David doesn't plug his guitar into an amp. He plugs into your soul.

Greatest band of all time. Period.

It is written about band co-founder Syd Barrett, who experienced severe mental health issues. "Pile on many more layers, and I'll be joining you there,"was Waters' expression of empathy.

All these years later . . . and still fresh. Glad to see so many still finding Floyd. They were special.

This song is not just about Syd, it's about all of the beautiful artistic souls that can't handle the pressures of life, of society. The painters, the prophets, the poets, the seers of visions. The crazy diamonds.

David Gilmour has so much talent. He makes that guitar weep and wail. He expresses himself so deeply in that song. Syd had so much talent and like so many, lost his mind to drugs and mental health. This is the most legendary tribute ❤️

And Never EVER Interrupt or pause a Gilmour solo !! It's considered a Sin in the music world! lol

What can I say, Pink Floyd, one of the best groups around! Great song. Great reaction!

Yep. It’s about losing somebody dear to you. And you’re right; it hits hard.

I still think this is the best Pink Floyd song of them all. And knowing it was about Syd Barrett and his mental health issues so he had to leave the band makes it even more special. I heard the story that when the band was rehearsing the song Syd actually walked in and listened to them playing it. It gives me goose bumps thinking about it.

Inna, Floyd's albums are concept albums. They tell a story. Do yourself a favor and listen to entire albums in track order the way that we did before Cd's and streaming. 🤞✌️

Floyd=GOAT!✌️

I love how Pink Floyd has always let you watch their "secrets" by always showing the performers drum patterns, guitar fingering, and keyboards close up. They've always allowed us inside on stage with them. Still unique to this day.

This song is the epitome of the 'Floyd sound'. Grandiose, experimental, melancholy and the guitar and organ being vocals of their own when David (or Roger) isn't singing.

Pink Floyd used to open their concerts with this track as a tribute to Syd Barret , i saw them live in london 1989

Gilmour's guitar playing just tells stories by itself!! What an artist

Syd Barrett the foundation of the band and lead singer. When David Gilmore says Now there's a look in your eye, like Black Holes in the Sky. R.I.P. SYD

The Pinnacle of music... Pink Floyd. Inna, I hope you react to "Great Gig in the Sky" from the "Delicate Sound of Thunder" video. It's the best version, with Rachel Fury, Durga McBroom and Margaret Taylor on vocals.

Saw this concert July of 94' in Chicago. Goes without saying.. was a RELIGIOUS experience....

I was at the Kansas City version of this concert, also in 1994. Plenty of time to forget some details... and we were far enough away that we couldn't clearly see people on the stage. No problems hearing anything of course!

Love your love for music.

When I got that album, I was a tad bit younger. But in spite of my youth, that song hit hard. I already knew about Sid and the difficulties he had. Now that I am notably older and have lost family members and friends over the years, the song has evolved into a deeply personal story of my lfe. Roger Waters wrote those lyrics, David Gilmore came up with the hauntingly beautiful guitar riffs, Richard Wright with the smooth keyboards and Nick Mason the underlying rhythms. This song is forever meaningful.

This Pink Floyd song perfectly illustrates the thoughts of French composer Claude Debussy who said: “Music is also the space between the notes”. When David sings "you stranger", he is talking about their friend Syd, who due to his mental illness had become just like a stranger to them. Syd even became a “prisoner” of his mental illness, as if locked in his own mind. Along the same lines, see: "Brain Damage + Eclipse".

"Shine on You Crazy Diamond" is a song that in your original version had 26 minutes. When the album "Wish You Were Here" had released in 1975, they had divided this song in nine parts, with Part I-V as first song at Side A, and Part VI-IX as last song at Side B. This album is incredible (it contains "Wish you Were Here", other classic progressive rock). Great video to reaction, Inna, thank you!!!!!!!

That's what I like about Pink Floyd: Goosebumps. Always. Even if I heard the song a hundred times.

Best tribute to a friend ever? Maybe yes.

Syd Barrett left Floyd in late 60’s. Unfortunately Syd’s choice of LSD changed his life. Years later he showed up at the studio and it took awhile for the guys to recognize him. Great tribute song to Syd and really one of the founders of Pink Floyd.

perfection

"Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky." A reference to how Syd's eyes looked dead and dull once his drug habit had robbed them of the light. Fast forward to Division Bell, and this was echoed back in the lyrics of Poles Apart, "I never thought that you'd lose the light in your eyes." Consciously, or unconsciously, the departure of Syd from the band and the reasons behind it still affecting the band all those years later.

David Gilmore playing call and response with himself (Voice and Guitare solo) still gets me every time. How do you even do that! Insane!

I love the emotions in your eyes and movements during the song. This song from Pink Floyd is a gem and it hits very hard. Thanks for your reaction

I remember buying this album when it came out almost 50 years ago. Great album, another masterpiece from Pink Floyd.

If mankind survives a thousand more years, this music will still be listened to by those who understand.

Well done, you hit the nail on the head when you said it was about loss.

FROM SOUTH AFRICA -- A PRIVILEGE WHEN I HEAR THIS IN 1975

Great reaction! I have meditated many times with this song...

This song always brings me to tears. Shine on baby. RIP Sid.

Greatest Pink Floyd song of all time

The song after this song is "welcome to the machine", then "have a cigar" and lastly " wish you were your here". 😊

The saxophonist is Dick Parry, the original player on the album, as well as Dark Side Of The moon. A Cambridge friend from the local jazz community

I have always liked Rick's ethereal keyboards at the beginning with those tonal changes

🔥 📛 your great reaction was appreciated inna thank you from your Australian old fella Chris ❤❤❤❤

That's my favorite. A real beauty! When I remember Rick and David talking in an interview about how on June 5, 1975, while recording this song, a fat bald guy with no eyebrows came into the studio holding a plastic bag and wearing baggy pants. Nobody knew who he was - they thought he was some kind of studio employee. He sat down in the corner and said nothing. Only after a long time did one of the employees say: Do you know who he is? Syd! It was a shock - they hadn't seen each other for almost two years and he had changed completely. Everybody remembered him as an incredibly handsome, sexy young man who all the girls in London wanted. Everyone was horrified and Roger burst into tears. The incredible thing was that he turned up in the studio just as they were recording the vocals for a song that was actually about him. As Wright says, it was really strange and a bit scary...

You stranger, you legend, you martyr. This is, of course, a tribute to the missing member of Pink Floyd. Sid Barrett.

Syd will live on in this forever, Shine on Syd Barrett

Yup that pulled on some heart string for u. I used to play this as one songs to fall asleep too Your hair looks great Inna.❤😊

Nick Mason killed it on this one.

Out of ALL the perfect Pink Floyd songs and this is a very difficult decision but i think Shine on you crazy diamond is the #1 song theyve done (Gilmour) and the Pulse concert version is the best!!!

Saw them on this tour in Tampa 94. Still the most amazing show I have ever seen in over 400 concerts.

While Syd was there during the recording session, the band asked him what he thought about the music. He said that it sounded a bit old. Shortly after that he slipped out of the studio and they never saw him again.

Eargasm

Yeah, heavy indeed. 4 albums in a row with some look at the human condition, they just get to you emotionally like very, very few other bands. (Led Zeppelin & the Beatles come to mind). From the same concert, do any song you have not seen yet, it hardly matters which one, it is solidly magnificent start to finish, as it was when I saw that tour in 1994 in Foxboro MA. Please watch every song in time. Floyd forever! Enjoy. 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎷🎶

Both (the late) Richard Wright (keyboards) and David Gilmour (vocals/ guitar) of Pink Floyd have said publicly that Pink Floyd's 1975 album 'Wish you were here' ... is their favorite record from their catalog... The epic, multi-part track "Shine on you crazy diamond" ... which was a major tribute to Syd Barrett, the lost founder of Pink Floyd, took up most of the album. Richard Wright said, "I will listen to that album for pleasure... as not many of the Floyd albums I can."

A magnificent piece of music. I refer to David Gilmour as Mr Perfection. He seems to always sing and play 🎸 perfectly.😊🎉❤

This music is woderfull and Your reacionário is lovelly💐

Your reaction is profound, on the beat and a joy to view. Your orchestral conductor hand movements is on time, they express your joy, too. Good to see someone enjoy their music like you do. Luv it.

painter, you piper- you prisoner= Syd Barret wasting his life away instead of enjoying the fruits of his own groundings of Pink Floyd, he set the tone of pink floyd, when david came in it only got better and better. 'piper' is a reference to syds obsession with Kenneth Grahame's classic 1908 novel The Wind in the Willows( a story he wrote for his son Alastair who killed himself by putting his head on a railway track) but IN particular in the story it takes hard left turn into a bizarre but very interesting moment(not unlike early pink floyds music) Otter has lost his son and Rat and Mole get in their boat and row through the night to look for him. Just before the dawn they come upon incredible music and walking through the trees come face to face with a deity who is clearly (though never named) the Great God Pan. There at Pan’s feet is the lost otter boy. Ratty and Mole wake up later to find the otter boy and Mole is aware of a dream he cannot remember, while Rat notices hoof prints in the grass: Pan a benevolent god has blessed them with forgetfulness. They then load the boy into the boat and take him back to his family recognizing though that they have had an unusual if elusive experience. The instrument that 'pan' was playing was a 'panflute' or flute of pipes this was so captivating it led mole to their missing baby otter.

Aww honey. I'm crying my eyes out watching your reactions to this masterpiece. I love you!

Não lembro exatamente se foi 2016 ou 2017... mas estava lavando os pratos, e assim que o Gilmour começou a cantar, minha vó (Com quase 80 anos) aparece mansamente na cozinha e diz: ''Essa música é bonita!'' Momento mágico!

Pink Floyd are great. They are like Beethoven in the sort of band 20c sense. The only thing things better than Floyd are Beatles and Dylan. I love this lady presenting this clip BTW, she's lovely.

I believe Syd Barrett actually wandered into the studio the day this song was recorded. He had gained weight and shaved off his eyebrows, and I do believe when you hear chuckle laughter during the album that is Syd. he passed away many years later, after spending the last few decades of his life puttering around in his parents garden in the English countryside I understand…😢

Too cute!

Syd Barrett walked into the recording studio when they were recording this song. His looks had changed so much, it took the rest of the band few minutes to figure out who he was. What timing. Side note, Dick Perry on SAX, he was also on the original studio recording

You have to hear "One of These Days" and "Echoes". And the whole Animals album

🦁may I request "Yet another movie", "Hey You" and "Wearing The Inside Out" - the only song where Richard is singing but not David, so beautiful its even hard to describe - sax and guitar solos + back vocals = everything

One co founder of the band was put into a mental hospitol and is a prisoner of his own mind!

También debemos estar de acuerdo qué el saxofón 🎷 de Dick Parry es brutal y un floydiano mas de esta canción

Best ever.....

Great🤗!

thank you so much inna this song means alot to me and to see other people feeling it brings me so much joy

It is about Syd Barrett, but it highlights the "explorer" (in the Minor's hat in the film), who is being welcomed into the world of drugs, and excess by the world. He dives right in and many times at peril of your mental health.....like Syd.

The song arise from Those Four Notes. Waters heard them and took off.

Wish I could give you three thumbs up for your reaction. ^^

The song makes a lot more sense if you're familiar with how the original member Syd rose to perfection then crumbled in peril.

Only recently found that David Gilmour and Syd were childhood friends.

You can tell David loved Syd very much and was so sad about that, what happened. :(

You are right! About losing someone.. "The song is written about and dedicated to founder member Syd Barrett, who departed from the band in 1968 after dealing with mental problems and substance abuse. "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" The single edit of Part I. Composition by Pink Floyd. from the album Wish You Were Here."

Love you Syd. :)

"There is a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.", came from an incident with Roger "Sid" Barret. Sid was always the life of the party. Women wanted to be with him, he was friends with everyone. There was "life" in his eyes. One day, after a weekend of LSD use, he came into a club to perform. One of his friends looked at Sid and said hello. Sid didn't respond. The friend said. the life was gone from Sid's eyes. Sid's eyes were no longer full of life, but just two black holes. I will see if I can find the interview where this story is told and post it here.

This is the last time they did a full show together (October 29,1994). At the time the highest grossing Rock tour of all-time. For those who saw the tour it was a life changing night in our lives.

Pink Floyd is an experience to never be forgotten. Memorizing your soul and emotions as each instrument tells a story played by unique talents. It's worth going down this rabbit hole. Enjoy each and every song. Thank You for bringing back memories. ❤😂😢❤... Be safe well healthy....the song written for Sid was 'Wish You Were Here'....

Your summation was spot on. This song was written about their former guitarist, Syd Barrett. He was a terribly “mentally anguished” soul, and ultimately took his own life. That occurrence however, molded them in a fashion that set them upon the path of brilliance that has held you captive on more than one occasion on your channel!!

This song always gets me choked up.

😘 you suit 'any colour you like' Inna pretty girl

This song is paying homage to one of the founding members, vocalist Syd Barret who had literally gone crazy by trying to use LSD & other drugs to treat his schizophrenia. Thus, the title "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"

Ya, I love the contradiction in the line "with random precision". Really does something to me.

I know that all tastes in music in are subjective, but if you don't appreciate this music, you are lost.

❤❤❤❤

This is parts 1-5. 6-9 are the last track on the album. Dick Parry on baritone and tenor sax.

This is a great format: a reaction to your first reaction. Nice!

From the Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here, album concert. Amazing album.

WOAH!!! Look at the great hair !! You look amazing !

This is a product of superior musicianship. Give it to Gilmour who stumbled upon the original composition which then penned by the genius of Roger Waters. Pure 70s perfection.

One of the best tributes I've ever experienced

Inna, li ho visti dal vivo a Torino nel 1994. Esperienza che va oltre la mia passione per la musica e che ricorderò per tutta la vita. Complimenti e continua ad amare questa meravigliosa arte!

I can tell by the look on your face that you are entering the Pink Floyd rabbit hole. You will find it's the most amazing musical experience one can have. They are the greatest band to step on stage or studio. Their album Dark Side of the Moon spent 18 YEARS on the Billboard top 100. What more can be said but enjoy the voyage young friend.

Bellissima reaction Inna! I Pink Floyd ci fanno volare con le loro parole 😊 Ciao ciao dall'Italia 😊

that's a masterpiece. epic song

The ultimate tribute to Pink Floyd's creative heart and soul, Inna. In Memoriam, Syd Barrett.

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