🎵 Pink Floyd - Shine On You Crazy Diamond REACTION 

If this blows you away wait till you hear the studio version.

The more Pink Floyd songs are in peoples playlists, the better world we live in.

It's funny how a guitar can work wonders with your emotions without singing, David is a genius

When it comes to Pink Floyd... THEY are their own GENRE.

Don't know how many times I've done a "Dark Side of the Moon"/"Wish You Were Here" marathon in the dark, in a recliner, with a great pair of headphones. That is creativity to the next level.

This song is about Pink Floyd's good friend and bandmate Syd Barrett. Syd Barrett was a founding member of Pink Floyd in 1964. Syd was the singer, songwriter and guitarist of Pink Floyd but, because of his massive abuse of LSD and other mind-altering drugs, he was forced to leave the band by the end of 1967. Syd is the Crazy Diamond they're referring to, this whole album is about Syd Barrett. The name of the album and the title song, "Wish You Were Here",.. is him, he's the one they are wishing was here.

'You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon' 'Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky' These verses show how genius has a fine line with madness. It demonstrates well what happened to Syd.

As much as the live versions are good, nothing beats the studio version and video in my view. It’s mesmerising…

On June 5th 1975, as the band were in the studio, each of them wondered who the bald, overweight man fussing around the back of the studio was. Most assumed that he was one of the engineers. His presence went unchallenged. Every band member has a different version of that story. 'A large, fat bloke with a shaven head, wearing an old tan Mac and carrying a plastic shopping bag' " I was in tears" said Roger Waters. He pointed out to the keyboard player, "You don't know who that guy is do you? It's Syd." It was a huge shock, he kept standing up and brushing his teeth, then sitting down again, and saying nothing. This appearance coincided with a playback of Shine On You Crazy Diamond. That was the last time they saw Syd Barrett.

*Every Pink Floyd has one thing in common: the most mellow audience at a concert. Everyone is mesmerized.*

"They put it together in their world and then bring it into ours" I've never heard what Pink Floyd does expressed better. You get it girl!

My absolute favorite Floyd song. Studio version, dark room, good headphones, maybe a bowl...amazing.

Pink Floyd are on a level all their own. They take you on an emotional journey with their music. When you start paying more attention the lyrics they take you deeper into that journey. I have been a fan for at least 50 years I enjoy watching young people appreciate the music I grew up on.

I was 15 when this album came out. All you need is a blunt, a cool dark room, a soft bed, your girl beside you and this playing softly in the background… pure heaven 🙂

Pink Floyd was eons ahead of their time musically. I never get tired of listening to their tunes.

Some of the greatest musicians of all time. 😎

In my opinion to get the full effect of this song you need to listen to the Studio/album version.

Don't worry, I've been playing guitar for around 34 years now, and I still can't bend em quite like Gilmour. The man can give a masterclass on "feel"

This entire Pulse concert is worth a reaction honestly, every track in it is mesmerizing along with the set pieces and lighting. Also features one of the best guitar solos in history on Comfortably Numb, well extended over the album version.

This is for kicking back with headphones and a dim room. They truly are an experience.

Pink Floyd has been plugging into people's souls for decades 🤘🤘🎸

I saw this same show in N.Y. 1994. The concert brochure said the stage is 120 feet wide. It takes a crew of 60 technicians three days to set up the entire lights and all. The concert schedule required that there had to be three entire crews to keep up. They leap frogged each other for 92 shows with 20 Trucks per crew and a total staff of 195. The tour cost the promoters $98.MILLION to put on, but the total profit was $260 MILLION… I have seen Pink Floyd 4 times. I met David Gilmour in 1984 back stage at a concert in Hollywood Calif. We talked for 22 minutes. I called him…“The Master Of The Stratocaster” He smiled. I asked if I could shake both his hands that make such great guitar solos, he smiled bigger and said “Sure” and shock both hands at the same time, I smiled HUGE. I asked him to describe his technique of playing guitar, he replied… “I strike a note, bend it, shake it and then release it”…. Yes, he does that quite well.

Music is Music... Pink Floyd is an experience..

I love to crank this in my car when going down the interstate late at night... Pink Floyd just makes you feel so many things during a song.. Every part is so well placed.. My favorite band of all time... When I was young it made me feel so many ways about the present and future.. Now it makes me reflect on my life and all its craziness.. If you ever go to Houston, TX.. Go to the planetarium and catch a Pink Floyd laser show.. It is a whole experience and this song just crushes at 3000 watts of surround sound in an acoustically perfect structure...

Pink Floyd was a "Progressive Rock" band. They were musical alchemist who took Rock, Blues, Jazz, and even elements of Folk and melded them into a sound that was all their own.

This song is immaculate. The Pulse live version of Comfortably Numb is the best live performance I’ve ever seen.

A few seconds of sound and guitar playing and lex starts smiling. This is Pink Floyd music.

Every Pink Floyd concert isn't just a hearing experience but also a visual experience. When you leave you are in a different state of being. I've been to several of their concerts and never disappointed. Absolutely fabulous!

This song is a dedication to Sid Barrett the founder of The Pink Floyd he lost his mind to bad LSD trips and they replaced him with David Gilmour. R.I.P. Sid Barrett .

I'm sure someone else will already have told you this - but just in case.... Syd Barratt was the original leader (lead singer, lead guitarist and main songwriter). He was beautiful, charismatic and full of energy and quirky ideas. A crazy diamond. Unfortunately after the first album Syd overdid it with the chemical stimulae and fried his brain. He was still walking around but the lights had gone out. He could no longer function sufficiently to stay in the band. 10 years later they wrote Shine on you Crazy Diamond about, and as a tribute to, Syd. Whilst they were recording it at Abbey Road they suddenly noticed that a fat old bald guy had walked into the studio and was listening. And then, to their astonishment, they realised it was Syd! None of them had seen or spoken to him for years. How spooky is that?!

You need to listen to the whole Pink Floyd catalog. Their music is ageless.

Dave Gilmour is an amazing guitarist and he’s got a very distinctive voice as well. Everything he does is measured and balanced like a feather on golden scales and he still has that beautiful glimpse of youth and enthusiasm and almost slight mischief in his eye even if he is obviously not a young man anymore. But his soul never grows old it seems.

Love it. This songs takes patience but it's worth the wait. When I was a kid I would only listen to The Wall and Dark Side of the Moon. As I've gotten older, I recognize Wish You Were Here and Animals as equally great if not better albums. This song grows on me each time I hear it.

Great reaction guys. Pink Floyd are deeper than the Mariana trench, smoother than a quantum stabilized atom mirror, cooler than an iceberg in a river of liquid nitrogen and more zen than 1,000 Buddhist monasteries...

Oh man, there is nothing quite like seeing Pink Floyd live! The lighting effects, the circular video screen, the stage production. What else....? Oh yeah, the second to none, pure perfection musicality!! To me this song is the quintessential Floyd. If someone had never heard them before (that's just not possible though, right? 😆) and wanted to know what they were about, this is the song I would play for them.

They opened with this song , the whole Pulse concert is incredible and is a must to watch ,Please react to more !

so glad you guys finally got to this, when you get a chance Brad and Lex, listen to the album version, Shine On You Crazy Diamond opens and closes the wish you were here album. Listen to it together when you both are chilling with a glass of wine or whatever adult beverage you prefer. You will love it :)

This is like a Prog Rock arrangement of a classical music composition. It has 9 parts (like "movements" in classical), some of the parts were totally omitted and some were shortened for this live performance. I highly recommend that you listen to the studio version with all 9 parts. It is truly a Prog Rock masterpiece that gets better each time you hear it.

The intro to this is just absolutely so sublime.

It never gets old. Decades of listening to this and I come back all the time. Shine On.

Chill jazz blues rock! Epic performance! Pink Floyd was especially loved by all us psychonauts back in the day. 😉♥

To me this song is melancholy distilled to its purest form. The longing for something/someone that has passed you by and will never return, yet lives on in your heart and mind.

“They put it together in their world…” perfectly said by Lex and Brad said “they are from another universe.” When DSOTM came out I was 13 and I had never heard music like that. I still believe it’s ahead of it’s time especially today.

Brad, my man, you get it at one level but Lex feels it. You guys complement each other very well. That’s why you are a great couple. Keep on discovering music and discussing and feeling it.

The first sax is a baritone sax lower range, the second one is higher pitched and is a tenor sax. This is the only time I ever saw anyone have one sax on standby while playing another. Switching without banging them together must take a lot of practice. I have handled both kinds of sax and they are not light, that's nothing short of amazing in my opinion.

When listening to Floyd, first react to studio version.

Perfectly said: They put it together in their world and then bring it to us. Exactly how I think of Pink Floyd songs!

Pink Floyd experiments in music.This song was dedicated and about original founding member Syd Barrett who sadly lost a battle to mental illness. He was incredibly creative and when i was lost in his own crazy world they wrote crazy Diamond.

Been waiting 4 this. This is the greatest song ever composed. Hands down. When the world ends this will be playing

This was written as a tribute to their original lead singer, Syd Barrett. He was a bit too fond of psychedelics and pretty much fried his brain.

This song is about the original founder of Pink Floyed....Syd Barrett. An amazing talent who fell to the pressure of fame. Much like Amy Winehouse.... R.I.P. to great talents.....

when I bought this album 47 years ago I couldn't stop playing it .. and Lexs mmmmm reminded me how it made me feel, plus it had a few fold out posters so value wise 👌... yet priceless

Absolute certified masterpiece. Their best IMHO, and for me this live performance is tops along with Zep's live ('73) version of Since I've Been Loving you. Gilmour is on my Mount Rushmore and it is indeed because of his 'bends,' as it adds so much juice and emotion to the solo. The song is a tribute to their former bandmate Syd Barrett. Do yourself a favor and dig into the lyrics a bit and watch the video to the studio version. Rock on guys✌

One of the first FM rock stations in Boston. On its last day on air back a few years ago. Because of a format, and call letter change. The very last song WBCN played was this very live version of this song. The station was supposed to end at a midnight deadline. But the station survived 10 minutes past the deadline. R.I.P. WBCN!

the only guitar player that plays like him his BB King, there's a song with the both of them , almost can't tell the difference... Master of his domaine !!!

this was my favorite song summiting. 30 years late the beat reminds of those arduous journeys good times

Shine on You crazy Diamond SYD RIP

One of Floyd's masterpieces.

I loved that......."They put it together in their world, then bring it to ours."

Brad, she’s a keeper! Don’t let her go😎

This entire concert is a masterpiece in musicality, probably one of if not, the the best live concerts ever. Please do more from Pulse. 👍👍👍

Before Roger Waters left Floyd in the early 1980s, the band generally played this song in the order of presentation in the ("concept") album, with other major genres before and after ("Welcome to the Machine" is pretty industrial electronica, for ex!). When I saw Floyd in '75 they played the entire DarkSide... lp before playing the whole WishUWere... album, AND they always had videos above the stage portraying major themes in the songs. Thanx for the reaction, which stokes many memories!

the long intro is so beautiful and then when those guitar notes come in it's stunning.

I had the pleasure of seeing Pink Floyd live twice in the 1990s. Their concerts are meant to be an experience for all of the senses. They had speakers arranged around the entire bowl of the football stadium where they were playing (front, rear, and along each sideline) and they had lasers, lights, and pyrotechnics that would illuminate every part of the stage, the crowd, and the entire venue. They also used enormous props, including inflatable characters the size of a small blimp, and a full-size plane on a zipwire that "crashed" into a corner of the stage from the back of the stadium at one point in the show. The big circular video screen in the center of the stage above the band has several uses. At times it is simply a reflective white surface that reflects the color of the lights being shone on it from various parts of the light rigs; at other times it shows closeup video of the musicians on the stage, and other times it shows abstract videos that are made to accompany the songs. They have a couple of concert DVDs, the most famous of which is the Pulse concert DVD from 1994. I believe "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" is one of many tribute songs that Pink Floyd composed as a remembrance of their former band mate, Syd Barret, who was a founding member and an integral part of Pink Floyd before they gained commercial success. He experimented with drugs and eventually descened into madness or suffered brain damage (whether from drug use or some other medical condition, I don't honestly know). He could no longer record or perform with the band, and they lost touch with him, but he became something of a muse and a touchstone for them on many of their later commercially successful albums. Many songs seem to be a nod to their "lost" bandmate and a remembrance of his creative genius and the musical gifts he brought to the group that helped them become the band they are. I think the members of Pink Floyd always believed that there never would have been a Pink Floyd without Syd Barrett, and they never would have developed their experimental, unique, and hauntingly beautiful musical style if it hadn't been for his involvement in the band during its formative years and his later inability to continue with the band due to his medical condition.

A lot of people love Pink Floyd live, most notably the Pulse concert. And certainly they have stellar live performances But I absolutely prefer Floyd in the studio any day of the week. I just love the magic this band captures in the studio.

I believe this song was written for/about Syd Barrett

jazz, rock it's just music and typeless and timeless, it's everything

For sure there will never be such a masterpiece of music be made again. Today is not the time for making such music, except Pink Floyd make it. But it is still the time to listen to this sort of music, even for the generation X, Y etc. in future. Pink Floyds music will never be forgotten or die, that's sure!

Many of us lost a friend at a young age. This song makes me wonder how much worse the grief would have been for me if my cousin and friend who both died when we were all in our early twenties had had happen to them what happened to Syd Barrett. A sort of living death, like a person in a vegetative state, only conscious.

David Gilmore is, imo, the greatest guitar player ever. His leads are harmonious and ethereal. His use of effects is phenomenal. I don't think another guitar player has or will ever garner $4,000,000 for the instrument that made much of the iconic music that David produced from the icon Black Strat. Glad enjoyed this. I've been a Pink Floyd fan since 1970. I seen them 73 and again in 78. I will never forget them playing this, it was fantastic.

The "aaawwwwweeeee" Moment was so cute. Best concept album of all time.

I was at this gig at Earls Court London...... Still the best gig I've ever been to

Y’all, if you’re going to listen to them live, please watch them live in Pompeii when they were in there prime. You will not be disappointed, if you do a video on it do Echoes, if you listen on your personal time , listen to the long version.

This is fantastic live, but a person hearing it for the first time must listen to the studio version first. One of the best parts of this song is some guitar soloing that was skipped in this live version.

Classic PINK FLOYD. ❤

Every time I hear this album it reminds me of when I was stationed on Okinawa back in the late 70’s, love Pink Floyd !

Still the most beautiful sounding guitar player. Am sure others have already given you the history of this song and why it means so much to the band members and all Pink Floyd fans. I saw Floyd live 4 times, this always a special moment. One thing I'd say is for any first time Floyd listens, always go for the studio version first just to get into the song. Not that this live version isn't brilliant, it is. Still, you got to see that string work.... And it is "so chill" as you said!

I prefer the LP version myself but still a great number.

Love 70s Pink Floyd. I listen to it almost daily. Chillen.

The look on Lex's face is priceless, so glad you guy's enjoy the music I grew up with. Our kids were both born in the 80's and are big Pink Floyd & Beatles fans.

Please please please react to the entire Dark side of the moon album at once to understand the EPIC(NESS) we are dealing with here. They meant it to be heard in its entirety with no pauses. It will change your lives⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

If Floyd isn't in someone's all time top ten, do they even like music?

Now you're talkin. PINK FLOYD My all time favorite.

That saxophone so well played the emotions flow from it.

Live is great. But album version is perfect. It’s arguably their best…and since they’re in a league of their own, arguably one of the best songs. Ever.

I’d like to highly suggest Empty Spaces/Young Lust” from the Wall album- “Empty Spaces” is a short yet powerful intro into “Young Lust.” it’s a good stand alone song ,even though the entire album runs into each song- it’s got a more upbeat, funky vibe- I mean geesh! Love this one, that was one, all of them are masterpieces- Geesh..It’s Pink Floyd-they’re phenomenal!

Pink Floyd are just too good. All these great musicians in the same band.

I was at their concert in Venice in 1989. The stage was on a huge raft on the sea. Unforgettable!

PF are good live, however they cant recreate the exact album audio. ALWAYS, ALWAYS, always listen to the original recording for the first time hearing any song

That's not PF. It's a Dave Gilmorr solo show.

Definitely a reflection of your life song and a moment to remember those who have gone on song.

Been listening to this for 47 years. It never “fades”, or “diminishes”….It’s stood the test of time……Oh, Syd….😞

Every aspiring guitarist should watch David Gilmore play. He's so expressive with just a few notes. Shredders can certainly be impressive but no shredder can move you like Gilmore. Some of his bends are insane. On another note, What's wrong with having Sax in rock? There are actually several different types of Saxophones. The Tenor Sax gets all the glory, and is the instrument everyone thinks of when they think of Sax. But there is even a straight Sax(a Sax without the trademark curve at the end). It's an Alto Sax. INXS is a band that uses Alto Sax to great effect in Rock music. There is much to discover on a music journey. Good luck to both of you!

The album version is a masterpiece, when it's over you aren't the same person you once were. It's an emotional ride. I think you missed out an incredible journey by using this as your introduction to SOYCD... That being said, take the time to go back and merge with the studio cut, you won't regret it.

Priceless and spot on. "They make it in thier world and bring it to ours and we are like"....(:o)

I grew up listening to Pink Floyd and this band is probably my favorite of all time. I find it fascinating that younger people have discovered them and appreciate the artistry of this music . . . it speaks to the times it was composed in and the band members commitment to their former band leader.

Like every other progressive rock band, Pink Floyd can and does incorporate other musical elements including the blues and jazz into their songs.

Such a shame Richard Wright is No Longer with us!...He was such an awesome keyboardist!!

P.F. is an experience , a mood , and a big ole eargasm . One of my favorites is The Fletcher Memorial Home

A song dedicated to Sid he was the crazy diamond , miss you Sid. May you find the peace of mind in the next life you have now You are so missed by all pink Floyd fans and those who played with.