PINK FLOYD

oh shiii

Forty-five years after Pink Floyd played a historic show in Pompeii, Italy, that was captured on one of rock’s greatest concert movies, David Gilmour – the band’s guitarist and singer – will return for a pair of shows there this summer.

Pompeii Culture Minister Dario Franceschini (via Consequence of Sound) announced the concerts on Twitter today. The dates (July 7 and 8 at the Pompeii Amphitheatre) are part of Gilmour’s current tour, which started last year.

Pink Floyd famously shot Live at Pompeii in October 1971 without an audience. But they stuck to their touring set list of the time, which included epic versions of concert favorites “Echoes,” “One of These Days” and “Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun.” (The movie played in theaters the following year.)

Gilmour released his latest solo album, Rattle That Lock, last year – his first since he announced that Pink Floyd were over. In 2014, the band put out The Endless River, an LP made up of session outtakes from 1994’s The Division Bell. The album was completed as a tribute of sorts to keyboardist Richard Wright, who died in 2008.

I know this is the PINK FLOYD RULES thread and not the Art Linkletter thread, BUT

The kids and I are in the car, talking about planetariums. I bring up Pink Floyd, and how they're good for laser shows because they've got stuff like airport terminal sounds with a steady beat. Talking up their theatrical edge, I mention Pompeii and even The Wall shows. "It was about a man who was feeling bad that he put up a wall where no one could talk to him anymore."

I mention the shows where as they're playing the stagehands build a wall between them and the audience so by the end, you couldn't see the band playing anymore - just this gigantic wall. "But at the end, for the finale, they tear the wall down, the pieces go everywhere and you can see the man singing again."

Six-year-old boy thinks for a moment from the backseat and then says, "You mean like the Kool-Aid Man?"

loooool

I heard the little classical bit that pops up right before "Wish You Were Here" starts while I was in a doctor's office the other day.

Haha.

Like, I've never seen King Lear on stage, but if I ever do, I'm going to have some uncanny deja vu when they get to the "Sit you down, Father. Rest you." part.

Gilmour was in town this week

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LTGwB6CBuX0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UcDHXoQmxu0

Haha.

Like, I've never seen King Lear on stage, but if I ever do, I'm going to have some uncanny deja vu when they get to the "Sit you down, Father. Rest you." part.

― pplains, Tuesday, March 29, 2016 1:44 PM (4 weeks ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

That's "I am the Walrus", is it used by Pink Floyd as well?

He was referencing my post directly above it.

righto, ta.

Got a decent vinyl copy of the Faces' A Wink Is... that the prior owner saw fit to hide the two Dark Side posters inside of for $1.99 at Goodwill today.

RULES

that's a win-win inside of a wink #pinkfloydrules

Ah, that's like when I got the Sgt Pepper multicoloured inner sleeve in a Chubby Checker lp.

if you haven't heard this stuff, here it is, it rules.
http://itslostitsfound.blogspot.de/2016/03/pink-floyd-bernard-white-tapes-vol1.html
https://4.bp.blogspot.com/-9yybPIGTlmg/VphYGHKSbpI/AAAAAAAAAro/TL-eYWw2nVc/s320/front.jpg

tired of lying in the sunshine and staying home to watch the rain tbh

Give me the Meddle reissue now please! I'll pay the unexplainable high price I swear!

Folks we live in a golden age of on demand Pink Floyd live shows that you can listen to anywhere for free.

http://www.brooklynvegan.com/pink-floyd-reissuingremastering-complete-studio-catalog-on-vinyl/

Yes! praise the pink lord my prayers have been answered!

why do u need a reissue

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/25/royal-mail-stamps-pink-floyd-50-years

Xpost: because I've been looking for a mint copy of Meddle over a decade and I haven't found one.

^This is me with Atom Heart Mother. I lucked into a flawless UK original Meddle recently and it RULES.

https://66.media.tumblr.com/eb9fa55365ae7f09072b4d6ddb70393d/tumblr_o7uhrfPNtv1qlzc4lo1_540.jpg
https://66.media.tumblr.com/4555129773ef644bca200d29c7b6c277/tumblr_o7uhrfPNtv1qlzc4lo2_540.jpg

ok that rules

Le Floyd!

vinyl copies of some PF albums are so fucking expensive these days, reissue campaign is welcome.

nothing brings out the tinny hollow superficiality of a Momentary Lapse of Reason like a nice vinyl pressing

Still hoping there is a psychedelic era immersion set coming at some point.
Any news?

Early years box set is coming, it's going to be amazing too.

My first Snapchat was about Pink Floyd

hi upper mississippi sh@kedown

https://66.media.tumblr.com/3d2f02f6c3ebd537b2f4bbf1db4c0237/tumblr_mp07cyOfP61snb6qwo1_500.jpg

Hi Mookie!
That picture represents the life we should all aspire to

otm

le flamant rose

LE FLOYD RÈGNE

Ummagumma photo session outtakes

wonder if roger's output would have been changed by the knowledge that, by the 21st century, he'd be better-looking than gilmour

Good quality footage of the 1987 version of "Echoes" turned up

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=muYJnS9HrBU

Hey! I saw that tour!

Guessing the above comics were from the Rock 'N' Roll comics unauthorized biography books? Some interesting art in those (like Stuart Immonen on ZZ Top's issue.)

wonder if roger's output would have been changed by the knowledge that, by the 21st century, he'd be better-looking than gilmour

― mookieproof, Friday, June 3, 2016 9:28 PM (6 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

hell naw i'd still bone gilly way over waters

"bone-able" and "good-looking" should not be judged by the same criteria.

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkULqEhUkAMJdH7.jpg

hehe that's cool

bone-able" and "good-looking" should not be judged by the same criteria.
― hypnic jerk (rushomancy), Thursday, June 9, 2016 4:08 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

My relationship with Pink Floyd is my business

This is a safe space for those who believe pink floyd rules

If only they would have used something like that for one of the latter day album covers...

"Rendering Pink Floyds" by The Sixting Music, French album from 1974:

http://www.forcedexposure.com/App_Themes/Default/Images/product_images/close_up/d/DP10142CD_CU.jpg

... I want this.

it's good!