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Thread started 07/29/05 7:28pm

Gohi

Pink Floyd?

Who here likes Pink Floyd? Odd place to look for PF fans but I figure there'd be a FEW.

Post your favorite album, song, band member etc.

1. Wish You Were Here,
2. Comfortably Numb
3. Roger Waters.
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Reply #1 posted 07/29/05 7:52pm

CandaceS

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I like them a lot, have for a long time. Hard to pick one fave in each category, but here are my fave albums: Dark Side, Ummagumma, The Wall, Wish, and the Final Cut (remaster).

What did you think of the Live8 performance? Cool to see them together again after so long, but it would have been great to see a full-length show. nod
"I would say that Prince's top thirty percent is great. Of that thirty percent, I'll bet the public has heard twenty percent of it." - Susan Rogers, "Hunting for Prince's Vault", BBC, 2015
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Reply #2 posted 07/29/05 8:11pm

Gohi

I loved the Live8 performance. I never thought Roger Waters would want this to happen (Judging from the stories I've heard about him) but it was amazing. By some miracle my 56k modem was able to connect and I got in on the fun right in the middle of The Who's set.

I wish they'd do a reunion tour.=/

It would have been amazing if they did Brain Damage/Eclipse at the end of the show but I'm not complaining. razz
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Reply #3 posted 07/29/05 10:15pm

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I love Pink Floyd, Live8 performance was really good.
Roger Waters is amazing....don't really have a favorite, like all the albums/ songs. biggrin
"Be who you are and say what you feel because those who mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind"-Dr Seuss

Pain is something to carry, like a radio...You should stand up for your right to feel your pain- Jim Morrison
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Reply #4 posted 07/29/05 11:36pm

CandaceS

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I'm wondering what the opera Roger wrote (coming out in September) is gonna be like! I heard a little sample, but it's hard to judge from that!

http://www.roger-waters.com


Oh yeah, has anyone else bought Mason's book? "Inside Out: a Personal History of Pink Floyd." I got it recently, haven't had a chance to actually read it all, but it looks great so far! Lots of pictures spanning the entire lives of the band members, plus it's a big book (oversized and 359 pages) but it's soft cover so a relatively inexpensive US$30. nod
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Reply #5 posted 07/30/05 7:39am

gemini13

Gohi said:

Who here likes Pink Floyd? Odd place to look for PF fans but I figure there'd be a FEW.

Post your favorite album, song, band member etc.

1. Wish You Were Here,
2. Comfortably Numb
3. Roger Waters.



wave

1. Animals
2. Dogs
3. David Gilmour
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Reply #6 posted 07/30/05 1:56pm

Gohi

I was thinking about putting Dogs up, but at the last minute put Comfortably Numb.
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Reply #7 posted 07/30/05 3:14pm

PurpleKnight

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I LOVE Pink Floyd. My fav artist after Prince.

I think Roger Waters is one of the most inventive, most brilliant minds in music history, and an amazing lyricist.

1. The Wall
2. The Final Cut
3. Dark Side of the Moon

Check out Roger's solo material too, there's some real great stuff there.
The world is a comedy for those who think and a tragedy for those who feel.

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Reply #8 posted 08/01/05 4:16pm

CandaceS

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PurpleKnight said:

...I think Roger Waters is one of the most inventive, most brilliant minds in music history, and an amazing lyricist...


nod It's funny, when Syd left/got fired, lots of people predicted it was the end of the band because they didn't think Roger or any of the others had enough creativity to make it without Syd. Guess they were wrong! wink
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Reply #9 posted 08/01/05 4:21pm

DiminutiveRock
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Comfortably Numb

Hello.
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone home?

Come on, now.
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain,
Get you on your feet again.

Relax.
I need some information first.
Just the basic facts:
Can you show me where it hurts?

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'.
When I was a child I had a fever.
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I got that feeling once again.
I can't explain, you would not understand.
This is not how I am.
I have become comfortably numb.

Ok.
Just a little pinprick. [ping]
There'll be no more --aaaaahhhhh!
But you may feel a little sick.

Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working. good.
That'll keep you going for the show.
Come on it's time to go.

There is no pain, you are receding.
A distant ship's smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're sayin'.
When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse,
Out of the corner of my eye.
I turned to look but it was gone.
I cannot put my finger on it now.
The child is grown, the dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.
VOTE....EARLY
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Reply #10 posted 08/01/05 4:46pm

DaX

I do.
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Reply #11 posted 08/01/05 5:02pm

lilgish

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PF rules, esp the early sid stuff.

I have a Bike, I'll ride, if you like it.....I want a girl who looks good in my world.
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Reply #12 posted 08/01/05 7:27pm

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Love them! cloud9

1. Tie between Dark Side of the Moon or Wish You Were Here
2. Can't pick just one, but I guess "Any Colour You Like" or "Shine On You Crazy Diamond"
3. Dave Gilmour
[Edited 8/1/05 19:31pm]
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Reply #13 posted 08/01/05 7:31pm

Dewrede

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they sound like they took too much acid , sometimes wacky
i like some of their songs , tho' smile
[Edited 8/1/05 19:35pm]
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Reply #14 posted 08/01/05 7:42pm

Dewrede

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hmm
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Reply #15 posted 08/01/05 8:01pm

Xavier23

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Dark Side of the moon + The Wall
"Americans consume the most fast food than any nation on Earth and the stupid motherfuckers wonder why they are so fat? " - Oprah Winfrey
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Reply #16 posted 08/02/05 7:45am

13inchshoe

Obscured by Clouds.
The MOST underrated floyd album!
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Reply #17 posted 08/02/05 7:48am

JediMaster

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13inchshoe said:

Obscured by Clouds.
The MOST underrated floyd album!


AGREED! LOVE that album!
jedi

Do not hurry yourself in your spirit to become offended, for the taking of offense is what rests in the bosom of the stupid ones. (Ecclesiastes 7:9)
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Reply #18 posted 08/02/05 7:49am

JediMaster

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Post your favorite album, song, band member etc.

1. Dark Side of the Moon (although, this changes from time to time)
2. Comfortably Numb
3. David Gilmour (although, I do love Roger quite a bit)
jedi

Do not hurry yourself in your spirit to become offended, for the taking of offense is what rests in the bosom of the stupid ones. (Ecclesiastes 7:9)
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Reply #19 posted 08/02/05 7:51am

13inchshoe

JediMaster said:

13inchshoe said:

Obscured by Clouds.
The MOST underrated floyd album!


AGREED! LOVE that album!



Very cool.The album never gets it's due cool
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Reply #20 posted 08/02/05 7:57am

JediMaster

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13inchshoe said:

JediMaster said:



AGREED! LOVE that album!



Very cool.The album never gets it's due cool


nod It's sandwiched in-between Meddle and DSotM, so it often gets ignored. Shame, because it has some really incredible music on it. Definitely their most under-rated.
jedi

Do not hurry yourself in your spirit to become offended, for the taking of offense is what rests in the bosom of the stupid ones. (Ecclesiastes 7:9)
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Reply #21 posted 08/02/05 9:21am

13inchshoe

JediMaster said:[quote]

13inchshoe said:




Very cool.The album never gets it's due cool


nod It's sandwiched in-between Meddle and DSotM, so it often gets ignored.


Good point Jedi.Agree 100%
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Reply #22 posted 08/02/05 10:15am

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1. The Wall

2. In The Flesh

3. Roger Waters
"girl, i gotta tell ya. that suit look like a piece of GOOD GOD wrapped up with some HAVE MERCY with a side of MMMMMPHH!!!!' - will smith.
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Reply #23 posted 08/02/05 3:39pm

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1. Piper at the Gates of Dawn
2. Welcome to the machine
3. Syd Barrett
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Reply #24 posted 08/05/05 9:45pm

Gohi

Roger Waters interview from Rolling Stone . com:


Roger Waters
Pink Floyd's bass man on the blues and the Floyd reunion at Live 8
By AUSTIN SCAGGS
Feeling warm and cuddly





God bless the global success that was Live 8 -- not least of all for reuniting acrimonious ex-bandmates Roger Waters and David Gilmour to perform Pink Floyd songs for the first time since 1981. "I was very happy -- I definitely felt warm and cuddly toward everyone in the band," says Waters, sipping white wine in his forty-ninth-floor midtown-Manhattan apartment. "I decided that if anything came up in rehearsals -- any difference of opinion -- I would just roll over. And I did." Not only has Waters -- the Floyd's chief songwriter during the band's Seventies heyday -- closed a bitter chapter in the history of the group, he has completed a full-on opera, Ca Ira, which he began in 1989. Ca Ira is set against the backdrop of the French Revolution; a CD comes out in September, and the concert debut is slated for November 17th in Rome. But with Pink Floyd on the minds of rock fans, Waters flatly denies talk of a future tour in the U.S., even for the reported $150 million payday. "I don't really need it," he says. "It would be a very hot ticket. That said, I didn't mind rolling over for one day, but I couldn't roll over for a whole fucking tour."
Growing up, what record changed your life?

Like everyone else in England, I listened to Radio Luxembourg, a pirate station. They played rock & roll, like Bill Haley and English acts with stupid invented names like Tommy Steele and Billy Fury. Seven or eight years later, the Beatles changed all that. In the meantime I fell in love with Lead Belly, Billie Holiday, Bessie Smith, Art Blakey, Monk and Mingus. The blues is at the root of everything I do.

Did you sing in choir?

Before my voice broke, I used to sing treble in a combined choir.

Children's choirs surface in your opera, and in Pink Floyd.

My great friend Nick Griffiths -- who died this year -- was entirely responsible for recording the kids on "Another Brick in the Wall." The sound those kids make was brilliant, but we were 6,000 miles away, in Los Angeles. Last year some ambulance chaser desperately tried to find the kids -- I think there were about a dozen or so -- and ask them, "Why haven't you gotten any royalties? Why don't you sue Pink Floyd?" He found a few of them, and a couple said that singing on it was the best thing that's ever happened to them.

You were an architecture student. What venue looks the best from the stage?

Most of my career has been in sports arenas, and those are awful places. Those old theaters are really nice, like the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, where they recorded the Chuck Berry movie [Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll]. I've played there, and the weird-red-plush, slightly decaying vibe is really cool.

Do you have the handwritten lyrics to the Floyd classics?

I don't keep anything. No T-shirts or backstage passes -- I have nothing at all of my past. I've been divorced so many times and moved so often.... I think I've still got the drawing I did of "The Wall." It's just on a piece of legal pad -- a perspective view of an auditorium with a wall drawn across it, coming down through the seats. [Whispers] "Hey, what a great idea."

What other band would you have liked to play bass in?

What's always great is playing the blues.

Twelve-bar blues, straight up. Nothing better than that. When Eric [Clapton] was in my band, back in '85, we'd play the blues during soundcheck. In Pink Floyd I was being savaged -- because Dave [Gilmour] and Rick [Wright] were kind of insecure, they'd always try to attack me, saying I sang out of tune or I couldn't really play. I said something about that to Eric, and he said, "Are you fucking crazy? You're a great bass player." I went, "Oh, yeah, maybe I am." I would be totally happy to be standing at the back of a stage playing the blues hour after hour.... I enjoyed playing bass [at Live 8].

It looked like you were having the time of your life.

It was more fun than I can remember having with Pink Floyd twenty-five years ago. When we did The Wall, we'd have four Winnebagos parked in a circle, with all the doors facing away from the circle. It was really, really bad. Everybody was kind of jealous -- definitely Dave. He was so pissed off that I was writing everything and doing all the work. He wanted to be that person, but he wasn't. But at Live 8 everything was easy. I was there to enjoy myself.

How do you think Dave felt?

He did send me an e-mail afterward, saying, "Hi, Rog, I'm glad you made that phone call. It was fun, wasn't it?" So he obviously had fun.

Can you think of a better band name than Pink Floyd?

Brand name or band name? It's a great brand name. Dave and Rick did tours [as Pink Floyd] and made huge fortunes. I've seen videos of those tours. With all due respect, it was sort of muck.

I heard you've been working on a rock & roll record.

I've written a bunch of songs. When I discover what it's actually about, I'll finish it and put it out for better or worse. I just always seem so busy. I have a new woman in my life. I can't believe I'm fucking sixty-one years old, and my golf game is such shit.

I hear you're a pretty good pool player, though. What musician has been the toughest to beat?

There's no musician out there who could hold a candle to me at pool.


Doesn't seem too keen on reuniting. neutral

Crushed dreams edit. . . mad
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Reply #25 posted 08/05/05 10:02pm

pkidwell

I just picked up a Quadrophonic version of Dark Side of the Moon Lp at a yard sale. It was in very good condition and even had a few posters and stickers still inside. Any idea what that is worth?
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Reply #26 posted 08/06/05 12:26pm

JesseDezz

Love David Gilmour's guitar playing; in fact, the reason I got into them was when I heard his solo on "Dogs of War" back in the late 80's. Been a fan ever since.

Tom Jones used to have a show on VH1 a few years back and he did a cover of "Purple Rain" with David Gilmous doing the guitar solo. It was beyond cool cool
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Reply #27 posted 08/06/05 2:55pm

gemini13

Dewrede said:

they sound like they took too much acid , sometimes wacky
i like some of their songs , tho' smile
[Edited 8/1/05 19:35pm]



Are you fucking serious?


Blasphemy, I say!!!
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Reply #28 posted 08/06/05 7:20pm

Tom

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I just bought a DVD recently about the making of Dark Side of the Moon. It's funny, how their lyrics seem so trippy till you see an interview with them where they explain the songs. Alot of their stuff is pretty straightforward, when you hear them talk about it.
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Reply #29 posted 08/06/05 7:22pm

ElectricBlue

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Pink Floyd is one of the best bands ever!!!!! cool
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