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Pink Floyd Officially Breaks Up
NEWSOXY ^ | 08/17/2015 | John Lester

Posted on 08/17/2015 12:00:56 PM PDT by maddog55

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To: SamAdams76

The Doors also works well too.


81 posted on 08/17/2015 2:09:12 PM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: mmichaels1970

Still boring and depressing. To each his own!


82 posted on 08/17/2015 2:10:13 PM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: maddog55

If you have never heard them, check out two albums released by David Gilmour early in his career.

David Gilmour (Self Titled)

and

About Face


83 posted on 08/17/2015 2:42:39 PM PDT by Herosmith ("Hindsight alone is not wisdom, And second-guessing is not a strategy." - GWB)
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To: maddog55
Torn brutally apart by the eternal question:

How can you have any pudding if you don't eat yer meat?

How indeed?

84 posted on 08/17/2015 2:45:01 PM PDT by x
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To: Herosmith

On an Island too!


85 posted on 08/17/2015 2:46:31 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: maddog55

They are still alive?


86 posted on 08/17/2015 2:49:23 PM PDT by Chickensoup (We lose our freedoms one surrender at a time)
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To: Bloody Sam Roberts

Rick has his good days and his bad days. Well, it’s probably mostly bad since they put him in the ground seven years ago!

I want Pink Floyd to be over now that Rick’s gone. Alive and not interested? Fine. But, without him even available, time to shut it down.


87 posted on 08/17/2015 2:51:58 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: Freestate316
Yes, The Doors are another band to listen to when you are in solitude. I do find the music a little depressing but there are times when that is appropriate.

"Riders On The Storm" is my favorite Doors track. As a boy in the early 1970s, it was all over the radio. My specific memory of that song is a pizza joint down the street from my boyhood home that my mother would send me to when she didn't want to cook. One night she sent me down there to pick up a couple large pies and in those days, you didn't call ahead or get delivery. You showed up in person, paid your money and sat and waited while they prepared the order.

Anyway, it was a dive bar that happened to also make pizza. Even as a 10-year-old, I was allowed to sit up on the stool at the bar while I waited. It was a dark place and bikers hung out there. Those were different days, when a kid sitting at the bar wasn't a big deal. The bartender was this huge monstrosity 400 pounder of a man with wife-beater T-shirt and all the chest hair. Always scowled at me but he took my pizza money and let me order a Coke while I waited.

One night I go down there and it's thunder and lightning in the distance. I'm hoping the pizzas will be ready so I can get home before the storm. So I'm sitting there and this "Riders In the Storm" comes on the jukebox. Whoever was paying the jukebox programmed this song multiple times, probably because of the approaching thunder and lightning. So I remember just sitting there at the bar, with the thunder outside getting louder and louder, also listening to the thunder and rain in the song. It was kind of a surreal experience. Just myself, the giant bartender and a couple of old men nursing their drinks as both Mother Nature and the Doors put on a lighting and thunder show.

The storm was winding down as I got my pizza and I can still remember walking home on the wet streets with that song running through my head.

Anyway, that's how music affects me. Almost every song from my past has specific memories tied to it.

88 posted on 08/17/2015 2:54:25 PM PDT by SamAdams76 (We gave GOP the majority to take care of business and they let us down. Time for Trump/Cruz)
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To: Herosmith

The ‘78 ST is underrated. It’s good to listen to at 3am with no light but the Christmas lights ringing your bedroom ceiling. Mihalis just has a lonely, atmospheric feel to it.


89 posted on 08/17/2015 2:55:23 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: chris37

Lucky enough that my teen girls, especially my 19yo discovered and love the band. We went to see “Wish You Were Here” and “Several Species” tribute bands together. “Wish” did Animals cover to cover. “Several” had the full laser show and props. Great experience to share with my daughter.


90 posted on 08/17/2015 2:57:52 PM PDT by mmichaels1970
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To: chris37

That album is where my political and religious separation are just too much. The blasphemous take on The Lord’s Prayer and calling out a conservative woman by name are just too much. A friend of mine loves the album, though. I listen to any Floyd except Animals and The Final Cut.


91 posted on 08/17/2015 2:59:16 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: mmichaels1970

I saw Australian Pink Floyd. I don’t remember anything pre-DSOTM, but they did do a Division Bell song or two.


92 posted on 08/17/2015 3:01:32 PM PDT by Rastus
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To: SamAdams76

That was part of the point to their live performances. They were phenomenal in concert. Most concerts (outside of the showmanship) can’t match what they do in the studio. Pink Floyd delivered every time including the symphonies.


93 posted on 08/17/2015 6:00:47 PM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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To: SamAdams76

Their are definitely songs that I relate to different people, places, and periods of my life, good and bad.


94 posted on 08/17/2015 7:02:07 PM PDT by Freestate316 (Know what you believe and why you believe it.)
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To: Rastus

The members of Pink Floyd, though, are not conservatives, and they are not Christians.

Knowing this, I don’t get disappointed or upset when they do not act as such.

Similar to what another poster said earlier in the thread, I love their music so much, they get a pass.

People are strange, and believe all sorts of crazy stuff.

I can only control what I believe.


95 posted on 08/17/2015 8:33:17 PM PDT by chris37 (Heartless)
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To: maddog55

I’m thinking it was back in the late 1980’s I took the family to Opryland in Nashville before it closed down. They had an indoor roller coaster called Chaos. The ride played the music video of “Time” throughout the ride. It was as if you were flying around inside the clock LOL. DSOTM is one of the few albums I’ve had since the 1970’s in one format or another.


96 posted on 08/17/2015 9:13:28 PM PDT by cva66snipe ((Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?))
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To: maddog55

It pretty much was a done deal when Rick Wright passed away.


97 posted on 08/17/2015 9:14:04 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: Rastus

It was great that Rick got to tour one final time with Dave for the “On an Island” tour.

Sheer goosebumps when the first pings of “Echoes” came out from Rick’s keyboard. Can’t even remember the last time Floyd played it in its’ entirety.


98 posted on 08/17/2015 9:19:39 PM PDT by dfwgator
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To: maddog55
Saw them live three or four times back in the late 70’s, early 80’s. First time was in the Ummagumma era. First LP was Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Was only 15 when it came out. Quite a revelation. They were at their very best pre Darkside. World class music, world class Asshat politics.

Any suggestions as to who is making similar music today?

99 posted on 08/17/2015 9:46:45 PM PDT by ADemocratNoMore (Jeepers, Freepers, where'd 'ya get those sleepers?. Pj people, exposing old media's lies.)
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To: ADemocratNoMore

There is no comparison today. Most of today’s music is canned crap to get the most sales possible. Talent is severely lacking and it’s all about looks not music.


100 posted on 08/18/2015 3:03:15 AM PDT by maddog55 (America Rising a new Civil War needs to happen.)
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