Live in Gdansk (2CD + 2DVD)

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Artist: David Gilmour
Label: EMI
Category: Music

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Rating:

5 reviews

Format: Import, Live, Special Edition
Media: Audio CD
Discs: 4
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 5.6 x 4.9 x 0.5

MPN: 734547
UPC: 886973454725
EAN: 0886973454725
ASIN: B001BKG9SK

Release Date: September 23, 2008
Availability: Usually ships within 1 - 2 business days
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Tracks:

Disc 1

•	Speak to Me
•	Breathe (In the Air)
•	Time
•	Breathe (In the Air) (Reprise)
•	Castellorizon [5.1 Surround Sound]
•	On an Island [5.1 Surround Sound]
•	Blue [5.1 Surround Sound]
•	Red Sky at Night [5.1 Surround Sound]
•	This Heaven [5.1 Surround Sound]
•	Then I Close My Eyes [5.1 Surround Sound]
•	Smile [5.1 Surround Sound]
•	Take a Breath [5.1 Surround Sound]
•	Pocketful of Stones [5.1 Surround Sound]
•	Where We Start [5.1 Surround Sound]

Disc 2

•	Shine on You Crazy Diamond [DVD]
•	Astronomy Domine [DVD]
•	Fat Old Sun
•	High Hopes [DVD]
•	Echoes [DVD]
•	Wish You Were Here
•	Great Day for Freedom [DVD]
•	Comfortably Numb [DVD]

Disc 3

•	Castellorizon [DVD]
•	On an Island [DVD]
•	Blue [DVD]
•	Red Sky at Night [DVD]
•	This Heaven [DVD]
•	Then I Close My Eyes [DVD]
•	Smile [DVD]
•	Take a Breath [DVD]
•	Pocketful of Stones [DVD]
•	Where We Start [DVD]
•	Astronomy Domine [DVD]
•	High Hopes [DVD]
•	Echoes [DVD]
•	Great Day for Freedom [DVD]
•	Comfortably Numb [DVD]
•	Gdansk Diary [Documentary][Multimedia Track]
•	Bonus Material [DVD][*]

Disc 4

•	Shine on You Crazy Diamond [DVD]
•	Wearing the Inside Out [DVD]
•	Comfortably Numb [DVD]
•	On an Island [DVD]
•	High Hopes [DVD]
•	Blue [DVD]
•	Take a Breath [DVD]
•	Echoes [Acoustic][Multimedia Track]
•	Barn Jam [DVD]
•	Barn Jam [DVD]
•	Barn Jam [DVD]
•	Castellorizon [5.1 Surround Sound Version]
•	On an Island [5.1 Surround Sound Version]
•	Blue [5.1 Surround Sound Version]
•	Take a Breath [5.1 Surround Sound Version]
•	Red Sky at Night [5.1 Surround Sound Version]
•	This Heaven [5.1 Surround Sound Version]
•	Then I Close My Eyes [5.1 Surround Sound Version]
•	Smile [5.1 Surround Sound Version]
•	Pocketful of Stones [5.1 Surround Sound Version]
•	Where We Start [5.1 Surround Sound Version]

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Customer Reviews:

2 out of 5 stars

I think I'll pass November 28, 2008
Gis A. Bun (Montreal, Quebec Canada)
After having a chance to listen and watch this [thanks to a friend], I'm not rushing to buy this. On the non-technical side, these multiple releases are way overpriced [I think there are at least 6 variations].

As for the material, some repeats the previous DVD set [Royal Albert] or includes material that should of been in one place instead of 2 separate releases. As well, why is some of the concert only available on CD and some only available on DVD? The 3rd CD on the 3CD/2DVD edition can also be pulled off Gilmour's site [or so it looks]. Finally, Gilmour left out all his solo material except the last album which [outside of 2-3 tracks] is boring as hell [you don't want to drive home at night with it playing - you''ll fall asleep]. Clearly About Face should of had a few songs on it. Just about the same Pink Floyd material on Royal Albert is here as well]. Only bright spot was the production.

3 out of 5 stars

Good show, Bad sound October 7, 2008
DanDeMan (Québec, Canada)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful

I bought the deluxe package including 2CD + 2DVD. The good part of it, the entire performance of the show are top quality. Gilmour give one of is best performance of "Comfortably Numb", unfortunately Richard Wright are not the right person to replace Roger Water's part. The VERY BAD side of that show, is the sound recording. Not a question of the DTS 5.1 full spectrum sound, but the compression of the sound. Just use a set of headphone and you wont believe it, so many drop outs of level, like on "High Hope" and "Echoes", more the music is getting louder, more it's going away. At the end it's sound like a bunch of bread. I have also noticed this problem on "Remember that night" DVD, but it is less perceptive than this one. I don't know who mixed that show, but surely the engineer must sleeped on the mixing board. Why the sound compression are perfect on the "Live 8" performance or on "In the flesh" concert by Roger Water? Theses DVDs has been released few years before the Gdansk concert. Logically, the technology must go better and better, on this DVD it's a total regression...

5 out of 5 stars

Gdansk - A Landmark for Many Reasons September 27, 2008
Richard S. Warner (Toronto, Canada)
This latest offering from David Gilmour has Richard Wright's recent death, the location and the historical anniversary of the event that add up to make this a landmark in both a wonderful and an uncanny way.

ALL that aside, this is one really impressive live album, the kind you wish had been made for some of Pink Floyd's greatest tours. ( '73, '75 & '77 specifically ) The sound is sharp and clear, with a very wide range of highs and lows. But what else would you expect from the man? Floyd's tours were always amazing, not only for the size and spectacle of the events and the all the props and lights, but largely because of a quality of sound that no one has been able to equal since. With their massive quad sound system they could turn the largest stadium into a behemoth set of headphones often achieving a production sound that even surpassed their immactulately recorded albums.

"Live in Gdansk" seems to follow in the tradition royally.

While the set list is almost the same as heard at the Albert Hall for "Remember That Night", there are some really lovely and jaw-dropping re-workings of certain numbers and a few new treats that make "Gdansk" a MUST for the devoted. The addition of the Baltic Philharmonic Symphony also fleshes out and uplifts Gilmour's newest work as well as spicing up some of the Floyd faves as well.

David Crosby and Graham Nash are NOT in attendance at this event and it takes a while to get used to their absence at certain points. But the band's vocalists, which is everyone save for Dick Parry, do a beautiful job of it regardless. Where Messrs Crosby and Nash really are missed is on "Shine on You Crazy Diamond", so wonderful was the addition of their harmonies to Gilmour's new arrangement at the Royal Albert Hall.

Well worth watching is the "Gdansk Diary", a documentary of the event and the revelation of the reason for it. Gilmour plays it down and wonders himself about why he was asked to be the musician invited to mark the occasion. There is one very telling and powerful moment when he is being interviewed by the Polish media. He sits patiently while questions are first posed in the native tongue and are them translated for him. During one such question you hear a few lines of Polish being spoken while Gilmour patientlly waits for the ensuing translation. Popping almost sharply out of the unfamiliar stream of the Slavic language comes two words that change Gilmour's facial expression - "Roger Waters". Almost instantaneously he recovers, blinks once and smiles, looks toward the camera and says. "Oh, was that the time? Is it time now?". Interview over.

"Gdansk" is well worth the purchase, whether it be just the audio discs or the full on four disc set. The band is very comfortably experienced with the material and it shows. They have all the many nuances of the music down and are able to stretch out with it while maintaining its essential integrity. "On an Island" is beautifully represented here and the Floyd material contains some of the best versions ever recorded.

"Astronomy Domine" is barely contained and intense, played with total committment and belief. An old psychedelic chestnut perhaps but here it feels briskly and electrically new, almost frighteningly wild.

"Echoes", on "Gdansk", is hands down, the greatest version ever recorded. It is so intensely powerful, so articulately played and inventivelly treated that nothing else ever released comes close. It clocks in at a massive 25 minutes, each of it's 3 instrumental sections are expanded to the point of amazement and excitement, but never reaching the point of indulgence. It takes mastery and experience to take a large and hugely adored classic like "Echoes" and breathe such new fire and thunder into it. It reminds one that it was songs like "Echoes" that truly made Pink Floyd great. Gilmour and Wright are ON FIRE here!

Nevermind "Money" and "Another Brick in the Wall", "Echoes" is what those of us who came on board with Floyd, pre-"Dark Side", were so rapturous about. Here, on this release, it is given a volcanically powerful new life. Gilmour and Wright's antiphonal "outro" is delicate and exquisite, so tasteful and almost bluesy that you want it to go on and on. Now with Wright's passing it takes on a kind of "dulce doloris", a sweet sadness and poignancy that reminds us of Wright's own, largely unacknowledged, high level of musicianship.

On the DVD we see Wright receive a wildly enthusiastic standing ovation, which, it was since said by Gilmour, surprised him nightly. The irony was that to Gilmour and the other band members it was no surprise at all. Of Wright he said in his statement after his long-time friend's death, "Where would "Dark Side of the Moon" have been without "The Great Gig in the Sky" and "Us and Them""? Gilmour felt that all of Floyd's greatest moments where when Richard "was in full flow". On "Gdansk", which turned out to be Wright's epitaph, he is indeed in full flow, full flight. It his heartening to think that at the end of his, sometimes very sad, life Richard Wright, unrelentingly backed and loved by Gilmour, achieved himself and his full talent again.

Truly a landmark for it's occasion but also for the strange irony of the end of the truly most musical half of Pink Floyd ( Gilmour and Wright ) as well as it's sheer monumental musicality. "Gdansk" is already a classic.

3 out of 5 stars

DVD has only 15 tracks :( September 25, 2008
John B (BC Canada)
2 out of 4 found this review helpful

I got the 3 Disc Edition today, great i thought, but the DVD has only 15 tracks, not as shown 41. The DVD itself seems short, just an added bonus to the two CDs.

4 out of 5 stars

Great Set September 23, 2008
Stephen Bieth (Mississauga/ Canada)
2 out of 2 found this review helpful

Mine came in the mail this morning and what a great package. The DVD with the concert is in 5.1 and does have some song changes from "Remember That Night". It comes with a 45 min. Doc and ton's of extra tracks. The best thing is the DTS 5.1 remix of the studio CD "On An Island" It has much warmer sound then the CD and the mix is perfect. I know this is pricy but i really think it is worth the money.

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