PINK FLOYD

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

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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.

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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...

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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:

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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

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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

i can imagine syd showing up wrecking the whole story arc roger was gearing up too. a lot of 'dark side' is about syd losing it, and . . . if syd were involved in the next record, then they couldn't wish he could be there anymore. 'glad you're back!' is not quite as poetic an album title. "keep your cool, you erstwhile crazy diamond" isn't as poignant a thematic conceit either

Wish you were there

Missed opportunity or what?

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"And by the way, which one's Pink?"
"Why, that's me, sir!"

Right, I hae searched but I have not found. So, here is a tale:

My wife's mother was looking in an antiquey market at some Laurel and Hardy memorabilia, where she got on chatting to a bloke who was also looking. "You into this sort of stuff" he askes. "Well, it's more for my husband, he's a big fan. I like them, but I'm more into the modern stuff. Guns and Roses, Pink Floyd, that sort of thing" she replies. At which point the bloke looks a bit puzzled. "Pink Floyd? Um, that's us lot!" he clarifies. For it is Dave Gilmore.
"Ah, I didn't recognise you, sorry!"
"Well, I look a bit different from the old photos thesedays" he smiles.
"Ah, well, then again so do I" she says.

Anyway, when she told us this story, my wife looked very puzzled, and said that she'd never been told that story before! So, it must have been some years ago..

Would love to hear that in the U.K., all the Bill Murray stories are David Gilmour ones.

It would rule.

The day Syd dropped by the studio:

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Shaved eyebrows nagl, Syd