Floyd's OG Quadraphonic PA

[la szum]

The other three were the ones that created the musical magic, though.

Huh?

They literally made the best music of the band's catalog with Roger in
the band. That is pretty much inarguable by anyone with any level
of honesty and perspective on the matter. And Roger wrote the majourity
of the songs/music from their Dark Side up through The Wall prime.

 

[la szum]

You watch yer mouth young man.

Spoken exactly like one of the demons Roger was wrestling with in his art and music.

 

[Alex Kenivel]

Very cool! Thanks for sharing.

The most interesting part to me was the dish loaded with a 10" Celestion only running at twenty watts and throwing sound for four and a half miles. That's quite a feat of engineering.

 

[DrewJD82]

I dunno, man. Roger's demos sound nothing like Floyd. IMO. At best there's some synths on The Wall demos that get dark and moody, but a lot of that stuff is closer to sound effects than it is actual music.





I would agree that Roger definitely brought the more punk/fuck you vibe and to be fair, no one in that band was really capable of pulling off the Floyd sound on their own. Though there's a fair amount of Floyd vibes on Gilmour's post-Floyd solo albums, I don't think I'd credit just him to it and if anything, he's spent the last 30 years trying to get away from 'David Gilmour from Pink Floyd' and has expressed frustration over working with musicians who wanted to keep hammering the Floyd thing. ( pretty sure that was a dig at Jon Carin who did the two post-Waters albums/tours as well as Gilmour's Rattle That Lock tour and have since had a falling out with Carin doing nothing but slagging on Gilmour after getting hired by Waters, including a very public embarassment when he claimed he wrote a song from scratch on Momentary Lapse and 2 days later the Gilmour-made demo made it's way online from Camp Floyd to shut him up, I think "Yet Another Movie")

 

[Frodebro]

I dunno, man. Roger's demos sound nothing like Floyd. IMO. At best there's some synths on The Wall demos that get dark and moody, but a lot of that stuff is closer to sound effects than it is actual music.





I would agree that Roger definitely brought the more punk/fuck you vibe and to be fair, no one in that band was really capable of pulling off the Floyd sound on their own. Though there's a fair amount of Floyd vibes on Gilmour's post-Floyd solo albums, I don't think I'd credit just him to it and if anything, he's spent the last 30 years trying to get away from 'David Gilmour from Pink Floyd' and has expressed frustration over working with musicians who wanted to keep hammering the Floyd thing. ( pretty sure that was a dig at Jon Carin who did the two post-Waters albums/tours as well as Gilmour's Rattle That Lock tour and have since had a falling out with Carin doing nothing but slagging on Gilmour after getting hired by Waters, including a very public embarassment when he claimed he wrote a song from scratch on Momentary Lapse and 2 days later the Gilmour-made demo made it's way online from Camp Floyd to shut him up, I think "Yet Another Movie")

None of them could pull off the “Floyd Sound” on their own, but if you put Wright and Gilmour in the same room you’d hear that sound regardless of what song they’re playing.

 

[CBHScott]

When the airplane effect went across the sky at RFK, during MLOR tour, every head in that stadium looked up! It was one of the coolest things I ever saw/heard.

Of all the shows I've seen, PF was the best, in terms of sound and visuals, together. Muse was a close 2nd, but they had the advantage of coming 30 years later.

Wanted to reply to this one specifically.

I saw the MLOR tour at the (FKA) Rosemont Horizon, which they sold out four nights. It think it was the second night, and a buddy and I took the hour+ drive to go…without tickets . We figured maybe we would get lucky and someone would be scalping them in the parking lot. Sure AF, about 15 minutes before the show started, we came across a guy that was desperate to unload what he had left - IIRC, we got like 20th row smack in the middle of the floor for like 30 bucks apiece - or at least, something shockingly cheap for tickets to a hot show.

I was transfixed the whole time, and stone cold sober as well. I took in everything, and it was just spectacular. When they got to the end of “Run Like Hell”, and had the explosion around the circular screen, I about shit my pants - I was literally trembling as I walked out of there.

My favorite band ever since Moving Pictures was released is Rush, and I have seen them several times, and was never disappointed at the very least - most of those shows were great, a few were better than great - but that PF show was just on a completely different level. It still remains my favorite concert I have ever been to. I just KNEW that sooner or later they were gonna put that show out on video - and when they did, I was disappointed as hell. The way it was shot and edited was borderline criminal, and didn’t capture the spectacle at all. Thank god for Pulse, as that one did a much better job.


Speaking of Muse, I am a big fan, but sadly got in way late to the party (sometime around Drones). I had been peripherally aware of them, but never got into them until I saw clips of their Rome DVD on YT. I have now seen them on their last two tours, and they were great each time.