![]() ![]() Pepper, possibly the defining moment of English psychedelia and Syd Barrett’s magnum opus.” Among its highlights was a nine-minute instrumental, “Interstellar Overdrive,” that represented one of rock’s first forays into deep space. As the British music magazine Q opined in 1995, “Piper at the Gates of Dawn is, even counting Sgt. ![]() Pink Floyd’s debut album, Piper at the Gates of Dawn, is a classic of psychedelic whimsy that epitomized the remarkable year of 1967 at its most playful and creative. Singer-guitarist Syd Barrett provided Pink Floyd with most of its original early material, including the British hits “See Emily Play” and “Arnold Layne.” Barrett’s elfin, tuneful psychedelia made him the Lewis Carroll of the pop scene. In the Seventies, with bassist Roger Waters providing more of the songwriting and direction, Pink Floyd became one of the most influential rock bands of all time.īefore they settled on Pink Floyd, the group went by the names Sigma 6 and the Architectural Abdabs, and they mainly performed rhythm and blues covers. In their early years, with vocalist, guitarist and songwriter Syd Barrett at the helm, Pink Floyd were the psychedelic Pied Pipers of the “London underground” scene. What George Orwell and Ray Bradbury were to literature, Pink Floyd is to popular music, forging an unsettling but provocative combination of science fiction and social commentary. The group carried rock and roll into a dimension that was more cerebral and conceptual than what preceded it. Pink Floyd’s hallucinatory presentation of lights and music at London’s Roundhouse in 1966 brought psychedelia to the U.K. Inductees: Syd Barrett (guitar, vocals born Janudied July 7, 2006), David Gilmour (guitar, vocals born March 6, 1944), Nick Mason (drums born January 27, 1945), Roger Waters (bass, synthesizer, vocals born September 9, 1944), Rick Wright (keyboards, synthesizers born Jdied September 15, 2008). Everyone will have their favourite, but for me, it’s hard to beat ‘Comfortably Numb’, taken to whole new levels of bombast here. Although played live (having been recorded in studio) at a distance of a decade or more, they are encapsulated perfectly, and played with very little deviation from the established album tracks. The rendition of classic tracks will appeal to the purists. Only 1977’s ‘Animals’ is conspicuous by its absence. There’s also most of the 1975 ‘Wish You Were Here’ album, and ‘Run Like Hell’, ‘Comfortably Numb’ and ‘Another Brick in the Wall Part 2’ from 1979’s ‘The Wall’. Understandably, The Dark Side of the Moon gets a good airing (‘Time’, ‘The Great Gig in the Sky’, ‘Money’, ‘Us and Them’). However, all of their big successes from the 1970s are included. Fans can’t help but notice an absence of tracks from 1983’s ‘The Final Cut’, the album recorded under fractious circumstances. ‘Delicate Sound of Thunder’ retains is freshness, and its sound is bolstered by the army of backing singers and guest musicians who are brought on stage to perform. Following an infamously bitter legal wrangle over the rights to record as ‘Pink Floyd’ (Gilmour won), the band carried on without Waters and charted a new direction. Feeling himself suddenly liberated, lead guitarist David Gilmour had other ideas. After ‘The Final Cut’ in 1983, frontman, bassist and lyricist Roger Waters quit to go solo, assuming that without his stewardship, Pink Floyd would quietly die. The Pink Floyd of the late 1980s was an altogether different proposition to the band that had grown to prominence since the late 1960s. Info for Delicate Sound Of Thunder (2019 Remix Live) 17 Welcome To The Machine (2019 Remix, Live) 07:45.16 Wish You Were Here (2019 Remix, Live) 04:38.15 The Great Gig In The Sky (2019 Remix, Live) 04:51.12 One Of These Days (2019 Remix, Live) 06:17.11 On The Turning Away (2019 Remix, Live) 09:11.5 Round And Round (2019 Remix, Live) 00:34.4 Yet Another Movie (2019 Remix, Live) 06:16.3 Learning To Fly (2019 Remix, Live) 05:19. ![]()
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