Pink Floyd Appreciation Thread

Floydoid wrote: Yes, the Floyd certainly weren't the first artist to include sound effects (or 'musique concrète' if you prefer) in their recordings, but they pioneered making them essential to the song - imagine hearing 'Grantchester Meadows' without the bird songs, 'Money' without the clinking cash registers, or 'Time' without the chiming clocks. As in many other areas they were innovators, always trying to push the envelope and explore what could be done with the equipment and studio gadgets that were available at the time. And of course they have influenced and inspired so many other artists.

Yes. Probably the 2nd most influential ‘Rock’ band of the last 60 years next to Beatles.

Floydoid wrote: Floydoid wrote: The first time I technically saw them in action was seeing 'Live at Pompeii' at the cinema just after it was released. Only ever managed to see them live in concert once (at Earls Court in 1994). I must mention that the *Blu-ray remaster of 'Live at Pompeii' is quite a big improvement over previous releases - visually it is much 'cleaner' and the audio remastering by Steve Wilson doesn't detract from anything either!

I saw it in a moviehouse back in April, but wasn't overwhelmed. because they chose to keep the Abbey Road footage (Mason's applie pie without the crust is not that funny anymore).I didn't find the images any clearer than the original VHS release, which I still own) and didn't find Wilson musical tamperings really augmented Floyd's soundscapes.

I'd rather they included some of those Pop Deux (french TV) fimed tracks like Embryo, Cymbaline, Green Is The Colour, Set The Control, etc... from the St Tropez concert to make it a full-blown (lengthwise) film (better than horrible Director's cut on the DVD (the original movie without the interview is in the bonus, though).

The Dark Elf wrote: Saw them in... 1977 (Cleveland, where the crowd destroyed the giant inflatable pig, Algie) 1987 (Pontiac Silverdome) 1994 (Again, Pontiac Silverdome where Gilmour announced they were playing DSotM in it's entirety for the first time since Detroit, 1975) Best damn concerts ever.

You've got to be kidding.
I saw that tour twice in Toronto (1st & 3rd show of the tour - they rehearsed in Malton Airport) and it was a yawner - partly because of the AMLOR tracks throughout the set list. Two years later in Lille (France, it wasn't better >> the only notable change was that the red plane flying over the crowd and crashing into the stage was replaced buy a hospital bed.

Waters' show in the MLG for the P&CoHH tour was much better (Clapton on guitar), outside the fact that it was in arena (MLG) intead of a Stadium (CNE) to host all of those props.


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Edited by Sean Trane - August 10 2025 at 04:01

Man... I never saw PF personally... And maybe i never see him anymore. I From Brazil, and international gigs (or shows, you choice) are so much high cost to a very peoples what like rock (or Prog rock). To have an idea, the most low cost of BEAT in Brazil, is 700$, and this is a grand quantity in our country. A Drill Tour from Waters cost in my country, 1200$. It's very high.

The fact i bourned in 2000, don't help so much.

I can't remember if I already posted in this thread, but early Floyd, up to Dark Side, was one of my favorite rock bands, very experimental and creative. After they adopted a more stadium rock sound I mostly lost interest, there were still some good songs here and there, but it wasn't my kind of sound. The band that did 'Astronomy Domine' is the band I like.