PINK FLOYD

https://i.imgur.com/JYOCjUj.png

excellent trip report

i can't belieeeeeve that after the syd and rick wright tribute text that they went on to jim morrison and the rest. that's just an unbelievably bad decision.

should have ended with a laser version of this
https://i.imgur.com/8hRCUMG.png

On the ride home, I was all just "What about Brian Jones? Or Charlie Watts? Where was Buddy Holly? You going to have Elvis in there, but not Buddy?"

No Otis or Sam either, but I guess they're not rock-and-roll enough. Otis sure as shit had more #1s though than that rock-and-roll star, Bob Marley, who was included.

unfortunately, the list of honored dead musicians is sorted by number of posters sold at hot topic

Where was Joliet Jake Blues then.

Forgot to mention the oldster wearing the Stetson in front of us. He looked nervous.

Sure enough, during the guitar solo of "Time," dude pulled out an IPAD.

And on that iPad, we saw this app!

https://i.imgur.com/x6L7vto.jpg

(The needle was pegged at around 90. He was gone for the second half and Beeps got to put her feet up.)

"turn it down!" is one of the rarest squares in pink floyd laser show Bingo

Almost as rare as yelling "Tupac!"

"Hey some of us are just here for the lasers man!"

thank u for the scene report pplains, wonderful

I saw a PF laser show in college, maybe 1990. I don't remember whether we were tripping or high, or just drunk. I think it very unlikely that we would have gone to it without an intoxication plan.

Great story indeed. Meantime, here's a great one from fifty years back:

50 years ago tonight, #PinkFloyd perform “dark side of the moon” with quadraphonic sound at #nyc’s radio city music hall, starting at 1am. the late dead taper harvey lubar told me that he attended this show with fellow taper jerry moore & that the #gratefuldead’s #JerryGarcia, #PhilLesh, & #OwsleyStanley sat in front of them, apparently checking out the quad system on their night off, but split at set break, before floyd played “dark side.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yv9qVIzWrM4

"It was heavy maaaaaan, Pigpen had just died, too much of a bummer"

he took an iPad with a decibel meter but didn't take earplugs?

I suspect because the earplugs would have given him reason to stay instead of leaving.

Nick Mason and his All-Starr Saucerful of Secrets are coming to Australia in Sept and I am GOING with an old mate who also thinks Pink Floyd rule.

Feels good to have a ticket to see the second-best surviving member of The Pink Floyd! Figure I am extremely unlikely to see Gilmour at this point, as much as I would love this.

Also I just watched that Kate Bush / Gilmour clip and Dave's guitar sounds fkn great IMO - that's a killer performance all round

Like it really intelligently answers the question "how do you feature a guitar hero on this song that doesn't really have an obvious place for guitar heroism", I would've been beyond stoked to see that performed live

I don't know who the other guitarist is but his haircut is a glorious summation of the mid-eighties.

the bass player with the ridiculous hair is tony franklin

oh yeah he was in Blue Murder with John Sykes

....and Carmine Appice no slight to the drum god

Those prof stoned bbc sessions are fucking sick

lol I need to put that damn rar file on my old Macbook to unzip it

50 years ago tonight, #PinkFloyd perform “dark side of the moon” with quadraphonic sound at #nyc’s radio city music hall, starting at 1am. the late dead taper harvey lubar told me that he attended this show with fellow taper jerry moore & that the #gratefuldead’s #JerryGarcia, #PhilLesh, & #OwsleyStanley sat in front of them, apparently checking out the quad system on their night off, but split at set break, before floyd played “dark side.”

they got to hear the good set anyway, dsotm has never been much cop live. too bad they'd quit playing "childhood's end" by that point, they never did enough _obscured by clodus_ (i'm leaving it) material live

Goddamn it Kate now “obscured by clodus” is never going to leave me

Does anyone have a recommendation for a boot/roio wherein “Embryo” has the most over the top gilmour seagull section? I listened to Fillmore West 1970 last night and it blew me away… other 1970 renditions I found were relatively more restrained.

I had to go back to my oldest (2011) Mac to find something that would unzip that BBC RAR file, jeez

today is gonna be a Pink Floyd day

I had my first ‘how can you listen to Roger Waters’ having Floyd’s Animals going on my desk today. It did not rule.

damn this 1970-07-16 BBC "Embryo" totally RULES

I love reading shit like this, the liner notes to that Prof Stoned thing are so great

"Although mixed to stereo in 1971, 'Blues' and 'The Embryo' have never appeared on transcription disc and are assumed to have been thrown out shortly after. They were aired once in the mid-70s by a New York radio station and then captured on cassette tape by a number of fans. How the deejay in question (Alison Steele) was the only one -ever- to obtain a tape containing these two lost tracks remains a complete mystery."

and this:

"Session #10

01. Moonhead

Recorded: BBC TV Centre, London UK; Sunday 20 July 1969 between 22 and 23PM
Broadcast live: BBC1 TV 'Omnibus: So What If It's Just Green Cheese'; Sunday 20 July 1969 at 22PM
Source: off-air recording

Note: Pink Floyd was commissioned by the BBC to perform instrumental music live on the air as the Apollo 11 crew’s video and audio signals came streaming in across the emptiness of space. The song's main theme was later more or less recycled as the middle part of 'Money'. It survives only as a so-so fan recording."

Yeah I wish moonhead were as awesome as it reads like it’ll be. There’s also another boot track titled moonhead and I have no idea what the hell it is or if it’s even Pink Floyd—

https://archive.org/details/PFMoonhead/

Is that outtakes from one of their film scores or something?

Like it really intelligently answers the question "how do you feature a guitar hero on this song that doesn't really have an obvious place for guitar heroism"

i guess the answer is only let him play 3 notes on a horrible sounding rig? Running Up That Hill featuring David Gilmour sounds amazing in my head and his performance on this was too humble and a real let down.

dsotm has never been much cop live

oh, come on. sure, i'd rather have seen them do the man and the journey but dsotm at radio city very late at night sounds like a great time.

Does anyone have a recommendation for a boot/roio wherein “Embryo” has the most over the top gilmour seagull section?

you want early boots of the Jan Garbarek Quartet with Terje Rypdal on guitar tbh

but dsotm at radio city very late at night sounds like a great time.

It does, but I'm also always thinking about the workers...

https://i.imgur.com/R3IdtJG.jpg

"Oh, it's fine. Mr. Whitlock says we can close up around 3:30. That'll get me back to Queens before sunrise."

"Running Up That Hill featuring David Gilmour sounds amazing in my head and his performance on this was too humble and a real let down."

I think when Gilmour accepted that gig, he was just happy to support what was now an old friend (it was Gilmour who, over a decade before, brought the talents of a teenage Kate Bush to the attention of the industry), and he wasn’t looking to play the pyrotechnics that Pink Floyd fans expect.

This Live at Wembley 74 official release is amazing. I don’t really collect or investigate Floyd live tapes so it’s nice to hear this less slick than the pulse version.

listening to wembley right now. DAVID GILMOUR RULES

yeah he even deviates from his recorded solos a bit in it

“any colour you like” is incredible too, Wright gets a really wonderful sound going

okay I am only just now getting to the 2018 mix of Animals - it rules

What’s the diff?

tbf I wasn't listening on audiophile equipment or anything, but it all just seems to breathe a little better - like more open space between the instruments? kind of hard to put into words, it's definitely not a dramatic remix but it all feels sort of reinvigorated

he likes to say he's not a musician, but Rog sounds here and there on wembley live 74 like a guy who had played for years in a grooving band, moving fluidly around the neck and taking chances that succeed, not just root-fifth root-fifth…"money," not so much, but he's playing really really well on "time" and "Great Gig"…

He was always a competent bassist, and on occasion (the Syd era, Pompeii), much more than that. It's too bad he didn't keep developing along those lines, as he could've become a significant player on the instrument.

To be (kinda) fair to Roger, I think he regarded himself as a visionary more than as a person who executes the vision.

Like Bowie (I shudder at even introducing his sacred name), perhaps Roger just regarded the bass as a means to an end? Like, maaaan, he had stuff he wanted to communicate and the bass was the fastest path to that goal.

He was never going to match the skill level of Dave or Richard. But he had a forceful personality.

Tl;dr: I doubt Roger really loved playing bass or cared to learn more about it. The bass has always been just one of the tools in his toolbox.

this part from their wiki entry would suggest he simply switched to bass out of expediency:

"Roger Waters and Nick Mason met while studying architecture at the London Polytechnic at Regent Street.[2] They first played music together in a group formed by fellow students Keith Noble and Clive Metcalfe,[3] with Noble's sister Sheilagh. Richard Wright, a fellow architecture student,[nb 1] joined later that year, and the group became a sextet, Sigma 6. Waters played lead guitar, Mason drums, and Wright rhythm guitar, later moving to keyboards.

In September 1963, Waters and Mason moved into a flat at 39 Stanhope Gardens near Crouch End in London, owned by Mike Leonard, a part-time tutor at the nearby Hornsey College of Art and the Regent Street Polytechnic.[7][nb 2] Mason moved out after the 1964 academic year, and guitarist Bob Klose moved in during September 1964, prompting Waters's switch to bass."

I don't think I ever knew this either

"Waters and Barrett were childhood friends; Waters had often visited Barrett and watched him play guitar at Barrett's mother's house."

He plays with a pick too.

thread has inspired me to fire up those Prof Stoned BBC Sessions again, god they RULE