PINK FLOYD

narration courtesy of the uncanny valley

There's something pleasantly Spinal Tap-y about a complex promotional puzzle that no one's able to figure out, even with increasingly detailed prodding by a mystery figure on a messageboard, until the whole thing just fizzles out.

I still remember the two gigs I saw at Earls Court in '94, Publis Enigma appeared on the big screen and was quickly scribbled out by hand, it was the strangest thing.

I find it cute that the band's people still keep going with it - scrubbing 'enigma' off the Earls Court DVD in the Later Years box set is almost unfair at this late stage.

It takes a nation of millions to scrub off Publis Enigma

My urologist diagnosed me with pubis enigma... pretty nasty rash, I had to use a cream

happy 80th to george roger waters

kinda weird how PINK FLOYD RULES but roger waters doesn't really rule at all

he does, actually

Nah, he's always been a dickhead.

Apparently the new Syd documentary has some unseen photos of Syd at the SOYCD recordings
https://forums.stevehoffman.tv/threads/have-you-got-it-yet-is-the-syd-barrett-doc-finally-ready-for-release.1157074/page-15#post-32837396

https://i.postimg.cc/sG4PkJTx/IMG-2379.jpg

We've got what I think is the third ever photograph of the 1968 five-piece, and it's so the best one.

WAKE UP BABE A NEW PINK FLOYD’S 5 MEMBERS PHOTO DROPPED ‼️ https://t.co/olmizoRnN3 pic.twitter.com/xjeIAG86jJ

— iman (@sydbarrettlover) September 10, 2023

Who is sitting 1st and 3rd from the left in the bench photo? Neither looks like Gilmour.

No idea who's first, third looks a bit like Bob "Rado" Klose? And on the far left in the bottom left pic. Guessing they mean Klose is the 5th Floyd, Gilmour def not pictured.

Klose was gone before Pink Floyd even signed a deal. I'm guessing it's managers Peter Jenner and Andrew King (both of who were gone when Syd was gone)

That was my first thought, too, but after googling photos of Jenner and King i didn't think it looked anything like them. After searching a little harder for roughly concurrent pics, yeah, that's def who it is.

Saw Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets last night and I don't think I've grinned ear-to-ear so much during a concert ever. I went there half-expecting to meet it with cringe and/or a superior smirk, or shame, or some other form of psychic defence. But I honestly had the best time, it was pitched just right as not-too-earnest band of mates having fun, but the performances were really enjoyable & creditable (including some songs that I would have thought were disastrous to even attempt).

And crucially, Nick Mason was serving some great Nick Mason - especially on Atom Heart Mother (!) when he was doing those lazy fills and the funky slow four it was joyous.

Definitely about 100 times more fun than the time I saw Roger Waters on his DSOTM tour.

I’d love to see this. I thought they were gonna have a US tour? Is it cancelled?

awesome! v jealous

Nick Mason has aged into his drum fills.

I have never had a problem with Mason. But I also remember hearing a rumor (around the time of Delicate Sound) that his drums weren't even mic'd anymore. Surely it's not THAT bad. He seems to be playing adequately in every video I've ever seen.

(Also I want it known that I highly disapprove of the way "Delicate Sound of Thunder" scans as the same syllabi pattern as "Momentary Lapse of Reason" in Gilmour's dialect. He was clearly phoning it in.)

I remember from the Delicate Sound video there was a second percussionist doing a lot of work - esp on the then-new tunes - but feels like Mason is still in there somewhere? at the time I really hated that 27 people on stage era of rock bloat - kinda wild to think that it was the same rhythm section I saw the other night, complete opposite approach to just about everything

Emsworth I think it was Gary Wallis on percussion for the Delicate Sound shows. But I agree that Mason still held the beat down. I don't know why the rumor started that he couldn't play any more but I remember it being out there.

For the record, I have no quarrel with Nick or his playing. He may not be the world's most interesting drummer but as far as I know he has always been up to the task.

Despite being prevented from entering the UPenn campus to take part in a panel at Palestine Writes Festival, Roger Waters drove to the campus to confirm his absolute solidarity with the Palestinian cause. pic.twitter.com/uNQiz7ymOJ

— Kuffiya (@Kuffiyateam) September 23, 2023

Didn't expect to see Bob Ezrin himself posting on /r/pinkfloyd
https://www.reddit.com/r/pinkfloyd/comments/16l5zlf/comment/k1c49pe/

he posted on the Hoffman boards before, responding to Steve talking bullshit about remastering Alice cooper

https://www.mensjournal.com/news/pink-floyd-fans-leave-concert-roger-waters

Instead of launching into the hits, Waters began reading off of his laptop passages from his yet-to-be-published memoir, Dark Side of the Moon: Memoirs of a Lanky Prick...

“One story involved a duck that came to live in the family home,” said Will Hodgkinson, music critic for The Times. “Another began promisingly as a memory of Floyd’s original leader, Syd Barrett, but revealed nothing more than that Barrett wrote a lot of songs and had an innocent air about him.”

According to The Daily Mail, the duck story lasted upwards of 20 minutes and segued into Waters reading errant notes about his other pets, once again from his laptop.

Don't know what everyone's complaining about. Sounds like the warm thrill of confusion to me.

The ducks have always been there Rog, you just chose not to see them

https://i.pinimg.com/736x/10/7b/af/107baf7cf38414d98108dc982ed47e99.jpg

http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/british-psychedelic-rock-group-pink-floyd-during-rehearsals-for-the-picture-id51156057

You can hear the ducks laughing at the end of "Bike".

damn, you're right, those are the literal ducks at the end of "bike" in that picture.

(photos are from the soundcheck at famous "Games For May" show at Queen Elizabeth Hall, May 12 1967 - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Games_for_May )

I went to bed listening to Roger’s take on DSOM the other night. The spoken word open was oddly soothing.

It reminded me a bit of Iggy Pop's Free or the recent Marianne Faithfull/Warren Ellis album.

I didn't enjoy it very much though. That drum sound and that whole style of mixing so many 'rock' albums now doesn't sit well in my ears.

looking forward to animals 2 featuring plenty of pet stories

Was wondering if/when someone was going to take one for the team to listen to the DSOTM redux (or re-ducks? in Roger's case?), I have less than zero interest.

i just listened to "on the run" because i was curious what the hell he'd do to that and he's just talking about a dream he had over the top of it

Yeah in places it kind of reminded me in places of those cuts on Hitchhiking where he rolls around in bed with his lady kind of in and out of sleep.

…except now he’s in bed with Putin

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

newly uncovered (a.k.a. the original gatekeeping owner died?) 8mm footage of 27 April, 1975, Los Angeles, CA premiering in 33hours.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=edimGup6UyI

"Roger Waters Fired His Son. He’s Playing in a Pink Floyd Tribute Band"
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/roger-waters-fired-son-pink-floyd-politics-1234902203/

The 1973 copyright extension dumps are out. I haven't looked in detail myself, but supposedly these are the shows:

Live At Kiel Opera House, St. Louis, USA, 6 March 1973
Live At Chicago International Amphitheatre, USA, 7 March 1973
Live At The University of Cincinnati, USA, 8 March 1973
Live At Kent State University, Ohio, USA, 10 March 1973
Live At Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto, Canada, 11 March 1973
Live At Boston Music Hall, USA, 14 March 1973
Live At Radio City Music Hall, New York, USA, 17 March 1973
Live At Earls Court, London, UK, 18 May 1973
Live At Earls Court, London, UK, 19 May 1973​
Live At Saratoga Performing Arts Center, Saratoga Springs, USA, 17 June 1973
Live At Roosevelt Stadium, Jersey City, USA, 18 June 1973
Live At Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, USA, 20 June 1973
Live At Sportatorium, Hollywood, USA, 28 June 1973
Live At Tampa Stadium, USA, 29 June 1973
Live At Munich Olympiahalle, Germany, 12 October 1973
Live At Vienna Stadthalle, Austria, 13 October 1973​
Live At The Rainbow Theatre, Early Show, London, UK, 4 November 1973
Live At The Rainbow Theatre, Late Show, London, UK, 4 November 1973
Nearly all have the same setlist (Obscured By Clouds / When You’re In / Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun / Careful With That Axe, Eugene / Echoes / Dark Side Of The Moon / One Of These Days) with Childhood’s End instead of Set The Controls for the first three dates.

Kent State is just the Dark Side portion.

Rainbow shows are Dark Side followed by Obscured By Clouds and When You’re In

guessing these are all previously circulating audience tape bootlegs? anything worth getting EXCITED about?!

19 May 1973 at Earl's Court is a good one to have around, but I suspect that the Harvested version (released as Supine In The Sunshine with a catalog # HRV CDR 011) sounds better than whatever PF Inc. dumped on iTunes.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ubNLVO6Oklc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jSj_651QIs4

'73 always seems strangely ill-served when it comes to ROIOs, iirc there are only a couple of bangers

And it always makes me think of the wonderful Arthur Max's bad day, so let's have that again - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTUtmMONI-Q

Supine in the sunshine scans nicely with Insane in the membrane.

(Of course both scan OK with Girlfriend in a Coma. Supine in the sunshine I know, I know, it's serious.)

bugs the shit out of me that floyd didn't bother to tape any of their shows. basically no archive. there's a reason the dsotm show you always hear is the wembley fall '74 one - it's the only one from the waters years they have a fucking board tape of, as far as i know. there's basically _nothing_ but aud tapes from '72 to '77. that entire fucking stadium tour they did in '77, they didn't make one goddamn board tape of that entire tour. no video either. you want to see what the inflatable pig looked like in '77? hope you like 8mm footage!

i like aud tapes. some of those aud tapes are pretty good. it would be nice if they'd made _any_ board tapes at _all_ though.

That seems to be true of quite a few other rock artists of the era too.