After posting the Echoes tune earlier I couldn't help myself but to view the groundbreaking 1971 Pompeii video by Floyd.. a few times at the start of the new year, the new decade.
It's been about 7 years since I watched it in it's entirety. And all it did was confirm to me that it's by far the best music DVD ever made (or video/video tape ever made considering the time it was done).. either way, just Genius.
They were True Masters of Sound who approached music like a legendary painter paints his masterpieces... I'll always remember the documentary when the talked about how in the 1960's, when they were very young, how they would have the latest light projectors accompanied with strobes while writing in the attic - mentioning how they would paint the images they saw in their minds through those light images, painting those images with sound, through their instruments.... that's maybe why their concerts were so incredibly visual.. and why they give such fantastic mental imagery when listening with headphones with your eyes closed.
So ahead of their time.. legendary painters of sound.
Some excerpts of 1971's Pompeii:
Pink Floyd - A Saucerful of Secrets ( Live at Pompeii, 1971)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSsjxbRxgqY
Pink Floyd - Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun ( Live at Pompeii, 1971]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwFTLT35g1w
Pink Floyd - Careful With That Axe Eugene ( Live at Pompeii, 1971)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sNnuDkZC5Ks
Pink Floyd - One Of These Days (Live at Pompeii,1971)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH2HaZInOK8