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Yahoo
21-04-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
David Gilmour and Roger Waters hit back at criticism of the band's over-reliance on gear and synths when crafting The Dark Side of The Moon in unearthed clip
When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. In Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII – the newly restored version of the 1972 film directed by Adrian Maben – a clip of the band recording what would become The Dark Side of the Moon at Abbey Road Studios has been unearthed from the depths of the Floyd archives. Perhaps most interesting are the band's thoughts on the criticisms they were receiving at the time – that they depended too much on their gear and new technologies. In the clip, David Gilmour can be seen saying, 'I don't think equipment could take over. We do rely on it a lot. I mean, we couldn't do what we do as we do it without it. We could still do a good, entertaining, musical show, I suppose, without it. But all those things are down to how you control them and whether you're controlling them, not the other way around.' Roger Waters, on the other hand, ponders, 'It's a danger that we could become slaves of all our equipment, and in the past, we have been.' However, he clarifies that it's just a question of using the tools 'that are available, when they're available.' 'More and more now, there's all kinds of electronic goodies which are available [for] people like us to use.' And in true Waters fashion, he doubles down on his argument, asserting, 'It's like saying, 'Give a man a Les Paul guitar, and he becomes Eric Clapton,' and it's not true. 'And give a man an amplifier and a synthesizer, and he doesn't become whoever.' He doesn't become us.' Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii was filmed in October 1971 and captures a band finally finding their footing after years of experimentation in the wake of the departure of their founder, Syd Barrett. The movie has now been meticulously hand-restored, frame by frame, after being discovered in five dubiously labeled cans in the band's own archive. Under its updated title, Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, it is set to be released in cinemas worldwide starting April 24. David Gilmour later returned to the Amphitheatre of Pompeii in 2016, where, for two nights only, he performed for just 3,000 lucky concertgoers – with a Live at Pompeii album and concert film released in 2017.
Yahoo
28-02-2025
- Entertainment
- Yahoo
Cavaliers vs. Celtics Livestream: How to Watch the Basketball Game Online
Rolling Stone and Yahoo may earn commission from links in this article. Pricing and availability subject to change. If you purchase an independently reviewed product or service through a link on our website, Rolling Stone may receive an affiliate commission. The NBA Eastern Conference's top two teams face off tonight when the Cleveland Cavaliers take on the Boston Celtics at TD Garden. Cleveland has the best record in the league (48-10), with two of those losses at the hands of the Celtics (42-17). The Cavs' last game against the Celtics was their most recent loss before Kenny Atkinson and Co. started their current eight-game win streak. More from Rolling Stone 'Pink Floyd at Pompeii' - Where to Preorder the Live Album The 6 Best Headphones for Glasses Wearers, According to Our Bespectacled Editors Heart Kick Off Rescheduled 2025 Tour This Week. Here's How to Get Tickets Before They Sell Out Stream: Fubo, Hulu + Live TV, DirecTV Stream, Sling TV Channel: ESPN Date, Time: Friday, Feb. 28 at 7:30 p.m. ET Needless to say, tonight's rematch against the Celtics is a much-hyped test for the NBA's top team. If you're looking to watch the game, read on. Tonight's Cavaliers vs. Celtics game is airing on ESPN. If you don't have cable, you'll need to get a live TV streaming service to watch the Cavs vs. Celtics game online (the game will not be shown on ESPN+). Here are a few of the best streaming services that offer ESPN livestreams — including a few with free trials that you can use to stream the Cavs vs. Celtics game for free. BEST FOR SPORTS get free trial Fubo carries ESPN in all of its streaming plans and offers a seven-day free trial that you can use to watch the Cavs vs. Celtics game for free. If you choose to keep the service, plans start at $84.99 a month (after a discounted first month at $59.99). get free trial Hulu + Live TV is another one of our favorite cable streaming services, and it carries ESPN for a Cavs vs. Celtics livestream. Get a three-day free trial to start and pay $82.99 a month if you want to keep the service after that. get free trial You can also watch the Cavs vs. Celtics game on DirecTV Stream. The cheapest package with ESPN is DirecTV Stream's MySports plan, which costs $69.99 a month after a five-day free trial. sign up now $23 A cheaper way to watch the Cavs vs. Celtics game is Sling, although this one doesn't offer a free trial. Sling carries ESPN in its Orange plan, which costs $46 a month with an introductory discount of 50% off your first month. The next Cavaliers vs. Celtics game is tonight, Friday, Feb. 28. The game starts at 7:30 p.m. ET Although Cleveland is the better-ranked team right now, their two losses to Boston make them the underdog in tonight's rematch. As of writing, the Celtics are a 3.5-point favorite (FanDuel). Best of Rolling Stone The Best Audiophile Turntables for Your Home Audio System
The Guardian
26-02-2025
- Entertainment
- The Guardian
Pink Floyd to rerelease restored 1972 Pompeii concert film in Imax
One of the most distinctive concert films in rock history, Pink Floyd at Pompeii, is to be rereleased in cinemas – including in Imax format – and have its first soundtrack release. Filmed in 1971 and released the following year, the film (previously titled Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii) captures the band shortly before The Dark Side of the Moon ushered in their most commercially successful phase. It will be in cinemas worldwide on 24 April. Forgoing the usual concert film format, director Adrian Maben decided to have the group perform without an audience, in the eerily deserted Roman amphitheatre in Pompeii: the first band to play there. They play tracks from their 1971 album Meddle, and earlier songs such as A Saucerful of Secrets and Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun. As well as suitably trippy shots of the city's classical antiquity and the band walking through its landscape, the film also features footage of them working on The Dark Side of the Moon at Abbey Road studios, including the songs On the Run, Us and Them and Brain Damage. There are also interviews with the band. The film has now been restored to 4K quality from the original negatives which were found in Pink Floyd's archives. 'Since 1994, I have searched for the elusive film rushes of Pink Floyd at Pompeii,' said Lana Topham, the band's director of restoration. 'So the recent discovery of the 1972 original 35mm cut negative was a very special moment.' The film's sound has also been overhauled, in a new mix by chart-topping prog rock star Steven Wilson. Wilson said it was 'an honour', adding: 'Ever since my dad brainwashed me as a kid by playing The Dark Side of the Moon on repeat, Pink Floyd have been my favourite band. They are my Beatles, deeply ingrained in my musical DNA. I first saw Pompeii from a grainy print at a local cinema. It made an incredible impression on me with its untethered and exploratory rock music made by four musicians who seemed to epitomise the notion of intellectual cool.' The film has previously been reissued on DVD but, although much bootlegged, the soundtrack was not officially released until it was made a part of the 27-disc box set The Early Years in 2016. Entitled Pink Floyd at Pompeii – MCMLXXII, and boasting Wilson's new mix, the soundtrack will be reissued on 2 May on CD, vinyl and streaming, including in the Dolby Atmos spatial audio format. A Blu-Ray and DVD of the film will be released the same day. Pink Floyd's David Gilmour returned to Pompeii to perform a concert in 2016, this time with a crowd. The band's final album was The Endless River in 2014, though in 2022 Gilmour and drummer Nick Mason released a new song under the Pink Floyd name called Hey, Hey, Rise Up. It featured Ukrainian vocalist Andriy Khlyvnyuk and was released in support of Ukraine following Russia's invasion that year. A reunion of the band's surviving members, Gilmour, Mason and Roger Waters, is highly unlikely, with Gilmour having criticised his former bandmate in the press in recent years. Asked by a Guardian reader last year whether he would ever perform with Waters again, he said: 'Absolutely not. I tend to steer clear of people who actively support genocidal and autocratic dictators like Putin and Maduro [president of Venezuela]. Nothing would make me share a stage with someone who thinks such treatment of women and the LGBT community is OK.' Also in 2024, the band sold off the rights to their catalogue recordings, name and likeness in a deal with Sony believed to be worth $400m, while retaining the rights to their songwriting.
