Any Floyd fans here?
Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 9:43 pmMusician Forum - Band Discussion Board - BandMix
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Any Floyd fans here?
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Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2017 9:43 pmRe: Any Floyd fans here?
Posted: Thu Mar 30, 2017 3:41 amyes...love me some Floyd...Wish you were here being my favourite..
Re: Any Floyd fans here?
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 12:54 pmfishermanbob wrote:Never really been one of my favorite rock bands.
I know they are hugely popular. David Gilmour is an idolized guitarist, and for good reason.
I like several other rock bands more, but I understand Pink Floyd's popularity.
No doubt if you are more into blues-type rock, PF would not be on your list. Many people didn't really know about their work until the 'radio friendly' Money was released (one of the least-liked PF song of fans).
Re: Any Floyd fans here?
Posted: Fri Mar 31, 2017 8:38 pmSabbath and Zeppelin were my first two loves (probably a hard-edged teenage reaction to the fact that my dad was a country-music fanatic and my mom was big into the School Of Tom Jones/Engelbert Humperdinck); but, over the long haul, Pink Floyd (Gilmour especially) has been the biggest influence on my playing style (along with Mark Knopfler).
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Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 1:54 amWhy I don't like Floyd has a lot to do with a substance called Panama Red. After getting properly baked at a friend's apartment in Newark Del. he put on 'Umma Gumma.' For some reason that scared the beejeebers out of me and I jumped out his window! No more Floyd for this cowboy. 
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Re: Any Floyd fans here?
Posted: Sat Apr 01, 2017 2:48 amIn 1975, ex-band member Syd Barrett turned up at the recording of 'Shine On You Crazy Diamond' at Abbey Road studios. According to reports, he was balding and fat, and looked so terrible that Roger Waters and David Gilmour cried.
Some unusual extra hands went into the making of The Division Bell album, their last album, made in 1994: Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, named it, and the scientist Stephen Hawking makes a guest appearance on it.
Syd Barrett was born Roger Keith Barrett. He got the nickname 'Syd' from his friends when he was 15, after a local drummer named Sid Barrett.
Before they were Pink Floyd, the band called themselves The Pink Floyd Sound. It gets worse: before that they were The Tea Set, and The Abdabs. And before that? Syd Barrett and David Gilmour played together in a band named Jokers Wild.
Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, the two Americans who inspired the band's title were both early blues singers. Both musicians died within a year of the release of Pink Floyd's seminal album, Wish You Were Here (1975). Anderson's son 'Little Pink Anderson' is a bluesman too, and he's still alive.
The title for their fifth studio album, Atom Heart Mother (1970), came from a newspaper heading about a woman who was receiving the first (atomic) pacemaker. The album saw the band experiment - mostly unsuccessfully - with prog rock.
When Sir Bob Geldof appeared in the 1982 film of Pink Floyd's The Wall he had to improvise as he wasn't given a script to work from.
Some unusual extra hands went into the making of The Division Bell album, their last album, made in 1994: Douglas Adams, the author of The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, named it, and the scientist Stephen Hawking makes a guest appearance on it.
Syd Barrett was born Roger Keith Barrett. He got the nickname 'Syd' from his friends when he was 15, after a local drummer named Sid Barrett.
Before they were Pink Floyd, the band called themselves The Pink Floyd Sound. It gets worse: before that they were The Tea Set, and The Abdabs. And before that? Syd Barrett and David Gilmour played together in a band named Jokers Wild.
Pink Anderson and Floyd Council, the two Americans who inspired the band's title were both early blues singers. Both musicians died within a year of the release of Pink Floyd's seminal album, Wish You Were Here (1975). Anderson's son 'Little Pink Anderson' is a bluesman too, and he's still alive.
The title for their fifth studio album, Atom Heart Mother (1970), came from a newspaper heading about a woman who was receiving the first (atomic) pacemaker. The album saw the band experiment - mostly unsuccessfully - with prog rock.
When Sir Bob Geldof appeared in the 1982 film of Pink Floyd's The Wall he had to improvise as he wasn't given a script to work from.
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Posted: Tue Apr 04, 2017 4:24 amMy friends call me Pink for a reason.