PINK FLOYD

PF 1969-71 still feels slept on by a lot of people, if it's true, it's a real shame.

Might not be slept on if Pink Floyd themselves had anything good to say about it - though I suppose "Meddle" is in there, they seem to approve of that.

Well, it's their patchiest era, so it's not surprising that that particular era is slept on. Although I suspect "slept on" isn't correct term... millions of people at this stage have probably heard those albums - it just so happens many don't like 'em.

tbf I suppose "The Wall" isn't patchy, it's consistently shite.

They hated the way Atom Heart Mother turned out, and Ummagumma feels less like an album from the time and, well, an archival release from right now -- if that had all surfaced as part of the box and had never been heard before, I wouldn't've been surprised at all. The box really does a great job in not only reclaiming the era more thoroughly but conveying why they had such an intense following not only out of the gate but after what in any other situation would have been a crippling switch-out of lead creative figures. I was consistently intrigued by the size of the crowds, festival settings or otherwise.

tbf I suppose "The Wall" isn't patchy, it's consistently shite.

― Tom's Tits Experiment (Tom D.)

i kind of assumed that until listening to the whole thing through again... it really isn't! it's got good stuff on it and awful stuff on it. bob ezrin's production also makes it a lot more listener-friendly than "atom heart mother" is.

i won't say '69, but '70-'71 they were consistent, and consistently great, as a live band - if i only could judge by the studio albums i'm not sure '70-'71 floyd would be my favorite era.

They were pretty good in '69, the problem I have with '71 is that "Echoes" is so outrageously overrated by everyone - esp. the band, that story they tell about about Rick Wright playing the opening notes thru the Binson like it was the Holy Grail...

Meddle works precisely because it isn't all "Echoes" -- you have to have that first half as is. And we do, thankfully. I love how all over the place it goes, and at its breeziest it's not far at all from Obscured by Clouds. Thinking on which: seeing how the songs actually work in both the Schroeder films -- strictly diagetic, as songs on radios, tape players, etc that the characters have to hand or are listening to -- I really enjoy taking them all now less as 'Floyd' songs and more as them creating their own weird little riffs or reinterpretations of sounds and styles around them. I forget which song on Obscured it is, but there's a cut that's essentially their take on Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky," and made me realize that if they just ever wanted to be some sort of easy good time boogie band they always had it in them. (See also, getting back to Meddle, "Seamus.")

"the gold it's in the", right?

of course there's always this, syd barrett's 1972 attempt at a "boogie band". this tends to be undermined a certain amount the presence of fred frith on guitar.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQgnlUEyQXw

No, I think "Free Four" is the one that sounds like "Spirit in the Sky", except nowhere near as good, I don't need to hear Floyd doing blues/ boogie etc tbh. (xp)

was in my hometown yesterday and saw a smart car covered in pink floyd decals and with the license plate PNKFLYD

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5pAwfSntPic

this alt take of "Matilda Mother" is insanely good. "And finding she was left alone we tiptoe to the telephone NINE! NINE! NINE!" one of the coolest outtakes ever here!

listening to The Early Years tonight <3 "Walk With Me Sidney" i really dig the early stuff it is almost a punk/noise take on the blues at times. "Double O Bo" is sick

THE PINK FLOYD RULES

was in my hometown yesterday and saw a smart car covered in pink floyd decals and with the license plate PNKFLYD

Sounds less like a Smart Car and more like a RULES CAR.

Heads up:

https://ww2.kqed.org/arts/2017/11/14/pink-floyd-kqed-1970/

In short: this is an unaired performance of "Astronomy Domine" that was done for the KQED broadcast that year, but which did NOT surface on the box set last year.

in short, it RULES obv

i like the v intense angry face Rog is making towards the end

Meanwhile Roger gets an asteroid named after him:
https://minorplanetcenter.net/db_search/show_object?utf8=%26%2310003%3B&object_id=495181

I kinda expected it'd be a hemorrhoid but an asteroid will do.

I bet it’s got its controls set for the heart of the sun

X-post

Listening to A Saucerful of Secrets again tonight and it is fucking ruling.

Late night listen to Too Early For A Gig and good grief it rules so much

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lc3Y-gGuNmc

Oh man, I love that recording.

Pink Floyd, 1969. pic.twitter.com/jQQqcZQz64

— Mood:Vintage (@moodvintage) March 4, 2018

that photo rules

it's too bad a bus with a gong on top of it crashed through all the equipment a split second later. it's a miracle they all survived tbh

I do like comfertabally numb

gilmour / mason / wright's collective expression in that pic screams: "roger made us do this, we just want to get to the pub"

Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets

You thrilled to him as Ronnie Kray, now Gary Kemp is Syd Barrett in Nick Mason's Saucerful of Secrets... unless there's another Gary Kemp?

A quick GIS of Nick Mason and Gary Kemp suggests that they are, indeed, china plates, as Ronnie Kray might have said.

Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets is the brainchild of former Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris who back in 2016 suggested putting a group together around Nick Mason and featuring esteemed Pink Floyd/ David Gilmour session bassist Guy Pratt.

To distance themselves from Roger Waters and David Gilmour's live set lists, the idea was to focus solely on Pink Floyd’s embryonic years of 1967 to 1972.

With Nick Mason on board, they completed Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets with Spandau Ballet’s Gary Kemp on guitars and music producer/composer Dom Beken on keyboards.

The four gigs in May will be Nick Mason’s first live musical outing since Pink Floyd’s historic Live 8 concert in London’s Hyde Park in 2005. Nick, of course, is a founder and the only constant member of Pink Floyd performing on all of their albums as well as all of their live shows

https://www.planetrock.com/news/news/rock-news/nick-mason-to-perform-early-pink-floyd-with-new-band-saucerful-of-secrets/

But is Gaz going to be singing, "A gnome named Grimble Gromble"?

And then one day, hooray
another way for gnomes to say
Trueh..

"To cut a long story short
Syd lost his miiiind"

sad lols

Would be cool if Mason sang the songs he did vocals for on the originals e.g. One Of These Days, Corporal Clegg, Scream Thy Last Scream.

Putting "Nick Mason's" in front is a great way to make a band name more reasonable

Nick Mason’s Saucerful Of Secrets is the brainchild of former Blockheads guitarist Lee Harris

i just remembered that i have this (terrible) rave version of 'time' by lee harris - gotta be the same guy right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6pLd-7pm-ow

Rodge let slip in a radio interview that there is a 5.1 of Animals on the way sometime soon, didn't say anything about an Immersion Box type of deal.

there was also a lee harris in talk talk, surely it's not him but who knows? xp

Dingwalls and 3 dates at the Half Moon, jfc couldn't they have aimed a little higher?

I mean that would probably just about accommodate Guy Pratt's fucking guest list.

Putting "Nick Mason's" in front is a great way to make a band name more reasonable

― Scam jam, thank you ma’am (Sparkle Motion)

i can't ever consider "nick mason's fictitious sports" to be "reasonable". only "reasonamable".

Will Nick bust out 'The Grand Vizier's Garden Party'?

First encore.

5-1 odds that Robert Wyatt comes out for an "I'm A Believer" encore.

would rather hear "wervin'"

^Yes!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EnfPzODj1kI

Dingwalls 20th May 2018

1. Interstellar Overdrive
2. Astronomy Domine
3. Lucifer Sam
4. Fearless
5. Obscured By Clouds
6. When You're In
7. Arnold Layne
8. Green Is The Colour
9. Let There Be More Light
10. Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun
11. See Emily Play
12. Bike
13. One Of These Days
14. A Saucerful Of Secrets
15. Point Me At The Sky

for a second mistook that for a Waters setlist and was like wtf rad

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Am-HJNJm4I0

There's a clip of Bike out there too (with Pratt singing) but I'm not gonna link it because it sounds like a pub band.