https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vl9OKddQBRg
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 September 2011 01:32 (twelve years ago) link
Ha, that Hendrix/Move/Floyd poster: I just read Lemmy's autobiography this week, and he talks about being a roadie on that tour. So besides all those bands, you've got Lemmy hanging out backstage somewhere (and everybody tripping their asses off the whole time, naturally).
― something of an astrological coup (tipsy mothra), Friday, 30 September 2011 01:35 (twelve years ago) link
I'm sorry, is this even a question? We can certainly debate the varying merits of post-Syd and post-Waters Floyd (I'd argue that after WYWH, the stock thins considerably, but some of that is sentiment, I'm sure.)
Pink Floyd Rules. (Specially when they're just doing soundtracks for arty hippie flicks.)
― Matt M., Friday, 30 September 2011 01:57 (twelve years ago) link
never knew gilmour played a steinberger!
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 30 September 2011 02:10 (twelve years ago) link
(steinbergers rule)
goddamn i wish this was better quality
(still rules though)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y6EEICsLZiE&feature=related
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 30 September 2011 02:12 (twelve years ago) link
I got some ice cream @ an ice cream shop and they were playing WYWH (the album) over the speakers. Both that and the ice cream ruled.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 30 September 2011 02:23 (twelve years ago) link
Other than Meddle, the period of Floyd that I don't know anything at all about is the run from More through Obscured by Clouds. I started fucking with More this morning. It rules. Where should I turn my attention next?
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 30 September 2011 13:02 (twelve years ago) link
Also, would tylerw be able to cough up some period-specific bootlegs that rule?
― rustic italian flatbread, Friday, 30 September 2011 13:07 (twelve years ago) link
Go back, rustic. Go back! Back to the glory days of SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS (recorded right before MORE, or less) Back to PIPER AT THE GATES OF DAWN. Back to any of the bajillion bootlegs of that era. TOTAL ECLIPSE (while an overview) spends much of its time on the MEDDLE and before Floyd. Not sure of its print status, but it was legendary in the 90s and I'm sure it's still around to be found.
― Matt M., Friday, 30 September 2011 13:58 (twelve years ago) link
here are my two fave floyd bootlegs: meddled (1971): http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/7615424545/labyrinths-of-coral-caves-in-recent-stories-aboutmooed music (1970): http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/7928048401/the-stars-are-screaming-loud-since-people-seem-to
& yeah, total eclipse is quite good!
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 14:35 (twelve years ago) link
wow, that rules! thanks
what doesn't rule is the latest 'rolling stone' cover feature on 'dark side.' what a bummer! only interview questions i'm interested in hearing waters, mason, and gilmour answer at this point are 1) why do you think your band rules so much? 2) which of your albums is your favorite? and 3) how awesome was it to play those songs on stage, higher than fuck, night after night?
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 14:43 (twelve years ago) link
Q: Why do you think your band rules so much?Gilmour: Pink Floyd rules.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 14:46 (twelve years ago) link
Q: Which of your albums rules the most?Waters: Every single one of them.
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 15:13 (twelve years ago) link
It would rule if Gilmour answered only in musical notes, or just by reference to songs (e.g. "uhhhh, the last couple of minutes of "Fearless")
― Euler, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:15 (twelve years ago) link
"You know, the part towards the end of 'Set The Controls'...You know what I'm talking about."
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:17 (twelve years ago) link
q - "what was it like playing that awesome music in front of millions of people?"a - gilmour starts playing the opening of "pillow of winds"
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 15:19 (twelve years ago) link
q- what was the best thing about being in pink floyda- waters plays bass riff to "money"
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:21 (twelve years ago) link
Thanks for those links, Tyler. Always good to put more on the bootleg pile.
― Matt M., Friday, 30 September 2011 15:25 (twelve years ago) link
those bootlegs rule. there's also this: http://doomandgloomfromthetomb.tumblr.com/post/8229587744/echoes-pink-floyd-london-wembley-empire
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:28 (twelve years ago) link
tyler you rule
this sort of is okay
http://pitchforkmedia.com/news/44146-watch-mgmt-cover-pink-floyd-on-jimmy-fallon/
but i'd waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay rather see floyd do this
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 15:29 (twelve years ago) link
INTERSTELLAR ENCORE is also good. From the Filmore, maybe '71 or so. "Fat Old Sun" makes an appearance, which is always nice. DE DOLEN and LIVE AT MONTREAUX are good as well, though not as cleanly recorded as some.
― Matt M., Friday, 30 September 2011 15:33 (twelve years ago) link
don't think i have those fillmore 71 shows, though some of it is on total eclipse, i believe. need to find them!
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:38 (twelve years ago) link
I obtained this collection somewhat recently & it's a lot to go through but it rules like the "Mother" solo.
― Euler, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:41 (twelve years ago) link
would listen to (most of) that.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:44 (twelve years ago) link
There's still vast parts of TREE FULL OF SECRETS that I haven't delved into. It's frighteningly exhaustive.
Tyler, hit me at maxwellm at pobox dot com and I'll see what I can do about that Filmore show. Might be a few days, though. Heading to a comic show in a couple hours.
― Matt M., Friday, 30 September 2011 15:51 (twelve years ago) link
i think i've already tracked it down, but i'll let you know if it turns out to be a dead end. thanks!
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
Seriously, though, have you ever listened to "Several Small Species of..." while on hallucinogens.cuz it RULES
― Trip Maker, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:53 (twelve years ago) link
I mean ?
― Trip Maker, Friday, 30 September 2011 15:54 (twelve years ago) link
Wow @ that Tree full of Secrets set... Disc 8(!) has the soundscapes that they played before show on the Division bell tour --which I remember being one of the highlights of seeing that show--360 degree sound in the dome, with the sound of a lawnmower puttering around the stadium...it was pretty cool.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Friday, 30 September 2011 17:09 (twelve years ago) link
best buy has all the single disc remasters on sale today for 9.99
― the 500 gats of bartholomew thuggins (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 30 September 2011 17:29 (twelve years ago) link
pink floyd rules
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 17:34 (twelve years ago) link
you guys have probably already covered upthread how much disc 2 of this is going to rule
http://www.amazon.com/Wish-You-Were-Here-Immersion/dp/B004ZNAUVW
DISC 2 - CD2:
Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 1-6) live at Wembley November 1974 (2011 mix and previously unreleased)
Raving & Drooling live at Wembley November 1974 (2011 mix and previously unreleased)
You’ve Got To Be Crazy live at Wembley November 1974 (2011 mix and previously unreleased)
Wine Glasses from the unreleased ‘Household Objects’ project
Have A Cigar alternative version (previously unreleased)
Wish You Were Here featuring Stephane Grappelli (previously unreleased)
― Milton Parker, Friday, 30 September 2011 17:38 (twelve years ago) link
yessss that one i'll definitely be buying
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
i hate sex pistols
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 17:54 (twelve years ago) link
If it was your T-shirt, at what point did you ‘realise the error of your ways’?
John Lydon: “I’ve no idea where I got it from, it being green, which was an oddity . . . not my colour. It might have been something I nicked off a stall.”
Are there any exceptions in Pink Floyd’s back catalogue?
JL: Listen, you’d have to be daft as a brush to say you didn’t like Pink Floyd. They’ve done great stuff. They’ve done rubbish too. Dark Side of the Moon I love. But I go right back to when they were with Syd Barrett. But I grew up with all kinds of music.
Saucerful of Secrets?
JL: What I didn’t like about them was the pretentiousness. There was an aura of ‘Oh, we’re so great there’s no room for anybody else.’ But you know, I’ve met members of the band and I get on alright with them because they’re not like that at all. There was kind of a misreading and a misrepresentation in the press and they’re not holier than thou. In fact they are just like thee and thou. [laughs]
They may be like thee John, but I’m just trying to figure out in what way Roger Waters is like me and I’m hitting a blank.
JL: All I know is that his wife was one of my younger brothers’ art school teachers. At Tollington Park School, Finsbury Park. Dave Gilmour I’ve met a few times and I just think he’s an alright bloke. Two years ago when they came to LA, they asked me would I come on and do a bit of Dark Side Of The Moon with them and the idea thrilled me no end. Well no, it would have been very, very neat but it stunk a little in my head of 'What am I doing here?' I came so close to doing it . . . it felt like I was trying to set myself up as some kind of pretentious person. I’m very wary of the jam session end of things. I just don’t want to do it. But I wanted to do it. But just not when 20,000 people were there. I’d have gone to a studio and played around with it there. But not for the bigger picture. Privately. I’d love to go into the studio and do something with the album with them.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 17:56 (twelve years ago) link
Evidently, he's changed his mind:
If it was your T-shirt, at what point did you ‘realise the error of your ways’?John Lydon: “I’ve no idea where I got it from, it being green, which was an oddity… Not my colour. It might have been something I nicked off a stall.”Are there any exceptions in Pink Floyds’ back catalogue?JL: Listen, you’d have to be daft as a brush to say you didn’t like Pink Floyd. They’ve done great stuff. They’ve done rubbish too. Dark Side of the Moon I love. But I go right back to when they were with Syd Barrett. But I grew up with all kinds of music.Saucerful of Secrets?JL: What I didn’t like about them was the pretentiousness. There was an aura of ‘Oh we’re so great there’s no room for anybody else.’ But you know I’ve met members of the band and I get on alright with them because they’re not like that at all. There was kind of a misreading and a misrepresentation in the press and they’re not holier than thou. In fact they are just like thee and thou. (laughs)
John Lydon: “I’ve no idea where I got it from, it being green, which was an oddity… Not my colour. It might have been something I nicked off a stall.”
Are there any exceptions in Pink Floyds’ back catalogue?
JL: What I didn’t like about them was the pretentiousness. There was an aura of ‘Oh we’re so great there’s no room for anybody else.’ But you know I’ve met members of the band and I get on alright with them because they’re not like that at all. There was kind of a misreading and a misrepresentation in the press and they’re not holier than thou. In fact they are just like thee and thou. (laughs)
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 30 September 2011 17:58 (twelve years ago) link
Oh. Whoops.
i can kind of hear johnny singing "money" in my head. it rules.
― tylerw, Friday, 30 September 2011 18:03 (twelve years ago) link
I wouldn't be opposed to Johnny replacing all of Waters' vocals on The Wall...or (especially) The Final Cut.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Friday, 30 September 2011 18:05 (twelve years ago) link
Went to Best Buy, picked up Ummagumma, Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Friday, 30 September 2011 18:11 (twelve years ago) link
that purchase rules
and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes . . . ever get the feeling you've been cheated?
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 18:13 (twelve years ago) link
I recall a Gilmour interview years back in which he was asked about Johnny's "I hate Pink Floyd" t-shirt and his reply was something like "at least we're a target of substance. He wouldn't nearly have gotten as much mileage from an 'I Hate Yes' shirt."
PS Pink Floyd rules!
I also have my pre-order in for the WYWH immersion set.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Friday, 30 September 2011 18:20 (twelve years ago) link
YES RULES
floyd and yes are the stones and beatles of the 70s or the beatles and stones of the 70s, depending
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 30 September 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
OK, I bought the single disc Dark Side reissue, but...obtained the live version from the 2CD reissue and HOLY SHIT. I can't advise buying the immersion box, but the 2CD version is totally worth it. Studio version: 42:54. Live version: 55:07. And the live sound is amazing. Do it. Seriously.
― that's not funny. (unperson), Saturday, 1 October 2011 19:21 (twelve years ago) link
Seconded. These kids were shit-hot live.
― shake it, shake it, sugary pee (Tarfumes The Escape Goat), Saturday, 1 October 2011 19:53 (twelve years ago) link
Thirded. Very cool to hear it live from the time in great sound
― Iago Galdston, Sunday, 2 October 2011 20:21 (twelve years ago) link
http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/issues/1000x190/8b5c170414be9687b840d8794ab83241a97d80b0.jpg
This rules, but it's kinda weird to watch Rolling Stone turn into MOJO.
― Pleasant Plains, Sunday, 2 October 2011 20:49 (twelve years ago) link
there's a pretty interesting article in the newest Stereophile about these remasters, and the lengths to which the engineering team had to go in order to make the live stuff listenable.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Sunday, 2 October 2011 23:03 (twelve years ago) link
????!!!?!?!?
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Sunday, 2 October 2011 23:45 (twelve years ago) link