Meeting Pink Floyd?

crofloyd · Post by **crofloyd** » Thu Feb 13, 2003 9:28 pm

They would never do that

grateful pink · Post by **grateful pink** » Thu Feb 13, 2003 9:46 pm

I'm sorry (why am i apologizing?) but one of my favorite floyd pieces is AHM. It is not as good live (even with the chorus as on "take Linda Surfing") but I still love that piece of music. It has much (but of course less) of the appeal that Echoes has for me.

Just Listen to Funky Dung and tell me that this is not classic Floyd. I am sure that many will tell me that it is not

Feeling Very Pink · Post by **Feeling Very Pink** » Thu Feb 13, 2003 9:49 pm

It's brilliant. Quite brilliant. Sorry!

decampos · Post by **decampos** » Thu Feb 13, 2003 11:10 pm

There's a few nice bits but it's so 'out of sync' sounding. It sounds like the work of a bunch of musical amateurs who got drunk and trusted their luck.

grateful pink · Post by **grateful pink** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 5:30 pm

decampos wrote:There's a few nice bits but it's so 'out of sync' sounding. It sounds like the work of a bunch of musical amateurs who got drunk and trusted their luck.

It's supposed to be out of sync. In fact Geesin mentioned the "stuttered" sound of the beginning score of the piece before the band comes in.

They are playing with our heads. If anyone has the nuts to listen to it blown out on acid (which i have done many times--but will no longer do that stuff) you will see why it sounds that way.

And they say that they never had drugs in mind when they did this stuff--rubbish!

decampos · Post by **decampos** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 7:43 pm

Geesin was interviewed about the track for BBC television a while back and he went to great pains to point out what's wrong with the piece; some major mistakes in the musical structure of the song - 'The rhythms didn't match up...' was one thing off the top of my head. He spoke about how dynamics and tempo changes are supposed to work but don't. I'll have to go watch that again, he said some very complimentary things about Roger as well ... I can't remember what they are.

Feeling Very Pink · Post by **Feeling Very Pink** » Fri Feb 14, 2003 8:28 pm

The only thing about 'Atom Heart Mother' which I really dislike is when the drum sound goes muddy for no apparent reason. Can't remember which bit. It just goes crap. Perhaps it was recorded in parts, although I thought they 'staggered' through it in one go, as Nick Mason once said.

whitesands82 · Post by **whitesands82** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 9:22 am

At the IN THE FLESH concert in Rome, Italy June 12, 2002, Roger Waters looked and pointed at me and shouted, "You! Yes You! Stand still laddie!!" It was broad daylight at the time and I was less than 20 feet from the stage. I knew he was going to play "ABITW" next so I was jumping up and down as high as I could to get his attention-and he did!
After that, he sort of smiled at me as he continued on with the bass intro. That's the only meeting with any PF member I've ever had-if you can call that a "meeting."

Feeling Very Pink · Post by **Feeling Very Pink** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 5:11 pm

I had a similar (ish) experience at an AC/DC gig in Birmingham (England) in November 2000. Angus Young looked down at me. One metre away. Me happy.

bong · Post by **bong** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 7:56 pm

I spat in Roger's face at an ITF show in 99 in Toronto.
I screamed out "THAT WAS FOR 77 YOU BASTARD!!!!!!!!!111111"

Post by **mosespa** » Sat Feb 22, 2003 8:01 pm

Monsters Of Rock...Memphis, Tennesee...I threw a devil's horn hand salute into the air and made this face at the stage

while everyone else around me was headbanging. Don Dokken saw me, did a double take and grinned at me.

True story.