Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here (SIDE 1) | REACTION
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- @AirplayBeats reacts to Side 1 of Pink Floyd’s Wish You Were Here
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Bros I’m that 62yr old black man who discovered this about 73 74. I’ve seen them twice!! It truly warms my heart to see young brothers learn this music. Me and my brothers were talked about back then cuzz our people didn’t understand. I love our R&B but the world is so much more! Yes, you see a movie in your head becoz that’s wat happens wen ur floyded!!! All their music is diff.Dark side didn’t sound like this and Animals which is next doesn’t sound like this. Lyrics mean a lot, a whole lot with Floyd! So start trying to understand. This album is about their band mate who started it and mentally lost it. And Animals is about society. Thank you for giving this a chance, and listen…..🙏🏿🙏🏿
I’m black too. Like my R&B, especially the back in the day stuff, but also like the various genres of rock and metal. Plus rock and then metal is an evolution from American Blues, so it’s all of a piece. 😊 Music is for everyone. If you like it you like it!
when they recording this album Sid came to the studio. He watched them, and left. They didn't recognised him.
Gilmour's iconic guitar playing is very rooted in the blues, especially in Shine On You Crazy Diamond and many of his solos. And the name Pink Floyd came from 2 blues musicians that Syd Barrett admired, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council.
Plus ...they were intesly influenced by blues music 😉
Do we have to -recall- remind anybody that "Pink Anderson" and "Floyd Council" were the base of their name ? Both black blues musicians.
We called this music “head music” back in the day. You would put the record on in your room or living room and close your eyes and it would take you somewhere else. Pink Floyd are definitely their own genre.
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...i spoke to someone who tripped with headphones on alone at night, in bed listening to umma gumma for the first time, when "careful with that axe, uegene" came on, the live performance. He freaked, nearly shit himself when the screaming started and chopping got frenzied.
I thought we called it head music because back then being a head meant you got high, and when we listened to Pink Floyd back then we got high. You had the jocks, the brains and the heads though it was cool to cross over to all three groups if you were a cool smart athlete.
I was called "a head" for listening to rock and progressive music like it was a bad thing. Remember this was a largely backwards era where being "a tree hugger" was supposed to be something horrific. Same crowd of trouble makers. And I don't mean "the heads and tree huggers". We need more heads and tree huggers.
But you left the drugs bit out 😅
Floyd sound is unique, there’s no band quite like them, they’re in a genre by themselves, fact🙏👍
I do agree but they are psychadelic blues ultimately.
Prog-blues?
@@PickpocketJones yes they were but when i grew up in that era i listened to them,zep,black sabb and queen,others like bad company,many great bands too numerous to mention but the first three were my stable picks
They are a European Psychedelic fusion band. They fused R&B, Blues, Soul, Funk, Acid Rock, Choir Music, and everything under the sun to make their sound. They are pioneers in their own right and the music speaks for itself. Love everyone in the comments section! We should go to a show sometime haha
That's is exactly why no one covers their music!!
This album is so great partly because of Richard Wright's keyboard and David Gilmour's guitar, impeccable!
Shine on you crazy diamond is a tribute to band co-founder Syd Barrett who basically took LSD every day for a couple of years and wound up becoming mentally ill from the drug use- some believe it was schizpherenia. Syd was doing laser shows, essentially "raves" in small clubs for Pink Floyd's early live tours in the 60s, trippy lyrics etc as the singer and song writer, Guitarist David Gilimour joined when Syd couldn't function anymore to take over guitar and singing. Syd did release a solo album later but died basically a recluse who was cared for by family members
Predisposition to schizophrenia caused him to go crazy, LSD itself has been shown to have no effect on "mentally sane" individual's, but if your family has a history of mental illness it can get passed down through the bloodline and psychedelics drugs could act as a potentiator for mental illness years before it would come out naturally.
Syd actually showed up at the studio while the band was recording this album, but he looked nothing like himself - way heavier, bald, and barely there mentally, almost catatonic, just a shadow of himself. It took the rest of the band quite a while to figure out who he was and it really hit them hard emotionally, apparently they were in tears after he left. This is a brilliant album, really looking forward to hearing your thoughts. Peace and love from Canada! ☮
"Now there's a look in your eye, like two black holes in the sky"
Gets me every time
@@hpawebster65 Right? Just a killer lyric, absolutely gut-wrenching.
Just about to write that 😂👍🏻
No band in this world is like Pink Floyd, period. All of humanity needs to have the pleasure of listening to these men bring humanity together.
I graduated high school in 1975. Can’t tell you how important this music was to us. Life changing. Thanks for listening to it with me.
That’s how you do a Pink Floyd reaction.
All the way through, on vinyl.
Kudos gentlemen.
Careful Johnny…I hear he’s real fast
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* twirls six shooter *
@@johnnyringo1949 welp time to watch tombstone lol. What a great movie
@@argentsilver928The Best
This album is an absolute MASTERPIECE.
My favorite album of all time. It’s best turning the lights off and laying back.
What an album. We called it head music back then. :)
Lol 🤣 truth!!
WE CALLED IT ACID MUSIC
We called stoners “Heads”. None drug users were “Straights”..
I used to have WELCOME TO THE MACHINE as my greeting on my answering machine, lol.
Ahhh answering machines. So nice to think of a time before cell phones.
“Way ahead of their time”, you say. True, in a “time” that was full of bands ahead of their time! Yes, King Crimson, Tull, Zeppelin, Zappa, Grateful Dead, Emerson/Lake/Palmer, and on and on! It’s the very reason so many of us older heads have trouble relating to a lot of “music” today! The sixties and seventies were heady times indeed!
Why y’all haven’t already at least reached 100k subscribers is beyond me this channel is the real deal absolutely nothing fake about you guys it’s obvious you know music not only from a just a listener’s viewpoint but your technical knowledge and production knowledge is outstanding y’all know what your doing and you for real “get it “
Spot on comment don't get why but hopefully it will snowball when it gets to that critical mass.
I agree but it will def grow with the type of stuff they are listening to and how cool they are.
A lot of people can't much relate to reactors who really understand music and its creation and production
Well, they added one new one today with me!! This came up on my recommendations & I subbed after about 2 minutes lol 😎👍
Agreed. Turned my sister onto them as well. She said the same thing, they are real, genuine.
I saw this tour in 1977 at Madison Square Garden and they played the complete album and it blew us away! Oh and then they played the complete Animals album also. BTW the ticket cost $10.50. Yes that's right ( ten dollars and fifty cents ) The encore was Money and Us and Them. I may be old but I saw the best bands. Enjoy side 2.
I saw this same show, 21 years old and I’ve never looked at or listened to music the same since.
That must have been an amazing show!
@@kevinmcfarlane2752 One of my all time favorite shows.
Ticket prices today are crazy!!! As a teenager, we could afford to go see a concert.
I saw the same concert except on the Best coast, Anaheim Stadium. I was 21 and we had a picnic sitting on the outfield grass. Wine and Doobie's. What a trip! Those were the best days. 🌌 👽🌛👣✌️
I remember the first time I heard the outro of Welcome To The Machine. I never knew bitterness could be conveyed through a synthesizer. The dark disgust and bitterness of that song is so beautifully expressed through both the vocal delivery and instruments. It still blows my mind after all these years. It’s music that truly stands the test of time.
I knew once that sax dropped in Shine On You Crazy Diamond it was over. That shit still hits so hard no matter how many times I hear it and it was genuinely amazing to see how much of an impact it made. You guys are awesome.
I saw them in Cleveland in 77 animals tour 2 days before I went to the Army I was still recovering in ft sill.
See how u guys were HOOKED? No words no lyrics..? 7 min in..still hooked..
That's the best..
I'm riding with the brothers again! Your selections have been absolutely tremendous lately!!!! Zeppelin, the Dan and now Pink Floyd, no reason to even change the channel!!
Ahead of their time yes but their musicality will never ever be questioned or beaten period ❤❤❤
This was the opening number to their shows I saw in 1987 and 1988 at RFK Stadium in DC. The build-up was intense. Gilmour described his riff as a "lament" which is what it was: a sad tribute to their former bandmate who went insane after excessive LSD use back in the sixties.
Dick Parry played baritone and tenor on this number, and also featured on Dark Side.
He also toured with them a good while.
I saw that tour: JFK stadium in Philly. Amazing!
Pink Floyd always took their time. That's one of the things I love most about them ... they were never in a hurry to get anywhere. If they were going to blow your fucking mind, they were going to do it right.
"Where have you been?
It's alright, we know where you've been.
What did you dream?
It's alright, we told you what to dream"
Watching you guys is now part of my daily routine.
Your reactions are so genuine and expressive.
Makes me think back how I felt when I first heard this album
I suspect you will enjoy side 2 as much or more.
I've been a PF listener for 45 yrs and their evolution in this period is so interesting and great. I feel the band was much better after syd barrett and when Roger took creative control of the band and its concepts and writing but so much of Roger's writing and concepts are inspired by Syd or just flat out about him like this one. It's such a cool dynamic. The early syd floyd albums are a little too psycho trippy for me but there are some nice gems in there but the 70's is the gold.
Don’t you wonder if they even knew how great they were when they were creating this?❤
When you guys do Part 2, pay attention to how it transitions from Welcome to the Machine into Have a Cigar. Think of `Shine On You Crazy Diamond,` as bookends to the album. First part at the beginning and the last part at the end. It's kind of like a prologue and an epilogue with the story in the middle. You'll get more out of it.
21:52. "That might be the best thing i have EVER heard" hahahahaha. i have said that 1000 times with Floyd over the years.
I witnessed Pink Floyd in 1977 at Soldier Field in Chicago. I was 17 and to this day have NEVER seen or heard anything comparable. The sound was just piercingly clear. The visuals were just awesome, it was the Animals tour. Yes stadium music, but yet enjoy them so much at home on my own system. I also saw Zeppelin in 77, nothing like Floyd tho
"The instruments are talking"
Hell yeah
"That may have been the best sound I've ever heard." Oh man, that was amazing! I'm new to your podcast, and enjoying you guys. Nice to see the appreciation go deep and musical.
We didn't really do the headphone thing, but instead would smoke a doobie, :D and then just lay back and relax, in the center of 4 speakers, close our eyes and feel the music. Pink Floyd is an experience. I remember quadraphonic sound, what Pink Floyd was most known for, but if you used 4 speakers, you would hear things that you wouldn't hear just using 2. I do remember when this album first came out, Dark Side was still going strong. Even though we loved it, it wasn't 'yet' played as much as Dark was still being played.
As with Dark Side of the Moon, Animals, and The Wall, this album starts and ends on the same song and note so you could play continuously and seamlessly.
DSOTM starts and ends with a heartbeat, not the same song.
Yes, and who wouldn’t want to play their music on a continuous loop?❤
@@neillenet291 you knew what he meant. The records are book ended.
Now imagine this with 50 thousand of your closest friends in Rice Stadium in Houston Texas 1994 with lights and lasers everywhere and it starts raining. It was absolutely the best concert of my life even though it ended early because most all of the instruments shorted out.
Recently saw Roger Waters (bassist and other singer of Pink Floyd) a few months ago. Best concert I’ve ever been too hands down. I wasn’t alive when the whole band was together so this was the next best thing and it still didn’t disappoint one bit. He performed songs from almost all their records and you’re absolutely right, this music is made to be performed in stadiums.
was it the diaper trump tour
I saw Rogers show in Manchester UK a few years ago. Unfortunately the band had stopped touring by the time I got into them. I've seen a lot of big bands but that show was the best I've ever seen. Have tickets to see him again in June.
Too bad you missed David Gilmour and Rick Wright, the true talent in Pink Floyd!
@@detroitlady7201 I know! It would have been so wonderful to see.
Great band pf, and "the pros and cons of hitchhiking" is fucking great and i dont let a musicians dodgy opinions spoil my enjoyment of their music but I find Waters has some really dodgy views...I wouldn't put a penny in his pocket...
Favorite part of this reaction, how much you love the singer, no my friends there are singers and they are both once in a lifetime. Not to mention a guest singer on "Have a Cigar"
Ohh you guys the excitement of waiting for a new album....you only got to hear songs on the radio. No videos.
We had midnight special on Friday nights. Saturday night was Don Kirchner rock concert 73-81. You crack that seal ... the art work... on all 4 side of cover... some sleeves had songs on them.
🤣🤣 The cheech and chong album had a massive rollin paper in the center...
My old man ... set up our living room kitchen first. Speakers had to be so far apart. 6 " maple turntable, he picked the arm stylis.
His amp and preamp.
Monster cables gold tip connections. Tweeked it all the time.
Then seating....🤣🤣
That rich live sound. (Our neiubours loved it too) Cheers
Shine on Syd you crazy diamond 🙏 ✨️ 💖
The sax actually starts with a baritone and then switches to a tenor..same player as dark side of the moon.....great job guys. Doing amazing work.
Rick Wright (RIP) in many ways is the star of this album with his sweeping cinematic keyboard playing and sounds.
I'ts always fun to watch people descend the rabbit hole. Enjoy the journey!
In the mid 80s, I turned this older black dude onto Floyd. He thanked me every day. I also introduced him to YES, which he also liked. But nothing like PF!
This music is why planetariums were created. I remember going to the St Louis planetarium in the late 70s, early 80s and you'd see heavenly bodies moving in sync to the sound of PINK FLOYD playing in your headset.
Yes, same sax player, Dick Parry. Shine On part 1 at beginning of album, part 2 at end. David Gilmour on harmony vocal and lead guitar. And they sounded just as good live as they did on their albums. Amazing album.
That's Roger Waters on lead vocals for Shine On. Gilmore on the harmonies. Gilmour performs it live cause of course Roger was no longer with them after 85.
Floyd will teach you a whole new way to listen to music. Seeing y’all laughing in disbelief of just how good it was really made my day.
Shine On You Crazy Diamond, my favorite Pink Floyd song....at least one of them. Great reaction.....
It's Home music.. we used to have some serious equipment back in the day !!! Receivers, speakers, turntables.. we lit that shit up Real good !!! My whole neighborhood listened to Pink Floyd,and all of my other smoking stuff. 🌞
One thing can be said: this music is packed to the brim with a duality of extreme restraint and unraveling abandon, but they never let it get away from them, yet it’s never in a cage…
Stadium music indeed. Saw them at Soldier Field in Chicago in 1994. With Pink Floyd the entire stadium is wired for sound. Speakers literally 360° around the stadium. So all the music, sound effects, spoken voices, are all reproduced live as it is on the albums and it comes at you from all directions. I don't think the albums were recorded with stadiums in mind so much as they were for a full rich sonic experience through your speakers and headphones. I've also seen them at an indoor arena. Same deal. These guys are perfectionists in every sense of the word when it comes to music. I've never heard of anyone who attended a Floyd concert complaining about the sound. Looking forward to side 2.
It’s also very intimate music. You, alone in the dark. Just you & the music.
@@sukie584 absolutely! Probably intimate first and foremost. Transformed to spectacle in ways only they can when performed live and in stadiums.
I heard someone say of “ Shine on you crazy diamond” that the whole universe is contained within this song”
As I listen I'm sitting on the front porch, it's drizzling rain and I'm enjoying a king size home grown blend with my best buddy laying at my feet.
I can honestly say I live the life of a king.
Love watching your facial reactions, I was the same back in the day, Wish and Dark Side just blow you away, cos you’re never quite sure what’s coming next. By the way Dark Side is 50 this year and we’ve been together all of them, and ATM Wish is on in the car.
Floyd is a humungous vibe. You don't just listen, you get taken away, kidnapped by magicians who take you on a trek who won't return control of your senses until they're good and done with you 20, 30, 40 minutes down the musical highway. Second to none. Singular and epic. Floyd.
Couldn’t have said it better Mr Zappa :);)
Guys, vinyl is cool. Full respect, I shake your hand. Pink Floyd is my favorite team. Greetings from Russia. I noticed the cap of the "Dynamo" club, a smile appeared automatically.
I was living in a co-ed college dorm (Haggett Hall, North Tower, Devoe House), UW, Seattle, WA 1972-76, and Pink Floyd albums were often played. Usually. on a weekend evening, we'd go to someone's dorm room that had the best stereo equipment of the time, like Bose speakers mounted high in the corners of the dorm room-played somewhat loud but not over-whelmingly loud. And we might be under some effects at the time too. You didn't have to be in a huge stadium to enjoy this music. But, in Sept. 1972, I did see Pink Floyd perform the entire "Dark Side of the Moon" album, in quad sound bouncing all over the four corners of the Hec Ed basketball pavilion. What a memorable concert! (And, as we all now know, that LP went on to become a classic.)
Best reaction channel out there, nicely done! "Animals" is a must play through. You won't regret it...ask anyone.
Thanks for hearing the guitars talking. Ive been saying that fo 40 plus years from the very first time I heard. Gilmore is a genius when it comes to drawing emotion out of his playing.
The Division Bell is an absolute Masterpiece...! "A Great Day For Freedom", "Wearing The Inside Out", "High Hopes", "Lost for Words"
that album means more to me than can be typed. it is my go to after a life change, or a depression.
Highly underrated for sure. A bit overproduced, but great. The only kicking it gets a4e from the Roger Waters fan boys.
I think it's their best, but Waters fans will be here to talk s**t
@@ThomasTallant Check out the '78 solo album from David Gilmour ~ "No Way Out Of Here", "Raise My Rent", "So Far Away", "I Cant Breathe Anymore" and "No Way"....
If you like The Division Bell, I think you will like it as well...!
As for the Waters fans.... What has he done without David and Rick's composition and production, which turned his concepts and lyrics into music with a worldwide appeal...?
Waters was a great lyricist and vocalist, but it was David and Rick that made it music...!
i can’t listen to high hopes, it’s too depressing
This came out just after I graduated from high school when the legends of the late 60's and early 70's were fading or were dead. This song dropped my jaw and that of my musically aware friends, and still does today. David Gilmore was such a genius as was Roger Waters and the rest of the group in writing a tribute to Syd Barrett, a founding member of the group who literally descended into mental illness.
Ahh the classics.
So happy it entered your lived it will not be the same. You heard it now!!!! Music be the food of luv...play On... Momma has always said.... floyd is musical story telling!
Now imagine if you didn't wait what you would have missed.
Can't judge a song by the intro!!!🤣🤣
Cheers
Just can't get enough Floyd, thankyou 🙏 this album is really about watching their friend and band member detatch from reality, when is part 2 ? 😆 🇬🇧 ❤️
Hopefully next week.
Good to see more people enjoy Pink Floyd. Welcome to the machine..
I don’t if you’ve ANIMALS or not but if & when you do, you will not be disappointed. My favorite album of all time. The winter of 1977. Me & my boys spent the entire season listening to it like it was in our DNA.
Welcome to the machine is about the record industry in the late 60s and early 70s that would chew up and spit out artists....and Have A Cigar finishes the thought
The intro is why I started playing the guitar, and this was the first song I learned to play start-to-finish.
I know what you mean same thing happened to me.
I dunno man--a kick ass audio system (or a great set of headphones) and some THC made for a mighty fine concert experience. 🤯
Still does.
PINK FLOYD....What more cane I say! Love it guiys!!
I'm so glad the younger generation appreciate Floyd, they where as you say, way ahead of their time..fun fact...🙄 as a young teen when they "came out" my parents generation where still listening to Sinatra 😳 they where HORRIFIED when they heard Floyd 🤣🤣🤣🤣 quote.."ya can get that shite off right now" was often heard when we tried to put our albums on the deck...🤣🤣🤣👍
You guys hit the nail on the head. They created their own genre. The artistry, the ability to weave sounds and effects into their music, they way they created a concept is just peerless in the music world. Loved your reaction to side 1. It's easy to tell you guys are diggin' what Pink Floyd laid down. Looking forward to side 2 dropping. Keep up the great work.
Im 64 an i saw them at the SilverDome ! I have yet to see "any" production like it .....period. An actual "airplane" on a wire come over our heads an crash behind the band , pyro an all , speechless
Dudes I was 10 when this came out...my sister is 5yrs older than me and introduced me to a lot of music. Every time I listen to this it's the same one you 2 had for the 1st time...way cool, way different,,,Floyd
Remember three of the 4 Floyd members sang. David Gilmour (lead guitar) and Roger Waters (bass) traded lead vocals, and Rick Wright (keyboards) sang backup and harmony vocals on many tunes. Shine On lead vocal was sung by Waters. So there are 2 lead vocalists. Gilmour has the smoother huskier baritone voice, Waters the slightly higher thinner voice.
Love you guys and look forward to your morning video here on the east coast. Shine on is my favorite song. Thanks!
Man, Pink Floyd is just different. So much creativity and imagination.....and they took huge risks. To me, the greatest rock band of all-time. Doesn't mean they rocked harder than Zeppelin or others, but the unique creativity is unmatched.
They rocked harder than Zeppelin and others.
pink floyd created a new class of music we called it Head music 15 min. before a concert started people would light up 3 50 gallon drums with a 1/4 pound in each of columbian gold panama red or florida green depending on the time of year
~17:00. “Dropping’ all that butter” and “Cookin’ with fish grease”…..that made my day.
I better double up on my Lipitor tonight.
All the best guys.
From the uk, great channel if you are going down the rabbit hole with floyd check out, Pompeii live performance song ECHOES, when the band where young and all together. Cheers 👍👌
Loving your passion and adventure into the music of my youth and early twenties. I am 71 and it warms my heart the respect you are giving some of the all time great music of our time. Great music never dates or ages. Thank you guys Geoff
More Floyd trivia... They were THE go to club band for The Beatles and The Stones by 66/67, the avant-garde of their times in a pop sense. What i found the coolest is that the BBC had them jam their sound for the BBC's coverage of the moon landing.
I was 17 when this came out, one of my favorite albums.
Actually, that’s a baritone sax Dick Parry starts with, (on Shine On) when the tempo changes mid solo, he switches to a tenor sax. Watch the video of this song from the Pulse concert and you’ll see him with BOTH hanging from his shoulders, and then the switch occurs. Sat right in front of him for Pulse, and it still blows me away. Good to see young men enjoying what we grooved on back in the day. Until you hear it for yourself, no words can capture the experience. Enjoying your reactions, even with the seldom miss, (just like the rest of us) your knowledge of the era’s music is right on track. Regards 🤘😎
the man's name is Dick Perry
@@Yausbro Lol, your right (of course). Funny thing is, I knew that. Another example of my brain missing a synapse with more frequency these days. 🤔👈 However, we’re both half right. His last name is Parry. I’ll edit original comment. Much appreciated.
You know it's gonna be a good day when you start it off with a little with you were here and watching you guys enjoying the experience. Thank you
Our pleasure!
« Man! … That might be the best thing I ever heard! … as far as sound is concerned… » 😎😆🥹 Awesome!! The BEST quotes from you guys. Lovin it!
Watching you two listen to this reminds me so much of being 17 and hanging with my buddies in our first shared apartment getting high and listening to Floyd.❤😊
I saw them in concert 1971 he just dropped a new album. They play Echo for the first time live. The concert was at the University of Toledo Fieldhouse Halloween. If memory serves me correct tickets were $2.50. Piece✌️🤘🎶
I found you guys yesterday & have been binge watching. You guys are great at this, keep it going. Love your reactions as guys with music backgrounds and knowledge. Loved all these bands.
This is why the music of the 60s and especially the 70s was just different than anything today. You can listen to music today and see that they took from the 70s in the 60s. You can hear it like you said EDM.
But with this stuff came out, there was nobody before than that they were copying. It just came out of the air came out of. Their imagination, came out of their inspiration nowadays I personally don’t hear anything like that everything is just rehashed it might be creatively put together in a different way, but everything is rehash from what came before.
Where is the brand new sounds in the brand new vision? It was a magical time in music.
I like that you guys delve deep, listening to time signatures, phrasing, the nuances of background instruments, and lyrics, as well as the obvious meat and potatoes of the songs. I dig your channel.
After Dark Side of the Moon. They were pressed to get another album out. They turned up to the studio with nothing and this is what they produced. Can’t wait to see you react to side 2.
My ultimate favorite track. Evokes so many emotions.
So glad you recognized the sax, I just love the sax when Floyd uses it.
Wait until you get to the Animals and The Wall albums!! Really enjoy you guys. Also, SRV at the Capital Theater, 1985, Life Without You. You’ll love it. The Who live, Young Man Blues at The Isle of Wight!!! ENERGY!!
Wow, you're doing one of my ALL-TIME FAVORITE ALBUMS.... no joke, truly a feast for your ears 🎉
Longtime Pink Floyd fan who attended multiple Pulse shows here. As you now deeply appreciate, this is transformative music. Truly one of the greatest joys is when other people discover and understand what is unfolding. They made music on humanistic themes that is relevant every year since it came out. For at least a couple years I have been dropping in here to watch batches of new people discovering it, and I have to rank your reaction right at the very top. You are two highly intelligent reviewers and this was a joy to watch with you. Thank you.
shine on you crazy diamond is an homage to former band mate Syd Barrett. they booted him from the band, but were heartbroken for having to do it. they never stopped loving him and there are references to him all over their discography
Pink Floyd is from Cambridge, England, the famous old university town, and their families were involved in education, etc. As Gilmour said, “We could all speak proper English.” Basically, everyone they knew was educated, so when they decided they needed someone to try to get Syd straightened out and help him out on stage they thought “What about David Gilmour? He trusts him, and he can play guitar.” When they decided to put saxophone on ‘Dark Side Of The Moon’, Gilmour said “What about Dick Parry? He plays saxophone.” Same for Hipgnosis, who designed their album covers. They were all friends from Cambridge who they’d known most of their lives. Roger Waters was still picking up Syd at his mom’s house to take him to doctor’s appointments toward the end of his life, 30 years after he left the band. And you’re right: at the concert the music is the main part, but only part of the show. There is the band, music, lights, lasers, film, objects moving around over your head, on the stage, etc. The music is the soundtrack.
Pink Floyd had all of those sounds available, because those early synthesizers, like the Mini-Moog that they used in this cut, are capable of creating virtually any sound from wind, to machine sounds, to music, but they were extremely difficult to set up. It involved patch cords and multiple switches and rheostats for each channel. All of those sweeps and hisses and electronic songs all came from the synthesizer. I think you would have a very difficult time recreating this song today with one of the modern keyboards
That's one guy playing both the tenor sax and the alto that came after, he has both on slings and as soon as he finishes the tenor solo, he throws the tenor sax behind his back and pulls the alto around from the other side...quite a little stunt.
Everything you said is right, but he actually starts on a baritone sax and finishes on tenor. I’ve seen the trick you’re talking about, where he’s basically wearing the two saxes and flinging one behind to okay the next. Awesome.
headphones and a big ass beanbag chair use to make me melt right into that chair..............
their vibe is like nobody else's!
It was nice on tape to get the immediate DROP into "Have A Cigar" Marinating in Pink Floyd Goodness. My older brother has a Yamaha CR 2020 Receiver and Turntable with 4 Bose Speakers
We Were The Concert in 1974. But I agree definitely Made For Stadiums. Just look up PF Echoes Live at Pompeii, They love Amphitheaters and Sound Reproduction Techniques.
Thank you for doing this album. As others have said, shine on you crazy diamond is respects for founding member Sid Barrett. Tragic story. If you ever look into Sid's life the lyrics are so powerful. Much appreciation to Pink Floyd for the awesome love they gave Sid.