PINK FLOYD

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.

ah but you're also paying for an impossible-to-store box!

The box is home made, using black illustration board with laminated prints that will remind you which box you keep your Pink Floyd cassettes in. This box should not be considered professionally made, but you can see how much easier it will be to find your stash of Pink Floyd cassettes, and besides, it's all about the music, and these 31 Pink Floyd cassettes will kick your ass with or without a conveniently decorated box!

“You will not find a nicer, more complete lot of Pink Floyd cassettes out there.”

Pink Floyd cassettes you could take home to meet your Mum

lol

so roger did "two suns in the sunset" live

we're all gonna die lol

the wall is about brexit innit

Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets U.S. Tour Dates

March 12, 2019 – Vancouver, BC @ Queen Elizabeth Theatre
March 13 – Seattle, WA @ The Paramount
March 15 – San Francisco, CA @ The Masonic
March 16 – Los Angeles, CA @ The Wiltern
March 19 – Phoenix, AZ @ Comerica Theatre
March 21 – Denver, CO @ Paramount Theatre
March 24 – Dallas, TX @ The Pavilion at Toyota Music Factory
March 25 – Houston, TX @ Jones Hall for the Performing Arts
March 27 – Miami Beach, FL @ Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater
March 29 – Atlanta, GA @ Tabernacle
March 31 – St. Louis, MO @ Stifel Theatre
April 1 – Milwaukee, WI @ The Riverside Theater
April 3 – Minneapolis, MS @ Orpheum Theatre
April 4 – Chicago, IL @ The Chicago Theatre
April 5 – Indianapolis, IN @ The Old National Centre
April 7 – Columbus, OH @ Palace Theatre
April 8 – Akron, OH @ Akron Civic Theatre
April 9 - Detroit, MI @ The Fillmore Detroit
April 11 – Buffalo, NY @ Shea’s Performing Arts Center
April 12 – Wallingford, CT @ Oakdale Theatre
April 13 – Boston, MA @ Orpheum Theatre
April 15 – Montreal, QC @ Place des Arts
April 16 – Toronto, ON @ Sony Centre for the Performing Arts
April 18 – New York, NY @ Beacon Theatre
April 22 – Washington, DC @ DAR Constitution Hall

so badass. totally going to this. I've never seen floyd, or any floyd member, live (my kid had a 'performance' he was barely in the same night as the Wall tour several years ago, for which I will never forgive him).

i told mr veg who was surprsingly disinterested until it turned out that he thought i said Dave Mason lol

Got tickets for the LA show. Stoked!

couldn't log on early today and now all the tickets are kinda shitty and expensive and I'm not sure I'm gonna do it.

guys maybe i am drunk but so far i'm liking the roger waters-narrated version of l'histoire du soldat

ok, forget the "maybe", i am definitely drunk

twenty years ago i would've thought this was the most awesome thing ever

<3

haha i'll venture a listen to that! I don't love the standard English version of l'histoire that much (the words, obv the music rules) so am curious to see how rw did with his own adaptation.

Man you know what I really wish one of the ten billion Floyd tribute bands would record "Seabirds" properly. That's a completely normal thing to wake up mad about in the middle of the night, right? Anyway it's eminently doable, there's a decent reference version in the "More" film, but the only people who tried are Langford and Kerr who did this languid folky version that is nothing at all like the vibe of the original recording.

Shared by Need over in the politics thread...

Mother should I build the wall?
Mother should I run for President?
Mother should I trust the government?
Mother will they put me in the firing mine?
Ooh ah,
Is it just a waste of time? pic.twitter.com/Snzi1Hl5AA

— Evan Foster (@EvanPhD) December 11, 2018

the firing mine?

Should I sell my LPs of the Wall & Relics because I rarely listen to them y/n

kind of funny how long it's probably been since i listened to The Wall ... 20 years? Yikes! I have listened to Relics more recently though, I think the CD might even be in my car as we speak!

sell the wall. keep relics.

sell relics. keep the wall.

hahaha thanks gang

Burn them both to appease the gods

PINK FLOYD RULES

Glenn Povey - the closest thing PF have to a Mark Lewishon figure - has just released an unofficial book about the band told through 100 objects.

It was fairly cheap and looked nicely done, so it came this morning, there are obvious things in there, Barrett's Mirror Disc Telecaster, The Azimuth Coordinator, but quickly flicking through I see curious things like a seventies skateboard, weird! Gonna enjoy this I think.

PINK FLOYD RULES

re above discussion on Relics and The Wall : they both RULE

I think I like The Wall much more than is cool these days. I did not realize until recently how much bass Gilmour plays. It's him on fretless bass on "Hey You"!

Well, the Floyd's regular bassist never had much in the way of chops so it's a good thing Gilmour stepped in.

I love the wall.