Pink Floyd at Pompeii MCMLXXII; Impressions Then and Now
Image courtesy of Imax As I was listening to the new release of the soundtrack to the 1972 film by Pink Floyd, Live at Pompeii , the thought occurred to me how much they improved the sound quality. This is knock your socks off stuff. Without going too deep into Floydian fandom, I'll go out on a limb here and suggest that this sounds like the Pink Floyd album that we all have dreamed of. Before we go too crazy, here's what we are dealing with. The original concert film (and this new soundtrack) thoroughly documents a moment in time; a very fortuitous one at that. The concert at Pompeii took place in the time between Pink Floyd's albums Meddle and Dark Side of the Moon . I've long thought that the song "Echoes" on the Meddle album was a sort of precursor to Dark Side of the Moon . Never mind the latter's sound effect driven commercial success. My interest has always been the essence of the music and I think that the point at which Meddle ends and Dark Si...