It was December 29, 1994 at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena California. The streets of Pasadena were becoming bedecked with roses everywhere, but that was not why I was in the area. I was in the area to see a concert. Not just any concert, but one of the biggest concerts in many years. I was there to see Pink Floyds’ Pulse Concert, with what we all found out later would be the last tour Roger Waters would make with Pink Floyd.

There are several concerts I remember in my life, the Out of the Blue Tour by ELO in the summer of 1979 with Boston as opening act at the Fabulous Forum in Inglewood California, the first Elton John and Billy Joel team up in July of 1988 at the Coliseum, The Who’s final Tommy tour in 1990 also at the Coliseum in Los Angeles and the Pulse Tour. The first three in this list were incredible and at the time I never thought that there would be a better concert till the next came along, that was until Pulse.

I remember it so well, the concert just seemed to go on forever, and after three and a half hours, the band finally took their bows and it was over and everyone wanted more. They played three encores, how could we want more? But we did because we all knew that we were seeing one of the best rock concerts staged. The first half of the show was a mix of all their work except for Dark Side of the Moon. The coolest part was that you knew there was very little recorded material, it was all live. The sounds were crisp, intense, mellow, and so lush I thought I was being lifted up. It was so intense, it was cool. To give you an example, Shine on Crazy Diamonds was the first song out the gate, and done better than I ever heard it, I was stunned.

The second half was Dark Side of the Moon. I am sure they knew that everyone there wanted it, the concert that had not been seen in the US in over twenty five years. We got it, and man, did we get it. I am sure you know this album, you know, the one that was on the billboard top 100 for twenty five years, the one that no one has a clue as to how many records have been sold since it came out in March of 1973. We got to hear live and experience live an icon of music history. It was incredible, a sonic adventure running through the halls of insanity, being chased by the police and choppers, knowing your call will not go through, then finally running like hell. Yes, we were all lunatics on the grass, we never wanted to leave, spellbound every last one of us.

The encores started and the energy ramped up once more as Wish You Were Here wound its’ way through the stadium, and we did not have to wish, we were. Comfortably Numb set us up once more for Run Like Hell and the concert was over. No one had left, no one dared to miss a beat, but when it was all over we wanted it to start again, but now it was only a memory, one that we all shared and we all knew we had seen something special.

Years later when I talk about the concerts I have seen I always talk about this one in particular, and every once in a while, I meet someone else who saw the same tour and we are both back to 1994, reliving the best concert we both ever saw. All this because I picked up the two disc DVD set of PULSE and became nostalgic. I had the CD of the concert, played them over and over, and indeed when I picked this up I thought I was getting the CD, But no, it was the DVD and you kinow what, that is just fine with me, it brought back all the spectacular of the concert and I was there again, 12 years back in time, awed at the sounds.

So, if that sounds like a few thumbs up for the DVD set of Pink Floyds PULSE, you are right, go get it!