The Dark Side Of The Moon - Live At Wembley Empire Pool, London, 1974

I was there and this recording took me back to this incredible LIVE performance of Dark Side...

Come on…. This is the quintessential album from the 70’s. Arguably Pink Floyd’s best.

An excellent live album. Enough said.

Nice take on a classic album

Very nice sounding live concert and I own probably dozens of boots from this band ranging from soundboard to audience recorded ones. The sound here is very nice and exceeds most of those. I did expect a little more interesting guitar work especially on Time as we hear on Delicate Sound of Thunder but I can't say I was underwhelmed.If you do own a lot of boots like I do, you kind of owe it to the band to support them when they make releases like this available if you can afford it. I can so I did.The packaging is very nice including two foldout posters, one of which is particularly cool looking and would make a great gel pen piece if you know someone that creative. Most of us will probably just fold it back up and place it in the gatefold though ;)I will listen to it a lot as it's a nice change of pace from the studio record and some of the boots I've got do sound a little rough!

Highlight of this album is the moments where Rick Wright is exploring his part of the Pink Floyd sound. The wandering ethereal scales toward the end of the concert are really a nice way to break up the sound. Love that. Miss that treatment/part of the Floyd, really. Gilmour also seems more laid back than we hear him nowadays. Probably coz he wasn't all that (technically) good a guitar player in '73! He always had a certain feel and style tho' am not complaining. I just think Rick Wright was the real talent of this band.Now for the not-so-bad-really-The bad side of this album is that it is mostly an echo of the studio album...whereas earlier recordings of DSOTM were more experimental and wildly fun!!So this is a late recording of DSOTM but it is nice to hear a studio-touched, produced version of the live concert. Many of us have heard live versions of their concerts while over at friend's houses etc. and what I always liked was how DIFFERENT they were live up until this time.If you wanna hear an echo of the album, this is the one. I have no idea why they didn't release this in the late 1970s but anyway- worth having in the collection, but not as good as many live concerts they performed up until and perhaps including 1972. If you want to hear more original composition and fun version of DSOTM, search for "Violence in Birmingham" your ears will not be disappointed. But I'd definitely get this and support these old geezers in their retirement! (joking) Honestly, you'll probably like it.BTW... would be nice if they did a "World Stockhausen Tribute with the 'Pink Floyd _and_ Roger Waters'" --- just to annoy everyone except me! (joking again).Anywayz get it it's a nice album.

Another great addition to my library

The recording is just beyond anything I have heard before. Am not a hardcore fan, but know all their music since a teen in the 80's, definitely fall in the fan category, perhaps a little obsessive...Words cannot describe the sonic imagination and flow across this performance, the darker twin of the studio recording. It's so unique, and a sonic statement by itself, apart from the album, yet of it.So much being thrown at the audience, likely most of them stoned to beyond during the show.The mixing team deserve an award, I cannot imagine time and effort they put into this. Considering the era also, the live recording team captured it on the evening so perfectly. Even to the ending, where it feels as though you are ejected back to the real world by a pulsing reverse heartbeat, I did not want to leave the space the band and sound engineers created throughout. It felt like being kicked out of the womb all over again. Thanks for such an experience, inspirational at so many levels.