Talk:The Great Gig in the Sky

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salut, nous avons entendons dire que les membres de Pink Floyd avaient montré un documentaire sur la guerre à la chanteuse avant l'enregistrement, pour qu'elle improvise sur ce thème. ce n'est donc pas vrai ? merci beaucoup d'avance !


hi, we heard that the Pink Floyd members showed a documentary about war to the singer before the recording of the song, to make her improvise on this theme. is it not true? thanks a lot !

chloé & marianne from paris.

ps: this song rules. CETTE CHANSON EST TROP COOL !

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[edit] Massive conflict

This article contradicts Dark Side of the Moon, which says:

...often-misheard "I never said I was frightened of dying" (during the middle of "The Great Gig in the Sky") came from Peter's wife, Myfanwy 'Miv' Watts.

There is a contradiction within this article as well, the line "Aside from the soaring vocals there are two spoken parts, an introduction at 0:38 spoken by “Gerry” (an Irish Abbey Road Studios doorman at the time), and Clare Torry's voice at 3:33." appears to be crediting Torry with the 3.33 spoken part

[edit] 'ed note' section'

I removed the 'ed note' section. This doesn't belong in the article, as it is opinion.

LLBBooks 07:38, 26 May 2006 (UTC)

I have to correct you> Peter Watts was never known as Puddie Watts> Puddie was Patricia Gleeson second wife of Peter Watts. Myfanwy Watts is not on the album at all. But is the mother of his children. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 195.26.62.240 (talk) 22:39, 23 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Recording name

I don't think it was called "the Religion Song" during recording, I belive it was "The Mortality Sequence" or something like that....

[edit] Spoken Words

In the main section on Clare Torry's vocals it says that she spoke the line in the song at 3:33, however at the bottom of the page it says that it was Naomi Watts mother that said it. Which is right? RENTASTRAWBERRY FOR LET? röck 17:54, 23 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Live instrumentation

Onstage, who played the Hammond organ during this song? I ask because during a large portion of the song, there is both piano and Hammond organ playing, and it would have been impossible for someone to use one hand on each instrument, as the piano part is too complex. Rick Wright obviously played piano, and there is continued bass and drums, leaving Roger Waters and Nick Mason out of the equation. There is guitar early and later in the song, but I can't tell if there is no guitar going during this section (leaving Dave Gilmour free to play organ) or if the guitar is very far down the mix (a la the "Mother Fore" section of "Atom Heart Mother," where it is clear from the KQED video that Gilmour is playing guitar).

So, did Dave Gilmour play organ, or did someone else, say Dick Parry or a roadie? Carolus 13:23, 25 October 2006 (UTC)

David Gilmour played Hammond organ live in the seventies. Floyd(Norway) 15:57, 29 November 2006 (UTC)
Can you cite a source and put it in the main article? Carolus 04:16, 9 December 2006 (UTC)


[edit] References

References 2 and 3 on the article are broken links, and I couldn't find any good links with that interview. Help me find some, or shall the links be simply removed?

Cuete 09:08, 30 December 2006 (UTC)

I changed reference 2 to this: http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/other-related-interviews/clare-torry-october-2005-brain-damage-excl.html
as it seems to have the information being cited. Alan 17:02, 5 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] "Citation needed" for artifact at the very end of the song?

Why is a citation needed for the artifact (speed/tone variation) at the very end of the song? It can be trivially verified by simply listening to the CD. Granted, it is very faint so it has to be listened loud (preferrably with earphones), but the means for verifying this are widely available, so I don't think it requires a particular authoritative source. If this needs a citation, then other stuff that can be verified by checking the CD also do, like the track length(!). Citations for things that can't be verified easily, such as recollections from the people involved in the making of the song, etc., are welcome and useful, but I feel there's a bit of a "citation needed" overload on Wikipedia lately, and I feel this is a case of this. I did remove the "citation needed" tag there once, but it was reverted, so I thought about bringing this up for discussion here. Thoughts? --LodeRunner 04:41, 29 July 2007 (UTC)

My feelings exactly. In fact, that's what I came to this Talk page to ask about! Since nobody's spoken up for about half a year now, I've gone ahead and removed the citeneeded. This time, however, the statement in question has been reworded to sound less critical. Maybe the only reason it was getting tagged for citation is, some bright spark didn't like the idea of his favorite song going "out of tune". After all, this is Pink Floyd, you know. Pink Floyd were never wrong, just . . . different. --63.25.8.245 (talk) 20:02, 5 February 2008 (UTC)


[edit] "compression..." removed

Evidently after a bit more research (I was the one that initially added it), Chris Thomas was brought in more for the reason of Gilmore's and Waters' difference of opinion on how the record should sound. I do recall an interview with Parsons where he mentions the dialog between him and Thomas concerning the use of compression. I recently read somewhere that each of them initially snuck in during Parsons and Thomas mixing, eventually leading to both of them sitting with him during mixdown. From the experience I've had with many sessions over the years, that must have been tough. Wamnet (talk)