I saw elsewhere on these ICE boards that David Gilmour has a DVD set coming out this week with a 3 track CD thrown in as a bonus. I believe it's an exclusive to Best Buy. For those curious, the Best Buy web site list these three audio tracks as On an Island, Take A Breath, and High Ho. I don't know any of the details on these three tracks -- I'm sort of assuming they might be live versions, but who knows.

Anyone here know anything about these three tracks? Anyone know if they are (or will be) available seperately elsewhere (UK CD singles, for example?). I suppose the price is right at Best Buy, but if available as a non-promotional, somewhat more "official" release, I'd probably opt for that. (I don't really collect DVDs anyway).

I went to the big "live" simulcast yesterday . I was told it would be a live show from London which would be broadcast to various theaters in North America. It turned out to be an edit of the new dvd. The performance was fine, but if I had known exactly what I would be seeing, then I'd have stayed home and just bought the dvd at some point so I wouldn't feel as though I had wasted my time.

particularly when they were playing bits of it on VH1 Saturday, as part of Pink Floyd Day - which I missed completely...other than stumbling on the end of this...

Details below on exclusives available from Best Buy and Borders...


from davidgilmour.com--


Tuesday 18th September 2007

North American Opportunities

Hopefully you've been waiting for today if you live in the USA or Canada, since the Remember That Night DVD is finally instore there. As you may have seen on The Blog, there are a couple of extra retail opportunities if you live near a Best Buy or a Borders outlet (US only).

Best Buy sold the most copies in the US of On An Island, and they have a little something extra for the RTN DVD – an audio CD of three tracks from the AOL sessions: On An Island; Take A Breath; and High Hopes. It comes in a cardboard sleeve and is INSIDE the shrinkwrapped package, so every BB buyer should get one. (The stock is stickered 'Exclusive CD inside features 3 unreleased tracks'.) They are unreleased commercially, but of course the audio-visuals have been available free via AOL.

Also, the Borders chain has an extra mini-poster designed by Steve Knee, featuring David on the black Strat with green lasers behind. Again the stock containing the poster is stickered for easy location.



Monday 17th September 2007

VH1's Beat Route

For US fans' eyes only: VH1 Classic takes a David Gilmour road trip with The Road To The Royal Albert Hall. It is actually a version of the first half of the Breaking Bread documentary, directed by Gavin Elder, with some extended songs added, all taken from the Remember That Night DVD Royal Albert Hall concert footage. There is an added small portion of the US documentary The West Coast – also included on the DVD.

The story, with backstage footage, travelogues and interviews, takes you from rehearsals at Bray with a detour to Los Angeles, then a trip through Manchester and Glasgow, before arriving at London's Royal Albert Hall. The extra songs included are: Breathe (In The Air); Time; Arnold Layne featuring Richard Wright; Dominoes; On An Island; The Blue; Take A Breath; Coming Back To Life; Wot's... Uh The Deal; Wish You Were Here; Comfortably Numb featuring David Bowie; and Shine On You Crazy Diamond.

The whole thing is an hour long, split into roughly 9-minute parts, and can be seen (all are Eastern Standard Times) on: Monday 17th September at 5.00PM; Sunday 23rd September at 11.00PM; Monday 24th September at 1.00AM; and Sunday 30th September at 9.00PM.

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Sample clips available on the DVD page--

If you live in some regions of Europe (see Latest News, Wednesday 12th, below), you may already be the proud owner of the David Gilmour DVD Remember That Night. If not, you will no doubt be getting it on Monday (Tuesday in North America) and a bit later in some other countries (see the list below).

If you're still not convinced by the great reactions received so far, please check out the sample clips we have on the DVD page – all in high quality streams, with good renditions of the amazing High Definition masters. As well as a five-minute compilation and a 10-minute EPK, we have clips of the following songs from the Royal Albert Hall for your delectation: The Blue; Coming Back To Life; Shine On You Crazy Diamond; Take A Breath; and the full version of Fat Old Sun.

http://www.davidgilmour.com/dvd.htm


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Gilmour's gig hits big screen

By Mark Brown, Rocky Mountain News
September 14, 2007

David Gilmour's 2006 world tour didn't hit too many markets, but through the magic of DVD and digital streaming fans now can see it.
On Saturday the "guitar and voice of Pink Floyd" will do a live Q&A with fans nationwide via a satellite hook- up to 111 theaters in the U.S. Then Remember That Night - Live at the Royal Albert Hall will play in its entirety, with a higher-quality stream than you'll get when the DVD appears in stores on Tuesday. Gil- mour will even perform a song live during the broadcast.

He says he likes the notion of the simulcast "because you know as you are listening to it that millions of other people are listening to it at the same time." He answered a few questions exclusively for the Rocky Mountain News, as well as posing a couple of questions himself.

Rocky: When we last spoke you said you had no appetite for a huge world tour. How did you like the notion of this - limited touring and a DVD release/simulcast for fans who couldn't be there?

Gilmour: This event is a promotional tool - I want people to know that this DVD is out there. I would like to think that people are getting this DVD and they have a great big screen at home, a massive plasma or LCD screen at home and a great 5.1 sound system, and that they are going to invite a few friends around, have a glass of wine and watch the DVD. . . . So this is going some way toward that, doing this in cinemas. Those cinema speakers are often great; they really carry that low end. But I haven't got quite to the point where I envision staying at home in London and doing a concert and having it simulcast to cinemas all over the world live as I am doing that one concert. I haven't managed to persuade myself yet . . . you can't really quite replace that genuine live-ness.

Rocky: You cover (Floyd founder) Syd Barrett's Dark Globe on the DVD. Why that song?

Gilmour: Dark Globe just came into my mind. Between when we did the Albert Hall show and when we started off on the European outdoor part of this little tour, Syd died . . . It just leapt into my mind that I should do something for Syd on that particular occasion. That was the song that leapt into my mind . . . I didn't go through a list of songs and try to select one. On the record, Syd just throws it off - without seeming to know it too well. And I thought I should do something similar . . . I thought it would be fun to stand up on stage and try it for the first time in front of an audience. What can I say? It was great. It felt great to me. It's got the great line in it as well - 'Won't you miss me, wouldn't you miss me at all?' - that seemed to be an incredibly appropriate thing to be singing about Syd at that particular moment, because I do.

Rocky: Where did you get the notion that Crosby & Nash would work so well with you vocally, both in the studio on On an Island and in concert?

Gilmour: I went to a Crosby/Nash show here in London, and I asked them if they would consider doing it, because I had a song that I thought would work well with their voices on it. They said, 'Yeah, man, love to, when can we do it?' So it was just one of those very simple moments, again, not planned or thought about for any length of time.

Rocky: Do you consider any of the songs you performed in the theatrical version as your favorites?

Gilmour: Echoes, which we tried to do in '87 on the Momentary Lapse of Reason tour, and it just didn't seem to work. But on this tour the guys really got it and we did a great performance of it most nights. That really smacked of the old days to me. It felt like it did years and years ago - it was a great experience.

http://www.rockymountainnews.com/drmn/m ... 07,00.html

from USA Today--

Gilmour makes DVD launch a night to 'Remember'
Updated 5d 21h ago


David Crosby, left, and Graham Nash sing with David Gilmour
on Shine On You Crazy Diamond on the DVD.

By Mike Snider, USA TODAY

David Gilmour loves the idea of fans watching his new music DVD, Remember That Night— Live at the Royal Albert Hall, out Tuesday, on their tricked-out home theater systems.
But the Pink Floyd guitarist hopes some will venture out Saturday to one of the 111 theaters nationwide playing an 85-minute version of the concert. Gilmour will open the program with a one-song live performance via satellite from London and close it with a 30-minute interview session.

"I thought it would be a really nice way of launching (the DVD) into lots of places I hadn't managed to get to on the tour last year," he says. "I've always loved the sound in movie theaters."

Other musicians such as The Who and The Rolling Stones have launched DVDs in theaters, but only a few, including Usher and Kenny Chesney, have appeared live with them. At last week's European launch, Gilmour grabbed a seat after his song. "It was the first time I had sort of been to a Pink Floyd-type show," he says. "It is never going to be as good as being there at a concert, but it is the next best thing."

Remember That Night ($24.98 on DVD) captures Gilmour in May 2006. The 2½-hour concert, filmed by 23 high-def cameras, includes performances of his entire 2006 solo album, On an Island, and Pink Floyd classics Echoes, Time and Wish You Were Here.

Guests David Crosby and Graham Nash, who performed on the album and joined Gilmour on tour, sing along on Shine On You Crazy Diamond. He returns the favor on Find the Cost of Freedom. "That worked out fantastically," he says. "They have beautiful voices, and they blend so well together and seemed to blend well with mine."

Also on board: David Bowie (who sings Roger Waters' part on Comfortably Numb), Roxy Music's Phil Manzanera (who co-produced Island) and former Soft Machine trumpeter Robert Wyatt.

Having guests "is just a nice, enjoyable way to put a new slant on things," says Gilmour, 61. "There's a sort of liberation that you get when you go out as yourself and there are no particular expectations. I would feel more nervous inviting people to do that if it was a Pink Floyd tour."

The presence of original Pink Floyd frontman Syd Barrett — who died in the midst of Gilmour's tour — is palpable on the DVD. "We were already doing (Barrett's solo song) Dominoes, Arnold Layne and Shine On You Crazy Diamond, which is about him," says Gilmour, who grew up a friend of Barrett's and also produced his post-Floyd solo albums. At the next concert after he died, "I just thought it would be a nice thing to sing one of his solo songs (Dark Globe) that included the lyrics 'Won't you miss me? Wouldn't you miss me at all?' I guess I do."

Barrett-led Floyd is celebrated in a just-released 40th-anniversary edition of Pink Floyd's The Piper at the Gates of Dawn.

"I loved it when it came out. I still do," says Gilmour, who joined the band after its release. "It's a different Pink Floyd than the one that followed. One can't help but wonder where it would have gone if (Barrett) hadn't lost it."

Floyd fans will find more treats on Remember That Night's second disc of extras, including signs of the thaw in the once-chilly relationship between Gilmour and former bandmate Waters. A 46-minute documentary shows Gilmour taking a phone call from Waters and agreeing to 2005's Live 8 reunion. The two meet again when they wind up rehearsing for their 2006 tours at the same studios. "You'd think we staged it, but we didn't," Gilmour says.

As for future projects, "I don't have any," he says. "At my age, I think it's OK to take a break."

His website (davidgilmour.com) touts Gilmour's support for the environment under the heading "The Important Stuff." His Island CD was Columbia Records' first carbon-neutral release, and the DVD was manufactured similarly.

"I don't want to claim I know more about it than I do," Gilmour says. "But I think it's a good thing to treat human beings and the planet with the respect they deserve."

Best Buy's DVD version comes with an exclusive bonus CD--
*see below




REMEMBER THAT NIGHT

Disc One
1 Speak To Me
2 Breathe
3 Time
4 Breathe (Reprise)
5 Castellorizon
6 On An Island
7 The Blue
8 Red Sky At Night
9 This Heaven
10 Then I Close My Eyes
11 Smile
12 Take A Breath
13 A Pocketful Of Stones
14 Where We Start
15 Shine On You Crazy Diamond
16 Fat Old Sun
17 Coming Back To Life
18 High Hopes
19 Echoes
20 Wish You Were Here
21 Find The Cost Of Freedom featuring David Crosby and Graham Nash
22 Arnold Layne featuring David Bowie
23 Comfortably Numb featuring David Bowie

Disc Two
Loaded with extras, including:
• Five bonus songs from the Royal Albert Hall: Wot's... Uh The Deal; Dominoes; Wearing The Inside Out; Arnold Layne; and Comfortably Numb.
• Three documentaries. The main one, Breaking Bread, Drinking Wine, contains behind-the-scenes tour footage from the rehearsals in Bray right through to the final show in Gdansk.
• There's also a short film from America's West Coast; some of the backstage footage was shot by Richard Wright.
• The third is a documentary on the making of the On An Island album. This is an edited version of the Electronic Press Kit (EPK), but with some extra songs from the recording sessions.
• Castellorizon, On An Island, The Blue, Take A Breath, and High Hopes, from London's Mermaid Theatre (March 2006).
• Astronomy Domine, as recorded for the Live From Abbey Road television series.
• This Heaven from the AOL Sessions. (This has been re-edited, so is an improvement on the version that can be found on the Live And In Session disc.)
• The Dark Globe video that we've been showing on the Web site.
• The promo videos for On An Island and Smile.
• A new version of Island Jam, featuring David, Richard, Stevie, and Guy.
• A fine photo gallery.


DVD – Two DVD-9 dual layer discs (September 2007)

There will be high-resolution versions in both Blu-ray and HD-DVD to follow the standard release. We'll let you know the release dates as soon as possible.

http://www.davidgilmour.com/discography.htm


*Best Buy sold the most copies in the US of On An Island, and they have a little something extra for the RTN DVD – an audio CD of three tracks from the AOL sessions: On An Island; Take A Breath; and High Hopes.
It comes in a cardboard sleeve and is INSIDE the shrinkwrapped package, so every BB buyer should get one. (The stock is stickered 'Exclusive CD inside features 3 unreleased tracks'.) They are unreleased commercially, but of course the audio-visuals have been available free via AOL.

Run to Bestbuy and get it for $11.99.

I just picked this up from Best Buy today.
Superb release, and the 2nd disc is an abundance of riches!
Nicely done!

And a hell of a deal from BB for $11.99.

being the CSN(Y) fanatoic that i am, how is the cover of "find the cost of freedom"?

renny


p.s. that should be one of the songs on the bonus CD!

That cover's about as good as you'd imagine.....the only thing it's missing is Neil Young then it'd be perfect.

From one of the DVD's documentaries. Guess who?

The cover is very well done. Just like "On An Island", Gilmour's voice blends beautifully with Crosby & Nash.
However, as nice extra as this is... I would have rushed out to buy this new Gilmour DVD without this "CGN" track.
The performances of the On An Island album and all of the Pink Floyd material is outstanding!

BTW... I believe C&N also appear on 3-4 more tracks including "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" and "Wish You Were Here".


** Will somebody please fix the SPELLING of Gilmour's name in the thread subject line (first post) ?
Thank you.

done!

I had no idea this was out already. I need to come to this place more often!

I'm curious now, how did I spell it?

you left out the "L".

i do it all the time.

no big deal.

renny

Oh, it was the "L". Dang typos! Here I thought I did something stupid by spelling it Gilmore. That I would know better.

I've only watched a bit of the second disc. I see the Roger Waters encounter at the beginning, did I hear that he's somewhere else there on that disc?

A break? From what? I wouldn't say Gilmour has been all that active over the last decade or so. At least not based upon what I have in my collection, if that's any representation. So he puts out a CD and does a short tour -- what's this "at my age it's okay to take a break" bit? I'm just happy Dylan or the Stones haven't reached Gilmour's age yet. I suppose when they get to be as old as Gilmour they'll cut their tours short and we'll wait 15 years or more between albums.

Looks well worth buying. I'm sure I'd like this.

FYI, I bought the Gilmour DVD at Best Buy on Friday, still on sale for $11.99, but there was no bonus CD. I was unaware that there should be a sticker indicating the bonus CD, but I assumed it would be included since their weekly flyer said so. When I went back to ask their less-than-helpful sales staff, they couldn't figure out what happened. The guy in the music department kept saying "I don't know, that's strange," and the Customer Service rep looked at me blankly and said "I have NO idea."

I e-mailed their customer service last night, but I'll be amazed if I ever hear from them. None of the DVDs at that store (or another one I checked out) had a sticker on it. I'm still glad I got the package for such a cheap price, and the DVD is really good, but my collection now feels incomplete. So buyer beware.

Rich K

It's a lesson I've learned the hard way myself: If Best Buy has a bonus of some kind, don't buy unless there's a sticker on the shrinkwrap.

I bought the Gilmour DVD at the BBuy at 6th Ave. & 23rd St., they had several copies but only one with the sticker about the bonus CD.

I definitely learned my lesson, Jimbo. I almost went to that Best Buy, but I ended up at the one at Broadway & Houston. I'm more annoyed that no one there could offer any assistance. They looked at the weekly ad, but had no information about a bonus disc, and offered me no solutions to rectify the situation. What's wrong with these kids today???

By the way, how is the bonus CD?

Rich K