New Pink Floyd Album "Endless River"

Any other Floyd fans here?

Just got the new Blu-Ray/CD combo pack of the new album, and I'm about 25 minutes into it right now. I sort of had an idea of what to expect because of the press releases, and it's pretty much what I thought it would be, which is great.

It's material that Gilmour and Mason took from The Division Bell era that they had some of Richard Wright's keyboard recordings for unreleased songs. They've added guitar and drums, and turned it into kind of a tribute to Richard Wright.

A lot (and I mean a lot) of it makes musical references to early albums like Dark Side, Wish You Were Here, Ummagumma, and also references some of The Division Bell, but in a new way.

Overall, I like it very much. It's mostly instrumental, with only 1 song containing lyrics, but it's good stuff.

 

Roger Daltry involved? I know him and Gilmour are NOT friends.

 

You mean Roger Waters? No, he isn't involved with this one.

 

You know what? I clicked in here to see what you said and right before I did I said to myself "I put Daltry and meant to put Waters". LOL! Do you like Sid Barrett Pink Floyd's stuff? I love Gilmour. He has some of the best phrasing of all time. Also his tone is phenomenal and he's a Strat man. It's pretty crazy that he can get such sweet tone from a Hi-Watt ya know?

 

I do like Sid's stuff. I've got a couple of albums of solo stuff he did.

I'm a huge fan of Gilmour's tone. He has an amazing sound.

 

Man he gets HUGE sounds and milks the CRAP out of his clean sound as well. The solo on The Wall is a prime example of it. I love the bends in that solo. He's just great at getting the most out of the least amount of notes. B.B. rules at doing that more than anyone but Gilmour is really up there. Billy Gibbons is good at doing it too.

 

nothing beats

the pros and cons of hitchhiking


I have seen Pink Floyd over twenty times and I'm a big fan of


butt

I can't do this new album yet.

what I've heard so far

not

impressed


then again other releases have grown on me before

 

I've always like the Pros and Cons of Hitchhiking. It was really the only Waters solo album I liked very much. I have all of Gilmour's, and I think they're all really good.

I also have solo albums from Rick Wright and Nick Mason, although Nick's is a little on the bizarre side (it's called Fictitious Sports).

If you get the new album (which I really would suggest), just go into it realizing it's not a typical new album full of new individual songs, but is more like a longer, more mellow version of some of their early instrumental experimentation type songs with many references to past releases. In normal PF form, it still has a theme, and it's basically a continuation of the theme of communication started on Division Bell.

I've had 2 full listens and I'm partway through the 3rd right now, and while it's taking longer to grow on my than any other PF album has, it's definitely good stuff and it is growing on me pretty quickly after those first couple of listens.

 

Glad to read that the reviews were pretty much right about "Endless River"...

It`s on my Christmas list, and I will wait till then, to hear it...

Except for whatever the local radio station plays before then...

I won`t "sneak" Youtube listens...

I will wait to hear it in it`s entirety. Nice to know ahead of time, that there are no lyrics until the closing song, or I would have been disappointed...

As is, I`m looking forward to it.

I`m not a HUGE Pink Floyd fan, like into the early catalog w/ Sid Barrett, but I DO love the music, like any other respectable stoner that came of age in the early 80`s, would...

I got to see them ONE time, live, at the old Cleveland Stadium, for the 'Division Bell" tour...

They played mostly older songs, and I was sitting way up high in the stadium...

Their audio was either coming thru stadium speakers mounted near the overhang above the top seats there, or they mounted their own, but you could hear the metal "roof", vibrating with the music...(Along with the normal amps, it was kinda like a "surround sound" effect)
Not distracting, but, pretty cool,

They also did this thing, where they used laser lights to project images thru smoke that was projected upwards from the stage..

Not just vague lighting, or shapes, but detailed images, like a flock of birds flying, during "Learning to Fly"...

Images from "The Wall", while they played songs from it...

I wasn`t on acid at the time, but it reminded me of tripping, while I watched the show...

It was AWESOME!!! They also had a giant pig blimp flying around, like the one from the "Animals" album cover...

Good Stuff!!!

I`ve been to a LOT of shows in my time...

But their`s was one of the very BEST!!

Can`t wait to hear the "New" album!

Thanks for sharing, Steel...

 

I've had a newspaper clipping of an early review for Endless River in September and can't wait to hear it. Huge Floyd fan since about 1970, the Umma Gumma era - probably seen them 15 times over the milleniums - the live "Careful with that Axe Eugene" from Umma Gumma still scares the living hell out of me today thanks to a few magic mushrooms ingested the first time I heard it - saw the original Dark Side tour in summer of 72/73? at the Hollywood Bowl which much later became the inflatable backdrop for the Division Bell tour in early 90's? Was fortunate to catch Gilmour's solo tour in LA back in summer 2007 when Rick was still well enough to join them (he died Sep 2008) and right after Sid passed away (July 2007) and they dedicated Arnold Layne to him, first time they ever played it at a concert I attended (David Bowie joins them on this tune on the DVD of this concert tour from London - not bad).

I think my overall favorite song and video of theirs is Echoes from the Pompeii album/DVD. Thoroughly enjoyed reading each and every post in this thread - great to see so many dedicated and knowledgeable PF fans in Steeler nation. So the question still remains - Which One's Pink?

PS - if you haven't seen it - check out the "Strat Pack" 50th Anniversary of the Fender Strat 2004 Concert video on Palladia music channel (#572 on Direct TV) - it repeats at least once a month - some great vintage musicians show up (some losers as well) - from Joe Walsh to Gilmour to Brian May to one of the most bizarre and fastest guitarists in the world - Albert Lee - looks like a cross between Dudley Moore and Einstein.

http://r.search.yahoo.com/_ylt=AwrT...rat_Pack/RK=0/RS=B3V8P_Q_Jx.yANqxipfwowH0F_c-

 

Dude Albert Lee is a BEAST! He's a GREAT chicken picker. I don't really think of him as a Strat player though. Neither is Brian May because he made his guitar. Brian May is one of the most underrated players of all time as well. His clean sound on Crazy Little Thing Called Love honestly makes me a little jealous. LOL!

 

I always figured it was Syd since that album was named after him (Shine on You crazy Diamond).

 

Just out of curiosity, since you guys got to see Floyd back in the day I'm just curious if you ever got to see my favorite British rock band Cream?

 

Yes I did notice that not all players were using or are known for their Strat playing. Don't know a lot about May's guitar playing but he may be The Most Interesting Man In The (Music) World - he holds a doctorate in Astro-Physics and was a contributing editor to Astronomy Magazine for a while with some amazingly intelligent articles and research pieces. Have to admit - didn't know much about Albert Lee before seeing the Strat Pack concert - my brain was numbed by Alvin Lee (10 Years After) and Arthur Lee (Love).

 

Actually I did not know that before. Nice catch. My brothers and I are convinced that Pink Floyd actually became a quasi tribute band to Barrett if you consider all the mental related song themes - Brain Damage/Lunatic, Comfortably Numb, Shine On et al. I'm amazed at Syd's overall studio talents - songwriting, guitar, vocals - in light of his apparent heavy addictions. I like a lot of his material in PF's early days.

 

BFT - "Just out of curiosity, since you guys got to see Floyd back in the day I'm just curious if you ever got to see my favorite British rock band Cream?"


No never did - I liked their songs and albums but didn't get to see them live - closest was almost got to see Yardbirds and 10 Years After around 1968 - not sure who actually toured in the USA as the Yardbird's lead guitarist - Beck, Page, Clapton? They each contributed to hit songs of theirs.

 

Man that would have been awesome if you had gotten to see the Yardbirds. It's incredible that ONE band had THOSE three. My dad saw Clapton a few months ago and he was doing some Cream stuff and my dad called while he was doing it to let me listen in. The only thing I think he has done to rival Cream since they disbanded was From the Cradle. I love a lot of his solo stuff but Cream was just the pinnacle of his rock era for me. Ginger Baker is just the man.

 

Yeah Albert Lee is known for playing without distortion and he actually calls his shows "distortion free zones". He is basically like a mad scientist with a Tele. Check out what he did with Steve Martin on the tribute to Earl Scruggs when they all play Foggy Mountain Breakdown. It is BLAZING!

 

I just thought the name came from the two blues players that he liked. Syd actually came up with the name right? The Pink Floyd Sound. Then they shortened it to Pink Floyd. Is it a thing among the hardcore fans to ask that question? Sorta like Springsteen fans say "What is a 10th Avenue Freezeout?" I actually can't stand Springsteen but I do love that song though. LOL!

 

Yeah, the band was named after Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. The name I referred to earlier was the use of Syd's name in an album title.

 

Oh I thought you were referring to Syd as the "Pink" because he asked who was Pink.

 

In the song Have a Cigar, a record exec asks "And oh by the way, which one's Pink?" as if it was a band members name. Since that album is all about Syd, and since he was the founding member, I just always figured he was the closest one to being able to be called "Pink."

 

Oh ok I see. I did know that they sorta wrote quite a bit about him.

 

I used to have friends who thought that Pink Floyd was a solo artist and was a single person named Pink. I always thought that was the kind of thing that song was referring to.

I have a PF book that covers some of their history, and one thing that I aways found fascinating was that apparently that hadn't seen Syd in years, but when they were recording the song Shine on You Crazy Diamond (which is about Syd) in the studio, they looked up after a few takes and saw someone standing outside the studio and then walk away. Turns out that it was Syd.

Here's a similar writeup of the situation I found on a website:

Syd continued to cast a shadow over Floyd, in the summer of 1975 they worked on a follow up to Dark Side of the Moon and one song in particular became significant, a space-jazz ode to Syd called “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”. On the 5th June 1975 during recording at Abbey Road, an unrecognisable Syd appeared in the studio, coincidentally during the recording of “Shine On You Crazy Diamond”. He was 18 stone, had shaved off all his body hair including his eyebrows, nobody recognised him as he sat in the corner, constantly sitting down and jumping up from his seat.