I've been a Floyd fan since I was in my teens. I finally got a chance to see them that very year (July 1994) in Edmonton. I can now die in peace. The only item on my bucket list was satisfied in one night. Anything else, like climbing Everest, or riding a barrel over Niagra Falls pales in comparison.

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Just think of how awesome a guitar player you could have been by now if you had only spent the last 10 years practicing instead of obsessing over pickups and roasted maple necks.

Seeing the picture of Gilmour's rack (2 refrigerators worth of rack mounted gear) just reminds me of how completely excessive Floyd became at one point....I never liked Gilmour's sound in Pulse. It sounded like crap to me...NOTHING like the sound he got for Dark Side, Wish..., Animals, Meddle, etc....His old rig was MUCH, MUCH simpler. You want to be impressed?....check out the Pompeii video! It's his old strat thru maybe 4 stomp boxes at the most (ok, maybe a leslie cabinet for a song or two)...You may not know all the songs...who cares!....they are completely weird and awesome! Those guys were just beginning to soar....they are hungry...and it shows!

Now I HAVE the more recent Solo Gilmour DVD (for On an Island). His tone is much warmer and sweeter! Yeah....he's still pretty god-like when he wants to be!

Pompeii is my favorite time period for Floyd. Set the controls for the heart of the sun; Carefull with that ax Eugene; Saucer Full of Secrets; that's good stuff. I saw them in '68 and what they did in the Pompeii video is what we saw in a college auditorium. First time I had hash also. Love that corned beef.

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Pompeii is my favorite time period for Floyd. Set the controls for the heart of the sun; Carefull with that ax Eugene; Saucer Full of Secrets; that's good stuff. I saw them in '68 and what they did in the Pompeii video is what we saw in a college auditorium. First time I had hash also. Love that corned beef. [/quote]

Right on! If you poke around on the Pirate Bay they have a pretty watchable copy of the Floyd playing on KQED (San Francisco Public Television) in 1970. GREAT performance...well worth watching!

Talk about being there, I'll let you in on a little secret some of us already know.....but only if you own a copy of the DVD of Joe Bonamassa's Albert Hall concert.

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"Another day in paradise!"

Talking about tone.....IMHO Tim Renwick's guitar solo in The Wall on the PULSE concert is killer. Impossible to tell from the CD that DG handed it over.

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"Another day in paradise!"