PINK FLOYD

oh god, i did that thing where i use the word "literally" to mean "figuratively", kill me now

Seeing David Fricke interview Nick Mason in 3 hours.

i hope fricke asks him how he feels about how he feels about the release of a massive box set conclusively proving that he is a terrible, terrible drummer

nick i love you and as a member of pink floyd you RULE but god you are an awful drummer

I'll ask.

he is a terrible, terrible drummer
haha, come on. i'd argue that one of the things that makes pink floyd work is that they didn't have a busy prog dude behind the drums.

anyway, i listened to the 2CD thang and it is great!

(xp) OTM, stick your Bill Brufords where the sun don't shine.

Seriously. It's hard to play slow and languid.

funny cos i was listening to the first two discs of this set today thinking this drummer's alright

he only plays one fill but it's a good one!

pretty much the best fill!

Well my copy arrived and all. V. fancy, this.

Mason talked about playing slow. His dr told him to not go above his heart rate.

Mason talked about playing slow. His dr told him to not go above his heart rate.

Mason talked about playing slow. His dr told him to not go above his heart rate.

Nick Mason RULES

haha, come on. i'd argue that one of the things that makes pink floyd work is that they didn't have a busy prog dude behind the drums.

― tylerw

ah come on this is a classic strawman argument! i'm not saying that pink floyd needed vinnie colaiuta on the drums or that drummers ought to be hyper-technical and busy. i'm saying, with all love and due respect for the guy, that he's a just plain shitty drummer. i can't listen to him try and play a fill without busting out laughing. and he's in a band with a bass player for whom octaves are a platonic form, who i'm increasingly convinced wrote "money" in 7 because he couldn't count to eight properly, who wrote "roger's boogie" (which is a song so dumb the Driving Stupid would have pointed and laughed at if they'd heard it), and for some reason i can still take roger waters more seriously than i can take nick.

not that nick doesn't have his moments, of course. the rototom intro to "time" is all-time classic. "set the controls" is a class chico hamilton rip. i'm just a little jealous of nick, that's all.

https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c4/8b/5a/c48b5abbbf601183a5ed8068198db8ea.jpg

XP

This is exactly why I can't stand listening to any PF tribute bands. The drummers just can't get it right.

Also, how the fuck am I supposed to take in a 27 disc Pink Floyd right now. The whole world is on fire and freaking out and by the way, here's a whole new set of Dead Sea Scrolls.

Yeah pretty much. And yet here we are.

really liking "Walk With Me Sydney" catchy tune, that!

Yeah, these 100 hour Floyd, Dylan, Crimson etc sets are perverse. Like, you want unreleased, here you go, suckers, good luck.

This pic rules:

https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12654368_948312888587915_2435056171362859130_n.jpg?oh=7646b3d731914ef7d452b77077553045&oe=58D30A98

Didn't you mean to write "pict?"

brb putting that on my van

You have no van already HOW DARE YOU CALL YOURSELF A FAN

My sweet-ass ride, yesterday:

http://www.threetrailsdesigns.com/Hy-Rollin_Vans/images/clubpics/club_vans_lg/PinkFloydVan.jpg

They should have justified the expense of this new collection by putting it in a van and not a box.

That would RULE.

every pink floyd fan gets a van with purchase if they don't have one

Ha, they should release a 10,000 boxed set housed in the back of a custom van.

rushomancy otm re: Mason.

don't encouage him

j/k

...sort of

listened to the new disk of Live at Pompeii today, it ruled

Read somebody yesterday who said that they'd worked out from the layout of the box that it was probably intended to be van shaped initially. With one end's contents placed to make way for the box to be windshield etc shaped.

Contents sound pretty decent, at least the cd parts, from what I've heard so far. Not seen the visuals though.

Michael Caine: "OK lads, I've got an idea..."

[Read somebody yesterday who said that they'd worked out from the layout of the box that it was probably intended to be van shaped initially. With one end's contents placed to make way for the box to be windshield etc shaped.

I realized why too -- looking more thoroughly at the various photos and things included with it, turns out the box set design is replicating the design of the van that the Tea Set, the predecessor band to PF, had for their various jaunts. There's a couple of photos of it with both the full band and with Nick -- all black with the white stripe in question.

Did I read something about a hidden "Meddle" remaster somewhere in the set?

It's on the Blu-Ray. You'll have to rip it. Look for a 46 minute .mkv file.

http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_30657433/from-selfies-pink-floyd-cu-boulder-first-year

University of Colorado students will be taking a trip to the "Dark Side of the Moon" next semester.

"There's a lot more to Pink Floyd than just music or just the stage show," said Hunter Ewen, who will teach a course called "Pink Floyd: Music, Image, Culture" this spring. "There's also the technical aspects and the creative innovation and the culture. There's a bunch of stuff there to engage people in a broader conversation about a group that has a lot of popularity still on college campuses to this day."

The psychedelic course is one of the new first-year seminars the university is offering in the hopes of connecting students with their peers, a faculty member and interesting course topics they typically wouldn't get to study until their junior and senior years on campus.

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when I went to Oberlin there was a thing called Exco or "Experimental College" where students could teach classes for 3 credits and take classes for 1 or 2 credits and you could claim a total of 5 credits. I taught a class called The Films of David Cronenberg, but I use the word "taught" loosely.

Anyway when I was a junior or senior a first year student taught a Pink Floyd exco which amounted to claiming a room in the student union and plugging in this little light machine and listening to pink floyd. Most of them presumably got high first. I took the class and insisted he allow me to give a lecture on Syd Barrett.

Will students start skipping the class to go read Russian novels in the quad?

my main college memory of pink floyd is being made fun of for playing "Cirrus Minor" on my radio show ... well, who's laughing now?

pink floyd rules
college radio drools

IRL lol at that img

at the time, Air's Virgin Suicide's OST was the hot compact disc and i was like "DAWGS IT'S THE SAME THING AS THE FLOYD"

the fuck with that "Nick Mason is terrible" shit upthread?

If you think Nick Mason sucks, then you think Pink Floyd sucks.

And Pink Floyd does not suck. Pink Floyd rules.

at the time, Air's Virgin Suicide's OST was the hot compact disc and i was like "DAWGS IT'S THE SAME THING AS THE FLOYD"

― tylerw, Wednesday, December 14, 2016 3:11 PM (twenty-three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

"pink floyd is boring and pretentious"
*listens to siger ros*

Everything is boring and pretentious. *listens to sound of own wonderful voice* Oh sorry.