Pink Floyd

Re: Pink Floyd

KMOS92 — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 15:46:46 -0700

Agreed. His work, not just with Pink Floyd, was always incredibly original.

Re: Pink Floyd

BattleOfNY — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 14:31:22 -0700

ginola posted:
Pink Floyd album designer Storm Thorgerson dies

[www.bbc.co.uk]

Man oh man. Thats a real bummer. I loved his work.

Re: Pink Floyd

ginola — Thu, 18 Apr 2013 13:23:07 -0700

Pink Floyd album designer Storm Thorgerson dies

[www.bbc.co.uk]

Re: Pink Floyd

KMOS92 — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 07:13:20 -0700

Happy Birthday, Roger Waters!

Re: Pink Floyd

psss — Sun, 05 Aug 2012 00:48:54 -0700

hehheheeh forget it

Re: Pink Floyd

psss — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 21:56:51 -0700

fearless
best guitar harmonics ever.

Re: Pink Floyd

BattleOfNY — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 17:56:47 -0700

RhettButler posted:
ginola posted:
cant believe ive missed out on listening to Pink Floyd, just getting in to them after watching pink floyd night on bbc4 couple of weeks back,would not normally give 70s rock bands chance in hell but pink floyd rock, and fuckin hate 70s rock music, it also took me until 6 or 7 years ago to like Jimi Hendrix now i got him on 3times a week

That's too bad, as overall, rock music from the 70s is about 100 times better than anything from the 00s.

Floyd
Zeppelin
KISS
Van Halen
Black Sabbath
Alice Cooper
Thin Lizzy
Deep Purple

Compared with:

Fall Out Boy
Panic! at the Disco
Passion Pit
All American Rejects

Floyd
Zeppelin
~~KISS~~ The Who
Van Halen
Black Sabbath
Alice Cooper
Thin Lizzy
Deep Purple

NOW we're talkin'!

Re: Pink Floyd

RhettButler — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:54:58 -0700

ginola posted:
cant believe ive missed out on listening to Pink Floyd, just getting in to them after watching pink floyd night on bbc4 couple of weeks back,would not normally give 70s rock bands chance in hell but pink floyd rock, and fuckin hate 70s rock music, it also took me until 6 or 7 years ago to like Jimi Hendrix now i got him on 3times a week

That's too bad, as overall, rock music from the 70s is about 100 times better than anything from the 00s.

Floyd
Zeppelin
KISS
Van Halen
Black Sabbath
Alice Cooper
Thin Lizzy
Deep Purple

Compared with:

Fall Out Boy
Panic! at the Disco
Passion Pit
All American Rejects

Re: Pink Floyd

ginola — Thu, 29 Sep 2011 09:46:39 -0700

cant believe ive missed out on listening to Pink Floyd, just getting in to them after watching pink floyd night on bbc4 couple of weeks back,would not normally give 70s rock bands chance in hell but pink floyd rock, and fuckin hate 70s rock music, it also took me until 6 or 7 years ago to like Jimi Hendrix now i got him on 3times a week

Re: Pink Floyd

KMOS92 — Tue, 06 Sep 2011 10:10:26 -0700

Happy Birthday, Roger Waters.

Re: Pink Floyd

KMOS92 — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 10:47:18 -0700

As a large Floyd fan, I completely agree that from Animals-onward, the music was more individual and less group-collaborated. Having said that, I have no problem with that. I don't think Pink Floyd made a single bad album.

Re: Pink Floyd

steve_fitch — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 07:16:45 -0700

Wish You Were Here feels, to me, like the final proper Pink Floyd album, as though the band were completing their evolution by paying homage to their point of origin, Syd Barrett. After that album, and especially with The Wall (which sounds like a Broadway musical, to me), it was just evident that the band was no longer making "their" music, but that of whichever member had seized proprietorship of it. Early post-Syd 'Floyd (1969-75) made truly collaborative music that still retains its mystery and power, even if it might sound "dated."

Watch the Live at Pompeii DVD, and you might see what I mean, whether you agree with me or not.

Re: Pink Floyd

KMOS92 — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:54:10 -0700

I saw that there was no mention in the Pink Floyd Thread about the upcoming reissues.

"Pink Floyd's Nick Mason says a "mellowing with old age" brought he and surviving bandmates David Gilmour and Roger Waters around to the idea of a deluxe catalog overhaul that begins in September.

"It is a sea change from our point of view," Mason tells Billboard.com. "We'd never put much thought into the idea of releasing incomplete or earlier versions of things, but I think the world has changed. One now looks at these things and realizes there really is interest and how things came about and what the early versions were and so on. We thought rather than just leave everything in the vaults, it might be worth bringing everything out and giving people a complete view of what we've done."

The campaign kicks off Sept. 26 with digitally remastered versions of Pink Floyd's 14 studio albums as well as "The Dark Side of the Moon" in a two-disc "Experience" and a six-disc "Immersion" treatment, featuring previously unreleased live material, demos and outtakes. Similarly expanded versions of "Wish You Were Here" as well as the compilation "A Foot in the Door -- The Best of Pink Floyd" are due Nov. 7, with "The Wall" given the "Experience" and "Immersion" treatments on Feb. 27.

And, Mason says, that won't be the end of the campaign. "We will do some more sort of in-depth versions of other albums, but I don't know what we've got in the pipeline for that, yet." he promises. But after all this, Mason adds, the vaults "are pretty bare. Frankly, I'd be embarrassed if we ever come out with another version of 'Dark Side.' "

Mason says he, Waters and Gilmour generally left the vault-mining and technical work to longtime engineers James Guthrie and Andy Jackson, who would "do some work and send it to us all at the same time. Initially the package would arrive and I'd think, 'Oh, God, it's another version of something' and leave it for a couple of days. Then, when you do eventually play it, it's actually quite an eye-opener. You hear things you completely forgot you've ever done. In one or two cases you wonder why on Earth you went with the version that ended up on the record rather than this early take."

The clearest example of that, Mason says, is a recording of "Wish You Were Here" that features a violin part by French great Stephane Grappelli. "When I heard that for the first time, I couldn't for the life of me understand why we never put that on record in the first place," Mason says. "I felt like, 'This is great! Why didn't we use this?!' "

Mason says that preparing and promoting the Pink Floyd campaign has becoming something of "a full-time job for him," though he plans to do some auto racing this summer. On May 12, meanwhile, Mason joined Gilmour as special guests for Waters' performance of "The Wall" at London's O2 Arena -- which he says was "terrific." Ever since, of course, he's being asked about further reunion plans, which he does not necessarily discount.

"There are no plans now," Mason says. "The long and short of it is, I live in hope. I'd love to actually do something together again. All of us are open to invitations to do things; the only thing that would drive it would be some sense that...there's some particularly good reason to do it together rather than separately. Perhaps we're getting a bit older and more appreciative of just how much it can mean to our fanbase to see us together. I think we just have to wait and see."

Link

Re: Pink Floyd

KMOS92 — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 17:38:32 -0800

Pink Floyd used to be my favorite band.

My favorite album is Animals.

Re: Pink Floyd

heatherette333 — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 13:16:20 -0800

mine too! i love that song!

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Xanthe — Wed, 09 Feb 2011 12:31:00 -0800

My favorite Pink Floyd song of all time is On the Turning Away. <3<3<3

Re: Pink Floyd

MattWeeke — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 14:16:43 -0800

I think Pink Floyd is a very technically profficient band, and I like a lot of their music. My favorite is The Wall. I know its cliche, but all the same its the best album they came out with. I also really like the album A momentary lapse of reason

Re: Pink Floyd

sorrow666 — Tue, 23 Nov 2010 09:38:20 -0800

Pink Floyd is one of the best bands to come out. Of course NIN is my fav band but Pink Floyd is close behind. I would have to say that Wish You Were Here is my fav album. The Wall is a very powerful album for me for personal reasons. I also like Darkside of the Moon and Relics.

Re: Pink Floyd

arwencat8 — Sun, 21 Nov 2010 20:46:24 -0800

my fav songs:

on the turning away
comfortably numb
dogs of war
the whole dark side of the moon album

Re: Pink Floyd

Kid IRA1 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 22:52:09 -0700

Re: Pink Floyd

vxcheerleader69 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 20:33:54 -0700

That doesn't give me a boner at all. I never really liked the wall. I cried in happiness when they reunited for the Live 8, really, it was such a MAGICAL moment.. but see Dave play on The Wall mumbo-jumbo... Well, no, sorry.

Re: Pink Floyd

gonzo84 — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 15:55:56 -0700

ONE VERY LUCKY CITY

David Gilmour & Roger Waters: 7/10/10
Roger Waters has announced in a Facebook post that fellow Pink Floyd alumnus David Gilmour will join him for one date on the upcoming The Wall Live Tour. Could this be the start of something more? Read on.
From the Roger Waters Facebook Page:

So here's what happened. Last year, 'The Hoping Foundation' a charity that supports Palestinian refugee kids, (www.hopingfoundation.org) put on a fund raiser at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, the idea of which was to raise money by auctioning karaoke performances by various celebrities. David was there as a supporter and was moved to perform an impromptu rendition of George Gershwin's 'Summertime?' which he performed aided and abetted by supermodel Kate Moss.

In the wake of that evening, someone, I think it was David himself, came up with this 'Wouldn't it be funny', idea. What if he (David that is) were to sing the old Teddy Bears song 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' with me (Roger that is), what with us having been so famously at each other's throats for years and years. Get it!!!! Anyway he E-mailed me with this suggestion and I loved it, so then it was just a question of juggling dates and deciding to do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'Comfortably Numb' to round out our little set. Or so I thought, until he sent me a number of very musical and eloquent demos of how we could do the song in two-part harmony. I listened with a sinking heart, knowing that David, with his superior vocal skills, could sing either part standing on his head, whilst I would have to search for a different key and then struggle through hours and hours of routining a performance that lay way outside my vocal comfort zone. To my eternal shame I bottled out and told Dave I would happily do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'C[omfortably] Numb', but that 'To Know him is to Love him' was beyond me.

Some weeks passed with David cajoling me from time to time, telling me how easy it would be, but I clung resolutely to my fear of failure until one day he made one final entreaty. I quote "If you do 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' for The Hoping Foundation Gig, I'll come and do 'C[omfortably] Numb' on one of your Wall shows". Well! You could have knocked me down with a feather. How f**king cool! I was blown away. How could I refuse such an offer. I couldn't, there was no way. Generosity trumped fear. And so explaining that I would probably be s**te, but if he didn't mind I didn't, I agreed and the rest is history. We did it, and it was f**king great. End of story. Or possibly beginning.

-Roger

PS. Just heard from David, he will decide in due course which gig he wants to do, it will be a surprise!

Re: Pink Floyd

waitingforthehalos — Tue, 25 May 2010 21:12:30 -0700

Seeing Waters do "The Wall" in September. Gotta love knowing people that work at the venue :) I was able to see him in 07 too. The teenager in the seat in front of me rocking the avril lavigne look thinkin shes a a badass with her DSOTM tie and dancing during "The Wall" (pretty much the only song she knew) couldnt even ruin that perfect show. "The Great Gig In The Sky" was performed with such quality it competes with the original album version (in my opinion) He even played "The Fletcher Memorial Home", I was beside myself the entire night.

I've heard so many people that claim to be fans say they need to be in the mood to listen to Pink Floyd. I find that bullshit. These are also people that illegally download the albums in their entirety instead of just CONTRIBUTING. Now I'm not saying I haven't illegally downloaded anything, but its never music I claim to be die hard about.

Pink Floyd will always be on my playlists and playing in my head. "Fearless" is a very loved track and is played on a daily basis. My very first tattoo was the "Boat Man" as a birthday present to myself, I just had to burn that memory of an amazing experience into my flesh.

Re: Pink Floyd

gonzo84 — Fri, 21 May 2010 14:36:40 -0700

HAHAHA, I took a "syd" when I saw the Australian Pink Floyd Show in 2005, I went with my father and he had no idea, I went into the bathroom and smoked some hash and came back to my seat scared out of my mind. I was the only one standing in the entire giant theater, the usher even asked me if I was alright, then the lights went down and the first set was the complete Dark Side of the Moon album and in the beginning, the heartbeat almost had me running for the hills, but once the show really started the trip became calm and beautiful, great visuals...I fucking love tripping:) I think I'll have to eat some mushrooms for this show, cause Acid is too long of a trip for just a couple hours....shit at the last NIN show, some guy traded me some acid drops for a joint and I of course took it and fuck me that was a wonderful downward spiral:D

Re: Pink Floyd

peacenin — Fri, 21 May 2010 13:36:44 -0700

^^LiveNation Basturds!!

..funny thing about LN. Here in my town, they own the Fillmore and Uptown Ampitheatre which are really great places to check out a show. Too bad they own it!! I've been screwed real good by a Fillmore show. Basturds!!

So .. who's trippin and goin to the Wall Show?? .. ::o .. :D . I did that at the Monmentary Lapse of Reason tour (whatever it was called).. man, whatta night!?!?

Re: Pink Floyd

gonzo84 — Fri, 21 May 2010 11:34:17 -0700

It's LIve Nation fucking with us man!!!! They did the same thing with Tool last year....FUCK Ticketmaster/LIve Nation

Re: Pink Floyd

peacenin — Fri, 21 May 2010 10:29:59 -0700

That's funny. I just checked again .. and there were some $79 tix available, no $59s. I swear the only option that first day was the $200 tix.

Hurmmm ..

Re: Pink Floyd

gonzo84 — Fri, 21 May 2010 08:53:22 -0700

Peacenin> it might be the venues, cause here in AZ, which does have a pretty big Pink Floyd fanbase, tickets for nose-bleed sections are going for $55 and front row tix are $200, so maybe it's the venue jacking up prices, cause I heard NY prices are ridiculous too!

Re: Pink Floyd

peacenin — Fri, 21 May 2010 07:58:05 -0700

^^Atlanta $203/seat before service charges and it's 4 hours away. I don't think most people can swing that kind of dinero on the show. I was excited until I pulled up the tickets the day they went on sale and saw the price. None of my friends wanted to pull the trigger either.

Would have been cool to trip and go though ..

Have fun to all who have tickets!! Post a review ..

Re: Pink Floyd

Gumpo10k — Sat, 15 May 2010 23:18:06 -0700

Im kinda surprised that only about 7 people on this forum seemed to notice this news. How is it that the whole forum isnt super excited about these performances? I know i just melted my credit card the other day buying tickets.