Let's talk some Pink Floyd...

[bGIveNs33]

I'm a fairly young guy(19) and have recently gotten into Pink Floyd. I would have to say my favorite song so far is "Wish you were here".... actually, they are all my favorite. But, I have a few questions....

The whole wish you were here CD... I believe that is about a band member that died.... correct?

The whole Wizard of Oz deal, was that a strange coincedence?

Comforably Numb... I know that it is about drugs... but does anyone know what drug in particular?(no i don't do drugs... just curious)

And finally, where is the band today... who is alive and what are they doing?

Thx

Billy

 

[DivideBYZero]

Get 'Dark side of the moon' and listen to it with the lights off. The begining will do your nut in. It's fantastic!

 

[Insomnium]

Wish You Were Here is about a band member who left, not died.
Wizard of Oz - the similarities certainly exist, but I don't believe it was ever proven that Dark Side of the Moon was made with Oz in mind, but listening to Dark Side of the Moon with Wizard of Oz running on TV is damn cool! Pink Floyd just rules, period.

 

[feralkid]

No one died, but Sid Barrett (sp?) one of the founding members, is no longer with the band. There's more to the story, of course, but you may enjoy researching that yourself.

 

[shiner]

Oh by the way....which one is Pink?

 

[bGIveNs33]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Oh by the way....which one is Pink?

I love that line.

 

[Aceshigh]

They are still around, and they still do one-off shows and special appearances occasionally. Would love to see them tour again though.


Found this article on Launch.com:

(10/10/02, 3 p.m. ET) -- Pink Floyd leader David Gilmour is telling fans not to expect anything from the band in the near future, despite plenty of urging to reactivate it.

Gilmour tells LAUNCH, "The management sometimes rings me up and says, 'Hey, you should get out there and do some stuff.' But frankly, for me at the moment, that's just not what my mind is on. You know, I have something else I'm doing, and that's what my mind is concentrating on. Anything else is, you know, a distraction."

That something else is working on a new solo album in the wake of David Gilmour In Concert, a DVD and VHS due November 5 that was recorded at performances in June 2001 and January 2002 at London's Royal Festival Hall. Working with string players, a gospel choir, and other instrumentalists, Gilmour performed several Pink Floyd favorites, a couple of songs by Floyd co-founder Syd Barrett, a section of a Bizet opera ("Je Crois Entendre Encore"), "Hushabye Mountain" from the film Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, and one new song, "Smile," co-written by Gilmour with his wife, Polly.

Gilmour says that the concert performances represented on the video inspired him to concentrate on new music again, which supersedes any consideration of Pink Floyd activity, and particularly of the time that would require. "I wouldn't do a Pink Floyd tour without a new record--that just seems wrong, seems sort of insane. And to do a Pink Floyd project, which involves making a record and doing a tour, takes at least two years of your life--24-hour-a-day, seven-day-a-week concentration and hard work--so, as I say, that's just not what I'm thinking of doing right at the moment, not something that I'm relishing."

Pink Floyd has not toured or released a new album since 1994, although last fall it issued a retrospective, Echoes.

 

[SeaSerpent]

Pink Floyd is my favorite band. Check out this website hes got some cool info and downloads. I have the back poster as my desktop.


Ya Sid Barret left (or was forced out) He got a little to wacko. But we got David Gilmour in return

I think the song Comforably Numb was about heroin...


edit: I got to see Roger Waters preform, best damn concert Ive ever been too

 

[feralkid]

"Pink Floyd leader David Gilmour"



There are many who would argue that.

 

[SeaSerpent]

Roger Waters was the leader in my opinion, but dont get me wrong, I love David

 

[Analog]

I remember when I was in college, my roomate took the "wall" album, put it on his turntable and played the "Empty Spaces" backwards - and the hidden message was revealed. That was cool. He had a belt driven TT, crossed the belt (figure -8) to get it to play backwards.

 

[bGIveNs33]

hmmm.... my roomate has turntables....

 

[NutBucket]

Don't forget about The Wall and Alice in Wonderland. Also, what blank spaces on The Wall? Most of those songs flow right into the next. There can't be more then one or two blank spaces on the whole lp.

 

[bGIveNs33]

Originally posted by: NutBucket
Don't forget about The Wall and Alice in Wonderland. Also, what blank spaces on The Wall? Most of those songs flow right into the next. There can't be more then one or two blank spaces on the whole lp.

Yea, I love the wall because it is just like a story. My brother also has the wall DVD.

 

[Insane3D]

Originally posted by: DivideBYZero
Get 'Dark side of the moon' and listen to it with the lights off. The begining will do your nut in. It's fantastic!

Bah...

Do the same but turn on track #6 on "Ummagumma"... The title of the song should tip you off...

"Several Species Of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together In A Cave And Grooving With A Pict"

 

[LikeLinus]

I saw Pink Floyd on their last tour, 1994.

They played Vanderbilt Football Stadium and It was "technically" the best concert i've ever been to in my life. They sound dead on and the set design was out of this world.

They had their stage setup in one endzone with two huge pillars on each side of the stage with some sort of covered things on the top. The middle of the stage of course had a huge oval screen. There were lots of pyrotechnics.

The coolest part was the huge globe that was in the middle of the football field. It was like the worlds largest disco ball. During their last couple songs the globe started to spin faster and faster. It made the whole football stadium look like it was spinning. Then when it reached its peak speed it started to open up with these lights inside of it and it was about the coolest thing I've ever seen.

The two pillars, i forgot what song....all the sudden the sheets came off and these two huge mean looking blowup pitbulls start to fall from the pillars. I swear to god everyone thought they were falling into the croud, and going to kill people. All the sudden they stop and start bouncing back and forth.

It rocked

 

[Analog]

Originally posted by: NutBucket
Don't forget about The Wall and Alice in Wonderland. Also, what blank spaces on The Wall? Most of those songs flow right into the next. There can't be more then one or two blank spaces on the whole lp.

no, no, no - "empty spaces" is the name of the track.

 

[snooker]

you have got to see the movie The Wall!!!

Awesome movie!

 

[DivideBYZero]

Originally posted by: yellowfiero

Originally posted by: NutBucket
Don't forget about The Wall and Alice in Wonderland. Also, what blank spaces on The Wall? Most of those songs flow right into the next. There can't be more then one or two blank spaces on the whole lp.

no, no, no - "empty spaces" is the name of the track.

LOL

 

[Brutuskend]

I saw them when they did thier last tour as well. In Vancouver B.C.


zBest show ever!

 

[hagbard]

Originally posted by: shinerburke
Oh by the way....which one is Pink?

Sid was "Old Pink", he vanished into his mother's attic thirty years ago and hasn't been heard from since.


BTW, you should do yourself a favour and get some early Pink Floyd, like Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Ummagumma and Meddle.

 

[bGIveNs33]

From what I've read about the Pink Floyd shows... they seem to be similar to the show Tool puts on.(my favorite live show)

 

[Led Zeppelin]

Originally posted by: bGIveNs33
From what I've read about the Pink Floyd shows... they seem to be similar to the show Tool puts on.(my favorite live show)

No no no, Tool's shows seem to be similar to the shows Pink Floyd used to put on.

My favorite Floyd albums are: A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, Delicate Sound Of Thunder, Division Bell, Dark Side, Wish, The Wall. Oh hell, I like them all. I liked Floyd in the Syd Barrett era, but Gilmour really defines them in my opinion, even without Roger Waters.

 

[Armitage]

If you liked The Wall, take a look at The Final Cut.
Similar feel minus the persistant mental illness/drug themes of The Wall

I saw a documentary not to long ago. Apparently David Gilmour is somewhat embarresed by The Wall, but it's largely about mental illness inspired by the psychosis of former band member Sid Barret.




I've got a little black book with my poems in
Got a bag, got a toothbrush and a comb
When I'm a good dog they sometimes throw me a bone.

 

[tweakmm]

Comfortably Numb is speculated to be about opiates or a visit to the dentist. Neither would supprise me with PF