PINK FLOYD

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.

Time for re-evaluation? To be truthful I only listened to it a couple of times on release and filed it away.

http://www.divisionbell20.com/

Not gonna happen.

http://albumsthatneverwere.blogspot.se/2013/02/pink-floyd-shape-of-questions-to-heaven.html

Oh, you already mentioned these?

Well, put it this way: One album of "What If Syd hadn't left Pink Floyd" was fine, two was pushing it, and three wasn't going to work.

Album two is OK (actually, I played them the wrong way around and the third extra one was better)

But, this one makes a lot of sense, and mixing "Golden Hair" into "Set the controls" is genius.

Not gonna happen.

― EZ Snappin, Monday, May 19, 2014 10:36 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

lol

I did this last month. It was still a snoozer.

Listened to Obscured by Clouds again the other night. It still amazes me that that record tends to get overlooked. Yeah, it has its flaws and isn't quite on a par with the "classic" works, but there's enough good stuff on there that makes me want to keep revisiting it. I like the whole off-the-cuff charm of it, which is refreshing considering the intricate productions that followed.

I dunno, I could describe it as my favourite non-syd one

I'd heard there were plans to remix OBC for the Early Years box, I'd like to have heard that as it's kinda boxy and flat sounding.

Yeah Obscured rules. Even when I've been sick to death of Floyd it's been a go-to because it's sound is so fresh, just as Turrican describes

Production is def straightforward and not-that-considered for sure. The songs are so plainspoken and unassuming though, it kind of works.

Yeah, it's like the last document of the band when they could still be a bit more carefree with their material. After Dark Side, it was a whole different ball game, as they say.

y'all about to be immersed in this
http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/81HhQMfzGZL._SL1500_.jpg

Whew! I was worried they'd release some of those awful recordings with whathisname...Sid something?

7 discs and no Big Spliff? what a drag

Here is a painting I made, I'm pretty psyched about it.

http://imgbox.com/hv85N93q

Let me try that again
http://t.imgbox.com/hv85N93q.jpg

this one?

http://i.imgbox.com/hv85N93q.jpeg

it's great! what are the dimensions?

! how did that happen?

It's 15" x 27". Photo is blurry, just a phone pic.

RULES

Many thanks! It's one I've been wanting to do for a while. It is called 'Time'

rad

can you paint this on the wall in my bedroom

available for commissions! I knew this was the right group to share it with.

so cool

i want it on my living room floor

New desktop pattern!

haha that is awesome please send a screenshot

Thanks one and all. I have spent quite a bit of time over the years trying to imagine how I might make a painting based around Floyd. I ruled out portraiture or even creating a composite image of the band onstage. Nothing seemed right. Anyway I finally found the right image and it made sense in light of the kind of things I've been doing in painting of late. And I loved the idea of alot of different kinds of time (the ancient location, the filmed documentation, the performance of the band, and my memories of being there) collapsing on one another. And then the structure of the painting just kind of came together and I started to pursue it from that direction.

http://www.quartzcity.net/ilx/pompeii-desk.jpg

RULES.

sweet! Thanks E.T. you have made my day.