Pink Floyd Tickets: They Changed Their Setlist To Include The Dark Side Of The Moon In Its Entirety
For several years the three members of Pink Floyd busied themselves with personal pursuits
, such as filming and competing in the Carrera Panamericana and later recording a soundtrack for the film. Gilmour divorced Ginger and Mason married actress Annette Lynton. In January 1993 the band began working on a new album. They returned to a then remodelled Britannia Row Studios, where for several days Gilmour, Mason, and Wright worked collaboratively, ad-libbing new material.
Bob Ezrin returned to work on the album and production moved to Astoria, where from February to May 1993 the band worked on about twenty-five ideas.Contractually, Wright was still not a full member of the band: "It came very close to a point where I wasn't going to do the album", a situation which clearly upset the keyboardist; however, he was given his first songwriting credit on a Pink Floyd album since 1975's Wish You Were Here.
Another songwriter credited on the album was Gilmour's new girlfriend, Polly Samson. She helped write "High Hopes" with Gilmour along with several other tracks a situation which, though initially tense, Ezrin said, "pulled the whole album together".She also helped Gilmour who had developed a cocaine habit following his divorce.Michael Kamen was brought in to work on the album's various string arrangements and Dick Parry and Chris Thomas also returned.
Keen to avoid competing against other album releasesthe band set a deadline of April 1994, at which point they would begin touring again. The album title was chosen by writer Douglas Adams and Storm Thorgerson once again provided the cover artwork.Thorgerson also provided six new pieces of film for the upcoming tour.
The band spent three weeks rehearsing in a hangar at Norton Air Force Base in San Bernardino, California,before opening on 29 March 1994 in Miami with an almost identical crew to that used for their Momentary Lapse of Reason tour. They played a mixture of Pink Floyd favourites, but later changed their setlist to include The Dark Side of the Moon in its entirety.
The band also renewed their acquaintance with Peter Wynne Willson.Waters declined the band's invitation to join them as the tour reached Europe, later expressing his annoyance that some Pink Floyd songs were again being performed in large venues.A 1,200 capacity stand collapsed at Earls Court during the European leg of the tour, but with no serious injuries, and the performance was rescheduled.
The tour ended on 29 October and was the group's final tour. A live album Pulse and a concert video, also called Pulse, were released in 1995. This would also be the last appearance of the band before the one-off reunion in 2005 during Live 8 and their performances of "Fat Old Sun" and "The Great Gig in the Sky" at the funeral of their manager Steve O'Rourke.Pink Floyd are regarded as pioneers in the live music experience and were renowned for their lavish stage shows, in which the performers themselves were almost secondary.
Pink Floyd also set high standards in sound quality, making use of innovative sound effects and quadraphonic speaker systems.From their earliest days they were well known for their use of visual effects, which accompanied the psychedelic rock pieces performed at venues such as the UFO Club in London.The quality of their live performances, even when pre-recorded, was considered by the band to be extremely important; they boycotted the press release of The Dark Side of the Moon as they felt presenting the album through a poor-quality PA system was not good enough.
The album had been composed and refined mostly while the band toured the UK, Japan, North America, and Europe.An inflatable floating pig named "Algie" became the inspiration for a number of pig themes used throughout the "In the Flesh Tour",which began in Dortmund and continued through Europe to the UK, and then the US.
by: Amanda Harrison
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