PINK FLOYD

Tonight I learned that there is a Pink Floyd tribute band called Pinky And The Floyd and laughed really loud.

After all this time, some super 8 footage of Montreal 1977 has leaked out and it looks like Roger's spit was actually caught on camera!

https://ravinganddrooling.com/forum/general-discussions/pink-floyd-related/353148-montreal-77-footage is the original thread for the discovery.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wRR-kkaHc_wf0XLQa8zhaPm943fDAouM/view for the entire video (also includes Kenny Loggins, Boz Scaggs, Fleetwood Mac from earlier)

14:33 = Roger is clearly ranting at someone
14:39 = that's the supposed moment when he spits

That... that was some kind of lineup!

https://i.imgur.com/eh7ufgx.png

On YT now (10m 57s in)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG7PZGtKxC8

Good breakdown on reverse-engineering the sound - especially on reverse-reverbing the drums

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

I love that so much - not just the audio nerdery, but I love how she plays drums. A studied unfussiness. lots of drum YouTube is about making things look hard; she makes it look easy.

Also their approach is not "we used precisely the historical gear" but more like "how do we get this sound with the gear we have now?"

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

never thought i'd be going back to school at my advanced age, but i'm happy to say i've been accepted and am enrolled for fall semester

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https://i.postimg.cc/WbqpwRP7/0112-0028-19-Gilmour-Academy-Tee-Cool-Blue-1024x1024-2x.webp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUVmeYgo1Iw

So Roger thinks he's Leonard Cohen now?

I heard there was a secret time signature

It's a trojan horse for his shit poetry

that's orrible m8

RIP, Floyd animator Ian Emes

Ian Emes, British film director, animator, artist, writer and pioneer of experimental film techniques, famous for his work with Pink Floyd, has died. Our sincere condolences to his family and friends. Ian's eye-catching animated film French Windows (set to Pink Floyd's One Of… pic.twitter.com/lVyI9W8p1o

— Pink Floyd (@pinkfloyd) July 22, 2023

My first gig was Mike Oldfield in 1980 (I was 8) and there were these amazing Escher-style looped animations made by Ian and other mad things that I wish I could see again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5r8JytuFeo

They sell Pink Floyd shirts at old navy, the image of the robotic hands shaking. I was in the store with my 13 yo, showed it to him and told him he should listen to them. He was like, “Pink Floyd?”

that version of Money sucks pretty bad but admittedly it does make me wonder what the rest of the album sounds like

The Hipgnosis documentary was super enjoyable, the opening and closing shots of Po trudging around with a portfolio strapped to his back with ropes was a bit of an eyeroll, like Gahan carrying the deckchair up the mountain or the Jawas on the beach with the giant Ian Curtis portrait.

that version of Money sucks pretty bad but admittedly it does make me wonder what the rest of the album sounds like

Why did you say that.

If he's reciting his slam poetry over Great Gig In the Sky....

the one where i have no idea what the hell he'll do to it is "on the run", how do you turn that into a dirge

Nick Mason accepting honorary citizenship of Pompei in a special ceremony held today, prior to this evening's #SaucerfulOfSecrets show at the Teatro Grande in the ancient ruins: pic.twitter.com/9exyECqiDL

— Pink Floyd (@pinkfloyd) July 24, 2023

FloydPodcast shuts down

One blow after another… It’s with a very heavy heart and much sadness to report that I’ve been “asked” to cease and desist this podcast by the powers that be, Sony Music Entertainment under the direction of Pink Floyd Management.

I’m quite taken back by this order to stop because I have a BMI license but apparently (I’m told by Sony’s legal team) that does not cover “exploitation of sound recordings – bootlegs or otherwise.”. So thats that. I’m still trying to get clarification if my license covers the use official recordings and if I could continue in that manner. I’m looking into it but as of right now, it’s game over.

protip play the new version of "Money" at 1.5x speed, doesn't make it much better but it does make it a lot funnier at least

Reggae Floyd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GdTb9K6EWOI

that CD was all over the place back in the day. its pretty good!!

it is tremendous iirc

Anyone seen this yet?

https://www.sydbarrettfilm.com/

more footage keeps turning up! Here's "Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun" from Kralingense Bos festival in Rotterdam, 28 June 1970.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o9dRp8g0g4w

Wait, this isn't from the Stamping Ground footage? Wild.

the sound is from Stamping Ground, the footage was silent

(says the camera man in the text under the clip)

Oh silly me, thanks StanM!

Scientists have reconstructed Pink Floyd’s Another Brick in the Wall by eavesdropping on people’s brainwaves – the first time a recognisable song has been decoded from recordings of electrical brain activity.

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/15/scientists-reconstruct-pink-floyd-song-by-listening-to-peoples-brainwaves

*scientist pointing at brainwave*: "by the way there's pink"

gray matter, white matter, it's all pink to me

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tID-b4rMk9k

The lunatic is in my head

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uqlUDqS8sLU

My friend watched that and messaged me 'Thoughts on Publius Enigma?'

(I think it's a lot of fun)

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