Man, what a great movie! If you like the cd, but never saw the movie, I really suggest it. It makes the CD actually make sense being able to visualize the songs.
It’s really well done.
I got the dvd, and it gives you the option to watch it with the audio commentary (it’s a loosely based autobiography of Roger Waters) and with the words on the bottom of the screen (although reading the words takes away from the effect of the film)
It’s neat how they make a full length movie run with only the sounds of the soundtrack playing! (although it is slightly modified, to be fair)
Two thumbs up
Anyone else really like this movie?
Sure makes me feel stupid for liking Motley Crue and WASP at the time and saying ‘Pink Floyd concert?!?! No, I’m not going to THAT!’
And in the documentary, he said that at the time it was released in theatres, the guys from Pink Floyd went to a few select theatres, and personally suped up and tweaked the theatre’s speakers and equipt.
“The Wall” was the first DVD I bought. I even bought the DVD before I had a DVD player. It’s a must have. The extra features on the DVD make it much better than the release on VCR. The documentary and commentary on the DVD give you more of an understanding of the imagery than just watching the video on VCR.
The second DVD I bought was “The Rocky Horror Picture Show” but I waited until I had a DVD player for this one.
I used to be into mountain biking in a big way. A friend and I would ride together all the time. I’ve had so many great rides - some of them almost a religious experience - but one in particular stands out in my mind and “The Wall” is part of it.
My good riding buddy and I were doing some “snow biking”. We had the widest tires we could find at the time (Ritchey Z-Max 2.35’s) and would lower the tire pressure to 7 or 8 psi and ride on snow machine trails. He had the stronger motor but I had wide SnowCat rims that help the bike float on the snow a little better so that evened things up.
We were driving in his Izuzu Trooper to a favorite trail, before dawn, listening to “The Wall” on the CD player. We arrived at the trail head after following a plowed road several miles back from the main road. There was about 4 feet of snow where the plowing stopped. We got parked just about the time “Comfortably Numb” was playing. The temperature was -10F or colder and it was still dark … everything was so quiet and still. At that temperature it seems like nothing moves - even the air is frozen and doesn’t move. There wasn’t another soul for miles. We left the doors open on the Trooper with the CD playing as we got ready to ride. It was surreal being way back in the woods silently getting ready to ride our bikes on top of 4 feet of snow listening to that soaring David Gilmore guitar solo at the end of “Comfortably Numb”.
I have a stack of bumper stickers from the 1980 Pink Floyd Wall concert in New York. The stickers are white, with the blue mortar lines, and the words “Pink Floyd '80 NY” in the scrawl of the album cover.
I was told this concert was only performed in NY and LA in the United States, so they may be worth something. I got them from JeanPaul Jenack, the son of USA founder Bill Jenack.
So, this year is the 30th anniversary of the release of Dark Side of the Moon, the album that lit a million bongs.
It has been said that if you start this album simultaneously with the movie The Wizard of Oz that they are in perfect synchronicity. Each scene of the movie is in sync in terms of mood and modulation with the record. A number of radio stations are sponsoring events where the movie and album will be played simultaneously so that all will be able to experience this cosmic cooperative collaboration communally, so to speak.
Has anyone ever tried this? I did about a year ago and although my mind was not blown, they do seem to flow well together. I made the trip with nothing more mind expanding than a couple of (light) beers.
The album ends well before the movie does, by the way, and I don’t know if you’re supposed to restart it or if the commonality ends when the album does.
