Steven Wilson Pink Floyd - Live at Pompeii - Steven Wilson mix - May 2nd 2025

[inspclouseau]

The sound in every cinema I went the last 10 years is not as good as in my place.
I wait for the release on disc and play it on my big screen.

That and we are not very peoply anyway

 

[inspclouseau]

Yeah that one too, and yeah, a fair bit of the The Wall (like...all of side 4) stopped being interesting to me years ago.

The Wall was never a favorite record of mine. Like it fine, but not the top Pink Floyd choices for me. And we have a serious collection over the years. Definitely a couple of fantastic songs on it. Comfortably Numb for sure.
Huge Pink Floyd fans since... Meddle. Very looking forward to the latest version of Pompeiii. WILSON!!

 

[Quadmon]

I’ve had this for about 20 years. Watched it yesterday. It’s okay. A lot of it (imo) is psychedelic noise. My son has tickets for us to see it in imax on 4/27.

 

[wilberforce55]

Great! So not only do I need to buy this, it's gonna get my hopes up that Gilmour'll reconsider SW's offer to remix his first solo album.

Surely this is part of the Sony sale (first thing to start to recoup their $400m). I don’t think the solo stuff came into that deal

 

[wilberforce55]

Yup. And i think this was the last performance allowed there.

There were signs saying Elton John was performing after Gilmour in 2016. Don’t know if that happened

Edit. Yep. https://pompeiisites.org/en/events/elton-john/

 

[himey]

I’ve had this for about 20 years. Watched it yesterday. It’s okay. A lot of it (imo) is psychedelic noise. My son has tickets for us to see it in imax on 4/27.

That DVD is not the best representation of the concert. Lame edits and lossy 2 channel sound.

 

[GilWave]

It wasn't short sighted. It was a live broadcast, so it could not have been filmed.

Of course they *could* have, they chose not to - for all the reasons mentioned - and they are valid reasons. But they could have shot on film if they wanted to - they did a 14-night residency at Earls Court, they had the cameras blocked out and crew in place - they could have shot another night on film for the eventual theatrical and DVD release.

 

[rontoon]

Of course they *could* have, they chose not to - for all the reasons mentioned - and they are valid reasons. But they could have shot on film if they wanted to - they did a 14-night residency at Earls Court, they had the cameras blocked out and crew in place - they could have shot another night on film for the eventual theatrical and DVD release.

Of course, they could have done many unreasonable things that didn't make sense at the time.

 

[GilWave]

Of course, they could have done many unreasonable things that didn't make sense at the time.

I'm not sure it would have been unreasonable - content is king, as they say, and Pink Floyd have re-purposed everything they have ever done, up to and including the 'new' 4K Live At Pompeii.

 

[mandrix]

I wish it were 4K.

 

[DrKlahn]

But surely it will look better than the laserdisc does?

It does. It's mainly when I get the itch to watch a Floyd (or Floyd-ish) concert there are options that look so much better. Pulse is still a fantastic show sound wise.

 

[DrKlahn]

I wish it were 4K.

Would be nice, but looking at the videos of the remaster it doesn't look like the 2k will be lacking much detail wise. Be nice to have an HDR grade. But I think I'll be pretty happy with the Blu.

 

[skherbeck]

It’s pretty common these days for a film to get a new 4k transfer, get released first as a Bluray, then to get released some time later as a 4k UHD disc (I’ve been burned several times by this). I’m going to be patient and wait on this purchase (I doubt the Bluray version will go out of print any time soon)

 

[inspclouseau]

It’s pretty common these days for a film to get a new 4k transfer, get released first as a Bluray, then to get released some time later as a 4k UHD disc (I’ve been burned several times by this). I’m going to be patient and wait on this purchase (I doubt the Bluray version will go out of print any time soon)

I generally do not gamble with time anymore. Looking forward to this release.

 

[JimHansonDC]

Interesting. For sure much of this is up to choice/preference but I've been of the view that much of The Wall's popularity stem'd from 2 factors. One was the huge attraction of the song Another Brick Pt 2 lyric's and secondly of course the accompanying video enactments. Maybe it's the fact that I'm of a decade or more older than the massive attraction I viewed from kids of grade school and high school age. For nearly 2 years I could hear kids singing in march step, on the way to and from school, "we don't need no education, we don't need no thought control, hey teacher leave those kids alone". Rogers had written the perfect grade school childrens rebelyon song. LOL 1960-70s PF lead the psychedelic craze of the day, everything they did back then was near genuis.

I remember the "We don't need no education" craze when the song came out and the absolute horror of hearing my younger sister and her bestie singing it in the back seat as I drove them to school. "We LOVE Pink Floyd" they squealed. I asked them what their other favorite songs were and got a pair of completely blank stares. I almost expected them to ask "Oh by the way, which one's Pink?".

 

[ssully]

It’s pretty common these days for a film to get a new 4k transfer, get released first as a Bluray, then to get released some time later as a 4k UHD disc (I’ve been burned several times by this). I’m going to be patient and wait on this purchase (I doubt the Bluray version will go out of print any time soon)

Well, to follow that trajectory, this would have to be released first in 4K, which it isn't.

 

[rontoon]

I'm not sure it would have been unreasonable.

Well there you have it. Lacking the basic understanding of why it would have been unreasonable.

 

[Bill B]

It’s pretty common these days for a film to get a new 4k transfer, get released first as a Bluray, then to get released some time later as a 4k UHD disc (I’ve been burned several times by this). I’m going to be patient and wait on this purchase (I doubt the Bluray version will go out of print any time soon)

Hopefully it won’t take as long as it did between the release of Pulse on DVD and its release on Blu-ray.

 

[atrocity]

It's just not done, in fact, I can't think of one example where a show was shot in both formats.

<pendantry>The Honeymooners</pendantry>

 

[splinter7]

The sound in every cinema I went the last 10 years is not as good as in my place.
I wait for the release on disc and play it on my big screen.

My son and I are going the Sunday, April 27th IMAX showing in an Atlanta suburb.
l am in part going to convince myself the same thing. That my modest audio + visual system is better than the theater industry.
Well, at least the audio part.