’s your lost ticket!” I’ll never forget the look on his face-pure joy and disbelief. We hugged, then walked into music heaven together. True story!
My close friend Gil Yedidia and I would listen and watch many concert videos together and one time his brother Ronn Yedidia flew in from New York to visit for 2 or 3 days .All 3 of us watched 3 concert videos back to back,one of them being Pulse and after all of this Ronn said he liked the Pulse concert best and said they are pulling that sound from out of space.Ronn is a concert pianist and composer and owns the New York Piano Academy and has played with many of the best Jazz musicians going way back.He did not know Pink Floyd and that was the first time he had heard them.That was the first time I had heard anyone say that and coming from him at the time was very thought provoking.
"One of These Days (I'm going to cut you into little pieces)" is from the Meddle Album over 50 years ago. When I first heard this song in my teenage years, this song sparked my imagination of an ongoing and bitter battle between an evil wizard and a vengeful barbarian who lost his woman to the evil wizard, where the battles always ended up in a stalemate between the two and they would retreat to heal and regain their strength, and battle again on another day. The bass at the beginning of the song is the barbarian mounted on his horse, with his wolf companion running by his side through the dust and wind (Richard's keyboards) of the plains, to get to the dark castle to face down the wizard who is inside. Meanwhile, the wizard is busy raising up an army of skeleton warriors with his necromancer spells (which is the sound of the Daves guitar, and Nick's drums) to defend himself and to defeat the barbarian. As the gate of the castle is breached, the barbarian shouts out, "ONE OF THESE DAYS, I'M GOING TO CUT YOU INTO LITTLE PIECES!" and then the battle ensues between the barbarian and his wolf versus the wizard's skeletons. The wizard stays back behind the skeletons, weakened by the amount of magic he used to put up his defense against the barbarian. The barbarian sees his woman imprisoned (but ALIVE!) behind the wizard, and becomes excited, but also enraged that she has suffered for a long period of time. At this point, Dave's guitar, Richard's keyboards, and Nick's drums kick it up several notches to denote the epic battle as the barbarian and wolf fight hard against the skeletons and peeling them off one at a time (by each rollover of Nick's drums), until Dave's very last note where he finally dispatches the wizard with the last swing of his sword. I will leave the rest of the story to your own imaginations!
Hey you thanks for taking me back in time! Don't forget about the momentary lapse of reason tour! My first Pink Floyd concert wich at that time was the best concert I'd ever seen. Then pulse came wow,wow,wow!!!!!! By the way pink Floyd is in the Guinness book of world records for the amount of instruments used on tour! Thanks again for the ride down memory lane.
Thank you Stacey for this. As a young teenager on a small dairy farm in Wisconsin, circa 1979, I heard this song on the radio a few times, and fell instantly in love. It was a sound that I'd never heard before. Didn't know the name of it because, you know, wacky FM DJ's don't care about the music, just mindless gabbing. All I knew is that it was by Pink Floyd. And so, whenever I would get to the record store about 20 miles away, I would buy every Pink Floyd album they had just in the hopes of getting the one with this song on it. Finally I did, and that's how I got into the music of this band. So many great memories!
Me again! It's probably been mentioned already, but in case it hasn't, the bass player is Guy Pratt. It's an understatement to say this man is talented, but what you may not know is that he had a very famous father; Mike Pratt who was an actor/musician/song writer and starred in one of the best crime detective series to ever grace our tellies over here, which was Randall and Hopkirk (deceased).
"One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces" A song about bacon. Not really. They used to have a sound tape of a British DJ, Jimmy Young, who used to talk and talk and talk trivial nonsense. They cut up the tape into sections and used it in concerts. That was the basis of the idea behind the title. The Doctor Who theme was later incorporated into it. The bass theme was Rogers idea, but when he was out of the studio, David recorded the bass parts for the record. The Pig was first used for the Animals tour, and used to fly out over the crowd on a wire. This was repeated for the Wall shows during Run Like Hell, and One Of These Days for the Momentary Lapse tour, when it was the first song of the second set. I was there for two of those gigs (! ) and at one of them, it was right over my head, dipping towards me. Quite scary. I was also at one of Earl's Court Pulse shows. The set list varied, some nights they played all of Dark Side Of The Moon. The night I was there, One Of These Days closed the first half. I was about a third of the way back from the stage and could feel the heat from the flame jets at the end. One of my top five concerts of all time.
I remember this track on The Old Grey Whistle Test sometime round 1973. It was the backing track to an animation of a dancing man. Totally mesmerising, it's probably on RUclips somewhere.
I was at the PF Division Bell Tour concert in Denver, CO in 1994 at Mile High Stadium. It was quite similar to the concert at Earl's Court, recorded on the Pulse DVDs, only bigger and they played longer / more songs. They opened with Astronomy Domine, played all of the songs in the Pulse video and Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety. I think the concert lasted over 3 hours, maybe 3.5 hours. The stadium was outdoors and HUGE. So the lights, lasers, effects etc. were more massive. There is no way to describe what it was like to be there - transcendent, emotional, intense, rapturous, ineffable. It was one of the absolute peak experiences of my entire life. PF has been my favorite band since 1973, when I was 10 years old, and David Gilmour my favorite guitarist. You should check out his solo work = EPIC! You articulate my feelings and thoughts about their music so well, and I love watching your reaction videos! It is great for me to see an intelligent young lady really connect, understand, experience and appreciate PF the way some of us old timers have for 50+ years. You are right - PF is unique, visceral, evocative and will never be duplicated. Nothing else comes close. Anyway, glad that you are enjoying your PF discovery journey. God Bless.
Some of the time, yes. I was lucky enough to be there the first night they played Dark Side in its entirety. July 15 at the Silverdome just outside of Detroit. That was about 3 1/2 months into the tour. They probably played Dark Side 1/3 of the nights over the duration of the tour. Maybe a bit more.
I was one of the emensley lucky people to be at the Earls Court in London October 1994 Pulse Concerts..!! This was the last song of Set 1.. I was sitting in the top balcony on the left hand side looking towards the stage and the Giant 🐗 Boar/Pig was level with us on the balcony and we were about 50feet away from it as came out through the darkness halfway through the song "One Of These Days" and the lights/lazers coming out of its eyes were literally coming directly at us all the time..!! Every single song for the whole 2hours 20mins of the concert (ie) Set 1, Set 2 and the 20minute Encore was an absolute visual and musical MASTERPIECE..!! The lights, lasers, explosions, pyrotechnics, special effects and videos on the 50foot circular screen behind the band in the centre of the stage for every song was just MIND-BLOWING, Their wasn't one song in the whole concert that was done to PERFECTION, all the instruments were wired up in sync with the visuals (ie) each time a note was played with each different instrument the visuals like lights and lasers, holograms, special effects would be synchronised to go hand in hand with the music...!! I was 25 when I went to see Pink Floyd at Earls Court that night and even just over 30years later the concert still sends shivers down my spine when I think back to it or watch the DVD of the concert and I love watching people like you reacting to songs from the concert watching their music and performances for the 1st time it really puts a huge smile on my face..!! And then hear people reacting to the concert and saying that they are so jealous of the people who were there in the Stadium to see 'A MUSICAL AND VISUAL MASTERPIECE'...And makes appreciate how lucky I was to have been there in the flesh to see THE GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME WHO WERE LIGHTYEARS AHEAD OF TIME AND THEIR MUSIC WILL BE REVERED FOR GENERATIONS TO COME 🫶👌🥰🙏 One Word Sums Up Pink Floyd and their music and concerts and that is simply GENIUSES..!!
When you think this is a 1971 track off meddle, so far ahead of their time. I was in this croud for this recording at earls court London 1994..... This was the end of the first half of the show
Thanks Stacey❤ Love your "former volleyballer" vibes! This is obviously from their earlier "experimental" works but carries a great melodic line that just F-ing ROCKS!! "Fun" is the word for the day!
I was there in 1994 at Earls Court where I believe from memory that Pink Floyd performed perhaps 8 Consecutive Gigs and totally sure that every night was Sold Out. Not only was the Band, light show, Standard of Musicianship and outstanding compositions if ALL these Songs, but the PA was like a TOP CLASS HI-FI System AND in Quadraphonic, so there were Speaker at the Back of the Hall and each Side of Hall as well as sound coming from the front of you. The expectation we all had; the excitement we all had was like a bomb going off; there was no stopping this euphoria!! The Show we saw left us all exhausted with pure happiness and I'm sure this was the case every night. David's emotional Voice, Guitar Playing, Pedal Steel Guitar and Smile, just so infectious, but took ALL performer's to create such a wonderfully outstanding and never to be repeated Concert!!!!!asers
I'll explain David Gilmour's style. Guitar Magazine back in the mid - late 90s wrote: David Gilmour is The Undisputed Dean Of The Compound Bend and has practically Perfect Note Placement. His solos are not technically difficult Note wise, but to be able to bend and release is difficult to mirror. David Gilmour said, not verbatim as I'll try to explain, that he plays his solos, mainly, as if like an Opera Singer. Play a note and bend it in certain ways and shake it and release like an Opera Singer. Dave Mustaine of Megadeth said, David Gilmour can take one note and bend it in so many ways where many other guitarists have to use the entire fretboard to do so. Something along those lines. About David Gilmour's mouth movement as he plays is because he is actually singing in his mind and actually moves his mouth muscles as if he were singing it and then relays it to his fingers in order to achieve the sound and or sounds he is wanting to make and or perform. For example, studies have shown that when a person is annunciating a word or words in their mind their trachea and larynx, maybe just larynx, moves as if talking. A great example of David Gilmour singing the notes that he is playing is in the song, (Best Acoustic Song Ever) Wish You Were Here short solos. I was 15 years old when the Pulse Tour was happening and I heard a commercial for it. When I heard the voice of David Gilmour sing, in the advertisement, "Ticking Away The Moments That Make Up A Dull Day...." I thought, WHAT THE HELL? I went out and bought The Dark Side of The Moon Album. I just went straight to the song Time. Then, when I heard that guitar Solo of his in the song Time, I thought.. okay.. time to pick up a guitar and start learning. That Solo is considered a Masterpiece of Composition. Not technically difficult to play, but again... He is and still is The Undisputed Dean Of The Compound Bend with practically Perfect Note Placement. Hence why many people say, "Damn! He can make that Guitar Sing!" All my life, I never understood why the 2nd (last Solo) of Comfortably Numb was never #1 in Best or Greatest Solos of All Time. However, finally a few years ago it became The Greatest or Best Solo of All Time. If you understand Music and Math, that Solo can be played Indefinitely. (If you don't get tired) It goes from B down to E and repeats. David Gilmour in an interview said something along the lines of, "The structure of the music allows me the freedom to just play." To end.. David Gilmour admits that he never was a fast playing Guitarist. Does he really need to be? (rhetorically asking) 🎸 ❤🎉 Stacey, I follow you now because of your reactions to Pink Floyd... ❤ Alice Cooper said something like, "Pink Floyd is Here... While everyone else is over here... " In an interview showing with his hands the separation of... No one is like nor ever will be like Pink Floyd.. 🎉 ❤😊🎉 Roger Waters said that David Gilmour has a Very Powerful Voice ❤
I love watching your reactions to these classic PF tracks. Its like hearing them for the first time again. Love the joy on your face and seeing it literally take your breath away at times.
Hi Stacey! New sub here and absolute Pink Floyd/David Gilmour fan from Idaho. You should check out David Gilmour "Live At Pompeii" from 2016. David was the first live performance at the Pompeii Amphitheater since 79 A.D.!! 22 years after "Pulse", David Gilmour puts on a performance that is simply amazing! Also, you should listen to "A Boat Lies Waiting". This is a tribute to the late Richard Wright, Pink Floyd's piano/keyboard player.
I saw them twice a few years before this tour. "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" tour. 1987. Saw them in Tampa Stadium then drove to Atlanta and saw them 4 days later.
I think One Of These Days was the last song of the first half of the show. And yeah, the pigs are a callback to Animals - there's a giant inflatable pig on the Animals album cover (which started drifting off during the photoshoot but that's another story!) and I think they used one during the Animals tour as well.
Yeah, it's completely unrelated to Animals as a song but I think the pig was so iconic they wanted to tie it into the concert somehow. That's my guess anyhow!
Amazing, love this song...That was from the end of the first part of the concert...SO excited every time you react to Pink Floyd check out "yet another movie" from the delicate sound of thunder live tour back in 86-87...
I saw this concert in Mexico City and it was an outdoor venue (Foro Sol). There were some 60,000 attendants. The amazing thing was the sound, it was just as this video, clear, deep... pristine. I have not been to a better concert in all aspects.
What you can’t tell even from the great mix done for the video, is the sound within the stadium. They had several speaker locations from to back and sound enveloped you and would move around, especially in this song. Was so surreal and wonderful.
I grew up in Cambridge, lived here most of my life. Syd was the science pupil of a teacher friend of mine; I'd see him walking around Cambridge from time to time.
When I seen this concert at the Silverdome the pig fell out of its box and land on its back and the legs were moving around when this song was being played, it was something to see.
This is the track that closes the opening set., and they close the show with "Run Like Hell". Simply incredible. BTW, this was the opening song on their album "Meddle" (which closed with the epic "Echoes"), the album that prepared them for their masterpiece "Dark Side Of The Moon".
Thank you Stacey, again... for another look at my favorite band! From their 1971 "Meddle" album, This was the last song of set 1... they opened the concert with Shine on you Crazy Diamond. Their blow up characters were always a surprising addition to their concerts. The stage engineers, from sound mixing, to lighting and special effects were always leading the way as far as "Putting on a Rock Show" was concerned! Lasers and lighting always contributed to the sonic "Voyage" they took us on! Don't know if they will ever be equaled! Please listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan perform "Texas Flood" live at El Mocambo 1983... the greatest guitarist you will ever hear! One guy even says... "My guitar watches this video when I'm not home."
As you are a self proclaimed 'Nerd' Stacey, here's a little nerdy fact for you about this track. It is actually a tribute to a huge British Sci Fi series called Dr Who that started back in the 1960's and continues to this day. Or rather it's a tribute to the theme tune written by the BBC's Radiophonic workshop. It has itself been a hit performed by Docterin' The Tardis, otherwise know as the KLF or the JAMS. For confirmation of this you can here the songs main motif being played on guitar in the middle break behind the lead bass at 3:37 through to 3:49. Very nerdy I know but hey.....
"One Of These Days", off the album 'Meddle' is definitely one of PF's SOARING instrumentals. The "lyrics" were spoken by drummer Nick Mason saying "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces". The flying pig is a Floyd icon (yes, off the 'Animals' album), but since Gilmour chose not to include any songs from the 'Animals' album in the concert lineup, the pigs are presented with this tune. Interestingly, during the legal battle between Waters & Gilmour over Pink Floyd rights, the pig iconography was on the table for copyright claims...so... Gilmour put tusks on it so he could technically call it a "boar" and use it for Pink Floyd concerts. LOVE your reaction and SHINE ON!!!🤘🤘
This was the final song of the first (of two) sets they played at the Pulse concerts in 1994. Amazingly, along with Astronomy Domine, it was left off the CD version of show though it is on the cassette vinyl versions. Astronomy Domine was for some reason included on the vinyl version.
You've hit the nail on the head Stacey with the Floyd audience the beginning cheers and whistles sitting an watch and listen then cheers again, that's what true fans do in the UK for a Floyd gig. At times people who don't know the rules stand up and are immediately told to sit down in no uncertain terms if they don't. I've been to many Floyd concerts in my 67yrs and only once a whole lot of the crowd started standing up they soon had the rest of the arena telling to effin sit down. 😂
I spent 6 hours dialing for tickets. We drove 8 hours to Houston. They played through a Texas thunderstorm with lightning hitting the skyscrapers around the stadium. Rain falling through the lasers added to the epic show. There was a possibility that acid could be found at the show… This concert and the Page/Plant tour were just a level above everyone else. As they say I’m old but got to see all the good bands.
What a Wonderful Reaction! Thank you so much. I think the two connected songs "Brain Damage/Eclipse" from the PULSE Concert too, will take you even deeper into the Pink Floyd universe.
Seeing and hearing these songs done live in a great venue is truly amazing! Since Pink Floyd doesn't perform as a group anymore, I would strongly recommend seeing the tribute band Brit Floyd if they play anywhere near you. They're really great! Totally worth it!
Ah, welcome again to the more psychedelic work of Pink Floyd. ^^ And I would say, Dave smiling at Rick, and him smiling back gives me that "Those were the days, weren't they...?" vibe.
This is from the The Division Bell Tour, aka The Pulse Concert. "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces" is the only word in this by Nick Mason. I went to that concert, and yes, it was the last song of the first half of the concert. Then they start with "Speak to Me," if I remember correctly. Some people like the first half the best. Not me; the second part has Time, The Great Gig in the Sky, Money, Wish You Were Here, and Comfortably Numb. And so many great songs. I always love your reactions to Pink Floyd 💞
I can attest to the fact (4 times actually) that during their shows when this song started the entire stadium was vibrating and thudding from the speakers, combine that with the mesmerizing light show and for those of us in a certain state of mind, it was an experience without equal, nothing else is even in the same universe. These people (as a collective) know what they are doing, and most importantly, why they are there. Pink Floyd will live forever.
Saw 5 times , always felt sorry for the people that sat up front. Pulse first song was "Shine On". #1 Version to watch Pompeii 1972 which was a lot of drums, #2 this one and Pompeii again in 2016 which start with a instrument I have never seen. One of the shows at the end they push the pigs out of the tunnel. the pig on the Animals sleeve broke free but story goes that a pilot radio the tower he just flew by a 50 Ft. pink pigs. Dave announce his up coming tour Madison Square Garden 4 days, Hollywood Bowl 3 days, Inglewood Cali. 1 day. Stacey if you were there it's beyond anything. As many just sat in silence when it was over.
Great reaction to Pink Floyd again Stacey. I love your reactions to this band. The greatest thing about this song is that it won’t take you long to learn the lyrics lol❤️🏴🇬🇧
I saw them in Detroit on this tour. You are correct that the audience was very quiet during the songs. I think everyone was so in awe during each song that no one made a sound. It's great they recorded this concert so we can all watch it back, but I'd equate it to watching fireworks on tv. It's not quite the same experience as seeing it in person. Carry on, Stacey, you do a great job!
Kia ora. Great review. It was at the end of the first half @StaceyRPG. On the D.V.D. the end of the concert is Run Like Hell, from The Wall. As I am sure others have already said, Pink Floyd concerts are not so much a concert as a lived multisensory experience. The sound, the sight, the feeling.
"One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces" must be one of the best lyrics in a song without any lyrics.
Also, Pink Floyd is not ahead of their time... They exist outside of time, timeless, immortal
Great point.
I also believe that it's Nick Mason's ONLY vocal contribution on the entire Floyd catalogue since they started out in 1965.
They created time
Agreed...... just one line that has nothing to do with anything..... the music is incredible
He also did vocals on Scream Thy Last Scream
The show that I went to in 1994 in Columbus Ohio this is the song that ended the first half of the show. When the first explosion took place and the pigs came out. A guy behind us stood up and yelled "the F'ing pigs are going to kill us", and the ran out of the stadium! My uncle looked at me and told me never to take drugs!
I was at that show in Columbus and you are correct. I was thinking of the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour when the opened the 2nd set with One of These Days.
Yeah it caused him to miss half a legendary show. Oh, the horror...
I was there too
I was also at a Concert at this Toure... in Munich........
I didn't go, but I remember well when that concert occurred - at the time I was a senior in college at Toledo and two of my [younger] friends went (I, an engineering student, was "too busy"). It was described as "legendary". Ah, regrets!
I am a simple man. Stacey reacts Pink Floyd, I run and watch! Thank you as always, you are wonderful...
Something truly magical about it.
I repeat, Jethro Tull, Tull, Tuuuull!🎉❤😅😊🦬❤️
The late great Richard Wright. RIP you absolute genius.
Dont forget Syd Barret! The legend of "Echoes" and so much more. But yes. That man, in the keys and special imaginative instruments and sounds...MAGIC!
He directed the Pulse concerts . Yes , an absolute genius .. note , the arm up to David everytime the next phase was to start . ❤
Richard was the unseen Maestro of the band, a lovely person and brilliant musician.
Nobody ever mention Nick Mason what a drummer and so calm
The bass player, Guy Pratt, has been with David Gilmore ever since this concert and is with him on his current tour. He is Richard Wrights son in law.
Outstanding! Your Pink Floyd reactions are so fun to watch. Your smile and laughter brighten my day.
Flawless performance. This was the closer for the first half. After break they play Dark Side in its entirety. Props to Guy on the bass! And of course David on slide. What a show!
Stacy I love it that you love it. A new Floyd fan. They are undescribable. And I can't imagine the world without them to enrich us all.
I wish I could hear Pink Floyd...for the first time. Been listening for decades....and still love them as much.
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@@metricdeep8856 they are able to trigger emotional responses that other bands don't even come near.
''One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces'' is drummer Nick Mason’s only vocal contribution on Floyd´s classic studio albums.
On the original studio recording it's a bit more buried in the mix, and if you don't know it's there you might not even notice it in the flow of electronic noise. I've known this song since I was around ten years old, and bought the Meddle album when I was fourteen, but it wasn't until several years later that I consciously noticed that there was a lyric there - before that I had just thought of that bit as "treated vocal grunts" without any words to them.
Besides Corporal Clegg
And if you go and catch him on Tour In US, UK and Europe he'll open the show with this song.
@@louise_rose They also brought the 'Dr Who' theme more to the front. The lyric was directed at Jimmy Young a Radio 2 DJ who said that Pink Floyd was just noise. (Radio 2 was station that played easy listening).
@@garyanning9731 Mmm. :) This track could well be called "proto-industrial rock". - Even though I didn't notice the lyrics until after I had turned twenty, ,I think the sense of anger and frustration in the middle section of the track is something I registered early on.
Fun fact: Nick Mason fondly remembers when he played this song back in Pompeii, the film director had lost a lot of the footage of the other players, so what we get to see most was his drumming
and for some reason, it turned into a brilliant piece of video. Nick was in his prime and looked great. Suggested vid.
Yes,best thing that happened,Nick Mason deserves to be centre stage.🎉
I think that’s the song where he lost a drumstick!
Also, this is the only Pink Floyd song where Nick contributes any vocals.
And never misses a beat when a stick flies out of his hand.
the 1st song of Pulse concert is Shine on you crazy diamond .. and the last song is Run Like Hell .. good day to you 😎👍
The shows I attended started with Astronomy Domine
@@paulblay2330 ok. to the Pulse concert video started with Shine on you crazy diamond .
The alternate set list had Astronomy Domine start the show with just 4 players on stage, none of the touring musicians (aside from Guy Pratt) played on that one.
@@ianfortier6796 😎👍
Did anyone else have the two cassette pulse set? If so, do you remember what was on the second cassette after the concert ends? It's so damn cool!
''One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces'' that is the lyric 🤣 and ''run like hell'' is the last one
She knows as she has reacted to that already. Maybe she forgot?
Roger Waters sucks
@@alphaomega3499 yeh his politics are atrocious but he wrote some good pink floyd music.
I saw this show at the Pontiac Silverdome. My friends and I were 15th row, on the floor, stage right. When this song played I couldn't belive how intense the heat was from the flames lighting at the front of the stage. There were 80,000 people there. My friend, that I drove there with, and I got there late because the traffic was so heavy. The security was so tight in there and they checked your ticket about every 20 feet to make sure you were going where you were supposed to be. So, when we walked into the stadium, Shine On You Crazy Diamond had just started. By the time we got to our seats they just started playing the third song. To this day it is still the best, most mind blowing concert I have ever witnessed. I still occasionally wear the concert shirt I bought.
At the Montreal concert, this song was the 9th played, right between "Keep Talking" and "Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)".
You're absolutely right about the audience remaining seated and focused during the songs, but loudly expressing their appreciation at the end of each song.
I saw this concert two nights in a row at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal, and I certainly don't regret it, it's the best show I've seen in my entire life.
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That bass line, that guitar, this whole song, makes me want to head-bang like crazy!!
This is an overlooked gem. My favorite Pink Floyd song.
Have you noticed that no other band has tried to replicate their style of music, because they can’t because they are awesome and one of a kind
Amen
There is no original band that can think past 3-5 min.
@@arclight545 Actually, there are many IF you look.
@JimPauley-n6b they are unique much like the DOORS
Les Claypool from Primus has a band called The Flying Frog Brigade they do a reenactment of Pigs 3 different Ones it's absolutely incredible
The band were big fans of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop's electronic music and sound effects output at the BBC that began in the late-1950s, early-60s. The Workshop were group of electronic engineers and mathematicians at the BBC that used old electronic machines, scientific reading equipment and anything to hand to create special sounds. They're most famous for the 'Doctor Who' theme, composed by Ron Grainer and realised by Delia Derbyshire back in 1963.
Pink Floyd have said that the Dr Who theme really made an impression and influence on them in their early years that they incorporated a small section of the theme into One of These Days to pay homage to the theme, Delia and the Workshop and can be heard at the 3:35 mark.
I mentioned this on another reaction but your explanation was much better than mine..
Pink Floyd.... either you get them or you don't! Stacey gets them.....we had so much good music in the 70's....
@@DanOConnell-t2z very fortunate to have grown up in that era of music. So many talented musicians and a world of joy and unity amongst the listeners.
The intro for the concert is called "Shine On You Crazy Diamond", "One Of These Days" wraps up the first half of the night; then, "Speak To Me/Breathe" opens the second half and "Run Like Hell" is the grand finale.
Indeed, "One Of These Days" is the first song of their album Meddle, tho.
Considering you fangirling to David's glances and faces, I highly recommend also checking out "Remember That Night", "Meltdown Concert", "Live in Gdansk", "Live at Pompeii" and "Live in Wroclaw".
All of those are concerts from his solo career.
I feel so privileged to have seen them live in person in Madison, WI, and especially to hear them play the Doctor Who for me. I mean us. And in the rain!! But we didn't care. Incredible musicians.
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Great reaction Stacey!! Nope - that's intermission! Set 2 was the live performance of the entire Dark Side Of The Moon album. What a way to end set 1! The concert opening track was Shine On You Crazy Diamond!
My jaw was on the floor seeing this song's performance for the first time! They really ramped up the sonic bombardment over the studio version! Special note to Dave on this - yes, I love his 'knowing' smile during this performance - he's probably thinking 'oh boy, just you wait, we're going to go CRAZY!!' (in the most British way possible). And yes - that bassline is beyond fire!
Cheers!!
This was the opening song for Pink Floyd at the 1972 Second British Rock Gathering, in Germersheim, Germany! And ever since, it is my favorite PF song! I don't drink coffee, so to get going in the morning I put this on and turn my amp up to 11! 😊 Glad you liked it....🎵
This was an absolute highlight when I saw them on that tour. 100,000 people screaming and pointing at the pigs in amazement. Keep it coming Stacy. You're ready for Shine on you crazy diamond. Bom bom bom bom...if you know, you know fellow Floyd fans
Nice reaction Stacey, The lyric is "one of these day's I'm going to chop you into little pieces" I saw them twice on the delectate sounds of thunder tour in 88 and they were just amazing. The drummer Nick Mason now tours with his own band A saucerful of Secrets who play old Floyd pre Dark side and this is off Meddle and I saw them last Wednesday when they finished with this. If you get a chance to see them then do as though not the full Floyd experience they are really amazing. Highlights for me were See Emily Play, Atom Hart Mother, Echoes and Set the Controls for the Hart of the Sun. They had also managed to lift Sid's vocals off a demo tape from an unreleased song from before they had a record deal in 1965 and with modem tech played Sid's vocal and they played the music.
I was fortunate enough to see the Pulse Tour at Earls Court London. It was the best gig I've been to.
Same here, never to be forgotten, never to be bettered.
Me...1994 at the Carrier Dome in Syracuse NY...seated close to the stage, but off to the left side about 12 rows high...tapping on someones shoulder..."Um, you see giant pigs with laser eyes staring at us too....right?" Only could happen at a Pink Floyd show!!! 😂😂😂😂 I was only drinking and maybe breathing some concert aroma....with the lights and incredible music....I was starting to question what I was seeing! Those pigs were scary as heck from where I was sitting, the one on my side would have been in my lap if it didn't stop!!! At it keep looking around like it was looking for the person it wanted as a snack after "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little peices!" This was the first concert I ever left feeling like I didn't pay enough for the experience...don't recall the ticket price....but, I would have paid 10 times the amount and not felt like it was enough for the incredible memories.
The Floyd dark trippin’ w/ Dr. Who!!! 💎😎
Seems like only the old school Dr Who fans catch that. 😉
I caught it the first time I heard the song. But I wasn’t 100% sure, because I had never seen an episode. But I still thought it was rebel cool to put a somewhat obscure (in the US, at least) TV show theme within their music. 😎
Love your reaction to PF as always. I just scored tix to David Glimour's show in NYC this November!!!! So excited. Will be my first time ever seeing/hearing him.
The instrument David is playing is called a "peddle steel guitar". It is used a lot in country music. Of course David Gilmour plays it amazingly. And the one line of words in this song is "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces".
I saw Pink Floyd live at the Division Bell concert in Ames, Iowa, back in 1994. The line of cars to the stadium was never-ending, and it felt like we spent forever just trying to get close. We eventually found a spot near the venue, and by then, the party had already started. People were everywhere, smoking openly. To my surprise (and relief), the police decided to turn a blind eye (thank goodness).
Inside, the stadium was decked out with massive inflatable pigs, The Wall hammers, and animated characters from the movie. Unfortunately, most of the concert is a blur for me... let’s just say there were so many joints being passed around that at some point, I forgot where I was. But wow, what an experience! The sound system was incredible-speakers perfectly placed to give this crystal-clear stereo sound, making you feel like you were literally inside the music.
Now, here’s a side story: as we parked, I spotted a concert ticket lying face-up on the sidewalk. It was like fate! I had two tickets to Pink Floyd! Coming from Chile, I knew this would be my only chance to see them live since they never toured my country. So, I waited outside the stadium, holding on to that extra ticket until I found the right person to give it to. Right before the show, I saw this guy-heartbroken, in tears, walking around like he'd just lost everything. He’d dropped his ticket. I went up to him and said, “Hey man, here’s your lost ticket!” I’ll never forget the look on his face-pure joy and disbelief. We hugged, then walked into music heaven together. True story!
David's face reflects the fact that he knows he is the best in the world
My close friend Gil Yedidia and I would listen and watch many concert videos together and one time his brother Ronn Yedidia flew in from New York to visit for 2 or 3 days .All 3 of us watched 3 concert videos back to back,one of them being Pulse and after all of this Ronn said he liked the Pulse concert best and said they are pulling that sound from out of space.Ronn is a concert pianist and composer and owns the New York Piano Academy and has played with many of the best Jazz musicians going way back.He did not know Pink Floyd and that was the first time he had heard them.That was the first time I had heard anyone say that and coming from him at the time was very thought provoking.
"One of These Days (I'm going to cut you into little pieces)" is from the Meddle Album over 50 years ago. When I first heard this song in my teenage years, this song sparked my imagination of an ongoing and bitter battle between an evil wizard and a vengeful barbarian who lost his woman to the evil wizard, where the battles always ended up in a stalemate between the two and they would retreat to heal and regain their strength, and battle again on another day.
The bass at the beginning of the song is the barbarian mounted on his horse, with his wolf companion running by his side through the dust and wind (Richard's keyboards) of the plains, to get to the dark castle to face down the wizard who is inside. Meanwhile, the wizard is busy raising up an army of skeleton warriors with his necromancer spells (which is the sound of the Daves guitar, and Nick's drums) to defend himself and to defeat the barbarian. As the gate of the castle is breached, the barbarian shouts out, "ONE OF THESE DAYS, I'M GOING TO CUT YOU INTO LITTLE PIECES!" and then the battle ensues between the barbarian and his wolf versus the wizard's skeletons. The wizard stays back behind the skeletons, weakened by the amount of magic he used to put up his defense against the barbarian. The barbarian sees his woman imprisoned (but ALIVE!) behind the wizard, and becomes excited, but also enraged that she has suffered for a long period of time. At this point, Dave's guitar, Richard's keyboards, and Nick's drums kick it up several notches to denote the epic battle as the barbarian and wolf fight hard against the skeletons and peeling them off one at a time (by each rollover of Nick's drums), until Dave's very last note where he finally dispatches the wizard with the last swing of his sword. I will leave the rest of the story to your own imaginations!
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Another classic from Pink Floyd!!!👍👍
Hey you thanks for taking me back in time! Don't forget about the momentary lapse of reason tour! My first Pink Floyd concert wich at that time was the best concert I'd ever seen. Then pulse came wow,wow,wow!!!!!! By the way pink Floyd is in the Guinness book of world records for the amount of instruments used on tour! Thanks again for the ride down memory lane.
The bassist Guy Pratt is the son of British actor Mike Pratt, best known for his role in the 1960s show Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased).
Never knew that.. love random facts like that
Thanks for that.
I love trivia like this. Cheers 👍
Thank you Stacey for this.
As a young teenager on a small dairy farm in Wisconsin, circa 1979, I heard this song on the radio a few times, and fell instantly in love. It was a sound that I'd never heard before. Didn't know the name of it because, you know, wacky FM DJ's don't care about the music, just mindless gabbing. All I knew is that it was by Pink Floyd. And so, whenever I would get to the record store about 20 miles away, I would buy every Pink Floyd album they had just in the hopes of getting the one with this song on it. Finally I did, and that's how I got into the music of this band. So many great memories!
Love David and all of them! Since I was a teen never grew tired of them!
I remember hearing the studio version as a kid. It spooked me. So much menace and dread from the composition. Simply wonderful dynamics.
Me again! It's probably been mentioned already, but in case it hasn't, the bass player is Guy Pratt. It's an understatement to say this man is talented, but what you may not know is that he had a very famous father; Mike Pratt who was an actor/musician/song writer and starred in one of the best crime detective series to ever grace our tellies over here, which was Randall and Hopkirk (deceased).
Remember it well . Didn't know Guy was a son . .What I do know is he's a brilliant bassist .
And this is 30 years ago, I was there.... Mindblowing beyond belif for life, love your beatiful and sensetive reaction....
Experiencing this song, at this show, on the last night of the tour, was the moment I shifted from liking Pink Floyd to being a fan.
At the Toronto "Pulse" concert, "One of these Days" was the last song before the break. They finished the concert with "Run like Hell".
"One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces" A song about bacon. Not really. They used to have a sound tape of a British DJ, Jimmy Young, who used to talk and talk and talk trivial nonsense. They cut up the tape into sections and used it in concerts. That was the basis of the idea behind the title. The Doctor Who theme was later incorporated into it. The bass theme was Rogers idea, but when he was out of the studio, David recorded the bass parts for the record. The Pig was first used for the Animals tour, and used to fly out over the crowd on a wire. This was repeated for the Wall shows during Run Like Hell, and One Of These Days for the Momentary Lapse tour, when it was the first song of the second set. I was there for two of those gigs (! ) and at one of them, it was right over my head, dipping towards me. Quite scary. I was also at one of Earl's Court Pulse shows. The set list varied, some nights they played all of Dark Side Of The Moon. The night I was there, One Of These Days closed the first half. I was about a third of the way back from the stage and could feel the heat from the flame jets at the end. One of my top five concerts of all time.
Keep the Floyd reactions coming please, I’m loving your journey of discovery 😀
This song marked the end of the first half of the concert. The second half was the entire Dark Side of the Moon album.
You made my day S. I saw this concert. Years later it’s still jaw dropping. Glad to have you on boards
The spoken part "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces" is a Nick Mason distorted voice.
I remember this track on The Old Grey Whistle Test sometime round 1973.
It was the backing track to an animation of a dancing man. Totally mesmerising, it's probably on RUclips somewhere.
I was at the PF Division Bell Tour concert in Denver, CO in 1994 at Mile High Stadium. It was quite similar to the concert at Earl's Court, recorded on the Pulse DVDs, only bigger and they played longer / more songs. They opened with Astronomy Domine, played all of the songs in the Pulse video and Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety. I think the concert lasted over 3 hours, maybe 3.5 hours. The stadium was outdoors and HUGE. So the lights, lasers, effects etc. were more massive. There is no way to describe what it was like to be there - transcendent, emotional, intense, rapturous, ineffable. It was one of the absolute peak experiences of my entire life. PF has been my favorite band since 1973, when I was 10 years old, and David Gilmour my favorite guitarist. You should check out his solo work = EPIC!
You articulate my feelings and thoughts about their music so well, and I love watching your reaction videos! It is great for me to see an intelligent young lady really connect, understand, experience and appreciate PF the way some of us old timers have for 50+ years. You are right - PF is unique, visceral, evocative and will never be duplicated. Nothing else comes close.
Anyway, glad that you are enjoying your PF discovery journey. God Bless.
Their first set closer. The second set was entire DSOTM album and 3 encores.
Some of the time, yes. I was lucky enough to be there the first night they played Dark Side in its entirety. July 15 at the Silverdome just outside of Detroit. That was about 3 1/2 months into the tour. They probably played Dark Side 1/3 of the nights over the duration of the tour. Maybe a bit more.
They finished with run like hell , from the wall !
@@brianjohnston4117 Yeah, the last two encores were always Comfortably Numb and Run Like Hell.
Had the pleasure of seeing Pink Floyd live in Clemson university stadium in South Carolina. Best concert I've ever seen period!
I‘m recommending „keep talking“ once again‚ you should definitely try it it’s from the same concert.❤
I was one of the emensley lucky people to be at the Earls Court in London October 1994 Pulse Concerts..!! This was the last song of Set 1.. I was sitting in the top balcony on the left hand side looking towards the stage and the Giant 🐗 Boar/Pig was level with us on the balcony and we were about 50feet away from it as came out through the darkness halfway through the song "One Of These Days" and the lights/lazers coming out of its eyes were literally coming directly at us all the time..!! Every single song for the whole 2hours 20mins of the concert (ie) Set 1, Set 2 and the 20minute Encore was an absolute visual and musical MASTERPIECE..!! The lights, lasers, explosions, pyrotechnics, special effects and videos on the 50foot circular screen behind the band in the centre of the stage for every song was just MIND-BLOWING, Their wasn't one song in the whole concert that was done to PERFECTION, all the instruments were wired up in sync with the visuals (ie) each time a note was played with each different instrument the visuals like lights and lasers, holograms, special effects would be synchronised to go hand in hand with the music...!! I was 25 when I went to see Pink Floyd at Earls Court that night and even just over 30years later the concert still sends shivers down my spine when I think back to it or watch the DVD of the concert and I love watching people like you reacting to songs from the concert watching their music and performances for the 1st time it really puts a huge smile on my face..!! And then hear people reacting to the concert and saying that they are so jealous of the people who were there in the Stadium to see 'A MUSICAL AND VISUAL MASTERPIECE'...And makes appreciate how lucky I was to have been there in the flesh to see THE GREATEST BAND OF ALL TIME WHO WERE LIGHTYEARS AHEAD OF TIME AND THEIR MUSIC WILL BE REVERED FOR GENERATIONS TO COME 🫶👌🥰🙏 One Word Sums Up Pink Floyd and their music and concerts and that is simply GENIUSES..!!
When you think this is a 1971 track off meddle, so far ahead of their time. I was in this croud for this recording at earls court London 1994..... This was the end of the first half of the show
Thanks Stacey❤
Love your "former volleyballer" vibes!
This is obviously from their earlier "experimental" works but carries a great melodic line that just F-ing ROCKS!!
"Fun" is the word for the day!
I was there in 1994 at Earls Court where I believe from memory that Pink Floyd performed perhaps 8 Consecutive Gigs and totally sure that every night was Sold Out.
Not only was the Band, light show, Standard of Musicianship and outstanding compositions if ALL these Songs, but the PA was like a TOP CLASS HI-FI System AND in Quadraphonic, so there were Speaker at the Back of the Hall and each Side of Hall as well as sound coming from the front of you.
The expectation we all had; the excitement we all had was like a bomb going off; there was no stopping this euphoria!!
The Show we saw left us all exhausted with pure happiness and I'm sure this was the case every night. David's emotional Voice, Guitar Playing, Pedal Steel Guitar and Smile, just so infectious, but took ALL performer's to create such a wonderfully outstanding and never to be repeated Concert!!!!!asers
One of these days was amazing live when I saw them. That and wish you were here blew my mind. Great reaction as usual my friend and Peace out 🙏 ✌️ ☮️
The very early PinkFloyd Songs are soooooo Psychedelic....... 🥳
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Thank YOU for finding Pink Floyd, I had no idea that some people have never heard them before! Better late than never!👍✌️🥳
I'll explain David Gilmour's style.
Guitar Magazine back in the mid - late 90s wrote:
David Gilmour is The Undisputed Dean Of The Compound Bend and has practically Perfect Note Placement.
His solos are not technically difficult Note wise, but to be able to bend and release is difficult to mirror.
David Gilmour said, not verbatim as I'll try to explain, that he plays his solos, mainly, as if like an Opera Singer.
Play a note and bend it in certain ways and shake it and release like an Opera Singer.
Dave Mustaine of Megadeth said, David Gilmour can take one note and bend it in so many ways where many other guitarists have to use the entire fretboard to do so. Something along those lines.
About David Gilmour's mouth movement as he plays is because he is actually singing in his mind and actually moves his mouth muscles as if he were singing it and then relays it to his fingers in order to achieve the sound and or sounds he is wanting to make and or perform.
For example, studies have shown that when a person is annunciating a word or words in their mind their trachea and larynx, maybe just larynx, moves as if talking.
A great example of David Gilmour singing the notes that he is playing is in the song, (Best Acoustic Song Ever) Wish You Were Here short solos.
I was 15 years old when the Pulse Tour was happening and I heard a commercial for it.
When I heard the voice of David Gilmour sing, in the advertisement, "Ticking Away The Moments That Make Up A Dull Day...."
I thought, WHAT THE HELL?
I went out and bought The Dark Side of The Moon Album. I just went straight to the song Time.
Then, when I heard that guitar Solo of his in the song Time, I thought.. okay.. time to pick up a guitar and start learning.
That Solo is considered a Masterpiece of Composition. Not technically difficult to play, but again... He is and still is The Undisputed Dean Of The Compound Bend with practically Perfect Note Placement.
Hence why many people say, "Damn! He can make that Guitar Sing!"
All my life, I never understood why the 2nd (last Solo) of Comfortably Numb was never #1 in Best or Greatest Solos of All Time.
However, finally a few years ago it became The Greatest or Best Solo of All Time.
If you understand Music and Math, that Solo can be played Indefinitely. (If you don't get tired)
It goes from B down to E and repeats.
David Gilmour in an interview said something along the lines of, "The structure of the music allows me the freedom to just play."
To end.. David Gilmour admits that he never was a fast playing Guitarist.
Does he really need to be? (rhetorically asking) 🎸 ❤🎉
Stacey, I follow you now because of your reactions to Pink Floyd... ❤
Alice Cooper said something like,
"Pink Floyd is Here... While everyone else is over here... " In an interview showing with his hands the separation of... No one is like nor ever will be like Pink Floyd.. 🎉
❤😊🎉
Roger Waters said that David Gilmour has a Very Powerful Voice ❤
I love watching your reactions to these classic PF tracks. Its like hearing them for the first time again. Love the joy on your face and seeing it literally take your breath away at times.
Hi Stacey! New sub here and absolute Pink Floyd/David Gilmour fan from Idaho. You should check out David Gilmour "Live At Pompeii" from 2016. David was the first live performance at the Pompeii Amphitheater since 79 A.D.!! 22 years after "Pulse", David Gilmour puts on a performance that is simply amazing! Also, you should listen to "A Boat Lies Waiting". This is a tribute to the late Richard Wright, Pink Floyd's piano/keyboard player.
I saw them twice a few years before this tour. "A Momentary Lapse of Reason" tour. 1987.
Saw them in Tampa Stadium then drove to Atlanta and saw them 4 days later.
hello stacey 😁you can fangirl as much as you want with PF 🤣
Glad you loved this song! It’s one of my favorites from Pink Floyd. I love the slow burn you described. Watching Gilmour play calms my soul.
I think One Of These Days was the last song of the first half of the show. And yeah, the pigs are a callback to Animals - there's a giant inflatable pig on the Animals album cover (which started drifting off during the photoshoot but that's another story!) and I think they used one during the Animals tour as well.
Wasn't one of these days from the meddle album? That came out in 71 or 72. Animals came out in 77.
Yeah, it's completely unrelated to Animals as a song but I think the pig was so iconic they wanted to tie it into the concert somehow. That's my guess anyhow!
Amazing, love this song...That was from the end of the first part of the concert...SO excited every time you react to Pink Floyd check out "yet another movie" from the delicate sound of thunder live tour back in 86-87...
Forever Pig Could Fly
I saw this concert in Mexico City and it was an outdoor venue (Foro Sol). There were some 60,000 attendants. The amazing thing was the sound, it was just as this video, clear, deep... pristine.
I have not been to a better concert in all aspects.
Great reaction as always! Run Like Hell was the last song in this concert. David said good night, and they all bowed to the audience.
What you can’t tell even from the great mix done for the video, is the sound within the stadium. They had several speaker locations from to back and sound enveloped you and would move around, especially in this song. Was so surreal and wonderful.
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I grew up in Cambridge, lived here most of my life. Syd was the science pupil of a teacher friend of mine; I'd see him walking around Cambridge from time to time.
Australian Pink Floyd is worth the visit. They nail Pinks sound and stage. Gilmour even showed up once to compliment them. They are still touring
I was there! Earsl court London October 1994 was amazing! 🎉
The Floyd is the only band that I experienced a fully surround sound that totally compliments the visual experience.
When I seen this concert at the Silverdome the pig fell out of its box and land on its back and the legs were moving around when this song was being played, it was something to see.
This is the track that closes the opening set., and they close the show with "Run Like Hell". Simply incredible. BTW, this was the opening song on their album "Meddle" (which closed with the epic "Echoes"), the album that prepared them for their masterpiece "Dark Side Of The Moon".
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Thank you Stacey, again... for another look at my favorite band! From their 1971 "Meddle" album, This was the last song of set 1... they opened the concert with Shine on you Crazy Diamond. Their blow up characters were always a surprising addition to their concerts. The stage engineers, from sound mixing, to lighting and special effects were always leading the way as far as "Putting on a Rock Show" was concerned! Lasers and lighting always contributed to the sonic "Voyage" they took us on! Don't know if they will ever be equaled!
Please listen to Stevie Ray Vaughan perform "Texas Flood" live at El Mocambo 1983... the greatest guitarist you will ever hear! One guy even says... "My guitar watches this video when I'm not home."
As you are a self proclaimed 'Nerd' Stacey, here's a little nerdy fact for you about this track. It is actually a tribute to a huge British Sci Fi series called Dr Who that started back in the 1960's and continues to this day. Or rather it's a tribute to the theme tune written by the BBC's Radiophonic workshop. It has itself been a hit performed by Docterin' The Tardis, otherwise know as the KLF or the JAMS. For confirmation of this you can here the songs main motif being played on guitar in the middle break behind the lead bass at 3:37 through to 3:49. Very nerdy I know but hey.....
"One Of These Days", off the album 'Meddle' is definitely one of PF's SOARING instrumentals. The "lyrics" were spoken by drummer Nick Mason saying "One of these days I'm going to cut you into little pieces".
The flying pig is a Floyd icon (yes, off the 'Animals' album), but since Gilmour chose not to include any songs from the 'Animals' album in the concert lineup, the pigs are presented with this tune.
Interestingly, during the legal battle between Waters & Gilmour over Pink Floyd rights, the pig iconography was on the table for copyright claims...so... Gilmour put tusks on it so he could technically call it a "boar" and use it for Pink Floyd concerts.
LOVE your reaction and SHINE ON!!!🤘🤘
@3:36 Gotta love Tim Renwick's Dr Who guitar sample!
This was the final song of the first (of two) sets they played at the Pulse concerts in 1994.
Amazingly, along with Astronomy Domine, it was left off the CD version of show though it is on the cassette vinyl versions. Astronomy Domine was for some reason included on the vinyl version.
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You've hit the nail on the head Stacey with the Floyd audience the beginning cheers and whistles sitting an watch and listen then cheers again, that's what true fans do in the UK for a Floyd gig. At times people who don't know the rules stand up and are immediately told to sit down in no uncertain terms if they don't. I've been to many Floyd concerts in my 67yrs and only once a whole lot of the crowd started standing up they soon had the rest of the arena telling to effin sit down. 😂
I spent 6 hours dialing for tickets. We drove 8 hours to Houston. They played through a Texas thunderstorm with lightning hitting the skyscrapers around the stadium. Rain falling through the lasers added to the epic show. There was a possibility that acid could be found at the show… This concert and the Page/Plant tour were just a level above everyone else. As they say I’m old but got to see all the good bands.
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What a Wonderful Reaction! Thank you so much. I think the two connected songs "Brain Damage/Eclipse" from the PULSE Concert too, will take you even deeper into the Pink Floyd universe.
Seeing and hearing these songs done live in a great venue is truly amazing! Since Pink Floyd doesn't perform as a group anymore, I would strongly recommend seeing the tribute band Brit Floyd if they play anywhere near you. They're really great! Totally worth it!
Ah, welcome again to the more psychedelic work of Pink Floyd. ^^ And I would say, Dave smiling at Rick, and him smiling back gives me that "Those were the days, weren't they...?" vibe.
This is from the The Division Bell Tour, aka The Pulse Concert. "One of these days, I'm going to cut you into little pieces" is the only word in this by Nick Mason. I went to that concert, and yes, it was the last song of the first half of the concert. Then they start with "Speak to Me," if I remember correctly. Some people like the first half the best. Not me; the second part has Time, The Great Gig in the Sky, Money, Wish You Were Here, and Comfortably Numb. And so many great songs. I always love your reactions to Pink Floyd 💞
I can attest to the fact (4 times actually) that during their shows when this song started the entire stadium was vibrating and thudding from the speakers, combine that with the mesmerizing light show and for those of us in a certain state of mind, it was an experience without equal, nothing else is even in the same universe. These people (as a collective) know what they are doing, and most importantly, why they are there. Pink Floyd will live forever.
and this piece is often played first in the second part of the concert. I had the chance to see Pink Floyd in concert twice
Saw 5 times , always felt sorry for the people that sat up front. Pulse first song was "Shine On". #1 Version to watch Pompeii 1972 which was a lot of drums, #2 this one and Pompeii again in 2016 which start with a instrument I have never seen. One of the shows at the end they push the pigs out of the tunnel. the pig on the Animals sleeve broke free but story goes that a pilot radio the tower he just flew by a 50 Ft. pink pigs. Dave announce his up coming tour Madison Square Garden 4 days, Hollywood Bowl 3 days, Inglewood Cali. 1 day. Stacey if you were there it's beyond anything. As many just sat in silence when it was over.
This one -reaction- was long overdue! Pure definition of jamming.
Great reaction to Pink Floyd again Stacey. I love your reactions to this band. The greatest thing about this song is that it won’t take you long to learn the lyrics lol❤️🏴🇬🇧
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Thanks, Stacey. Great reaction! Hey, I love those hexagon lights on your wall. Where can I buy them?
I saw them in Detroit on this tour. You are correct that the audience was very quiet during the songs. I think everyone was so in awe during each song that no one made a sound. It's great they recorded this concert so we can all watch it back, but I'd equate it to watching fireworks on tv. It's not quite the same experience as seeing it in person. Carry on, Stacey, you do a great job!
Kia ora. Great review. It was at the end of the first half @StaceyRPG. On the D.V.D. the end of the concert is Run Like Hell, from The Wall.
As I am sure others have already said, Pink Floyd concerts are not so much a concert as a lived multisensory experience. The sound, the sight, the feeling.
Grazie a te, e' un piacere ascoltarti,ancor più guardarti e condividere con te l' amore per i Pink Floyd e per la musica Rock.
Other Pink Floyd bangers to react to "Have A Cigar" and "Welcome to the Machine" is a must. Great reactions as always Stacey.
David making you smile, makes me smile!!! Stacey....you sooo get it!!!