Pink Floyd

[100degrees]

Charlie Gilmour, son of Pink Floyd guitarist Dave Gilmour, arrested in London student protests

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[kylewbaker]

I totally understand how people are inclined to reject huge bands b/c I used to be the same way. It's especially easy to make assumptions and dismissals -- I'm still guilty of this to some extent (especially when it comes to pop country). But it's a shame that lots of folks are inevitably ignoring music they may very well love. Floyd's catalog is big and very diverse musically so they're often pigeonholed by folks who might actually dig the hell outa stuff they never heard.

If you reject art (music) for anything other than the art in and of itself, that's stupid but understandably common. Ideally, I don't care about how big or small a band is, what the fuck they wear, what their cool back-story is -- that stuff can be interesting but it's all peripheral (at best contextual) and obscures and distorts perception of the music itself I think. There's no "objectivity" in the consumption of art but to just listen to something without any knowledge of where it came from can be liberating.

I've noticed recently how much just the name of a band immediately shapes my perception/receptiveness to them. For example I didn't expect to like Iron & Wine (I do, a lot) while I had a feeling I'd like Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears (I really really do). That's pretty off-topic come to think of it.

there's a version of meddle that's floating around that they played in its entirety for the bbc as a record pre-release. it's in stereo and it absolutely stomps the version that they released into the ground.

Woa, thanks for the heads up! I'm gonna track that down for sure.

Good to see lots of Meddle love on this thread -- definitely my favorite Floyd album too. Far from cohesive in the way that WYWH or Dark Side (or most others) are but it's just righteous. My favorite tune is actually San Tropez... I can't explain why, just love that tune.

Anyone ever synced up the last part of Space Odyssey ("Jupiter") with Echoes? Far better and more convincing than Dark Side + Wizard of Oz. I used to have it as an .mpg but can't find that fucker now.

[mark@methanestudios]

don't know if Obscured By Clouds was mentioned but I always thought that was underrated, I'm going to have to que up Echoes with Space Odyssey

[PollockPhan]

saw them Foxboro 94...wish I was alive to see The Pink Floyd...with Roger...Live 8 was siiick, the reunion

[PollockPhan]

Best band ever BY FAR, talking heads, The dead, beatles, Phish, only bands that push the envelelope...speaking of T00L is AMAZING, or was in the early to late 90's when maynard gave a drymount

[PollockPhan]

Love Meddle btw...have the shine on box set....The Wall was amazing, wish T00l did a movie for aenima

[loco]

My son (15 years old) is way into Pink Floyd right now. He's teaching himself how to play one of there songs (can't rememebr the song) of the guitar.

-loco

[PollockPhan]

My son (15 years old) is way into Pink Floyd right now. He's teaching himself how to play one of there songs (can't rememebr the song) of the guitar.

-loco

Mine two boys (8 &6) play the bass and electric guitar . one ;LOVES T00L and Floyd (as well as Mike Gordon)...the other loves Phish and DMB....My youngest has been sitting in his room since he was 2 watching live shows and messing with acoustic guitsrs, he has had two electrics in 3 yrs, they go to lessons but love improv and just want to jam...they have seen a lot of live shpows with my wife and I...