PINK FLOYD

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!

iirc wright credited john wood (the in-house engineer at sound techniques) with speeding up the piano interlude in a totp interview.

Pinky and Perky would often sing cover versions of popular songs, but also had their own theme song, "We Belong Together".

Now I'm imagining Pat Benatar's "We Belong" sung in ultra-high chipmunky voices and...I kinda want to hear it.

xp thanks Deflatormouse

Listening to Piper, the mono mix FWIW - I've never put it on more than once at a time, so this is the first time I've played it again and gone back through it (rewinding through tracks, repeating tracks, etc.) It really is an incredible psychedelic fantasia to get immersed in. So dense and so much happening, their later work seems so airy and orderly in comparison. Also as much as I love "See Emily Play," it's kind of a rare instance of concentrated brilliance - even at this stage Pink Floyd albums were truly albums. There are standouts on Piper, but even the highlights don't really work as singles. Not a knock on Barrett, just the nature of the music.

Found it

Although it sounds a bit gimmicky, hardly any special effects were used. Take that 'Hawaiian' bit at the end of each verse, that was just Syd using a bottleneck through echo. The part that sounds speeded up, John Woods, the engineer, just upped the whole thing about an octave.

There's a quote from Wood in one of the books (I can't remember which) to the effect of, 'the record is quite gimmicky, that's what happens when you have two engineers working on the same record'

'Flaming' was a single in France and maybe some other places, and i think it "works" to a degree, it doesn't really have a chorus or anything, it's more of a mood piece than 'Emily' but it might be the most similar in terms of the allegedly "gimmicky" production.

I haven't listened to it in a while, but the densities on PatGoD are more clustered together than they seem to be at first. Lucifer Sam seems to have the most overdubs. The sections with a lot of things happening all at once create the illusion that the whole record is denser than it probably is.

"Fantasia" is otm though. It's way more intense than the singles, there's more 'sturm und drang'

Mono mix is a must imo. If you're listening to the stereo mix you're doing it wrong.

Gilmourish gets to the seagull sound

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3EYwhxCsKFg

The Chipmunks have never been a thing in the UK tbh (...)
― Soundtracked by an ecojazz mixtape (Tom D.), Wednesday, 4 August 2021 16:43 (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

They had a couple of hits, and I have two of their singles - one is songs from Mary Poppins which is suitably silly, and one which is from ChittyChittyBangBang and is .. well, "Hushabye Mountain" is sadder than "Caroline No", I tell you!

ach, wrong formatting, nm.

The gullmore

For some reason I ended up watching this 40 minute take down of a sub-sub-sub-sub Weird Al take-off of The Wall by some YouTube person.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rokAtlFGa7Y

The Wall is great and Pink Floyd rules.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6ciDQ6SDkw

When the daughter of the guy in Pink Floyd just wants to play her guitar in peace pic.twitter.com/tqOwk4h3b0

— Giles Paley-Phillips (@eliistender10) September 4, 2021

as has been mentioned, she looks remarkably like her dad circa 1974

100%

Not gonna lie, watching that Nostalgia critic review of the guywithglasses parody felt like

https://i.imgur.com/aQA2pcq.png

I was at a neighbor's house last night for a drink, and he asked if there was anything I wanted to hear. I said nah, go ahead and put whatever you want on. He said, you sure? I know you're a music guy. And I said, nah, surprise me. And he put on "Have a Cigar" and said he'd really been getting into Pink Floyd lately. I guess that surprised me.

That's actually a good pick. I was on a Pink Floyd kick earlier this summer (and posted about it here!) and despite my strong preference for The Piper at the Gates of Dawn era, I did appreciate the Waters-era more. Besides the Pompeii film, Dark Side and Wish You Were Here were the ones that I really enjoyed without reservation.

https://external-preview.redd.it/H0nyb7KtVhIuTYbMC-doN2vLUnHqWyGTCxiBvzly3ko.jpg?auto=webp&s=b07cbe0ca2797810878fdd3901774ffbdad39f9b

Cool interview with bassist Guy Pratt - talks about meeting Gilmour, Waters, etc. Lots of Floyd and Bryan Ferry talk.
https://thehustle.podbean.com/e/episode-328-guy-pratt/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VEdNyEnm0e4

This sounds better as incidental music to some cheap 80s thriller than it does as a big production number.

When does Momentary Lapse of Reason Redux get released?

October 29, though it was already released in the Later Years boxset.

Recreating the Live at Pompeii PA system
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c-lygHGBJ6A