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offline mc_303_beatz from Glasgow, Scotland on 2003-05-30 17:49 [#00721435]
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Will they do a new album? Have they split up? Are they too
old? I love this band. What's happening?


 

offline DaWeeze from WANTED IN 16 STATES! on 2003-05-30 17:53 [#00721441]
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They've said they're pretty much wrapping it up (take the
Stones, KISS and Aerosmith while you're at it). As I
pointed out in another thread, they were pretty much
finished after "The Wall" and when Roger Waters split off.

A lot of good that did for both parties... :P


 

offline ambsace from canaDUH. on 2003-05-30 17:54 [#00721442]
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the grass was greener...
the light was brighter...
with friends surrounded...
the nights of wonder...



 

offline ambsace from canaDUH. on 2003-05-30 17:56 [#00721448]
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EXCUSE ME? i think mr. david gilmour is one of the most
brilliant musicians to have ever lived. and definitely on of
the most overlooked as far as amazing guitarists goes...hoo.


 

offline korben dallas from nz on 2003-05-30 17:59 [#00721453]
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dunno ... for me the darkside was the beginning of the end
...

the early stuff is fantastic though. long live syd!


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2003-05-30 17:59 [#00721455]
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gilmour is too busy looking for a knighthood by giving
millions to charity to set up some affordable housing in
london at this present time


 

offline mc_303_beatz from Glasgow, Scotland on 2003-05-30 17:59 [#00721456]
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Davd Gilmour is the number one guitar influence for me. If
it wasn't for him, I would never have been able to play all
the Wall solos when I was 16


 

offline DaWeeze from WANTED IN 16 STATES! on 2003-05-30 18:01 [#00721459]
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Yeah, that cool...but by the mid-80s they were nowhere near
the creators they were in the 70s (when Gilmour was truly
great). No doubt they were still powerful live, but that
power never showed up after the Waters split (and Waters
didn't exactly rise to the occasion, either) in any recorded
form.


 

offline mc_303_beatz from Glasgow, Scotland on 2003-05-30 18:02 [#00721462]
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earthleakage you cinic you! he's a mad fat plane-flying acid
head. I don`t think he cares about HRH. He cares about
ferraris and how The Wall is a profound treatise on
alienation and despair.


 

offline ambsace from canaDUH. on 2003-05-30 18:04 [#00721465]
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meddle is their greatest album, i believe. so i
s'pose i can agree with their earlier stuff being superior.
but the division bell is great. *shrugs*


 

offline xceque on 2003-05-30 18:50 [#00721485]
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I agree that Meddle is the best album, but I totally
disagree about the Division Bell, which is the smelliest
steaming pile of fetid rotting horse bowels ever. Thinking
about the Division Bell after A Saucerful of Secrets,
Oscured By Clouds, or even the Wall, makes me cry it's so
awful.
Just think how they'd be if Barrett was still with them. Syd
Barrett's solo stuff was miles better than the same-era
Floyd stuff.


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2003-05-30 19:00 [#00721494]
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i guess they really had to start again with saucer and syds
departure. its amazing they managed to stick to it.

im a wall and piper man myself :)

wouldnt a new syd album be something else, albeit highly
unlikely? im sure theres plenty of unreleased stuff (even
still) waiting to be put into out hands.

you're dead right about the division bell, its fucking
awful. and momoentary lapse isnt much better, only saved by
one reasonably good song in 'on the turning away'.


 

offline xceque on 2003-05-30 19:05 [#00721501]
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Id be curious how much real unreleased Barrett stuff there
was. I have the Crazy Diamond versions of the albums, with
the extra tracks, plus I have the 7-disc Have You Got It Yet
bootleg (which I think is 10 CDs now) and there's very
little new (non-album) material. Just alternate takes and
demos.

The early Floyd stuff always will be the best. I like a fair
bit of the later stuff, but nothing beats those early single
tracks like Arnold Layne and Point Me At the Sky :)


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2003-05-30 19:12 [#00721506]
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do you have any good links for a list of bootlegs which are
genuine or fake? somewhat suprisingly i have never been able
to find much info


 

offline xceque on 2003-05-30 19:20 [#00721511]
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here, the laughing madcaps yahoo group, is a good
place to start. I just found a link to a site that listed
free ftp servers where I'm downloading volumes 8, 9 and 10
of HYGIY? right now. In SHN format.


 

offline Cfern from Sacto (United States) on 2003-05-30 19:35 [#00721532]
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i think we can safely say floyd is done... i really like
the division belll i like all the albumns early till the
end


 

offline phiz from Liverpool (United Kingdom) on 2003-05-30 20:08 [#00721551]
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just read the Mojo interview this month, good indication of
where Floyd have been for the last 2 decades.

Once Waters decided to take the lead nobody was willing to
go with it. which ultimately destroyed the band.

But its true the genius was there with Syd, just his whole
outlook towards music made Pink Floyd unique back then, but
they did develop over the years a s a unit without Syd
before going shite, so you know, just be grateful for the
stuff we can listen to.

My god, to here some of whats been in Syds mind for the last
2 decades would be fascinating.


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-05-30 20:34 [#00721560]
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I love The Division Bell... sure, there are some crap tunes
on there, but the good ones are great imo...


 

offline MachineofGod from the land of halo's (United States) on 2003-05-31 10:24 [#00722019]
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I like pink floyd a lot but haven't heard a lot of it, Ive
heard meddle, the wall, dsotm, animals, ummagumma, sauceful
of secrets but the rest i havent heard any of, let alone the
syd barrett solo stuff.


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-05-31 11:05 [#00722050]
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lets see, pink floyd cds I have include: A Saucerful of
Secrets, Meddle (actually this is a burned cd), Dark Side,
Wish You Were Here, Animals, The Wall, and The Division
Bell... so, no Syd Barret stuff...

I also have a live version of The Wall by Roger Waters, and
a bunch of other crap singers and groups... it's a pretty
lame rendition actually... live from berlin is what it is
actually...


 

offline Donutman from Perth (Australia) on 2003-05-31 11:11 [#00722055]
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I have everything up to and including The Final Cut, which I
never have liked. I also have two solo albums from Waters
and Gilmour, which never impressed me.

I love the band, but what they do these days doesn't
interest me. Another Syd Barret release would be interesting
though.


 

offline Donutman from Perth (Australia) on 2003-05-31 11:14 [#00722058]
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By the way. Sucer Full Of Secrets was 50/50 Gilmour and
Barret. The last song completely Barret.

"And what exactly is a joke?"


 

offline earthleakage from tell the world you're winning on 2003-05-31 12:32 [#00722163]
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2 tracks are written by barrett and a 3rd he played guitar
on, the others are written and sung by roger waters are they
not?


 

offline Donutman from Perth (Australia) on 2003-06-01 00:33 [#00722663]
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50/50 is probably pushing it, but I've never read any
definite article on which guitarist played on which song.

There are 2 songs by Wright, which I think were written
during the first album, and a group composition.


 

offline The_Funkmaster from St. John's (Canada) on 2003-06-01 09:00 [#00722861]
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nod that is true... Syd was involved in that one... I had
forgotten that, as I never listen to that album... only
listened to it a couple times...


 


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