My son is in first grade and taking music class. I am using Pink Floyd sheet music to teach him. We are currently learning about quarter notes and eighth notes. Yesterday after class, we sang what's the deal together. Pink Floyd is helping me teach my son about music. It's such a beautiful experience. I'm a recovering Alcoholic and drug addict, in my addiction Pink Floyd was always being played. Today I'm over 10 years sober and these songs have taken on new meanings. It's amazing. My son is also taking art. He had to do a painting and draw a rainbow. He painted the cover of Dark Side of the Moon. I am such a proud father. Thank you lads, your music is a major part of not only my life , but my child's.

@TheStream

6 ай бұрын

This is such an inspiring story, thanks for sharing it with us. Your son will surely remember you every time he listens to Pink Floyd, and that's the power of great music!

@Edz90

2 ай бұрын

Wish you and your son all the best!

I did Not know of Pink Floyd when I first heard their sound. I entered a State Fair in Northern NJ with My Wife and several Family Members and the Music was filling the air with the sound of, "Dark Side of the Moon" and it was Loud and Beautiful! We finally found the place that generated this haunting sound and I asked the DJ what he had been playing a while ago and he showed me a 8 track tape, which said Pink Floyd, so I Purchased this 8 track and this was my Introduction to one of the Greatest Albums in Rock History, by one of the greatest Bands Ever! That's My Story!

Filmed for 5 nights at Earls Court. I bet we never see that as a complete piece. Just what's out there on the net is all we will ever see.

50:32 The Dark Side of the Moon, a Landmark Album, it has stood the test of time … other Landmark albums … The Beach Boys Pet Sounds … The Beatles Stg Pepper, Abbey Road, The White album, Rubber Soul, Revolver, Please Please Me, every Beatles album, every Jimmi Hendrix album. Every Doors album. These are albums that every generation finds in their lifetime.

The way PF more or less hid their identities and obscured the band through artistic imagery created a mysterious component to these artists. Music has lost a lot of that mystique these days as it is so accessible and available.

@chicklets4ever51

Жыл бұрын

Yes, and once that mystery was dispelled by David Gilmour wanting more credit and coming out on his own, it was over. Roger Water's excessive control of the band brought it on, of course, but it still remained a group effort until David and Richard Wright got tired of the formula, stopped contributing, and it became Roger's show. When you see or hear the later, Roger-less "Pink Floyd," you can see that it became David's showcase, and so no more melding of the egos. I in fact like best the period 1967-72, when the melding was most complete. A whole much greater than the sum of its parts.

@Geezer-yf8hv

Жыл бұрын

I had always heard of Pink Floyd, but never saw the band until the Live in Pompeii movie, (which I didn’t even see until the mid 70s)! They weren’t the publicity whores like many bands. I used to read Cream magazine then, but Floyd was rarely featured.

@Geezer-yf8hv

Жыл бұрын

@@chicklets4ever51 To me, the Golden Era was from Meddle to the Wall! In spite of what Roger said, I felt the whole band was making great music!!

@chicklets4ever51

Жыл бұрын

@@Geezer-yf8hv Well, that's generous of you, and it is, after all, a matter of personal taste. There are certainly some great cuts from the various 70s albums up to and including The Wall, but I liked very much the mysterious, seeking sense of their work up to and including Meddle, which, for me, was the culmination.

@Geezer-yf8hv

Жыл бұрын

@@chicklets4ever51 I would have to split those eras, the ‘67 and earlier singles were a totally different, as this was Syd’s show! The many people who love this period best were obviously there at the time during the “Summer of Love 1967”! I loved the direction Waters took the band in, with their new guitarist Gilmour! (But I was hearing it all 5-7 years later after it’s original release)! I had already heard DSOTM, and WYWH, before going back to the early stuff! For what it’s worth, Gilmour, Wright, and even Waters I believe, tried to help Barret produce his later solo records, but it was still not enough to overcome his mental deterioration !

Roger Keith Barrett. The most beautiful man that ever walked the Earth. RIP, you shiny diamond.

70”s PF is beyond amazing and unique. I’ve always loved their early stuff like More & AHM and have grown to love the later period 1987-94.

@chicklets4ever51

Жыл бұрын

The later period is not really Pink Floyd. It's David Floyd. They pulled off the old Pink Floyd classics well enough in concert, but all of David's new original material was dreck. Without the tension of Roger Waters in the creation, the stuff just falls flat.

@trendmassacre8423

Жыл бұрын

​@@chicklets4ever51 your opinion falls flat as you're in the minority who tends to think that 87-94 is not worth while. I think those 2 albums are some of Floyd's best music. Sure, they may not be as progressive or out of the box as some of their past albums, but they are just as musical as any of the other albums.

@chicklets4ever51

Жыл бұрын

@@trendmassacre8423 I'm certainly not in the minority as far as the critics are concerned. And I'm certainly not in the minority among those who've followed Pink Floyd from the beginning. It's only undiscerning fans like yourself who like those records.

@samuelalexander558

10 ай бұрын

​@@chicklets4ever51agreed, the albums AMLOR and the Division Bell lacked the edge and creativity that Roger gave to Floyd and don't get me started on Pollys lyrics on TDB.

Pink Floyd is one of my favorite bands. Being from the generation that purchased The Dark Side of the Moon when it came out in 1973, one observation rings true with the current generation of young people. At 20:21 in this video, “Dealing with Syd Barrett was like dealing with a child. He would just give you the blank stare”. This is what it is like dealing with the teenagers, twenty year olds, and even thirty year olds of the last 20-30 years, “The blank stare” and not considering anything other than their own.

Syd's vision, Richard's vocals, Dave's music, Roger's lyrics, and Nick's special effects. By the way, which one's Pink?

@inkscopez6070

7 ай бұрын

David's music? it was the whole band's music!

@PaulWildstar

7 ай бұрын

@@inkscopez6070 Roger's psychotic screams is one of my favorite parts of the band's music, not to mention his lyrics

@inkscopez6070

7 ай бұрын

@@PaulWildstar Well yeah but I would change it for this : Roger's lyrics, richard's sound, david's vocals and nick's power

@PaulWildstar

7 ай бұрын

@@inkscopez6070 Yes! You nailed it

For Great Gig... they were speechless that's why they didn't say anything to her. That is the BEST song on the album and her performance is literally the highlight of it

There was a very RARE ,late 60s,post Syd Floyd song that I heard years ago on FM radio. It was about 6-7 minutes long and featured an upbeat renissance-style organ melody with a trippy middle 8 guitar solo which sounded like that of "Interstellar Overdrive ". It sounded like a piece by BACH or HANDEL but with a psych-pop sound. The singer may have been Rick because the lyrics were of someone reminiscing about a past love affair captured in his mind. This song wasn't "summer of '68". It was a definite BOOTLEG. If anyone has an idea what this song title is,please share with me . Thanks!😂

Also, my honest opinion the following are the Magnificent Seven Pink Floyd albums:- 1) Wish You Were Here 2) Dark Side Of The Moon 3) Meddle 4) The Final Cut 5) Animals 6) The Wall 7) Obscured By Clouds All of these albums through both emotional music and lyrics are ultimately teachings about the best aspects of humanity; peace, friendship, well-being, love and compassion but they also warn about the various terrible things that can destroy them; tyranny, cruelty, capitalism, fascism, The Man, The System, The Machine, hatred, prejudice, indifference, social ostracism, bad teachers, hostile societies, social division and inequalities, modernity, bigotry, power, war and greed. Fundamentally all of the best Pink Floyd albums have this escapism vibe and as the great genius Roger Waters himself once put it in a discussion about Wish You Were Here, they are also about "how fucking miserable it (fucked-up modern human society, injustice and tragedy) all is". I also consider all of the pre-Meddle Pink Floyd albums honorable Pink Floyd classics thanks to their pastoral psychedelic and whimsical music and/or lyrics and even far-out experimentation. As awesome as "The Magnificent Seven Pink Floyd" albums however, they still owe a lot to The Piper At The Gates Of Dawn, A Saucerful Of Secrets, More, Ummagumma, the rare Zabriskie Point and Atom Heart Mother. I love all of the 1966-1983 golden era Pink Floyd albums. However I believe the true Pink Floyd magic is gone after Roger Waters's 1983 departure. Even with Richard Wright's return in varying capacity, A Momentary Lapse Of Reason, The Division Bell and The Endless River albums sound clinical and without the true Pink Floyd magic, these 3 near Ambient and at least in the case of AMLOR even corporate albums are in effect the end products of the Pink Floyd cog of "The Machine".

@rjlchristie

8 ай бұрын

I'm not interested in any Floyd after 1975 and the release of Wish You Were Here. They ceased to be a unit after that album as they had become a dysfunctional business, operating as competition of egos. 1975 was their last hurrah.

Nick Mason was a passenger. "If there's a problem, ignore it" sums up his contributions to the band

@rxw5520

21 күн бұрын

Even the greatest rock drummers were passengers. Mitch Mitchell John Bonham Neal Peart all ridiculously amazing and distinct. Yet you would’ve never heard of any of them had their not been attached to GREAT SONGWRITERS.

tommy vance presenting what a legend.

Roger Barrett

I never noticed Roger Waters was wearing a John Denver tee shirt until just now…

Atom Heart Mother was always a weird album for me! One of the only few that I didn’t own a copy of the album! It felt like an over ambitious over-reach that they were not quite ready for yet! With Echoes, there were actual lyrics, which anchored it down much better than Atom Heart! Dave’s guitar had made great improvements, as well as their skill in the multitrack recordings! Meddle, with Echoes, was their first true masterpiece, in my mind!

@Geezer-yf8hv

Жыл бұрын

Later, with Dark Side became the idea of an entire album Masterpiece! Not just one side, but the whole album!

@Geezer-yf8hv

Жыл бұрын

Atom Heart Mother also had the second song that Dave wrote by himself! Fat Old Sun was a really good song! The first was the Narrow Way on Ummagumma! His solo contribution was the Superior of all the original compositions!

@Geezer-yf8hv

Жыл бұрын

Animals was an amazing album for me! The first Floyd album I was able to buy new when it was released. There were a lot of complaints about it. That it was so bitter and harsh compared to earlier albums! True, it didn’t have that smooth, “Space Cadet Glow” groove of Dark Side and WYWH! None of the lush sax solos, and sexy background singers! It was the raw band playing more rock than ever! Half of the album had been written and played for years in concerts since ‘74! Sheep, (previously Raving and Drooling), and Dogs,(previously You’ve Got to Be Crazy)! All that previous experience enabled them to polish theses songs into perfect gems! The only new band song that was “Pigs, (3 Different Kinds), which was amazing! Dave showing off his skills on a fretless bass!!! Many people thought that was Roger, but he was playing the crunchy rhythm guitar! Then Roger’s 3 minute solo acoustic song Pigs on the Wing , split into 2 parts, so he could hog up 2 more songwriting credits.

@chicklets4ever51

11 ай бұрын

The live recordings of the Atom Heart Mother suite, with just the four-piece band, are generally much better than the studio version. Without the silly horns and orchestra, the Floyd, particularly Gilmour, are able to open up more.

The Pink Floyd

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i wish they would use the actual real sings on this documentary because whatever covers they got for this are just heinous

What's with the guy and his aviators? The sets too bright?

Nothing of " Obscured By Clouds"? Nah, I'll pass!

Once again a version of history where Obscured by Clouds appeared not to have happened.

A good documentary though I felt it really unplayed Roger's contribution and significance. It seemed rather biased at times.

@Craigevansagain

11 ай бұрын

Of course its biased. They are all Syd Barrett and Roger Waters Haters! These critics are all pompous and self-righteous talking heads!

That mactavish is a bitter little bunnie. Momentary Lapse of Reason and Division Bell are the two finest albums ever, as well as DSoTM and Wish you were here . And Mr Gilmour CBE to you scotch boy.💙

@trendmassacre8423

Жыл бұрын

Those albums are by far my favorite albums! The Wall is overrated, yet holds a few excellent songs, but all in all it sounds like a Broadway musical.

I dont care about who things whatever, Roger Waters was an integral part of Pink Floyd, especially Meddle through the Wall. I like those albums the most.

@TheSoundofForgetting

10 ай бұрын

David Gilmour made Pink Floyd- Fact!

@WIlSoNs_CreAtiOn_sTatIoN

8 ай бұрын

Like chocolate starfishes everyone has one... I think Waters was a great musician, and without Barrett and Waters there is no pink Floyd. I'm not saying I don't like gilmoures guitar playing and songwriting but I will choose Waters over Gilmore anyday... I'm entitled to poo aren't I

@rxw5520

21 күн бұрын

@@TheSoundofForgettingGilmour didn’t write a hit until the wall. If Roger hadnt written all their hits after Syd, they would’ve declined after Saucerful of secrets and you would’ve never heard of David Gilmour….

David Gilmour was the best thing to ever happen to floyd if syd barrett kept being in the band they would of faded within 5 years

@Craigevansagain

10 ай бұрын

"if syd barrett kept being in the band they would of faded within 5 years?" No fucking way! Syd was a misunderstood innocent and amazing genius. His personality had shattered following his breakdown in mid 1967. This made it very difficult for Syd to express himself properly and to the best of his former glory on Piper At The Gates Of Dawn as well as Pink Floyd's far out gigs in 1966 and early 1967. I have been watching and reading stuff about Syd Barrett since 2001 and I have seen many people crap on Syd from Floyd Haters to so-called fans and even Nick Mason and Norman Smith. Without Syd, there would be no Pink Floyd. If Syd had never fallen apart, Pink Floyd could have been an even greater progressive rock n' roll band than they were and without any help from David Gilmour notwithstanding how awesome Gilmour was prior to Animals (1977). As tragically short as Syd's musical career was, Syd was a phenomenal genius who changed music for the better. Unfortunately, Syd's demise has ultimately changed music for the worst. The loss of Syd is one of the biggest ever losses in music history. Syd Barrett and Pink Floyd rox, peace dude!✌🎹🎸 David Gilmour was great (especially before A Momentary Lapse Of Reason) and the post-Syd Pink Floyd was also great (until AMLOR raised its ugly head) but Syd was also great as was his great and tragically short-lived Pink Floyd line-up! Syd was responsible for lots of crazy, cool stuff for the precious few years that he was in and even leading the Pink Floyd. If Syd had recovered enough in time for the "golden years" of the 70s or had never became severely ill in the first place, I've always believed Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett in Gilmour's place would have been just as great if not even more great. Psychedelic pop music as heard on Piper At The Gates Of Dawn and their early singles was not Syd's endgame musically. He certainly wasn't satisfied with things like See Emily Play. At least at the height of his musical creativity in 1966-1967, Syd had great plans for Pink Floyd. He didn't see himself truly as a popstar, but Syd really wanted to make rock music for art's sake, so Syd had at least foreseen progressive rock music. The epic Interstellar Overdrive and the other improvised jams The Floyd use to do at places like the UFO Club were hints of this at the very least I believe. Along with Richard Wright, Syd was very important at least in terms of the early development, evolvement and refinement of the classic dark psychedelic and pastoral Pink Floyd soundscape beginning in songs such as "Astronomy Domine", "Pow R Toc H" and "Interstellar Overdrive". However, Syd became very frustrated when he couldn't recreate the full musical picture that he had formed in his mind in the studio. This wasn't helped by Norman Smith's interference in the studio and the primitive recording technology back in '67. However, if Syd had held out for just a few more years and with the superior recording technology of the early 70s, the Pink Floyd with Syd would have still produced phenomenal progressive rock albums at least as great as Dark Side Of The Moon and Wish You Were Here. On the latter mentioned albums as well as all of the wonderful experimental albums in between Syd's departure and DSOTM, Roger Waters and Gilmour had also left plenty of room for Richard Wright to place his own beautiful and magical keyboard textures and melodies into the musical picture, and we all know Syd was very accommodating of Wright in both the live jams and on Pow R Toc H and Interstellar Overdrive. No wonder Peter Jenner saw Syd and Wright as the musical heart and soul of Pink Floyd. With this combined with Waters's bass and Nick Mason's drums, percussion and sound effects, the ingredients were there all along but for Syd's illness! Of course since Syd's lyrical vision while he was healthy was a lot lighter and whimsical, at least compared to Waters, his Pink Floyd would have been somewhat different, probably something like Yes, unless Syd had still allowed Waters to take over the lyrics and concept aspects of The Floyd in the 70s and early 80s. Another possibility is that The Floyd with Syd could have discarded lyrics altogether on at least some albums, and they might have had beautiful instrumental albums similar to Mike Oldfield's best like Tubular Bells, Hergest Ridge, Ommadawn, Incantations and Amarok. Another possibility is that Syd, Waters and even sometimes Wright could have taken turns with their lyrical ideas and/or interspersed them in between or after the aforementioned instrumental albums. I hate it when so-called Pink Floyd fans underestimate Syd Barrett's potential in a cynical way. Even Nick Mason has devalued Syd's potential over the years. Syd Barrett was a phenomenal genius, both at playing the guitar, writing for it and writing lyrics. If he hadn't had his irreversible breakdown, I believe Pink Floyd, with Syd writing and playing guitar parts at least, would still have been a great progressive rock n' roll band. At least Interstellar Overdrive and Pow R Toc H showed that Syd could share his music writing with Richard Wright just like how Rick and David Gilmour would form the key musical partnership behind Pink Floyd's best albums. Even Roger Waters and Nick Mason are co-writers in that early epic. Interstellar Overdrive was also already an early precursor of the longform progressive direction Pink Floyd would embark upon, albeit ultimately without Syd sadly. Pink Floyd, with Syd, could at least have been as great if not even better than they turned out, although of course it would have been just in a somewhat different way to how things turned out. RIP Syd! Rock on bro!🎸❤

Obscured By Clouds was intentionally left out ,and completely unmentioned! WTF ?! WHY??

Forget about Syd.. you spun circles around him after he left... The best thing that happened is Syd went bye bye so stop talking about him...

@VanishedPNW

Ай бұрын

Disagree

@rxw5520

21 күн бұрын

The band members thought the world of him but maybe it’s just bc he is the one who showed them the way to success. You’re right his stuff is not even 40% of the quality of their later work. See Emily play is great. The rest I don’t know.

I bet he wears his sunglasses at night 🤣🤣

So many haters in these comments 😂

Who is this terrible narrator?

Music industry may be the nastiest legal business on the planet. It’s so gross I feel like I need a shower just listening to these talentless agents and businessmen. No wonder all the rappers made their own labels. Then the slimeballs bought them all up anyway.

51:07 geezer’s not helping to dispel the myth about the British and their teeth is he?

IV NEVER HEARD THE WORD FUNKY YET COS THATS WHAT FLOYD WERE VERY FUNKY

@kevinkinney5445

Жыл бұрын

Funky? Maybe you're Autistic? The early stuff was groovy sugar pop shit. Progressive, Ethereal, Bluesy Electric, Soulful, Spiritual like Rock Gospell. Listen to the live versions of "The Turning Away","Sorrow" "High Hopes" & "Comfortably Numb" on both "A momentary lapse of reason" and "Pulse"... Their music is Divine feelings in sound.