Pink Floyd Appreciation Thread

micky wrote: goodies? details man. For the old, lazy, and keyboard challenged who can't be bothered to google it. I take it is isn't just a rehash compilation and there is 'newish' unreleased stuff on there.

Yeah, despite some familiar 1967 stuff, it's a great enough sampler of what must be in the box.
Given that if everyone here made a compilation of stuff from The Early Years, each CD would look different!
It's closer to "Relics" than "Echoes: The Best Of Pink Floyd" or "A Foot In The Door".
I thought it would appear as a separate item in the album chart but it seems to have counted as part of the box set in its brief chart run down from the top 20's.

Plus the version of Atom Heart Mother on the second disc is pretty much my go to from the entire collection.

Last week I travelled to London to see friends, and to visit the Pink Floyd exhibition. It's mostly excellent, and I highly recommend it.

I came across this neat article on Yahoo of an interview with Nick Mason about his Saucerful of Secrets project and his time in Pink Floyd.  Rather interesting that his new live album has a chance to be the number 1 album in the US this week.

AFlowerKingCrimson wrote: Pink Floyd is to prog what the Beatles are to rock in general. That is to say they are typically the first band you discover. They aren't my personal favorite but they are arguably the most important rock band who gets the prog label.

I'll post this here too since it is the appreciation thread.

rushfan4 wrote: I'll post this here too since it is the appreciation thread. <span style=": rgb248, 248, 252;">Pink Floyd have released 18 Dark Side of the Moon era live concerts on streaming services.</span><div style=": rgb248, 248, 252;">Pink Floyd share previously unheard Dark Side era live releases on streaming services | Louder (loudersound.com)

Last year they released a bunch of Pre Dark Side concerts, but after a few months took them down. I had been wanting to buy something from them from Itunes, but I took too long to make up my mind (I was particularly in a live version of Interstellar Overdrive with Gilmour that sounded better than the one from the early years boxset, and an early version of On the Run that was more like a jam than like sound effects).

rushfan4 wrote: I went and saw Brit Floyd at the Fox Theater in Detroit last night. It was a great show. The sound quality was excellent and the light and laser show was amazing. I never had the chance to see Pink Floyd live, but I had always heard how amazing their live shows were. I've seen Pulse on video and thought it was great, but it doesn't compare with seeing it in person. They are celebrating the 50th anniversary of Wish You Were Here and in the second set, they played the entire album in its entirety.

I’ve not seen the Brit Floyd but I’ve seen the Aussie Floyd about a dozen times; half of which were when Damian and Ian were in the band before they left to form Brit Floyd. Damian certainly plays a mean guitar and Ian can do a remarkable version of Waters.

I have had my fill with the Aussie Floyd, as excellent as they are, the set list typically remains 60% unchanged and I feel I have seen all they can offer. I wouldn’t mind catching Brit Floyd if I had a heads up of the set list, I know they are excellent musicians but it sort of pains me to say I get bored with just the crowd pleasers getting played, I would like to see Echoes, Careful With that Axe etc. This is something that the excellent Nick Mason’s Saucerful of Secrets have struck gold with.

I was lucky enough to have seen the Floyd at Earls Court in ‘94 (Division Bell tour) in what has later become known as the Pulse concerts. The light show technology has vastly improved since then, but the sheer scale was something else (the comfortably numb mirror ball was just behind me over my right shoulder)

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).