PINK FLOYD PULSE ON DVD, DAVID GILMOUR DVD LATER

Didn't this come out like a month ago...?

Yeah, this is old news. I actually thought "Delicate Sound of Thunder" was a better live album than "Pulse," but they're both excellent.

There is no Pink Floyd without Roger Waters. "Pulse" is a video of nothing more than a David Gilmour fronted cover band made up of an army of session players, back-up musicians and a semi-washed up drummer in poor Nick Mason and a totally washed up keyboardist who's too far on the wrong side of lounge pianist in Rick Wright. Why anyone would want to own a DVD of that is beyond me. Go see Waters this summer if you want to see the real "voice" behind the music of Pink Floyd. Gilmour and company is just too souless of a rip-off to derive any pleasure from, in my opinion.

Oh, and lest you think I'm just a Gilmour basher, I'm not. I have all his solo albums, saw him on his About Face tour in 1984 and really enjoy his new album. He is still one of the most incredible rock-era guitarists alive and his vocals are still quite good. I just think the last 15 years of pseudo-Floyd were a bad joke. Like Daltry touring without Townshend as the Who. Just a bad idea.

I think Rog is the better lyricist, but Dave is a much better musician by far. And the "current" Floyd are certainly better musically than Rog's Bleeding Heart Band. I much more enjoy the versions of songs as they've been played post-Rog than during. "Comfortably Numb" is much more interesting and tripped out, "One of These Days" is fantastic, and "Run Like Hell" is just plain cool.

Now...is the stuff that Gilmour writes as FLoyd more compelling than Floyd did w/ Waters? As a whole, no, but there are some gems -- "Sorrow" and "Keep Talking" are really good. Oh, and I'd rank "On The Turning Away" above "Each Small Candle."

Yes, Roger Waters wrote the best lyrics (Gilmour, by his own admission, isn't a patch on Waters as a songwriter), but David Gilmour (and Rick Wright for that matter) gave Pink Floyd's music it's soul. Pulse is good mainly for the older songs, which are performed amazingly. Just watch "Comfortably Numb" on here and tell me this band still hasn't got it as far as performances go????