PINK FLOYD

i know what you mean, but i also think the floyd might've been a worse band if they had a really virtuosic drummer

I agree that the Floyd didn't need a flashy drummer, I just think that Mason's drumming on The Dark Side Of The Moon pales in comparison to his drumming on other albums.

The real ear-candy, of course, comes from Wright and Gilmour on those '70s records.

turrican seems to be -- no it can't be -- suggesting that....perhaps...pink floyd doesn't RULE?

i must go now....i've said too much

Mason's nowhere near as bad a drummer as Waters is a bass player but I'm not sure why the underachievement of the rhythm section doesn't matter to me so much, songs I guess.

Roger Waters' preoccupation with the war is completely understandable, but I'd be being completely dishonest if I said it didn't get on my tits.

and his voice, my god is voice... tolerable on some tracks, downright unbearable on others... why couldn't they have just let Gilmour sing everything?

And it's too late to lose the weight you used to need to throw around

It's such a shame that Roger was a bit of a lousy singer and lousy bassist (most of the tastier bass work, such as on 'Hey You' and 'Pigs' was done by Gilmour) because without his lyrics and concepts helping to tie those classic '70s records together who knows what would have happened?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WUoUim7WGwo

Be careful what you wish for, Turrican.

You are just the worst genie.

turrican i dont think u understand this thread

read an okcupid profile where someone mentioned that they thought pink floyd was overrated, not in the "music, movies, books" section but in the "about me" section.

did u neg them

no, i like to keep it positive. i just didn't message them.

I think Mason brings his wet teabag funk to 'Have a Cigar'

Is there a book that details studio ephemera like who played bass on what track and who sang 'Cigar' etc?

Cigar was sung by Roy Harper

"Cigar Was Sung by Roy Harper and Other Fun Pink Floyd Facts!" published by Random House, 2002.

I didn't know the bass for "Hey You" was played by Gilmour. I assumed Waters locked himself in a studio with Bob Ezrin and Toni Tennille and made the whole album by himself.

Waters' bass playing was much better early on too - when he 'couldn't play' - thereafter, plod plod plod plod plod.

Pink Floyd started using the name "The Pink Floyd" in February 1965. Happy 50th anniversary!

Pink Floyd rules, obviously, but part of me wishes they'd have stuck it out as the Architectural Abdabs.

Gilmour touring. New album in September...
http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/david-gilmour-tour-announced-europe-2015

He was pretty great last time at the Royal Albert Hall, Fat Old Sun, Echoes and Arnold Layne with Bowie guesting.

@RandPaul
For the crazy diamonds to shine government must get out of the way. "Shine on you crazy diamond."

gtfo

set the controls for the FUCK YOU RAND PAUL

someone please make sure Roger sees this

what an asshole

All in all we must throw bricks at Rand Paul

Several species of small minded reactionaries and grooving with a prick

http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=aWTzNpWN7rM

^^^^(Minimoog settings on "Welcome To The Machine")

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Can anyone advise, what is the best recording/boot from that funny period in early 1970 when they were playing Main Theme From More, Violent Sequence, Heart Beat, Pig Meat, Sisyphus and so on. Thanks!

there are no good boots from that period. the recordings that exist are lo-fi and difficult to listen to. the go-to one is birmingham feb 11 1970, which contains all of the tracks you mention, runs at a wonky speed, and lacks anything remotely resembling treble. if you want something of even worse quality you can check out croydon jan 18 1970, which has a better version of "main theme" and an extremely strange version of "the embryo", but it is a tough listen.

Thanks! I had feared that might be the case, I think I read somewhere that the Harvested guys did a remastering job on the Birmingham recording, I will track it down.

1970-01-18 Fairfield Halls, Croydon is a decent one too. Long description here:
http://yeeshkul.com/forum/showthread.php?27749-Pink-Floyd-1970-01-18-Fairfield-Halls-Croydon-gen5-24-96-revA

Doh! Adding to what rushomancy said, apparently Croydon was the first time "The Embryo" was played.

Concertgebouw '69 is amazing.

technically floyd did embryo for a bbc session in '68, but that was the "works" version... croydon was its revival as part of the regular set for the next two years (and you can tell it's the first time because they hadn't really worked out a standard structure for it yet- the opening riff shows up somewhere in the middle- which they had by feb 11).

those who are into strange versions of "the embryo", incidentally, should check out the bizarre ernst-merck halle 1970 version with the lengthy "corrosion"/pict rant intro, as well as some of the last versions- the final recorded performance from nov 20 1971 reaches up to a good half hour, but i prefer the hunter college take from earlier in the month, which touches on some of the same themes but is slightly less padded (only 20 mins).

Concertgebouw '69 is amazing.

So great! My first PF boot too, the version of Biding My Time is hilarious, for the last two years I've been trying to persuade EMI/Warner to put it on the fabled Early Years Box Set

What's the Early Years box set?!

fabled.

It is fabled because it's been talked about since before EMI got fucked. I know somebody who is part of the team, but I can't say much unfortunately :(

I've concluded it doesn't matter much if it ever comes out or not. The Immersion Editions that did show up pretty conclusively show that they don't really have crap sitting around in their archives that you can't hear in pristine quality on bootleg.

If there is such stuff lying around I would buy it on an official release but not a bootleg, so it does matter if it comes out.

We need a official Pink Floyd Bootleg Series of Ruling more than any more Immersion sets. Probably make more money too.

Immersion set of just like Relics with three cds of singles live cuts alt version would rule so hard

expanded deluxe Relics is a great idea

YES
also YES to a bootleg series.
#pinkfloydrules