In the Flesh DVD

NewEarthMud · Post by **NewEarthMud** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 1:34 am

As I watch this video and am a bit stoned off some drugs and sleepy feeling I must say that this DVD is quite incredible. I already knew this but felt like stating it here.

For people who say Roger and his band are a "cover band" then just go listen/watch Dogs on In the Flesh. That performance is better than ANY Pink Floyd live performance of Dogs and is almost as good as the studio version! It's the exact same thing almost! What a load of talent that whole band has. IMO Gilmour & Co. could never recreate anything in a live setting that sounds as good as Dogs on ITF.

Which just goes on to prove that I think Roger didn't want to make every song "sound" like Pink Floyd.. that he wanted to put twists on most of the PF songs he chose for his show.

Another cool thing about Dogs is when they go over and play cards.. classic. I love when Roger gets out what looks to be bourbon and pours a drink for everybody playing cards. Snowy takes a shot and immediately starts gettin all goofy I noticed.. and Roger looks very annoyed. Blhaha

Here's some great shots now during Dogs of Jon Carin trying to look cool. Atleast his hair doesn't look as bad as it did on PULSE. He's brilliant on Dogs and throughout this whole DVD, btw.

Another thing that I notice about this DVD as opposed to the Pink Floyd videos are that the images and things you see are mostly very real and they relate very well to the meaning of the songs. With PULSE you have some very cool images on the screen behind the band but a lot of the time they don't make much sense and to me are only there to appear "Floydish" and "cool".

Another point I wish to make. Roger's voice is FANTASTIC on this DVD on most of the songs. Tunes like Brain Damage, and Time he really struggles on though.

But his voice for the most part is excellent. Which proves my opinion that he "wanted" to sound "older" on Amused to Death. I think his voice on that record really is spooky and fits extremely well.

The Roger solo songs go extremely well. The way they can play those tunes and it almost sounds identical to the studio recordings.. just brilliant. But, I prefer the way Roger's voice was on ATD studio as opposed to the way it sounds on ATD tracks live.

I love how Roger turns Wish You Were Here basically into a Roger Waters solo tune, completely changing it up. An old time Floyd fan I know who has been a fan for over thirty years told me he prefers Roger's version over the original. I'm not so sure I agree with that.. but I do like Roger's version on ITF. The slide is absolutely beautiful, Andy singing backup on "...two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl! year after year.." excellent. Doyle's playing is great.. the whole damn version is great. Nice how Roger makes the statement, "How I wish they were here.". A great statement since I feel many people think about someone they've lost when they hear that song. I personally think of my best friend who was killed in a car accident when we were in high school.

Anybody notice that Snowy White just absolutely rips up the solo in Set the Controls? I mean he is amazing.. very dirty, psychadelic guitar solo and it was clearly cleaned up on the ITF cd release! I really wish they would've kept it the way it was on the DVD.

Doyle II is just fantastic... good God is he an amazing player or what? Snowy White is marvelous as always and Andy is solid as well. Snowy's solo on "Miracle" is awesome.

A classic moment when Snowy and Doyle play the CN solos and meet each other in the middle of the ramp or what ever slightly above the stage.

Another observation is how Roger is so very relaxed behind the scenes and how he's clearly not the "evil" man that so many people paint him up as. I highly doubt he's "acting" for the camera either.. I mean he's just very natural and quite funny on many occasions. And what he puts into his show.. just incredible.. especially the solo tracks. So much feeling, heart, and soul. Those songs obviously mean a great deal to him and it's just awesome to see him on the DVD having so much fun and being so intimate with the crowd.

I'll close with saying Each Small Candle may be the best solo song, musically, that Roger has done thus far. Even more indications to me that his next record is going to be brilliant.. better than anything he's done as a solo artist.

I'm done rambling now.

Pugs on the Wing · Post by **Pugs on the Wing** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 3:11 pm

Thank you for that review!

Must...get...DVD player...soon...

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 7:07 pm

What sort of visuals does he do?

grateful pink · Post by **grateful pink** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 7:59 pm

Need to buy me a copy of the dvd. Sounds awesome. I liked the album. I think I will go out and buy a copy when i get back home from LA (Leaving tomorrow

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Spinoza · Post by **Spinoza** » Sat Mar 29, 2003 9:56 pm

Just a small comment on the version of WYWH done by Roger. Indeed, the slide is nice, the whole song breathes a kind of bombast, something "victorious", triumphant. You can find this nice and overwhelming, as i sometimes feel it, but most of the time, i think it's in fact all very cheap, kitsch, commercial, although very well done kitsch.

Big Kelv · Post by **Big Kelv** » Sun Mar 30, 2003 4:13 pm

IMO the ITF DVD is a worthy addition to any floyd fan's collection, great performance by all + sounds fantastic in DD5.1

decampos · Post by **decampos** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 12:53 pm

The two lowpoints of the DVD, for me, is Roger's singing of 'welcome to the machine'. I think he shouldn't have done that. The other one is the appearance and behavior of Doyle Bramhall II - cocky and nonchalant and acting as though he owns the god-damned stage. He definitely needs a good hard smack. Anyone agree?

David Smith · Post by **David Smith** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 4:30 pm

I've heard the cd of it, and i thought WTTTM was brilliant. His vocals on that were pretty good IMO.

SomeGhostsStepOut · Post by **SomeGhostsStepOut** » Mon Mar 31, 2003 11:15 pm

decampos wrote:The two lowpoints of the DVD, for me, is Roger's singing of 'welcome to the machine'. I think he shouldn't have done that. The other one is the appearance and behavior of Doyle Bramhall II - cocky and nonchalant and acting as though he owns the god-damned stage. He definitely needs a good hard smack. Anyone agree?

I agree also. The DVD was pretty good though...nothing special.

madcap69 · Post by **madcap69** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 1:46 am

[quote="NewEarthMud"]As I watch this video and am a bit stoned off some drugs and sleepy feeling I must say that this is quite incredible. I already knew this but felt like stating it here.

Which just goes on to prove that I think Roger did want to make every song "sound" like Pink Floyd.. that he didn't wanted to put twists on most of the PF songs he chose for his show.

Blhaha

Another thing that I notice about this as opposed to the Pink Floyd videos are that the images and things you see are not mostly very real and they relate very well to the meaning of the songs. With PULSE you have some very cool images on the screen behind the band but a lot of the time they don't make much sense and to me are only there to appear "Floydish" and "cool".

Another point I wish to make. Roger is FANTASTIC on this

But his voice for the most part is excellent. Which proves my opinion that he "wanted" to sound "older" on. I think his voice on that record really is spooky and fits extremely well.

The Roger solo songs go extremely well. The way they can play those tunes and it almost sounds identical to the studio recordings.. just brilliant. But, I prefer the way Roger's voice was on ATD studio as opposed to the way it sounds on ATD tracks live.

I love Roger. An old time Floyd fan I know who has been a fan for over thirty years told me he prefers Roger's version over the original. I'm so sure I agree with that.. but I do like Roger's version on ITF. The slide is absolutely beautiful, "...two lost souls swimming in a fish bowl! year after year.." excellent. Doyle's playing is great.. the whole damn version is great. Nice how Roger makes the statement, "How I wish they were here.".

Anybody notice that Snowy White just absolutely rips farts in Set the Controls? I mean he is .. very dirty,

Doyle II is just fantastic... good God is he amazing or what? Snowy White is marvelous as always and Andy is solid as well. Snowy is awesome.

A classic moment when Snowy and Doyle play the CN solos and meet each other in the middle of the ramp or what ever slightly above the stage.

Another observation is how Roger is not very relaxed behind the scenes and how he's the "evil" man that so many people paint him up as. I highly doubt he's "acting" for the camera either.. I mean he's just very natural on many occasions. And what he puts into his show.. just incredible.. especially the solo tracks. So much feeling, heart, and soul. Those songs obviously mean a great deal to him and it's just awesome to see him on the DVD having so much fun and being so intimate with the crowd.

I'll close with saying that Roger is brilliant.. better than anything he's done as a solo artist.

I'm done rambling now.[/quote]

Wow... you sure soud stoned hear............

Post by **mosespa** » Tue Apr 01, 2003 8:01 pm

decampos wrote:The two lowpoints of the DVD, for me, is Roger's singing of 'welcome to the machine'. I think he shouldn't have done that. The other one is the appearance and behavior of Doyle Bramhall II - cocky and nonchalant and acting as though he owns the god-damned stage. He definitely needs a good hard smack. Anyone agree?

I disagree...I think anyone who can play a guitar upside down as well as he does has the right to be as cocky as he wishes.

Never mind the fact that he is one of a severly small number of people that SRV would allow onstage to jam with him.

I thought when I first heard the CD that Doyle's playing utterly sucked...then I saw the DVD and noticed that his guitar is strung upside down...that really changed my opinion. It's hard to play that way (although it is apparently second nature for him) and while I am no fan of cliche blues rock riffs, he does a damned good job.

He can be as cocky as he wishes...I think he deserves it.

decampos · Post by **decampos** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 9:45 pm

mosespa wrote:
decampos wrote:The two lowpoints of the DVD, for me, is Roger's singing of 'welcome to the machine'. I think he shouldn't have done that. The other one is the appearance and behavior of Doyle Bramhall II - cocky and nonchalant and acting as though he owns the god-damned stage. He definitely needs a good hard smack. Anyone agree?

I disagree...I think anyone who can play a guitar upside down as well as he does has the right to be as cocky as he wishes.

Never mind the fact that he is one of a severly small number of people that SRV would allow onstage to jam with him.

I thought when I first heard the CD that Doyle's playing utterly sucked...then I saw the DVD and noticed that his guitar is strung upside down...that really changed my opinion. It's hard to play that way (although it is apparently second nature for him) and while I am no fan of cliche blues rock riffs, he does a damned good job.

He can be as cocky as he wishes...I think he deserves it.

Fair enough. He just bugs me that's all. I have issues with people who have a superiority complex. His clothing and body language suggests he has one. Playing the guitar upside doesn't impress me at all either. A lot of left handers play that way.

Big Kelv · Post by **Big Kelv** » Wed Apr 02, 2003 10:05 pm

Being left-handed myself, my father refused to teach me guitar as a child due to the fact a second guitar was required in our poor household (strung upside down).

Wasn't Hendrix a left-hander? nuff said.

NewEarthMud · Post by **NewEarthMud** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 3:53 am

Since when does it matter what he wears?

I think Doyle is quite shy to be quite honest.. and sometimes shy people come off as "arrogant" which I don't think he is at all. Watch the behind the scenes thing.. he doesn't say much but he doesn't come off as arrogant.. just comes off as quiet.

He's obviously one hell of a guitar player for the reasons mossy listed, the main one being the interesting fact that not many know about... that SRV allowed him to jam onstage with him many times.

Doyle is a good player. Check out some of his live solo bootlegs with Smokestack..some great stuff.

decampos · Post by **decampos** » Thu Apr 03, 2003 8:41 am

NewEarthMud wrote:Since when does it matter what he wears?

well, it shouldn't matter really, but you do watch a DVD.

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