I love Rick’s response to the weekly wage question. NO I AM NOT ON A WAGE…he then goes on to say Division Bell is better than Momentary Lapse because he was involved from the start. I totally agree. GO Rick!!
"Hi, did you deliver Syds cheque?" Thats not actually THAT hard to do, considering you just took the guys job. By the time of Wish you Were Here none of them even knew what Syd looked like. But yeah, up until the nineties when he started making snarky comments about Nick then he seems like a decent guy. He looks like a geography teacher here. He also produced Syd's first solo album, which as you would guess was not an easy thing to do. I always like his humility, when he admits when Roger was right about something musically. When the person is as abrasive as Roger, it must be kind of galling.
Thats not hard, but be aware that 99% of those asking questions are people from journalism school who can't believe they can't get a real job and have to ask celebrities idiotic questions.
Thank you for posting this. I remember only seeing a small portion of this on Muchmusic here in Canada when the concert was announced that year. The 1994 Pulse concert at the CNE stadium in Toronto was the greatest concert I have ever seen, and I have seen quite a few. I saw the July 5th opening night with seats right in front of the mixing decks.
Nicolas G. Ah yes but that was a reunion tour playing classic hits with Roger in it because it was for charity and had been 40 years since their first recordings (not Pipers). The real Floyd only consisted of Wright, Mason and Gilmour within the 11 year gap between 1994 and 2005, going back even further, it would be 17 years since the lineup began without Roger. Roger was there for charity and the fans. Roger wasn’t Floyd since December 1985. Another hint that it wasn’t an official tour, was that they didn’t support the Momentary Lapse of Reason album and The Division Bell Album. Their hits were from 1973-1979. 1983 was a crap year for Floyd. Nice songs but not previous Floyd quality.
@@zakramsey3508 They played plenty of music from the division bell. Classic band played the new stuff as well as old music. Not sure why you'd consider it a "reunion" tour. I remember the time very well and they were promoting the shit out of the division bell in 94
@Hugh Jones the size of that production rig is the reason why they needed a sponsorship. Probably a half a million dollars a day to run that tour. Even on off nights
Scott Burns After the concert at Earl’s Court we got talking to a guy who worked putting up the lights and he told us that the huge mirror ball tulip cost half a million pounds, if I remember correctly Carlsberg were sponsoring the tour also
I've only recently come to understand how talented, great and awesome David Gilmour truly is as a solo artist. He is one of the greatest guitarists, and I love his voice. The guy can sing and play!!! 🎸
0:30 you can really hear her go "Christ, did I just say that?!" in the way she finishes up that joke at the beginning. Probably just had to read what was written for her by corporate, and a paycheck's a paycheck, so I don't really blame her.
in the middle of the video I thought that was a TV Show, consisting on people asking questions to PF, I would pay for that 2 hours of stupid typical questions to PF and ironical answers from them. Magic.
I think this clip is mislabelled-it should be called The Volksvagen/Pink Floyd press conference. That or remove the first two mins fifty seconds. Also subtitles to the questions and answers would help overcome the limits that the volume of the vocals has set. Re corporate sponsorship-which bands in 2013 are big enough to warant such sponsorship? Get a band to grow that big and it might be worth arguing about.....
This Pink Floyd press conference to talk about the new Studio Album that was already ready to be released was really cool, but the only thing I as an unconditional fan I didn’t like it, because journalists and reporters were asking Masters David Gilmour and Nick Mason more questions, and they didn’t speak or ask Master Richard Wright much!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔😔
You actually got to this before I could on my other account. It's a shame I couldn't get to it before you did. Cudos to you all the same. It would have been interesting if they did another album and tour after TDB in '94.
i can not understand all words, because i dont speak english well, but is enough for me to take look at this 3 guys and just look and hear only the voices!
Great to see and thanks for uploading. Sad really, didn't they have a major financial problem with a dodgy accountant a few years before this? Hence why this happened? They upset Volkswagen I gather by not allowing anything inside the arenas, only outside and in the end gave all the money from them to charity. Disappointing though, as felt at the time.
Volkswagen also has sponsored other really unknown acts like Genesis, Bon Jovi or Rolling Stones. They sold cars with the band‘s names on them. I don‘t know anything about more special items. Maybe there were some tickets for shows on the front passenger seat or really maybe Keith Richard sitting on the rear seat playing the guitar when you picked up the car in the Autostadt. ;-)
Floyd had a special car made for the tour which was Volkswagen's best selling "Golf" model, with some Pink Floyd stickers slapped onto it. Floyd did insist that the car was "environmentally sound", which at the time, probably just meant "emission modifications".
The best band on the planet...But Volskwagen, sponsors etc. It's to much. They said afterwards that this was mistake (in book Pigs might fly)...In they earlier phases they were criticises from fans, because they sang about social thematic, against politicians etc, but at the same time they were milionaries...But, doesn't matter, they earn that, they are the best...
Rick Wright- "No, not on a weekly 'saraly' " i wonder if that was nerves, since he pronounced "salary" as "saraly" not once but twice. After all of this, David eventually said he regretted immensely having Volkswagen sponsor the tour, and donated all of his proceeds from Volkswagen to charity.
@@sarachakraborty6783 you are totally right. The difference is that I have never, ever seen Waters letting a press conference being so much about advertising the sponsors as Gilmour let them do it here. It looks like they are the new oficial Volkswagen band! And there we have another sensitive point for me as a fan living in Germany, Volkswagen "the people's car" was a projekt of the nazis, which is also ironic if you listen to how much of the subjects of Pink Floyd are about Facism and WW2
@@pluso I'd rather they be upfront about their sponsor, than take the money and not talk about it like Waters. They had Gini sponsor one of their tours back in 1974 when Roger was very much in the band. All this hand wringing about how the band was so pure during Roger's tenure and how they sold out under David's leadership is bollocks.
+Luke Tia After a while you come to understand that you must either swim with the current or tear yourself apart trying to resist the business side of art.
The opening of this video (VW references) was indeed odd, but the conference was interesting: David looking very enthusiastic; Nick looking like a serious manager; Rick sitting and listening in the background. I bet a few of the press were thinking what hell was the point in interviewing the members.
@@derf2580 Only 4 solely-penned songs by Roger were played. Everything else was a collaborative effort with Waters, and other times, without him. So that's a fallacy. One guy doesn't define a whole band.
Actually when somebody write the lyrics of a song that is already 50 percent plus the conceptual idea, add to that the fact that Waters usually also contributed to the music. I think that songs Waters /Gilmour are 75 Waters at least. And is not only about the old songs, they also tried to write songs like Waters in their albums after 87 because that is what the Pink Floyd thematic was identified with. And the whole show was mostly Waters vision. Gilmour didn't like theatrical rock shows. If it wasn't for Waters Gilmour would still be singing feel good lyrics like Fat old sun and Smile and jamming a bit to it. Which is OK, because he is great at it, but is not Pink Floyd.
