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Topic ClosedPA's Battle of the Bands Final!!! Floyd v. KC
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oh yeah.. for sure...that did make a big difference in the overall sound of them.. but now that you mention it... hell did either have Nick Mason. LOL

I remember reading Gilmour had to go with session drummers when recording AMLOR because Mason had forgotten how to drum... ahh.. I could drum for damn Pink Floyd LOL  And they call it a Floyd album.. pfff.... it was a Gilmour solo album with a bunch of hired hands. 


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Points: 7024 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2015 at 18:25
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by Chimaera Chimaera wrote:

I have'nt voted yet. I admire KC for their complexity and originality, but I much prefer Floyd's music.

At the moment, I'm thinking of voting for Floyd unless someone can give me a reason to vote for KC that I have'nt thought of yet.



yeah man.. I can give you one great reason to not vote for Floyd LOL



I think it's got some amazing tracks on it. Not a masterpiece but not remotely as bad as some later KC albums with that useless wart from Talking Heads on them. Belew is an awful vocalist and his guitar playing isn't my cup of tea, like Fripp's. Skilful sure, bit it sounds awful.
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Since when was Belew a member of Talking Heads? Confused
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AngryAngry YOU!!!  ok..  I could handle the Camel-ELP thing.. that was of my making and in fun.  However... talking trash on Belew!!! A wart!!!  OMG!!

now that is war!! LOLWink
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Points: 6253 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2015 at 18:41
Originally posted by Lear'sFool Lear'sFool wrote:

Since when was Belew a member of Talking Heads? Confused
Lear'sFool, I cannot say much about this as I do not know much but you reminded me of David Bowie, Bewlay Brothers and this is for you SmileHugHeart   David Bowie Bewlay Brothers https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8a82arE0JSQ&index=77&list=PLMyHPEAFkfwM_QhxdQ8EBNtoGg_AeGUSS
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^ Why, thank you, Kati. Hug
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Points: 46843 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2015 at 18:47
vintage 'wart' himself!!! LOL
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

AngryAngry YOU!!!  ok..  I could handle the Camel-ELP thing.. that was of my making and in fun.  However... talking trash on Belew!!! A wart!!!  OMG!!

now that is war!! LOLWink
I had the pleasure of seeing Belew play about a month ago. That dude STILL plays with the passion of a twenty-something musician. Great show.
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Points: 12901 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2015 at 20:10
Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:


really... IMO you are talking apples and oranges there with those two albums.

this was late 70's Roger Waters you are talking about...the only man who could have given Fripp a run for his money as the Prog King of Curmudgeon and Acerbity...do you seriously think even the last thing he had going through his mind, in doing a album relating to his fathers death, one full of anger and lacking any semblance of melodic hooks LOL, was selling out and making a cash grab. oh no.  I think not man.

Even if so... hahah.. he failed miserably.. he needed a few more danceable beats.. or even a lame attempt to recreate the vintage early 70's sound to do that.
I don't know what the lyrics are about: lyrics are not very important to me, it enhances the music, but if the instrumental bores me I couldn't care less about them Ermm I understand why some people like that album though, but it's not really my thing.

One thing TFC and AMLOR don't have is Wright's input, and I think the lack of it affected both album... and not in a good way.


Indeed, Wright was instrumental for the sound of the band. Without him, a great part of what makes the band special is lost.
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Points: 12901 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2015 at 20:15
Originally posted by dr wu23 dr wu23 wrote:

Originally posted by King Crimson776 King Crimson776 wrote:

Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

<i style="line-height: 1.4; font-size: 13px;">' I think it's very facile, but a quite clever forgery ... The songs
are poor in general; the lyrics I can't quite believe. Gilmour's lyrics
are very third-rate.'<div style="text-align: left;" =""="">



Roger Waters

one could put it down to bitterness..if he wasn't so damn right about it LOL  Glimour was never a particularly gifted songwriter. Roger was (post Syd) the creative center of the group. Remove him and what do have ... an album in which RATT trashes anything and everything off of.


Sure, he's basically right but AMLOR is much better than the Final Cut and all solo Waters other than Amused to Death imo. Waters was the center of gravity in the band but the main problem was that Floyd were long since out of ideas by that point. Also, I never had the impression that Waters was ever the main musical force in the band.

 
I agree.....I never saw Waters as the 'musical force' behind Floyd as much as the lyricist and idea man and his bass playing and singing  was always average imho...and Waters took his idea for Amused To Death (arguably his 'best' solo LP) from Neil Postman's book Amusing Ourselves To Death.
 


I also don't feel like Waters really the most important creative center of the band until The Wall. At their best, they had input from all 3 (don't know how much Mason could have contributed, but on the writing credits he seldom gets mentioned). Dark Side is mostly a collaborative effort... with a few songs credited only to Waters... but the main reason he rarely is left out of the credits is that by this time he was the only one writing lyrics (and indeed he was the best choice for that), so that even if a song was composed without his input, once the lyrics are added he must be credited anyway. Even Animals, which is suposed to be where Waters began to take too much control, has Dogs, by far the longest (and for me the best) song of the album, and that one, as far as I understand, is mainly a Gilmour song, except, once again, for the lyrics.
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Points: 16952 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 23 2015 at 20:26
Easily KC.

Never been a big fan of PF. 
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Points: 7024 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2015 at 04:14
Originally posted by Lear'sFool Lear'sFool wrote:

Since when was Belew a member of Talking Heads? Confused

He never was, but he collaborated with them a lot.
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

AngryAngry YOU!!!  ok..  I could handle the Camel-ELP thing.. that was of my making and in fun.  However... talking trash on Belew!!! A wart!!!  OMG!!

now that is war!! LOLWink

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Points: 46843 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2015 at 05:48
So he gave them what they asked for,
but sent a wasting disease among them.
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Points: 1413 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2015 at 06:03
Originally posted by Dellinger Dellinger wrote:

 I also don't feel like Waters really the most important creative center of the band
The key word is synergy. A successful work collective, be it a band or indeed any other creative team, the result is always greater than the sum of its components. 

Waters in many ways resembles Lennon. The Beatles as we know them could never have happened without Lennon. In the Beatles context, Lennon was an undisputed genius. On his own, he obviously didn't stop being as talented and sharp-witted, but his post-1970 music is, arguably, mostly for fans and activists. 

McCartney was able to ride on the crest of the Beatles' residual elan into the Band On The Run.




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Points: 1413 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2015 at 06:34
Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

 I remember reading Gilmour had to go with session drummers when recording AMLOR because Mason had forgotten how to drum... ahh.. 

This reminded me of a good way of apologizing for an accidental public flatulence event: 'Sorry, folks, I forgot for a moment how to breathe, so ended up doing it @$$ backwards .. here, I got it right now .. phew, that was close!'. 

aka A Momentary Lapse Of Breathin' 
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

oh yeah.. for sure...that did make a big difference in the overall sound of them.. but now that you mention it... hell did either have Nick Mason. LOL

I remember reading Gilmour had to go with session drummers when recording AMLOR because Mason had forgotten how to drum... ahh.. I could drum for damn Pink Floyd LOL  And they call it a Floyd album.. pfff.... it was a Gilmour solo album with a bunch of hired hands. 
It's noticeable that Mason doesn't play much (at all?) there... and yeah he was no Neil Peart LOL

If you see it as a Gilmour solo album it's not bad, much better than About Face IMO
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Points: 46843 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2015 at 06:55
yeah yeah yeah... old topic... we've beat that sh*tstain of an album into the ground..

let's talk about the 'wart' damnit!!! Who gave new life, and direction to the mighty King Crimson




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Points: 1413 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2015 at 07:06
Originally posted by Meltdowner Meltdowner wrote:

 It's noticeable that Mason doesn't play much (at all?) there... and yeah he was no Neil Peart LOL 
Well, nobody is Neil Peart but Neil Peart. By the way, what's your opinion on drummers like Monsieur Schmitt: 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M2KOi_Ozf8A

or 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gxHYH9SbfHo

(sorry for offtopicking and for exposing you to rather unbridled fusion)

Or Herr Minnemann :)
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Points: 46843 		Direct Link To This Post Posted: January 24 2015 at 07:07
Originally posted by Metalmarsh89 Metalmarsh89 wrote:


I had the pleasure of seeing Belew play about a month ago. That dude STILL plays with the passion of a twenty-something musician. Great show.




yeah Raff and I saw him a couple of years ago.. some local coffee bar that doubles as a nightclub.  Stood like a couple feet from him and though my ears bleed from the shear volume.. it a was frickin fantastic show Clap


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