Pink Floyd - The Great Gig In The Sky (REACTION) with my wife

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• MA

  @margaretc5679 · 3 years ago

  I just love watching people discovering the magic of Pink Floyd.

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• DA

  @davidellinsworth3299 · 3 years ago

  This song is about the different stages of death. Fear, anger, acceptance etc. It's an absolute work of art.

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• DR

  @Drinckx2 · 3 years ago

  The album version has never been surpassed. What Clare Torry did - improvised - is astonishing.

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• ON

  @Ontariosound · 3 years ago

  Thank you for choosing the Studio Version.

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• MI

  @mikewatts867 · 3 years ago (edited)

  That last piano note that distorts upward has always been symbolic for me. It sounds like her spirit leaving her body into the ether.

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• JA

  @James-mp1jx · 3 years ago

  I have heard this so many times, and still I must say, this is not music, it's a spiritual event.

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• OS

  @osovagabundo1 · 3 years ago

  Its the rare moment when an improvised vocalization was captured in it’s entirety that it set the standard to which it has never been duplicated.

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• LU

  @lucrus2 · 1 year ago

  I don't know if you will see this comment, but Pink Floyd released this album in the U.S. in 1973. I saw them perform this song in concert 5 days after the release in St. Louis Missouri. I was 18 at the time. Most of the audience reacted the same as the 2 of you. Complete awe during the songs and awed applause after. Most concert-goers, including myself, walked out in stunned amazement. After many concerts over my lifetime, this one still stands out as the best ever. I wish the 2 of you could have been there with me. Love your reactions. :)

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• MI

  @mikewatts867 · 3 years ago

  You made the right choice. I love the Pulse version, it features three different singers, but this one was basically ad libbed in the middle of the night by a young unknown singer they brought in, not even knowing what exactly they wanted from her. She eventually got a writing credit on this.

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• RM

  @RmarkGillmer · 3 years ago

  Loved your reaction, thank you guys. As it has already been commented, this song is said to represent the stages of grief. But, Clare Torry was brought in cold on this, and given no clue as to what the band wanted, they didn&apos;t really know. It was originally going to be a Hammond organ. &quot;Gilmour told her that there was no lyrics for The Great Gig In The Sky. She was supposed to just sing as she thought about the passage from life to death.&quot;.&quot;Torry was surprised by the unusual request, but she tried immediately to follow the band’s guidelines. Her first performance was stopped almost immediately because she was singing “Oh yeah.” Pink Floyd had banned the lyrics. The keyword was improvising, and she tried to jump in. But that required something more than a simple chorus singer: it needed somebody able to turn themselves into an instrument and merge their voice with Wright’s sound. <br>On the second take, she tried to get into the song, but something was still wrong. She took a break and then tried for one last time. This time she decided not to follow the song: she would just be the song, imposing the emotional wave that moved inside her, letting go and really imagining the flow of life towards the inevitable end.&quot;. Totally improvised, can be imitated but never duplicated. We heard the woman&apos;s soul. <br>Again, &nbsp;thank for a great video. Keep up the good work.

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• DA

  @davidboivin7996 · 3 years ago

  Clare Torry deserves your first reaction to this masterpiece!!

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• SA

  @samsakharia3382 · 3 years ago

  This is not only a masterpiece… but it will be played at my funeral… I’m just so happy that I can say I lived in a time of Pink Floyd… I have seen them 3 times and the last concert was 1994 pulse concert at soldier’s field .

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