Any fans of Pink Floyd here?

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If you like The Wall, and have never heard this album, you should give it a listen:

https://youtu.be/ptitHMHGOeY

It is a solo album with a really interesting history.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Pros_and_Cons_of_Hitch_Hiking

Roger Waters pitched it to the rest of the band and they went with The Wall instead. Waters refused to use the Pink Floyd brand to promote his solo stuff, so a lot of it is a lot less well known.

Well, the idea for the album came concurrently with the idea for The Wall – the basis of the idea. I wrote both pieces at roughly the same time. And in fact, I made demo tapes of them both, and in fact presented both demo tapes to the rest of the Floyd, and said "Look, I'm going to do one of these as a solo project and we'll do one as a band album, and you can choose." So, this was the one that was left over. Um...I mean, it's developed an awful lot since then, I think.

— Roger Waters


Some amazing musicians involved with this too, listen to Eric Clapton in Sexual Revolution.

Anyways, I hope you enjoy it if you like Pink Floyd and have never heard this before.
 
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Pink Floyd by far my favorite band and listen to it and play it daily on guitar. Still go see both David Gilmour and Roger Waters concerts whenever around. Friend of mine is great friends with Jon Carin, currently keyboard player for both David and Roger. Get free great tickets and backstage for their shows. Last year even went to private concert for family and friends kicking off the Us and Them.

Here is link:

https://www.billboard.com/articles/...ehearsal-is-this-the-life-we-really-want-tour

If anybody gets chance, go see The Machine, Pink Floyd Tribute band. I go every month or two.

Thanks for sharing that Waters stuff.

Bears and Pink Floyd, my favorite two entertainment.
 
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That is great stuff, big fan, you can hear The Wall similarities. I'm still of fan of both guys, but I became more of a David Gilmour guy after the split. I know I didn't have to choose, but I crave drama. Obviously I listen to anything either of them do, and enjoy all of it.

Dark Side is one of my top 5 desert island albums. I really wish they hadn't broken up, but I guess it's inevitable, unless you're the Stones.
 

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I'm still of fan of both guys, but I became more of a David Gilmour guy after the split.

Same here. He just put out an album a couple years back that was pretty amazing.

[video=youtube_share;UHNYlvzUfkA]https://youtu.be/UHNYlvzUfkA[/video]
 

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Saw them twice, in name I suppose. Too young to see the best groups. Take what I can get, and IMO just Gilmour for my money was worth the price of admission, and was grateful someone took me to see them again. Flat out the best show in the industry for a number of years. Every gimmick and effect orchestrated to perfection. Also awkward to see so many people both younger than myself and much older going into some other world through whatever combination of drugs, pausing in aisles and babbling to projections on the ceiling.

That being said, my Floyd phase came and left. I still love the music, I just don't play it anywhere near as often. Also still make up some of the best widely available remastered recordings to manually equalize an analog home stereo.
 

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Saw them twice, in name I suppose. Too young to see the best groups. Take what I can get, and IMO just Gilmour for my money was worth the price of admission

Agreed. Waters left the band about the time I was wrapping up grade school, so my only Pink Floyd show was that 'Division Bell' tour. Not much of a fan of that album, but just being able to see Gilmour live was worth it. Nick Mason too....underrated drummer.

And yeah...I don't listen to them much anymore, but this thread actually got me to put on Atom Heart Mother just for the hell of it.
 

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Some things are weird like that. Like seeing David Coverdale Deep Purple. IDK what I was expecting. Show was still good, but it feels slightly dishonest saying that I saw Deep Purple live.

Everyone that goes their own way should just Wings or Foo Fighter it, IMO. Expectations are more honest and not a damn thing wrong, no asterisk. Get your moneys worth and sometimes more. Or sometimes seeing Elvis is simply not seeing Elvis.
 

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Some things are weird like that. Like seeing David Coverdale Deep Purple. IDK what I was expecting. Show was still good, but it feels slightly dishonest saying that I saw Deep Purple live.

Everyone that goes their own way should just Wings or Foo Fighter it, IMO. Expectations are more honest and not a damn thing wrong, no asterisk. Get your moneys worth and sometimes more. Or sometimes seeing Elvis is simply not seeing Elvis.

Deep Purple truly sucked live as did Uriah Heep. Great bands when they can be edited but sucked live. Same goes for Foo Fighters. One of the worst concerts I ever saw.

And I saw Deep Purple and Uriah Heep in the late 70's Original members.
 

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Deep Purple truly sucked live as did Uriah Heep. Great bands when they can be edited but sucked live. Same goes for Foo Fighters. One of the worst concerts I ever saw.

And I saw Deep Purple and Uriah Heep in the late 70's Original members.

Live is so very different than a studio where you can edit everything down perfectly. A good live band is so amazing and always draws the crowd in and gets the house rocking and a good studio band can do that but rarely does.

Some of the better live shows I have been to:

Michael Franti - hands down one of the best shows I have seen every time I have been (3 times so far)
Primus - went twice in one year before I ever owned a CD of theirs and wasn't a fan of the CD's that much
Metallica
Pantera - Saw them at the convention center once, but also saw them at Red Rocks which was ridiculous
Tool
Korn - Saw them in a warehouse with like 500 people on their first tour
Rob Zombie - saw him solo and with Korn, the dude is a showman
Queensryche - Saw them with Type -o- Negative and that was an awesome show all around

Some hip hop I saw was good too although it is usually horrible,

Kanye west on his first tour when John Legend was his keyboardist and backup singer (Caught a signed T-shirt at that show)
Atmosphere with Brother Ali was an awesome show
Wax, seen him live several times and because I followed him from the start until he was making a living I always appreciated how tight his live gigs were.
 

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Deep Purple truly sucked live as did Uriah Heep. Great bands when they can be edited but sucked live. Same goes for Foo Fighters. One of the worst concerts I ever saw.

And I saw Deep Purple and Uriah Heep in the late 70's Original members.

I saw Deep Purple in 1974 and they were great, Ritchie Blackmore tore it up, great live guitarist, you probably caught them on a bad night. Savoy Brown opened for DP and they were also very good.
 

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Most amazing surprise band I ever saw was Montrose without a doubt. Saw them at Winterland when they were the opening act and they just tore the doors down. Saw them every chance I could until Sammy left the band. Probably 15 times. Then followed both Montrose and Hagar through Montose's Gamma and Sammy's solo career until Sammy joined Van Halen and then stopped seeing him until he brought Ronnie back on his Chickenfoot tours. Was unfortunate Montrose killed himself as there were plans for a Montrose reunion tour with Bill Church and Denny Carmassi.
 

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My older brother was crazy into Pink Floyd. I didn't get it until dark Side Of The Moon. I remember when Hole In The Wall came out, Steve Dahl put out a parody song about Gacy called Another Kid In The Crawl. That didn't go over to well. Howard Stern was influenced by Dahl.
 

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My older brother was crazy into Pink Floyd. I didn't get it until dark Side Of The Moon. I remember when Hole In The Wall came out, Steve Dahl put out a parody song about Gacy called Another Kid In The Crawl. That didn't go over to well. Howard Stern was influenced by Dahl.

You do not remember when "Hole In The Wall" came out because there is no album by that name.

Album: The Wall
Songs: Another Brick in the Wall is the name of 3 songs on that album.
Some lyrics from those songs: "hole in the wall"
 

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Got confused. I'm an old man. Geez!

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My father has a rule that you can only play "oldies" in his 1950 Willies Jeepster with the 3 12's under the back seat, two 6x9's and a couple tweeters his sons installed.

My favorite band to break this pact with semi-technically is Pink Floyd. In the middle of nowwhere, driving 50 mph maxed out, top down under an array of stars unfettered by any unnatural light, the pine trees lining both sides of the road, ahead and behind...curving around cliffside views in the moonlight of snow covered mountain valleys, Pink Floyd blasts back to the hooting owls, and yipping coyotes...

Great Album.

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Meddle is imo their best album, and one that doesn't get much credit. One of these Days sounds like it was produced 30 years after it was. Fearless and Echoes are amazing tracks.
 

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I was a huge fan, and had everything they did. Even the album Obscured by Clouds. I remember buying The Wall when it first came out. I was 13, and had the lyrics memorized in a few days. And then the Final Cut.

Still have a deep appreciation, but I have not played any of their albums for more than a decade.
 

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