PINK FLOYD

The adrift period post-Syd, pre-Atom Heart Mother is their most interesting and rewarding imo, and probably what I return to the most having burnt myself out on Syd as a bratty tween. Not so much the proper albums but could probably put together a comp of stuff from that time incl. bootlegs, radio, soundtracks etc that I'd prefer over any of their albums.

A few of the best things are included on 'The Early Years', you should pirate that.

Re: Post-Barrett era, something I posted 5 years ago:

Mix tape I put together in (probably) 1984 after getting the Dark Side of the Moo bootleg, the Holy Grail of then-unavailable non-LP Floyd tracks:

- Side 1
Cymbaline
Lucifer Sam
It Would Be So Nice
Take Up Thy Stethoscope and Walk
Ibiza Bar
Chapter 24
Point Me at the Sky
See Emily Play
Jugband Blues
Arnold Layne
Candy and a Current Bun
Corporal Clegg
The Nile Song
Green Is the Colour

- Side 2
The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Part 1: Entrance (just the flute part)
Astronomy Domine (Ummagumma live version)
Let There Be More Light
Embryo
Sysyphus, Part 4 (the first 3 minutes, with bird SFX leading nicely into...)
Grantchester Meadow
Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun
A Saucerful of Secrets
The Grand Vizier's Garden Party, Part 3: Exit

Dark side of the moo was life changing. I posted my half hour invention of Floyd as late 60s psyche folk band somewhere above.

agree, one of the best bootlegs ever

Yeah, I probably like Dark Side of the Moo better than any of PF's albums.

love my 20something pot smoking neighbors downstairs pic.twitter.com/qsPQBYP7sh

— LazyLightning55 (@LazyLightning55) January 25, 2022

Has any musician got more mileage out of one guitar solo than David Gilmore?

idk he seems pretty diverse to me - http://www.davidgilmore.net/

dude has a pretty heavyweight resume tbh

http://www.davidgilmore.net/about/

Heh, i actually have a friend who took guitar lessons from Mr. Gilmore in high school, posted one of his album covers to the "wrong dude" thread a while ago.

LOL

Not as heavy as Michael Bolton's.

Saw an incredibly attractive person the other day, then noticed they were wearing a PINK FLOYD shirt, just about fell over. I don't know why I was surprised, PF fans are invariably gorgeous and well put together.

not saying Floyd doesnt have attractive fans or i would be denying my own existence lol

but also pink floyd shirts are a dime a dozen in fast fashion stores

All people named David Gilmour/more are awesome guitar players, Gilmore played w/Wayne Shorter among other jazz greats and teaches at Berklee

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMEPCAFZ3oc

but also pink floyd shirts are a dime a dozen in fast fashion stores

― terminators of endearment (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, January 25, 2022 2:02 PM (four minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

the Dark Side prism really has a life of its own as a visual icon

Interesting, UK label Burning Shed are advertising a PF bootleg - outside the 50yr limit - https://burningshed.com/pink-floyd_the-heart-of-the-sun_cd

Someone from Yeeshkul mailed them to find out more details, and if it was legit, this is the reply -

Many thanks for your query.
As you suggest, this release has not been officially endorsed by either Pink Floyd or the band’s label. However, despite that, it is 100% legitimate and is being distributed by a reputable UK company.
From what we’ve been told, the release is allowable as a result of copyright laws relating to US radio recordings and the record company would have remastered the original source recordings (which being produced by a radio station should be of a high quality).

So it essentially sounds like all those Grateful Dead "radio broadcasts" that Amazon still allows on their site.

Well, this is kinda unusual, in that Burning Shed wouldn't have a leg to stand on if they got sued into atoms by Tony Smith or Roger Waters' people. Seems very risky, I know PF did the copyright dump recently with loads of sub-par boots, what's odd is, they're all still up on streaming sites, I thought the point was you took them down after a week or so?

Oh yeah, I'm definitely surprised that Burning Shed would distribute this one!

This is really interesting.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bfaZ7IKztKs

Where have I've seen that before?

November 15 Bonzo Dog Band; Deep Purple

If I told them once, I told them a hundred times, to put Deep Purple first and Bonzo Dog Band last.

XP - I think it's from the guy who made that PF BBC documentary and released the uncut interviews last year, amazing that Fields lived in the same flat until he passed away in March 2021.

That would be it.

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/apr/07/pink-floyd-reform-to-support-ukraine

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y071dzyaZLk

So this Animals remix/5.1 set is finally coming out in mid-September with no frills. Why they remixed it I've no idea, it sounds just fine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jX5x9wzMN4s

Not sure why I just listened to that on a Friday afternoon while staring at spreadsheets, but it sounds great!

This mix is not too different, I missed some of the organ in the early verses and felt the drums were pulled up a little high. Shame there won't be any outtakes or early versions on this release.

I'd read that when Steven Wilson started doing his 5.1 mixes of various classic old records he would supply a stereo fold-down of the 5.1 mix purely as a reference, but the record companies started including them in the packages.

So it became a thing from there on, and I feel like this mix is kinda the same. The real draw being Guthrie's surround version and the stereo mix is a byproduct of that, it's nice to have and it sounds a little wider and deeper than the original but not vastly different.

Nobody frothing at the mouth on Yeeshkul so far, I haven't checked Hoffman, can't help but wonder if PF had fibbed and said it was just a remaster, ppl would be universally positive instead of the usual grousing over details.

i mean it just sounds like "dogs"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UPABesa7wcE

as god as my witness, i thought pigs could fly

"Givin' it all I got"

You can tell that it's really Animals on the turntable in that clip, you can see the custom label.

obsessed with have a cigar lately can't stop listening to it
that bass ffs

Hoffman thread up to 41 pages - staying away.

(serious controversy over which pressing sounds "best" begins on page 34. the Zapruder film is also mentioned)

sound a little cleaner like these things always do but it's not like animals was particularly in need of this or anything

some of the little differences like the organ being a little lower in the mix are for the worse but it's not a huge change

https://www.instagram.com/tv/CgYgvD1lm9u

What a nice gesture to acknowledge the smoke being blown up his arse.

This is kinda interesting, some guy with a blog called 'Professor Stoned' uses extraction software to kinda rebuild mixes of old 60s/70s records, I usually keep clear of things like this but I listened to his version of Piper after reading good things about it on Yeeshkul and it's a good listen, I like how he's resisted the temptation to glue the new mixes completely together and has kept some of that period separation.

https://www.profstoned.com/2022/07/t...s-of-dawn.html

I have one of those! I think it's Safe As Milk

The creation of Nick Mason's Wave kit, used on the #SaucerfulOfSecrets tour... pic.twitter.com/CGrGgFc0QF

— Nick Mason (@nickmasondrums) August 26, 2022

I don’t know if I’m in a particular PF mood today so the 2018 remix of Animals came out of heaven, but it sounds amazing!

Her late Majesty The Queen showing Pink Floyd's Nick Mason that she can still check the oil or change a tire on his priceless vintage Ferrari.#ferrari #HRH #QueenElizabethII pic.twitter.com/Vc4faMvibF

— The Motorsport Hub (@TheMSHub) September 10, 2022

#onethread

^^ that rules like PF rules

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHaXk2NubmI

Ohhhh you can properly hear the Lord's Prayer bit now