Pink Floyd Tribute Thread

[Stoner]

Don't know how this site has survived this long without a Pink Floyd tribute thread but now it has one.

Here's to the greatest band in the galaxy as well as one of the legendary guitar players of our time, David Gilmour.

I fully expect to hear a R-rated story from Lily about going to a show in Detroit.

Here's my favorite PF song as well as my favorite Gilmour guitar solo.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RyL2vAUVOM0

This song takes me to my happy place no matter what mood I'm in. Cool video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zlY-JlE5ZCo

[Stoner]

Good clips of Gilmour playing guitar.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSamNdnhKyw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NqUX4oPyhiY&feature=related

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mmXU7C7MYlw

Comfortably Numb from Pulse. Considered one of his best guitar solos (there's 2 in this song). Probably the best lightshow for this song I have ever seen.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JWnapx502uQ

[Stoner]

I know how much Lily loves this song. Here's the version they did on the Division Bell tour which is the tour they filmed the Pulse DVD.

Lily, if you don't have this DVD go buy it STAT! It's amazing and the video/audio quality is tight! It's also the first time they ever released the entire 'Dark Side of the Moon' set live on DVD. Towards the end of the show they do the whole album straight through.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lBWY3bli92Y

[lily]

I saw that.......and I remember it too!

Now lets get a little obscure......I love how it just builds.....it starts out so easy.......and then just grows......just like murder........and ok.....the guitar at the end........close to Paige......not quite there.......but close.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFyT_OrFPEM

[Stoner]

I love that song. Thanks for the post!

Do you have Pulse, Lily?

[lily]

......and of course a thread without the red-headed (Animals) stepchild wouldn't be a thread.




http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNa551dR6Rc

[lily]

Do you have Pulse, Lily?


Stoner.....I have them all. I also have a very bad quality bootleg of Dark Side of the Moon, ........before they tweaked it. At least I think it was Dark Side...it's been so long since I listened to it........in fact it make me rather ill...it's bad.

I also like what Roger Waters is doing, especially Amused to Death.

[Stoner]

Animals is one of their best albums.

Obviously we know all their albums but Meddle is one that most casual fans haven't heard. It's AWESOME! It was the one they did right before DSOTM.

This is my favorite track off Meddle. Fearless. Love this song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H_WQnzmV6WI

[Stoner]

Since you brought up Animals here you go.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WnDaiAZ3Z9A

[lily]

Fearless is the best cut off of Meddle.........I can only take so much of Echos. It's not something that you'd listen to over and over. Also......I do like the Pink saga........and there is no Pink in Meddle.

[Stoner]

Echoes is cool. It's like 23 minutes. I chill on the couch all the time and get blazed to that song. Love the guitar in it.

[Muser]

Much respect for PF! The 2nd album[1] I ever bought was Umma Gumma when I was 13 (having already listened to my sister's DSOTM album numerous times); I was chillin' with friends, listening to the album, thoroughly baked...Careful With That Axe, Eugene's crescendo scared me straight off the couch. Bloody terrifying that was.

I still have that same album. :-)

[1] The first was Earth, Wind & Fire's "That's the Way of the World"

[Stoner]

Careful With That Axe, Eugene

Nice!

Here's another old one from Saucerful of Secrets.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AvSHexRlNvo

[lily]

Umma Gumma is too chatotic for me.......about the only one I don't listen to over and over.

[Stoner]

The best album to trip to is their first one, 'Piper at the Gates of Dawn.'

[preservanation]

I chill on the couch all the time and get blazed to that song. Do tell, do tell...

[Muser]

Umma Gumma is too chatotic for me.......about the only one I don't listen to over and over.

It's certainly not my favorite, but it did have some rather interesting tracks. DSOTM will always reign supreme.

[Stoner]

DSOTM will always reign supreme.

Greatest album of all-time. It broke the record and spent something like 7 hundred and something weeks on the Billboard 100. That's like over 14 years.

I listen to DSOTM at least once a week. Ultimate smoking CD.

They're worst album was Final Cut. That was the last one Roger Waters did with them. That was when Rogers became out of control with his ego and pretty much decided the whole album. It was awful. Almost unlistenable.

[Muser]

Hey Stoner and lily - surfed across this tidbit today:

Tribute to Syd (Roger) Barrett (http://www.thecitywakes.org.uk/)

Rosemary Breen Shares Memories of her Brother and her Hopes for ‘The City Wakes’

When enigmatic Pink Floyd founding member Syd Barrett died in July 2006, his sister Rosemary could not believe the reaction the news received all over the world. But to coincide with the second anniversary of his death, today she is helping to launch an official tribute to the life and work of the 60’s icon, who sowed the seeds of the sixties psychedelic musical revolution, with the mental health charity Escape Artists. Here she shares memories of her brother and her hopes for ‘The City Wakes’ with Ben Titchmarsh.

Makes me wish I lived in Cambridge, England.

Oh, and this, also:

Pink Floyd receive 2008 Polar Prize (http://www.nme.com/news/pink-floyd/39301)

[Stoner]

Awesome, Muser.

Here's my favorite off 'Momentary Lapse of Reason.' The second guitar solo towards the end is great.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tI_sv5uswoY

[Wndrtch]

I have a funny PF story to tell.

Years ago, when I was just an underaged lad, I used to take electronics apart and see if I could fix them. One day, I was trying to see why my boombox wasn't playing anything. I had "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" loaded in the casset.

I had the thing apart and was playing the tape, and nothing was comming out. all of a sudden, I heard someone cough. I thought I was alone in the house, so I was a little startled. I said "hello, is there anybody there" out loud, convinced I heard someone in the room with me. No answer. Then I heard some sniffling. Now, I'm begining to believe in ghosts, and the hair on the back of my neck stood on end. Just before I started to ask the apparition's for it's name, I heard some music begin from my boombox.

The problem wasn't that my boombax was broken. It was fine all along. It had a left-right fade knob which was panned completly to one side. The song I had qued on the tape, was "Wish You Were Here", which starts off with a scratchy boombox playing in one channel, while you hear David Gilmore comming into the room, coughing/snorting a few times in the other channel. Having panned to one side, only played back the coughing parts.

[Stoner]

Funny shit.

I have a funny PF story to tell.

Years ago, when I was just an underaged lad, I used to take electronics apart and see if I could fix them. One day, I was trying to see why my boombox wasn't playing anything. I had "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" loaded in the casset.

I had the thing apart and was playing the tape, and nothing was comming out. all of a sudden, I heard someone cough. I thought I was alone in the house, so I was a little startled. I said "hello, is there anybody there" out loud, convinced I heard someone in the room with me. No answer. Then I heard some sniffling. Now, I'm begining to believe in ghosts, and the hair on the back of my neck stood on end. Just before I started to ask the apparition's for it's name, I heard some music begin from my boombox.

The problem wasn't that my boombax was broken. It was fine all along. It had a left-right fade knob which was panned completly to one side. The song I had qued on the tape, was "Wish You Were Here", which starts off with a scratchy boombox playing in one channel, while you hear David Gilmore comming into the room, coughing/snorting a few times in the other channel. Having panned to one side, only played back the coughing parts.

[lily]

That was pretty funny wnd. :lmao:

[preservanation]

That was pretty funny wnd. :lmao::thumbsup:

:clapper::clapper:
Best ever!

Woooooo, Ghosts,:madlaugh:!
No worries...
The lack of Floyd has the same effect on me too.

[lily]

Well you know....we got to give Waters his due too..........plus tax.


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiFC8nLfiUw

[Stoner]

Some of the bluesiest shit ever is in 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond.' I prefer the first ones. Love his playing.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_gmXtxScYs

[Stoner]

This is a great song off the Division Bell called Coming Back to Life. I absolutely love the guitar intro. It is wicked bluesy. Also extremely hard to play like Gilmour plays it. Such feel. Also has a very cool solo in the middle.

Cool video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhV4me_k8Y8

[lily]

Over played........but you don't even need drugs to get "the feeling".


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tkJNyQfAprY

[Stoner]

Over played........but you don't even need drugs to get "the feeling".




Perhaps but it's still a classic. Legendary guitar solo. I love Gilmour's voice in the choris. I also love the words Gilmour sings in the chorus.

Trivia behind this song. It was originally going to be on Gilmour's solo album but he never put it in. When they did the Wall he brought it out and Waters liked it.

Waters and Gilmour fought bitterly over this song (as well as everything else they did). Gilmour wanted it faster and more gritty while Waters' idea was how the song is now. Obviously Waters won.

The song is about being famous and dealing with fame. It's about the character not handling the sudden success and popularity and ending up in his hotel room drunk/on drugs to escape. The whole song is a conversation between the main character (Gilmours voice) and the medic who comes in and gives him a shot to make him better so he can get to the concert and perform (Water's voice).

Although I'm sure Lily knows that already :jammin:

[Stoner]

Another good one from Division Bell. Take it Back.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuaeQo0fnHk

[Stoner]

Marooned. Another great guitar song.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OMFiqNA6Ag&feature=rec-fresh

[Muser]

I have a funny PF story to tell.

Years ago, when I was just an underaged lad, I used to take electronics apart and see if I could fix them. One day, I was trying to see why my boombox wasn't playing anything. I had "Shine On You Crazy Diamond" loaded in the casset.

I had the thing apart and was playing the tape, and nothing was comming out. all of a sudden, I heard someone cough. I thought I was alone in the house, so I was a little startled. I said "hello, is there anybody there" out loud, convinced I heard someone in the room with me. No answer. Then I heard some sniffling. Now, I'm begining to believe in ghosts, and the hair on the back of my neck stood on end. Just before I started to ask the apparition's for it's name, I heard some music begin from my boombox.

The problem wasn't that my boombax was broken. It was fine all along. It had a left-right fade knob which was panned completly to one side. The song I had qued on the tape, was "Wish You Were Here", which starts off with a scratchy boombox playing in one channel, while you hear David Gilmore comming into the room, coughing/snorting a few times in the other channel. Having panned to one side, only played back the coughing parts.

Great story, wnd! Though I'm surprised you didn't ask, "hello, is there anybody in there?" :cool:

[Comrade]

Pink Floyd are great, don't get me wrong, but they aren't the greatest band in the world. That mantle belongs to Queen, and Queen only.

[Stoner]

Pink Floyd are great, don't get me wrong, but they aren't the greatest band in the world. That mantle belongs to Queen, and Queen only.

Queen is awesome but they're not as deep as PF. Then again 'deep' may not be a requirement for 'best band' in your eyes. Personally it is to me. To each his own. Glad you like PF, though. If you said they sucked I was never posting another pic of your woman again.

Did you buy 'Ashes of the Wake' by Lamb of God yet?!?!

[Comrade]

Queen is awesome but they're not as deep as PF. Then again 'deep' may not be a requirement for 'best band' in your eyes. Personally it is to me. To each his own. Glad you like PF, though. If you said they sucked I was never posting another pic of your woman again.

Did you buy 'Ashes of the Wake' by Lamb of God yet?!?!Haha well they are a great band!

*and I like those pictures*

No I haven't been into town for a few days, but I'm going in tomorrow so I'll get it then! Don't worry!! :)

[lily]

A sad day for all Floyd fans. (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1594800/20080915/pink_floyd.jhtml)

Pink Floyd Keyboardist Richard Wright Dead At 65
Founding member and songwriter had a 'short struggle with cancer,'
spokesperson says.
By Gil Kaufman

Founding Pink Floyd keyboardist Richard Wright died in England on Monday
(September 15) at the age of 65 after a battle with cancer. No further
information about the cause of Wright's death was available at press time,
according to The Associated Press.

"The family of Richard Wright, founder member of Pink Floyd, announce with
great sadness, that Richard died ... after a short struggle with cancer,"
read a statement from a spokesperson. "The family have asked that their
privacy is respected at this difficult time."

The self-taught keyboardist met bassist Roger Waters and drummer Nick Mason
in architecture school and in 1964 joined their group Sigma 6, which
eventually evolved into the Pink Floyd Sound. With the addition of late
singer/guitarist Syd Barrett - who left the band in 1968 and died in 2006 of
cancer - the group, now called Pink Floyd, began its rise as one of the most
creative and powerful psychedelic bands on the British scene.

In that early period, Wright was a major force in the band's pioneering
experimental sound, penning the songs "The Great Gig in the Sky" and "Us and
Them" on Floyd's legendary 1973 black-light rock opus Dark Side of the Moon.
He also added key vocals to the 1971 20-plus-minute epic "Echoes" and made
significant contributions to the songs "Atom Heart Mother" and the 1975
Barrett tribute "Shine on You Crazy Diamond."

At their peak, from the early 1970s through the early 1980s, Floyd were one
of the most popular, successful and influential rock bands in the world. The
group regularly filled stadiums with an elaborate show that at different
times included brain-bursting light displays, wild props, a giant inflatable
pig and, during the tour for 1979's The Wall, the nightly construction of a
giant wall across the front of the stage - a symbolic depiction of that
album's central themes of loneliness and disconnection.

Floyd's commercial breakthrough, 1973's Dark Side of the Moon, was their
first #1 album in the U.S. and spawned what is likely to be a
once-in-a-lifetime chart juggernaut, remaining on the Billboard albums chart
for an incredible 741 weeks to date - including 591 consecutive weeks, from
1976 to 1988 - on its way to selling more than 40 million copies worldwide.
The Wall served to further establish their commercial status by spinning off
such classic-rock radio staples as "Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2)" and
"Comfortably Numb."

However, as the 1970s progressed, Wright, along with Floyd singer/guitarist
David Gilmour and Mason, found his contributions diminishing as Waters
increasingly dominated the band's songwriting and direction.

In a group whose history is rife with decades-long grudges, Wright was not
immune to the inter-band drama, splitting with Floyd in 1979 during sessions
for The Wall, due to his strained relationship with Waters. He returned to
the group as a paid session musician for shows in 1980 and 1981, but he was
not included on 1983's The Final Cut, the only Floyd album on which he
didn't appear. Following Waters' departure, Wright rejoined the band in
1988. He played keyboards and sang on A Momentary Lapse of Reason and
co-wrote five songs on 1994's The Division Bell.

Wright, who performed on every Floyd tour, was also onstage in 2005, when
the surviving members of the band played a rapturously received reunion gig
at the Live 8 concert. Wright released a handful of solo albums and appeared
on records by Barrett, and he had been performing regularly with Gilmour.

[G.B.]

I wouldn't write off "The Final Cut". Being a veteran I"ve returned to it again and again. This is one of my favorites:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcpLJNQwO2g&feature=related

I will agree that Queen is one of the premier concert bands. They and PF are pretty close in that regard. Queen for the fun factor, but PF is tops for me because they took you outside your head and then a lot deeper into it than any other band that ever existed. Pink Floyd was the most cerebral band on the planet.

[Muser]

A sad day for all Floyd fans. (http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1594800/20080915/pink_floyd.jhtml)

So very sad. :sadly: So long, Richard - I hope you enjoy that great gig in the sky.

[Stoner]

NOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!

This sucks. Thanks for the info, Lily. Wow, horrible. He was awesome.

RIP, dude.

And Final Cut is the absolute worst PF album...ever. That's when Waters took complete control and put out a turd. Did not like that album at all.

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/133/373112862_be2fd34a13.jpg?v=0

[Stoner]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VfUalvKe-vo

[IndieVisible]

Every notice Pink Floyd makes more sense when your stoned?

sorry, never mind ;)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iNa551dR6Rc

http://i527.photobucket.com/albums/cc351/IndieVisible/obama-lipstick.jpg

[IndieVisible]

Ahhh the good old days, I was there when they were new, living it as it happened. Unfortunately I can't remember all of it, so I know I had a great time. But damn, the chicks, the dope, the music, the 70's was fucking cool!

[lily]

Fitting tribute.

[lily]

Ahhh the good old days, I was there when they were new, living it as it happened. Unfortunately I can't remember all of it, so I know I had a great time. But damn, the chicks, the dope, the music, the 70's was fucking cool!


I forgot a lot of what happend in the 70's and 80's......but I remember every single Floyd concert......no matter how fucked, or striaght up I was.

[lily]

Every notice Pink Floyd makes more sense when your stoned?

sorry, never mind ;)




Make more sense? I don't know......but it sure does draw you in more.

Best cut off the entire CD.

[IndieVisible]

Same here. We all use to party at parks 24/7. Was totally out of control. Cops just left us alone, too many of us to mess with. Any way we would all have the radio on in the cars, and every one had the same station on. It was kind of errie hearing the same song no matter where you were. The smell of pot every where. Coping acid was easy.

I remember one acid trip. Some dude was talking to us about Jesus as we were tripping, "Welcome to The Machine" came on the radio, and it was like we were beyond words. We were all at the same place and time, tripping to Floyd and God. Understanding for a split second was crystal clear. We were all one. In tune. Blew me away.

I am so grateful to have experienced the 70's the way I did. No regrets. We thought those days would never end. But they did. we all grew older, got married, got jobs, became mature. In the process we lost some innocence, and some thing else too I simply can not describe. They were good times in deed!

[Comrade]

I will agree that Queen is one of the premier concert bands. They and PF are pretty close in that regard. Queen for the fun factor, but PF is tops for me because they took you outside your head and then a lot deeper into it than any other band that ever existed. Pink Floyd was the most cerebral band on the planet.
Yes, yes and yes. PF really did make you think, their music is very artistic, but Queen still win it for me on the basis of Freddy's vocals (no singer come close) the quality of all their music (not just singles), the quantity of their music, and the sheer number of genres the band corssed and combined. It takes true musical skill to not only dabble, but be seen as one of the greatest acts in everything from hard rock to disco.

Queen Forever!

[Stoner]

Freddy's vocals (no singer come close)

Rob Halford is my favorite rock/metal voice.

[Comrade]

Rob Halford is my favorite rock/metal voice.

Ahh Judas Priest. he is an epic singer true...but Freddie...could do real low/real high, ery destictive even poetic at times...and bloody powerful Wooo!