| Tech Note | Many things can be said about the Pink Floyd and their approach to live performances, but no one in their right mind can disagree with the fact that the live rendition of The Wall performed throughout 1980 and 1981 ranks as some of the most spectacular shows ever to be performed in front of an audience.
It was the initial intent of Alan Parker and the Pink Floyd that live footage of The Wall shows was to be included in the movie version of The Wall and some shows were subsequently filmed for that specific pupose. The performance on the 8th of August at Earl's Court in London was one of these shows.
Shot with six cameras, this performance was later edited by Marc Brickman, but it was pulled from The Wall movie when principal photography began, as it became obvious that there would be no good way to mix the two.
This version is off a relatively good generation (of course not as good as a clone or top generation) but still in considerably better quality than previously seen.
Pink Floyd
The Wall - Live At Earls Court *Remastered*
Venue Earls Court Exhibition Hall
London, UK
August 9, 1980
Set 1:
In The Flesh
The Thin Ice
Another Brick In The Wall I
The Happiest Days Of Our Lives
Another Brick In The Wall II
Mother
Goodbye Blue Sky
What Shall We Do Now?
Young Lust
One Of My Turns
Don't Leave Me Now
Another Brick In The Wall III
Goodbye Cruel World
Set 2:
Hey You
Is There Anybody Out There?
Nobody Home
Vera
Bring The Boys Back Home
Comfortably Numb
The Show Must Go On
In The Flesh?
Run Like Hell
Waiting For The Worms
Stop
The Trial
Outside The Wall
NTSC
File Size: 3636.55MB
From the author of the DVD:
Basically the remastering of the video is just adjustmentd in
contrast, saturation, and dark emphasis, but these changes did seem
to clean the video up a bit although it made some of the darker
scenes a little bit darker. The close-ups benefitted very nicely. The
source DVD had a yellowish tint to it and now all the yellow is black
as it should be. The projections are just as hard to see as they
were, but they are still very "watchable", except empty spaces is
still very hard to see.
The audio was a simple (yet somewhat clever) fix. My copy was lacking
bass, which was VERY apparent at the beginning when the first note of
In the Flesh? is hit and there's no force behind it). So, I just
bumped up the low levels until all the track was almost pure bass. I
then reduced the volume a bit and overlayed it onto the source audio,
giving it bass without muffling it. |
