Talk:The Great Gig in the Sky

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Anyone want to reword this?

It is also true that Clare once finished to record The Great Gig In The Sky felt herself not completely satisfied: not a lot was said (to me and about the recorded piece)...well well thank you very much and (I) left. Nobody apparently told her that her job was great that she could not even immagine that her recording would have been than a part of the album!! Despite that Richard Wright once said to Clare that she really did a great job but due he saw Clare really embarrassed he told her that was wonderful. It seems to be a bit contradictory.

That needs serious work.

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

'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)[reply]

Wrong Wife!

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)[reply]

Thank you for solving that mystery! Back in the early 1990s Gilmour did an interview where he mentions Puddie Watts as being one of the voices on DSotM. He then describes her as "the wife of one of our roadies, an American girl". As Myfanwy was not American, I presume Patricia was and is the one on the album.NH78.147.153.46 (talk) 12:06, 21 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

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....

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) Neil Ratner Rock Doc, who supported the Dark Side of The Moon tour with his company Circus Talents, interviews Puddie Watts in his podcast and solves the mystery. https://audioboom.com/boos/3359862-part-1-the-long-lost-voice-from-the-dark-side-of-the-moon[reply]

Neither is true. According to Nick Mason (in his book Inside Out) and the Mojo article on Dark Side of the Moon, together with the followup letter written by David Gilmour, the line is spoken by Patricia "Puddie" Watts, the second wife of road manager Peter Watts. Naomi Watts's mother is Miv Watts, Peter Watts's first wife. I've corrected this attribution. Jeffrw (talk) 12:25, 22 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

David Gilmour played Hammond organ live in the seventies. Floyd(Norway) 15:57, 29 November 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Can you cite a source and put it in the main article? Carolus 04:16, 9 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

updated ref 2 to http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/other-related-interviews/clare-torry-october-2005-brain-damage-excl-2.html Wamnet (talk)

"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)[reply]

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)[reply]

"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)

an addition to Trivia

The song (along with "Money") was used in Estonian animation "Sunday" ("Pühapäev", 1977) by Avo Paistik, although it is not mentioned in the credits of the film.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1075379/ http://www.bcdb.com/cartoon/96796-Puumlhapaumlev.html 88.196.213.98 (talk) 11:42, 14 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Missed spoken parts

There is also a part saying 'I neversaid I was frightened of dying' which is missed out from this article —Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.42.254.91 (talk) 14:40, 8 October 2009 (UTC)[reply]

At 3:34 : "If you can hear this whisper you're dying" —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.118.45.8 (talk) 20:01, 27 May 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Great video interview with Clare

You have to se this - hope they keep it on boob tube:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h1LTSLbhyoY&feature=related

Wamnet (talk) —Preceding undated comment added 04:40, 8 February 2010 (UTC).[reply]

Unreferenced

It is also true that Clare once finished to record The Great Gig In The Sky felt herself not completely satisfied: not a lot was said (to me and about the recorded piece)...well well thank you very much and (I) left.

Bold Edit/Reorg

I'm doing a bold edit on this page to reorganize it and bring the quotes, which I think are pretty interesting, inline. Jeffrw (talk) 21:19, 23 December 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Removing Rock from Genres

There's no reason it should be there. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 99.239.37.41 (talk) 03:15, 30 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Done. Completely agree. There's little reason for any infobox to have more than one genre anyway. Friginator (talk) 22:56, 31 October 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Assessment comment

The comment(s) below were originally left at Talk:The Great Gig in the Sky/Comments, and are posted here for posterity. Following several discussions in past years, these subpages are now deprecated. The comments may be irrelevant or outdated; if so, please feel free to remove this section.

Probably the best and most sourced of the DSotM articles. Maybe it could be expanded with more information about Torry's envolvement, live perfomances, or covers of the song. It also lacks information of the Wizard of Oz/Dsotm synchroncity. --200.118.217.125 17:02, 17 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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