It’s hard to recognize David Gilmour from your old faded Pink Floyd T-Shirts.

The present-day Gilmour is pudgy around the waist, thin around the hairline with wrinkles around his face.

But close your eyes, hear the 61-year-old leader of Pink Floyd play his vintage Fender Stratocaster, and you’d swear he’s the same psychedelic rock hero from years past. Because really, he is.

Tuesday marked the release of “Remember That Night: Live at the Royal Albert Hall,” a DVD of Gilmour’s solo performance. This is a must-have for Pink Floyd fans as well as Gilmour fans, as his captivating performance covers hits spanning more than thirty years.

The production of the DVD was spearheaded primarily by Gilmour himself.

“I keep my hand on everything, and nothing gets on the [DVD] that I haven’t seen and approved thoroughly,” Gilmour said in a phone interview. “I’m afraid I’m a bit anal about it.”

In Gilmour’s Albert Hall performance, he is accompanied by Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright and a very talented backup band. There are also special appearances by David Crosby, Graham Nash, David Bowie and Robert Wyatt.

The two-disk collection also includes behind-the-scenes footage of the tour, which culminated with the Albert Hall performance.

Gilmour has released three solo albums since 1978, his most recent being the critically-acclaimed “On an Island” in 2006. Since the 1970s he has toured with and without his progressive-pioneer rock band, Pink Floyd.

“The amount of touring I tend to do these days is quite limited,” Gilmour said. “When I came to the states last year, I only visited five cities. I’m hoping to cover alot of the places that I didn’t get to, because this DVD is the next best thing.”

Gilmour’s set list includes Pink Floyd hits, which are impeccably covered, along with notable tracks from “On an Island.”

What is absent from this show, however, are the on-stage visual effects and theatrics that were once a staple of Pink Floyd concerts.

“It’s about the music. Some of those things are devices that are very useful if you are playing in a huge stadium or a huge arena,” Gilmour said. “I didn’t feel that we needed those devices. We toned it down and really made it about the music.”

On the DVD Gilmour said he set out to create an individual identity away from the band, and this project was more personal than almost any he had ever done.

Gilmour’s most recent tour captured on the DVD was also spent touring smaller venues. Even Albert Hall, Gilmour said, has a much smaller seating capacity that can’t even come close to matching the size of its reputation and history.

“All the shows that I did on the tour, most were in theatres,” Gilmour said. “I wanted to play smaller more intimate places and that’s what I did.”

Overall the sound quality on the disc, as well as Gilmour’s performance is comparable to Pink Floyd records which have found appeal with multiple generations. Pink Floyd’s “Dark Side of the Moon” has sold more than 40-million copies since its release in 1973. A reissue of the record premiered at number one on the Billboard pop charts in 2003.

“I’m not going to go out of my way to try and force the younger generation to listen into it,” Gilmour said. “It’s there for you if you want it.”

Graham Beckwith can be reached at [email protected].