PINK FLOYD

Any time I've ever seen Storm Thorgeson interviewed he comes across as a total dick but that story about him on the Ween thread warmed me to him.

Luckily, Po is a much better interview and does the bulk of the talking.

A previously unreleased interview from December 1971 of Pink Floyd at Studio Europa Sonor in France, is now available in full on YouTube for the first time. Only a few edits had to be made, consisting of cutting out some of the Live at Pompeii footage due to copyright. Big thanks to Adrian Maben and Cinémathèque Française for this release! You can find the original 52 minute video here: https://www.cinematheque.fr/henri/film/121170-chit-chat-with-oysters-adrian-maben-2013/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OcwbxVIhn1I

Funny, we were just talking on the Robert Wyatt thread at how good the French were at documenting and archiving music in the 60s and 70s.

I'm obliged to mention that the new Syd Barrett doc can be found on slsk. Just search on "have you got it yet 1080p" and you'll be good.

I cannot locate this on slsk, bummer, perhaps it's been delisted.

It's still there. Try searching on different extensions "have you got it yet avi" or "have you got it yet mkv"

was just thinking of breaking out Floyd. tho they give me feelings and it's overwhelming lol.

https://i.imgur.com/iqYtbZI.jpeg

I was watching the Pompeii thing over the weekend and my wife goes, so Adam Driver is gonna play that guy in the biopic, right?

https://ultimateclassicrock.com/pink-floyd-solar-eclipse-sync/

From https://ravinganddrooling.com/forum/general-discussions/pink-floyd-related/368340-joker-s-wild-unreleased-song-acetate

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https://diskunion-shinjukurockrecord.../24232237.html

A 7’ acetate featuring two previously unreleased Joker's Wild tracks will be offered in Japanese record shop on 25 May. This is quite different from the five-track 10’ vinyl version in 1965. The acetate was inherited by the son of a member of Joker's Wild, and it appears that part of the archive has been released and brought to the surface.

Two sample tracks from the acetate are available on YouTube.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LWaoOBENDMg

The first is probably a cover of 'Say Those Magic Words' by The Birds (not the US band, but the one Ron Wood was in).
​https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H51ikifaYws

Also: https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/david-gilmour-luck-and-strange-new-album-announced.html

https://www.brain-damage.co.uk/images/stories/2024/dglascover.jpg

"Say Those Magic Words" started out as a McCoys song

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig5MCStWnz0

I went to see Nick Mason's Saucerful Of secrets tonight and loved every second of it; it was almost my perfect setlist. I'm not ashamed to admit I found myself in tears during several songs and I really don't think the gig could have been bettered in any way. It really was perfect.

that rules

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

a poll of floyd songs that have no vocals but roger's

perhaps not even those of backup singers (e.g. 'in the flesh[?]')

you wanted to vote for 'not now john'? joke's on you and wouldn't maggie be pleased

SO YA THOUGHT YA

Aye, a roar he cried! Frae the bottom of his heart
That I would nay fall but dead, dead as a can by a feat deah...
And the wind cried Mary

I think "If" might just win that poll

Dreadful song.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hCDSDrImsaw-

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=thQcZeArc-4

^^^
"Is There Anybody Out There? / Nobody Home with original TV/Film clips used in the studio recording.

Gunsmoke, Season 12, Episode 21, "Fandango"
Gomer Pyle, USMC, Season 4, Episode 7, "Gomer Says Hey to the President"
The Battle of Britain (1969)"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b3ZheFc7MgM

New Gilmour album out, it's probably his best full solo outing since his debut, in that it has no skippable tracks even if it's not always the most memorable thing

THis however is a thing of beauty. Does Romany Gilmour have the greatest singing voice ever? No, it's a little flat and extremely english, but she sounds really good here anyway. Also it is completely insane to me that she is doing a song by someone who was in gnac. I didn't think the Montgolfier Brothers were listened to by anyone other than saddos like me in the '00s.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A9qdvkx9E3o

this reminds me a lot of HAAi "Baby We're Ascending"

Ice-T: "Hey David Gilmour, can Body Count cover Comfortably Numb with new lyrics?"
Gilmour: "Sure. Do you need a guitar player?"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pl8zhYA0BHU

live for today, gone tomorrow -- that's me

Any Colour You Like C/D

Of all the Gilmour interviews out right now, I thought this one was the best
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/03/david-gilmour-the-rich-and-powerful-have-siphoned-off-the-majority-of-music-industry-money

Also I noticed that in the $400 million deal, the band members still retain songwriting rights.

Countdown to officially licensed Floyd Laserium shows in 5...4...3...2...

Gilmour's new album is pretty good, I enjoy it.

But today I'm more blown away by Live in Gdansk, which I'd never heard before!

Gilmour rules! Pink Floyd rules!

Of all the Gilmour interviews out right now, I thought this one was the best
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2024/oct/03/david-gilmour-the-rich-and-powerful-have-siphoned-off-the-majority-of-music-industry-money

― Elvis Telecom

I gave this a read this morning and I was surprised at how genuinely inspiring I found it. It's this... he's thoughtful, and kind, but he's not soft. When I was young Pink Floyd was doing _The Division Bell_ and I thought it was boring, and Pink Floyd were boring. And now that album is a classic with younger generations. I haven't really listened to it much. Probably it's held up. Roger Waters... I was into Roger Waters around this time and it was always bad. It was. _Amused to Death_ was fucking racist and I made excuses for it because... because I was ignorant. Is all I can say. _The Division Bell_ may or may not be boring but it's not racist. I was angry and resentful and Roger Waters, he was a lot more angry and resentful than David Gilmour. And he'd go out there and talk shit about David Gilmour at every opportunity. Just an utter miserable bastard, and at the time, that made him a role model for me. The best I could imagine being.

People ask Gilmour about Roger Waters and he says what he needs to be said. He doesn't mince words, but he doesn't overstate the point. Next question. Another question about Waters - what's his favorite Waters lyric - and he says "Walk With Me Sydney". That impresses me a lot. Just... the utter _contempt_ he has for Waters. That's the best way to treat someone who's said and done the things Waters has said and done, I believe. Not anger. Not sympathy. Contempt.

"walk with me Sydney" is such a prototypical Waters lyric, it's almost comical... it's like if you printed it out on a transparency film and overlaid on top of the lyrics to Comfortably Numb, there would be plenty of spots where it perfectly aligns.

I also could never really get into the Division Bell because it's too boring, but the album cover is amazing, iconic, so instantly classic that it still makes me wanna like the album a lot more than I do. Even reduced to a simple illustration/graphic, it's really great, you know, it seems to signify something pretty powerful. It's worthy of Pink Floyd even though the record itself isn't so much.

kate, I've never listened to a Roger Waters solo album. What's with the racism in Amused to Death?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-70mGm8Ry_4

the David / Roger vocal switch on Time is pretty cool

...there are younger generations who think the division bell is a classic?

does anyone?

It seems to be a millennial favourite.

it’s the floyd i reach for these days

smh

smdh

ok whatever haters

if it's too soft you're too old :)

it's a really beautifully recorded album. the music, too, is like insanely beautiful ("poles apart"! "take it back!"). the lyrics are a laughable attempt at watersian conceptual grandeur but who cares

momentary lapse truly sucks. division bell is way better than it should be

the instrumentals on The Division Bell are the best tracks