PINK FLOYD

Saucer mono mix was an Xmas vinyl gift to myself

XP - Oakland is hard to beat, Montreal, Paris, and Madison Sq Gardens are a bit rougher but still pretty vibey, insane-sounding crowd on the NY gig especially.

yeah NY crowd is wild! that’s the only other animals boot i’ve heard

Saucer mono mix was an Xmas vinyl gift to myself

me too, because it was mysteriously cheap on amazon. it's a fine mix I guess though I think I read it was a folddown?

apparently i'm wrong, it's just not as drastically different from the stereo as piper's mono mix is. anyway it's never been an album I was deeply familiar with, so now I basically only know this mono mix and it's great

What’s the deal with the mono mix? I’m a casual Floyd fan, I’ve only got the 5 or so key albums and i’ve never heard Saucerful…. Almost bought it twice due to this thread and fomo.

set the controls has a longer fadeout, is the main thing based on what I just read. the weird panning on the album is obv eliminated; I don't recall weird panning when listening to the stereo version of this but like I said I'm not that familiar with it.

It's really In-Your-Face like a lot of later mono mixes are.

that's even more true of the Piper mono IMO. that thing sounds excellent.

Yeah, Piper mono RULES

When Syd and the Floyd first went into the studio the other band in there was the Tridents. Look, Syd drew Jeff Beck with his guitar the wrong way round. pic.twitter.com/PoepBZLcNT

— Rob Chapman (@rcscribbler) January 12, 2023

omg <3

Count me as another fan of Piper in mono. I actually like the run of albums from Meddle to The Wall (albeit to varying degrees), but Piper is easily my favorite.

I found Wet Dream on CD many years ago in a charity shop at the same time I found Chill Out and SAW II. For a while it was part of my ambient listening.

Other recs for the animals tour other than Oakland ?

― calstars, Thursday, 12 January 2023 00:51 (yesterday) link

Cleveland 77! a little ratty sound-wise in spots but that just adds to the hectic, sun blazed crowd vibe ("if you are holding the other line connected to the pig please let go"), towards the end of the tour and some of the "Animals" stuff is getting pretty tough, a week or so before Waters spit on a fan and Gilmour walked off, another brick in the wall...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aMjDLc9rboc

During the sound collage at the start of "Have a Cigar" it sounds like the dial in a local radio station playing Rush and it is a profoundly perfect bit of audio surrealism, the whole thing Rules

Other recs for the animals tour other than Oakland ?

― calstars, Wednesday, January 11, 2023 4:51 PM (two days ago)

Fort Worth, May 1 1977 (bootleg title: Iron Pigs On Fire) - furious show from the start. An instrumental of "Killing Me Softly" comes on during the collage. There's a tech problem with Dick Parry's sax on SOYCD and "Money" but it's worth checking out if you're a Wright fan - one of his best nights of the tour.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=87YSvQpo1zs

Waters screams "35" during "Pigs" at 47:20.

For the longest time, I could have sworn that the Animals ("In the Flesh") tour stopped in Denver. I distinctly remember hearing about the inflatable animals on the radio. However, I can find no evidence of that.

I also remember my old man seeing Floyd on said tour. However, this now appears to be an impossibility. I am guessing that he instead saw this one, since it is one of only two stops they made in Denver in the 70s:

APR 17 1975
Pink Floyd Setlist
at Denver Coliseum, Denver, CO, USA
Tour: Wish You Were Here

Sheep (Early version, known as "Raving and Drooling")
Dogs (Early version, known as "You Gotta Be Crazy")
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts I-V)
Have a Cigar
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts VI-IX)

"The Dark Side of the Moon"
Speak to Me
Breathe
On the Run
Time
Breathe (Reprise)
The Great Gig in the Sky
Money
Us and Them
Any Colour You Like
Brain Damage
Eclipse

Encore:
Echoes

If this is the show he saw, I am literally dying of envy.

According to Yeeshkul, there are no known recordings of that show either. Pity...

the assertion that gigolo aunt was based on hi ho silver lining is blowing my mind. i believe!

what a drag they didn't play wish you were here on the wish you were here tour lol

.maybe both Gigolo Aunt and Hi Ho Silver Lining were inspired by Happy Together by the Turtles.

could well be.

young Syd drawing pictures of Beck playing in his obscure pre-Yardbirds band and saying the Tridents are up there with the Beatles and Stones is blowing my mind. I never even heard of the Tridents until this week. People in Syd world going deep over the timing, of when Lucy Leave was recorded, when Syd would've seen Beck play pre Yardbirds.

I've also just done a deep dive and playlist making session on the Yardbirds, whom I've always loved in a greatest hits sense, but listening to some of the stuff they had out in 66 and realizing they really do deserve the credit as one the crucial pioneers of psychedelia, though that's a discussion for another day.

Also to credit them, as a band who often had hits with songs they didn't write, to have covered Nilson and the Velvet Undergound pretty goddamn early is pretty awesome.

after awhile you can work on points for style

So how did they do the guitar harmonies on Dogs live?

In any case this live Floyd is so f’in great

Drove around today and listened to DSOTM through Animals on a grey, overcast day with no rain. I'd like to posit that those are the ideal atmospheric conditions.

So how did they do the guitar harmonies on Dogs live?

Snowy White played on the tour - guitar (and occasional bass).

Cool so I guess that’s him on the backing parts of Shine On too

what a drag they didn't play wish you were here on the wish you were here tour lol

If that's a reference to the Denver show, the album wouldn't be released for another five months.

maybe both Gigolo Aunt and Hi Ho Silver Lining were inspired by Happy Together by the Turtles.

― everything, Friday, January 13, 2023 8:16 PM (two days ago) bookmarkflaglink

I doubt it, he already based 'Dominoes' on 'Happy Together'

Good 2020 interview with Snowy White:
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/snowy-white-guitarist-interview-roger-waters-pink-floyd-thin-lizzy-1089750/

and a Yeeshkul thread on who played what on the 1977 tour
http://yeeshkul.com/forum/showthread.php?36336-Who-played-what-at-In-the-flesh-1977-tour

"as fast as Gilmour can go) he will never do that after, and some soaring solos (remember the July 2, 1977 Madison Square Garden)"
welp there's my next download

Details starting to emerge of the rumoured 50th anniversary Dark Side box set:

https://www.loudersound.com/news/pink-floyd-dark-side-book-and-box-set-on-way-to-celebrate-50th-anniversary

It will, of course, rule

15 November 1974 at Empire Pool, London: After 37:51 of unfamiliar songs (SOYCD, Raving And Drooling) someone hollers "1967!" Roger retorts "You're wrong, it's 1974... and this is another new tune, especially for you!" (17min "You Gotta Be Crazy" starts)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7hu1PcLe2A

More Dark Side box news:

https://superdeluxeedition.com/news/pink-floyd-the-dark-side-of-the-moon-50th-anniversary-reissue/

that looks absolutely worthless

pretty sad fate for an album that rules so much

hmm yeah, it's not even the complete Wembley show? Because a double (triple?) LP of that gig would rule.

Let the 2000 people in the world with a home atmos setup buy it, as much as it rules, I ain't paying for this fucking record again.

you're saying your living room doesn't look like this?!

https://www.lifewire.com/thmb/qeR6XIqL-PbN934AfGaO_dpYKX0=/1500x0/filters:no_upscale():max_bytes(150000):strip_icc()/klipsch-dolby-atmos-speaker-setup-a-56a4b5e65f9b58b7d0d86a68.jpg

just imagine the neighbors in that apartment building — "is he really listening to the atmos remix of dark side of the moon *again*????"

I have observations about that photo, but I'll save them for the hoffman board.

Happy that the live show is getting a standalone list, that's all I want.

(although I really wish it was actually the full show)

I have observations about that photo, but I'll save them for the hoffman board.

― pplains, Thursday, January 19, 2023 9:55 AM (six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

two subs is completely stupid and unnecessary

reminds me of one of my favorite amazon reviews:

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

two subs is completely stupid and unnecessary

Not completely true. A single subwoofer helps with bass extension (i.e. going lower) but doesn't help with bass' weird room interactions in most real world (i.e. avg living room) settings. One solution is multiple subs (distributed bass array) which doesn't make the bass go any lower, but helps greatly with room interactions in untreated rooms by basically beaming bass semi-randomly everywhere in the room and hopefully filling in the gaps.

https://www.audiosciencereview.com/forum/index.php?threads/%E2%80%9Cthe-swarm%E2%80%9D-by-audio-kinesis.15953/

NB: I have no subs because of space.