Live in Pompeii 50th Anniversary Pink Floyd PA Recreation

We recreated a Pink Floyd Live in Pompeii PA Rig with Chris Hewitt of CH Vintage Audio to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the original recording date in 1971.
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Put together by Westley Bone of Troglodyte Music and Chris Hewitt of CH Vintage Audio
CH Vintage Audio - Equipment , PA and Backline, vintage cases etc
Troglodyte Music - All filming and Audio recording equipment
LIVE FIELD SHOOT 05/09/21
Westley Bone Producer / Editor / Presenter
Dan Haworth-Salter DP
Mark Branigan Second Camera Unit
Dan Bradley Third Camera Unit and Drone
Ross Clarke-Trevis Field Audio Recording
Richard Stilwell Production Assistant
Crew
Chris Hewitt - Event Supervisor
Geoff Goddard - electronics, wiring and sound and more
Nick Davis- photos, lead manufacture, splitter box manufacture, dish frame manufacture and more
Tim Davis- lead manufacture
Jayne Owen and Sylvia Goddard - food and drink
Stephen Screech Johnson - lifting crew
Tom Hewitt- lifting crew and driving
Matthew Hewitt- emergency drinks run
Gary Lipton - artwork design
Thanks to
Jeff Lewis at Matamp for cabinet building , Harry Joyce UK Amplifiers, Rawson Sparfield
Loudspeakers, Grange Products, Barry Hughes at Hughes Fabrication Northwich, all at Brookes
Engineering Northwich, Roy and Jonathan Johnson, Chris Leather at Car-go vehicle repairs and
Jason and Andy at Wicked Styling Northwich for The Avis Transit restoration, Barry Atherton for
cabinet building
Brother Jonj Henshaw for the use of his kit

[@conbriosynthesizers3428]

It's funny how WEM kit was everywhere in 1969/70 (given away free) but almost nobody used it after that point. Gilmour kept a cabinet and I had an amp combo that sounded great, I sold it to DEVO.

[@PrinceWesterburg]

I was born in '68 and due to vague, unplacable memories from the 70s I always associate Wem gear as being outdoors on a summer's day, somewhere surrounded by fields - so this video HAD to happen!!! XD My God, thank you!

[@guitarplayer5932]

amazing seeing this old system

[@TheGoldtopdude]

Charlie was a legend, the true pioneer of modern P.A. and apparently a true gentleman. R.I.P.

[@TroglodyteMusic]

I just wish I could have met him - he’s left such a great legacy

[@boatlx9860]

@@TroglodyteMusic Charlie Watkins was a customer when I worked at CT Electronics selling components. He was not impressed with the new-fangled analog 'bucket brigade' delay units that were coming on the market at the time, and referred to them as 'squawk boxes'.. If you had to use and maintain WEM Copycats as a PA tech, the BBDs and the Roland Space Echo were a godsend.

[@MrBanzoid]

I remember seeing Pink Floyd at the Seaburn Hotel in the North East and later at Newcastle City Hall. Lots of WEM stuff, plus their Azimuth Coordinator columns spread around the venue. Regarding power amps, I seem to recall The Groundhogs using ten Quad 303s at one point. RIP Tony McPhee.

[@SecretAgentSuperDragon]

So cool. I love people who geek out over this stuff, especially when it's Floyd!

[@danielgrove7782]

My cousin designed 20 hertz bass cabs and wedge mons starting in 1978...i had no idea how state of the art his stuff was (still is) also...a mixer exists from about 1980. Clair bros built it because nothing matched their needs..it was supposed to be junked but someone saved it. Clair bros checked out my cousin's gear but went with 4x15 or 18 boxes....thanks for sharing..i built the cabs and still use the horns and subs. I remember a owner of a local sound company saying the cabs should have hard points to fly them

[@tomaburque]

[@MusicoElectronico]

Amazing!!! 🎶 🎵 ❤

[@rotaxtwin]

Thanks for your extensive efforts, gents. Great to have a tour through the gear.

[@FF-so3su]

Very interesting, thanks 😊👍❤️

[@rikvee]

thank you so much, love the love!

[@TroglodyteMusic]

You are so welcome!

[@sublimeproduct]

Can’t wait to see the next part!

[@TroglodyteMusic]

Not too long hopefully - working on it as we speak ;)

[@jagerking7020]

Its insane how technology has progressed where today a tiny 2x12 bass rig that weighs 30lbs each cuts as much as half of this stuff.

[@KarlKrogmann]

Thank you for doing this, for filming this thing. This is just extraordinary.

[@TroglodyteMusic]

You’re welcome - it’s been so much fun to do. I’m just editing a video now where a band actually play through the rig!

[@KarlKrogmann]

@@TroglodyteMusic Forty plus years ago I would sit hunched over the Ummagumma album with a magnifying glass, peering intently at the equipment shot on the back, trying to decipher the build out. Your video(s) are like the Rosetta Stone. You have a subscriber for life. Keep up the great work.

[@eliaskhouri8409]

Wow

[@Silverlining1111]

👍Salute to you all sir. Pink Floyd is the only band their fans will collect whole pa set fr a specific performance. 👍

[@TroglodyteMusic]

More Pink Floyd PA videos coming soon…a slightly later pa than this one

[@rupe53]

Never met these guys and it's interesting to see how they go about a large system for outdoor use on the other side of the pond. I have met Bill Hanley, who fathered large outdoor PA in the USA. He's fairly well known for the Woodstock system and also the gear used to allow The Beatles to do early stadium shows. Probably the first guy to use what we call stage monitors.

[@DjMulen]

That's magical... I love it.

[@TroglodyteMusic]

Thank you - glad you enjoyed it :)

[@TheAsrgrant]

Fantastic! Had the good old WEMs - memories!!

[@Basscouch]

This is just awesome!!!!

[@TroglodyteMusic]

Thank you - this was a lot of fun to make.

[@thebenefactor6744]

Oh, those Binsons!😊

[@santrixhimself3679]

This is so awsome! Looking forward to the performance

[@TroglodyteMusic]

:) thank you…hopefully very soon for the next one ;)

[@brucetungsten5714]

Great!

[@TroglodyteMusic]

Glad you enjoyed :)

[@mdog111]

What a wonderfully, eccentrically bonkers thing to have done. Really enjoyed this video....but no mention or explanation of the parabolic speakers. Surely the most eye catching part of this rig recreation?

[@TroglodyteMusic]

We talk about them a little bit on the Mark Radcliffe video. They are amazing pieces of equipment :)

[@Basscouch]

Cooool!

[@Wileylikethehawk]

This is amazing

[@utkusabbath6173]

This is Awesome ❤️🔥❤️❤️❤️🔥

[@TroglodyteMusic]

Thank you :) it was such a great day!

[@arcadia1081]

As a matter of fact I was in the Pompeii amphitheatre a few weeks ago. Sadly they put modern scaffolding for some upcoming concert. I made a point of driving past Vesuvius on the motorway with Echoes playing!

[@Kev-Adams]

Another great video 👍 Worth hanging on until the end for the dramatic *no spoilers* finish too 😂

[@TroglodyteMusic]

Hahaha now that was fun lol

[@NoBudgetTechShow]

409s my personal holy grails

[@RickO.-vq8oh]

WOW!! I can almost hear echos intro as they pan over the gear...

[@donniemacco6905]

Can't see the grand piano. He's not the only one to drool over the the back cover of ummagummer l always wondered how they got all that gear in that van

[@Basscouch]

I think it would be awesome to see you guys find and recreate the late 90s Pink Floyd Turbosound TFL/TFS (Floodlight/Flashlight) system one day as well.

[@berkolbaykara251]

What brand compression driver used in 15 multicell Altec horn please? Great video BTW...!

[@Uygkuyfkutfkytfkutfv]

Didn’t they sell some of this gear to The Cure?

[@MS-Patriot2]

WEM Dominator 30. My mate’s first amp. You could fry an egg on it after 30 minutes, and that warm valves smell…..

[@Samana009]

Live AT Pompeii...

[@Stewartchampion]

All tho it is from a different period....any chance I can come and plug in to it and play some syd barrett songs... what a dream that would be

[@davburge5759]

The Doobie Brothers were still using 409's in the nineties because of their hypercardiod pattern allowed them to increase their monitor levels without feedback.

[@graffitti]

와 이건 정말 멋디자

[@purplepimple2610]

I want a PINK FLOYD LONDON stencil

[@dre4011]

I second that!!!

[@Motown222]

Reminds me of Portlandia. Got everything, ain’t played a note. Beware of the man who owns only one guitar, he can play the mess out of it.

[@sweetspike]

Us Civil war style ancient pa replication.

[@Andrew-rc3vh]

Are those mics a kind of noise cancelling arrangement where environmental sound cancels out through the two faces? If so you would expect them to work just as well the other way around at 180 degree anti-phase. They would be designed in that case to be acoustically symmetrical.

[@boilinabag]

oh the days of lugging tons of gear for a live show. now its an app.

[@acceler9]

Wait?! Where are the special guests to play the rig?

[@TroglodyteMusic]

There a few videos of a band playing through the rig on this channel ;)

[@newtronix]

Were the parabolics at Pompeii?

[@TroglodyteMusic]

Good spot, No they weren’t, but they were at the Isle of Wight festival and he had them, so we thought we, hey why not wire them in and have a listen as everything else was out :)

[@newtronix]

@@TroglodyteMusic Ok! Listened to all the tracks. Sounded great. Nice field setting. Wish I Was There! Thanks

[@Esperluet]

What does PA mean please?

[@VickersDoorter]

Public Address.

[@littlebritain64]

Yes, they are made for the audience. Monitors are instead for the musicians on stage.

[@danielgrove7782]

Sound reenforcement is an interesting term...horns and drums are loud..so the system reinforced the other instruments and voice... clair bros started when they daw a band with a really poor system and they realized their home system was better so they started to rent gear

[@xsm5525]

they skipped over the dishes? what are those wem dsh things?

[@EricDowning]

Parabolic speaker. Designed to throw sound over long distances. This one goes out to 3-4 miles from a 12" speaker.

[@TroglodyteMusic]

We do talk about them a bit in some of the other videos with Mark Radcliffe :)

[@althejazzman]

That's ridiculous devotion, to find all this vintage gear, and to find a dry day to assemble and use it.

[@fredflintstoner596]

Mrs Richards: "I paid for a room with a view !" Basil: (pointing to the lovely view) "That is Torquay, Madam ." Mrs Richards: "It's not good enough!" Basil: "May I ask what you were expecting to see out of a Torquay hotel bedroom window ? Sydney Opera House, perhaps? the Hanging Gardens of Babylon? Herds of wildebeest sweeping majestically past?..." Mrs Richards: "Don't be silly! I expect to be able to see the sea!" Basil: "You can see the sea, it's over there between the land and the sky." Mrs Richards: "I'm not satisfied. But I shall stay. But I expect a reduction." Basil: "Why?! Because Krakatoa's not erupting at the moment ?"

[@livepulse_original]

Too bad that real musicians don’t have a chance at acquiring these amps and fx because of “collectors” like this. I believe it starts as a passion but when money is involved that passion washes away. Nice to see but utterly useless.

[@MurderBong]

NO FUCKIN WAY… IM AN AUDIOPHILE BECAUSE IM A MUSICIAN. WHAT I WOULD DO TO PLAY THE KEYBOARD AND DRUMS WITH THAT SET UP. MAYBE A BACKING TRACK. I WOULD MAKE THE ALBATROSS FLY!

[@MurderBong]

EVERY FUCKIN PIECE!!!! 😢 FROM THE GREATEST CONCERT NO ONE SAW

[@MurderBong]

OK, THE GONG LOOKS SMALL THOUGH 😅 EDIT RIGHT BRAND!

[@MurderBong]

THE STAND 😂 I NOTICED THAT IN THE VIDEO… THE ONLY REASON I THOUGHT IT WAS A FAKE SET UP FOR SHOW… NO WAY IT CAN STAY THERE WITH ALL THE VIBRATION 😂😂😂

[@MurderBong]

YOU DIDNT EVEN WARM UP THE GONG … EVEN ROGER DID… OTHERWISE IT SOUNDS LIKE THAT.. LIKE BANING AN ALUMINUM PIE PLATE… WATCH CAREFULLY.. WHN HE HOLDS THE BEATER CLOSE… HE WOULD BE DOING LIGHT TAPS… WARMS IT UP, THEN THE CRASH HAS A MORE RICH FULL SOUND RATHER THAN SMACK-FIZZLE. 😊