Produceret af David GilmourKoncert optaget 29. og 30. maj 2006
Udgivet 17. september 2007
Produceret af David Gilmour
Koncert optaget 29. og 30. maj 2006
Udgivet 17. september 2007
On an Island Live. For mange var højdepunktet ved Gilmours On an Island
tour denne koncert i London. DVD-udgivelsen er ment som en lille souvenir til dem
der oplevede en af koncerterne. Deraf titlen "Remember that Night"
Det overrasker
vel heller ikke at denne titel også er den første strofe der synges på netop pladen
"On an Island" på titelnummeret "On an Island".....
Han startede ellers sin turnee i Tyskland og sluttede i Polen med koncerten i Gdansk
DVD'erne optaget over to aftner i maj 2006 og det var mig bekendt de to eneste
aftner hvor Crosby og Nash var med. Det var med i hvert fald den eneste koncert
hvor David Bowie optrådte. Her er han med og synger på Arnold Layne og Comfortably
Numb.
Ligesom på Gilmour Live in Concert er
Robert Wyatt også med her. Selvfølgelig er også Richard Wrigt med på keyboard.
Ja hvem mere ? Jon Carin, Dick Parry, Guy Pratt, Phil Manzanera og på
trommer Steve DiStanislao. Det kan godt være at Gilmour er et geni på en guitar,
men havde han ikke været dét, ville dette lineup af musikkere nok alligevel have
garanteret en succesfuld koncertoplevelse. Nu ER han jo et geni så dette er et brag
af en koncert.
Noget vigtigt ved dene udgivelse som jeg desværre ikke kan gengive her, var den præsentation DVD-udgivelsen fik torsdag d.6. september. Adskillige biografer over det meste af Europa sendte live fra Odeon biografen / i London i HD-kvalitet (Hvad plejer de at bruge i en biograf ?;^) Først transmiterede de Gilmour live fra en biograf i London som så langsomt blev fadet ind i det første af adskillige klip fra DVD'en. En morsom lille event der udover denne musikalske oplevelse også var en anledning til at en del af os fans fra det hengangne Usandthem / pinkfloydforum.dk mødtes live!!
Nogle har været så heldige at få købt "2 Disc Special Edtion". Det er nu ikke så heldigt endda, for der er mig bekendt ikke lavet nogle ikke specielle udgaver. Det er i hvert fald ikke lykkedes mig at finde nogen enkelt disc-udgaver. Det er også ligegodt det samme, for der er jo en masse sjove ting på ekstradisken. Blandt andet en del af de numre fra koncerten der ikke blev plads til på selve koncert disken. Her er der blandt andet noget af det gamle Floyd med nummeret "Wot's... uh the Deal"
Alle numrene fra On an Island er selvfølgelig med på disk 1 som jo er selve koncert
disken. Udover det er der, ikke særligt overraskende, en del gamle Floyd numre.
Så er der også nummeret "Find the Cost of
Freedom" som er et nummer fra Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young's album "4 Way Street" fra
1971. Det er vel heller ikke særligt overraskende, når man husker på at både Crosby og
Nash er med som backingvocals.
Fedest af alt er stadig i mine øjne, når Bowie
kommer ind og synger "Arnold Layne". Jeg har stor respekt for den mands talenter,
og jeg synes han har en fed stemme. At Bowie synger lige dette nummer bunder i at
Bowie som ung så meget op til Barrett. Det nævnte han dengang Barrett døde.
Breathe, breathe in the air.
Don't be afraid to care.
Leave but don't leave
me.
Look around and choose your own ground.
Long you live and high you
fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all you touch and all
you see
Is all your life will ever be.
Run, rabbit run.
Dig that hole,
forget the sun,
And when at last the work is done
Don't sit down it's time
to dig another one.
For long you live and high you fly
But only if you
ride the tide
And balanced on the biggest wave
You race towards an early
grave.
Ticking away the moments that make up a dull day
You fritter and waste the hours
in an offhand way.
Kicking around on a piece of ground in your home town
Waiting for someone or something to show you the way.
Tired of lying in the
sunshine staying home to watch the rain.
You are young and life is long and there
is time to kill today.
And then one day you find ten years have got behind you.
No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun.
So you run and you
run to catch up with the sun but it's sinking
Racing around to come up behind
you again.
The sun is the same in a relative way but you're older,
Shorter
of breath and one day closer to death.
Every year is getting shorter never
seem to find the time.
Plans that either come to naught or half a page of scribbled
lines
Hanging on in quiet desperation is the English way
The time is gone,
the song is over,
Thought I'd something more to say.
Home, home again.
I like to be here when I can.
When I come home cold and
tired
It's good to warm my bones beside the fire.
Far away across the field
The tooling of the iron bell
Calls the faithful to their knees
To hear the
softly spoken magic spells.
Instrumental
On an Island [6:47](Gilmour; Gilmour Samson)
Remember that night...
White sails in the moonlight
They walked it too...
Through empty playground, this ghost's town
Children again on rusting swings
getting higher
Sharing a dream
On an Island.... it felt right
We lay
side by side,
Between the moon and the tide
Mapping the stars for a while
Let the night surround you
We're half way to the stars,
Ebb and flow
Let it grow..... feel the warmth beside you
Remember that night,
The warmth and the laughter
Candles burn...
Though the church was
deserted
At dawn we went down through empty streets to the harbour
Dreamers may leave ...but we're here everafter...
Da da da da da....
Let the night surround you
We're half way to the stars,
Ebb and flow
Let it grow..... feel the warmth beside you...
The Blue [5:26](Gilmour, Samson)
Shameless sea
Aimlessly so blue
Midnight moon shines for you
Still, marooned
Silence drifting through
Nowhere to choose
just blue...
Ceaselessly
star-crossed you and me
save our souls
we'll be forever
blue
Waves roll
lift us in blue
drift us
Seep right through
and colour us blue
Wait for me
shameless you, the sea
soon, the
blue
so soon...
Soon the blue, so soon
Red Sky at Night [2:51] (Gilmour)
Instrumental
This Heaven [4:24](Gilmour, Gilmour samson)
All the pieces fall into place
when we walk these fields
and I reach
out and touch your face
This earthly heaven is enough for me
So break
the bread and pour the wine
I need no blessings but I'm counting mine
Life is much more than money byes
when I see the faith in my children's eyes
I've felt the power in a holy place
Whished for comfort when in need
Now I'm here in a state of grace
This earthly heaven is enough for me
So break the bread and pour the wine
I need no blessings but I'm counting
mine
Life is much more than money buys
when I see the faith in my children's
eyes
Then I Close my Eyes [5:28] (Gilmour)
Instrumental
Smile [4:03] (Gilmour, Samson)
Would this do
to make it allright
while sleep has taken you
where I'm
out of sight
I'll make my getaway
time on my own
Search for a better
way
to find my way home to your smile
Wasting days and days
on
this fight
always down and up
half the night
Hopeless to reminisce
through the dark hours
We'll only sacrifice
what time will allow us you're
sighing... sighing
All alone
though you're right here
Now it's time
to go
from your sad stare
Make my getaway
time on my own
leaving's
a better way
to find my way home to your smile... smile
your smile
Take a Breath [5:46] (Gilmour, Samson)
Take a breath
take a deep breath now
take a breath
a deep breath now
take a breath
when you're down is where you find yourself
when
you drown there's nothing else
and if you're lost you'll need to turn yourself
Then you'll find out that there's no-one else
To make the moves that
you can do
when you fall from grace your eyes in blue
your every breath
becomes another world
and the far horizon's living hell
Take a breath
take a deep breath now
Take a breath
a deep breath now
Take a breath
This kind of love is hard to find
I never got
to you by being kind
If I'm the one to throw you overboard
at least I
showed you how to swim for shore
When you're down is where you'll know
yourself
that if you drown there's nothing else
When you're lost you need
to find youself
then you'll find out that there's no-one else
A Pocketful of Stones [6:18] (Gilmour, Samson)
He's sending stones skimming and flying
Circles spinning out his time
Though the earth is dying his head is in the stars
chances are this spark's
a lifetime
Out of tuoch he'll live in wonder
Won't loose sleep he'll
just pretend
In his world he won't go under
Turns without him till the
end
Rivers run dry but there's no line on his brow
Says he doesn't
care who's saved
It's just the dice you roll, the here and now
and he's
not guilty or afraid
One day he'll slip away
cool water flowing all
around
In the river and on the ground
leave a pocketful of stones and
not belive in other lives
Until then he'll live in wonder
He won't
fight or comprehend
In his world he won't go under
Turns without him till
the end
Where We Start [6:46](Gilmour)
Where we start is where we end
We step out sweetly, with nothing planned
Along by the river we feed bread to the swans
and then over the footbridge
to the woods beyond
We walk ourselves weary
you and I
There's just
this moment
I light a campfire away from the path
We lie in the
bluebells, a woodpecker laughs
Time passes slowly our hearts entwined
All of the dark times left behind
The days is done
The sun sinks low
We fold up the blanket, it's time to go
We walk ourselves weary,
arm in arm
back trough the twillight
home again
We're home again
We waltz in the moonlight and the embers glow
so much behind us
still
far to go
Still far to go
Remember when you were young,
You shone like the sun.
Shine on you crazy
diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes,
Like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the crossfire
of childhood
and stardom,
Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway
laughter,
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine!
You reached for the secret too soon,
You cried for the moon.
Shine on you
crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night,
And exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome
With random
percision,
Rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions,
Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine!
When the fat old sun in the sky is falling
Summer evenin' birds are calling
Summer's thunder time of year
The sound of music in my ears
Distant
bells, new mown grass
Smells so sweet
By the river holding hands
Roll me up and lay me down
And if you sit don't make a sound
Pick your
feet up off the ground
And if you hear as the warm night falls
The
silver sound from a time so strange
Sing to me, sing to me
When that
fat old sun in the sky is falling
Summer evenin' birds are calling
Children's laughter in my ears
The last sunlight disappears
And if
you sit don't make a sound
Pick your feet up off the ground
And if
you hear as the warm night falls
The silver sound from a time so strange
Sing to me, sing to me
When that fat old sun in the sky is falling
Coming Back To Life (Gilmour) [6:19]
Where were you when I was burned and broken
While the days slipped by from
my window watching
And where were you when I was hurt and I was helpless
Because the things you say and the things you do surround me
While you were
hanging yourself on someone else's words
Dying to believe in what you heard
I was staring straight into the shining sun
Lost in thought and lost in
time
While the seeds of life and the seeds of change were planted
Outside the rain fell dark and slow
While I pondered on this dangerous but
irresistible pastime
I took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew
the moment had arrived
For killing the past and coming back to life
I
took a heavenly ride through our silence
I knew the waiting had begun
And headed straight into the shining sun
High Hopes (Gilmour, Samson) [8:31]
Beyond the horizon of the place we lived when we were young
In a world of
magnets and miracles
Our thoughts strayed constantly and without boundary
The ringing of the division bell had begun
Along the Long Road and
on down the Causeway
Do they still meet there by the Cut
There was
a ragged band that followed in our footsteps
Running before times took our
dreams away
Leaving the myriad small creatures trying to tie us to the
ground
To a life consumed by slow decay
The grass was greener
The
light was brighter
When friends surrounded
The nights of wonder
Looking beyond the embers of bridges glowing behind us
To a glimpse of how
green it was on the other side
Steps taken forwards but sleepwalking back
again
Dragged by the force of some inner tide
At a higher altitude with
flag unfurled
We reached the dizzy heights of that dreamed of world
Encumbered forever by desire and ambition
There's a hunger still
unsatisfied
Our weary eyes still stray to the horizon
Though down this
road we've been so many times
The grass was greener
The light was
brighter
The taste was sweeter
The nights of wonder
With friends
surrounded
The dawn mist glowing
The water flowing
The endless river
Forever and ever
Echoes [23:27](Waters, Wright, Mason, Gilmour)
Overhead the albatross
Hangs motionless upon the air
And deep beneath
the rolling waves
In labyrinths of coral caves
An echo of a distant
time
Comes willowing across the sand
And everything is green and
submarine.
And no one called us to the land
And no one knows the
where's or why's.
Something stirs and something tries
Starts to climb
toward the light.
Strangers passing in the street
By chance two
separate glances meet
And I am you and what I see is me.
And do I take
you by the hand
And lead you through the land
And help me understand
The best I can.
And no one called us to the land
And no one
crosses there alive
No one speaks and no one tries
No one flies around
the sun....
Almost everyday you fall
Upon my waking eyes,
Inviting and inciting me
To rise.
And through the window in the wall
Come streaming in on sunlight wings
A million bright ambassadors of
morning.
And no one sings me lullabyes
And no one makes me close
my eyes
So I throw the windows wide
And call to you across the sky....
"Wish You Were Here" [5'40] (Waters, Gilmour)
So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?
And did they get you to trade
Your
heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
for a lead role in a cage?
How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.
Find the Cost of Freedom Stephen Stills
Find the cost of freedom buried in the ground
Mother Earth will swallow you,
lay your body down
Find the cost of freedom buried in the ground
Mother
Earth will swallow you, lay your body down
Arnold Layne [2:52] (Barrett)
Arnold Layne had a strange hobby
Collecting clothes
Moonshine washing
line
They suit him fine
On the wall hung a tall mirror
Distorted
view, see through baby blue
Oh, Arnold Layne
It's not the same, takes
two to know
Two to know, two to know
Why can't you see?
Arnold Layne,
Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne
Now he's caught - a nasty sort of person.
They gave him time
Doors bang
- chain gang - he hates it
Oh, Arnold Layne
It's not the same, takes
two to know
Two to know, two to know
Why can't you see?
Arnold
Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne, Arnold Layne
Don't do it again
Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there
anyone at home?
Come on, now,
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease
your pain
Get you on your feet again.
Relax.
I'll need some information
first.
Just the basic facts.
Can you show me where it hurts?
There is
no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only
coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now
I've got that feeling once again
I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.
O.K.
Just a
little pin prick.
There'll be no more aaaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little
sick.
Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good.
That'll keep you
going through the show
Come on it's time to go.
There is no pain you are
receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through
in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.
When I was a
child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned
to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb
