oh god, i did that thing where i use the word "literally" to mean "figuratively", kill me now
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Monday, 14 November 2016 22:07 (seven years ago) link
Seeing David Fricke interview Nick Mason in 3 hours.
― dan selzer, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:09 (seven years ago) link
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
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Monday, 14 November 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
I'll ask.
― dan selzer, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:50 (seven years ago) link
he is a terrible, terrible drummerhaha, 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, Monday, 14 November 2016 22:59 (seven years ago) link
anyway, i listened to the 2CD thang and it is great!
(xp) OTM, stick your Bill Brufords where the sun don't shine.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Monday, 14 November 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
Seriously. It's hard to play slow and languid.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 14 November 2016 23:33 (seven years ago) link
funny cos i was listening to the first two discs of this set today thinking this drummer's alright
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 14 November 2016 23:39 (seven years ago) link
he only plays one fill but it's a good one!
pretty much the best fill!
― tylerw, Monday, 14 November 2016 23:44 (seven years ago) link
Well my copy arrived and all. V. fancy, this.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 01:42 (seven years ago) link
Mason talked about playing slow. His dr told him to not go above his heart rate.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 02:51 (seven years ago) link
Nick Mason RULES
― hardcore dilettante, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 03:13 (seven years ago) link
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.
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 03:51 (seven years ago) link
https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/c4/8b/5a/c48b5abbbf601183a5ed8068198db8ea.jpg
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 05:02 (seven years ago) link
XP
This is exactly why I can't stand listening to any PF tribute bands. The drummers just can't get it right.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 05:25 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 05:27 (seven years ago) link
Yeah pretty much. And yet here we are.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 05:33 (seven years ago) link
really liking "Walk With Me Sydney" catchy tune, that!
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 11:53 (seven years ago) link
Yeah, these 100 hour Floyd, Dylan, Crimson etc sets are perverse. Like, you want unreleased, here you go, suckers, good luck.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 12:53 (seven years ago) link
This pic rules:
https://scontent.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/12654368_948312888587915_2435056171362859130_n.jpg?oh=7646b3d731914ef7d452b77077553045&oe=58D30A98
― heaven parker (anagram), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 16:10 (seven years ago) link
Didn't you mean to write "pict?"
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 17:26 (seven years ago) link
brb putting that on my van
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 19:22 (seven years ago) link
You have no van already HOW DARE YOU CALL YOURSELF A FAN
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 19:24 (seven years ago) link
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.
― a full playlist of presidential apocalypse jams (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 19:38 (seven years ago) link
every pink floyd fan gets a van with purchase if they don't have one
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 19:44 (seven years ago) link
Ha, they should release a 10,000 boxed set housed in the back of a custom van.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
rushomancy otm re: Mason.
― Working night & day, I tried to stay awake... (Turrican), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
don't encouage him
j/k
...sort of
― Flamenco Drop (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
listened to the new disk of Live at Pompeii today, it ruled
― droit au butt (Euler), Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:10 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Stevolende, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 21:37 (seven years ago) link
Michael Caine: "OK lads, I've got an idea..."
― Mark G, Tuesday, 15 November 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
[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.
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 20 November 2016 06:01 (seven years ago) link
Did I read something about a hidden "Meddle" remaster somewhere in the set?
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 20 November 2016 14:54 (seven years ago) link
It's on the Blu-Ray. You'll have to rip it. Look for a 46 minute .mkv file.
― PaulTMA, Sunday, 20 November 2016 18:30 (seven years ago) link
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.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:51 (seven years ago) link
https://qph.ec.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-7acc937af3cc4e33803eff4f2ed8fc8a-c?convert_to_webp=true
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 18:59 (seven years ago) link
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.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 19:54 (seven years ago) link
Will students start skipping the class to go read Russian novels in the quad?
― dinnerboat, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:06 (seven years ago) link
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?
― tylerw, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:14 (seven years ago) link
pink floyd rulescollege radio drools
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 20:27 (seven years ago) link
IRL lol at that img
― niels, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:03 (seven years ago) link
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, 14 December 2016 21:11 (seven years ago) link
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.
― Montgomery Burns' Jazz (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:27 (seven years ago) link
― 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*
― blonde redheads have more fun (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:35 (seven years ago) link
Everything is boring and pretentious. *listens to sound of own wonderful voice* Oh sorry.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 14 December 2016 21:36 (seven years ago) link