Floyd not Floyd

Chill out man, it's time for some Floyd not Floyd.

Steve Miller Band - Song For Our Anchestors from Sailor, 1968

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WvJmjdVD69U

this is maybe a little bit more tangerine dream, but...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5qNQXb18l8g

...early Tangerine Dream could get a little bit Floydian from time to time.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BvP7PKrCMKw

there's also the Magic Sound Celebration's "Imaginary World", which is quite literally the non-infringing version of "Shine On You Crazy Diamond". I could only find this three minute excerpt.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SeCh24psSOU

That Tommy James track is excellent. Never heard that one before.

Joe Walsh- 'Giant Behemoth' off of Barnstorm, 1972

https://youtu.be/L-XlTezJwLk?t=79

Floating Points - Reflections (Mojave Desert) gets super super Meddle/DsOtM esque

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJ0xGaVGBgM

Adelbert Von Deyen's Eclipse is a good candidate for this thread.

How about an alt-country "Us and Them/Careful With That Axe Eugene" slow build with Wright-like organ, Mason-esque drums and Waters-tacular rolling gongs?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10woJ6X-liY

Canyon - Head Above

Canyon's whole Empty Rooms album feels very Floydian--I keep waiting for the pedal steel to start making seagull noises.

ribiero paix climbs the same heights as floyd

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CpJl3dY8jDc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FLGSRk3bEbc

Free Floyd Feels

Nev Cottee - If I Could Tell You
https://youtu.be/zFhetim5DJE

Richard Schneider Jr. - High / Illusion
https://youtu.be/dixu_g2ewII
https://youtu.be/Vfy6Y31q3aM

Far East Family Band - Kokoro
https://youtu.be/onKCL5MJ5N0

Bonus

Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso U.F.O. - Hello Good Child
https://youtu.be/BT1iVQLQ_CM

Yonin Bayashi, I've seen referred to as the Japanese Pink Floyd, this record from 1976 has mad Gentle Giant bits and all sorts but this track definitely has a Floydian feel.

https://youtu.be/PNwDhp3d7Bc?t=22m2s

Premiata Forneria Marconi – Grazie Davvero

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bu1J3J7EGno

I found that PFM record for $0.25 in a local library discard bin. It's good but it's very much a game of "Spot the Prog influence"... ELP, Genesis, VDGG, Yes, Tull and maybe Floyd here too.

Yeah I've just heard it on the Antologia compilation and thought it started off sounding something like Brain Damage (which tbf came out the following year) or Fearless? But it goes some other places. Right now they are definitely being Genesis on Harlequin.

it started off sounding something like Brain Damage (which tbf came out the following year)

It has the same "clawhammer" fingerpicking style as Dear Prudence, etc.
Probably where they got it from.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMq7eJ3_wYI

the song on the Honda “when you send your kid out into the world these days…” commercial

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvL5FVFVX1c

Heard this on an old documentary clip and had to Shazam it, turned out to be by Focus of all things (there was also some PFM on the soundtrack)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q_Ae-mkWh8A

It has the same "clawhammer" fingerpicking style as Dear Prudence, etc.
Probably where they got it from.

Makes sense, but there's also that little rising and falling at the end of lines that's quite a characteristic Gilmour (?) vocal thing. The harmony recalls CSN&Y though maybe.

Could easily have been an Obscured By Clouds outtake

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLvFNWQsgF0

https://img.discogs.com/sGhLRa_BvVsmqQynJSBvsZStHcA=/fit-in/600x530/filters:strip_icc():format(jpeg):mode_rgb():quality(90)/discogs-images/R-16489050-1608053600-6924.jpeg.jpg on disc 3 and how had i forgotten how grand this is?

wrong thread, innit

That Rain Parade song is double Floyd, like Syd Barrett meets Meddle.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WWtVsvZ41zQ

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDI7x1nwTUw

Spidergawd/ Eep Hour off of Jerry Garcia’s first solo record definitely would fit on a pre-Dark Side LP with that hazy chord progression and the sailing pedal steel.

Had not listened to that LP in well over a decade and it is a good listen.

JJ Cale’s instrumental “Durango” is on the Venn diagram where the Chooglin’ meets the Floyd. Cool track.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6Pl6gviRuEg

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9a2182DRuWw

hell yeah I made a thread on “Durango” when I was stooned

J.J. Cale - "Durango" (one chord spaced out smooth jam recorded during the sessions for 5)

Roy Buchanan - Fly...Night Bird

This one definitely has the slow Gilmour blues burn over a spacey keyboard bed.

"Spidergawd/ Eep Hour off of Jerry Garcia’s first solo record definitely would fit on a pre-Dark Side LP with that hazy chord progression and the sailing pedal steel."

Listened to this again yesterday. There might be an alternate universe where Garcia became a one man prog band/ Neil Young album guy and that would have been just fine too.

Bill Frisell Trio "You Only Leave Twice"

It's a lovely very soft and dialed in trio performance with just lovely touch, but then he busts out that looper to play the exit melody and they jam over the top setting controlled burn to loop the sun. Pretty killer and to me that jam was pretty damn Floyd. It also reminded me of "Authentic Celestial Music" by the Dirty Three, which I think is my favorite tune by them by a margin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=00B5ciNt41g

Great recording too, thanks for sharing

Listened to this again yesterday. There might be an alternate universe where Garcia became a one man prog band/ Neil Young album guy and that would have been just fine too.

Awww man. And maybe he woulda written more songs.

Also: Camel's Rhayader Goes to Town, middle section. Coulda fooled me.

Bauhaus - Slice of life
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkBivvXwEWM