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I'm not a big PF fan but I went along to see a man who sold nearly 20000 tickets for his 2 Glasgow gigs, his fans clearly
worship the man returning every clench fist salute.Its fair to say I have never seen such a huge video onslaught of the
senses mostly about poverty immigration political corruption and of course Mr Trump whose face was on a giant pig.
The show ended with an amazing laser Dark Side of the Moon pyramid.
Waters has always been fascinated by human greed and no song better exemplifies this than “Money” which begs the
question why does he need to charge £30 for a Tee shirt?
worship the man returning every clench fist salute.Its fair to say I have never seen such a huge video onslaught of the
senses mostly about poverty immigration political corruption and of course Mr Trump whose face was on a giant pig.
The show ended with an amazing laser Dark Side of the Moon pyramid.
Waters has always been fascinated by human greed and no song better exemplifies this than “Money” which begs the
question why does he need to charge £30 for a Tee shirt?
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It's the top up the pension fund tour as i like to call these things
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Major fan of Waters in the old days. The Final Cut is where it should have ended. One of the best albums of all time. Not Now John!
Fcuk all that! https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=3&v=lNko2TmzrJw |
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LOL great post, beginning, middle, end, subverts the expectation with a punchline.
9/10. I can't believe the prices they charge for tickets and merch these days. It's well above inflation. I think it's because of mp3s/yt etc they don't make nearly so much on actual "records" so they try to get it back touring,but he's not a trying to make it band, he's no doubt a multi millionaire. And a total ****ing hypocrite. I like Pink Floyd (used to listen to them a lot) but I'm sick to death of hearing about Trump and Brexit and a concert going on about him is hardly edgy politics and ground breaking ... |
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Have just finished echoes cd been listening to this week
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When you're one of the many ..
To make a bad bet. What do you do to make ends meet? Make em laugh Make em cry Make em lay the draw and sigh.. :) |
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Only seen Floyd once - Wembley Stadium 1988 - Momentary Lapse In Reason, I think the tour was. Effing braw but I missed not seeing Wayers. Used ti idolise him. Now I think he's a complete prick up his own arse.
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Seen Pink Floyd 3 times but all without Waters. Finally got to see him when I won tickets to see him perform Dark Side of the Moon at Manchester's MEN Arena. I won the tickets on Virgin Radio but they couldn't get me into Earls Court so had to travel. It was worth it though; great seats and a great show.
Have to agree with Trilby here; definitely up his own arse. |
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Remember seeing him at Glastonbury 2002 and my abiding memory was of him being firmly rooted up his own backside.
Much more a Floyd fan now than though and would have happily gone to see him if it wasn't so exorbitant. |
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Wonder whether we'll see the Waters colours on the racecourse again (purple, green stars). He bred all those decent horses out of Lemon's Mill, such as Lemony Bay, but now she's too old to produce any more foals, the colours seem to have disappeared.
He nearly always used to turn up to watch them running. You'd be at some gaff track like Plumpton or Towcester on a miserable Monday afternoon in the depths of winter, and there he'd be in the paddock beforehand, clothed in a gigantic overcoat, alongside whoever was the current Mrs Waters (or sometimes alongside the current Mrs Somebody Else, which kept on causing complications). And he'd always be relaxed, smiling and politely passing the time with anyone who said hello. Yet put him in a band with three other musicians and you've got a miserable, argumentative sod who could fall out with the Dalai Lama. |
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he never knew he wasn’t very talented and was lucky to be in the band ,
or perhaps he did know |
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Devised and wrote pretty much all of The Wall.
But not very talented. |
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very much overrated album ,
No I meant musically , I don’t know what devised means I go by the music Don’t think he wrote any of that |
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Yes he did. Do try to check.
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I don't think it's a matter of talent, so much as inspiration, and making the most of what you have got.
Think of his bass line on One Of These Days, off Meddle. It's basically just one note fed into a synth, and he'd clearly came up with it through having grown up with the Dr Who theme tune in his head. And then, four or five years later, he used it yet again on Sheep, off the Animals LP. Put that way, the man's an over-rated charlatan. But the musical end-product is devastating. I don't know how it sounds now, but when I first heard Sheep, over 40 years ago, it was mesmerizing. |
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I think he's up there as a songwriter. Has that thing that bassists have where they get a good feel of how chords should build on one another and putting an interesting melody over the top. Not uniquely a bassist thing but if they know their arpeggios and a good bit of theory they can steer clear of the i-vi-ii-v fluff that dominates everything.
Don't think he was a particularly amazing bassist. Partly through design. He left lots of gaps and played generally root notes which isn't the most interesting but at the same time that's a sign of some generosity in his idea of serving the song overall rather than going all Jaco Pastorius over everything. Same with Gilmour too really. I don't think he's that much of a guitarist. I was on Oxford Road a couple of days ago and a lad was plugged in doing the Comfortably Numb solo. Thing is, if you get the sound right, can sustain and do full step bends then his solos are generally just noodles in pentatonics. A case of style over substance, but he had great style and a sense of musicality in his solos rather than just showing off. Again, all about the song rather than exercises in displaying musicianship. |
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just listened to one of these days again
good spot sfbtw regarding dr who : ) |
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pineapple he doesn’t write songs he writes lyrics, he’s not particularly musical
not remotely in the way Gilmour or Wright is |
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Gilmour is s brilliant guitarist and musician
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I remember when Arnold Layne was first released. Radio Luxembourg plugged it to death and held write in competitions about it (no internet or smart phones in those days) See Emily Play was a much better record. Radio Luxembourg also broke a group called Davy Jones and the Lower Third-record was Can't help thinking about me, which I thought was a great tune. Davy Jones changed his name to avoid confusion with Davy Jones of the Monkees. You guessed it-he changed it to David Bowie!
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I don't know how it sounds now, but when I first heard Sheep, over 40 years ago, it was mesmerizing.
One of my favourite PF tracks, second only to Comfortably Numb |
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Good grief.
Add Pink Floyd to the huge list of things lfc knows very little about. |
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nonsense pineapple , there is a huge list of things that I know very little about
Rock music is not on that list thankyou |
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Always remember that an expert is someone who knows more and more about less and less!
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yes that’s why we had punk rock as well
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Too many bloody concept albums devised by the likes of Roger Waters
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punk rock was a rebellion against authority and mellow music and disco. If you could play 3 chords on a guitar you were in business. All the Ramones records were the same tunes with different lyrics. Same for the Sex Pistols. Some Punk was not bad- Buzzcocks, Adverts, Rezillos, Vapors. But X Ray Spex was pure excrement. Each to their own I suppose!
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The worst concept albums were by the pretentious Moody Blues. Talk about the Emperor's new clothes!
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The Sex Pisyols were the last great rock group imo
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Generation X/ Billy Idol, Rebel Yell better than anything the Pistols did.
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I’ve heard everything now : )
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You can't have heard everything-there is limitless music available!!!
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Still think the best punk song was the first.
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not even pineapple could believe that and that’s saying something
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As for the Pistols, I think Pretty Vacant is a really good song but the rest not so much. Probably one where you had to be there I suppose and I was too young. Think his stuff with PIL was much more interesting.
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give us a clue pp what record
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* first punk song ?
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New Rose
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The Ramones first album predates New Rose buy about 7 months. A couple of singles off it such as Blitzkrieg Bop were earlier.
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