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David
Gilmour
"PISANO FOR PRESIDENT" - LDB Master Series #42
Piazza Santa Croce, Firenze,
Italy
2nd August 2006
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This is the first of the three shows that David Gilmour will
be playing over here. The background was the nice church of
Santa Croce in Firenze with a great atmosphere: italians but
also lots of tourists who did not want to miss this unique
opportunity. All windows of the flats around the square were
open with people watching the show (did they pay the ticket?).
he show started on time at 9 PM, with still some daylight,
but by the time David introduced the audience to the new album,
it was all dark. The show was very good indeed and the band
played very well. David was a kind of disappointment: he played
quite badly during the whole show. If you are familiar with
some guitar technique, you will find out why, by listening
to the show. He played lots of wrong notes. During Shine On
Crazy Diamond that was evident. But the worse had yet to come:
his steel guitar was completely out of tune during his final
solo on High Hopes, which was really awful, although maybe
of some more interest for those who owns every single date
of the tour. At one point he switched to the acoustic guitar
to end the track. Another good moment was during 'Shine On',
where he and Rick started playing the song in an acoustic
way, while all other members of the band were having a glass
of Chianti wine in a table nearby. At one point they started
to touch the top of the wine glasses around, creating a background
sound similar to Rick's keyboards.
The setlist was excellent, with the evident peak in Echoes,
but with some other excellent moments: Fat Old Sun and Astronomy
Domine (the latter being premiered in this summer segment
of the tour). Many nice selections from The Division Bell.
ow, the recording. I was sitting on the left side of the stage,
in a quite good position for taping. Unfortunately the audience
(at least the one close to me) was not very keen on paying
enough attention to the show. Some of them kept discussing
during the first part of the show if Gilmour's show was better
or worse than Water's one that they had seen a few weeks previously
in Lucca.
Another one received something like 20 phone calls on his
mobile phone, talking bullshit with all his relatives and
finally stating, during 'Shine On', that "the Pink Floyd are
playing Dark Side of the Moon" (?!). Fortunately, the chit-chat
ended somehow magically before Red Sky at Night. But overall,
this recording is in line with the usual LDB Master sound
quality, so I think you won't be disappointed by this one.
Musicians performing: David Gilmour: guitar & vocals,
Rick Wright; Keyboards, Guy Pratt: Bass, Phil Manzanera: Guitar,
Dick Parry: Saxophone, Jon Carlin: Keyboards and Steve DiStanislao:
Drums. |
CD
1:
1. Breathe (3:50)
2. Time / Breathe (reprise) (7:20)
3. Castellorizon (2:11)
4. On An Island (9:26)
5. The Blue (6:50)
6. Red Sky At Night (2:45)
7. This Heaven (4:40)
8. Then I Close My Eyes (7:27)
9. Band Introductions / Smile (6:56)
10. Take A Breath (4:31)
11. A Pocketful Of Stones (8:57)
12. Where We Start (8:13) |
CD
2:
1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5) (13:18)
2. Wearing the Inside Out (7:28)
3. Astronomy Domine (4:47)
4. Fat Old Sun (6:44)
5. Coming Back To Life (6:48)
6. High Hopes (10:20)
7. Echoes (25:50)
CD 3:
1. Wish You Were Here (5:33)
2. Comfortably Numb (10:11) |
Lineage
Details:
Aiwa microphone CM-DS6
> Sony Net MD MZ-N910 > Audigy Soundblaster > HD > SoundForge
7.0 > CD Wave > FLAC Frontend (level 6). |
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