PINK FLOYD

I doubt whether the VCS3 sequence in "On the Run" was played/programmed live?

"Everything you hear on that track, apart from the sound effects, was done live. It was all coming out of the Synthi A. Even the hi-hat over the top of it was done on that synth. There was no means of synchronising any two performances – that's why it was live. Even on the road, before a show, they would have to punch in the notes of the sequence manually, very slowly, then speed it up on playback to give the fast, sequenced effect you hear on the record." – Alan Parsons, engineer

So the sequencer was "played" live in concert, but the sound effects were on tape? And presumably you couldn't store a sequence when the machine was switched off?

Not in those days.

check this shit out

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

:O

damn that's some real you-are-there shit

“Have a cigar you’re gonna go far” explodes

It's interesting to me that the Floyd were ever a live band at all. It's significant given how much scholarship is devoted to their various bits of studio alchemy and the sonic perfectionism of the DSOTM era.

Personally, I like the excitement of seeing a fairly raw kinetic live band in action. It's way harder to get me out of the house to go see a band that is primarily a highly mature studio entity.

Like, if I had a time machine with limited uses, I would rather see the Cavern-era Beatles than the Abbey Road-era Beatles. I'd rather see Janis Joplin than Joni Mitchell. I'd rather see 1986 REM than 1993 REM. I'd rather see 1977 Talking Heads than 2021 David Byrne. And so on.

goddamn that is cool as hell <3

I'm too young to have known the hazards of buying a ticket for a Pink Floyd show, only to have some hippie with his flag tied to a stick bouncing around in front of me.

Absolutely fantastic, so lucky that it was at the Ivor Wynne too, such an atmospheric recording.

Earlier that same day, Simply Saucer recorded the live tracks found on Cyborgs Revisited on the roof of a Hamilton mall.

(this should not be taken as a recommendation that anyone, space-rock nostalgia fan or not, visit Hamilton, Ontario)

pretty incredible to be able to actually hear and see (part of) a live "On The Run" after the recent discussion here

pretty incredible to be able to actually hear and see (part of) a live "On The Run" after the recent discussion here

the VCS3 sounds out of control here, in the best possible way.

So who's playing the organ on "Great Gig in the Sky" when we can see Rick Wright with both hands on the piano? The sax player?

I love to see Nick Mason with his arms in mid-air, trying to decide if he's going to play the same fill he's played a thousand times before.

lol yes

Never seen Mason drum before but he is a savage, kills it

So who's playing the organ on "Great Gig in the Sky" when we can see Rick Wright with both hands on the piano? The sax player?

I didn't realize it was Gilmour - from the wiki page of the song...

During the band's 1974–1975 tour, David Gilmour played both pedal steel guitar and the Hammond organ, allowing Richard Wright to concentrate solely on piano (his keyboards were positioned where he could not play both). Gilmour's pedal steel for "Great Gig" was accordingly located beside Wright's Hammond.

Never seen Mason drum before but he is a savage, kills it

I beg you to watch Live At Pompeii

How Pink Floyd inspired research into medieval monks and volcanology

_Never seen Mason drum before but he is a savage, kills it_


I beg you to watch Live At Pompeii

i was lucky enough to see it in San Francisco at a movie theatre with the volume cranked to max when i was a teenager. life-changing.

Gilmour on the 2038 Floyd reunion tour:

https://i.imgur.com/R6mWSHa.jpg

"All right! This next one's called 'Echoes', thanksforcomingout."

heh

Thank you. I plan on recycling that joke on the Rush thread one day.

I beg you to watch Live At Pompeii

There's more of him in the film than anyone else!

the thing I love about that ‘75 Ontario footage is the contrast:

the music & the crowd’s enjoyment of it
vs
the band being SO unenthused

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

There is a fantastic photo montage at the end that I had to play back in 1/4 speed to properly see them all.

too much shine on you crazy diamond, not enough octopus.

Tonight I learned that there is a Pink Floyd tribute band called Pinky And The Floyd and laughed really loud.

After all this time, some super 8 footage of Montreal 1977 has leaked out and it looks like Roger's spit was actually caught on camera!

https://ravinganddrooling.com/forum/general-discussions/pink-floyd-related/353148-montreal-77-footage is the original thread for the discovery.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1wRR-kkaHc_wf0XLQa8zhaPm943fDAouM/view for the entire video (also includes Kenny Loggins, Boz Scaggs, Fleetwood Mac from earlier)

14:33 = Roger is clearly ranting at someone
14:39 = that's the supposed moment when he spits

That... that was some kind of lineup!

https://i.imgur.com/eh7ufgx.png

On YT now (10m 57s in)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oG7PZGtKxC8

Good breakdown on reverse-engineering the sound - especially on reverse-reverbing the drums

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

I love that so much - not just the audio nerdery, but I love how she plays drums. A studied unfussiness. lots of drum YouTube is about making things look hard; she makes it look easy.

Also their approach is not "we used precisely the historical gear" but more like "how do we get this sound with the gear we have now?"

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

never thought i'd be going back to school at my advanced age, but i'm happy to say i've been accepted and am enrolled for fall semester

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https://i.postimg.cc/WbqpwRP7/0112-0028-19-Gilmour-Academy-Tee-Cool-Blue-1024x1024-2x.webp

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SUVmeYgo1Iw

So Roger thinks he's Leonard Cohen now?

I heard there was a secret time signature

It's a trojan horse for his shit poetry

that's orrible m8

RIP, Floyd animator Ian Emes

Ian Emes, British film director, animator, artist, writer and pioneer of experimental film techniques, famous for his work with Pink Floyd, has died. Our sincere condolences to his family and friends. Ian's eye-catching animated film French Windows (set to Pink Floyd's One Of… pic.twitter.com/lVyI9W8p1o

— Pink Floyd (@pinkfloyd) July 22, 2023

My first gig was Mike Oldfield in 1980 (I was 8) and there were these amazing Escher-style looped animations made by Ian and other mad things that I wish I could see again.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A5r8JytuFeo

They sell Pink Floyd shirts at old navy, the image of the robotic hands shaking. I was in the store with my 13 yo, showed it to him and told him he should listen to them. He was like, “Pink Floyd?”

that version of Money sucks pretty bad but admittedly it does make me wonder what the rest of the album sounds like

The Hipgnosis documentary was super enjoyable, the opening and closing shots of Po trudging around with a portfolio strapped to his back with ropes was a bit of an eyeroll, like Gahan carrying the deckchair up the mountain or the Jawas on the beach with the giant Ian Curtis portrait.

that version of Money sucks pretty bad but admittedly it does make me wonder what the rest of the album sounds like

Why did you say that.

If he's reciting his slam poetry over Great Gig In the Sky....