David Gilmour: Live at Pompeii Blu-ray delivers truly amazing video and audio in this exceptional Blu-ray release
45 years after Pink Floyd's David Gilmour filmed 'Live At Pompeii' in the legendary Roman Amphitheatre there, he returned for two spectacular shows, part of his year-long tour in support of his No.1 album 'Rattle That Lock'. The performances were the first-ever rock concerts for an audience in the stone Roman amphitheatre, and, for two nights only, the 2,600 strong crowd stood exactly where gladiators would have fought in the first century AD.
For more about David Gilmour: Live at Pompeii and the David Gilmour: Live at Pompeii Blu-ray release, see David Gilmour: Live at Pompeii Blu-ray Review published by Jeffrey Kauffman on October 6, 2017 where this Blu-ray release scored 4.5 out of 5.
It's perhaps indicative of the enduring popularity of Pink Floyd and/or David Gilmour that Columbia is releasing two editions of Live at
Pompeii (this one and a deluxe edition with
a bonus Blu-ray, CDs and additional swag). Pink Floyd has been at the forefront of some really beautiful Blu-ray releases, including Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd: Wish You Were Here, Pink Floyd: The Division Bell and Pink Floyd: The Endless River (there's also
Pink Floyd: The Early Years for those who
don't go into sticker shock at the sight of the price), though at least some of those releases tended to skimp a bit on video quality (often due to
the source). One thing that has not made it to Blu-ray yet, at least that I've been able to find, is the 1972 documentary film Pink
Floyd: Live at Pompeii (culled from an October 1971 series of concerts the band gave), though evidently a CD of the concert is included in the
massive Early Years set (reportedly initially due to an accidental release which was intended to be another CD). One of the interesting
things about the Pink Floyd performances is that they were done (largely) without an audience (a few hangers on were in attendance, as is
mentioned in a supplement included with this current release), something that made this particular "concert film" a bit of an anomaly in the
general era of Woodstock: 3 Days of
Peace & Music and Monterey Pop. That salient fact meant that
when David Gilmour returned to the Pompeii Amphitheater in July 2016, this time with a smallish (for "arena rock" venues, anyway) audience in
the low thousands in attendance, he became the first public performance at the venue in literally thousands of years.
5 A.M.
Rattle That Lock
Faces of Stone
What Do You Want From Me
The Blue
The Great Gig in the Sky
A Boat Lies Waiting
Wish You Were Here
Money
In Any Tongue
High Hopes
Part 2
One of These Days
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1 - 5)
Fat Old Sun
Coming Back to Life
On an Island
Today
Sorrow
Run Like Hell
Time / Breathe (In the Air) (Reprise)
Comfortably Numb
Pompeii Then and Now (1080p; 7:16) finds Gilmour and company touring the amphitheater, which has copious photo documentation
of
Pink Floyd's 1971 appearance there. Gilmour also receives an honored citizen award.
For those pinching pennies, this release gives you the great concert footage but is lacking all of the bonus material of the Deluxe Edition. You can't
really go wrong with either release, and whatever your budget allows, David Gilmour: Live at Pompeii comes Highly recommended.
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Sony Music Entertainment and Columbia Records have announced that they will release on Blu-ray David Gilmour: Live at Pompeii. The release will be available for purchase on September 29.
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