Product Details

• Actors: David Gilmour, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, Jon Carin, Tim Renwick
• Directors: Wayne Isham
• Producers: Curt Marvis, Stephen O'Rourke
• Format: NTSC
• Rated: NR (Not Rated)
• Number of tapes: 1
• Studio: Sony
• VHS Release Date: July 1, 1991
• Run Time: 100 minutes
• Average Customer Review: 4.7 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (104 customer reviews)
• ASIN: 6301334175
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #114,084 in Movies & TV (See Top 100 in Movies & TV)

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18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Isham's Pink Floyd in Concert- Delicate Sound of Thunder, June 4, 2002

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Charles Tatum - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pink Floyd In Concert: Delicate Sound Of Thunder [VHS] (VHS Tape)

Dave Gilmour, Nick Mason, Richard Wright, and a score of other musicians perform to a rabid crowd at Nassau Coliseum in Long Island, New York in this 1989 concert video.

While many fans fuss about Roger Waters' absence from the band (as if other great bands have never split up or lost members), Gilmour and company hold together some great songs despite some all too florid direction from music video icon Isham.

Opening and closing with "Shine On," Isham's camera does find incredible backstage footage of the elaborate laser light show accompanying the music. A giant round screen in the middle of the stage plays host to laser light and various film and video incarnations of the Pink Floyd songs being performed. Isham's direction through the first nine or ten songs is fluid and interesting. His camera goes slow motion, capturing the audience's rapture and the band's expertise.

Other songs featured and performed are: "Signs of Life," "Learning to Fly" (with a too short drum solo), "Sorrow," "The Dogs of War" (with a great accompanying video), "On the Turning Away" (the most subdued track), "One of These Days," "Time" (the strongest performance here), "On the Run," "The Great Gig in the Sky," "Wish You Were Here," "Us and Them" (which goes on way too long), "Money," "Comfortably Numb," "One Slip" (the second best sequence), and "Run Like Hell."

About an hour into this one hundred minute video, Isham's camera gets irritating. The songs are great, but he never strays from his directing formula until close to the end of the concert. He is a visualist without a vision, trying to mask unknown flaws or his lack of original ideas after an initial genius outpouring. On the positive side, there is nary a cameraman to be seen anywhere onstage, thanks to some expert editing.

The musicians here enjoy the set as much as the audience. Gilmour is caught grinning on occasion, something I do not think he has done on camera since the late '60's. This is not the time to mourn and complain about Waters' departure, this is the time to listen to some truly great music.

While any Pink Floyd fan should snatch this up, film fans in general might like the different take Isham gives to the concert film before becoming a victim to his own excess. Better than most concert films out there, "Delicate Sound of Thunder" booms and roars and provides enough eye-wow to last a while. I do recommend it.

This is unrated, and contains mild profanity and very mild adult situations.

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Pink Floyd - Delicate Sound of Thunder, October 31, 2002

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Mark Smith (Sioux Falls, SD United States) - See all my reviews

I was so impressed with the video and audio quality of the VHS tape, that I deeply regret playing it so frequently. I can't wait to obtain a glass copy. I foolishly decided to skip this concert tour after Walters left. I saw the next tour and realized how great this group is. The artistry in the video and audio is unsurpassed. I grew up with this music and now I realize its significance. I can relate to the Europeans that attend the same operas year after year. The Floyd's show and music has my favorite arias that I can sing over and over!

11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rolling Stone Magazine is WRONG!, January 7, 2002

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Leee (Seattle WA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Pink Floyd In Concert: Delicate Sound Of Thunder [VHS] (VHS Tape)

I couldn't believe the review I read in Rolling Stone Magazine when this video first came out. The reviewer said that this video wasn't worth watching, he said you should just put on an old Pink Floyd album and stare into a lava lamp. Since that day, I've not looked at another issue of Rolling Stone!

Not only is the band excellent in this video, the actual production is SEAMLESS. And you can tell the directing and editing was done by top quality professionals.

One of my favorite examples of this is a quick audience shot when the Pig came floating out. There is a slow motion close up of this guy and if you read his lips, he says, "Holy ..., That's the ... Pig!" Which is overlapped as the Pig comes out.

It was things like that that totally blew me away and left me thinking this is the best concert video I ever saw. With a close second to Talking Head's Stop Making Sense.

WHERE'S THE DVD ?!?!?!?!