WKYC-3 Raw Footage
Data: 26 May 1994 |
1. Learning To Fly. 2. What Do You Want From Me. 3. On The Turning Away. |
This is a TV company filmed News Report,it's a single camera shot with nice audio.The Cameraman keeps the shot going as the crew leave the stadium.
David Gilmour - Guitars / Vocals
Nick Mason - Drums
Richard Wright - Keyboards / Vocals
with -
Sam Brown - Backing Vocals
Jon Carin - Keyboards
Claudia Fontaine - Backing Vocals
Durga McBroom - Backing Vocals
Dick Parry - Saxophones
Guy Pratt - Bass Guitars
Tim Renwick - Guitars
Gary Wallis - Percussion
Notes on pf-db.com
PINK FLOYD
Cleveland, Ohio May 26, 1994
WKYC News Footage - BWHI-LRG-VCD04
01. Pre-Show Stage Footage - 0:35
02. Learning to Fly - 5:21
03. Stage Chatter - 0:18
04. What Do You Want From Me - 4:15
05. On the Walking Away - 2:39
"Anyone reading this who has ever covered live
concerts events for the media is probably familiar with the standard rule that
you can shoot all the pictures and film you like for the first two or three
songs. After that point, however, no photos or other video footage may be shot,
unless in specific (and very rare) special cases. In the case of Pink Floyd's
1994 tour, this visual media clearance rule applied to the second and third
songs of the band's standard set list - this was most likely stipulated to
insure the visual surprise of "Astronomy Domine"'s 70 foot-high slide
projections to a prospective audience. Anyway, this is why "Learning to Fly" and
"What Do You Want From Me?" are the only songs from these concerts that one
could ever spot on the local news whenever a Floyd appearance that evening was
being reported on the eleven o' clock wrap-up. Now, for "highlights" of these
two songs to be interspersed through an "on-the-scene" news report shown by a
local TV station (say ...WKYC in Cleveland), it follows that full versions of
these songs were recorded and then edited to fit around the reporter's
commentary (or used as a visual "bed" for a voice-over). From there, one can
then surmise that a copy of the unedited live footage must therefore exist (or
have existed) in the WKYC archives ... and I'll be damned if I didn't quite
literally run into a copy of this footage a few years back. The story involved
in how I came across this tape in the first place is simply too involved to tell
here, but suffice to say that after a bit of wheedling and begging, I was able
to procure a low-generation copy of two complete songs shot by the NBC affiliate
on that ridiculously frigid May evening." While the WKYC tape admittedly doesn't
offer a whole hell of a lot in the area of visual surprises (save for a couple
of looks at the silently steaming stage while the band's pre-show sound effects
tape is running), it is, regardless, the only way I have ever found to get a
pro-shot "What Do You Want From Me" and a non-Mr. Screen version of "Learning To
Fly" (yes, I realize how innately geeky all of this must sound, but as we've
long ago passed the point of casual fan interest, I don't feel nearly so
self-conscious about it anymore). Following these two songs (bridged together by
a reasonably chipper David Gilmour welcoming the crowd with a sardonic "Merry
Christmas" in response to the 38 degrees Fahrenheit show time temperature), the
tape cuts off. The picture then comes back on again after a moment, treating us
to three minutes of camera-eye-view footage of the camera crew walking by the
audience (with a quick glance towards the stage as "On The Turning Away" blares
forth), and then leaving the now-razed stadium itself. Our intrepid reporters
then venture forth into the parking lot (all the while obviously freezing their
asses off) and clamber into the news van for the ostensibly warmer ride back to
the TV station. For those who find such "behind the scenes" touches interesting,
this might be worth a look-see. The rest of you can hit stop after "What Do You
Want From Me" and be happy with that." - ash`
Dodano: 15.08.2012