Many people are now familiar with seeing Dave Gilmour's Pink Floyd perform the classic songs but it's good to actually see and hear Roger Waters perform them himself along with some of his (often overlooked) solo material.

This is a great 2CD + DVD live package.

Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. In The Flesh
2. Happiest Days Of Our Lives
3. Another Brick In The Wall
4. Mother
5. Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
6. Southampton Dock
7. Pigs On The Wing
8. Dogs
9. Welcome To The Machine
10. Wish You Were Here
11. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
12. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun

Disc 2:

1. Breathe (In The Air)
2. Time
3. Money
4. Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking
5. Perfect Sense
6. Bravery Of Being Out Of Range
7. It's A Miracle
8. Amused To Death
9. Brain Damage
10. Eclipse
11. Comfortably Numb
12. Each Small Candle

Disc 3:

1. In The Flesh
2. Happiest Days Of Our Lives
3. Another Brick In The Wall
4. Mother
5. Get Your Filthy Hands Off My Desert
6. Southampton Dock
7. Pigs On The Wing
8. Dogs
9. Welcome To The Machine
10. Wish You Were Here
11. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
12. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
13. Breathe (In The Air)
14. Time
15. Money
16. Pros And Cons Of Hitch Hiking
17. Perfect Sense
18. Bravery Of Being Out Of Range
19. It's A Miracle
20. Amused To Death
21. Brain Damage
22. Eclipse
23. Comfortably Numb
24. Each Small Candle
25. Behind The Scenes
26. Band Biographies
27. Photo Gallery
28. Lyrics

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #15443 in Music
• Released on: 2006-05-29
• Number of discs: 2
• Formats: CD+DVD, Limited Edition, Live
• Dimensions: .47 pounds

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Customer Reviews

In the Flesh, In the Bones
This is a must for all Pink Floyd fans. The sound on the DVD is fantastic, the stereo mix is 2 Gigabytes alone... The CD's are more the bonus than the DVD which contains the exact same material.

The interesting thing about the concert is to see the crowd getting more and more involved in the proceedings as the show goes on. The 5 song run from the solo career towards the end gets a great response and deservedly so. Great band, great repertoire and for us all to enjoy again and again.

Maximum Value for Money!
I bought this because I just invested £50 in tickets for the May 07 gig in Birmingham. I wasn't sure what to expect, and thought I might be disapointed as it wasn't a Floyd line up - How wrong can you be?

(Check out Doyle's strat - Lefthanded body, righthanded machine head, and strung upside down!).

If the Brum Gig is only half as good as this it will be worth every penny. Floyd fans buy this - Don't dither, just do it.

Well filmed concert of great and not so great music
Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads is the accepted benchmark for filmed concerts. That might be more energetic and cinematic, but this is almost as good. It's very well filmed. The editing is slow enough to let us see the instruments being played, but not too slow that it becomes boring for the eyes to watch. Also there are no special effects to distract the viewer/camera operators so it plays a lot better for home viewing.

Musically the two hours of Pink Floyd songs sound great. It might annoy some that the female backing vocals are so loud and extensive, but I liked them (except on Shine On You Crazy Diamond). I like that the DVD favours the vocals over the music so the lyrics can really be heard without any difficulty. Also there are English subtitles, which is a rarity for a music DVD.

Apparently the guitarists don't copy Gilmour to the exact tone of each note. For a non-musician I can't tell the difference. It all sounds like it should to me.

The song selection is slightly odd but this is explained in the liner notes of the CD version. The Gilmour Floyd had played some of the songs so much on tour that Waters decided to highlight different tracks. So on the plus side we get Mother and Dogs, on the negative side we get tracks from The Final Cut (a decent enough album, but no work of art).

The only Floyd song they butchered was unfortunately one of the big ones: Shine On You Crazy Diamond. They appear to have speeded up the tempo, cut sections out and added terrible backing vocals on the end at the fade out. I might be wrong, but I think they cut out the saxophone part! And to add insult to injury, they then later brought out a saxophone player to perform Money! The song Money is well performed but is a bit pointless as Waters doesn't sing any of it, instead letting others sing the lyrics.

His version of Another Brick In The Wall Part 2 is a lot better than the version on PULSE (live Pink Floyd album from 1994) as the child chorus is well performed by his female backing singers. On PULSE they had either weak backing singers or dreadful tape recordings as the children sounded terrible.

At the end of the two hour Floyd concert we get about half an hour of Waters solo material. It's as if the great band we've just been listening to has been replaced by another band. Suddenly the liquid guitar sound disappears. Waters vocals go from wonderfully shouty to super whispery. His solo stuff really is pretty poor. There's the odd decent lyric (sadly whispered with sadness instead of shouted with bile) but the music is so bland and unappealing that it becomes something you suffer through, not enjoy. Perfect Sense is okay as at least it's got a big sounding arrangement, and It's A Miracle is mildly interesting if you pay enough attention.

The music on the CD version was recorded at four different shows, so the music is slightly different to the DVD, but I didn't notice any changes.

As a DVD it's better than Pink Floyd's PULSE concert. As a CD I would instead favour PULSE.