David Gilmour - Echoes - 25 min - GDANSK

Live in Gdańsk is a live album by David Gilmour. It is a part of his On an Island project which includes an album, tour, DVD, and live album. It was released on 22 September 2008. A David Gilmour Signature Series Fender Stratocaster was released at the same time.

It is a recording of the final show of his On an Island tour in 2006, where he played to an audience of 50,000 at the Gdańsk Shipyard to celebrate the founding of the Solidarity trade union.

The show featured the song A Great Day for Freedom, which appears on Pink Floyd's final studio album The Division Bell from 1994. It was last performed by Gilmour during his semi-acoustic shows in 2002.

It's also the final Pink Floyd-related recording to feature the late Richard Wright, who died on September 15, 2008, one week before the album's official release.

Gilmour and his band were backed by the Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zbigniew Preisner and Leszek Możdżer on piano.

The album debuted at #10 on the UK Album chart and debuted at #26 on the US Billboard album chart.

Musicians
David Gilmour - Guitars, Vocals, Cümbüş, Alto Saxophone on "Red Sky at Night"
Richard Wright - Hammond Organ, Farfisa Organ, Synthesizer, Vocals
Jon Carin - Keyboards, Vocals, Lap Steel Guitar, Programming
Guy Pratt - Bass Guitars, Vocals, Double bass, Guitar on "Then I Close My Eyes", Glass Harmonica on "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
Phil Manzanera - Guitars, Vocals, Glass Harmonica on "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
Dick Parry - Saxophones, Keyboards, Glass Harmonica on "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
Steve DiStanislao - Drums, Percussion, Vocals
Zbigniew Preisner - Conductor, Orchestrations
Leszek Możdżer - Piano
Polish Baltic Philharmonic Orchestra
Igor Sklyarov - Glass Harmonica on "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" (Venice performance only)


The standard two CD edition is the most basic form of the album and is simply the recording of the Gdańsk show, omitting "Wot's... Uh the Deal?":
Disc 1 1. "Speak to Me" - 1:23
2. "Breathe" - 2:49
3. "Time" - 5:38
4. "Breathe (Reprise)" - 1:32 (Above tracks are from The Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd, 1973)
5. "Castellorizon" - 3:47
6. "On an Island" - 7:26
7. "The Blue" - 6:39
8. "Red Sky at Night" - 3:03
9. "This Heaven" - 4:33
10. "Then I Close My Eyes" - 7:42
11. "Smile" - 4:26
12. "Take a Breath" - 6:47
13. "A Pocketful of Stones" - 5:41
14. "Where We Start" - 8:01 (The above tracks are taken from On an Island - David Gilmour, 2006)

Disc 2 1. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" - 12:07 (Taken from Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd, 1975)
2. "Astronomy Domine" - 5:02 (Taken from The Piper at the Gates of Dawn - Pink Floyd, 1967)
3. "Fat Old Sun" - 6:40 (Taken from Atom Heart Mother - Pink Floyd, 1970)
4. "High Hopes" - 9:57 (Taken from The Division Bell - Pink Floyd, 1994)
5. "Echoes" - 25:26 (Taken from Meddle - Pink Floyd, 1971)
6. "Wish You Were Here" - 5:15 (Taken from Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd, 1975)
7. "A Great Day for Freedom" - 5:56 (Taken from The Division Bell - Pink Floyd, 1994)
8. "Comfortably Numb" - 9:22 (Taken from The Wall - Pink Floyd, 1979)

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[gdoset]

0 Dislikes. As it should be

[thankGodforDavidG]

David Gilmour in Gdansk is the best !

[billyrosell]

definitivamente la mejor versionnn de lujoooo que talllllllll temaaaaa

[backwardsnamestaken]

If I ever run into like a bear in the wild or some other intimidating animal that could kill me I will make sure I have pink floyd on hand to chill it right out. (disclaimer: don't actually try to calm a wild animal with pink floyd because, at best, you'll get a really chill death).

[Yetaxa]

I saw an advert for Born this Way come up at the bottom of this video.

1) I don't want to live on this pl- I like this planet, You get off!

2) I have adblock on O_O

There is only one problem with this song. It makes most other music seem pretty bad

[FloyDylaN]

truly believe that music cannot get much better than this

[FloyDylaN]

@travisw001 Deaf, DUMB and/or blind

[travisw001]

1 person must be deaf and/or blind

[guaronio]

I prefer to think that the only dislike is from someone that press the "thumbs down" by mistake. Why doesn´t youtube move that icon far from the "like", so we don't have to think that there is one idiot that could not like this beauty!!!!

[RogueTrader101]

The exchange of motives and improvisation between David and Rick on their respective instruments from about 7.00 onwards always makes me emotional. Two very good musicians and friends doing what they love! Rest in peace Rick, you'll never just be an echo.

[GilmourishGuitarist]

Truly spectacular.

[ODEblocek]

@happyface4444

Because everything that is the best is rarely seen.