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*Pink Floyd Live at Civic Auditorium – Santa Monica, CA, USA-May 1st 1970* Dear Floydians & Friends, this Roio is highly credited to: Taper-Dub Taylor/Magna Quality Records/Pink Floyd Roio & Voio hub sites. *Recording Equipment used by Taper: Nagra R2R – 5″ Reel Master *Restored and Enhanced by Magna Quality Records (MQR) – creamcheese, }{eywood and WRomanus *Video and Sound for Youtube Designed & Edited by Flosydian! Band: Pink Floyd Date: 1st/May/1970 Venue: Civic Auditorium Location: Santa Monica, CA, USE *TRACK LISTS: Set 1: 1. GRANTCHESTER MEADOWS 2. ASTRONOMY DOMINE 3. Tune Ups 4. CYMBALINE 5. THE AMAZING PUDDING Set 2: 1. Tune Ups 2. THE EMBRYO 3. GREEN IS THE COLOUR 4. CAREFUL WITH THAT AXE, EUGENE 5. SET THE CONTROLS FOR THE HEART OF THE SUN 6. INTERSTELLAR OVERDRIVE 7. A SAUCERFUL OF SECRETS ——————————————————————– Copyright : “Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for “fair use” for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research. Fair use is a use permitted by copyright statute that might otherwise be infringing. Non-profit, educational or personal use tips the balance in favor of fair use.” ————————–/\===\/—————————————- Your Ratings, Subscriptions,Friendships & Messages are heartily welcome by: Flosydian! pf—-/\===rules! From Fans For Fans! Shine On!… |
(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...How was your summer? Viewed from the standpoint of a Falls Church public school year, summer is 12 short weeks between mid-June graduation ceremonies and the day after Labor Day, when the new school year begins. Often it seems Labor Day is a better “eve” for a new year than December 31, because of the school year cycle, and the re-start that every post-summer period represents in every quarter of life.
Did anything “game changing” happen in your life in the summer, or past year? How have things turned out relative to your expectations? In the course of the “long wave” of your life, can you identify progress toward your aspirations? Or, have you given up and, in the words of Pink Floyd, become “comfortably numb?”
(“When I was a child I caught a fleeting glimpse through the corner of my eye. I took a look but it was gone, I cannot put my finger on it now. The child has grown, the dream is gone,” the Pink Floyd lyrics lament, “I have become comfortably numb.”)
“The child is grown, the dream is gone.” Is it really, or has it simply become obfuscated by the mediocrities of day-to-day life?
Often in this “instant gratification” society, it is easy to get frustrated when getting from here to there seems to get bogged down. It helps to step back and gain the benefit of perspective.
Rather than beat one’s self up for not doing enough, it is better to identify a set of practical, doable steps that can keep things, or restart things, heading the right way.
Sometimes it’s helpful to affirm that everything happens for a reason, even if that is more as a methodology than an article of faith. As Oscar Wilde wrote from prison, the notion that everything happens for the best “may be philosophy or a broken heart, or religion, or the dull apathy of despair,” but in the depths of what his life became at that point, he claimed, “The feeling is strong with me.” The conviction enabled him to see beyond his public humiliation and pain to view himself as an inspired artist again.
In terms of those Pink Floyd lyrics, the important thing is to remember the dream. Reinvention comes not from lurching toward something entirely unfamiliar and new, but from an introspection that sees past the accumulated smokescreens and rubble of life to a fresh, core wellspring of vitality and interest.
Tennessee Williams, in the words of an older, jaded character in his play, “Small Craft Warnings,” declared, “Yes, once, quite a long while ago, I was often startled by the sense of being alive, of being myself, living! Present on earth, in the flesh, yes, for some completely mysterious reason, a single, separate, intensely conscious being, myself: living! Whenever I would feel this feeling, this shock of…what?…self-realization?…I would be stunned, I would be thunderstruck by it.”
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...Mimicry is a talent that doesn’t always get the attention it deserves. While most of us enjoy a good impression, few are willing these days to sit through an entire performance of them, at least based on my unscientific survey of how many impressionists show up on late-night talk shows.
This would seem to mark some sort of generational shift. This is a nation where Rich Little built an empire, after all. But if there aren’t any hourlong celebrity impersonator shows on television, repetition and especially its weird cousin, remix, are going as strongly as ever, indeed stronger than ever.
This is not a jeremiad against remix culture, though I feel like I could write one and get away with it. (How many movie sequels have you seen recently, and how many did you enjoy?) Almost two years ago, noted rock ‘n’ roll freaks The Flaming Lips, in collaboration with family (the band Stardeath and White Dwarfs, fronted by Lips lead singer and grand architect Wayne Coyne’s nephew) and friends (Peaches! Henry Rollins!) followed their peculiar muse into the studio to re-record Pink Floyd’s ubiquitous hit “The Dark Side of the Moon.”
They weren’t the first to do so. There’s a bluegrass version out there, and a reggae version and who knows what all else. In fact, there’s a whole industry dedicated to string quartet covers of nonstring quartet music, or there used to be back when gas stations sold CDs. As to who bought these, well, I have no idea. Please write in and let us know if you ever have.
So why do such a thing? Well, as always for the Flaming Lips, I imagine it was simply because they had some spare time and thought it would be fun. This is a band that has made a Christmas movie set on Mars, an album spread across four CDs that all have to be played simultaneously, and a 12-part song on YouTube designed to be played by people with smartphones, also all at the same time. They’ve spent all of this year putting out music buried inside edible skulls. I think they’re the greatest band in the universe. And Pink Floyd is an obvious and major influence for them.
The album, “The Flaming Lips and Stardeath and White Dwarfs with Henry Rollins and Peaches Doing The Dark Side of the Moon,” was released in December 2009, and I only got it recently because I’ve never been a Pink Floyd fan, per se. It turns out that by being able to hear and having ridden in cars with radios I was very familiar with nearly every song on this album. Where the original feels laidback and mellow, at least at this late date, this new one is mostly gritty bass lines and punk energy, and indeed is at its best when throwing in lots of that sort of noise.
If you do happen to enjoy the Flaming Lips, even a little, listening to them perform under the constraints imposed by this project can be illuminating, like reading sonnets if you’re usually more into free verse. If their wilder experiments seem for now too daunting for you, here’s a structure within which they can do their thing and you’re guaranteed to at least know the words.
And for those of you living with the original for the last 38 years, the opposite may prove profitable.
* Simon Sizer is the legal notice and obituary clerk at the Yakima Herald-Republic. He is constantly prattling on about music, so we gave him this column. It runs every two weeks.
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In Argentina, Wall mania has gripped Buenos Aires and in order to satisfy overwhelming public demand a record breaking seventh River Plate show has been announced, taking place on March 17th, 2012; ticketing dates to be announced. The first five Stadium shows sold out in 48 hours, causing promoter, Roberto Costa of Pop Art, to hastily add a sixth show to satisfy fans who had queued all night for tickets. The sixth show sold out in a day and now Roger Waters has announced a seventh show at the famous River Plate Stadium, a new record, beating the previous holders, The Rolling Stones, who played five nights on their first visit to South America back in 1998.
As a side note, but certainly VERY significant to a number of you, Roger’s official site notes that the Brazilian dates are being rescheduled due to public demand for the extra shows in Argentina. Looking at the schedule we’re wondering if it might just be one of the shows moved (the one originally scheduled for the 17th) but as and when details come through, we will let you all know.
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(No Ratings Yet) Loading ...There’s been a lot of bad press about rock being in decline in terms of sales, video and radio airplay, and creativity being at low ebb, resulting in fewer outlets for rock music.
Is it true? First of all, let’s evaluate a silly statement made in recent industry press claiming that classic rock like Pink Floyd is in decline. This one is so dumb that it’s barely worth responding to. Bottom line: classic rock has never been more popular, and in fact the great bands of every era are being discovered by more young music fans than ever before.
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But what about current based rock? Why are there so few success stories when it comes to new rock bands breaking out? When you compare the Billboard charts from the last 30 years by genre, as Nitsuh Abebe did in his interesting article “We Must Be Superstars” from last month’s New York magazine (thanks to Lefsetz for the heads up), it’s clear that the importance of the rock genre from a chart standpoint is at an all time low. Rock has been so embattled of late that Dave Grohl even felt a need to mention something on the VMA’s last Sunday, saying “never lose faith in real rock n roll music”.
Indeed, what is real rock music today? The world is completely different than it was even 10 years ago. Many Rock fans today own Jay Z, Jason Aldean and Eminem records; they also listen to Lynyryd Skynyrd and The Who; and most of them are also perfectly comfortable with defining Coldplay and Mumford Sons as rock. Is rock still defined as a band that has a guitar, bass, drum, and vocalist? Or is it something that’s powerful, aggressive, and upsets your parents? If it’s the former, you’re fencing yourself in, because what’s clear is that the audience has decided that rock is a whole lot wider than many gatekeepers think. While some rock radio programmers argue themselves into a no-win spiral, trying to arbitrarily decide what is rock and whether a particular artist “fits,” pop stations don’t worry about that at all. They focus on what’s hot.
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Why is there less current rock being played on terrestrial radio in recent years? First of all, the new methodology used by Arbitron that tracks minute by minute ratings is very hard on new music. It’s not familiar, so naturally doesn’t rate as high as does a familiar song. Also the new methodology is very sensitive to a radio station’s reach…meaning that the total number of people sampling a station has become much more important. Pop or country formats are much more likely to thrive in this environment because both are hit-oriented formats.
Under this scenario, a current based rock format finds itself much more likely to rely on more catalog material than ever before to insure stickiness. Or, rock stations are forced to simply change formats in order to attract a larger audience, which naturally reduces the opportunity for new rock bands to be heard. The result is that there are now less than a hundred commercial radio stations that play current rock in the Top 50 markets.
And what the about the state of new music today…are we at a creative low ebb? That is usually the excuse in any genre when ratings are declining, but there often is some truth to the argument. It’s fair to ask if this is a temporary dip for rock, or is it spent as a major cultural force? There are some exciting new bands, many of which are getting very little exposure, but unfortunately few can break out with far less outlets to be seen and heard.
It’s also hard to argue with the fact that pop, hip hop and country have been developing a lot more stars in recent years than rock has. In the live music area, except for the big festivals, you rarely see the excitement in rock circles that “The Throne” tour has generated.
But notwithstanding great bands like Arcade Fire (which barely gets radio or video play), there’s no question that rock has suffered from the lack of a new sound or movement to energize the entire genre. I’m talking about something that can blow up the current rock scene, like the Seattle sound did in ’91. 
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So once again we find ourselves waiting for Nirvana…hoping for a musical miracle to change the course of new music.
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The 2011 Tuesdays in the Park concert series ended with “Run Like Hell,” but as fans quietly exited the venue one can assume they will run like hell to come back next year after a magnificent season of music, capped off by the Pink Floyd tribute band The Machine.
There is no doubt that The Machine was the most appreciative band of the season, lead singer Joe Pascarell made it known a number times how much the band looked forward to the Artpark show. That is with good reason; they draw a sizeable crowd, even larger than some of the major headliners.
While the band did sneak in a few deep tracks, the bulk of the show was dedicated to three albums, “Dark Side of the Moon,” “Wish You Were Here” and “The Wall.” Most of the material from those three albums the band handled very well with the exception of “Goodbye Blue Sky,” which was a bit choppy in parts.
They also struggled a tad with some of the other material from “The Wall,” but it was due to a lack of personnel, when Floyd performed “The Wall” they added four backing vocalists, an extra guitarist and a percussionist. The Machine performs as a four piece and that creates some limitations.
The laser show was quite a treat, and added a lot to the show especially the extended jams. If there is one area where The Machine may even be better than Pink Floyd, it is in their extended jams. The improvisational bits are closely structured around Pink Floyd’s style, but they give the band a chance to show their own meddle, and it is when they are at their best.
Some music writers have touted the band as “sounding exactly like Pink Floyd” and on many songs that was definitely the case, especially on “Comfortably Numb.” In fact, their version sounds much better than the version that Pink Floyd was performing in the post Roger Waters era.
They did include two of the post Waters era songs, “On the Turning Away” and “One Slip.” I had not heard “One Slip” in a long time and was struck at how different it was from anything else Pink Floyd recorded. It was enjoyable but even though it represents the latter part of Pink Floyd’s career, it sounds more dated than any other song in their catalogue.
The Machine ended their regular set with “Brain Damage” and “Eclipse,” both sounded faithful to the album versions on “Dark Side of the Moon.” The three encores were all fantastic, and the band took the liberty to include one of the most famous misheard lyrics in rock history, changing a line in the song “Time.” You can Google it; the original line is “it’s good to warm my bones beside the fire.”
It’s likely we will see the return of The Machine next year, they are a logical ending to the season, drawing a nice sized crowd and their music is relaxing on a cool summer night, sitting in a folding chair at a great venue.
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