this is one I'l fight about. I have owned all 18 pink floud albums.. sure i hae sold them off as the years have gone by, but... here is one venue I'll fuck you up.. please don't pay for it, just for the 'paying into a banbd that has long since left it's prime, and any sort.. oh never mind we are all old, no, go enjoy the show,,,it will be worth some of the money you paid for it) I saw them twice, I was lucky (and/or desperate that way) like I said it's a really good show, just don't trip (other than say mushrooms) when you do it :))

Yes... heaven forbid we exclude mushrooms from our tripping. They don't really count, right? :eyebrow:

well.. yes and no, there is an antidote to mushrooms.. Lsd/Lsa there isn't one. (trust me on that one).. you know I've been suprised that there isn't a recreational drug thread on this BBS, although.. I suppose most of you are 'proffesional' types and that sort of thing could have unpleasant side effects.

A lot of those geezer bands are just pathetic. The Stones are coming to a town about two hrs away from me and people look at me like they want to lynch me when I say that they are one step above "suck" and that I wouldn't go if you gave me a ticket. They haven't done anything original since about 1977. If you start me up, I can't get no satisfaction!!!! I hear the same 4 songs on the radio and I want to pound Mick with a stick. Unfortunately, I suspect their early stuff had merit, but I can't take his singing.

Pink Floyd was my all-time fav band until I discovered Phish. Phish are the greatest band ever. I saw Gilmour and friends at the Olympic Stadium in Montreal on the Division Bell tour soon after seeing Phish 4 times and the show was awesome, but I got the feeling that the spark had gone. It seemed kinda scripted. That being said, Gilmour is one of the smoothest guitarists going (On the Turning Away live- that solo is a fine example why he is a god) and a bad day with PF is better than a good day with almost any other band. Their stuff since The Wall has seemed spottier than before it.

David Gilmour is one of my favorite guitar player (as well as J Mascis (dinosaur Jr) and Robert Smith (the cure) yeah I know, but he writes some damn good tunes!) but yeah, on the oh what the hell tour way that.. delicate sound of thunder.. I'd actually have to look at my ticket stubs... and I don't feel that energetic :) ) really it did feel scripted and lame, on a side note I saw Steppenwolf (sp?) about 12 years ago... damn good show, the guitar player broke a string (high E) and just played it anyway, never missing a note.. I was impressed..then again playing the same song for 30 years.. one ought to be able to play it any way shape or form... I mean hell! there are some of our songs i can play 12 different ways.. and I'm an amatuer! (well... technically I have been payed to play music.. but you know what I mean)

You can't reheat a souflee - Paul McCartney

In the last Rolling Stones tour with opening act No Doubt, ticket brokers were selling tickets at hot venues like the Staples Center for up to $3,500 a seat! I'm not surprised the Stones are coming back for more.

If a nuclear holocaust happens, the only living creatures left will be cockaroaches and Keith Richards. He'll be saying, hey you over there, I smoked your grandfather..." - Robin Williams

Did y'all ever see Josie and the Pussycats? What a flashback!

I just found it strange that for a man with such varied recordings behind him that he would play the same setlist over and over. I found out the next day in the review by the local paper that they were playing almost identical sets all throughout the tour, and that is just plain lazy. Pink Floyd was so non-commercial before; David can make that Fender sing like no other, but now I feel no compulsion to go see them live ever; on the other hand, I will live the rest of my days yearning for the freedom of Phish live. Maybe Trey should tour with David G. and get him a new lease on life!

Hopefully Roger Waters will at least be decent enough not to be a complete wanker like he has been the last 20 years and at least let the fans get something they deserve...

Yeah well in order to have a bigger song list to choose from, they'd have to rehearse more, which means they'd have to spend more time together, and from the sounds of how things have gone so far, that just doesn't seem likely.

Another consideration is that Pink Floyd is something rather more than a stripped down jam band ala The Dead or Phish. Phish doesn't take about a million lasers, projection screens, VariLights and inflatable pigs out with them on tour, and they aren't midi-locked into the production swirling around them. This probably prevents a whole lot of set variety from show to show for Floyd.

Prog rock bands invented theatrical excess in music. I love it.

like I said I saw them twice.. it's something to see. although I can see why they do the same set list over and over, just coordinating the 'show' with the music would be a monumental tassk in and of itself, and trying to do all of that with a varied setlist.. yowch ( I mean after a bazillion years doing it one would think it would be old hat.. and damn! I can't imagine playing the same songs for 30 years... man.. I got tired of playing some of the same songs after only 2 years)

The complexity level of doing a mostly live (I say "mostly live", because there's a ton of stuff which is sequenced/recorded going on while the band members are playing...that's why modern concerts can sound so much like the recordings) production ala Pink Floyd is staggering, no matter how many times you do it. Imagine working against a click track for a two hour show, and that's just for starters. I'm amazed people can do it *at all*.

Yeah, I saw them back in '88. I remember they mis-cued one of the pre-recorded bits. It was too bad. The concert was really great up until that point. The kids' chorus from the Wall came in at the wrong time and sounded horrible. Most fans were too stoned to notice.

Otherwise, it was a good show though.

I sat through a lot of consciousness-raising talk and a pile of commercials today (in fact, for a music event, Live 8 had a proportion of, I'd guess, 1 minute of music to five minutes of talk and advertising), but the much-heralded reunion of Pink Floyd was all a real fan could have hoped for given the narrow scope of the event.

I must say that I did, in fact, get a bit emotional as they played "Wish You Were Here", and reminded us that there was still one member missing, the one for whom the song was written, Syd Barrett. David Gilmore looked rather stern, even pissed, through much of their set up until the point where Roger Waters finished his portion of the WYWH lyric, at which point he beamed a broad smile at him. Priceless body language shared with millions, that.

In summation, the Floyd sounded incredibly tight and together, especially considering that they had but a couple of weeks to rehearse. There was an overall sense of "this is so *right*", watching the four old bandmates on the same stage once again. Opening with "Breathe" and pairing it up with "Money" reminded us once again that "Dark Side of the Moon" is certainly one of the greatest albums ever recorded. The aforementioned "Wish You Were Here" was capped off with "Comfortably Numb", with its built-in vocal sharing between Waters and Gilmore...it was glorious.

As with virtually all performances today, the VJ's cut in before the song ended to remind us why this was all happening, and that's okay I guess. Without Live 8, perhaps Pink Floyd never stands on a stage together again, even if for a brief time.

Me...I'm hoping for a reunion tour and a new album. I'll settle for a tour, though.

Yes sir!! The flashbacks alone were worth tuning in.
Oh...not theirs....mine. :biggrin: