Delicate Sound of Thunder was filmed in August at Nassau Coliseum, in Long Island, New York. Some filming took place at Place d`Armes du Chateau de Versailles, France. (TGGITS piece was the only portion of the Versailles show used on DSOT). Delicate Sound was the first live recorded 'keepsake' for Pink Floyd fans in many years.

Just a year before DSOT was an extraordinary time for PF fans...first the band split into two armed camps, with Roger firing the opening salvos and releasing Radio Kaos, while the band worked on resuming their careers and releasing A Momentary Lapse of Reason. Most critics came to Pink Floyd's opening dates of AMLoR to bury and not to praise them, convinced that Waters had taken the essence of the band with him. Somebody forgot to tell that to the fans-and three guys named Gilmour, Mason and Wright.

Within three weeks of release, AMLoR was in Billboard's Top 10 while Radio Kaos was on the bottom rungs of the Top 100. [Rolling Stone, 1987] AMLoR reached Platinum in November of the same year. While the Delicate Sound video was criticized for the way it was filmed, most PF fans did not care...at last they had what they had been waiting for, and were not disappointed.

Pink Floyd was first band to play at the Palace Versailles, in the area called the coachpark outside the gates. At the end of the show, the band returned to the stage to watch the fireworks display, which can be seen on the DSOT video.

All 5 concerts at NY Coliseum were recorded and filmed for the DSOT project. DSOT was advertised on television, unusual for Pink Floyd at the time, using scenes from the Versailles concert.

Official promotional videos from Delicate Sound consisted of OTTA, CN, and OOTD.

November '88- Soyez 7 Cosmonauts take cassette copy of DSOT (w/out case to reduce weight) with them to the MIR Space Station. Dave and Nick flew to Bajkonur to see the launch. "To say that we are thrilled at the thought of being the first rock band to be played in space is something of an understatement." David

The sound of the rocket taking off was recorded for possible use on a future Pink Floyd album.

Quotes

Since DSOT is a child of the Momentary Lapse tour, some quotes below are additional quotes to what we have already included in the AMLoR section of the Discography. Perhaps the additional AMLoR era quotes and some DSOT quotes will hopefully finally put to rest some misinformation, and untruths, that has been spread and taken a life of their own since that tour and video.

"We had a load of demos...I had a load of demos that I had been working with, but basically we gathered in a studio in London-Nick and myself and Bob Ezrin, late September of last year-and some of my pieces were not as popular as others. We wrote some new stuff and threw others away and gradually we whittled it down." [AMLoR] Dave

"And then whittled it up. The first demos that Dave gave me had the 'Learning To Fly' idea, it had the 'Dogs of War' idea; everything on it was potentially a good track and that's what it launched from." [AMLoR] Nick

"The 'Dogs of War' track, without the lyrics, I had sitting around for maybe a couple of years; the 'Terminal Frost' track too. Part two of 'Signs of Life' was actually done in 1977 I think. The guitar and the whistling answers was actually a demo that I did in '77 or '78. We had to replace the actual guitar, but the backing chords are from an ancient thing I did. Most of the rest of it was written within the past two years." [AMLoR] Dave

"We've been around an awfully long time. I suspect we stand for something that some reviewers just don't particularly like. I think they find it distressing, this idea of trying to do something that's a bit more spectacular so that it reaches out and engulfs the audience, no matter how far away they are. Some people find what we do to be outside the mainstream." [AMLoR] Nick

"I suspect that some of this has more to do with some people not ever understanding what we are all about." [AMLoR] Dave

"The people who are the most ardent fans are the people who found their imaginations switched on." [AMLoR] Nick "It's nice to have the old fans there, but you definitely want to feel you're breaking new ground and that you're reaching new people who feel strongly about the music and shows-rather than just..'Remember that, dear?'" [AMLoR] Nick

"This album to some extent is vindication that the writing was not historically all Roger. 'The Final Cut' was virtually all Roger, but even that was not *all* Roger. [Nicks stress on the word, not typist's] I'd have to say, no, Roger didn't do all the writing. Yes he wrote the lyrics, but he didn't do all the music writing by any manner or means. That's one of the things that's been irritating, Roger attempting to take credit for everything. Fine if he wants to take credit for a lot of it, but he's trying to say he did everything, and that's not how it worked." [AMLoR] Nick

"Roger conducted a long and deliberate campaign to try and insure that he did all the writing. 'The Wall' album was not a Roger Waters solo album, no matter what anyone thinks. It was a year of very hard work by Roger and all of us, turning a good idea that can only be described as a pig's ear into a silk purse." [AMLoR] Dave

"There is room for everyone and, in fact, it's of benefit to everyone, because you get more material being thrown out and everyone can live with it very easily. It's not a competition, it's not a war or a contest." [AMLoR] Nick

"This whole business could have been sorted out and we could have been working on a reasonable and tolerable level. There was definitely the ability and the opportunity for Roger's record and tour to come out slightly earlier in the year and, if there had been an agreement, we could have put our tickets on sale slightly later in the year. We could have made room for each other if we had any sort of mutual respect. But Roger has changed his plans and has spent the last year of his life on a deliberate campaign of wrecking us. There is no doubt about what he has been doing. In all the interviews he is conducting a vicious wrecking campaign, and I cannot remain friends with someone like that." [AMLoR] Dave

"We don't sit and plan who we are going to be playing to or anything like that. I mean, it would be wonderful if one could, but we just make a record as well as we can make it. We don't consider Pink Floyd techniques or recipes that we've used before; we just get on with making a record and doing the best tour we can do. They are very complicated procedures that we go through, but the idea behind it is a very simple one." [AMLoR] Dave

"It's very much a band feeling again, where you are looking forward to achieving things together. Some of that spirit is back in." [AMLoR] Nick

"We are making a point here with this album and with this tour and we're going to drive that point home." [AMLoR] Dave

"I really like it. We got criticism. We got reviews when it came out saying that it was too good, that we'd obviously done too much to it in the studio. We did nothing to it in the studio whatsoever, we just mixed it. I mean we had to get it done in a month, and we had five nights, at two and a half hours, that's 13-14 hours of music on tape, that's two working days to even listen to it once. We had to, from that, decide which tracks had been best on which night...which tracks we wanted to put on the album...and then go forth and mix them and get it all prepared in the space of a month. There's no overdubbing, no fixing, nothing." [DSOT] David