Posted on 08/27/2014 9:40:50 PM PDT by Squawk 8888
In May, Pink Floyds Roger Waters and Nick Mason published an open letter to the Rolling Stones encouraging the band not to perform in Israel. The Stones summarily disregarded Waters and Mason, and played to 50,000 adoring Israeli fans in June.
Even the Stones realize that Waters and Masons denunciation of Israel as the new Sun City is off base. Israel is not apartheid-era South Africa; its security barrier is not the Berlin Wall.
Waters and Mason are simply old-school hipsters who have latched on to the Palestinian cause to stay relevant. Their new film The Wall which launches at Torontos International Film Festival this Fall, undoubtedly will bring renewed attention to their music. But they see themselves as more than musicians. Like all artists, they seek to take down walls; deconstruct social systems; create revolutions that transform societies; and connect with a cause that seems just. Their decision to partner with extremists who seek to boycott Israel is part of that misguided project.
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Just listen to Pink Floyd......some of the most depressing lyrics around.
David Gilmour is a Palistine supporter as well.
http://elderofziyon.blogspot.com/2014/01/pink-floyds-david-gilmour-joins.html
Bummer.
The song I liked was “Interstellar Overdrive.” It had an almost Link Wray aggressive feel to it. Couldn’t/can’t stand overproduced, grandiose, music that pretends to be Rock. I despised bands like Vanilla Fudge. I’d rather listen to a Danny Gatton instructional video than suffer through listening to rockers with swollen heads!
Great music, terrible vocals. The crap he got away in the musical theater of the wall he continued to exaggerate until it can barely be called singing.
He’s definitely not the best vocalist I’ve ever heard.
His voice is well suited for some things, not so much for others. Still it’s a unique sound I’d say.
Sometimes as I skim through rock channels of this era, I would kill for Roger’s voice over the awful garbage I hear ><.
I mean let me tell you how happy I am when I stumble across Mother or Hey You on the radio these days.
David is a progressive.
They all are.
Thing is if I let politics decide which musical artists I listen too, then I probably listen to no one, and I like much too much to do that.
People are bat sh!t crazy. There’s not much to be done about it sadly.
Thanks for posting the link to Blue Floyd. Good stuff.
I’ve always liked that song.
Nice tune and Rick’s vocal delivery is quite pleasing.
IMHO, Wright’s keyboard work is the thread that held Floyd’s sound together. Usually understated, sometimes hardly noticed, but essential.
Just perfect.
To me Rick is an essential part of Floyd, his backing vocals were a huge part of their sound, as well as his keyboard work. It was a part that was sorely lacking on the latter Floyd albums, which for all intents and purposes were Waters solo albums.
Glad you liked it.
Precious little of it on the internet.
I definitely liked IO; there were three or four good songs on the double album, and the bad songs were uh... interesting and productive experiments. Sounds like you have a little bit of a punk sensibility when it comes to rock? (Real punk, not that horrible Green Day, which was the antithesis of everything real punk was about.)
I’m a Rockin’ Rockabilly Punk. Country pedal steel player, and long-time player of Delta Blues and bottleneck.
Well, I certainly respect that!
There’s only one Pink Floyd Album with Rick, but not Roger: the Final Cut. Although The Wall was more dominated by Roger than, say, Dark Side, Rick was very much integral, and you can tell by the sound. After the Final Cut, Roger left, and Rick rejoined, unofficially before A Momentary Lapse of Reason, and officially shortly afterward. (He was keyboard throughout Momentary Lapse.)
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