pink floyd

[scillyhalloumi]

Who here likes Pink Floyd/Fleetwood mac?

[Shaun]

Love both :love:

[MrGaryy]

Fleetwood Mac is a bit random LOL but yes I do love Fleetwood Mac. Stevie <33

[Princess]

*can't think of anything to say except they're Jason Orange's favourite band*

[scillyhalloumi]

*can't think of anything to say except they're Jason Orange's favourite band*

What does that tell you then?

[Princess]

Eh that Jason has good taste?

[Stu]

Balance on the biggest wave, you race towards on early grave ...

[Shaun]

I wish I had a cassette player, because of The Wall tape I have.

[Stu]

The Wall is so overrated. It's become, after DSOTM, the bands most iconic piece of work but good lord it's so, so boring to listen to the whole way through. And it's, like The Final Cut, basically a Roger Waters solo effort about his daddy being in WWI, with a bit of Gilmore guitars thrown on top.

Not that I'm doubting the brilliance of Comftorably Numb, or even In The Flesh? which still gives me the giggles.

[xDramatick]

I'm not really a fan but my bf's bought me a ticket to see Roger Waters - The Wall Tour next year, because he thinks i'll appreciate the theatricality of it.

I best get listening to the album then :)

[Lee.]

I'm not really a fan but my bf's bought me a ticket to see Roger Waters - The Wall Tour next year, because he thinks i'll appreciate the theatricality of it.

I best get listening to the album then :)

Darenn, you'll love it I guarantee! Where are you going to see it? The O2?

And yes OP, I love Pink Floyd and Fleetwood Mac!

No band better than Pink Floyd IMO :)

[James]

Just read about this today...

http://i28.tinypic.com/14432mf.jpg

Gilmour/Waters performing together again last Sunday at Hoping charity event.

They played the song 'To Know Him Is To Love Him'. Pink Floyd's Wish You Were Here and Comfortably Numb, and then someone in the audience donated £50,000 and they played Another Brick in the Wall (Part 2).

[BB_Eye]

They were great until Syd left.

[James]

The Wall is so overrated. It's become, after DSOTM, the bands most iconic piece of work but good lord it's so, so boring to listen to the whole way through. And it's, like The Final Cut, basically a Roger Waters solo effort about his daddy being in WWI, with a bit of Gilmore guitars thrown on top.

Not that I'm doubting the brilliance of Comftorably Numb, or even In The Flesh? which still gives me the giggles.

Equal second favourite album with Wish You Were Here, for me, after Dark Side. I don't really agree with the story of it (The Wall), but still love it musically.

[James]

News today of formerly acrimonious band-mates performing together again... ;) :p


The gig with David

Wednesday at 9:57pm
So here's what happened. Last year, 'The Hoping Foundation' a charity that supports Palestinian refugee kids, (www.hopingfoundation.org) put on a fund raiser at Ronnie Scott's Club in London, the idea of which was to raise money by auctioning karaoke performances by various celebrities. David was there as a supporter and was moved to perform an impromptu rendition of George Gershwin's 'Summertime?' which he performed aided and abetted by supermodel Kate Moss.

In the wake of that evening, someone, I think it was David himself, came up with this 'Wouldn't it be funny', idea. What if he (David that is) were to sing the old Teddy Bears song 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' with me (Roger that is), what with us having been so famously at each other's throats for years and years. Get it!!!! Anyway he E-mailed me with this suggestion and I loved it, so then it was just a question of juggling dates and deciding to do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'Comfortably Numb' to round out our little set. Or so I thought, until he sent me a number of very musical and eloquent demos of how we could do the song in two-part harmony. I listened with a sinking heart, knowing that David, with his superior vocal skills, could sing either part standing on his head, whilst I would have to search for a different key and then struggle through hours and hours of routining a performance that lay way outside my vocal comfort zone. To my eternal shame I bottled out and told Dave I would happily do 'Wish You Were Here' and 'C. Numb', but that 'To Know him is to Love him' was beyond me.

Some weeks passed with David cajoling me from time to time, telling me how easy it would be, but I clung resolutely to my fear of failure until one day he made one final entreaty. I quote "If you do 'To Know Him Is To Love Him' for The Hoping Foundation Gig, I'll come and do 'C. Numb' on one of your Wall shows". Well! You could have knocked me down with a feather. How ****ing cool! I was blown away. How could I refuse such an offer. I couldn't, there was no way. Generosity trumped fear. And so explaining that I would probably be ****e, but if he didn't mind I didn't, I agreed and the rest is history. We did it, and it was ****ing great. End of story. Or possibly beginning.

Roger

PS. Just heard from David, he will decide in due course which gig he wants to do, it will be a surprise!


http://www.facebook.com/notes/roger-waters-the-wall/the-gig-with-david/144577855556673

[setanta]

Equal second favourite album with Wish You Were Here, for me, after Dark Side. I don't really agree with the story of it, but still love it musically.

Yeah, they'd be my favs too, but I'd probably go for Wish You Were Here just because of the ambient soundscape. It's an amazingly trippy album and Shine on You Crazy Diamond is absolutely mesmerizing.

[LaLaLand]

Love BOTH! I've liked Fleetwood Mac since I was tiny, they were my first kind of non-mainstream musical "like".

As for Pink Floyd, I'd never really heard of them apart from "Brick in the Wall" but when I saw them doing Live 8 I was just blown away, it was absolutely mesmerising and they still remain in my top 10 favourite artists/bands of all time.

[James]

This was on Thursday.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3527/5716885362_dc65b8780c_z.jpg

:thumbs2:

[Shaun]

heard about that, need to try and find some vids of it

[Omah]

They were great until Syd left.

Yeah, "Piper at the Gates of Dawn" and "Saucerful of Secrets" are the only albums I still play - the rest are just too pretentious .....

(ed) ..... except for Ummagumma (Record 1)

:cool:

[Lee.]

This was on Thursday.

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3527/5716885362_dc65b8780c_z.jpg

:thumbs2:

:amazed: Just back from London! OH was at the concert, I chose not to go :conf:

I really really wish I had gone! :sad: He said it was ****ing brilliant!