PINK FLOYD

Somewhere, Startrekman has the weirdest boner right now.

xxp awesome, thanks!

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."

(video at link)

Nick rules.

top notch

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Sky Arts Dark Side Of The Moon Tribute 3 by cake.group, on Flickr

finally got Piper At the Gates of Dawn remaster

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they're INSIDE my HEAD playing RIGHT NOW

rules! RULES i tell you

Mono or stereo?

stereo

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.

Plus the mono version of Interstellar Overdrive kicks like an ornery mule.

But I'm glad you got the remaster HOTS, for it rules.

mono eh

i shall investimagate

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.

can anyone recommend a good bootleg of album outtakes from the '70-'75 era?

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

I see Fopp are knocking out the Immersion box sets

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.

can anyone recommend a good bootleg of album outtakes from the '70-'75 era?

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.

I found my "Piper" 3CD boxset yesterday.

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?

I heard Grantchester Meadows in a shop yesterday, thought I was having a stroke.

Answering my own question: the songs were 'Sheep' and 'Dogs.'

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.

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).

^^^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.

Supposedly, Saucerful was also mixed in mono, but has yet to be reissued as such.

I don't get the hate for It Would Be So Nice, well Mason & Gilmour's at least, it's ace.

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?

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..!

would like to hear that...

well of course it will RULE

Happy to make a WeTransfer link for anyone who is interested, send me a PM.

I would also like to hear that.

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.

Will make a link tomorrow at work, where I have swole internets.

Happy to make a WeTransfer link for anyone who is interested, send me a PM.

― MaresNest, Wednesday, January 30, 2013 3:01 PM (8 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

*raises a hoof*

MaresNest rules!

floyd really taking over ilm in 2k13

ty! will throw in the Mono Saucerful also, for those that PM'd me upthread.

Woo-hoo! Thanks, MaresNest!

Floyd podcast well worth putting in your podcast reader: http://floydpodcast.com

Okay, links are up & mails are sent, listening now myself. Quality is quite solid, def not an Aud EX in my book, but good for a 41 yr old audience recording.

I'd like the Saucer mono, not fussed about the rest..

It's on it's own link, PM'd you.

Brilliant, thanks!

I got a PM from somebody that I can't track down, the robot said the name was "Turkey In The Straw" coming from someplace in the clouds, can you send me a message again with an email address, thanx.

Guys, is 'Point Me at the Sky' really not in print on anything? Again regretting having sold that Australian version of Relics >:[

Oh, I saw it on something recently...

It's in print on permanent rotation in my head.