PINK FLOYD

pink floyd rules

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)

yessss that one i'll definitely be buying

i hate sex pistols

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.

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)

Oh. Whoops.

i can kind of hear johnny singing "money" in my head. it rules.

I wouldn't be opposed to Johnny replacing all of Waters' vocals on The Wall...or (especially) The Final Cut.

Went to Best Buy, picked up Ummagumma, Meddle, Dark Side of the Moon, Wish You Were Here and Animals.

that purchase rules

and if the band you're in starts playing different tunes . . . ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

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.

YES RULES

floyd and yes are the stones and beatles of the 70s or the beatles and stones of the 70s, depending

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.

Seconded. These kids were shit-hot live.

Thirded. Very cool to hear it live from the time in great sound

http://assets.rollingstone.com/assets/images/issues/1000x190/8b5c170414be9687b840d8794ab83241a97d80b0.jpg

This rules, but it's kinda weird to watch Rolling Stone turn into MOJO.

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.

Wish You Were Here featuring Stephane Grappelli (previously unreleased)

????!!!?!?!?

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!

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.

(...at least give it credence in its own right...)

No shit. That period was great, they just sang about gnomes less often.

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

^^That's closer to Mojo/Uncut territory.

It also rules.

Wish You Were Here featuring Stephane Grappelli (previously unreleased)

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.

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

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^^That's closer to Mojo/Uncut territory.

It also rules.

― 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.

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

Even on fucking Rhapsody, that live DSOTM is killing me. Can only imagine the CD on a decent stereo...

http://i52.tinypic.com/dol3wy.jpg

The Wall on The Wall (East Side Gallery, Berlin)

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.

OTOH, DSOTM, WYWH, & Animals RULE

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

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!!!!

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)

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?

i vote you actually blend tracks together and add additional pastoral sound effects

make me a megamix of the love scene takes while you're at it (w/ jerry garcia's versions too)

Zabriski Point sessions rule

RE: Maple Leaf Gardens - Mind. Blown.

hmm don't think i've heard any of those 73 shows? sounds like they rule. the floyd toured a lot until they didn't!

So I picked up a couple of the remasters today, filling in a couple of the holes in my collection - The Final Cut, A Momentary Lapse of Reason, and Ummagumma. Now I just need Division Bell and Obscured by Clouds to finish things off.

Guys:

Famously, Syd popped in while they were making "Wish you were here", and at one point (allegedly), he picked up a guitar and said "righto, shall I add my bits now?"

What was wrong with saying "um, yeah OK, why not?"

Because by then he was 19 stone lunatic who couldn't string two chords together?

Dunno, there was that 1974 session in which at least one track, "John Lee Hooker", was basically 'competent' if not actually 'good'

I think he had good days and bad days and, by all accounts, the day he dropped into the WYWH sessions was, uh, not one of his better ones

Prescriptions drugs, eh? Can't live with 'em, uhhhhhhhhh, can't, uh, live without 'em.

John Lee Hooker is barely competent and certainly not the sound of someone they'd put on Wish You Were Here!

Yeah, what I mean is "Go on then Syd", and then not mix it in when it comes round to it, if no use.

Then again, I can imagine the sadness of seeing their mate fumbling around a guitar in the studio with no sign of that old 'magic', so, you know, fair enough...

Heard they were in tears when they realised it was actually Syd... though no doubt trying desperately not to show it, in a manful middle class English way