PINK FLOYD

Pretty sure the new Airbag album, The Greatest Show On Earth, is one of the most Pink Floyd sounding thing ever. Which makes sense, considering Airbg began life as an PF tribute band, but still. It's such a slavish imitation of Floyd that I should probably hate it, but goddamn their guitar player is really great and the whole thing is actually pretty great.

I have heard them because they are on the last cover CD with Prog magazine but it didn't make an indent, I will revisit. I'm partial to PF influenced bands (apart from Porcupine Tree). North Atlantic Oscillation are taking their time with a new rekkid.

It's such a slavish imitation of Floyd that I should probably hate it, but goddamn their guitar player is really great and the whole thing is actually pretty great.

Airbag's guitarist runs the mammoth Gilmourish site: http://www.gilmourish.com - which has become one of the better general guitar resources on the whole web.

Didn't notice I used "great" twice there, lol. Had no idea about that site, makes a whole lot of sense.

The previous Airbag album "All Rights Removed" had arguably stronger songs and the same heavy Gilmour influence. I'd suggest sampling this one first. Check also RPWL, another ex-Floyd tribute band whose most recent album, Beyond Man and Time, remained fairly evocative of post-Waters PF:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bsyMoBu9j0g

I have difficulty hearing much PF influence with North Atlantic Oscillation, but will rep for them regardless. They've some of the most sophisticated yet effortless chord changes this side of Paddy McAloon or Andy Partridge. A very recent solo album on K-Scope from main composer Sam Healy (credited to Sand) should scratch your itch for new material.

Was surprised to find a Pink Floyd reference deep in this NYT article yesterday

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/01/22/world/europe/wartime-claim-to-fame-divides-2-italian-towns.html

Demo recordings from Animals surface: http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/listen-to-rare-animals-album-demo-recordings

neato!

Wow, thanks!

Well, these definitely aren't demos... sounds like they're the actual backing tracks that made it to the final record, with different (guide?) vocal takes and some extra overdubs that didn't end up making it to the finished product.

Still: pretty cool!

The official Pink Floyd Facebook page posted this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wss2TWrKM9o

....with a link to http://www.pinkfloydexhibition.com/

Copy/pasting from http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/the-pink-floyd-exhibition-their-mortal-remains.html

Pink Floyd's Official Facebook page has just posted a short but fascinating video (which is also on their official YouTube channel) which has come out of the blue, and which we're sure you'll find just as intriguing - and exciting - as us. You can view it below (if you aren't already, that is)...

As you'll see, it advertises what's called: The Pink Floyd Exhibition - Their Mortal Remains. Taking its title from the lyrics of Nobody Home, we're hoping that it will be similar (but obviously updated, and using the best that modern technology has to bring their story to life) to the 2003 exhibition in Paris, France, some eleven years ago. Interstellar brought together memorabilia, instruments, music, stage props and more in a fascinating tour through the band's history. Regrettably it never appeared elsewhere subsequently. Now, it seems our wishes have been answered with this new exhibition, and whilst there is no information in the video, nor on the new website (PinkFloydExhibition.com) of where and when it is being staged - a no doubt deliberate ploy to tease us - we presume that this will all be revealed soon.

! and also lol that there's zero info, floyd being floyd

That title though :/ sounds like the rest of the band committed mass suicide and they're touring the bodies around like Bobby Kennedy's corpse

or I have an overactive imagination

All in all you're just another vote in the POLL! The Pink Floyd ballot poll thread (ILM Artist Poll Thread #49)

Smart!

Feel free to include anything from Zee, Fictitious Sports

U mad, doggie

So, has anybody checked out this'Extraction Tapes' boot that has just popped?

Some info, seems that Animals monitor mixes shared upthread are included.

http://rcgoodmanblog.wordpress.com/2014/03/03/bootleg-review-pink-floyd-from-abbey-road-to-brittania-row-the-extraction-tapes-animals-and-wish-you-were-here-studio-outtakes-unearthed/

I nabbed it from Big O but haven't listened yet.

The original Shine On in it's unbroken state is pretty interesting

http://is.gd/dxCaX3

just dropping in this thread to let you know that the Pleiadians ‏are definitely into Pink Floyd. i asked them earlier this afternoon:

Pleiadians ‏@PleiadiansInfo 52m
"In a triangle, there are angles that are perfectly conducive for channeling and focusing cosmic energy." #light

Zach Scott ‏@weinventyou 52m
@PleiadiansInfo Is it recommended to listen to Dark Side of the Moon?

@weinventyou Absolutely! Pink Floyd captured the frequency and vibration perfectly and, of course, it's great music too!

Zach Scott ‏@weinventyou 31m
@PleiadiansInfo I intuitively understood this to be true. Thank you!

Pleiadians ‏@PleiadiansInfo 7m
@weinventyou Love and Light!

That early version of "Shine On" is SIIIIIIIIIIIICK

Gilmour's 1962 racing Jaguar is up for auction

http://pinkfloydconference.princeton.edu/

Shout out to the dude blasting "Have A Cigar" from his Camaro this afternoon on Alameda Bl. in Burbank. Keep living the dream.

Listening to a boot of their Boston 1975 show. The recording and performance are great and the set list is untouchable. It's all far too distracting for work today but I can't bear to shut it off.

WOOO PIG(S ON THE WING) SOOIE

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For whatever reason I listened to Dave's "Live in Gdansk"- the first disc. It's pretty good- only slightly different from the latter day Floyd live documents, but the band sounds a little more engaged and the arrangements are a bit different. Echoes is easily the highlight. Nice that he gave so much airtime to Wright. Would have been fun to hear that much sound in person.

DVD extra from the "Live in Gdansk" DVD: Gilmour & band do a spur-of-the-moment, semi-acoustic last-5-minutes of "Echoes" at a "Live from Abbey Road" taping.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPXWKO-EBgc

that was good fun

The entire Gdansk show is available via YT for those who've yet to see it. I just watched the Echoes performance and was struck by how much it would've RULE to have been one of the supporting musicians onstage jamming this track with Gilmour and Wright.

RULED, even. Obv to caught up in my reveries to spell-check.

So I ended up watching the DSOTM episode of Classic Albums again. It's so good every time. The bit that got me this time around was Roger describing Antonioni's reaction to "The Violence Sequence": his exaggerated Super Mario accent and scrunched up face "Eeetsa too saaad. Eeeta reminda me a chuuurch".

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

It's about at the 37 minute mark.

FFS

http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2014/mar/31/live-stream-the-flaming-lips-dark-side-of-the-moon-companion

god roger waters looks like such a mean sack of shit in those photos.

the one's with the hat

Mark Blake's PF book is on special 99p offer today at Amazon's kindle site.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B0077FAXCQ

Great bio. Only Floyd book I've read but I don't feel any need to read another.

I have the r wright autobio on my ereader as well but haven't read it yet.

err wait that should be n mason bio lol.

How great a Wright autobiography would have been, a sort-of vague pamphlet.

I was rewatching some PF documentary the BBC did a few years back and his obvious distress when talking about Syd was really touching

you guys seen this blog? some cool floyd action happening: http://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.se/search/label/pink%20floyd

Holy crap great blog. Downloading like crazy atm. This isn't the same guy who did the Beatles Redux imaginary albums project is it?

i think he is!

The set included the members of Pink Floyd actually building a table on-stage (to represent ‘Work’) and being served tea (to represent ‘Teatime’).

lol

the floyd could be pretty funny in those days.

as evinced by Rick Wight's trombone playing in Biding My Time/Afternoon

I still listen to those Beatles redux things instead of solo ex Beatles albums.

For anybody near Aylesbury, there is an exhibition at the County Museum on the Friar's Club which has lots of music ephemera including this:

http://i62.tinypic.com/34dfnr4.jpg

Those imaginary Syd/Floyd albums are great! I much prefer "The Shape of Questions to Heaven" to "Saucerful of Secrets" and the others stand up nicely.