recently saw a nine-year-old play "comfortably numb" on ukulele during a backyard bbq ... ruled.
― tylerw, Monday, 16 July 2018 17:21 (six years ago) link
Nothing on a ukulele rules. Quite the opposite, in fact.
No exceptions.
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Monday, 16 July 2018 17:27 (six years ago) link
damn you really roasted that 9-year-old
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Monday, 16 July 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
Not their fault.
― (V) (°,,,,°) (V) (Austin), Monday, 16 July 2018 17:35 (six years ago) link
pretty sure that comfortably numb is incapable of not ruling, just a lil scientific fact
― tylerw, Monday, 16 July 2018 18:15 (six years ago) link
PINK FLOYD RULES
― droit au butt (Euler), Monday, 16 July 2018 18:29 (six years ago) link
i think it's safe to conclude the sheer fact that PINK FLOYD RULES created a Rule Bubble in space-time extending to that ukulele during the duration of "Comfortably Numb"
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 16 July 2018 18:31 (six years ago) link
Tiny Tim ftw
― timellison, Monday, 16 July 2018 18:56 (six years ago) link
she also played "hey soul sister" by train, did not rule
― tylerw, Monday, 16 July 2018 18:59 (six years ago) link
Back to that ebaycupboard
The statuette is quite impressive, mind
― Mark G, Monday, 16 July 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link
Hey uke
Out there playing things, always having nylon strings
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Monday, 16 July 2018 19:36 (six years ago) link
WTF is with all this uke talk when there's a new two-part, 13 minute long breakdown of Gilmour's delay settings.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjyzZw6C38
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZWFvSCNeK8
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 17 July 2018 01:50 (six years ago) link
i like this cover better than that dumb old dark side of the moon album cover.
https://images1.westword.com/imager/rip-alex-steinweiss-inventor-of-the-re/u/original/6431381/serkinwalter1941.jpeg
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 03:53 (six years ago) link
There is no E-Flat piano concerto. Matter of fact it's all flat.
― nonsensei (Ye Mad Puffin), Wednesday, 18 July 2018 14:54 (six years ago) link
Never realized the early recordings with "Lucy Leave" were done at the same Decca studio where the Beatles did their audition tape early 1962.
― timellison, Thursday, 19 July 2018 22:04 (six years ago) link
Got a copy of the Kopp book! He thinks "Astronomy Domine" might have been influenced by this (was the B-side of "Get Me to the World on Time"):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=srraSDZyMvI
― timellison, Friday, 20 July 2018 00:30 (six years ago) link
oh god that sounds a ton like astronomy domine
pink floyd rule and all but that prunes stockholm '67 set leaves the live syd stuff i've heard in the dust
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, 20 July 2018 02:04 (six years ago) link
It's part of PF lore that Rick Wright quotes a fragment of the vocal melody of See Emily Play right on the fade out of Shine On... I can kinda hear it but it has always sounded like a bit of a stretch to me, has anyone seen/read a confirmation that this was intentional?
It occurs at 12'12" and it's the 'Emily Tries, but misunderstands' bit, in case you don't already know.
― MaresNest, Friday, 3 August 2018 18:33 (six years ago) link
Boy, I don't hear it. Between the saxophone and the guitar arpeggios that seem to be in both channels (?), all I'm hearing are keyboard chords in the middle.
― timellison, Friday, 3 August 2018 19:03 (six years ago) link
It's a fragment, right as it starts to fade -
https://youtu.be/8UXircX3VdM?t=25m23s
― MaresNest, Friday, 3 August 2018 19:13 (six years ago) link
Apologies, I should have clarified that it takes place during Parts 6-9, not 1-5.
― MaresNest, Friday, 3 August 2018 19:14 (six years ago) link
not only was it intentional, in some live versions they quote "arnold layne" at the end.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, 3 August 2018 23:28 (six years ago) link
i'm less convinced that the nod to the "doctor who" theme in the studio "one of these days" was originally intentional. obviously the '87-onward versions contain an intentional nod to it, and i've heard bootlegs from as early as '73 that explicitly reference the theme, but for me at least the jury's still out on the "meddle" version.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, 3 August 2018 23:32 (six years ago) link
yeah in fact I never noticed the similarity until Delicate Sound of Thunder came out
― akm, Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:03 (six years ago) link
First time paying attention to that one and it seems pretty intentional like the “see emily plays” vocal line. Nice hommage to Syd there.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 4 August 2018 01:57 (six years ago) link
I should have clarified that it takes place during Parts 6-9, not 1-5.
Ha, OK. Sure, I hear it.
― timellison, Saturday, 4 August 2018 04:43 (six years ago) link
Jeeez how good is Shine On Your Crazy Diamond.
― in twelve parts (lamonti), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 09:16 (six years ago) link
"shine on you crazy diamond" rules
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 09:29 (six years ago) link
I was thinking the other day how so much more appealing Pink Floyd were when they had a bit of mystery about 'em and nobody knew much about the internal politics etc. and no one band member was drawing attention to themselves. Success fucked that all up.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 18:14 (six years ago) link
which one is Pink?
― ant banks and wasp (voodoo chili), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:14 (six years ago) link
whoever it is they rule
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:15 (six years ago) link
was just listening to this audience tape from 1970, totally ruleshttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiQQX2CbEm0
― tylerw, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:22 (six years ago) link
Back from the days when nobody knew who Roger Waters was... he was just another guy in an excellent space-rock band. The ego had yet to inflate, and the arsehole in him had yet to become apparent.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:24 (six years ago) link
Their music post-Syd and pre-DSOTM can be so pleasant and unassuming.
― timellison, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:26 (six years ago) link
xp as i get older, i get less irritated with band "villains" (waters, robbie robertson etc) — they just seem like maybe the most hard-working, ambitious members of a group who accidentally turn into jerks.
― tylerw, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:28 (six years ago) link
It's more that I like how "low key" the band members generally kept themselves '69-'72, it gave the Floyd a bit of mystery and put the music at the forefront. While getting to know the band as "personalities" doesn't prevent 'Shine on You Crazy Diamond', 'Dogs' or 'Comfortably Numb' from ruling, I wish they'd tried to keep a little mystery a la Kraftwerk or their earlier selves.
― Le Baton Rose (Turrican), Wednesday, 8 August 2018 21:40 (six years ago) link
like Syd did?
― akm, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 22:40 (six years ago) link
Interesting though how they managed to stay so anonymous slap bang in the middle of the "rock god" era. I imagine even at the height of Dark Side Of The Moon, Waters could walk down the street relatively unrecognised. Whereas Bowie would be mobbed even though Ziggy Stardust sold a lot less
― Zelda Zonk, Wednesday, 8 August 2018 22:47 (six years ago) link
santa monica '70 is great, best "saucerful of secrets" ever
yeah in some sense bowie and floyd were polar opposites, after syd they were sort of swallowed up in the vast emptiness of space. was there any band better equipped to play stadiums?
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Thursday, 9 August 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
Fascinating bit in the Kopp book about the soundtrack to The Committee. After describing the obvious Floyd pieces in the soundtrack, there's this:
The film's soundtrack does contain a mysterious anomaly. The first thirty-second snippet of music used is played backward in the film. It features a most unusual mix of sounds: drums sound like Indian tabla, guitars sound like sitars (or electric sitars), and the keyboard sounds seem to be coming from an early modular synthesizer. It's worth noting that none of these instruments had made an appearance on a Pink Floyd recording previously...The provenance of this piece of music is hinted at in Julian Palacios's book Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark Globe. As Palacios points out, when producer Max Steuer contracted with Pink Floyd to provide the film's soundtrack, Syd Barrett was still in the group. And more than two months before Pink Floyd began their session for the film soundtrack, Syd Barrett reported for duty. Apparently, Barrett showed up at Sound Techniques studio on the appointed day, January 30, 1968, without a guitar or band. As Steuer had booked session time in advance, phone calls were made, and an ad hoc band was assembled. That group may have included Steve Peregrin Took (later of T. Rex (sic)) and Brian "Blinky" Davidson, Davy O'List's band mate in the Nice. Though Palacios does not suggest that the single track they recorded was actually used in the film, he asserts that Barrett insisted the twenty-minute recording be played backward once it was completed.
The provenance of this piece of music is hinted at in Julian Palacios's book Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark Globe. As Palacios points out, when producer Max Steuer contracted with Pink Floyd to provide the film's soundtrack, Syd Barrett was still in the group. And more than two months before Pink Floyd began their session for the film soundtrack, Syd Barrett reported for duty. Apparently, Barrett showed up at Sound Techniques studio on the appointed day, January 30, 1968, without a guitar or band. As Steuer had booked session time in advance, phone calls were made, and an ad hoc band was assembled. That group may have included Steve Peregrin Took (later of T. Rex (sic)) and Brian "Blinky" Davidson, Davy O'List's band mate in the Nice. Though Palacios does not suggest that the single track they recorded was actually used in the film, he asserts that Barrett insisted the twenty-minute recording be played backward once it was completed.
Anyway, here is that plus a couple of the tracks recorded later with Gilmour. I quite like them, very garage!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYKpT6Z5Yqk
― timellison, Saturday, 25 August 2018 22:41 (six years ago) link
do you play bridge?
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Sunday, 26 August 2018 00:05 (six years ago) link
happy 75th to Our Roger
― mookieproof, Thursday, 6 September 2018 15:47 (six years ago) link
And cheer up, son, it might never 'appen.
― Scottish Country Twerking (Tom D.), Thursday, 6 September 2018 15:58 (six years ago) link
Life is a short, warm moment, gang
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 6 September 2018 17:19 (six years ago) link
the sun is the same in a relative way
― mookieproof, Friday, 7 September 2018 01:07 (six years ago) link
There's a complete recentish show from one of Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets shows on the Brain Damage podcast. Worth checking out.
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 10 September 2018 02:05 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MF8hh5luP4
― Elvis Telecom, Saturday, 22 September 2018 19:05 (six years ago) link
https://www.ebay.com/itm/PINK-FLOYD-31-NEW-SEALED-cassette-tapes-in-a-custom-box-set-lot/282849055663?hash=item41db1e13af:g:9cMAAOSwOaRahRXa
$999? $32 per cassette? Does not rule.
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 24 September 2018 19:15 (five years ago) link
ah but you're also paying for an impossible-to-store box!
― wayne trotsky (Simon H.), Monday, 24 September 2018 19:48 (five years ago) link
The box is home made, using black illustration board with laminated prints that will remind you which box you keep your Pink Floyd cassettes in. This box should not be considered professionally made, but you can see how much easier it will be to find your stash of Pink Floyd cassettes, and besides, it's all about the music, and these 31 Pink Floyd cassettes will kick your ass with or without a conveniently decorated box!
― how's life, Monday, 24 September 2018 19:51 (five years ago) link