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
What bugs me about the RS cover story -- which I quickly read today, so maybe I need to re-read -- is how the writer regurgitates the idea that the post-Syd/pre-DSotM albums are deeply flawed. He even disses Ummagumma. But that's my favorite period!
― QuantumNoise, Monday, 3 October 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
Considering the albums from this period were also reissued, it would be nice to read a new feature story that tears apart the popular history of Floyd by delving into said period, at least give it credence its own on right, rather than dismissing it as nothing more than transitional.
― QuantumNoise, Monday, 3 October 2011 00:48 (twelve years ago) link
(...at least give it credence in its own right...)
― QuantumNoise, Monday, 3 October 2011 00:49 (twelve years ago) link
No shit. That period was great, they just sang about gnomes less often.
― so i had sex with a piñata (mh), Monday, 3 October 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
i was bummed by the cover story. sick of hearing about their feud. i want to hear more about what it was like to trip in the middle of pompeii
― reggie (qualmsley), Monday, 3 October 2011 01:03 (twelve years ago) link
^^That's closer to Mojo/Uncut territory.
It also rules.
― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Monday, 3 October 2011 01:13 (twelve years ago) link
It's a pretty well known story. Grappelli was at Abbey Road for a different session and the band invited him in to play a little bit.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 3 October 2011 16:41 (twelve years ago) link
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― The Man With The Flavored Toothpick (C. Grisso/McCain), Sunday, October 2, 2011 6:13 PM (Yesterday)
About five or six years ago, Mojo did run a long feature story about PF from 1969 to 1972 and was subsequently expanded into a separate stand-alone "all Pink Floyd" issue. It's worth tracking down.
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Monday, 3 October 2011 16:43 (twelve years ago) link
Listened to Obscured By Clouds yesterday, having not heard it in a long while--there are some great atmospheric pieces on that one, especially the first track, which could have been a lot longer. One thing I like about the pre-dark side albums is that they tend to be a little scrappier, willing to try things that might not work, and production-wise, rougher around the edges. In short they sound like a band just playing some tunes, no big deal.
Also Obscured by Clouds has PF at it's most fun-lovin' and freewheelin':https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VwDe7_bgjz4
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Monday, 3 October 2011 17:06 (twelve years ago) link
Even on fucking Rhapsody, that live DSOTM is killing me. Can only imagine the CD on a decent stereo...
― dlp9001, Monday, 3 October 2011 20:37 (twelve years ago) link
http://i52.tinypic.com/dol3wy.jpg
The Wall on The Wall (East Side Gallery, Berlin)
― doug watson, Monday, 3 October 2011 22:54 (twelve years ago) link
That's exactly why I love MORE and OBSCURED BY CLOUDS so much, but really anything from around that time showed a band that was willing to try new things, particularly live. Then DSOTM came out and all that came after, with increasing levels of complexity and studio dependence until all that was interesting and spontaneous was basically squeezed out of the works.
― Matt M., Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:19 (twelve years ago) link
OTOH, DSOTM, WYWH, & Animals RULE
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:26 (twelve years ago) link
Listened to Obscured By Clouds yesterday, having not heard it in a long while--there are some great atmospheric pieces on that one, especially the first track, which could have been a lot longer.
Try to track down any of the live shows from early 1973. PF was opening with "Obscured By Clouds/When You're In" and extending it out to 10+ minutes. Especially recommended is March 13, 1973 at Maple Leaf Gardens, Toronto which takes it out to 15min.
Loving Wright's Moog solo vs. Gilmour's spaceship noises here. They in fact RULE
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1coiKosd7fY
― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:27 (twelve years ago) link
ive listened to this more than most things in the last 2 years:
http://i.imgur.com/kJ71s.jpg http://i.imgur.com/9U0Lv.jpg
http://vivalesbootlegs.blogspot.com/2010/02/pink-floyd-complete-zabriskie-point.html
highly recommended!!!!
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:31 (twelve years ago) link
fucking cool, I had never even thought to look for this stuff, even though Floyd has ruled in my life for so many years.
THANKS
(xp)
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:38 (twelve years ago) link
Yeah. That boot has a big part in my upcoming Pink Floyd bootleg/recontextualization, in which I visit an alternate universe where Pink Floyd was a highly regarded but obscure psychedelic folk rock band from the late 60s. It will compile music from both official releases and bootlegs, it will have hand printed letterpress covers, and it will be called either "Another Pink World" or "Everything's Gone Pink". Dead serious about this. Still debating to do it as a simple comp or actually blend tracks together and add additional pastoral sound effects. It will rule.
The Red Queen Theme from those sessions kind of blew my mind, not because it's the greatest thing ever, but like, I thought I had heard most of their songs, you know?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:39 (twelve years ago) link
i vote you actually blend tracks together and add additional pastoral sound effects
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:45 (twelve years ago) link
make me a megamix of the love scene takes while you're at it (w/ jerry garcia's versions too)
― ⚓ (gr8080), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 00:50 (twelve years ago) link
Zabriski Point sessions rule
― Euler, Tuesday, 4 October 2011 01:22 (twelve years ago) link
RE: Maple Leaf Gardens - Mind. Blown.
― Matt M., Tuesday, 4 October 2011 02:06 (twelve years ago) link