[Master Headhunter]

meh the drugs just seemed to help me sync to their music more than anything. Take some stuff and put on floyd and slowly slump back into my chair/couch.....epic if i do say so.

I do think that the wall would be better if say it was cut to 1 disk with all the great flow, theres a few in their that break the flow for me.

But as for albums; Animals, Darkside of the moon, final cut, wish you were here.
in no particular order.

[just another thug]

Listening to Pink Floyd baked is f*cking awesome.

[Craig]

QUOTE (just another thug @ Jun 12 2008, 23:30)

Listening to Pink Floyd baked is f*cking awesome.

Reminds me when me a 4 mates got blasted and started playing some Floyd LP's. I actually felt like I was dissolving particle by particle and floating round his kitchen. Such a gateway band.

[Psych]

Yea, Pink floyd and HST, my two inspirations & idols...

[Ya Mum]

I've recently heard about a Pink Floyd tribute band called "Australian Pink Floyd Show", apparently they are the next best thing from the real band. I think they're touring the UK at the moment but if they ever come back and tour Australia I'll definitely be going to one of their concerts.

Anybody else heard of them or seem them in concert?

[gta_king]

QUOTE (Ya Mum @ Jun 14 2008, 06:44)

I've recently heard about a Pink Floyd tribute band called "Australian Pink Floyd Show", apparently they are the next best thing from the real band. I think they're touring the UK at the moment but if they ever come back and tour Australia I'll definitely be going to one of their concerts. Anybody else heard of them or seem them in concert?

I've seen them, they are incredible. Everything is pretty much spot on from the music to the light show and even the inflatables. Of course with them being the Australian Pink Floyd Show they give some of the things an Australian twist for example the Marching Hammer animation has a kangeroo on the tip of the hammer. During one of these days a giant inflatable kangeroo appears on stage. It's a brilliant show definately worth seeing.

[Master Headhunter]

i haven't seen them personally....unfortunately.
However my dad saw their Animals tour.
Even more so when one of their inflatable pigs was inflating (lolz) it f*cking blew right the hell up.
and he nabbed a bit of the pig kinda as a souvenir

[AZSupraT]

Pink Floyd is not a band, it's a generation.

[BioHaZaRD-]

QUOTE (joelzaar @ Jun 11 2008, 08:55)

Hi This is the topic just for Pink Floyd. Post whatever you want here, like your fave album or movie/video clip. I personaly love the wall. And please no hatred of the band or this topic.

My favorite album by them is easily The Wall

[teun.steenbekkers]

I also like Obscured by Clouds, but it seems to be one of the least known albums.

[Ya Mum]

QUOTE (teun.steenbekkers @ Jun 16 2008, 05:10)

I also like Obscured by Clouds, but it seems to be one of the least known albums.

I have acctually been listening to it quite a bit these last few days and I'll have to agree, it's a great album. I also played through The Final Cut for the first time today and loved it also.

I recognized one of the songs from The Final Cut album featured on "The Wall" film.

[outcest]

QUOTE (Ya Mum @ Jun 16 2008, 02:48)

I recognized one of the songs from The Final Cut album featured on "The Wall" film.

When The Tigers Broke Free...originally meant to be on the Wall but cut for some reason...turned out to fit nicely in with TFC's theme.

The Final Cut is probably one of my favorite albums of all time. so much emotion in that record.

[Slamman]

I am a major, MAJOR PF fan and I thought I'd contribute as well... I bought a good number of bootlegs from the band that grew a detest to such things when The Dark Side Of the Moon was released. Many early 1970s shows featured long improv versions of soon to be standard LP tracks...Like Raving and Drooling, Murderous Woman, and The Violent Sequence.

If you follow this band with a passion, you likely have David Gilmour's solo recordings as well as Roger Waters, Maybe one or more of Richard Wright's and Nick Mason's as well. Perhaps even bought Nick Mason's beautiful book on the subject. There are two soundtrack LPs filled with the Floyd... Obscured by Clouds and More...both chosen by director Barbet Schoeder for his films. Both disliked by the Floyd, but loved by me, in particular. They were made to make money, no more, no less. The movie Zabriskie Point featured some rough mixes as well and they are out there if you look.

If not, you should... Since they formed in 1965, They turned the music world on it's ear, as coming from the English school of architecture, they approached music in a rather avante garde manner. In a sense, as Mason tells it... constructing their music as if building and designing something of a structure, with their studies in mind.

After the success so early on of Dark Side, their internal struggles actually threatened to halt this amazing musical force. They literally struggled over years to put out three more amazing LPs; Wish You Were Here, Animals and The Wall.

By the time 1984's Final Cut came out, the band could barely stand to look at each other, and of course, Roger took stabs at Gilmour, and Wright had left early in 1980 during the Wall fiasco.

In a major bootleg historical compilation entitled, Total Eclipse.... 4 CDs of rare tracks document the history along with a photo booklet. This booklet gives some very nice insight in short order for those not as familiar... The intro except is as follows...

QUOTE

The impropriety of the Haight-Asbury District of San francisco created the atmosphere where by the International Times and the London Underground sprang to life. As the first British newspaper, the IT or International Times, was developed by Barry Miles, he is known as the man behind Pink Floyd; a Visual Documentary by Omnibus Press) As well as John Hopkins, with the intention of discerning the cultural rise of psychedelia. After pulling together a sizable staff, and gaining a few short term loans, Miles and Hopkins were ready to launch their newspaper. Utilizing North London's The Roundhouse, AND the inexperienced services of a band called The Pink Floyd Sound, IT, was set into motion in October 1966. Not long after it's first issue, however, IT began to lose money. Sensing an end to the magazine, John Hopkins teamed up with Joe Boyd (who later was keenly tied to the early Floyd and Syd (Barrett)) and opened the Friday night UFO club, which was actually pronounced 'Ew-Foe' by the BBC! Also interesting to note, the UFO club was so famous, the British rock band UFO, who are also mentioned quite a lot by me personally, were named after this very venue in London, where they all came from. UFO, the club, stood for "Unlimited Freak Out", and resided in West London. It provided John and Barry with funds for IT, and Pink Floyd, then named after Syd's appreciation; Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, two lesser known Georgia Bluesmen.  Billed as London's Farthest out group, Pink Floyd played UFO's opening night to quickly become the House Favorite. That night's extended musical improvisation and experimental light show proceeded to set the stage for a multimedia musical event that would change the world's perception of a performance. Previously called, Sigma-6, T-set, The Meggadeaths, the Architectural Abdabs and the Screaming Abdabs as well as The Abdabs, Pink Floyd became the chosen name that fit so well and left people wondering Which one's Pink for MANY years. Originally Roger Waters played guitar, then demoted to playing rhythm and then, eventually bass. At first, Rick Wright played guitar before taking up keys..Clive Metcalf on bass and Bob Close had joined the same time as Syd and Roger moving down to bass. Close left soon after, although still around, they had some issues as well, but style is cited here for the leaving. Nick Mason, who wrote the book Inside Out on PF, was always the drummer and tells in his book all about growing up as kids and meeting in school, it's fascinating stuff. Barrett's LSD intake quickly overtook his ability to perform and tour with a band getting a lot of attention due to a very risque single entitled "Arnold Layne"! In 1967, fall of that year, Both David Gilmour and Syd Roger Barrett performed in the Floyd. Dave grew up with Syd and was teaching him things on the guitar, in fact. (I'm adding additional info to the book text, to fill out some of it.) Pink Floyd were signed by EMI Records in '67. The aforementioned single was released and drew controversy over it's lyrics, though even today, it stands up as a great song in it's own right. The Magic of Syd infused the band in the same way Hendrix did with his vast output in so few years. Also in 67, Floyd released their second single "See Emily Play", along with their first full record; Piper At the Gates of Dawn. Their first tour of the USA happened in short succession and Syd's declining health became a deterring factor. Many odd stories of his final days as a public artist remain, sadly, he never recovered and PF quietly ousted him from their lineup one day enroute to a gig. Pat Boone attempted to interview Syd in fall 67, and recieved only a blank stare in return....as one example goes. The day after the infamous American Bandstand performance took place, sadly, Syd was in a drug induced state. A Saucerful of Secrets came the following year, in 1968. In April, Syd was no longer in the band, but his presence resides in those recordings and attempts he made as a solo artist with two records helped along by Wright and Gilmour in the studio. He also had some BBC sessions released of even more material, and an album entitled Opal.

Before Syd left, the managers of PF were split on who to back, Without Barrett, they felt the band was doomed. They soldiered on with Meddle and Atom Heart Mother, as well as Ummagumma, a fan favorite of live and studio solo tracks from each member. The band hated this solo idea, though Roger Waters insisted, in a way, it forced them to think creatively on their own however.
With Ron Geeson, the band forged new territory on Atom Heart Mother, while also joining up with Storm Thorgerson and Hipgnosis... Who, after many years creating amazing artwork, crafted albums that even know hold iconic weight of their own. This happened to include the band UFO's covers as well.
Storm has been a very close friend of the band since their youth.

Well, a basis to cover the early Floyd for ya, I collected about all I could afford to get my hands on, including soundtracks like When the Wind Blows from 1986, circa.
That one featured a very nice David Bowie song as well.

This post has been edited by Slamman on Tuesday, Jun 17 2008, 05:48

[joelzaar]

Lets try to keep the drug reference to a low ok, any drug related stories or thought should go to the stoner forum.

[Slamman]

Don't get me started on Mr. Digital Evil. He's acting like a total prick, and has about banned me from his thread. I don't care to partake in those discussions. I am laying truth to what little drug use the band was involved with, it didn't effect them the way LSD did Syd. I'd probably see DE saying it wasn't LSD, it was Syd's personal choice of this or that, or he was pre-destined to take massive quantities to reach a new plane of existance. I just don't want to be debating that over and over. It's true everyone who enjoyed access to the RnR lifestyle might have had some libations of some sort.

When I had read on the Toxic Twins (Aerosmith) cleaning up their act, Dave Mustaine cleaning up his, I was quietly praising them for it because they DID realize for themselves how it had control of their lives in a bad way.

Regardless, get as many Pink Floyd bootlegs as you can, because each one is packed with audible hours of enjoyment and pleasure. I love it to no end!

[PMan74]

I didn't get into Pink Floyd until well after Pulse, but I'm a huge fan and have been ever since. I'm sitting here baking (ahem) in my DSOTM Tshirt. I don't have all the albums, but a heck of a lot. Obscured By Clouds is fantastic. Everything they did is fantastic. I'm more keen on the modern stuff I guess, but I have Piper and Syd is very much part of the legacy of the band.

I would say The Wall is my favourite album, because it said so much to me. It helped me get through some tough times. The movie is awesome and every live show they've ever done never disappoints. Fantastic stuff.

APF are an awesome tribute band, probably the best. I've seen others, but I believe that APF are so authentic, they insist on using the same speaker cables as the band. Now that's dedication! Their lights are pretty decent too. A must see for any fan.

[Tony Mozzarelli 80]

I f*cking love that guitar intro to shine on you crazy diamond.
best solo ever

[square66]

There's not a lot else to add other than I LOVE Pink Floyd...

I've seen the Australian Pink Floyd Show at Dudley Castle last year sometime. Perfect weather, perfect surroundings (the old stone walls made for some really perfect acoustics, slightly echoey and it complimented superbly with the Floyd songs), perfect show note for note AND atmospherics such as pyro, lighting etc.

It was an outstanding experience in my life, and being only 22 I'm kinda gutted I perhaps was a bit young to be into PF at their prime... But I can still live the dream through my headphones.

Another thing, if you love Pink Floyd, and also love Dream Theater or are just interested in PF cover work, then check out Dream Theater's Dark Side Of The Moon live DVD and CD bootlegs. They covered the entire album live (incidentally recorded the night before I saw them in Worcester), and as PF are such a big influence on them, they made a pretty faithful representation of the album, complete with the videoscreens showing images that were originally screened by PF in their live shows. Sure, there's the occasional standard Dream Theater w*nkery but it is does in a tasteful way imo.

In short, I love the DVD. It fuses together two bands I adore.

[Slamman]

Did I already mention the hard rock albums you might have seen in record stores?
I wound up buying all of them. Bruce Kulick of KISS fame has a brother named Bob. He helped man the project of an all star tribute. They actually did this same thing for Van Halen and KISS as well.

Michael Schenker even plays guitar on Money, if I recall.

The OOP release has a great mixed bag with a long artsy title like Storm's work with the Floyd. When they compiled the Wall tracks to remake the album, it was put out as Back To The Wall. Such a winner title, you have to say.

The same mix of the various albums was released to 5.1 channel DVD as music with computer aided visuals, though just play the audio in your receiver and you get the intended effect. It really keeps the Floyd vibe fresh.

Is the a similar thread like this for Rolling Stones fans??

[Digïtál £vîl]

At least Slamman finally found the right topic to post in.

You didn't post for a whole day, we thought you might have gone and killed yourself or something. Or maybe tried to go get a job. The latter came to mind only after the former was considered.



On topic: Pink Floyd does kick ass. I have all of their albums, although they have all been digitally converted. I've listened to them every since I was young though. Great music.

This post has been edited by Digïtál £vîl on Monday, Jun 23 2008, 20:04