PINK FLOYD

weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

I can't wait to check this out

of all the threads that I have bookmarked, this is the one that almost always delivers when bumped

RULES

here's the post (w/ a link to the audio of the show, too): http://ow.ly/bqPNA
one of the bigger floyd fans i know of on the internet said this show had the BEST "Echoes" and I was like OK!

one of the bigger floyd fans i know of on the internet

Garsh, to live in a day in that guy's shoes.

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It would RULE.

here he is!
http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3203/2451334900_f9eee29857_z.jpg

http://img194.imageshack.us/img194/9574/tumblrlf1pe9cszp1qe3wzu.gif

I just watched that video again last night. Their new video is amazing.

that gif...it is something

Gave mr Veg the Wall (Experience Edition) for his birthday --- I swear there were no ulterior motives but YAY OMG LOVELY LOUD WALL RULES

http://vimeo.com/4327297#

A work in progress from the guy who did the big Beach Boys remix project. Floyd's Summer '68 being chopped on top of Audio Two's Top Billin'.

That's sorta horrible.

It's a work in progress. I think it's awesome.

this thread has been through a lot, but that gif posted above really ummmmm

Since the Floyd I had was a few of the original CDs and I found it at a pretty good price on ebay I got the recent Discovery box set with everything remastered. It's been a good five weeks listening. I never had a copy of Atom Heart Mother as I remember hearing it once and thought it was pretty bad. It's not fantastic, but it definitely has been the big surprise of the box set so far(and I still haven't opened The Wall or the later Cds).

It is interesting to look back at Floyd and they kind of really modeled up what became those classic records over a few years and then really nailed it, as there are moments on Atom Heart Mother and the soundtracks that really builds up to the Dark Side and Wish You We're Here.

I think when Rick Wright kind of froze up and quit really being a big part of the music, while they continued to make music and obviously popular, they lost quite a bit of their sound. His relaxed and melodic and droning keys are so much of what makes the Meddle-Dark Side-Wish You We're Here band and the one that made the soundtracks work. It's really the 'body' of their sound and years on into listening to the band, I'm not so sure not the key piece.

They obviously made some good music once Gilmour and Waters got into their thirty year knife fight from Animals on, but really it's not quite the same.

Don't forget Wright's harmony vocals (and leads) as well. Very missed in the later albums.

Listening this morning to live recordings from the Animals tour and the assault on the audience through those vitriolic songs is amazing. A little faster, a little more distortion, the spitting attack of the singing (not to mention the real spit - just starting that Montreal show); it all combines to let the listener feel the frustration and anger and misanthropy. I'm in love.

Yeah, Richard Wright was the one that gave Pink Floyd's sound it's grace both with the keys and his voice.

Hey! Pink Floyd! Leave Those Kids Alone!!

this thread has been through a lot, but that gif posted above really ummmmm

― tylerw, Wednesday, June 27, 2012 4:20 PM (Yesterday)

the idea of someone experiencing that gif for the first time on a pink floyd thread in 2012 is kind of amazing

i'm allergic to gifs

we visualize the music, maaaaan

(or something)

the internet's a crazy place, lots of gifs to ignore

I've recently decided Die Antwoord are pretty brilliant, after watching their latest video, Baby's on Fire, because I thought maybe it was an Eno cover. It's not, but the video is many different kinds of entertaining.

r.i.p. that little guy

Leaving those kids alone RULES.

Balancing on the biggest wave RULES.

Rising above the tree lines and the clouds RULES.

If I were Britannia, I'd wave the RULES.

http://25.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m6js20kFqZ1qzpnnro1_500.jpg
hmm

Have you ever seen this?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Z2vU8M6CYI

ha! no i hadn't seen that.

The spiders from Aja

That's John and Paul, but who Are the other two?

the youtube pplains posted explains

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article8121173.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/house1.jpg

For sale: House where Pink Floyd formed being sold for first time in decades

The north London home where Syd Barrett, Roger Waters and Nick Mason formed Pink Floyd has come up for sale for the first time since they lodged there in the Sixties.

The three-storey house, which has barely been altered since then, is being auctioned on September 20 with a guide price of £1.2 million and needs total refurbishment.

It was at the property — in Stanhope Gardens, Highgate — that the young musicians developed the psychedelic sound and look that was to propel them to superstardom.

The Victorian home was owned until his death this year by their influential former college tutor and landlord Mike Leonard, who was also briefly a member of the band that evolved into Pink Floyd.

Rock experts said the house played a crucial role in the formation of the group that went on to record huge selling concept albums such as Dark Side Of The Moon, Wish You Were Here and the rock opera The Wall.

Mark Blake, author of Pigs Might Fly: The Inside Story Of Pink Floyd, said: “It was a very good environment for young student musicians to be living. It gave somewhere for them to live and somewhere to rehearse with a sympathetic landlord who did not mind about them making a noise. This is where Pink Floyd started to come together.”

Mason, who became the group’s drummer, and bass guitar player Waters are believed to have moved into the downstairs self-contained flat in September 1963, while early lead singer Barrett arrived about a year later. Barrett was put in charge of catering — with a budget of 20p a day. Keyboard player Richard Wright also lodged at the house.

The dusty interiors still retain much evidence of the avant-garde musical influences that Mr Leonard — a lecturer at Hornsey College of Art — introduced to the rhythm and blues band then known as The Tea Set.

Instruments such as bongo drums, tambourines and a huge homemade xylophone lie scattered around as well as the spotlights, prisms and crystals that were an influence.

In the attic there is a rare Binson Echorec 2 echo unit. The Binson was used by Barrett and later by David Gilmore to develop the Floyd sound. Leonard’s workshop, where he designed and built the complex “lysergenic” lighting systems that contributed to Pink Floyd’s image and featured in a Tomorrow’s World BBC broadcast from the house in 1968, has also survived.

In a recent interview Mason said that the bonnet of his Aston Martin is buried in the overgrown garden.

Chris Coleman Smith, of Savills Auctions, which is handling the sale at the Millennium Hotel in Mayfair, said the sale was a rare opportunity to buy an unmodernised family house in Highgate. He added: “Who knows, we might get some Pink Floyd fan flying in to buy it.”

i'll take the binson off their hands.

Instruments such as bongo drums, tambourines and a huge homemade xylophone lie scattered around as well as the spotlights, prisms and crystals that were an influence.

I hope the house is in better condition than the stuff inside it. Here's the aforementioned xylophone:

http://www.standard.co.uk/incoming/article8121174.ece/ALTERNATES/w620/house2.jpg

The three-storey house, which has barely been altered since then, is being auctioned on September 20 with a guide price of £1.2 million and needs total refurbishment.

I've seen listings for supposedly nice houses that were in actuality total fixer-uppers, and conversely listings for distressed properties that are somewhat run down but hardly unlivable.

This is like every house in Highgate.

Yes, short of a few things that are apparently lying around the place, this sounds like the least remarkable house in England.

Thanks to buzza's post in the Fairport Convention thread which is how I found this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T0cpTuWyBpY&feature=relmfu

This is amazing. Thanks!

I've seen some of that footage on youtube. I think Syd was still officially in the band still at that point?

Dave looks so young and out of place. Like "what am I doing here singing these songs???". He's like "I'd NEVER say YIPEE"

He looks at the camera and is like "that's right, I'm not Syd, what the fuck are you going to do about it?"

Dave totally has this look on his face like, "I'm glad this is on French TV and nobody will ever see it."

anniversary of RIck Wright's passing...

He looks at the camera and is like "that's right, I'm not Syd, what the fuck are you going to do about it?"

A friend of mine was a huge Syd Barrett freak in the 60s, and was overjoyed when he saw that The Pink Floyd was coming to his hometown (Ann Arbor). Said overjoyment turned to disappointment as soon as the band hit the stage. "Who's that guy?! That's not Syd!"

from a village voice recap of the recent Joshua Light Show performances:

"Overseen: "Roger Waters of 'The Wall' seen taking a seat as lights dimmed at Terry Riley show w/Joshua Light Show NYC," tweeted @TV_Strategist."

Joshua Light Show got a mention in some Pink Floyd book I was reading, seeing his work during their first trip to NY.

xpost omg loving this Bouton Rouge vid

I laughed out loud when Dave stares down the camera at 3:42