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the Fet
climber
Tu-Tok-A-Nu-La
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Aug 25, 2011 - 10:11am PT
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I'd like apple pie, but without the crust.
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Gene
climber
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Aug 25, 2011 - 11:34am PT
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Aug 25, 2011 - 12:59pm PT
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My first real immersion to Pink Floyd was in my first year of college, sitting with a room full of people watching The Wall. I hadn't listened to Pink Floyd at all before that.
That thing blew my mind. After it was over, I just sat there speechless. I didn't want to be in that room full of people in such a vulnerable state.
Over time, David Gilmour has come to be one of my top guitar-playing influences.
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Klimmer
Mountain climber
San Diego
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Aug 25, 2011 - 01:12pm PT
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I love The Floyd.
Prog Rock will never die. It is the music aficionados's and the real musician's choice of music.
It's deep great sounding and very complex music that can only be played by the best musicians, and lyrics that are incredibly deep and spiritual to match the music. It takes you to another world.
Word.
Huge fan of YES, Rush, Pink Floyd, Genesis . . . is there a pattern there?
PINK FLOYD "Coming Back To Life" (1994)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nVxnNNGjubg
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EdBannister
Mountain climber
13,000 feet
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Aug 25, 2011 - 01:20pm PT
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Jeff Bosson and I used to have a tradition of looking at climbing or mountaineering slides, only to the music of one group, Pink Floyd. After Jeff's untimely death, I have somehow hung on to some portion of what was among the best friendships I have ever enjoyed, by listening to Pink Floyd.
I guess that could also be labeled as some form of mental disorder...
easily admitted to.
Marooned:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5OMFiqNA6Ag
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rrrADAM
Trad climber
LBMF
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Aug 25, 2011 - 02:48pm PT
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Huge fan of YES, Rush, Pink Floyd, Genesis . . . is there a pattern there?
Did toe, here... Although I may change the order a bit:
RUSH, Pink Floyd, RUSH, Yes, RUSH, Genesis, RUSH
Guess I'm a "poofter" too, but then again, I'm not even cool enough to know what that word means. :/
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Gal
Trad climber
a semi lucid consciousness
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Aug 25, 2011 - 03:42pm PT
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Riley, with Pink Floyd, it's very hard to know where to start...
Welcome to the Machine
Wish you were here
One of these days
See Emily Play
On the turning away
All of Dark Side of the Moon-can't even distinguish what is best off that, it's all amazing-but maybe Us and Them, I really like the female vocalist in that.
Listening to "The Wall" was a cathartic experience that helped me get through my divorce... I kept listening to "One of my turns", "Don't leave me now", "another brick in the wall 3" and "goodbye cruel world", "Hey you" Helpful to listen to something that exactly matches your mood.
Love the Floyd! Brilliant musicians and lyricists.
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Aug 25, 2011 - 04:01pm PT
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I just remembered my *real* first experience with Pink Floyd, well before college. I didn't have any exposure to them after this incident until college.
I was probably in junior high, baby-sitting some smaller kids who were asleep. Perusing their parents' record collection, I was intrigued by the prism and rainbow. Put on Dark Side of Moon, and I lay on the couch alone and transfixed. I don't know how long I listened to the record skipping at the end, thinking it was part of some heartbeat trance.
Edit:
I didn't want to soil the Rush Appreciation thread, so adding this here. I must confess, Rush just doesn't solicit any emotional reaction from me. I've tried at different times over the years (including from links in their appreciation thread), but it just doesn't do anything for me!
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August West
Trad climber
Where the wind blows strange
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Aug 25, 2011 - 04:49pm PT
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Obscured by Clouds is the only PF album that has never fallen out of my music rotation. I understand why Dark Side or The Wall got more airplay, but haven't figured out why this album got so little attention.
But each to their own...
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Ottawa Doug
Social climber
Ottawa, Canada
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Aug 25, 2011 - 05:02pm PT
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You are so right, Dark Side of the Moon is the best wall music ever!
Cheers,
Doug
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mooch
Trad climber
Old Climbers' Home (Adopted)
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Aug 25, 2011 - 05:36pm PT
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Doin' the thread justice by conjuring memories of early days on my first wall, all through DG's haunting chords....
Shine On You Crazy Diamond......dedicated to the memory of Brutus Of Wyde.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyqgjCKm9nQ
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ground_up
Trad climber
mt. hood /baja
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Aug 25, 2011 - 05:45pm PT
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It is pointless to discuss "best band" or "best guitarist" but ,
as a lifelong guitar player I would have to say, David Gilmore
is my all time favorite , dood can make it sing.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Aug 25, 2011 - 06:00pm PT
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Y'all need to check out Gilmours 'Meltdown Concert'. The man still has it.
Riley knows what I'm referring to.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Aug 25, 2011 - 06:07pm PT
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Them there are fightin' words, FM.
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cintune
climber
Midvale School for the Gifted
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Aug 25, 2011 - 07:07pm PT
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Well, here's some synchronicity:
“Remember when you were young… You shone like the sun.” Four thousand light years away in the constellation of Serpens, a millisecond pulsar binary is pounding out its heartbeat. Meanwhile an international research team of scientists from Australia, Germany, Italy, the UK and the USA, including Prof. Michael Kramer from Max Planck Institute for Radio Astronomy in Bonn, German are listening in. Utilizing the 64-m radio telescope in Parkes, Australia, the team made a rather amazing discovery. The companion star could very well be an ultra-low mass carbon white dwarf… one that’s transformed itself into a planet made of pure diamond.
http://www.universetoday.com/88449/star-transforms-into-a-diamond-planet/
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nutjob
Gym climber
Berkeley, CA
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Aug 25, 2011 - 07:42pm PT
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I like to separately consider guitar players in terms of their technical prowess and the feeling/impact of their playing. Technical prowess is a more straight-forward thing to compare, but the feeling/impact is a very subjective thing.
For me, Gilmour is tops for the feeling/impact of playing, with Mark Knopfler a close second. Santa and Clapton are up there close, and are the best in their respective sub-genres (of course from the perspective of my own preferences). Derek Trucks is needs to fit in there somewhere very high, sometimes #1 or #2 if I'm in the right mood.
Steve Vai, Joe Satriani, Eric Johnson, Yngwie Malmsteen, and most of the Guitar Player Magazine coverboys have amazingly honed technical skills but their method of musical expression leaves me cold and unsatisfied. I can intellectually appreciate how difficult something is to play, but that is about the extent of the value for me if the feeling/impact is not there.
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S.Leeper
Sport climber
Pflugerville, Texas
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Aug 25, 2011 - 07:50pm PT
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[quote]Actually Sleeper, just listened to Fat Old Sun...pretty sweet. I'd probably enjoy older Floyd, I really never got into pre-Dark Side of the Moon Floyd. I just like to ruffle some of you classic rock focker's feathers from time to time.
Iand the Black Keys, channeling some Led Zep getting their THICKFREAKNESS ON:
Rock on Sleeper!
That's what I figured, Dick
I'm a big black keys fan, too!
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