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Once again, something is going on too far away for me to be fussed travelling all the way to! Gerald Scarfe, who is responsible for all those amazing caracatures featured in Pink Floyd’s The Wall live shows, film and album sleeve, is having an exhibition in Germany of lots of his Pink Floyd things as well as his other political work. Anyway, here is the news feature on Gerald Scarfe Germany Exhibition Tear Down The Wall.
It will be the 30th Anniversary of the release of Pink Floyd’s The Wall in November 2009 which is only a couple of months away now. It would therefore be very fitting if a re-release of The Wall was issued to the fans. But, instead of just rehashing what already existed and adding a new booklet and charging loads of money for it, it would be nice if there was some new material. Hence an SACD would be nice! Some of The Wall concerts of 1980-81 were recorded to film according to Roger Waters but he felt that the quality of the filming was not good enough to warrant releasing it on a DVD. But, perhaps, it would be very suitable to be included on a hybrid SACD for example presented in glorious 5.1 stereo! Such an SACD would also be even more of a treat if it were to...
Australian Pink Floyd @ Liverpool Echo Arena…
A mock-up of what The Wall could have been… according to David Gilmour! It is often said that The Final Cut is “simply left-overs from The Wall.” This misconception (as I am about to demonstrate this notion to be,) often seems to stem from one of two places: 1. A comment in the book A Saucerful Of Secrets: The Pink Floyd Odyssey by Nicholas Schaffner in which David Gilmour is quoted as saying “…songs that we threw off The Wall, he (Waters) brought them back for The Final Cut–same songs. Nobody thought they were that good then; what makes them so good now?” 2. The fact that at one time, The Final Cut was originally intended to be either the soundtrack to the film of The Wall, or an album of songs that were re-recorded especially for the movie (such as Mother, Goodbye Blue Sky and both versions of In...