http://thequietus.com/articles/10654-michael-gira-swans-bakers-dozen-favourite-albums
last one is Ummagumma.
― dan selzer, Wednesday, 14 November 2012 17:05 (eleven years ago) link
Nick Mason finally gets his degree that he dropped out of to pursue Pink Floyd
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 04:01 (eleven years ago) link
Nick Rules!
― EZ Snappin, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 04:02 (eleven years ago) link
honorary degree...not quite as exciting as the image of Nick going back to class and studying for exams.
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 04:08 (eleven years ago) link
Good to see he wasn't just satisfied with the earned degree in Ruling that he got with the band.
― 50 Shades of Greil (C. Grisso/McCain), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 04:34 (eleven years ago) link
cool hat bro
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Tuesday, 27 November 2012 05:40 (eleven years ago) link
ARCHITECTURE RULES
geddit?
:D
Nick does need some education.
― Moka, Tuesday, 27 November 2012 06:26 (eleven years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I4Ydr7MZLHw
"Corrosion" RULES!
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:40 (eleven years ago) link
http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-_fuqP-FF94w/Tv3l_Nsum8I/AAAAAAAAFrY/H4IkjEMTUwU/s1600/Pink%2BFloyd%2Brolling%2Bpapers%2B1.JPG
have a cigar?
― Euler, Wednesday, 12 December 2012 14:44 (eleven years ago) link
A detailed breakdown of every keyboard and synthesizer that Rick Wright used in Pink Floyd: http://sparebricks.fika.org/sbzine28/WrightGear-rev156.pdf
― Elvis Telecom, Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:14 (eleven years ago) link
THANK YOU
― dan selzer, Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:16 (eleven years ago) link
Somewhere, Startrekman has the weirdest boner right now.
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Thursday, 20 December 2012 21:29 (eleven years ago) link
xxp awesome, thanks!
― I saw three shi*s come sailing in... (snoball), Thursday, 20 December 2012 22:16 (eleven years ago) link
http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/nick-mason-helps-save-london-music-store.html
Nick Mason has stepped in to help save Foote's, the historic London music shop where he bought his first ever drum kit. Nick, along with the store's sales director, Rob Wilson, are buying the business (which will now re-open in a new location at 41 Store Street, Bloomsbury, London) from the family who has owned it since the '30s."I was very disappointed when I heard that Foote's was going to close because it is one of my great memories of being a young, budding drummer was going to the original shop and buying my very first kit for £7.50," he told ITV news. "The thing about a drum shop is that it's the place where information gets passed around. You hear about new things; if you need a drum lesson, the best place to go is probably a drum shop and ask them for advice. There's a drum culture that is centered on drum shops."A slight disappointment for budding drummers who think they'll be buying from Nick himself: "I think I will try not to be too hands on. I doubt I'll be much help really…I don't think I'm going to be behind the counter on a regular basis."
"I was very disappointed when I heard that Foote's was going to close because it is one of my great memories of being a young, budding drummer was going to the original shop and buying my very first kit for £7.50," he told ITV news. "The thing about a drum shop is that it's the place where information gets passed around. You hear about new things; if you need a drum lesson, the best place to go is probably a drum shop and ask them for advice. There's a drum culture that is centered on drum shops."
A slight disappointment for budding drummers who think they'll be buying from Nick himself: "I think I will try not to be too hands on. I doubt I'll be much help really…I don't think I'm going to be behind the counter on a regular basis."
(video at link)
― Elvis Telecom, Friday, 21 December 2012 19:34 (eleven years ago) link
Nick rules.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 21 December 2012 19:45 (eleven years ago) link
top notch
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 22 December 2012 05:54 (eleven years ago) link
http://farm3.staticflickr.com/2665/4034697914_8a644c9c4b_b.jpgSky Arts Dark Side Of The Moon Tribute 3 by cake.group, on Flickr
― MaresNest, Saturday, 22 December 2012 16:52 (eleven years ago) link
finally got Piper At the Gates of Dawn remaster
:D:D:D
they're INSIDE my HEAD playing RIGHT NOW
rules! RULES i tell you
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 December 2012 00:36 (eleven years ago) link
Mono or stereo?
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:04 (eleven years ago) link
stereo
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:08 (eleven years ago) link
I love the stereo, especially for the WHOOSH-OOSH-OOSH-OOSH at the end of "Interstellar Overdrive."
But dude, you should totally hear the mono if you get a chance. Lots of different little differences.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:09 (eleven years ago) link
Plus the mono version of Interstellar Overdrive kicks like an ornery mule.
But I'm glad you got the remaster HOTS, for it rules.
― EZ Snappin, Thursday, 27 December 2012 01:22 (eleven years ago) link
mono eh
i shall investimagate
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 27 December 2012 02:43 (eleven years ago) link
The mono version of Saucerful is also worth hearing if you can track it down. On the other version the stereo panning is so extreme it kills some of the record.
― MaresNest, Thursday, 27 December 2012 10:25 (eleven years ago) link
can anyone recommend a good bootleg of album outtakes from the '70-'75 era?
― calstars, Saturday, 26 January 2013 03:00 (eleven years ago) link
It's funny, but there hasn't been a lot of genuine unreleased or alternate material that has surfaced, some of it was trickling out slowly on the box sets. I could be wrong, but I'm guessing that there wasn't a lot of surplus music made.
If you haven't heard them, the most salient is the Zabriskie Point sessions material that was never used or released.
http://vivalesbootlegs.blogspot.co.uk/2010/02/pink-floyd-complete-zabriskie-point.html
― MaresNest, Saturday, 26 January 2013 08:48 (eleven years ago) link
I see Fopp are knocking out the Immersion box sets
― Mark G, Saturday, 26 January 2013 08:57 (eleven years ago) link
The monitor mix of DSOTM is kinda good, the Apollo astronaut samples in Great Gig work well. It's funny not hearing that familiar sliiiide into Clare Torry's vocal at the start.
― MaresNest, Saturday, 26 January 2013 09:01 (eleven years ago) link
Outside of "Moonhead," "The Embryo," and the Zabriske Point stuff there isn't much more unless you're prepared to track down all 18 CDs of A Tree Full Of Secrets.
― Elvis Telecom, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 10:44 (eleven years ago) link
I found my "Piper" 3CD boxset yesterday.
― Mark G, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 10:56 (eleven years ago) link
In the Wish You Were Here BBC documentary, Gilmour says that he and Waters disagreed over two songs that Gilmour wanted on the record but Waters did not. Anyone know more about this?
― calstars, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 11:03 (eleven years ago) link
I heard Grantchester Meadows in a shop yesterday, thought I was having a stroke.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 11:49 (eleven years ago) link
Answering my own question: the songs were 'Sheep' and 'Dogs.'
― calstars, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 15:19 (eleven years ago) link
i was listening to Piper on headphones recently and the super wide stereo mixing leaves decent chunks of some tracks completely silent on one side, it is most distracting, I wonder if Piper and Saucerful were both mixed Mono first/Stereo later like the Beatles.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 16:11 (eleven years ago) link
Pretty sure Piper was; the mono mix sounds more carefully considered (and fucking tremendous -- it enhanced my appreciation of this record like no other alternate mix of anything, ever).
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 16:19 (eleven years ago) link
^^^me too. I mean the Beatles and Village Green mono mixes are amazing but I already loved those records. The Piper mono mix takes a record I never quite loved and brings it finally to life.
re: odds and sods discs, I used to have an 'import' version of Relics that appended the Syd-era singles tracks. Wish I hadn;t sold that.
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 16:35 (eleven years ago) link
Supposedly, Saucerful was also mixed in mono, but has yet to be reissued as such.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 16:39 (eleven years ago) link
I don't get the hate for It Would Be So Nice, well Mason & Gilmour's at least, it's ace.
― MaresNest, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 16:41 (eleven years ago) link
XP - I have a vinyl rip of Saucerful in Mono if you'd like one.
An early classic thread of mine
Pink Floyd's Richard Wright, forgotten genius?
― dan selzer, Tuesday, 29 January 2013 17:03 (eleven years ago) link
Grabbing this from D1m3 right now.
Pink Floyd Taft Auditorium Cincinnati, Ohio November 20, 1971
Last date of 1971 and last ever performances of Cymbaline and The Embryo, the latter of which is 28 MINS LONG, sound is apparently EX, pretty sure this will RULE..!
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:54 (eleven years ago) link
would like to hear that...
― tylerw, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
well of course it will RULE
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 19:58 (eleven years ago) link
Happy to make a WeTransfer link for anyone who is interested, send me a PM.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
I would also like to hear that.
― EZ Snappin, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:01 (eleven years ago) link
As amazing as I'm sure their arena/stadium spectacles were, I bet it would have RULED to have seen Floyd in a club or small theater.
― Tarfumes The Escape Goat, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:03 (eleven years ago) link
Will make a link tomorrow at work, where I have swole internets.
― MaresNest, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:05 (eleven years ago) link
― MaresNest, Wednesday, January 30, 2013 3:01 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
*raises a hoof*
― hibernaculum (Jon Lewis), Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:10 (eleven years ago) link
MaresNest rules!
― tylerw, Wednesday, 30 January 2013 20:11 (eleven years ago) link