ATOM HEART MOTHER REVIEW TV

Receiving a lot of the hiss from the source materials.Įxception of the Ron Geesin segments (which are the only segments on the DVD worth watching, for the true insights into the recording, from someone The most noticeable effect, particularly early on, is the rear channels (with nothing to choose from between both surround formats), and indeed Stereo, we also get 5.1 and DTS soundtracks. Sound and picture quality on the DVD are fine. The clips will give a flavour of their contents, Rock production - 'Chillout to the Music of Pink Floyd' and 'The Pinkįloyd Chamber Suite'. To the rest of the DVD, the extras are purely plugs for other Classic

Significant a tune in the band's repetoire. Get the lions share of coverage between the two tracks, being much more Session recording, and is afforded equal time on screen as Alan's Odd! The coverage of Fat Old Sun is accompanied by the BBC 1971 radio To ignore a pretty significant 40% of the album is. Subject matter turns to the rest of the album.Īt Fat Old Sun and Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast, not even mentioning If Surprises include the use of the BBC's 1994 Omnibus documentary,Īlthough the clips used are, again, in poor quality, looking to haveīeen sourced from a low bitrate mpeg version. Many will be buying the DVD purely on the strength of this fabledįootage, so to treat it in this way is astonishing! To see, is a fraction of the complete performance of AHM at the show. Out what you are looking at most of the time.įew tiny snippets of the performance, with no option to see the footageĪs a whole, even in the (sparce) DVD extras section. Letterboxed, resulting in the wrongĪspect ratio, and saturated in red, it is extremely difficult to make Narrative provided by Ron is well worth checking out - he provides aįascinating behind-the-scenes look at the trials and tribulations ofįinancial restraints on the number of choir members, that we get ourįirst glimpse of the Bath footage. Ron is interviewed at his home, showing us his studio, hisĬollection of adjustable spanners(!), and talks of his creative He, of course,Ĭo-wrote and arranged AHM, and was a vital element in the creation of Irrepressible Ron Geesin, as entertaining as ever.

Working title of AHM: The Amazing Pudding! Krusher'sĭelivery of certain words is most distracting, as he puts strangeĮmphasis on things - a good example is when he refers to the original,

ATOM HEART MOTHER REVIEW TV

(KQED is a San Francisco based TV station, whoīroadcast a stunning, audience-free live set in 1970). Reading from an autocue, is interspersed with murky KQED and Stamping Krusher's strange delivery, very obviously Navigation is straightforward, with a well animated computer generated cow illustrating both the menus, and the chapter points.īand's tale, with the help of journalist Chris Welch, and some other Unfortunately other footage - more significant footage - on the DVD also displays problems, which I will come to. They use - I've seen a few versions over the years, and this is by far Theįirst shock is the terrible quality of the Look Of The Week footage History of the Atom Heart Mother suite in the 74 minute main feature,Īnd starts with establishing footage of the band from 1967/68. (and you'll know why in a minute) but curiously with a shot of the 1977įlavour touring band, complete with Snowy White in an Animals t-shirt! Rear of the box, and is illustrated not with a still from the footage The Inside Pink Floyd release (and understandably there were some very strong feelingsįrom fans about that), comes this new DVD, promising the 'only knownįootage' of the Floyd performing Atom Heart Mother at the 1970 Bath Released April 2005, by Classic Rock Direct Home Reviews DVDs, Blurays, and Videos Critical Review - Atom Heart Mother

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