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September 28, 11 5:02 PM (permalink)

Pink Floyd..

..if you've been thinking about getting the Immersion Box Set....good thinking.
It is nice.
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    Re:Pink Floyd.. September 28, 11 5:24 PM (permalink)
    I FIGURE I'LL AT LEAST PICK UP THE CD....

    but the immersion sounds cool.

    i own that 'making of darkside' dvd... that's kinda neat.

    but i'm old enough to remember when that album 1st came out, and how all of my buddie's older brothers (and sisters) all seemed to have this album, and on vinyl, at that time, thru a really good audiophile system, i just cant remember anything sounding better.


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    Re:Pink Floyd.. September 28, 11 5:50 PM (permalink)
     
    Looks nice Mike.
     
    I still have my LP, I wonder if that's that worth anything

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    Re:Pink Floyd.. September 28, 11 6:08 PM (permalink)
    I still have my original too...and it just lures me in everytime they offer
    something about it.   (edit, left out a word)

    They are also releasing an Immersion box set of "Wish You Were Here" and "The Wall".
    I'm not sure if there will be more. It was some time back when I pre-ordered them so
    it was a cool surprise when I got home from work.

    It's a nice package....I get stuff like this for my grand-daughter. Maybe some day she'll
    appreciate it....maybe not.

    Steve I'd have to answer, yes sir! It's cool being able to hear how it was in the beginning.
    I just can't bring myself to play my LP's. Maybe someday I'll have a table worthy. Something
    to look forward to when I retire ?
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    Re:Pink Floyd.. September 28, 11 6:18 PM (permalink)
    I have always liked Foyd. I stil do one song from Ummagumma.. Fat Old Sun. I was in a band in 1970/71 and it was in our setlist. It is a good album. I always liked Reics a LOT too. Then DSOTM came out and set a new standard. Then The Wall which was pretty good... I barely remember passing out at the movie... bummer. (That remindsme of the time I went to a theater showing of Darby O'Gill and the Little People right after taking some pretty good LDS).. like I said in another post, I don't want to ever be young again. I am afraid I wuld not live through it again.
    Oh... Floyd.
    Did you see the last live concert they did, I think it was Live-8... It was absolutely amazing for guys that had not been playing together for a while. Gilmour was amazing and Waters looked like a ittle kid again. I think at that moment he wanted to put it all together again. The video was immediatey put online and then promptly taken down. I think it is back on YT again. IIRC, I have it on my YT page jbow.

    It realy impressed me a LOT. Guitarists are always talking down Gilmour's playing but I think he plays the part perfectly.

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    Re:Pink Floyd.. September 28, 11 6:28 PM (permalink)
    Pretty cool...thinking back to the original album and I found this interview
    and with a picker I really enjoyed. I still think "Land Of The Midnight Sun" (his first if I remember right) was his best. If you've never heard it- sure worth the effort.

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    Re:Pink Floyd.. September 28, 11 6:38 PM (permalink)

    just cant remember anything sounding better


    i take that back, the 'command quadrophonic' releases in '71, but that was quad.

    and of course, 'Quadrophenia' a few years later.






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    Re:Pink Floyd.. September 28, 11 6:40 PM (permalink)
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    ..if you've been thinking about getting the Immersion Box Set....good thinking.
    It is nice.


    What I'm really excited about in all this Pink Floyd activity is the reported re-release of Wish You Were Here as a surround SACD in November.  I will be purchasing that one the moment it's available.  Dark Side of the Moon is stunning in surround.  I expect no less of Wish You Were Here. 
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    Re:Pink Floyd.. September 28, 11 6:47 PM (permalink)
    Actually Jbow FatOldSun was off Atom Heart Mother, does the immersion box set of DSOTM come with a concert video, I know they were showing some photos and playing a live concert version on youtube but it wasn't a video of the concert. 

    I ask this because there is suppose to be a live concert film recording of DSOTM from 1973-74 kicking around, the same with The Wall, I would be really disapointed if The Floyd didn't include these concert films in the immersion version (the immersion version is the box set, I hope).

    On saying that I love the Floyd as well and have always considered them second in the pantheon of rock gods of that era, you only need to look at live 8 to verify this, the only other band that could have got that sort of emotional reception would have been The Beatles and that was never going to happen unless they invented some cloning technology.

    Also there was a good interveiw with Roger on Cononan, I think, and he looks great for 70, If I could look that good at seventy I would be a happy man.

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    Re:Pink Floyd.. September 28, 11 9:17 PM (permalink)
    Actually Jbow FatOldSun was off Atom Heart Mother

     
    Thanks Ben, I didn't feel quite right about that when I wrote it but was too lazy to look it up. They were released about the same time weren't they? Didn't ATM also have Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast on it ? Those were some good times from what I can remember, everything was new and exciting... I was 18 in 1970.
     
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    Re:Pink Floyd.. September 28, 11 9:18 PM (permalink)

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    Re:Pink Floyd.. September 28, 11 9:29 PM (permalink)
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    Didn't ATM also have Alan's Psychedelic Breakfast on it ?
    Julien

    Yup. It's an odd one but I love that album. Gilmour's slide solos in the title cut are just incredible. I just love to hear that guy on the slide.

    I'm also a huge fan of the Barrett era. In fact I look at them as 2 different bands - The Pink Floyd, and then, just Pink Floyd and I dig them for entirely different reasons, but all the same.

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    Re:Pink Floyd.. September 29, 11 4:19 PM (permalink)
    I've got a bike, you can ride it if you want, it's got a basket, a bell that rings, and things to make it look good... I'd give it to you if I could but I borrowed it.

    (my memory isn't as bad as it would have me think it is...) ;~)

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    Re:Pink Floyd.. September 29, 11 5:10 PM (permalink)
    Hi,

    I'm glad to see some of these things come out, but if you have, over the years, heard many of the bootlegs, none of this material is new to you, and a whole lot of it, is not even half as good as some of the stuff that is on bootlegs.

    You can get about 15 different versions of "Set the Controls for the Heart of the Sun", and all of them better than the other and then some, and more interesting. You have about 5 different versions of Atom Heart Mother, the most different one being the version that Roland Pettit did the ballet with/on in Paris, that apparently did not go over too well ... you know how it is with those "classicists" and their purity!

    I specially like the original version of "Sheep" that was by far the best "space rock" thing ever done, but I think that Roger didn't want to be known as "space rock" ... and turned the song into something quite different. It was still nice, and your stomach did do a flip in the concert, even at Anaheim Stadium, but ... the original was nicer.

    The bootleg versions of "Pigs" is awesome, and better than the album, and it rocks out and in 3 of those bootlegs, the audience loves it when they rip it out. And you can tell that they had something visual to augment it, as the guitar just ripped right out ... only to find in the end of two of those listens that Roger got pist off at a couple of fans!

    The early stuff is all from the moments that Syd was gone. The boots start, just about the day that David Gilmour joined, and about the only stuff that is not found on the boots is the "Ummagumma" album (the other 2 sides), although you can have many versions of Interstellar Overdrive, and Be Careful with that Ax, Eugene ...

    None of these "new releases" are interesting to me, unless they have some of the different versions of the material. I don't need yet another remastering of Dark Side or the Wall ... I saw the original before the movie was even cut down to match the album and such, and that extra material mostly went to make "The Final Cut" ... the story of which was originally a part of The Wall, and it helps with the thematics and story of The Wall way better ... but triple albums were not possible, and even Pink Floyd was not going to get away with that ... a couple of other cuts were added later to help finish off "The Final Cut".
     
    The original "Wall" that was tested in San Francisco, that I saw on a "Quadraphonic System" was also 20 minutes longer than any version that has been released so far ... and some of that visual stuff is a part of the videos that some of the cuts in "The Final Cut" had.
     
    So, when "The Wall" comes out in its original form, not the record company and/or LP form, then I will consider it. When the space rock piece comes out ... I will buy it ... until then, too many of these boxes are just another nice job for Hipgnosis so Storm Thurgeson can make some extra moolah and not share it with Bapu.
    post edited by Moshkiae - September 29, 11 5:22 PM

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    Re:Pink Floyd.. September 29, 11 5:28 PM (permalink)
    Moshkiae


    just another nice job for Hipgnosis so Storm Thurgeson can make some extra moolah and not share it with Bapu.


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    Re:Pink Floyd.. September 29, 11 5:35 PM (permalink)
    was dark side ever on command?

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