Absolute blast

[Cindy]

 It's 3 am. I've talked to my best friend (Virginia) I 've got Pink Floyd Pulse playing at max volume, I'm drunk. Who gives a damn about tomorrow.

Life is good.

Cindy, Hic

Why can't I play guitar like Dave Guilmor?

[tekla]

In some ways The Pink Floyd is the most consummate rock band in that they really are (despite all the internal squabbling, and projects) thought of as a band, rather than the four guys.  Each of them were really awesome at playing their instrument, yet, you rarely see them listed that way.  Lists of awesome drummers don't include Nick Mason, best bass players never list Rodger Waters, and Dave is never listed up there with the other outstanding blues guitarists, though pretty much he outsold the rest of them combined.

[spacial]

Pink Floyd are one of those, in a class of their own.

As for these polls and lists of who's best, they seem more like marketing hype. Putting some synthisized idiot along side a few well knowns.

Mind you, we must never forget that Michael Jackson is the officially recognised, most tallented, most skilled, most successful, most musical, most entertaining artist that can ever exist, or something like that.

[Mrs Erocse]

  It is nice you are having  fun. Rock on Cindy.

Hugs,
Patty & Roxy

[tekla]

Yeah, good thing Pink Floyd never did any marketing hype and steered clear of the whole commercial aspect of the recording industry.  I'm sure they have the #3 selling record of all time just out of sheer talent.  Unlike MJ or AC/DC who are the only people on the chart above them.

[Sarah B]

You have no respect for your neighbours do you?  Next time I will call the cops.  Unless of course you ask your neighbours to come over for a drink.

Each of the artists mentioned above are great artists in their own right and they all have some great songs that I like, but Michael Jackson and along with Elvis  Presley are so over hyped up from the media that it actually makes me turn against them.  If that makes sense.

Kind regards
Sarah B

[erocse]

I remember those days. Although it is tea for me now days, I am a bit envious.

I am glad you are having fun !!!


  Hugs Roxy

[tekla]

Without Elvis, the closest that Cindy would come to rockin' out would be Pat Boone.

[Jacquelyn]

  Young lady, are we going to have to talk again?

I'm glad you are having a good time. Haha

Hugs,
Jackie

[Lacey Lynne]

Cindy!  You complete party animal, you!  How dare you party to the max ... and not invite us?

Just kiddin' ya, babes! 

Back in The Day (1974-1979), I don't even want to tell you how many times my principal accomplice in altered states of awareness and I worshipped at the altar of tetrahydrocannabinol with who playing in the background at 100+ decibels as we were awash in colors from the black lights while the lava lamps percolated?

PINK FLOYD !!!

Greatest "Head Music" ever made.  Tekla's right about how they got so huge on sheer talent.  Of course, mayhaps honorable mention should go to the Moody Blues.  Then again, there's the Grateful Dead!

But, then again, theirs was "head music" of an altogether different sort.  Owsley Blues anyone? 

Cindy?  Cindy!  Girl!  Like, you're turning different colors ... splashes ... bursts ... hot, shimmering melting-wax colors!  Girl, you're gettin' wavy.  Purple haze is in my eyes ... and it's all around you.  What'd you put in that Kool-Aide, hon?  I'm a day tripper.   What have we done? 

Party on!

    Lacey

No, no, no, no ... I don't do it no more ... but sure as heck remember when I did!   

[Cindy]

I'm a little considerate ,
My neighbours can't hear anything  from my lounge room.

I think in many ways that Pink Floyd  were a very original band, and also had strangely strong principles that in the end made RW and the group split. There is a very interesting part of Pulse when Rick Wright talks about how he developed the piano etc chord sequences. His knowledge of jazz was/is profound and remembered chord transitions that others had used, we are not talking rock stars here, we are talking musicians.

When Syd Barret lost his mind due to drug abuse the band kept paying him his share for the rest of his life, even though he could no longer recognise them.  Roger Waters is a genius, a misused word but true in this case. I had the pleasure of meeting him to arrange a University concert  before most of the albums were released. A very astute person.

It is also interesting to see how Dave Gilmour has reacted to his son being a fool at a recent demonstration in London.  Do we all grow up?

Cindy

[tekla]

I like the Floyd up to a point, and that point is exactly Wish You Were Here.  DSOTM sold well on its own, coming out of nowhere, but I was kidding about the hype, they were as hyped as Elvis and MJ easily.  Particulary after DSOTM.  You don't break all sales records without falling into a world of hype.  I really like Meddle, Obscured By Clouds and the live set on Ummagumma.  That stuff was breathtakingly original.  But its almost impossible to follow up on THE GREATEST RECORD OF ALL TIME REALLY without becoming your own cliché and sadly they proved that.

Of course, I am one of those people who really feel that The Wall could have been released as a single with Comfortably Numb on one side, and Run Like Hell on the other and everyone would have been better off really.  Big rock stars whining about being big rock stars sucks.  But that's just me.*


* - remember one of my favorite all time comedies is Some Kind of Monster.  Watching Metallica whine, snivel and get all weepy blew that Evil Black Metal thing to hell and back.  In the end they were about as evil Don Knotts.

[justmeinoz]

Must have been something in the air last night, I went to a send-off for one of the Scientists at work who is moving to Darwin.  I was feeling pretty dysphoric because I couldn't dress the way I  preferred, everyone else had their LBD etc,so had a bottle of Brown Brother's Cienna, with my Thai meal.  Felt strangely better after that!

Bit of retail therapy down in Chapel Street in Melb today helped too. 

Cheers, Sandra.

[Cindy]

I like the Floyd up to a point, and that point is exactly Wish You Were Here.  DSOTM sold well on its own, coming out of nowhere, but I was kidding about the hype, they were as hyped as Elvis and MJ easily.  Particulary after DSOTM.  You don't break all sales records without falling into a world of hype.  I really like Meddle, Obscured By Clouds and the live set on Ummagumma.  That stuff was breathtakingly original.  But its almost impossible to follow up on THE GREATEST RECORD OF ALL TIME REALLY without becoming your own cliché and sadly they proved that.

Of course, I am one of those people who really feel that The Wall could have been released as a single with Comfortably Numb on one side, and Run Like Hell on the other and everyone would have been better off really.  Big rock stars whining about being big rock stars sucks.  But that's just me.*


* - remember one of my favorite all time comedies is Some Kind of Monster.  Watching Metallica whine, snivel and get all weepy blew that Evil Black Metal thing to hell and back.  In the end they were about as evil Don Knotts.

Personal opinion only. I think RW went into a total mania depressive state in writing The Wall.  It destroyed him rather than being cathartic, the only good stuff following DSOM was Hi Hopes and I think DG wrote it (haven't checked). They reached a point of not knowing who they were, musicians or a rock band. They were never a rock band IMO. I think that was what broke them.

Cindy