PINK FLOYD

Hey, don't stop them now.

http://i67.tinypic.com/2mfgrnp.jpg

I don't live very far from Wenley Stadivm, it's embedded in my brain now.

Hahaha!

Has there ever been a thread about funny/inappropriate/weird bootleg artwork?

should be one!

If there's none in the archives, Turrican or Mark G, do the honors.

https://scontent-dft4-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/16996352_2207283222830698_1540285550372264430_n.jpg?oh=b43bab1c085d1526d55709d01f88fc1b&oe=592A29E9

oh to be a fly on the wall at Abbey Road early 1967...

...actually bet even the flies were tripping

Doubt it. Amazes me that such wonderful psychedelic pop music was made in an environment that, by many accounts, was reportedly quite stuffy.

I think things had loosened up a bit by then. Norman Smith had witnessed the erosion of some of the more uptight practices during his time with the Beatles, and surely recognized that Pink Floyd would not have exactly thrived with strict schedules and lab coats and such.

Norman Smith legendarily didn't "get" Floyd's music at all.

Ah, didn't know that.

I've been doing a lot of Floyd and Barrett reading lately and it seems like it's not quite as simple as that. He seems to have been an enthusiastic participant at least on the first record but had his own pov that was perhaps not entirely floydian

He worked for days on the ending to "Bike." He wanted to out-do the Beatles as he was biter for them sacking him. It wasn't until Saucerful of Secrets that he and the Floyd started drifting apart. he said of the title track, "Personally, I think it's rubbish, but go ahead and do it if you want."

I thought he stopped working with The Beatles because he'd been promoted?

Wikipedia sez he was promoted by EMI from engineer to producer.

It also says,

During the sessions for the song "Remember a Day", drummer Nick Mason became agitated that he could not come up with the right drum part for the song. Smith, however, knew what he wanted with the drums, so he played the part himself.[6]

This is enjoyable - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6Hkt0wzDYg

In the Beatles recording sessions book, the description was "during one particularly miserable session, Norman suddenly decided to quit the Beatles sessions. The four were all "hey Norman, it's not you mate, you all right?" but he was very "ah I love you lads, but I'm done, had enough now, been in this room too many years" at which point they all decided it needed redecorating at some point...

(He's since deleted the tweet that said "Oops!")

Pink Floyd drummer Nick Mason crashes his McLaren F1 at Goodwood

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zS1N1C40pag

some choice quotes in recent RS interview

http://i.imgur.com/21Q0xfU.png

godrich otm

If I Had Been God is the Roger Watersiest title ever

If I Had Been Syd more like.

Just learned that Gilmour's super bloozy solo on Another Brick in the Wall 2 was played not on a Strat but a Les Paul Goldtop with P90s, using the neck pickup. I was surprised.

Huh!

http://www.gilmourish.com/wp-content/uploads/2010/01/davidsgear_lespaulgoldtop.jpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MTmZJ4euPes

there's an entire book about 'the story of' gilmour's black strat btw

i guess this sorta rules
http://www.recordstoreday.com/SpecialRelease/9433
A previously unreleased 14:57 minute recording from 1966, released in mono at 33 1/3 for Record Store Day.

hmm i wonder if that's the cool punky one on the Syd Barrett Tapes bootleg

"The original recording was made at the Thomson studio in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire in November, 1966, before the Floyd signed to EMI."
Made for the San Francisco film. Great version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3VeKjx2w0hw

Do they mean 'Previously Unreleased' on vinyl? Because if that's the full Tonite, Let's All Make Love In London version (which it feels like it is), it's been out in mono on CDs for years.

XP Hmmm...

For those who've never had the pleasure

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAyN-8rwINA

Oh it's the Tonight Let's All... version? That thing fucking rules.

according to the press release it's the 10/31/66 thompson studio demo for "San Francisco" -- the London version is from a couple months later I think ...

yeeshkul of course has a definitive listing

Interstellar Overdrive - Known Versions

01 1966-10-31 Thompson Private Recorders for SAN FRANCISCO
02 1967-01-11 Sounds Techniques Studios for TONITE…
03 1967-01-27 Granada TV Doc Underground Scene
04 1967-March/June Abbey Road, TPatGoD MONO
05 1967-March/June Abbey Road, TPatGoD STEREO
06 1967-03-16/17 Abbey Road, 40th Anniversary Take 6
07 1967-11-13 Oude-Ahoy Hallen
08 1968-05-06 First European International Pop Festival, Palazzo Dello Sport, EUR
09 1968-05-23 Paradiso Early Show
10 1968-07-27 Shrine Exposition Hall
11 1968-12-02 Top Gear Show
12 1968-12-28 Flight to Lowlands Paradise II, Margriethaal-Jaarbeurs
13 1969-03-27 St James Hall
14 1969-04-14 Royal Festival Hall
15 1969-05-02 Manchester College Of Commerce
16 1969-05-09 University Of Southampton
17 1969-08-08 Plumpton Racetrack
18 1969-08-09 Paradiso
19 1969-10-11 Grugahalle
20 1969-10-25 Mont de L'Enclus
21 1969-12-06 Afan Indoor Sports Centre
22 1970-02-28 Refectory Hall, Leeds University
23 1970-03-12 Auditorium Maximus
24 1970-03-13 Konzert Saal, Technische Universitat
25 1970-03-14 Meistersinger Halle
26 1970-03-15 Niedersachsenhalle
27 1970-03-20 Akademiska Foreningens, Stora Sal
28 1970-04-22 Capitol Theater
29 1970-04-29 Fillmore West
30 1970-05-01 Civic Auditorium
31 1970-06-28 Kraalinge Bos
32 1970-07-12 Soerser Stadium
33 1970-09-26 The Electric Factory
34 1970-10-23 Civic Auditorium
35 1970-11-22 Altes Casino

ok it's the hard punky one I was thinking of. Cool!

yeah, rules

damn, are those really all the recorded versions of interstellar overdrive? short list. (no it isn't- stockholm hadn't surfaced at that point.) so, so many of them are awesome. electric factory, amougies, bbc '68 - all RULE

there's a solo syd demo too right? i made a mix of a bunch of 'em at some point ...

lol there's a solo syd demo???

ha, maybe i'm making that up ...?

heard this shit in Dr. Strange last weekend.

'Hey You' just came up on shuffle play and it reminded me that Gilmour was actually quite a nifty fretless bass player... oh, what could have been if he'd taken the instrument up full-time, he could have given Mick Karn a run for his money.

Years back I did some work with Guy Pr@tt and I asked him 'so, is it *really* true that Gilmour played the good bass stuff on the records?' he just laughed and looked at me like I was crazy for even asking.

I would include Piper and Pompeii "Echoes" among "the good bass stuff," and always thought it was a shame that Waters never really kept at it -- he was on the verge of developing a unique voice on the instrument.

I think his playing was pretty good up until about 1970/71. Never really noticed it thereafter.

The way you see him hacking away at the Money bassline on an acoustic guitar on the making of DSOTM documentary suggests to me that he's got no feel whatsoever for the instrument.