PINK FLOYD

"I know all those words but that sign makes no sense!" -- Lisa referring to the Yahoo Serious Festival

i've been listening to a 1974 bootleg that smokes, w/ early versions of animals tracks + "crazy diamond" + full dark side + echoes! awesome. they sound kinda more raw/rocking here. not like the stooges or anything, but ...
Seems weird that the Floyd haven't put out a rad career-spanning live set or something.

ps pink floyd rules

name of bootleg, please?

tylerw otm

(and tyler, ps -- just checked your blog to see if you'd posted the floyd show . . . to answer your keef question, i think johnny depp's supposed to be reading the audio)

i think i am going to post the floyd bootleg soonish! it's manchester 1974 ...

thanks!

double thanks!

Tylerw, what is your blog address? Thanks in advance
Iago G.

http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com
will probably put this floyd thing up this weekend. it is pretty great stuff.

That's great--thanks so much

heyyy, i just finally got around to posting that floyd show on my blog if y'all are interested.

need this so bad
http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/images/news/2011/20110728_pink-floyd-platinum-division-bell-sculpture.jpg

also
http://www.neptunepinkfloyd.co.uk/images/news/2011/20110728_pink-floyd-platinum-leather-wallet.jpg

PINK FLOYD RULES

PINK FLOYD RULES
dang are those images not showing up.
www.pinkfloydplatinumcollection.com

they don't need to show up because

PINK FLOYD RULES

http://flatrock.org.nz/topics/odds_and_oddities/assets/pink_floyd.jpg

christ

talk about dark side of the moon

pink floyd rules. i was drunk and wanted to know the lyrics!!!!THNKS SOOOOOOOOOO MUCH!!!! YOU FUCKIN RULE FOR POSTIN THE LYRICS. I WROTE THEM DOWN AND I LOVE YOU NOW>>!!!! EMAIL ME AND ILL MARRY YOU. DONT WORRY IM HOT!!!hahahahaha
love always, shaina

yea pink floyd rules!!! once i heard this kid in my school say that they suck and i almost kicked him in the teeth. i had to point out to him that they invented almost every style out today. one they didn't was rap, and well i hate rap..... ~out~

[fuck this guy and his question mark]
Pink Floyd Rules?
I've actually felt better about Pink Floyd. After listening to a lot of their songs on radio, I've developed a liking to them. I still some of their songs are crap, but "comfertabally numb" "another brick in the wall, pt 1, 2, and 3", "Money", "Hey You" and other songs are very good. They're pretty good, let them pass.

My brother hates Pink Floyd, but a lot of my friends like them. Some user (Bart247) suggested once I listen to the Dark Side Of The Moon. All I've heard is Money, but that's a good song. I will put these guys on my "Master's Of Rock" series, and expect to see more episodes in the future.

I'd thought I'd post this up to tell you my changed opinions on Pink Floyd. Although they might not be the best band ever, they're one of the best. I have The Wall album already, but maybe I'll look forward to listening to them more.

http://img.wonderhowto.com/images/gfx/gallery/634108584756730283.jpg

that RULES
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/14/19806695_e587452ded.jpg

http://tendenciesrock.com.br/murilotatoo/galeriafoto2/album/slides/Pink_Floyd_The_Wall.jpg

http://28.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_lp02hfrLy61qzma4ho1_500.png

kids these days!

http://www.offbeat.com.au/Floyd%20Painting%202.jpg

^^^ just the kind of thing I was looking for

hee hee
http://fuckyeahpsychedelics.tumblr.com/photo/1280/3756986829/1/tumblr_lhtp1bhwQO1qcncte

^^^ WOW

http://www.culturalpartners.org/images/gypsy.jpg

belly dancing for floyd. that rules.

when I saw that my hs physics teacher had a Dark Side poster in his classroom, I knew that I'd really made i

er: made it

http://media.ticketmaster.com/tm/en-au/dbimages/49415a

PINK FLOYD RULES

RULE #1: PINK FLOYD RULES

internet, never change
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aEXzTXmLlpU
(not really safe for work fyi)

FLOYD IS NOT SAFE FOR WORK

http://fc06.deviantart.net/fs36/i/2008/242/0/8/Pink_Floyd___vector_work_by_propaganda_81.jpg

http://ih2.redbubble.net/work.5954841.1.flat,550x550,075,f.pink-floyd-cow.jpg

i kind of dig that the division bell dudes have been incorporated into the floyd iconography. must make waters so mad.

I've been thinking the same thing. High hopes etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJfAmDi6kkc

Sorry about that first link. It's the song "In My First Future". Sounds like a Meddle outtake.

Apparently I saw them (Floyd not SMB) twice on the Momentary Lapse Of Reason tour. August 5th or 6th 1988 at Wembley Stadium, which is a perfectly fine memory, stood right down the front. But I also have a ticket stub for one of the Docklands Arena dates the following July. Not sure I'd have remembered that otherwise. No support acts AFAIR.

Whereas I distinctly remember the opening act for Bowie at Wembley the year before. Fucking Big Country. Not that Bowie was much better on that tour. Yes I know BC are inexplicably loved around here.

Quick google of bands that have opened for Pink Floyd:

The Who AND The Move (1966!) https://preview.redd.it/v8sl5jyqbix31.jpg?width=376&auto=webp&s=8309323a86aedddebe2511f3d01674aa75125551
Fairport Convention (1967)
Soft Machine (1967 & 1973)
Fleetwood Mac (1968)
Grateful Dead (1968, both bands jamming together for the encores)
Henry Cow (1968! their first live performance, 1969, 1972)
Holy Modal Rounders (1968, with Sam Shephard! on drums)
Smile (1968, pre-Queen Brian May/Roger Taylor band)
Principal Edwards Magic Theatre (1968, funded by John Peel, produced by Nick Mason)
Jethro Tull and Roy Harper (1968)
Savoy Brown (1969)
Allman Brothers (1970)
Nico & John Cale (1971)
America (1972)
Steve Miller Band (1975)

also:
Elmer Gantry’s Velvet Opera
The Strawbs
Jan Dukes de Gray
Jim Metzner
The Collectors
The Incredible Fish
Sopwith Camel
The Committee
Stoney & The Jagged Edge
Betty Moon
Stockyard In Philly
Leonard Cheshire
The Initial Shock
Speed, Glue, and Shinky

damn some insane killer bills

lol

I am pretty impressed by Speed Glue And Shinki (correct spelling iirc?)

ooh the Collectors. About to put them on a weird mix I'm making.

Nico and John Cale in 71. I can only wonder what any of those conversations entailed.

iirc that was cale's first solo gig! a tape of his set survives. whoever taped it didn't tape floyd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwGpwQXQ590

Somehow I knew Tyler would know where to find a copy.

Is this the gig where he played with Mike Heron? Or Mike Heron played with him?

yes, I think Heron is playing on a few songs here!

1971 Rolling Stone interview with Cale (& Nico) discussing the above show (barely any Pink Floyd content):

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/sep/25/john-cale-nico-interview

and yes Heron plays with him.

Pretty good evening's entertainment all round!

Mind you, it might have been a good idea for Mike Heron to learn the songs first.

Yeah sounds like they maybe had a 15-minute rehearsal beforehand. Pretty cool though! Interesting that Cale already had a few Paris 1919 tunes at this point.

Roger stirs things up even more

An announcement from me. And when I mention the @pinkfloyd website, I also mean the Facebook page and all the rest. pic.twitter.com/x9T8CIAAMp

— Roger Waters (@rogerwaters) May 19, 2020

I got two friends who are all about Pink Floyd ruling, and I can’t seem to get them to listen to Can. What would you think would be the best connection point to get them into them. Future Days perhaps?

Roger otm throughout that message.

honestly fuck David Gilmour and his cosy family singalongs

I got two friends who are all about Pink Floyd ruling, and I can’t seem to get them to listen to Can. What would you think would be the best connection point to get them into them. Future Days perhaps?

If you think that's their best music. I don't think Can and Pink Floyd are all that similar, and they grow further apart as they go on.

Pink Floyd rules but I have never gotten hooked by the Can. I like "Vitamin C" a lot but otherwise I have found their music too slippery for me, more watery whereas the Floyd is more airy. I still give the Can a lotta time to try to get it to click given how many people here & in my life elsewhere rate them so highly.

Yeah I don't see much similarity between PF and Can for the most part. Not that you can't like both, but the Can that is most like Floyd probably isn't the most essential Can or like the best Floyd. Maybe stuff like All Gates Open, Animal Waves, Come Sta La Luna could vaguely be cross over points (?) but better to take the bands on their own terms.

Floyd for Can heads = A Saucerful Of Secrets, One Of These Days, Echoes, Sheep.

It's not that I think Pink Floyd and Can sound alike, its just something about a certain type of epic late 60s into the 70s thing, where there's equal parts song and expansion, noise and groove, it's like, maybe the things I think that make them different are worth comparing at times as they show the flaws of the other? I dunno.

Groove is not a property I associate with Pink Floyd tbh.

you gotta get down with it

prob easier to convert deadheads

Nick Mason is very appropriate for Pink Floyd as he doesn’t play too complex. It gives the Wright/Gilmour textures room to breathe. But I’d love to imagine what they would have achieved with a drummer like Jaki.

Xpost the Dead's drumming is maybe the worst part of the band outside of "Good Lovin'"

Two drummer lineups are so hard to pull off

But either way I kinda see Pink Floyd as the opposite of the Dead in many ways

it’s not like deadheads are gonna be all “oh man this would be good if the drumming actually sucked”... but yeah what a bonkers comparison

it’s not like deadheads are gonna be all “oh man this would be good if the drumming actually sucked”... but yeah what a bonkers comparison

― brimstead

as a floydhead-converted-to-deadhead the difference to me is that floyd's improvisation was usually more constrained than the dead ever were. even a song like "interstellar overdrive", on the face of it a totally freeform instrumental, was really a matter of finding out a number of things that worked and doing them. the dead on the other hand were so absorbed in the moment and, honestly, in their own heads that a lot more things were possible for them

Yep, there's an economy of means to Pink Floyd's playing that really shines in an improvisational setting, whereas I just get impatient with at least 50% of the Dead's jams, even the legendary ones. And I like aimless noodling.

I was talking about dead heads digging Can but I don’t know anymore

Moka asked: I got two friends who are all about Pink Floyd ruling, and I can’t seem to get them to listen to Can. What would you think would be the best connection point to get them into them. Future Days perhaps?

How about "Millionenspiel"?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fMoxgb4TTFk

It's from 1969 so it pre-dates PF's "One of These Days"; but they seem to share a vibe.

Second pick would be the album "Monster Movie."

True, but this here is the PINK FLOYD (RULES) thread.

xp

(xp) It depends what era of Floyd they are interested in but, even then, I don't know why you assume Pink Floyd fans would like "Monster Movie".

If you're more of a pre-DSOTM Floyd fan I can't imagine you'd have too many problems adjusting to Can.

here's how to get pink floyd fans into can

tell them "listen to can, they rule"

since pink floyd also RULES obviously they should be interested

if they aren't for some reason that's fine, just make fun of them until they either go away or start pretending to like can

of course there is also the (great) piece can did on the old grey whistle test in '74 called "untitled (for pink floyd)", looks like the sendspace i threw up of it a little while back is still good

https://www.sendspace.com/file/qh3qo1

My dad loves Floyd's post-Syd, pre-DSOTM material, was into Ash Ra Tempel and Amon Düül at the time, and his favourite King Crimson album is Islands, yet he still finds Can too busy and weird, even on Future Days. That he discovered them almost thirty years later is likely part of the problem.

Fair enough though, Amon Duul II and Ash Ra Tempel fit more neatly with that era of Floyd.

CAN propose to take you on an adventure, to bear witness to the whole wild ride, slipperiness and all. it's immediate and exhilarating but might cause you to feel apprehensive or disoriented.

pink floyd have already come back from their adventures and propose to tell you about it in exaggerated if highly enjoyable detail. the achievements are towering but we're dealing with a more-or-less formalized storytelling, not wild and magical incantations.

it's maybe a bit like the difference between rabelais and racine.

I don't think Pink Floyd's music is ever as tightly wound as Racine's alexandrins, but in terms of sheer clarity I agree that the two intersect. The difference is that post-Syd, pre-The Wall Pink Floyd view optimization as a means of approximating a modest experience of transcendence, whereas there's a claustrophobic logic to Racine's plays that doesn't really point towards anything other than its own aesthetic and theological fatalism.

here's how to get pink floyd fans into can

tell them "listen to can, they rule"

since pink floyd also RULES obviously they should be interested

this is very otm

lol, could you even imagine what a CAN concept album would be about?

A can of vegetables?

mushrooms, to be exact, with heads

they use quantum physics to summon Mother Sky from the future days and bring the rain during the vernal equinox

It turns out that perhaps PF and Can's literal point of nearest confluence is that time when they each had a hit disco single.

lol sleeve

xp i wasn't expecting such a complex analysis of racine (or floyd), though i think you're spot on. my comparison was only meant to evoke a sort of classicist conceptual space vs. a more sprawling, piecemeal artistry that embraces dead-ends and absurdity