PINK FLOYD

yeah I heard it there. Was hoping for something better.

Listening to the 2cd thing and it sounds great.
IT is a shame that neither the unreleased psychedelic singles are on it but what is so far has been great.

Would be interesting as a stand alone but does get obscured by the larger box.

Sound does seem pretty fantastic.

Somebody posted this, which is a little different in its packaging cos it's teh Japanese version and appears to have an extra booklet to the Western one
http://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=566&v=nTikEtqMl58

i'm hearing that the shoddy rush job was such a shoddy rush job that the original pressings haven't even removed the 5.1 mixes of meddle and obc that got cut from the set in a fit of puerile waters-gilmour legal feuding- they only removed the menu link to the files on the blu-ray. so good news for anybody who's super into 5.1, i guess.

audio for both box and 2cd is circulating, I think somebody was asking further up the thread.

So, if I understand this correctly, they weren't originally going to include the Live At Pompeii disc, but they accidentally included it in the first pressing, and after that they just said fuck it and marketed that as a "hidden bonus disc"?

Album of the Decade, obviously.

Listening to the new mix of Live At Pompeii now. Holy shit, this is fantastic.

Live at Pompeii on disc two, the DVD/Blu-Ray of volume6, is that shitty updated version where the director changed the order around, put on new titles and tons of inappropriate stock footage from the wrong era.

Is the "Live At Stockholm" disc that heavily-hyped thing from a couple years ago? Sounds amazing. "Reaction in G" is every bit as good as "Interstellar Overdrive"!!

so latest word is that rontoon sent them pristine copies of bbc '71, better than what's on the set, in 48k, but because they didn't tell anybody about this project the discs were already pressed and they couldn't use them.

pink floyd literally waited for yeeshkul to go on freeleech to put together this set, and is charging $600 for it.

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.