With your DVD system's surround sound, this film is a sensory banquet of overwhelming Floyd, relaxed but with something to prove at the edge of superstardom - still very much musicians rather than jaded rockstars - young, thin and hungry.

Though armed with a huge arsenal of effects, amplification, and sundry equipment, the volume and variety of sound that just four musicians made with no digital enhancement or electronic backing is stunning. Gilmour's guitar ranges between his unique inverted chordal strumming, and astonishing effects, especially with a slide in the upper reaches. NO ONE sounds like David Gilmour. Waters is a fine, lyric bassist; Mason is the perfect drummer for the group, building percussive castles through unerring repetition and fugal development. Wright is the secret weapon, filling in the holes, laying an oceanic foundation, and supporting Gilmour's and Waters' vocals with harmonies.

The music is a healthy dose of their latest album at the time, the classic Meddle ("Echoes Pt. 1" opens the film, "Echoes Pt 2" closes it; the charging, menacing "One of These Days" is the centerpiece), choice noise symphonies "Careful With That Axe Eugene" (with frightening, preternatural screams from Waters), "A Saucerful of Secrets" and "Set the Controls For the Heart of the Sun," in addition to works in progress "Us and Them" and "Brain Damage" from Dark Side of the Moon.

We just sort of sat there for 90 minutes staring and drooling as the images and audio transfixed and transported us. Also on the DVD is the original 60-minute concert film, an interview with director Adrien Maben, Pompeii map and history, lyrics, a photo gallery, and an "odds 'n' sods" section with posters and album art.