Pink Floyd: The Dark Side of the Moon

Pink Floyd Director: Matthew Longfellow

Overview

"A making-of documentary about the classic 1973 album, Pink Floyd: Dark Side of the Moon gets released on DVD from Eagle Rock Entertainment. The image is presented with a widescreen transfer and the soundtrack is offered in Dolby Digital 2.0. Features individual interviews with bandmembers Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright about the writing and recording process. Also features concert and studio footage, video clips, and original demo recording sessions. Engineer Alan Parsons and cover artist Storm Thorgerson offer commentary, while several music journalists and record label executives reveal some brief insight. Discussions involve studio-specific techniques to create the clock loops on ""Time,"" the cash register sounds on ""Money,"" and the vocal chorus on ""The Great Gig in the Sky."" The special features go in-depth about individual songs, including solo acoustic versions of ""Brain Damage"" and ""Breathe."""

Product Details

Release Date:	09/02/2003
UPC:	0801213004294
Original Release:	2003
Source:	Eagle Rock Ent
Region Code:	1
Sound:	[Dolby Digital Stereo]
Language:	English
Time:	1:24:00
Sales rank:	28,070

Special Features

An In-Depth Look at the Making of The Dark Side of the Moon ; Acoustic Versions of "Brain Damage" and "Breathe" ; Exclusive individual performances by members of the group and interviews with: ; David Gilmour ; Nick Mason ; Roger Waters ; Richard Wright

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

Pink Floyd

Performer,Primary Artist

Technical Credits

Geoff Kempin	Executive Producer
Matthew Longfellow	Director
Terry Shand	Executive Producer
Nick de Grunwald	Producer
Martin R. Smith	Producer

Editorial Reviews

This visual documentary of the making of The Dark Side of the Moon is everything it should be. There are interviews with all four of the band members, as well as some music critics and key associates like engineer Alan Parsons, sleeve designer Storm Thorgerson, and mix supervisor Chris Thomas; some vintage footage of the band working on the material in the studio; and, perhaps most exciting of all to those already familiar with the basic story, some excerpts of bare demos of songs that ended up on the album. It seems like Nick Mason doesn't have as much to say about the project as the others (particularly Waters and Gilmour), but the band's articulate on both the development of the music and, in Waters's case, the lyrical themes. Richard Wright, for his part, has a nice bit where he discusses the Miles Davis-derived source for one of the particularly memorable chords in "Breathe." There are some other stories which aren't overly familiar, like the source of some of the spoken-word aphorisms mixed into the background, the discussion over cover design selection, and "Us and Them"'s roots in material the band recorded for the Zabriskie Point soundtrack. The participation of session vocalists (particularly Claire Torry's scatting on "The Great Gig in the Sky"), and saxophonist Dick Parry is also discussed, though unfortunately there's no interview material with any of them. The DVD bonus material adds more extensive interview comments that didn't fit into the main feature. ~ Richie Unterberger