PINK FLOYD

Great read Kate and, as noted above, it made me want to play the album for the first time in years.

Also thought this thread bump might have been for the brief 24-hour window of Live at Pompeii being up on YouTube. So good. Still holds up.

wonder which version it was

My understanding is that it was the 2016 mix they included in The Early Years box, but I'm not 100% certain. The only things I know about this version is what they say on wikipedia about it:

"This version of Live at Pompeii is notable for excluding "Mademoiselle Nobs", an instrumental version of the song "Seamus" found on the original film and the 2003 DVD, and for bridging "Echoes" which was originally performed in two parts for the film."

I dug into this on someone's facebook post:

"My understanding is there was the original movie, which is basically just the live footage. Then there was a version which added some awesome interview bits and studio bits (roger twiddling an EMS Synthi) which is pre-Dark Side but I think was faked, as in that stuff had already been recorded? Then when the DVD came out the director added a bunch of totally unnecessary and not at all era-appropriate stock-footage of space and whatnot. The DVD allowed you to watch it with the interviews (good) and stock footage (bad) or just the original concert film. It looks like this version includes the stock footage."

It's the stock footage version and there's also some really rubbish computer-generated fly though scenes of Pompeii as well, bah.

yup. I just want the version I had on my old VHS. The original concert film with the pre-dark side studio and interview bits spliced in, no added graphics that look like they came from an amiga video toaster please.

Don't miss Nobs though, it's rubbish, Waters playing 'blues' guitar, hacking away like a 6 year old, no thanks, cute hound though.

I feel like this version is fine, the footage only gets really obnoxious when you get to "Echoes", iirc. The footage of them playing is so great though, Roger and the gong is all time.

maben is, i would say a... frustrating director.

the version i first saw and grew to love is the vhs version with the bits from the recording of dsotm (which i don't think were "faked"? maben might "fake" nick mason ordering pie at the studio cafeteria, because that's just how he is, but why would the band go along with it?)

The scorchingly passive-aggressive exchange between Waters and Gilmour about his 'toppy' guitar sound at the end of M Nobs don't feel faked.

dave's top's off guitar solo in echoes is a highpoint of life

pink floyd rules

can't believe they put something like "on the run" on a record, that rules

lmao i don't think i've ever listened to dark side of the moon stoned before

mr veg has made an edit in our shared music so that Brain Damage & Eclipse now plays as one complete track <3

when we were first married we did whip-its & watched Dark Side of The Wizard of Oz
LOL

but since then i cant hear the opening of “Time” without seeing Dorothy’s house & feeling like i am at the bottom of a very deep well

I heard... "On the Run"... by itself... on a local AM station recently.

Little weird, but it RULED.

seeing youtubers' reactions to hearing Pink Floyd for 1st time gave me new appreciated for them.
they fucking rule.

*appreciation

"have a cigar," that's a fuckin good song

Hell yeah, it rules.

i've been listening to Animals a bunch all week, probably the 70s era album of theirs i'm least familiar with.

IT RULES

ME TOO AND I AGREE

PINK FLOYD RULES

*hits the bong*

what if pink floyd DIDN'T rule? that would be fucked up

I don't know if I'd ever heard "Dogs" before yesterday. Gilmour's guitar work on that is great.

Dogs and Achilles’s Last Stand are birds of a feather

*hits the bong*

what if pink floyd DIDN'T rule?

― let me be your friend on the other end! (Karl Malone), Monday, May 4, 2020 12:43 PM (twenty minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

can't even deal with the implications of this question

dont harsh my buzz

I heard... "On the Run"... by itself... on a local AM station recently.

Okay, pplains rules if only for witnessing this. What a beautiful aberration.

This sorta reminds me of hearing "Blitzkreig Bop" while in a dental chair earlier this year. Although It was undeniably the wrong venue for head-shaking reactions.

Hey, you know what would also rule? A supercut of live Travel Sequences.

i downloaded a bunch of bootlegs from 1971 years ago and i must've listened to them at the time but holy shit @ the 15 minute version of "fat old sun"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pl_k20PokXI

My whole love of early Floyd is based around good bootleg recordings from 69-71, such a treasure trove.

Yes, they were so good live in that period.

I don't know if I'd ever heard "Dogs" before yesterday. Gilmour's guitar work on that is great.

― A True White Kid that can Jump (Granny Dainger), Monday, May 4, 2020 12:46 PM (five hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

Your life from yesterday on rules so much more

i've been extremely into Animals the past few days. i've never really been much into PF but remembered it as being my favourite last time i'd tried to get into them years ago and was really blown away when i revisited it this week. it's their most proto-balearic record, the place where their sensibility fully aligns with what i like. "Dogs" is the greatest

My current Pink Floyd kick enjoyed "Brain Damage" coming up in the Westworld season finale.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jWibjhJd9s

"dogs" is the shortest 17 minutes of all time

https://images.secondsale.com/images/2c726a38adaf3907e38022cf757d1a0a.jpg

Breathe, breathe in the air
Don't be afraid to care
Leave but don't leave me
Look around, choose your own ground

For long you live and high you fly
And smiles you'll give and tears you'll cry
And all your touch and all you see
Is all your life will ever be

Does anyone know the story behind how the first Tokyo concert on the '72 tour ended up on Japanese pirate radio?

I've been listening to the excellent Japan Chronicles box set and it sounds like a very good audience recording and not a soundboard, it's so weird that in Japan of all places someone booted the gig then broadcast it soon after, pity it's not complete, wonder if they got busted.

https://youtu.be/EW3HDw0dCy8?t=1h47m12s

Robyn does Syd livestream today:

https://www.stageit.com/robyn_hitchcock/live_from_sweet_home_quarantine_presents_the_social_distancing_syd_barrett/80318?fbclid=IwAR3IjI37PD9H588SmcA1vDYXdxduNtyLP4p5rcLll1Fc-F-iNamuELUmPgI

Ever wanted to hear a snip of Dave covering Syd's "Dominoes" with a bird on his head?:

https://www.instagram.com/p/B_3A5vgptZT/

A Seabird?

i think i might like the sound of david's singing voice more than his guitar tone

He is apparently working on a book of Syd's lyrics, trying to get as definitive as possible, using isolated vocal tracks.

Dave and family chat about Syd. Dave plays Octopus and Dominoes. His son is like a posh Geddy Lee.

rockin' animals on vinyl right now and even my beat to hell dollar bin copy sounds glorious.

crazy that when i first started to really get into vinyl roughly twenty years ago, finding things like pink floyd animals in the dollar bin was nbd

also, genuinely curious non-rhetorical q: how influential were the krautrockers on the floyds, if at all?