PINK FLOYD.

[TS]

This thread is for those that enjoy this band or may come to like it after checking what comes on here. This thread started from a comment made on Memories of NAC thread. So Dave I will start with this one. Its not the whole track but it has aircraft in it...

[TS]

This is good..

[nuuumannn]

Here's some non aviation specific tracks. One of my faves that I had on a bootleg cd once; a live version of the track Embryo in London in 1971. Very cool, much better than the recorded version.



Here's another rarity, a jam session that has been since colourfully called Corrosion in the Pink Room. Sounds appropriate - I like it.



A paean to the Sixties psychedelic underground, Syd Barret's signature tune Interstellar Overdrive. Kinda glad they went more bluesy.

[TS]

Your not kidding I'm glad they went bluesy as well.
Good tribute the Richard Wright.

[nuuumannn]

Awesome clips, by the way NZ5218, like the Ark one - the music really fits, plus there's Buccaneers in it!

[suthg]

I love the nostalgia of their unique style and genre of music that they created themselves. Yes I bought some of their LP's, The Wall and others. Those listed here were very ethereal, almost drug inspired... LOL!

[pilotpotters]

[Gavin Conroy]

This performance is fantastic.



Quite like this to from The Wall movie. Roger lost his father in WW2 when he was young, so this is quite relevant to him.

[nuuumannn]

NZ5218, that piano music that Wright eventually turned into Us and Them was originally recorded for the Zabriskie Point soundtrack and was called the violence sequence. Lovely music and so sad.

Nice pic, pilotpotters, a promotional shot for the single Point me at the Sky, 1968.



Gav, saw Waters do this show at vector Arena a couple of years ago... Wow!

[Gavin Conroy]

I saw that, too but this one with Dave Gilmour making an appearance is brilliant.

[errolmartyn]

Roger Waters featured in a highly entertaining 30 min episode of the BBC's Hardtalk programme on 20 Sep 13. Hard-nosed interviewer Stephen Sackur I think had met his match on this occasion, but in the nicest possible way! Unfortunately replay appears to be available only to those in the UK, the BBC apparently being unaware of the arrival of globalisation.

Errol

[kiwithrottlejockey]

Jun 23, 2014 14:38:12 GMT 12 nuuumannn said:

A paean to the Sixties psychedelic underground, Syd Barret's signature tune Interstellar Overdrive. Kinda glad they went more bluesy.

Pink Floyd had a really raw, virtuoso aura about them with their first album.

Sadly, after Syd Barrett's departure from the group, they lost that raw edge and became more commercial & populist as time went by.

I'm not knocking what they did after that first album, but I reckon they definitely lost something when Syd left.

And if you don't "get" Syd Barrett's music, then perhaps you didn't experiment with the right substances while you were still young and irresponsible....

[nuuumannn]

I like some of Syd's stuff, particularly the likes of Interstellar Overdrive and Astronomy Dominie, but some of it I find too whimsical, like Bike and The Gnome. It's a bit like Octopuses' Garden by the Beatles off Abbey Road; it kind of appeals to five year olds when there are better tracks on the same album. I think Syd's path would have led to uncertainty within the band and an eventual parting of ways at any rate; they were capable of much more than he could offer, especially once Gilmour arrived and he was the better guitarist. They did get a bit lost at times; the tracks off Ummagumma reflect this, but things like Set the Controls, Careful with that Axe and later Echoes continue what Barrett started with the likes of Interstellar, but did it with much more intent and experimentation and arguably led to the likes of Dark Side, Wish You Were Here and everything else that followed.

I think commercialism is going to get you when you are as successful as Floyd was in the early days anyway and the purist argument that they got too commercial doesn't really hold much water with the likes of Floyd, particularly when their 'commercial' successes were as solid and quite left of field like Dark Side and Wish You Were Here. Their music was uncompromising and was not swayed by the trends and fashion of the time, apart from when they recorded tracks like Have a Cigar that mocked their success and Roger continued this rejection of their status by refusing to play stadiums, then building a wall between the audience and the band. What 'commercial' act would commit career suicide by biting the hand that feeds them? They could get away with it because of their brilliance and apparent fan base.

Here's some more brilliant music, the afforementioned Have a Cigar:



This track from the album Animals, which is Waters at his most vitriolic:

[Dave Homewood]

Great thread!

[vs]

I was at the gig at the O2 when Dave Gilmore played. Nick Mason came out latter in the show and played a tambourine……close enough to a Pink Floyd reunion show! I was lucky enough to have amazing seats thanks to my cousin who works in the music industry. Was certainly an amazing show! I have seen Roger Waters during his Dark Side of the Moon tour and again in Auckland for The Wall…..looks like he has another album coming out soon!

[nuuumannn]

Awesome, Vs, would have been massive. Somewhere I have the recorded track of that clip that Gav posted. The concert I went to in Auckland was amazing and to see Dave and Nick there would have been a real special night. Dave appears a little nervous to begin with in his singing and playing in the first solo part.

Yes, Dave - it's great!!!

As I posted in the other thread, my favourite live recording that Floyd did was Pompeii. Only a band like Floyd would fly several tonnes of equipment and a film crew to a place like Pompeii and play to a non-existent audience and have it filmed. The movie was released in 1972 but the soundtrack has never been officially released by the band, yet it features some of the best live versions of the tracks played by the guys that I've heard - and I've listened to a lot! Some of the 'live' night time footage was actually shot in a studio, but with some editing it has been seamed into the on-set footage. The film only had limited release, but it was put on to video in the 80s, then dvd and is currently available if you look hard enough. Although bootleggers have produced cds of the soundtrack from the video and dvd recordings, which are not of the best quality - I have one made in Italy, Floyd themselves have missed a trick by not producing a disc of this. With youtube and the wonders of the internet, you can now experience the concert in quality that wasn't available at the time of release, so here it is, Pink Floyd Live at Pompeii in its entirety. Enjoy:

[TS]

Yes I have been to David Gilmours tour at Western springs, then the one at North Harbour Stadium plus Roger Waters The Wall at the Vector. Just missed there concert in Venice in 1989, I almost jump ship.......

I can remember the day after David Gilmour's Western Springs concert, I was out at Ardmore watching a tiger Moth (as you do) come in and who should climb out of the front cockpit but David himself. Well I thought I had died and gone to heaven so shook his hand and congratulated him on his concert

Were else can you do that in the world, I haven't washed my hand since. hahahahaha

[Darren Masters]

I think I have (last count) about 6 vinyl copies of Dark Side of The Moon and various other Pink Floyd LP's. Very unique band with very unique sounds. They experimented with actual sounds that were around them in nature a lot. My vinyl collection is huge but Pink Floyd is definitely one of my most spun artists.

[TS]

Well I have to say that with the possibility of a war again? Roger Waters has a point here with this track from the Final Cut.

[nuuumannn]

Like the Final Cut. Left over tracks from The Wall and some new stuff. Originally The Wall was to be a three disc/record album, but was edited down and the rest or some of what went onto The Final Cut was going to be released separately under the name "Spare Bricks". Continuing Roger's obsession with the death of his dad during WW2 at Anzio and his own mildly destructive self-analysis as a result of his loss. The title track from the Final Cut that was originally going to go on The Wall:



Directed by Alan Parker, the movie The Wall was released in 1982 and according to Roger lost some of the humour that he had intended in the album. It included different versions of some of the songs on the album including When the Tigers Broke Free that Gav posted above and also this one of Empty Spaces, which I particularly like. The Gerald Scarfe animation in this clip is pretty cool:



The song that regularly features at the top of polls of which is the all-time best Pink Floyd song, the clip from the film featuring a young Bob Geldof as Pink and the Late Bob 'Oskins as his manager:



Sleep tight.