On this day in history, Pink Floyd made their US debut at San Francisco's Winterland Auditorium supporting Big Brother And The Holding Company, featuring Janis Joplin. What was the greatest Pink Floyd song of all time? I'd have to vote for Comfortably Numb. But my personal favorite is Learning to Fly.
I can't actually say I have but one favorite PF LP. Sure I love Comfortably Numb alot, Learning to Fly also. Time is classic. Actually give me DSOM anyday, they are all my favorites. Others: Ummagumma- Careful With That Axe, Eugene Atom Heart Mother: Alan's Psychadelic Breakfast and The Atom Heart Mother Suite WISH YOU WERE HERE Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 1-5) Welcome To The Machine Have A Cigar Wish You Were Here Shine On You Crazy Diamond (Parts 6-9) A Momentary Lapse of Reason: On The Turning Away In all Honestly give me any PF LP, less Meddle, and I'm in Hog Heaven,.... I know 59 is/would be as well. The Greatest Rock Band, (and Light Show), the World has ever seen. I stayed in a Frat House for 2 months at Georgia Tech, and the walls were painted like the prism colors identical to the DSOM LP Cover. The Frat House had central speakers in each room, halls, kitchen every room except the closets. One could listen to DSOM 24/7, and that was the ONLY LP played non-stop. Funny thing is no one ever got tired of it, if we heard it once, we heard it a few hundred times.... And we could legally buy hard liqour in Georgia, in those days. Go into night clubs and bars, til we passed out on the Downtown Atlanta Streets, puking in the gutters.
I enjoyed every bit of The Wall as well, a great LP. The 1st time I listened to The Wall, I was a bit, well alot inebriated; not on booze either. When I heard the TV in the background, Gomer Pyle, I thought someone was in my house watching TV. As well as the Operator, I thought my Sister had come in and was on the phone. She was home on leave from a Army Tour of Berlin, so I thought she was making an International call. NTM-all the other funny quirks in teh background.
...I believe you can also hear Matt Dillon's voice from a TV in the background on The Wall album. ...wish I had a dollar for every time I burned one and listened to the DSOTM with headphones on. (Sennheisers)
...found it; http://www.audioasylum.com/cgi/vt.mpl?f=general&m=506964&VT=T "At the opening of Is There Anybody Out There? off Pink Floyd's The Wall, a TV is turned on and you hear the following bit of dialog from an episode of Gunsmoke: Matt Dillon: Well, we've got an hour of daylight left. We better get started. Female voice: Isn't it unsafe to travel at night? Matt Dillon: It'll be a lot less safe to stay here. Your father's going to pick up our trail before long."
LOL, you'd be a multi-millionaire, on your way to a Billionaire. How many copies of DSOM, have you bought in your life 59? Incl. LPs/ Cassettes/ CDs/ DVD's/ even 8 Track???? I'd guess a bunch to replace those you wore out listening too. I don't wear out CD's like I did LP's. However I have 3 copies of A Momentary Lapse of Reason. Just that, I had a lapse of memory, and could not find my CD, so I ordered another one. I then found my 1st lost CD. Gave one away, when I was moving from Georgia to Luzianna. By the time I got unpacked in Lake Charles, I couldn't find my CD of Lapse of Reason, thus I ordered another, and yep within a week, I found the 1st one, AGAIN. I can't count how many LP's I wore out of DSOM. I had to have DSOM on LP, Cassette, then CD's. Used the LPs at home, Cassettes in the Car. I packed away my Stereo-LP/Cassette. Replaced it with a Onkyo Surround Sound, and a CD player in the car(s). DSOM takes on an entirely different much clairvoyant than a LP. But then you of all knew as much. I remember reading how PF's record label wanted to re-master DSOM into Quadrophenic sound. However PF knew Surround and Arena Sound Systems would be out in a year or so, and refused to have it pressed into Quadro sound, opting for the much clearer SS. SS gives all PF albums a whole new life of sound, (as you know better than any other person).......which a cheap stereo or headphones doesn't always allow one to hear some of the background quieter sounds. DSOM on my Onkyo, I cannot play when Kim is home, as it literally gives her seizures, with that sound whirling around the room.... I used Ultra-Linear Monitors for Speakers, less the Sub-Woofer. How would you rate the Sennheisers say compared to the over-priced (for the quality of sound) Bose headphones, I'm having trouble finding any top line headphones. This city used to have several Hi-Fi shops, some franchises which closed ie, Circuit City, Best Buy, and several independent Hi-Fi shops. Perhaps, its due to the illegal immigrants only buying cheap ass components from WalMart.....
Geezus Christ, I need to quit writing novellas, and keep to short concise; to the point statements. When can I enroll in the 59 class of- to the point responses?????
speaking of 1967, RIP The Great Jack Bruce (71), passed on Oct 25, 2014 Roger Waters of Pink Floyd recently described Bruce as “probably the most musically gifted bass player who’s ever been" Nov 1967 -Cream's Disraeli Grears was released. Still as crisp and fresh sounding today as it was back then. Fantastic Albumn. I wasn't a big fan of The Floyd but they were cool.
...I have quite a few, actually. I have the very first copy I bought in '74(?)...it's really not in bad shape though the album sleeve looks rough from so much use. ...I bought 2-3 copies for shits and giggles since then...plus I bought a heavy weight remastered "Original Master Recording" in vinyl, as well as the Original Master Recording in a CD version. (awesome sound) I still have an old set of sansui speakers, marantz amp, and the same technics turntable with a shure M55E cartridge that I used as a dj back in the late '70s-early 80's...very very nice warm sound...much better for my music ear's personal taste. ...I also have a bose 6.1 surround sound speaker system that is run through a onkyo srs amp, but that's mainly for movies and dvds and sporting events. ...I've tried many many headphones but I like my sennheiser "open ear' headphones the best...they really enable the high end frequency sound that I prefer. I have both of these, vinyl lp and gold cd version...unbelievable sound quality, remastered from the original master tapes;
Incredible 59.....You are No Doubt, the World's Biggest PF fan by far, no one comes close to your passion for PF.... Kudo's sounds like you have all the right collector's editions, and a damn fine sound system to boot.... "if we tell ya' the name of the game boy, its called riding the gravy traaaaiiiinnn". "your gonna' go far, have a cigar".....
...yeah, "Wish You Were Here" was great too...also have that in the original as well as the remastered version.
...here ya go; ...btw, "The Great Gig in the Sky" at the 16:15 mark is IMO, still the greatest vocal performance I've ever heard. There are no words and the band really didn't know what they wanted in that time slot...so Alan Parsons (engineered DSOTM and Abbey Road) brought in a singer he was familiar with (Claire Torrey) and they asked her to come in and "just sing"...again, no. And she absolutely nailed it on the first take...sheer genius. ..it still gives me chills when I listen to it. [video=youtube;0gXvVUg-VAE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0gXvVUg-VAE[/video]
Thank yee! I didn't realize it was The Dark Side of the Rainbow... I thought it was The Dark Side of Oz... either way, thanks!
