DAVID GILMOUR
Live in Gdansk
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A personal review + info.
Friday 19th of October.
Home, home again, I like to be here when I can...
Came home from work and the pedal steel guitar of David Gilmour filled the hall ("High Hopes"), so I rushed into the living room... On the TV I could see David and his band, apparently playing in Gdansk. A lovely girl said; "Present! x", "Hi darling x ..... dank je wel!".
 "Echoes" followed and the house became mad. In the meantime we had some coffee and opened the box with all the little goodies, excellent photos from Poly Samsons hand. On of the great stylish picture was from Richard, smiling DVD 1 ended with an excellent version with violins of "Comfortably Numb" and of course David and Richard singing great lines.
 Sadly we had to go out for a long weekend, so I only had change to see a leading role for Richard Wright in "Wearing the Inside Out". So I played that 2 times, followed by the jam sessions (wonderful, a lazy bluesy floyd sound, for me one of many the highlights of the cd), "Echoes" the acoustic version.. awesome and again "Wearing the Inside Out" (and although Richard has troubles with singing the right lines it's fantastic and for me a bit emotional ). So we went of to our farm house in the middle of the Netherlands, played all the 3 discs in the car, had a great weekend with friends and now we're back home, home again.
Tuesday 23th of October.
Great shots of the band the orchestra what makes this "Live in Gdansks" so special and all the extra songs from all over Europe (disc 5) are the cream on this cake.
Highlights? "Wearing the inside Out" (emotional), "Fat old Son" (superb!), the great intro of Castellorizon (with orchestra), "On an Island" (with a great duel of the guitars of Phil Manzenra and David), the 3 Barn Jams (one with David behind the drumkit), "Take a breathe, (it will shake your body) , "Shine on you Crazy Diamond (majestic) and of course "Echoes" (again an excellent psychedlic version... very impressive... with a great Hammond sound in the middle section by Richard and tha band freaking out ).
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 "the barn sessions" David, Richard & Jon. |
 "the barn sessions" Guy and his father in law. |
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It is unposible to give a complete review of this documentary in 4 days (and please considder that i was away 2 days ;-). It's a great complete shot of David Gilmour and his band on the road. The sound is clean and together with the Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Zbigniew Presiner, it become more as special. Mister "lightbulb" Marc Brinkman painted a kaleidoscope of colours and laserswhich created a great modernstate of art concert movie. The box is an expensive one, but you get a lot of extra little gimmicks and the dvd's are suberp. And for me a tribute to Richard Wright, who died last week, much to early.
 Thank you all who were on the shipyard... and specially Richard, it's great to see him again and again... wish he was here.
 Shine on, Nick from the lovely South of the Netherlands.
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The musicians in David Gilmour's band are:
Rick Wright - Pink Floyd's keyboard player Guy Pratt - bass player with Pink Floyd and Roxy Music Jon Carin - keyboards and longtime player with Pink Floyd Steve DiStanislao - drums, recently played with Crosby & Nash Dick Parry - saxes Leszek Mozdzer - piano
The Symphony Orchestra of the Polish Baltic Philharmonic
 Live In Gdansk is available in several formats, all of which include all the orchestral tracks. The 113-minute 'Concert DVD' includes footage of all the orchestral songs, plus Echoes and Astronomy Domine. Wot's... Uh The Deal? is included only on the Vinyl LP set.
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FORMATS
Live In Gdansk 3-Disc set and 12-page booklet, features:
Live In Gdansk 2-Disc audio only and 12-page booklet, features:
Live In Gdansk 4-Disc set and 12-page booklet, features:
Live In Gdansk (Vinyl) 5 x LP Box Set and 20-page booklet, plus Webpass to download the album, features:
TRACKS & CREDITS
Disc 1 CD Breathe Time Breathe (reprise) Castellorizon * On An Island * The Blue * Red Sky At Night * This Heaven * Then I Close My Eyes * Smile * Take A Breath * A Pocketful Of Stones * Where We Start *  Disc 2 CD Astronomy Domine Fat Old Sun High Hopes * Echoes Wish You Were Here A Great Day For Freedom * Comfortably Numb * Produced by David Gilmour and Phil Manzanera. Audio Mixing by Andy Jackson, David Gilmour, Devin Workman and Damon Iddins.
Disc 3 DVD On An Island The Blue  Red Sky At Night This Heaven Then I Close My Eyes Smile Take A Breath A Pocketful of Stones Where We Start Astronomy Domine High Hopes Echoes A Great Day For Freedom Comfortably Numb Produced by Dione Orrom. Directed by Gavin Elder. Director, Cameraman, Editor: Gavin Elder. Live At the Mermaid Theatre, London, March 2006. Wearing The Inside Out Comfortably Numb High Hopes Take A Breath Echoes (Acoustic) Barn Jam 192 Barn Jam 121
'Barn Jam' Personnel On An Island: 5.1 Surround Sound Version.  On An Island The Blue Take A Breath Red Sky At Night This Heaven Then I Close My Eyes Smile A Pocketful Of Stones Where We Start Bonus Tracks from the On An Island Tour, 2006. Dominoes (Paris, March 15) The Blue (Vienne, July 31) Take A Breath (Munich, July 29) Wish You Were Here (Glasgow, May 27) Coming Back To Life (Florence, August 2) Find The Cost Of Freedom (Manchester, May 26) This Heaven (Vienne, July 31) Wearing The Inside Out (Milan, March 25) A Pocketful Of Stones (Vienne, July 31) Where We Start (Vienne, July 31) On The Turning Away (Venice, August 31) Audio mix by Phil Manzanera, Andy Jackson, Devin Workman and Damon Iddins.
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The Blue. |
A great Day for Freedom. |
Credits
| Magdalena Amilkiewicz | Cello |
| Maria Baczynska | Double Bass |
| Baltic Philharmonic Symphony Orchestra | Orchestra |
| Ewa Baranowska | Violin |
| Peter Bell | Merchandising |
| Elena Bello | Management |
| Malgorzata Bellwon | Cello |
| Nick Belshaw | Management |
| Hanna Bereza | Violin |
| Jacek Birr | Double Bass |
| Tomasz Bock | Double Bass |
| Barry Branford | Lighting Technician |
| Wieslawa Merong Calusinska | Violin |
| Jon Carin | Keyboards, Programming, Vocals, Lap Steel Guitar |
| Zdzislaw Cichocki | Double Bass |
| Sylwia Cieslinska | Viola |
| Cathy Cleghorn | Merchandising |
| Mike Clement | Bass Technician |
| John Crawley | Audio Technician |
| Mickey Curbishley | Lighting |
| Marek Czulak | Viola |
| Tomasz Diakun | Violin |
| Steve DiStanislao | Drums, Vocals |
| Jonathan Dunlop | Audio Technician |
| Gavin Elder | Director, Editing, Camera Operator |
| Clarissa Faran | Score Copyist |
| Ewa Fredrich | Viola |
| David Gilmour | Guitar, Saxophone, Vocals, Lyricist, Producer, Mixing |
| Blazej Golinski | Cello |
| Dave Hallybone | Accounting |
| Rachel Hands | Accounting |
| Steve Hatton | Merchandising |
| Howard "DJ" Howes | Keyboard Technician |
| Damon Iddins | Engineer, Mixing |
| Andy Jackson | Engineer, Mixing |
| Marzena Kaczmar Kaminska | Viola |
| Michael Kamen | Orchestral Arrangements |
| Pawel Kapica | Violin |
| Karmelita Wojciechowska, Elzbieta | Viola |
| Nick Kelsey | Accounting |
| Steve Knee | Package Design |
| Malgorzata Kolcz | Double Bass |
| Sylwia Kolinska | Violin |
| Marek Kordas | Violin |
| Anna Kulowska | Cello | Bozena Kwasiborska | Violin | Robert Kwiatowski | Violin |
| John Lahiffe | Lighting Technician |
| Jon Lewis | Monitor Engineer |
| Lukasz Lisowski | Viola | Paul Loasby | Photography, Management |
| David MacIlwaine | Sculpture |
| Barry MacLeod | Audio Technician |
| Paul Makin | Lighting Technician |
| Malgorzata J. Maliszewska | Coordination |
| Phil Manzanera | Guitar, Vocals, Producer |
| David Morrell | Coordination |
| Jadwiga Moskal | Double Bass |
| Leszek Mozdzer | Piano, Guest Appearance |
| Andrew Murray | Coordination, Management |
| Eliza Napierala | Violin |
| Michal Nesterowicz | Conductor |
| Colin Norfield | Engineer |
| Richard Ogden | Coordination |
| Dione Orrom | Producer |
| Henryka Orzechowska Cichosz | Violin |
| Dick Parry | Keyboards, Saxophone |
| Krzysztof Pawlowski | Cello |
| Norman Perry | Merchandising |
| Stefan Perskiewicz | Promoter |
| Malgorzata Piotrowska | Violin |
| Guy Pratt | Bass, Guitar, Vocals |
| Zbigniew Preisner | Conductor, Orchestral Arrangements |
| Steve Prior | Guitar Technician | Bozena Pruss Czaja | Violin |
| Anna Reinholz | Viola |
| Mark "Sparky" Risk | Lighting |
| Roman Rogowiecki | Interpretation |
| Krystyna Rychlicka | Violin |
| Polly Samson | Lyricist, Photography |
| Doug Sax | Mastering |
| Roger Searle | Production Coordination |
| Jaroslaw Sellin | Author |
| Radek Sikorski | Author |
| Stephen Sinclair | Lighting Technician |
| Claire Singers | Publicity, Promoter |
| Anna Sliwa | Violin |
| Miroslawa Sobczak | Violin |
| Piotr Staniszewski | Violin |
| Ian Sylvester | Engineer |
| Joanna Szmit Macidlowska | Violin |
| Phil Taylor | Production Design, Guitar Technician |
| Nikki Treharne | Merchandising |
| Ben Ward | Management |
| Maria Wiczynska | Viola |
| Anna Wloch | Photography |
| Devin Workman | Engineer, Mixing |
| Doug Wright | Publicity, Promoter |
| Richard Wright | Keyboards, Vocals |
| Peter Wynn Wilson | Coordination |
| Lidia Zawadzka | Violin |
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