Pink Floyd-Classic or dud

that's enough to justify them existing, but a lot of the rest, well...let's just say- they padded well.

BBC reporting Rick Wright has died.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7617363.stm

Fucking cancer

By the way, what about that advert for Direct Live insurance that starts out with what is fairly blatantly a version of "Careful With That Axe, Eugene" which, jarringly and bizarrely, turns into the Direct Live tune at the end?

man Floyd is kind of a perfect Sunday band...started with Meddle this morning, and after an absolutely gorgeous day (and an afternoon in the park) I'm listening to Dark Side now...it's just like, ahhhhhhh (going into a nuts week too; take me away, Clare Torry)...

Echoes, man...

mannnnnn
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=646KtkEcPm8&feature=related

yeahhhh dude....

Damned stoners.

learnin things about this song on wikipedia
- The second half of the song where Gilmour plays muted notes on the guitar over Wright's slowly building organ solo was inspired by the Beach Boys song "Good Vibrations".
- The title "Echoes" was also subjected to significant revisions before and after the release of Meddle: Waters, a devoted football fan, proposed that the band call its new piece "We Won the Double" in celebration of Arsenal's 1971 victory, and during a 1972 tour of Germany he jovially introduced it on two consecutive nights as "Looking Through the Knothole in Granny's Wooden Leg" (a reference to The Goon Show; the phrase appeared in an episode titled "The £50 Cure")[5] and "The March of the Dam Busters", respectively.
- Similar to the Dark Side of the Rainbow effect,[6] some listeners suggested that "Echoes" synchronizes with Stanley Kubrick's 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey when played concurrently with the final segment (titled "Jupiter and Beyond the Infinite").
- The 1973 George Greenough film "Crystal Voyager" concludes with a 23 minute segment in which the full length of "Echoes" accompanies a montage of images shot by Greenough from a camera mounted on his back while surfing on his kneeboard.

learn with us, ned

Can't, tripping.

I knew I was in love with the woman who would later become my wife when we got to Pompeii and proceeded to express our deep appreciation for PF @ Pompeii.

handsome naked guitar god Dave Gilmour NEVER FORGET POMPEII

<3

all those pompeii bros died so that the floyd could be so rad. thank you pompeii bros!

sparkle motion was your first dance to "echoes"? or "interstellar overdrive"?

when we got to Pompeii and proceeded to express our deep appreciation for PF @ Pompeii

There's a euphemism.

"people think of us as a very drug-oriented group...course we're not..."

"but our fans, whoa...whole other story"

sparkle motion was your first dance to "echoes"? or "interstellar overdrive"?

careful with that axe eugene

Can I just say that Meddle is owning me today :D

Love that record, no surprise there.

GodDAMN. Nice to circle back and visit "old friends" now and then, I get so scattershot with my music at times. 'Fearless'..forget about that song but Gilmour's voice there is real joy

should be "I always forget about that song"

seems kind of ridiculous that the floyd haven't put out a live box set or something. there are some versions of "echoes" that are epicccccccccc.

Fearless is awesome, and even more awesome because it is easy to play on the guitar!

Meddle is usually my fave PF album, even "Seamus".

fearless is easy to play? i should learn how to play it. is it in a special tuning or ...?

not that I remember, it's been a while!

FEARLESS- Pink Floyd

TUNING: D G D G B D (open G)

RIFF FOUR TIMES C Bb G C Bb

G C Bb
You say the hill's too steep to climb
G C Bb
Climb it!
G C Bb
You say you'd like to see me try
G C Bb
Climb it!
A D
You pick the place and I'll choose the time
G C
And I'll climb that hill in my own way
G C
Just wait a while, for the right day
G C
And as I rise above the treeline and the clouds
D C G
I look down, hear the sound of the things you said today

RIFF 4 TIMES

BRIDGE(slide up and down to these shapes):
Bm Am Bm Am Bm Am Bm Am

G C Bb G C Bb

Fearlessly the idiot faced the crowd
Smiling
Merciless, the magistrate turns round
Frowning
And who's the fool who wears the crown
And go down in your own way
And everyday is the right day
And as you rise above the fearlines in the frown
You look down
Hear the sound of the faces in the crowd

REPEAT RIFF FOREVER

CHORDS: RIFF:
G A Bb C D Bm Am
D 0 2 3 5 7 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0
B 0 2 3 5 7 3 1 0 0 0 0 0 0
G 0 2 3 5 7 4 2 4 5 7 9 11 12
D 0 2 3 5 7 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 (slide down to G)
G 0 2 3 5 7 x x 4 5 7 9 11 12
D 0 2 3 5 7 4 2 0 0 0 0 0 0

NOTE: The chord names are for the chords in regular tuning. So if you don't
want to change the tuning you can play the song with these chords in
regular tuning, but you won't get to play the riff correctly.

haa, repeat riff forever

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8_K5-sOeC5k

Seamus is <3...reminds me of our pet dog who used to howl along when Dad was running the circular saw lolol

I just discovered I like a lot "Fat Old Sun".

The two Peel Sessions they did from around the Atom Heart Mother/Meddle era are GODLIKE.

That live BBC concert from 1970 is brilliance too

The 1973 George Greenough film "Crystal Voyager" concludes with a 23 minute segment in which the full length of "Echoes" accompanies a montage of images shot by Greenough from a camera mounted on his back while surfing on his kneeboard.

I've seen this, but I can't remember where, why, when, how

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OjWhqgs4uEo

I just discovered I like a lot "Fat Old Sun".

this song will always have a special place in my heart for being the very first song a 13 year old me learned how to 'improvise' the guitar solo

well look at these:

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dpopular&field-keywords=pink+floyd+immersion&x=0&y=0

also search the same albums with "experience" which will pull up the double cd versions...you can zoom in and see the tracklists, loads of unreleased and live stuff. kind of overwhelming that PF are actually opening the vaults on things all of a sudden.

For a minute I thought maybe they were re-releasing albums as a Zaireeka type of thing..

wow

what is this 'immersion' thing?

and I can't see the tracklists on the zoomed-in images, am I missing something?

I've been dying to talk about these for ages (my other half is connected loosely with the project) there's a lot of interesting stuff coming out, we even get to hear Stefan Grapelli on WYWH!

They must have kept the vaults pretty well screwed down over the years, I was not even aware that there was much unreleased studio material out there. am not aware of the existence of any bootlegs of it.

yeah they never put bonus tracks on any of their albums. i guess they can make a lot more money doing it this way.

Tracklist and bumf for WYWH:

DISC 1 - CD1:

Wish You Were Here digitally remastered by James Guthrie, 2011

DISC 2 - CD2:

Shine On You Crazy Diamond (parts 1-6) live at Wembley November 1974 (2011 mix and previously unreleased)

Raving & Drooling live at Wembley November 1974 (2011 mix and previously unreleased)

You’ve Got To Be Crazy live at Wembley November 1974 (2011 mix and previously unreleased)

Wine Glasses from the unreleased ‘Household Objects’ project

Have A Cigar alternative version (previously unreleased)

Wish You Were Here featuring Stephane Grappelli (previously unreleased)

DISC 3 - DVD1, ALL AUDIO:

-Wish You Were Here, James Guthrie 2009 5.1 Surround Mix (previously unreleased) in standard resolution audio at 448 kbps

-Wish You Were Here, James Guthrie 2009 5.1 Surround Mix (previously unreleased) in high resolution audio at 640 kbps

-Wish You Were Here, Original Mix (1975) LPCM stereo

-Wish You Were Here, Quad Mix (previously released only on vinyl LP/8 track tape) in standard resolution audio at 448 kbps

-Wish You Were Here, Quad Mix (previously released only on vinyl LP/8 track tape) in high resolution audio at 640 kbps

DISC 4 - DVD 2, AUDIO VISUAL:

-AUDIO VISUAL: Concert Screen Films:

Shine On You Crazy Diamond Intro

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

-AUDIO VISUAL: Welcome To The Machine animated clip

-AUDIO VISUAL: Storm Thorgerson short film

Concert Screen Films play in stereo and 5.1 Surround Sound

DISC 5 - BLURAY:

-AUDIO: Wish You Were Here, James Guthrie 2009 5.1 Surround Mix (previously unreleased) high resolution audio at 96 kHz/24-bit

-AUDIO: Wish You Were Here, Original stereo mix (1975) mastered in high resolution audio at 96 kHz/24-bit

- AUDIO VISUAL: Concert Screen films:

Shine On You Crazy Diamond Intro

Shine On You Crazy Diamond

-AUDIO VISUAL: Welcome To The Machine animated clip

- AUDIO VISUAL: Storm Thorgerson short film

40 page 27cm x 27cm booklet designed by Storm Thorgerson

Exclusive photo book edited by Jill Furmanovsky

27cm x 27cm Exclusive Storm Thorgerson Art Print

5 x Collectors’ Cards featuring art and comments by Storm Thorgerson

Replica of Wish You Were Here Tour Ticket

Replica of Wish You Were Here Backstage Pass

Scarf

3 x Clear marbles

9 x Coasters (unique to this box) featuring early Storm Thorgerson design sketches

12 page credits booklet

Also in the pipeline:

http://www.brain-damage.co.uk/latest/rare-1967-pink-floyd-recording-airs-in-stockholm.html

^ Must admit, that's got me Raving & Drooling

The track listings for all three are up here:

http://www.pulse-and-spirit.com/news/pink-floyd-dark-side-of-the-moon-und-wish-you-were-here-box-sets/

Would have been the perfect place for them to finally release the full Wall live footage but I guess Rog is still against that.