PINK FLOYD

god damn looks like a hospital paint job

Saw this in the store today and I want to read it.

https://books.google.com/books/about/Reinventing_Pink_Floyd.html?id=lVlHDwAAQBAJ&hl=en

recently saw a nine-year-old play "comfortably numb" on ukulele during a backyard bbq ... ruled.

Nothing on a ukulele rules. Quite the opposite, in fact.

No exceptions.

damn you really roasted that 9-year-old

Not their fault.

pretty sure that comfortably numb is incapable of not ruling, just a lil scientific fact

PINK FLOYD RULES

i think it's safe to conclude the sheer fact that PINK FLOYD RULES created a Rule Bubble in space-time extending to that ukulele during the duration of "Comfortably Numb"

Tiny Tim ftw

she also played "hey soul sister" by train, did not rule

Back to that ebaycupboard

The statuette is quite impressive, mind

Hey uke

Out there playing things, always having nylon strings

WTF is with all this uke talk when there's a new two-part, 13 minute long breakdown of Gilmour's delay settings.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bXjyzZw6C38

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vZWFvSCNeK8

i like this cover better than that dumb old dark side of the moon album cover.

https://images1.westword.com/imager/rip-alex-steinweiss-inventor-of-the-re/u/original/6431381/serkinwalter1941.jpeg

There is no E-Flat piano concerto. Matter of fact it's all flat.

Never realized the early recordings with "Lucy Leave" were done at the same Decca studio where the Beatles did their audition tape early 1962.

Got a copy of the Kopp book! He thinks "Astronomy Domine" might have been influenced by this (was the B-side of "Get Me to the World on Time"):

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

oh god that sounds a ton like astronomy domine

pink floyd rule and all but that prunes stockholm '67 set leaves the live syd stuff i've heard in the dust

It's part of PF lore that Rick Wright quotes a fragment of the vocal melody of See Emily Play right on the fade out of Shine On... I can kinda hear it but it has always sounded like a bit of a stretch to me, has anyone seen/read a confirmation that this was intentional?

It occurs at 12'12" and it's the 'Emily Tries, but misunderstands' bit, in case you don't already know.

Boy, I don't hear it. Between the saxophone and the guitar arpeggios that seem to be in both channels (?), all I'm hearing are keyboard chords in the middle.

It's a fragment, right as it starts to fade -

https://youtu.be/8UXircX3VdM?t=25m23s

Apologies, I should have clarified that it takes place during Parts 6-9, not 1-5.

not only was it intentional, in some live versions they quote "arnold layne" at the end.

i'm less convinced that the nod to the "doctor who" theme in the studio "one of these days" was originally intentional. obviously the '87-onward versions contain an intentional nod to it, and i've heard bootlegs from as early as '73 that explicitly reference the theme, but for me at least the jury's still out on the "meddle" version.

yeah in fact I never noticed the similarity until Delicate Sound of Thunder came out

First time paying attention to that one and it seems pretty intentional like the “see emily plays” vocal line. Nice hommage to Syd there.

I should have clarified that it takes place during Parts 6-9, not 1-5.

Ha, OK. Sure, I hear it.

Jeeez how good is Shine On Your Crazy Diamond.

"shine on you crazy diamond" rules

I was thinking the other day how so much more appealing Pink Floyd were when they had a bit of mystery about 'em and nobody knew much about the internal politics etc. and no one band member was drawing attention to themselves. Success fucked that all up.

which one is Pink?

whoever it is they rule

was just listening to this audience tape from 1970, totally rules
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tiQQX2CbEm0

Back from the days when nobody knew who Roger Waters was... he was just another guy in an excellent space-rock band. The ego had yet to inflate, and the arsehole in him had yet to become apparent.

Their music post-Syd and pre-DSOTM can be so pleasant and unassuming.

xp as i get older, i get less irritated with band "villains" (waters, robbie robertson etc) — they just seem like maybe the most hard-working, ambitious members of a group who accidentally turn into jerks.

It's more that I like how "low key" the band members generally kept themselves '69-'72, it gave the Floyd a bit of mystery and put the music at the forefront. While getting to know the band as "personalities" doesn't prevent 'Shine on You Crazy Diamond', 'Dogs' or 'Comfortably Numb' from ruling, I wish they'd tried to keep a little mystery a la Kraftwerk or their earlier selves.

like Syd did?

Interesting though how they managed to stay so anonymous slap bang in the middle of the "rock god" era. I imagine even at the height of Dark Side Of The Moon, Waters could walk down the street relatively unrecognised. Whereas Bowie would be mobbed even though Ziggy Stardust sold a lot less

santa monica '70 is great, best "saucerful of secrets" ever

yeah in some sense bowie and floyd were polar opposites, after syd they were sort of swallowed up in the vast emptiness of space. was there any band better equipped to play stadiums?

Fascinating bit in the Kopp book about the soundtrack to The Committee. After describing the obvious Floyd pieces in the soundtrack, there's this:

The film's soundtrack does contain a mysterious anomaly. The first thirty-second snippet of music used is played backward in the film. It features a most unusual mix of sounds: drums sound like Indian tabla, guitars sound like sitars (or electric sitars), and the keyboard sounds seem to be coming from an early modular synthesizer. It's worth noting that none of these instruments had made an appearance on a Pink Floyd recording previously...

The provenance of this piece of music is hinted at in Julian Palacios's book Syd Barrett & Pink Floyd: Dark Globe. As Palacios points out, when producer Max Steuer contracted with Pink Floyd to provide the film's soundtrack, Syd Barrett was still in the group. And more than two months before Pink Floyd began their session for the film soundtrack, Syd Barrett reported for duty. Apparently, Barrett showed up at Sound Techniques studio on the appointed day, January 30, 1968, without a guitar or band. As Steuer had booked session time in advance, phone calls were made, and an ad hoc band was assembled. That group may have included Steve Peregrin Took (later of T. Rex (sic)) and Brian "Blinky" Davidson, Davy O'List's band mate in the Nice. Though Palacios does not suggest that the single track they recorded was actually used in the film, he asserts that Barrett insisted the twenty-minute recording be played backward once it was completed.

Anyway, here is that plus a couple of the tracks recorded later with Gilmour. I quite like them, very garage!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FYKpT6Z5Yqk

do you play bridge?

happy 75th to Our Roger

And cheer up, son, it might never 'appen.

Life is a short, warm moment, gang

the sun is the same in a relative way

There's a complete recentish show from one of Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets shows on the Brain Damage podcast. Worth checking out.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MF8hh5luP4

https://www.ebay.com/itm/PINK-FLOYD-31-NEW-SEALED-cassette-tapes-in-a-custom-box-set-lot/282849055663?hash=item41db1e13af:g:9cMAAOSwOaRahRXa

$999? $32 per cassette? Does not rule.