Les Paul Jr Posted March 18, 2006 Share Posted March 18, 2006 By then "hanging on in quite desperation in the English way" - my favourite fragment of a Floyd lyric From the same song, another great couplet (or two): Tired of lying in the sunshine staying home to watch the rain. You are young and life is long and there is time to kill today. And then one day you find ten years have got behind you. No one told you when to run, you missed the starting gun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timo Posted March 19, 2006 Share Posted March 19, 2006 Longcol, Was the 'Atom Heart Mother' gig of 71 terrible? I have always had an enormous affection for the album, and still play 'Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast' fairly regularly. The sound of roadie Alan Stiles enjoying his Cornflakes still makes me laugh. 'The Fat Old Sun' is a wonderful track too, and evokes perfectly an English summer early evening. Admittedly, it is an 'experimental' album, and not all the experiments work, but it is still great fun and a marvellous 'period piece' all the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghosthunter Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 Love Pink Floyd! Looking forward to the Pulse DVD in June/July Have it on video and watch it at least once a week! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StarSparkle Posted March 20, 2006 Share Posted March 20, 2006 As embarrassing as it is for a fan of the Clash and Sex Pistols to admit, I do love the odd bit of Pink Floyd! "Wish You Were Here" and "Dark Side of the Moon" are works of art. Not sure about the other albums..... although "Animals" is worth the occasional listen StarSparkle Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caramac55 Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 Have been into floyd since the early 70s, top band. have all there albums. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcol Posted March 22, 2006 Share Posted March 22, 2006 timo Unfortunately in my opinion it was for a number of reasons. Firstly they played most of the gig with the house lights up. The brass section on AHM was badly miked up - virtually inaudible from the balcony. They had a couple of power cuts - one in "Saucerful of Secrets" just as the last "movement" - the vocal wailing - started. Lots of people were leaving the gig before it ended to catch the last bus home. The band looked fairly unhappy with everything and really appeared to be going through the motions - not a patch on their playing in either of the other two gigs. They did do Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast featuring roadie in a Santa hat, the gig being in December (come to think of it the gig will have been December 1970!) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sark Posted March 30, 2006 Author Share Posted March 30, 2006 thanx everyone 4 replying 2 this thread. didn't realise how many people were still into pink floyd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
babsie Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 Saw them at the City Hall with Jimi Hendrix! They were way ahead of their time then and I coundn't understand what they were at - but with age you learn these things - FANTASTIC BAND!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bellis Posted March 30, 2006 Share Posted March 30, 2006 is anyone else ****** off with on/ off release of the live dvd pulse first it was coming out at xmas now its coming out in october:( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Longcol Posted April 1, 2006 Share Posted April 1, 2006 is anyone else ****** off with on/ off release of the live dvd pulse first it was coming out at xmas now its coming out in october:( No - I think by the time of "Pulse" the Floyd were a good 20 years past their best and had become more of a glorified tribute band. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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