Pink floyd back from heaven!! Sent tingles down my spine

[emperor]

No Pink floyds not a DJ who makes trance, nor do they use a virus!!

Wow :D :D :D Just been on my knees thanking god for reuniting Pink Floyd at the G8 concert. It was a little shakey at the start but then they ended on "Comfortably Numb", which was sharp and brilliant as Roger Waters voice in time gone by has been sadly vacant. YES YES YES waited too long for this, I can die a happy man now!

Just one more tour and back to the old peoples home please! :D

[Tomer=Trance]

see you in the great gig in the sky. :D

i can honestly say it was worth spending 8 hours infront of the tv waiting for them to do 3 songs.

[ten]

I must say they impressed me greatly. Im a bit to young to know of them really, but I have heard of them and I have probably heard their songs no doubt somewhere, sometime but I dont think I was born when they actually stopped.

Awesome live show though, great guitar skills and the songs/lyrics were brilliant also. Might have to search out a few of their albums.

The Who were quite impressive also and a lot of the newer bands there, keane has some very cool songs behind them already.

ten

[jasedee]

Yup.....The Pink Floyd were AWESOME!!!!!

Definately worth waking up early for....

Ten- Pink Floyd are psychadelic.....definately check em out. I can highly reccommend Animals, and of course Dark Side of the Moon. Some of the earlier stuff is great too....Sid Barretts influence was huge.

[Tomer=Trance]

i prefer dark side of the moon.

[Juho L]

Ten- Pink Floyd are psychadelic.....definately check em out. I can highly reccommend Animals, and of course Dark Side of the Moon. Some of the earlier stuff is great too....Sid Barretts influence was huge.

Pink Floyd left psychedelicsm behind in the early 70's. The only psychedelic PF records are The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Umma Gumma and Saucerful of secrets. From that on PF formed their own kind of slightly progressive, but still easy listening rock. It kinda lacked the progressive elements but it still sounded different and unique.

I'd recommend starting from The Wall or The Dark Side of the Moon (I'd prefer The Wall because it's the easiest album) and after those two Wish You Were Here album. Then it would be a good time to check out the other albums. Animals as a first Pink Floyd album can easily destroy the interest in the band, so I'd recommend avoiding that at first.

Edit: And the show in the Live8 was great! Although the opening, Breathe, was a bit lame, but the show got better towards the end. Comfortably Numb always works.

Edit 2: About the psychedelic Pink Floyd. I think Umma Gumma and Saucerful of Secrets are just a cartfuls of crap. A late 60's yearly 70's psychedelicism for sake of psychedelicism. The psychedelicism doesn't have any function, it's probably have been fun to make but not fun to listen to (unless you dope yourself up so badly that even trance is great, ?hih) and overall those two records only serve as a cruicial formation from the late 60's UG psychedelic rock to the one of the greatest bands of the history. It's like 80's digital synths - Utter crap, but they had to be made as a basis for modern useable synths.

[jasedee]

Pink Floyd left psychedelicsm behind in the early 70's. The only psychedelic PF records are The Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Umma Gumma and Saucerful of secrets.
What about Atom Heart Mother?

From that on PF formed their own kind of slightly progressive, but still easy listening rock. It kinda lacked the progressive elements but it still sounded different and unique.
I wouldnt say easy listening.....that kinda sounds boring

I'd recommend starting from The Wall or The Dark Side of the Moon (I'd prefer The Wall because it's the easiest album) and after those two Wish You Were Here album. Then it would be a good time to check out the other albums. Animals as a first Pink Floyd album can easily destroy the interest in the band, so I'd recommend avoiding that at first.
Mmmm...The wall. At the height of Waters massive ego! Not my favorite album. Dont know what you mean about animals though, it is probably my favorite album by PF, absolutely brilliant.

Edit 2: About the psychedelic Pink Floyd. I think Umma Gumma and Saucerful of Secrets are just a cartfuls of crap. A late 60's yearly 70's psychedelicism for sake of psychedelicism. The psychedelicism doesn't have any function, it's probably have been fun to make but not fun to listen to (unless you dope yourself up so badly that even trance is great, ?hih)
I wasnt a big fan of Umma Gumma, except of course Astronomie Dominie. And whats wrong with being Stoned and listening to Floyd records??? One of my favorite past times ;)

Anyways.....whatever! They rock....I think we agree on that

:)

[blay]

Yeah it finally showed on free to air tonight in AUS (yes we are way behind the times here)

Just one question - WTF was Rob Thomas (ex matchbox twenty) doing on stage with Stevie Wonder? Looked like Stevie was trying to teach Rob how to sing in pitch :roll:

Big crowds eh? Nearly as big as the bbq we had here a couple of weeks ago... :wink:

cheers

blay

[jasedee]

Just one question - WTF was Rob Thomas (ex matchbox twenty) doing on stage with Stevie Wonder? Looked like Stevie was trying to teach Rob how to sing in pitch :roll:
I think the most disturbing thing about your post Blay, is that you actually know who Rob Thomas is!!!!!!!!!

;)

I had no idea....and I think Im glad.

Matchbox who?

:)

[blay]

:lol:

yeah I expected that one Jase...

Unfortunately in the midst of your cable television experience at your parents house you have missed out on the following on free-to-air:

1. *MASSIVE* advertising campaign for his solo album. Advertising stresses the fact he is "ex-matchbox twenty".

2. RAGE. (its our top50 countdown show here in aus for those who dont know): I make the effort to tape and watch the entire top 50 once in a while. And most of the time im up late enuff to catch at least part of it.
It really interests me to see the commercial shit people lap up and why.
What interests me more is the small amount of decent music that makes it into the australian charts, and again, why? Rob Thomas solo gear makes me wanna take to a chalkboard with my fingernails. Oh I know who Rob Thomas is. I wouldnt piss on him if he was on fire (theres some proper oz culture for everyone)

cheers

Pete

[Juho L]

What about Atom Heart Mother?

That was the final breaking record. It still had some of those psychedelic elements but the upcoming PF style was a dominant part. The title track is great! This is probably the most progressive PF album.

I wouldnt say easy listening.....that kinda sounds boring

It's easy listening because it's not complex and it's very straight forward. It's almost like artistic pop.

Mmmm...The wall. At the height of Waters massive ego! Not my favorite album. Dont know what you mean about animals though, it is probably my favorite album by PF, absolutely brilliant.

The Wall has some great tacks. Waters might had a big ego, but afterall he was the one who made most of the PF sound and really was the headman of the band. When Waters left it all crumbled.

About the Animals: It might be too difficult album to start from because it takes some time to open up and for people who have not used to that kind of music it won't probably ever open up. That's why it's bad idea to start from there.

I wasnt a big fan of Umma Gumma, except of course Astronomie Dominie. And whats wrong with being Stoned and listening to Floyd records??? One of my favorite past times ;)

Well, that's probably very popular. There's no other way to explain popularity of psychedelic rubbish and monotonic there's-a-kick-and-there's-a-hat-and-whee-we-have-a-track electronic music. ?hih.

Anyways.....whatever! They rock....I think we agree on that

Yes.

[~+?]

Roger's Voice was showing a lot of emotion at the gig, kind of tutching really. I could see the connection between Dave and Roger on stage. With music that emotionaly powerfull anyway i can understand the loss on Rogers voice.
Did you see his bass setup? drull.. 8)

[Tomer=Trance]

are you for real? roger's voice sounded like his about to get close to god (dead..)
i belive he hasnt been practicing for years now.

i hope they reunit & make a new album & maybe use the Virus TI in it. :wink:

[~+?]

Roger sounds the same as he always did, just not on that night.
He was clearly overwhelmed by the whole thing.
After all Floyd is his baby really.
He?s a much underrated bass player and he does not get the credit he deserves as a producer.
I prefer Rogers?s solo stuff to the new Floyd sound any day.

I really admire the work he did on dark side and the stuff he did will Allan Parsons at Abbey studios!
8) genius

[Tomer=Trance]

DSOT (Dark side of the moon) is one of my alltime favorite albums.
You just can not beat that catchy bassline on "Money" :D

[Smag]

My mum used to follow Pink Floyd around to concerts and she was a bit of a groupie. I could be the bastard child of Roger Waters for all I know. (No can't be, that was in the 60's and I was born in 77. They used to lie down in the dark and listen to tunes apparently.

[~+?]

Roger is the reason for their unique style of music; Roger is the one who changed the rules of the music and timings that makes Floyd?s music so unique. Consequently very difficult to work with musically and in a league of his own. He is a brain chilled and a genius musically.

[jasedee]

Roger is the reason for their unique style of music; Roger is the one who changed the rules of the music and timings that makes Floyd?s music so unique. Consequently very difficult to work with musically and in a league of his own. He is a brain chilled and a genius musically.
You are forgetting Syd Barret...

He started the band, he was trying to implement things (like non-traditional rock instruments) when the rest of the band rejected the ideas (then later embraced them)

He was a man way ahead of his time, his ideas and songwriting were revolutionary.

What Waters did with the Floyd was great, but lets not forget old Syd. A genious! Put on "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" and give it a good listen. An extraordinary album

[~+?]

Yes m8, Sid was a great artist and an innervator. He invented the comb and ball bearing guitar playing that people like Steve Hillage adopted. But thats another floyd. Sids floyd and Rogers floyd are different!

Roger did take control of the music after Sids departure and the music change with Rogers leadership.

[~+?]

Syd's real name is Roger Keith Barret BTW!

[Smag]

Syd Barret grows cabbages at his mums house now

[~+?]

Any heard the talk about the reforming of Floyd with Roger and the possibility of Syd's return?

[jasedee]

Any heard the talk about the reforming of Floyd with Roger and the possibility of Syd's return?
I seriously doubt that Syd would return. I dont think he has played guitar for many years. He just paints now.

[~+?]

I heard Syd has picked the Guitar up again and has written some new songs. I saw Syd at Marlow in the garden of the Floyd house there last summer fishing. 8)
He may do a Peter Green :wink:

[~+?]

OMG check this vid I found 8O http://www.youtube.com/w/Syd-Barrett%27s-First-Trip-%28Summer-%2766%29?v=kcl4QAgK3jY&search=LSD

Syd Barrett's First Trip (Summer '66) It's really Syd on LSD 8) Love the music.