PINK FLOYD

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?

I never got the feeling that they listened to other music much at all, aside from Roger's rabid Lennon-worship.

am I remembering correctly that they never had opening acts?

yeah, as a big fan of both I'd alway loved the idea of a healthy two-way communication, and thought at times, gee what would Pink Floyd make of Can's Bel Air, but I really think it was a one way thing. Can in the beginning I always thought of as Pink Floyd plus Velvets plus.... but through the late 60s/early 70s I've always assumed they didn't really listen to much of anything. I think they were somehow still considered a big "pop" "rock" act and maybe considered major rock bands as their peers, even if sonically they were outliers. Certainly during the wondering post syd/pre dark side era at the behast of Antonioni or Schroeder they were willing to draw from the Who or the Byrds or whatever, but I can't imagine they were sitting around listening to Amon Duul or Faust. Influence-wise, in addition to the Beatles and the other monsters or rock, they still hung out with Robert Wyatt and maybe had some exposure/influence to the artier sides of things that way?

Gilmour only became friends with Phil Manzanera years later because they were neighbors or something right? The idea of Floyd listening to Roxy Music in the 70s is charming but I don't know how likely.

also, genuinely curious non-rhetorical q: how influential were the krautrockers on the floyds, if at all?
kinda feel like it might be the other way around?

no doubt. Though, and sorry to say this here, but Can > post Syd Floyd.

no argument from me, even though PINK FLOYD RULES

hey just want to thank everyone in this thread for all their hard work, this is a good reminder of why we do what we do and why Pink Floyd rules

https://www-forbes-com.cdn.ampproject.org/v/s/www.forbes.com/sites/hughmcintyre/2020/05/12/pink-floyds-dark-side-of-the-moon-is-now-the-first-album-to-spend-950-weeks-on-the-billboard-200/amp/?amp_js_v=a3&_gsa=1&usqp=mq331AQFKAGwASA%3D#aoh=15897662370834&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com&_tf=From%20%251%24s&share=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.forbes.com%2Fsites%2Fhughmcintyre%2F2020%2F05%2F12%2Fpink-floyds-dark-side-of-the-moon-is-now-the-first-album-to-spend-950-weeks-on-the-billboard-200%2F

i was genuinely ignorant, as i'm still under 40, so my earliest floyd memory is seeing a huge display at sam goody for the division bell when it was newly released.

but yeah: i can see the beatles influence, obviously. esp on stuff like atom heart mother.

i'm genuinely unsure where i'd fall in the "can v. floyd" debate, tbh. they were both so solid from 1971 and going forward many years. two different things tho, really. when i was thinking of kraut folks, i was thinking of things like tangerine dream, kraftwerk, and harmonia.

something that always bugs me out is the dave / kate bush connection.

I think by the time those bands were making (electronic) waves Floyd was already coming back from space

I'd definitely think that by time TD were doing stuff like Stratosfear they were listening to Floyd, but not the other way around. As for Kraftwerk, Harmonia, Neu, etc, it just seems like totally different spheres.

Kate Bush/Gilly connection always made a lot of sense to me, she's kinda prog at heart I think

I was surprised to see David Gilmour be such a big part of Richard Thompson's 70th birthday concert. It made me wonder how long their mutual esteem goes back -- was Pink Floyd listening to Fairport Convention?

interesting question about floyd's influences - i never much thought about it honestly! and since they don't do many interviews there's not a lot on the record there. when waters did talk about other bands it was usually to shit-talk them - witness his doing an interview in '74 and spending most of it shit-talking peter gabriel's genesis. i guess with gilmour you can tell from all the tribute concerts he plays at - peter green's fleetwood mac, he played with the pretty things, so that's very much his millieu, anything to come out of late '60s britain. waters wasn't ever really much of a musician and oddly enough i think ron geesin is probably one of his biggest influences besides john lennon. nick mason out of all of them seems to be most aligned with robert wyatt and that jazz/canterbury thing, but since he doesn't write it's not a huge deal... his drumming style is pretty indebted to chico hamilton. no clue what wright's influences were. would sort of like to know. he had all those interesting chord progressions... those had to have been inspired by _something_, right?

hahahahah.... wikipedia says wright's biggest influence in the early '70s was peter gabriel's genesis! aside from that it looks like just miles and trane, your standard jazz stuff.

i'm genuinely unsure where i'd fall in the "can v. floyd" debate, tbh. they were both so solid from 1971 and going forward many years. two different things tho, really. when i was thinking of kraut folks, i was thinking of things like tangerine dream, kraftwerk, and harmonia.

I doubt many people apart from Steven Stapleton and Eno even heard Harmonia in the UK in the 70s. In spite of the music they made the guys in Floyd seemed kind of conservative, musically, Nick Mason aside.

Any influence definitely much more in the direction of (early) Floyd -> the German groups. If nothing else they were simply there first. The first TD single is pretty Floydian IIRC.

Dunno about Harmonia but Dave Brock (and Peel?) were boosting Neu! in the UK obvs.

Neu! were on United Artists, so their records were readily available in the UK. You could only get something like Harmonia on import.

Most of the groups in Berlin seemed to have had a go at mimicking the title track of "Saucerful of Secrets".

even by the standards of the german groups this thing seems particularly floyd-inspired

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvP7PKrCMKw

Inflooenz.com has the answer you're looking for, supposedly:

https://inflooenz.com/?artist=Pink+Floyd

I only recently became aware of what was probably a sizable influence the Steve Miller Band had on Pink Floyd...a favor they repaid by asking him to open for them at some point.

now that I can see, weirdly

still confused about why no opening acts are listed in the PF gigographies I looked at

Steve Miller Band in 1968: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HqgsE0l_Uhg&list=PL6F11751C56BA9F76&index=4