New Pink Floyd at Pompeii vinyl release

[Ken]

Pretty astounding how incredible this sounds.

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[hieronymous]

I had tickets to the IMAX presentation (3 nights only?) but ended up not being able to go! I remember seeing it once on video, maybe when I was in my 20s. I got the CD release - haven't had a chance to crank it yet!

[Ken]

I used to watch it on laserdisc in the library in college.  So glad we have a proper audio release now.  It sounds incredible.

[uwe]

I have the new release/remix, it doodles along nicely, you darn hippies! 😂

[hieronymous]

I finally finished the disc 1 running order. I did not listen all at once - broke it up into 2 sittings. It's a nice sandwich - definitely deserves to be listened to in a single session. To be honest, I think this one might fare best with the visuals - but I will withhold that judgement until I listen again a few times - I might have a drive down to LA (about 6-7 hours) in the works so this is definitely a candidate!

[Ken]

The visuals are good, but what I remember really standing out to me in the video is the clips of them recording Dark Side of the Moon at Abbey Road Studios.  I'm loving just the audio.  Also got the CD version for portability.  I wish the vinyl had come with a digital download, but this is more than worth it for one of my favorite recordings ever.

[Alanko]

Listened to this on Spotify quite a bit. They've done it justice! Pompeii was almost certainly filmed and recorded with zero thought around longevity and legacy. Pink Floyd were still playing Ummagumma-era material, yet by the time the film was released they were working on Dark Side of the Moon. They were keen to drop a lot of the long form spacey stuff from their setlist by then, so we are lucky to have this document.

[hollowbody]

I caught the IMAX presentation and it was worth every penny. I had the DVD that came out a few years ago that cut out Seamus for some reason but thankfully it was put back in for the new release.  Apparently there have been several revisions over time, such as adding the Abbey Road footage.

[Highlander]

The remix work was by Steven Wilson...?

[Alanko]

I caught the IMAX presentation and it was worth every penny. I had the DVD that came out a few years ago that cut out Seamus for some reason but thankfully it was put back in for the new release.  Apparently there have been several revisions over time, such as adding the Abbey Road footage.

From memory, one issue was that the original film reels were destroyed, leaving no option for alternative angles or anything like that. Adrian Maben found a few black and white reels somewhere and these were belatedly inserted into the DVD 'director's cut' release, alongside terrible CGI graphics of spacecraft.

Steve Wilson didn't have much to work from as a lot of the instrument tracks, including drums, had been folded down into a single mono track.

[uwe]

But these days you can digitally separate instruments and voices from a mono track.

Even David Coverdale did it for his first solo album where the master tapes had been irretrievably lost:

And this is what it sounds like after taking it apart with AI and then putting it back together:

It's a costly process and you need bespoke software for it, but it can be done.

[Alanko]

This would be more like building a stereo image from a mono drum track, or separating a Farfisa organ and Hammond organ from the same track.

Some of the digital track separation stuff is impressive, such as the work done on Beatles material.

[uwe]

Coverdale initially even went to the company that did the Beatles separation software but they turned him down saying that customizing it to his/Whitesnake's needs would be way too expensive for the anticipated sales of an obscure 1977 David Coverdale solo album remix. So he went somewhere else and they did it for him.

He puts a lot of care and attention in curating his back catalog.