Guest 640- Registered: 21 Apr 2007
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16 September 2008
07:046150#1
"there is no dark side of the moon really
matter of fact its all dark...."
Rick Wright one of the four anchor founders of Pink Floyd died yesterday from cancer at the age of 65. The four main men from 1968 were
Rick Wright
Roger Waters
David Gilmour
Nick Mason
This wasnt any kind of revamp band, the guys stayed together forever and were a unique outfit and very distinctively had their own style, a style unmatched and unequalled. In the 1980's Roger Waters, after writing virtually singlehandedly 'The Wall', acrymoniously fell out with the others and was a great loss to the output, but they neverthless carried on to do some great music and reformed, albeit temporarily, last year for Live Aid, when the story of them reforming became bigger than the event itself...millions watched and enjoyed the great re-union.
Only recently on Sky News there was some talk of them reforming but now with the death of the ace keyboard player their very existence as a band at all might be threatened.
I saw them numerous times at the big venues in London and wow was it always a great night!
Guest 655- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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16 September 2008
09:316161#2
A great band and Dark Side of the Moon was one of the first albums I bought. Wish You Was Here, of course was the other truly great album.
I like The Wall, which was released in November 1979, while I was on honeymoon.... But it was not up to the other two.
Guest 656- Registered: 13 Mar 2008
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16 September 2008
17:056178#3
So sad to hear this news
A truly great band, I love all their music.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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16 September 2008
17:176179#4
As Rick was one of the founders of Pink Floyd, along with the late Syd Barret, there will never be another. Being an old hippy at heart I tend to prefer their first few albums (Piper at the Gates of Dawn, Saucerful of Secrets, Umma Gumma etc) as I tended to find that from Dark Side of the Moon on they were just finding new ways of saying "poor old Syd, we miss him". There is however no doubt that it was Rick Wright's contributions that helped create their unique sound and he will be sorely missed. As an aside, although he did feature on some tracks on the first two albums, as well as on Syd's solo works, Dave Gilmour was not a founder member as he only joined to replace Syd when the later decided to walk home to Cambridge and never went back.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 663- Registered: 20 Mar 2008
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16 September 2008
19:326203#5
Was not a floyd fan but have been somewhat converted and its always sad to hear a good musician has gone
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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16 September 2008
20:456212#6
there were many great bands in that era, many used to play in music pubs.
i remember "tyronossaurus rex" being a regular act at the green man in leytonstone.
the lead singer wanted to go mainstream, and they recorded "ride a white swan", a great hit.
he did not last long after that.
i also remember using the tube to go down to streatham, in darkest sarf london to see some lads called "the moody blues" playing in a pub down there.
Guest 677- Registered: 8 Jul 2008
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16 September 2008
21:426217#7
They just don't make them like that any more. Can you imagine bands like Pink Floyd or the Moody Blues and singers like David Bowie and (Chris' personal favourite example) Janice Joplin getting past Simon Cowell on the X Factor. Music today is so mass produced and not designed to last (pretty much like everything these days, I've has my washing machine for five years and that's a major feet but my mum had hers at least twenty). Bring back music that means something, not just some pretty boys and girls making a buck.
It's not the man in my life, its the life in my man!!
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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16 September 2008
22:586221#8
stephanie
you mention janis joplin!!
a song from her was an affirmation of her personal experiences.
today's meaningless ITV rubbish will soon die out, and we will return to music that means something.
we will not have long to wait, recession and austerity is creeping up on us.
always a breeding ground for talent to come to the fore.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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16 September 2008
23:006222#9
I know what you mean Howard. At one time they presented free music in Hyde Park and I can remember going there to see Traffic, Cream, Blind Faith, The Rolling Stones, Canned Heat Jefferson Airplane, Pink Floyd and Queen. The next I heard of a concert in the park they were expecting you to pay through the nose to see ATOMIC KITTEN (and that was when Kerry Whatshername was in it). I once went to The Marquee in Wardour Street to see Chicken Shack and was treated to some black American guitarist called Jimi Hendrix as support act. A couple of years later I was watching Hawkwind in a church hall in Belsize Park. I still remember Ian Drury, Madness and even Smokie as pub acts. Where has real live music gone?
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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16 September 2008
23:106226#10
you mention some great names chris.
what about the stones in hyde park?
talking about ian dury, i remember him and the blockheads touring pubs as "kilburn and the high roads".
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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16 September 2008
23:156228#11
As do I Howard. The Stones in the park were great although there might have been something about playing there. The Stones concert there followed the death of Brian jones and then Canned Heat's concert followed the death of Al Wilson, both founding members of their respective groups.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 676- Registered: 1 Jul 2008
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16 September 2008
23:186230#12
ok so Im not old enough to remember these
Million-to-one chances crop up nine times out of ten.
howard mcsweeney1- Location: Dover
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16 September 2008
23:316231#13
stewart
you do not impress us with your "bay city rollers" tartan scarf.
17 September 2008
07:126235#14
Wow!! Those names roll back the years! I remember going to see Vinegar Joe at the Nags Head in High Wycombe years ago before they all became Stars!!! And Rod Stewart and Elton John messing about in the local pubs. I shall have to lie down in a dark room for a while now.
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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17 September 2008
08:336236#15
Ah, the classic pose for listening to Pink Floyd (or wondering what Sgt Pepper sounds like backwards). Wan't all cheap tho', it cost me a lot of my paper round money to see the Doors and Jefferson Airplane at the Roundhouse.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
17 September 2008
09:086237#16
I must just pop out and buy some joss sticks...
Guest 675- Registered: 30 Jun 2008
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17 September 2008
16:276248#17
Being sad enough to have upgraded most of my albums to Cd, I might have to go and lie down while listening to Nick Drake.
Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of right or wrong.
Richard Armour
Guest 677- Registered: 8 Jul 2008
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17 September 2008
19:126260#18
Alas, this was all before my time.
I'm of a generation who sold our souls to buy tickets to go to concerts (what I mean is I asked my dad for the money, oh the humanity!).
I saw Heart in concert twice, they were cool and then when I went as an exchange student to America I saw Elton John in Philadelphia, he was on stage for two and a half hours it was really wicked.
I miss those days, I haven't been to a concert in 15 years, boo hoo. I hope the plastic popsters do go away, I may be too young to have partied in the Round House but I'm old enough now to want real music.
It's not the man in my life, its the life in my man!!