Have You Found It Up There, Andy?
| Data: 16 March 2006 Miejsce: L'Olympia, Paris, France |
CD 1 1. Castellorizon 2. On An Island 3. The Blue 4. The Great Gig In The Sky 5. Happy Birthday 6. Red Sky At Night 7. This Heaven 8. Then I Close My Eyes 9. Smile 10. Take A Breath 11. A Pocketful Of Stones 12. Where We Start CD 2 1. Shine On You Crazy Diamond (interrupted) 2. Shine On You Crazy Diamond 3. Wot's... Uh The Deal 4. Wearing The Inside Out 5. Fat Old Sun 6. Breathe 7. Time 8. Breathe (reprise) 9. High Hopes 10. Echoes CD 3 1. Applause 2. Wish You Were Here 3. Comfortably Numb |
This gig at the Olympia was the 2nd Parisian gig of the 2006
"On An Island" European Tour (David played the evening before at the Grand Rex
Theatre, not far from the Olympia).
The concert at the Olympia had some particularities that made that show very
unique.
Firstly, David invited Sam Brown to sing The Great Gig In The Sky, as she was in
town that night to perform with Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues
Orchestra, at the Trabendo. She performed during the 1st set, just after "The
Blue", and probably left the Olympia just after the song, to fulfill her
obligations with the Jools Holland band...
Just after this nice surprise, some French people in the audience began to wish
a happy birthday to David, who turned 60 just 10 days earlier, on March 6th.
Then most of the audience sang the famous "Happy Birthday" song to David.
A third particularity of the Olympia gig is due to a big larsen problem during "Shine
On You Crazy Diamond", at the beginning of the first verse. David stopped, and
after the problem was identified (refer to the title of the RoIO ;-)), David
restarted the song from the beginning! Furthermore - probably to avoid to play
twice the same solos during the same concert - he did totally improvised lines
during the intro, and also during the first electric solo just after Syd's Theme!
This performance of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" at the Olympia is therefore a
very unique version, with alternate solos, almost totally improvised and very
exciting to hear!
The Olympia concert was also the first one where David played "Fat Old Sun"
instead of "Dominoes" (and he was totally on fire during the final electric
solo!).
The recording from Xave was excellent, and needed just slight adjustments on the
levels (on the raw recording, the level of the audience parts was far too loud
compared to the rest of the recording). After comparing with the other sources
we were able to hear from that night, we believe this could be the best
recording of the Olympia concert.
Dodano: 20.11.2006
