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Friday, September 02, 2022

David Gilmour : Royal Festival Hall 2001 - FLOPPY BOOT STOMP

DAVID GILMOUR 

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a superb quality recording ROIO from Silent Way over at HQ FLOPPY BOOT STOMP today and if you listen to one thing today listen to this . . . . . . it even includes a favourite of mine (and many others) in his cover of Richard Thompson's Dimming of The Day one of the finest love songs ever written.  This set from Robert Wyatt's MELTDOWN festival that year 2001



David Gilmour - Royal Festival Hall
London, UK.June 22, 2001

SONGS:
01 - Shine On You Crazy Diamond
02 - Terrapin
03 - Fat Old Sun
04 - Coming Back To Life
05 - High Hopes
06 - Je Crois Entendre Encore
07 - Smile
08 - Wish You Were Here
09 - Comfortably Numb *
10 - The Dimming Of The Day
11 - Shine On You Crazy Diamond #i
12 - A Great Day For Freedom
13 - Hushabye Mountain

Bonus Tracks:

14 - Dominoes
15 - Breakthrough #
16 - Comfortably Numb +
17 - High Hopes (Choral)
18 - First Rehearsal
19 - I Put A Spell On You
20 - Don't


BAND:
David Gilmour - guitar, vocals
Michael Kamen - piano, english horn
Chucho Merchan - double bass
Caroline Dale - cello
Neill MacColl - guitar, vocals
Nic France - drums, percussion
Dick Parry - saxophone

    -special guests-
Robert Wyatt - vocals on *
Richard Wright - piano, vocals on #
Bob Geldof - vocals on +


SINGERS:
Sam Brown
Chris Ballin
Pete Brown
Margo Buchanan
Claudia Fontaine
Michelle John Douglas
Sonia Jones
Carol Kenyon
Aitch McRobbie
Durga McBroom
David Laudat
Beverli Skeete

Sorry missed this in the small print but it helps to understand the recording -

NOTES:
Tracks 14 - 17 recorded live at The Meltdown Festival in 2002. 
Track 18 is from the first rehearsals at David's home in the U.K.in 2001. 
Track 19 is a live studio recording from 1992 featuring Jools Holland on piano and Mica Paris on vocals. 

Track 20 is from the Leiber and Stoller tribute concert 2001, and was 
originally recorded by Elvis in 1957.

Wish You Were Here 

Dimming of The Day (R Thompson)

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