Posted: 01/31 @ 09:01 pmPulse – fat old sun – pink floyd
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Banda Campograndense PULSE tocando a música Fat Old Sun do Pink Floyd ao vivo no Bar FLY em 15/01/2011… |
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Banda Campograndense PULSE tocando a música Fat Old Sun do Pink Floyd ao vivo no Bar FLY em 15/01/2011… |
Steve Crump, columnist/editorial writer for the Twin Falls Times-News, is one of many who appreciate the decline of annoying ringtones for cell phones. In a weekend column, Steve notes that the sale of ringtones in this country peaked at $714 million in 2007. They then dropped $160 million in a single year because, in part, customers have learned how to create their own ringtones, and because people are sick of them, writes Steve, adding: “Call me old-fashioned, but when my phone rings I like to hear it ring — not play snippets from Pink Floyd’s ‘The Wall’ or the first eight bars of Iron Butterfly’s ‘In-A-Gadda-Da-Vita.’ Full column here.
Question: What music is played on your ringtone? Or do you still have a ringtone?
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Recorded Live at pacific Road Arts Centre, 30th January 2011 Lewis Hall; Bass, Vocals, Richard Morse; Guitar, Vocals, Robert Gerrard; Keyboards, Vocals, Steve Farmer; Percussion, Vocals… |
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My cover of the guitar solo in the song ¨Mother¨ by Pink Floyd (original guitarist: David Gilmour). Kinda sloppy, but whatever ;P. Took the audio picked up from the camera and the audio from a microphone recording the amp and mixed it together. Guitar: Gibson SG Standard Amp: Dean Markley K-65 Effects: Reverb and a tiny bit of Delay. Hope you like it and don’t forget to give a thumbs up, comment and subscribe! /Peace… |
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Waiting for the worms con los ¡Encendedores! por Roger Waters en la Ciudad de Mexico en el Palacio de los Deportes en 21/12/10… |
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Roger Waters The Wall at United Center Chicago Sept 23, 2010- Don’t Leave Me Now… |
Pink Floyd may have thought money was a gas. But you need to carefully consider where to stash it in order to fuel a fulfilling retirement.
Harold Evensky, a South Florida financial planner and co-author of “The New Wealth Management,” says you might consider setting up two accounts as you save: one for basic monthly expenses, and the other for less-basic needs, like a Tuscan summer.
Plan to shoulder much of the retirement burden yourself. Social Security is still around, but it hasn’t given a cost-of-living increase in two years. And unlike their parents, boomers live in a world where pensions are becoming as dated as lava lamps and vinyl LPs.
Picking your portfolio will depend a lot on your age, affluence and risk tolerance. But Evensky and other planners worry the crash of 2008 made boomers too skittish about stocks, which are now rebounding. Meanwhile, the housing bust taught Jan Bergemann, a Florida retiree, the importance of diversity. “Most of my generation came here to Florida with quite some assets, but we invested (them) in homes that are now not worth anything,” he says.
Classic rock fans recognize Nick Mason as the drummer from Pink Floyd, but classic car enthusiasts know him just as well for his automobile collection and regular column in Octane magazine. Now the musician/car nut is headlining a different kind of group: an investment fund.
Based on the growth in value of some of the top collector cars the past few years, IGA Automobile is putting together a portfolio of historically significant and highly collectible cars for its investors. The new investment fund targets raising $150 million in capital and turning it around over the course of seven years to earn its investors a 15% profit. To get there, IGA is looking at buying cars like Ferrari 250 GTO, Aston Martin DB4 Zagato, Ford GT40, McLaren F1, Shelby Daytona Coupe and Porsche 917 and selling them at a profit.
The fund has solid basis for its financial projections: record prices have been fetched in the past few years by such exemplary automobiles as a 1957 Ferrari 250 Testa Rossa ($12 million), a 1961 Ferrari 250 GT California Spyder ($11 million) and a 1936 Bugatti 57SC Atlantic (~$35 million). Overall, Hagerty’s “Cars That Matter” index rates prices for collectible postwar automobiles as having gone up 67% from 2006 to the end of last year, compared to the SP 500 Index, which dropped 5.9% over the same time period.
[Source: The Detroit News | Image: Mark Thompson/Getty]
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Zeke Jennings | Jackson Citizen Patriot

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Echoes of Pink Floyd uses a state-of-the-art laser light show during performances
When the MGM lion roars for the third time, push play on the CD player.
Those are the instructions for synchronizing Pink Floyd’s “The Dark Side of the Moon” with “The Wizard of Oz.” Though the band insists the apparent connection between the music and the movie is coincidential, the two classics will forever be linked by urban legend.
Echoes of Pink Floyd takes the link a step further. The Michigan-based tribute band will perform the album in its entirety with “The Wizard of Oz” playing on screen, all during a state-of-the-art laser light show, at the Michigan Theatre Saturday evening.
That’s just the first part of the band’s scheduled two-plus-hour show, with the second act featuring more Pink Floyd favorites, like “Comfortably Numb,” as well as some deep album cuts.
Alex Gonzalez, of Kalamazoo, who plays lead guitar and performs the vocals sung by David Gilmour, has been with Echoes since its inception in Detroit in 2003. He says the group takes great pride in reproducing Pink Floyd’s sound, but performing in sync with a motion picture is challenging.
“In the early days, it used to be pretty nerve-wracking,” Gonzalez said. “We’ve gotten to where we can pretty much play it in our sleep. You throw ‘The Wizard of Oz’ in there and that does makes it interesting. Sometimes we have to look around and make sure we’re we need to be with the movie.”
Tom Beller, of Lansing, the band’s bass player for the past four years, acknowledges that if one wanted to find similarities between almost any movie in relation to a random album, it’s probably possible.
“You could link up ‘Thriller’ and whatever movie you wanted and I suppose you could find something that seems to match,” he said. “I know Floyd says it’s all coincidental, and maybe it is, but the similarities there are remarkable.”
Beller said the band members get a kick out of the audience’s reaction during shows.
“You’ll see people nudge each other and point and say, ‘Did you see that?’” he said with a laugh. “It’s really cool.”
Unlike tribute bands to groups like Kiss or The Beatles, which usually put a high emphasis on costumes and reproducing the physical attributes of the band members, Echoes is a different experience.
“Pink Floyd was really kind of an anonymous band. Most people wouldn’t even know them if they saw them walking down the street,” Beller said. “We don’t try to pose like them or look like them. It’s much more about the music and the multi-sensory experience of the band’s live shows.”
That experience includes a light show supplied by equipment owned by Benner’s company, Pro-Dynamics, LLC.
“It’s very state-of-the-art stuff,” said Benner. “You’ll find it in places like Chicago and New York and the major entertainment hubs, but no one else in Michigan has anything like this.”
Echoes of Pink Floyd
Where: Michigan Theatre, 124 N. Mechanic St., 783-0962
When: 8 p.m. Saturday (doors open at 7 p.m.)
Tickets: $15 in advance through Star Tickets, which can be purchased at www.startickets.com, by calling 800-585-3737 or at Meijer stores. Tickets are $20 at the door the day of the event.
— For more info, visit www.echoesofpinkfloyd.com