Pink Floyd - "The Great Gig in the Sky" - Theremin

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  • Опубликовано: 13 окт 2024
  • Great songs don't always need words. "The Great Gig in the Sky" from Pink Floyd's "The Dark Side of the Moon" (1973), by Richard Wright and Clare Torry, played on theremin, an early electronic instrument controlled without contact.
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  • @fenixrising1972
    @fenixrising1972 5 лет назад +641

    Extra points for him being in standard theremin playing uniform.

    • @CharlieDraper
      @CharlieDraper  5 лет назад +56

      The alternative uniform is white tie!

  • @connynoren
    @connynoren 2 года назад +165

    "This cannot possibly substitute the voice of the singer..."
    a few seconds later...
    "HOLY CRAP! THIS IS AMAZING!"

    • @Simple_live_life_stories
      @Simple_live_life_stories Год назад +5

      really - can, the theremin is capable for this and I saw/heared this at a concert. But I suspect it depends more on the musician.

    • @clivehorridge
      @clivehorridge 11 месяцев назад +1

      Clare Torry was much easier on the eyes ❤️
      I thought playing a fretless guitar must be hard, but this is like playing a fretless guitar - minus the guitar 😳🤣

  • @kipuchino
    @kipuchino 5 лет назад +1213

    He looks exactly how I thought a theremin player would look.

    • @robmccluskey6906
      @robmccluskey6906 5 лет назад +43

      ... I can't thumbs up this enough times ... so I opened a second account just to give it another :)

    • @zharn1
      @zharn1 4 года назад +3

      Hehehehe classic

    • @zharn1
      @zharn1 4 года назад +6

      Sounds really good though

    • @roland_the_cursor
      @roland_the_cursor 4 года назад +4

      So... cute? 😍

    • @siemekkisiel8963
      @siemekkisiel8963 4 года назад +3

      Yeah! In black and white ☺

  • @liquidwood4064
    @liquidwood4064 3 года назад +21

    he looks like a mixture between a mad scientist and a sad poet and I love it

  • @naurnootnoot
    @naurnootnoot 5 лет назад +171

    I can't believe this exists, i was like nah i'm sure this won't be on youtube

    • @alib.sanchez3224
      @alib.sanchez3224 5 лет назад +3

      me tooo

    • @Mitiya__ua
      @Mitiya__ua 3 года назад +2

      Only thing i cant believe, is that instrument was invented in ussr over 100 years ago, but only moog sells them x.x i want cheap but high quality authentic soviet theremin T_T

  • @fabienl.b2079
    @fabienl.b2079 5 лет назад +231

    Perfect control of a fabulous instrument, on a marvelous music. "Congratulations" is not enough to greet your talent....

    • @CharlieDraper
      @CharlieDraper  5 лет назад +5

      Thanks!

    • @dacypher22
      @dacypher22 5 лет назад +6

      Yeah, the control is insane. People complain about Good Vibrations being hard to repeatedly play on a theremin. This is much more complex.

  • @weyarchive5451
    @weyarchive5451 5 лет назад +331

    You definitely need to be noticed more. This was awesome! You caught that Pink Floyd vibe perfectly

    • @CharlieDraper
      @CharlieDraper  5 лет назад +15

      Thank you!

    • @tarcisiorodrigues9244
      @tarcisiorodrigues9244 2 года назад +6

      I really second this reply. I thought I'd be listening to some half baked piece of pop culture turned hype, but instead you delivered a great rendition, congrats!

    • @tarcisiorodrigues9244
      @tarcisiorodrigues9244 2 года назад +3

      Indeed, I watched it a number of times because I thought you were cheating somehow, it's amazing the way you play this impossible instrument!

  • @jimsmith1856
    @jimsmith1856 5 лет назад +2

    Fantastic.

    • @CharlieDraper
      @CharlieDraper  4 года назад +1

      Thanks Jim! Glad you enjoyed it. 🎶🌚

  • @ssnerd583
    @ssnerd583 4 месяца назад +1

    how bloody extraordinary is THAT!!!! oi....and here I thought i'd heard PF done in every imaginable way....not until today.
    Bloody MARVELOUS!!

  • @diaryofamentallyexhaustedp9333
    @diaryofamentallyexhaustedp9333 2 года назад +9

    And I thought this song couldn't get more melancholic.

  • @helenkeenan74
    @helenkeenan74 4 года назад +1

    Beautiful x

  • @madelinehoversorf-hyder1914
    @madelinehoversorf-hyder1914 Год назад +6

    I must now acquire a Theremin and learn to play, what an awesome instrument. Wonderful performance, thank you!

  • @daisyktbpa
    @daisyktbpa 4 года назад +1

    Awesome... 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱🇨🇱

  • @Music_is_Breathing
    @Music_is_Breathing 3 года назад +1

    You are AWESOME!!!!

  • @paulina2178
    @paulina2178 5 лет назад +58

    Wow... Incredible, that instrument with that song sounds amazing

  • @alicedee8106
    @alicedee8106 Год назад

    Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️❤️

  • @valleavalon7169
    @valleavalon7169 Год назад

    Beautifull🙏

  • @DivineMisterAdVentures
    @DivineMisterAdVentures 2 года назад

    So amazing.

  • @fredfloyd68
    @fredfloyd68 9 месяцев назад

    Spot on!

  • @CrimFerret
    @CrimFerret 5 лет назад +46

    That was an incredible cover of one of my favorite songs from the Dark Side of the Moon album. I love theremins, but don't have the muscle control needed to do more than make weird sci-fi noises on one. I don't even want to think how many years of practicing it took to be able to play one like that.

  • @terrieannschmearer
    @terrieannschmearer 9 месяцев назад

    That was excellent.

  • @frankschuster7519
    @frankschuster7519 2 года назад

    Chapeau!

  • @Youtube.Commen-tater
    @Youtube.Commen-tater 4 года назад +1

    Thank you

  • @tomasdub7382
    @tomasdub7382 2 года назад +1

    One of the best things I've seen to YT.

  • @gsvdeathandgravity334
    @gsvdeathandgravity334 3 года назад +13

    I clicked on this, anticipating that immediately afterwards I'd feel a need to listen to the original. Then I heard how good this sounded, and that need subsided. By the time it was over, I was wishing it had been an extended version. Bravo!

  • @jamesnicholson3313
    @jamesnicholson3313 Год назад

    I loved the use of the theremin also in the old black and white science fiction movies such as the Day the Earth stood still and the FORBIDDEN PLANET and Midsummer Murders.

  • @angelsandoval3251
    @angelsandoval3251 5 месяцев назад +1

    So I just found out this was An instrument today.This was so cool

  • @jorgebjimenez3752
    @jorgebjimenez3752 3 года назад

    Great contribution by our dear Phd Moog

  • @waltertroina8966
    @waltertroina8966 4 года назад +35

    We gotta make it reach Pink Floyd.Perhaps they could even get him to a special presentation?

    • @alan-sk7ky
      @alan-sk7ky 4 года назад

      And if we could get Luna Lee on board to duet ruclips.net/video/VR99tbZj33M/видео.html

  • @Susana-mk6kd
    @Susana-mk6kd Год назад

    Viajeros en el tiempo,therafines ❤❤

  • @jefferyreber1682
    @jefferyreber1682 4 года назад +41

    Just ordered my theremin yesterday, and I can't wait for it to arrive. I'm hoping to be able to play this well at some point in my life! Great performance of an excellent song.

    • @mac4133
      @mac4133 2 года назад +4

      How is it a year later?

    • @carmelcorreale3211
      @carmelcorreale3211 2 года назад

      yeah does one have to be able. to actually read music or is it. practice

    • @DinIsSoCool12
      @DinIsSoCool12 11 месяцев назад

      it going good?

    • @jefferyreber1682
      @jefferyreber1682 11 месяцев назад +5

      Update for those asking, I still have the theremin, but it's one of those hobbies that I got really into before I switched on to the next thing. I wouldn't suggest it as a beginner instrument. It's basically like a fretless guitar but three dimensional on top of it rather than a two dimensional fretboard. Very difficult to hit the notes on-key, and I never got good at it, though that being said, I also didn't invest much time nor effort into it either.

  • @chuknorth
    @chuknorth 3 года назад +7

    Just wonderful. I love how the hands also express the grief of the song. Brilliant. I want a theremin.

  • @aleacosta1973
    @aleacosta1973 6 лет назад +56

    It is amazing! You are amazing !

  • @rouge5140
    @rouge5140 5 лет назад +249

    that's called ear porn

    • @NobodyNew02
      @NobodyNew02 4 года назад +2

      Dont like this comment, let these 69 likes be

    • @uninstaller2860
      @uninstaller2860 4 года назад +4

      Ear-gasm is a thing

    • @untipo.
      @untipo. 4 года назад

      @@NobodyNew02 169

    • @asrsn8324
      @asrsn8324 3 года назад

      @@uninstaller2860 good one

  • @johnlowe3050
    @johnlowe3050 3 года назад

    Love it...

  • @allanmeloam93
    @allanmeloam93 Год назад

    I feel an ecstasy listening to. 😲 I would like to hear you in a stadium playing

  • @artemaleshchenko3620
    @artemaleshchenko3620 4 года назад

    Oh god that's beautiful 🔥😍❤️

    • @CharlieDraper
      @CharlieDraper  3 года назад +1

      Glad you enjoyed it. Thanks for listening!

  • @langerstrains9460
    @langerstrains9460 3 года назад

    Excellent 👏🏻

  • @AlejandroNemo
    @AlejandroNemo Год назад

    Amazing

  • @Highcastle_of_Tone
    @Highcastle_of_Tone 5 лет назад +52

    One of my favorite Floyd covers I've ever heard. Just fantastic!

  • @SpudGirl
    @SpudGirl Год назад

    Chills, so beautiful

  • @AlfonsoAnania
    @AlfonsoAnania 4 года назад +72

    The Teremin is a very difficult instrument to play. It has been improved a lot in recent years, but as a simple listener, I must say that it always gives me a sense of incompleteness, of limitation. This piece by Pink Floyd seems written for it. But at the same time it lays bare its expressive limits, since, albeit at the height of technical ability, it imitates, but does not add or reach the depth and underlining of the human voice. Indeed, it is precisely in wanting to resemble the human voice that exalts its limits.

  • @oliviah9866
    @oliviah9866 3 года назад

    You really went off!👏🏽

  • @mrcrapper4152
    @mrcrapper4152 2 года назад

    your practice has made perfect !

  • @filmgirlpipes
    @filmgirlpipes 2 года назад

    Wow! You are amazing! That is no easy task! So cool!

  • @crystal11418
    @crystal11418 4 года назад

    Excellent! And If this is an ad for Theremin..... you've got be a millionaire by now!
    I'm getting one for every room!!

  • @lina5054
    @lina5054 5 лет назад +17

    I’ve seen so many theramin covers but this ones my favorite one. Make more Pink Floyd, please!

  • @isaacvasco8391
    @isaacvasco8391 3 года назад +1

    Good music. I love my girlfriend Anette she inspires me so much

  • @squanchy666
    @squanchy666 5 лет назад +5

    What a master of the craft

  • @YTantirungrotechai
    @YTantirungrotechai 6 месяцев назад

    It fits really well with this song. Thank you.

  • @falloutmodder
    @falloutmodder Год назад +1

    This is some of the greatest talent that I have ever witnessed.

  • @kb3716
    @kb3716 6 месяцев назад

    Love the bagpipes, forever and ever. But damn, I do believe it's got to be theremin at my wake. Yep.

  • @gecko24241
    @gecko24241 3 года назад

    Soooo cool I l love this great work!!

  • @patdemabaro
    @patdemabaro 6 месяцев назад

    Excellent, et j’ai eu la chance et le bonheur d’aller voir ce concert de Pink Floyd...😊

    • @longdongsilver4719
      @longdongsilver4719 6 месяцев назад

      Sauf que là ce n'est pas un concert de Pink Floyd mais un gars qui joue un air de Pink Floyd au theremin. Je pense que tu as abusé de la fumette durant le concert.

    • @patdemabaro
      @patdemabaro 5 месяцев назад

      @@longdongsilver4719 Désolé, je me suis mal exprimé, je parlais du concert original de Pink Floyd en 1975 ( si je me trompe pas d’année ) au Palais des Sports à Paris...

  • @josephwillard9013
    @josephwillard9013 4 года назад +5

    one of the few people ive heard play this thing in tune

  • @potvoramedia
    @potvoramedia 3 года назад +9

    Oh man, this is freaking and creepy awesome! When the theremin vocals kicked in, I was entirely shot away. AWESOME JOB!

  • @ellasharpe123
    @ellasharpe123 4 года назад +3

    This is tear-renderingly spectacular. Gosh.

    • @CharlieDraper
      @CharlieDraper  4 года назад +1

      So glad you enjoyed it, Ella! 😊🎶

  • @balambikakrishnakumar9669
    @balambikakrishnakumar9669 Год назад

    Loved it from Kerala India

  • @robertfaria362
    @robertfaria362 2 года назад +6

    Holy shit. That was amazing. Proves that a theramin is a real instrument. Dsotm is my favorite album of all time and ggits is one of its best songs. I've heard it countless times and the slide portion was almost perfect. Claire torrys part was only less due to the limitations of the instrument, not the player. Fanfuckingtastic.

  • @sebastiancoe4708
    @sebastiancoe4708 4 года назад +3

    I knew it would be epic as soon as I read the title

  • @jw5117
    @jw5117 5 лет назад +5

    I wasn't sure I was gonna get a search result for this... Sweet.

  • @ivanosonavi
    @ivanosonavi 5 лет назад +9

    Speechless. So much respect for this magic!

  • @dacypher22
    @dacypher22 5 лет назад +2

    Whoa...I have never seen someone play a theremin this well before.

  • @MarioXP2008
    @MarioXP2008 2 года назад +1

    Wooow!!

  • @edithsarahelodie5305
    @edithsarahelodie5305 5 лет назад +5

    Wooo BRAVO génial !!! j'adore cette version je la trouve + harmonieuse que l'orginale !!
    c'est vraiment bluffant merci pour ce partage et cette belle découverte des capacités du thérémine !!

  • @ulisese.7018
    @ulisese.7018 3 года назад

    my love why are you so good with your fingers?
    is that I touch the theremin.

  • @PierreAugusteLambelet
    @PierreAugusteLambelet 5 лет назад +2

    Just like in a dream. Thanks.

  • @daphnelol
    @daphnelol 5 лет назад +8

    Just looked up theremin music and this video peaked my interest, absolutely beautiful! This song was made to be played on theremin, thank you for posting!

  • @karenrodriguezrodriguez1893
    @karenrodriguezrodriguez1893 Год назад

    this is the most beautiful thing i´ve ever heard

  • @Anonymous-lt7ot
    @Anonymous-lt7ot 2 года назад +2

    Outstanding work, my friend.

  • @gabozo1075
    @gabozo1075 3 года назад +1

    in my personal opinion, this is the coolest most badass I've ever seen...

  • @rickr.mortis4821
    @rickr.mortis4821 3 месяца назад

    Fantastic playing.

  • @stevenrwilson181
    @stevenrwilson181 5 лет назад +3

    Bravo!! Nicely played👍🏻👍🏻

  • @abrahamgarcia7122
    @abrahamgarcia7122 3 года назад +4

    I've shared this video in so many groups dedicated to Pink Floyd and I hope members and I love your work

  • @annalisamandell6422
    @annalisamandell6422 4 года назад +1

    WONDERFUL!!! Thank you sir!

  • @charliejohnston8480
    @charliejohnston8480 4 года назад +4

    I have a feeling THIS is what Pink Flyod had in mind.

  • @nela2658
    @nela2658 4 года назад +2

    just beautiful. I can´t even imagine what an effort it must have been.

  • @wenner6009
    @wenner6009 5 лет назад +17

    Incrível amei ❤😍🇧🇷

  • @needmore6982
    @needmore6982 5 лет назад +3

    woaw you play so well that unbelievable (and unbelievably forgotten) instrument. Thanks for that moment. Paul from Need More

  • @flapjack7712
    @flapjack7712 5 лет назад +2

    I loved. Congratulations

  • @cruelworld46
    @cruelworld46 4 года назад +2

    this was beautiful, i’m in tears idk why i couldn’t help it lol ahhhh

  • @blondie2998
    @blondie2998 4 года назад +2

    You snapped

  • @valeriagomez6786
    @valeriagomez6786 5 лет назад +9

    This was truly amazing, it brought tears to my eyes. Thanks for sharing. ❤️

  • @Music_is_Breathing
    @Music_is_Breathing 2 месяца назад

    Wow!!!!!! I have tried to play a theremin--it is extremely hard! You need the steadiest of hands. This was fabulous--Bravo!!!!

  • @me_se
    @me_se 4 года назад +3

    That was so beautiful. Waiting for more Pink Floyd covers

  • @Burfferd
    @Burfferd 4 года назад +2

    Very nice, very important music, very important instrument, very good theremining , Really. , That's a very nice ability you have , a true thereminst ! Ok short story , so first seen or heard a Theremin , in 2009 Access film music show case had Zenther stick on stage , a big part of Dark Side , Theremin in front , changed my life , I waited in till 2018 to start playing a Theremin, I admire your discipline and your abilities, thanks for posting,

  • @bobmartinez3038
    @bobmartinez3038 2 года назад

    now that truly is an art, that was perfect and I loved it...

  • @mr_rich69
    @mr_rich69 4 года назад +1

    Simply perfection

  • @MagdalenaTheremin
    @MagdalenaTheremin Год назад

    Wow. Beautiful. Amayzing interpretation of this song.

  • @gabe7519
    @gabe7519 5 лет назад +2

    Absolutely beautiful, i was confused for a moment at the beginning, you're so on point i thought it was the original

  • @jonwhite8449
    @jonwhite8449 5 лет назад +2

    Well that was ... incredible!

  • @edwinagaborno
    @edwinagaborno 4 года назад +1

    Wow ,I'm really amazed by the instrument 😍

  • @GianlucaMurzilli
    @GianlucaMurzilli 2 года назад

    Absolutely amazing!!!! Greetings from Rome, Italy 🇮🇹

  • @cowboyanxiety
    @cowboyanxiety 3 года назад +1

    i think this is probably one of the best theremin covers ive ever heard

  • @David-lc9zn
    @David-lc9zn 4 года назад

    First video about theremin I found. I've fallen in love with the instrument and this song.

  • @mirandragora
    @mirandragora 5 лет назад +1

    This is just beautiful

  • @jacksongiddens8956
    @jacksongiddens8956 6 лет назад +6

    Dude this is freaking awesome!!!!! The way you play this song just puts me in an amazing mood

  • @arthurharrison1345
    @arthurharrison1345 5 лет назад +2

    So nice, Charlie. Bravo!

  • @TheFlax33
    @TheFlax33 Год назад

    That was absolutely beautiful. WOW Put me on the backroads . Splendid. Makes me want to get a Theremin

  • @АлексейЛукин-о2х
    @АлексейЛукин-о2х 4 года назад

    Best theremin cover, when instrument sound exactly fits the music. Thanks.