PINK FLOYD

I named my daughter after a Syd Barrett song

That's more like it!!

I can totes guess which song tho & if i'm right not pf.

i love 'Pieces from the Cloudland Ballroom' and some of his other things, but haven't really listened to Anthony Moore's pop music. I remember liking his collab with ARP for the FRKWYS series 10 or so years ago; that was the last thing i heard.

I do feel like the adults in the room need to calm things down a bit and remind everyone that PINK FLOYD RULES

"Flying Doesn't Help" is a great album. Also sounds like a Pink Floyd song/album title.

guys, listen to ums

PINK FLOYD RULES

I do feel like the adults in the room need to calm things down a bit and remind everyone that PINK FLOYD RULES

Good post, otm.

_I named my daughter after a Syd Barrett song

PINK FLOYD RULES

(GENERALLY)

I just don't get how someone can have such seemingly good taste and such bad taste at the same time.

I think it's that, as a producer and working musician, he tries his best to keep an open mind, because he never quite knows what he'll be asked to work on and also recognizes that even though something might not be his thing, he still wants to know how to make them sound the best they can, or why they are popular, or what trends are they chasing, etc. There are things I've seen him complain about, but rarely harshly.

But certainly taste and talent and knowledge can be totally divergent. My guitar teacher (who similarly tries to keep his own preferences in check) and I have talked about Larry Carlton, who is as good as it gets on guitar, and has played so many great guitar parts, but whose solo albums are generally pretty unexceptional.

__I named my daughter after a Syd Barrett song_

Matilda?

Thought so!

One of my favorite songs of his also. I remember reading somewhere that the lost track "Living Alone" evolved into "Opel", or is another name for the same song, but now I can't find the source (Gilmour?)

Anyone?

"she was a millionaire", not "living alone" sorry. there is chatter about this on web forums but i don't remember where the idea came from.

The organ intro to the "no title" 1967 insteumenteal (aka "sunshine") = the intro to opel. the idea that it's a composite of older songs with maybe some added material makes sense.

Probably more a question for the Yeeshkul! forum or the like

Yeah Yeeshkul! had the answer, it's in David Parker's book

3 instrumental takes of Syd's She Was A Millionaire were recorded during the Piper sessions. It never got to the overdub stage. Melody Maker announced that it was being considered as a possible follow up to Emily. According to Andrew King and Peter Jenner it was one of Syd's best efforts, was in waltz time, and started with "she was a millionaire, they didn't have time to care.." Syd, Rick, Dave and Jerry Shirley recorded a rehearsal of this track during the 1970 Barrett LP sessions. David Parker heard the tape and has said that the "I'm trying...to find you" section of Opel was originally the chorus to Millionaire

I named my daughter after a Syd Barrett song

was really hoping this would turn out to be grimble grumble tbh

“Gerald”

"Octopus"

Effervescing Elephant obv

I thought it was going to be Maisie honestly

Ditto.

I thought it was Stella Overdrive.

thought this was bumped due to this news: 2018 surround remix of Animals is finally coming out, Waters says it was held up because DG didn't like the liner notes

https://rogerwaters.com/animals-new-mix-update/

it was, read upward

Waters’ note there very much in the tone of Gregg Turkington arguing with Tim Heidecker in On Cinema at the Cinema.

I went to high school with this guy; he's a journalist in Connecticut now and got slightly famous for these elaborate diagrams of Phish jams that he draws.

random text from my wife, with zero explanation pic.twitter.com/iUZpZCHarc

— Michael Hamad (@MikeHamad) June 7, 2021

more info pic.twitter.com/cfa3soN7do

— Michael Hamad (@MikeHamad) June 7, 2021

Lucifer Sam

How David Gilmour became Jimi Hendrix's sound guy for one landmark show

this would rule

Today I visited some archeological sites in Antalya, Turkey and I turned up the volume and listened to the echo a few songs from Pink Floyd: Live at Pompeii like Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun and Echoes, I have to say that it was amazing in such environment.. pic.twitter.com/4yMDTIWBzP

— Prog Rock Songs (@progrocksongs) June 23, 2021

wow yeah

The director of the BBC Syd Barrett doc from 2001 just uploaded the unedited interviews including this 26min one with Rick Wright.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crRtKHa94iQ

Waters goes on for almost a hour.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hI0lFi1JFHQ

"55 years later he's still the new guy in the band."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDxwuby7mpg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MhcHa7wDEWk

Waters is generous here and his interview is quite moving, Wright's is also revealing, the other two not worth watching imo.

A recent Yeeshkul thread:

I struggled where to put this- Reddit, or here, and decided the quality of responses was more important than the quantity.

I do insane XMAS lights (60,000 RGB pixels, synchronized to music, radio broadcast, interactive show...every HOA's worst nightmare). The reason I built the insane XMAS light show was not for XMAS music, of course, but so I could host an "underground album party" and say "well, I already had the lights, so..."

(he posted a xLights concept of what he has in mind and I can't wait to see it)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NW2SsIPaSX0

Nice to see the airport intercom lady captioned.

Oh he was so close.

https://i.imgur.com/mMMgZX8.png

Did we mention this elsewhere on the board?

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/pink-floyd-wish-you-here-tour-bootleg-remastered-sound-1193122/

Gave a listen yesterday afternoon -- it's quite good and the performance certainly is solid throughout. Does remind me though why I don't really live for this music anymore like I did when I was in my late teens, just because ultimately there are no surprises from the band at this point. The then-unreleased songs that form the first half of the set, a great moment in context no question, but in context. Waters then turning this very well oiled machine (har har) into his own psychodrama supporting musicians, sheesh. I'll stick with the early years in the run up to Dark Side, where they don't quite know yet what they can do and trying to figure it out on multiple fronts.

you forgot the most important thing, Ned:

PINK FLOYD RULES

Speak up I can't hear you. :-D

God, I love this record...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7c0EDM-Yu9o

Didn't realize it until now but it's by far my favorite Pink Floyd record. I've been going through everything I have from them, and as much as I admire their work, a lot of those same records can leave me a bit cold. Not this one. I'm more partial to the Barrett era, but even this one stands out.

I slowed down the middle bit recently to see what it sounded like at normal(ish) speed, it was very pretty

Yes, I did that on my old wobbly reel to reel, many years ago.

Was that Norman Smith's idea to record that break that way? He engineered Rubber Soul where George Martin did the same trick for "In My Life" (what they joked was a poor man's harpsichord) so I wonder if he pitched the idea to Pink Floyd.

"A Saucerful of Secrets" and the Wright and Waters tracks on Ummagumma feature a lot of varispeeded voices and instruments; I know those came later, but I suspect Wright had encountered tape manipulation in his music studies.

Plus the Chipmunks, etc.

The Chipmunks never get credit for their influence. Why aren't they in the Rock 'n' Roll HOF dammit???

If anyone is curious - https://www.fromsmash.com/Ekghy69mPK-bt

The Chipmunks have never been a thing in the UK tbh, Pinky and Perky on the other hand...

Pinky and Perky spoke and sang in high-pitched voices, created by re-playing original voice recordings at twice the original recorded speed; the vocals were sung by Mike Sammes[1] while the backing track was played at half normal speed (Sammes did the same job for Ken Dodd's Diddymen, as Ross Bagdasarian did for the original Chipmunks in the early 1960s)—hence the expression "Pinky and Perky speed", when an LP record is played at 45 rpm or 78 rpm instead of the correct 33⅓ rpm. Pinky and Perky would often sing cover versions of popular songs, but also had their own theme song, "We Belong Together".

... and, of course, the Goons, "Ying Tong Song", No. 3 in the charts in 1956, folks!