They hated the way Atom Heart Mother turned out, and Ummagumma feels less like an album from the time and, well, an archival release from right now -- if that had all surfaced as part of the box and had never been heard before, I wouldn't've been surprised at all. The box really does a great job in not only reclaiming the era more thoroughly but conveying why they had such an intense following not only out of the gate but after what in any other situation would have been a crippling switch-out of lead creative figures. I was consistently intrigued by the size of the crowds, festival settings or otherwise.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 14 October 2017 22:46 (six years ago) link
tbf I suppose "The Wall" isn't patchy, it's consistently shite.
― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.)
i kind of assumed that until listening to the whole thing through again... it really isn't! it's got good stuff on it and awful stuff on it. bob ezrin's production also makes it a lot more listener-friendly than "atom heart mother" is.
i won't say '69, but '70-'71 they were consistent, and consistently great, as a live band - if i only could judge by the studio albums i'm not sure '70-'71 floyd would be my favorite era.
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 15 October 2017 00:04 (six years ago) link
They were pretty good in '69, the problem I have with '71 is that "Echoes" is so outrageously overrated by everyone - esp. the band, that story they tell about about Rick Wright playing the opening notes thru the Binson like it was the Holy Grail...
― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 October 2017 00:28 (six years ago) link
Meddle works precisely because it isn't all "Echoes" -- you have to have that first half as is. And we do, thankfully. I love how all over the place it goes, and at its breeziest it's not far at all from Obscured by Clouds. Thinking on which: seeing how the songs actually work in both the Schroeder films -- strictly diagetic, as songs on radios, tape players, etc that the characters have to hand or are listening to -- I really enjoy taking them all now less as 'Floyd' songs and more as them creating their own weird little riffs or reinterpretations of sounds and styles around them. I forget which song on Obscured it is, but there's a cut that's essentially their take on Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky," and made me realize that if they just ever wanted to be some sort of easy good time boogie band they always had it in them. (See also, getting back to Meddle, "Seamus.")
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 15 October 2017 00:42 (six years ago) link
"the gold it's in the", right?
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 15 October 2017 00:56 (six years ago) link
of course there's always this, syd barrett's 1972 attempt at a "boogie band". this tends to be undermined a certain amount the presence of fred frith on guitar.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQgnlUEyQXw
― bob lefse (rushomancy), Sunday, 15 October 2017 00:58 (six years ago) link
No, I think "Free Four" is the one that sounds like "Spirit in the Sky", except nowhere near as good, I don't need to hear Floyd doing blues/ boogie etc tbh. (xp)
― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.), Sunday, 15 October 2017 01:03 (six years ago) link
was in my hometown yesterday and saw a smart car covered in pink floyd decals and with the license plate PNKFLYD
― ciderpress, Sunday, 15 October 2017 02:04 (six years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pAwfSntPic
this alt take of "Matilda Mother" is insanely good. "And finding she was left alone we tiptoe to the telephone NINE! NINE! NINE!" one of the coolest outtakes ever here!
listening to The Early Years tonight <3 "Walk With Me Sidney" i really dig the early stuff it is almost a punk/noise take on the blues at times. "Double O Bo" is sick
THE PINK FLOYD RULES
― AdamVania (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 15 October 2017 02:06 (six years ago) link
Sounds less like a Smart Car and more like a RULES CAR.
― to fly across the city and find Aerosmith's car (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, 15 October 2017 08:36 (six years ago) link
Heads up:
https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/11/14/pink-floyd-kqed-1970/
In short: this is an unaired performance of "Astronomy Domine" that was done for the KQED broadcast that year, but which did NOT surface on the box set last year.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 02:02 (six years ago) link
in short, it RULES obvi like the v intense angry face Rog is making towards the end
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 15 November 2017 03:28 (six years ago) link
Meanwhile Roger gets an asteroid named after him:https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%26%2310003%3B&object_id=495181
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:22 (six years ago) link
I kinda expected it'd be a hemorrhoid but an asteroid will do.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 21:48 (six years ago) link
I bet it’s got its controls set for the heart of the sunX-post
― willem, Wednesday, 15 November 2017 22:51 (six years ago) link
Listening to A Saucerful of Secrets again tonight and it is fucking ruling.
― Gholdfish Killah (Turrican), Sunday, 19 November 2017 21:46 (six years ago) link
Late night listen to Too Early For A Gig and good grief it rules so much
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc3Y-gGuNmc
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 09:51 (six years ago) link
Oh man, I love that recording.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 10 January 2018 10:50 (six years ago) link
Pink Floyd, 1969. pic.twitter.com/jQQqcZQz64— Mood:Vintage (@moodvintage) March 4, 2018
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Sunday, 4 March 2018 20:54 (six years ago) link
that photo rules
― Squeaky Fromage (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 4 March 2018 21:58 (six years ago) link
it's too bad a bus with a gong on top of it crashed through all the equipment a split second later. it's a miracle they all survived tbh
― and in my opinionation, the sun is gonna surely shine♪♫ (Karl Malone), Sunday, 4 March 2018 22:11 (six years ago) link
I do like comfertabally numb
― Tom Violence (Extended Club Mix) (Tom Violence), Sunday, 4 March 2018 22:15 (six years ago) link
gilmour / mason / wright's collective expression in that pic screams: "roger made us do this, we just want to get to the pub"
― tylerw, Monday, 5 March 2018 20:05 (six years ago) link
Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets
You thrilled to him as Ronnie Kray, now Gary Kemp is Syd Barrett in Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets... unless there's another Gary Kemp?
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:34 (six years ago) link
A quick GIS of Nick Mason and Gary Kemp suggests that they are, indeed, china plates, as Ronnie Kray might have said.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:40 (six years ago) link
Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets is the brainchild of former Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris who back in 2016 suggested putting a group together around Nick Mason and featuring esteemed Pink Floyd/ David Gilmour session bassist Guy Pratt.To distance themselves from Roger Waters and David Gilmour's live set lists, the idea was to focus solely on Pink Floyd’s embryonic years of 1967 to 1972.With Nick Mason on board, they completed Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets with Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp on guitars and music producer/composer Dom Beken on keyboards.The four gigs in May will be Nick Mason’s first live musical outing since Pink Floyd’s historic Live 8 concert in London’s Hyde Park in 2005. Nick, of course, is a founder and the only constant member of Pink Floyd performing on all of their albums as well as all of their live shows
To distance themselves from Roger Waters and David Gilmour's live set lists, the idea was to focus solely on Pink Floyd’s embryonic years of 1967 to 1972.
With Nick Mason on board, they completed Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets with Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp on guitars and music producer/composer Dom Beken on keyboards.
The four gigs in May will be Nick Mason’s first live musical outing since Pink Floyd’s historic Live 8 concert in London’s Hyde Park in 2005. Nick, of course, is a founder and the only constant member of Pink Floyd performing on all of their albums as well as all of their live shows
https://www.planetrock.com/news/news/rock-news/nick-mason-to-perform-early-pink-floyd-with-new-band-saucerful-of-secrets/
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:41 (six years ago) link
But is Gaz going to be singing, "A gnome named Grimble Gromble"?
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:43 (six years ago) link
And then one day, hoorayanother way for gnomes to say Trueh..
― Mark G, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:53 (six years ago) link
"To cut a long story shortSyd lost his miiiind"
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:56 (six years ago) link
sad lols
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:57 (six years ago) link
Would be cool if Mason sang the songs he did vocals for on the originals e.g. One Of These Days, Corporal Clegg, Scream Thy Last Scream.
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 11:58 (six years ago) link
Putting "Nick Mason's" in front is a great way to make a band name more reasonable
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 16:23 (six years ago) link
Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets is the brainchild of former Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris
i just remembered that i have this (terrible) rave version of 'time' by lee harris - gotta be the same guy right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pLd-7pm-ow
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:20 (six years ago) link
Rodge let slip in a radio interview that there is a 5.1 of Animals on the way sometime soon, didn't say anything about an Immersion Box type of deal.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:22 (six years ago) link
there was also a lee harris in talk talk, surely it's not him but who knows? xp
― i'm surprised to see your screwface at the door (NickB), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:23 (six years ago) link
Dingwalls and 3 dates at the Half Moon, jfc couldn't they have aimed a little higher?
I mean that would probably just about accommodate Guy Pratt's fucking guest list.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:27 (six years ago) link
― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion)
i can't ever consider "nick mason's fictitious sports" to be "reasonable". only "reasonamable".
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:30 (six years ago) link
Will Nick bust out 'The Grand Vizier's Garden Party'?
― earlnash, Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:38 (six years ago) link
First encore.
― (Henry) Green container bin with face (Tom D.), Tuesday, 17 April 2018 20:42 (six years ago) link
5-1 odds that Robert Wyatt comes out for an "I'm A Believer" encore.
― Elvis Telecom, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:46 (six years ago) link
would rather hear "wervin'"
― ziggy the ginhead (rushomancy), Wednesday, 18 April 2018 02:53 (six years ago) link
^Yes!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnfPzODj1kI
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 18 April 2018 14:24 (six years ago) link
Dingwalls 20th May 2018
1. Interstellar Overdrive2. Astronomy Domine3. Lucifer Sam4. Fearless5. Obscured By Clouds6. When You're In7. Arnold Layne8. Green Is The Colour9. Let There Be More Light10. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun11. See Emily Play12. Bike13. One Of These Days14. A Saucerful Of Secrets15. Point Me At The Sky
― MaresNest, Monday, 21 May 2018 22:37 (five years ago) link
for a second mistook that for a Waters setlist and was like wtf rad
― niels, Monday, 21 May 2018 22:39 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am-HJNJm4I0
― MaresNest, Monday, 21 May 2018 22:41 (five years ago) link
There's a clip of Bike out there too (with Pratt singing) but I'm not gonna link it because it sounds like a pub band.
― MaresNest, Monday, 21 May 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
Bunch of UK and European tour dates announced at http://www.thesaucerfulofsecrets.com/
This thing isn't coming anywhere near me which kind of solves my dilemma of whether I want to put myself through it or not
― the word dog doesn't bark (anagram), Friday, 25 May 2018 08:23 (five years ago) link
I will go for sure, perhaps I'm taking it a bit too seriously, but the youtube clips feel under-rehearsed and like a bit of a busman's holiday to me, I wish he hadn't just gone down the crony route with the band members.
― MaresNest, Friday, 25 May 2018 09:01 (five years ago) link
yeah i love all these songs but i'm not really excited to hear these folks play them. if he'd gotten, you know, somebody like robyn hitchcock to go on tour with him i'd jump at the chance.
― Arch Bacon (rushomancy), Friday, 25 May 2018 10:39 (five years ago) link
May have been Guy Pratt's idea
― PaulTMA, Friday, 25 May 2018 11:35 (five years ago) link