Track Listing

Disc 1:

1. Speak To Me
2. Breathe
3. Time
4. Breathe (Reprise)
5. Castellorizon
6. On An Island
7. The Blue
8. Red Sky At Night
9. This Heaven
10. Then I Close My Eyes
11. Smile
12. Take A Breath
13. A Pocketful Of Stones
14. Where We Start

Disc 2:

1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond
2. Astronomy Domine
3. Fat Old Sun
4. High Hopes
5. Echoes
6. Wish You Were Here
7. A Great Day For Freedom
8. Comfortably Numb

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #6949 in Music
• Released on: 2008-09-22
• Number of discs: 2
• Format: Live

CD Description
'Live In Gdansk' is taken from Gilmour's last gig on his 2006 'On An Island' tour, a show in Gdansk, Poland to celebrate Poland's 1980 revolution. It was notable as being the onlyshow of the tour to contain the song 'A Great Day For Freedom', from Pink Floyd's 1994 album, 'The Division Bell'. 'On An Island' is played here in its entirety, along with a collection of Pink Floyd live staples such as 'Comfortably Numb'and 'Echoes'.

Customer Reviews

SHEER CLASS - SUPERB ALBUM
David Gilmour once again shows his incredible talent, by collating an exceptional live set, that will delight both Floyd fans and those(if any)who lean to his solo work. Poignantly, this album features Rick on keyboards, and also vocals (he solo's on Comfortably Numb, covering Roger's pieces)so is a lasting memory as his last recording.

Now,what makes this album so great, is not only the superb balance of songs over the Floyd era (from Astronomy, Echoes, Dark Side, WYWH through The Wall and ending up with Division Bell, and the best of his more recent solo album "On an Island", but the production quality and final arrangement are amazing for a live album.

The Floyd tracks are perfectly reproduced, with the exception of "Shine On" which starts as per the original, but the chorus is simply David, Guitar and Piano - it works beautifully!. Comfortably Numb is probably even better than the "Pulse" version, with Gilmour squealing the guitar through the epic ending riff - superb. The only Floyd track missing which I would have expected to hear is "Sorrow".

As mentioned, the solo set list misses out completley David's first two albums and focuses on a selection of tracks from On an Island - tracks I have slated on this website for being dull and boring, yet on this new live album they seem to have come to life and fit in with the set so well.

Live albums by the nature need some crowd sing - along to the opening verses, but the Polish crowd listen intentley and clap politely, with no oversinging the opening verses!(Wish you were here comes to mind where at Earls Court the crowd can be heard singing every word - on this album silence!)

Some people ask why Gdansk?, well Gilmour was invited to play here by the former Solidariy movement to 50,000 people against the historical backdrop of the Gdansk shipyards in Poland to celebrate the 26th anniversary of the Solidarity movement.

The band are backed by the 40-strong string section of the Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra conducted by Zbigniew Preisner.

So to sum up, all in all in my opinion this is the best sounding, produced live Gilmour/Floyd album. With a full orchestra, the music is breathtaking, his vocals strong and powerful. Well worth adding to the collection.

Superb!
And I thought the best live rendition of 'Comfortably Numb' was on "The Wall - Live", this is awesome. It's not the same, it can't be, there's a few key players missing, but it's great on the ears. The whole album is excellent. However, why did it have to be recorded in Gdansk, and not here in the UK? I'd love to have been there.

Just go and buy it!
This set is worth the price of admission just to hear Dave dust off Fat Old Sun, which was a shameful omission from PF's Echoes collection. A beautiful melody which is played acoustically but just when you think it's over Dave plays a blistering electric solo. Just awesome!