Listening to live Dark Side of the Moon - don't ask me anything

[Rabrrrrrr]

just post your raves and memories and accolades of Pink Floyd here.

They are, truly, even if not the world's greatest musicians to ever exist (though they're damned good), they are the true Gods of the rock concert performance. I've seen a lot of shows, by a lot of truly incredible musicians, and I have to say that as much as I loved every one of those concerts by those excellent performers, the Floyd does a concert on a scale that makes everyone else look like a fucking rockstar-wannabe (whether it's Rush or Genesis or Yes or, yes, even Zappa).

Floyd is to the rock concert what the rock of gibraltar is to door stops; or the hoover dam to the shut off valve on your bathroom sink; or the Apollo moon rocket to the firing of a toy cap-pistol.

[RagingInMiami]

1. are you high?

[Zomby Woof]

2. Saw 'em in Vancouver in '94

Which was the first tour where they played DSOTM in its entirety. Are you listening to the "Pulse" CD from that tour? Weeeeee!

I love Canadians... just like the Europeans. During intermission (yes, no opening act and a long enough show for an intermission), the line in the bathroom was so long they just peed in the sink.

"Great concert, eh?" - actual quote of a Canadian guy behind me in the bathroom line. Typical Canadian understatement.

[babylonsister]

3. Hey, Rabrrrr or Rabrrrrrrrrrr, I concur!

Dark side..! 16 years old, weed, speakers and head phones, friends, secrets, I'll say no more, but did I mention youth? But Pink Floyd is the best!

[mattclearing]

4. Amen. Where is the PULSE DVD???

This thing needs to be made yesterday.

[lenidog]

5. Here is mine

Doing a roadtrip to Chicago from central PA. We have a small suitcase stuffed with CD for the trip including the entire Pink Floyd catalog. Money was tight so we drove strait through so we wouldn't have to stop at a motel and lose some cash. So about 3 in the morning we are driving through Ohio with Umma Gumma running and my friend Mike is listening intently (besides the stuff you hear on the radio he had never hear any Floyd. About this time "Several Species of Small Furry Animals Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving Together with a Pict" comes on. After Mike hears this song he makes the incredibly brilliant comment that this is drug music. We just stare at him and start cracking up. Needless to say Mike decided that Floyd is for him and buys the entire catalog.

[mattclearing]

7. Classic.

SSoSFAGTiaCaGwaP is awesome. UmmaGumma is such an underrated album, both the live disc and the studio disc.

[lenidog]

10. I some times wonder

If that song has the longest title of any song recorded.

[mattclearing]

13. Does that Fiona Apple album with the long title have a title track?

eom

[mattclearing]

6. Another thing...saw the PULSE show at RFK in 94.

The first night.

BEST. CONCERT. EVER.

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. That was an amazing fucking tour

And just one of the reasons that I say that, at least in terms of live performances abd just plain BIGNESS and POWER and GODHOODNESS, the Floyd are at a level that no one has ever come close to touching. So far above all else, that it isn't even fair comparing a Floyd concert with any other band's.

If Rush is The Thing, and the Dead are The Hulk and Genesis (before they sold out) were Doctor Strange and Zappa is Dr. Doom and Black Sabbath is The X-Men, then Pink Floyd is Galactus.

[mattclearing]

9. Nobody has ever attempted a show like PULSE before or since.

Air traffic controllers put up alerts for pilots on where the show was happening because of the laser beams shooting into the sky during Sorrow.

On edit: The Galactus call is dead on.

[lenidog]

11. I have seen them 2 1/2 times

I saw them on the Momentary Lapse Tour, Division Bell and Roger Waters Live at the Wall. (That is where the 1/2 comes in, Since it was onlye Roger.)

[Rabrrrrrr]

12. Was that The Wall at the Berlin Wall?

That must have been a hell of an experience. I have the CD, and listened to it live on the radio (with Joni Mitchell's somewhat disastrous flub included), but the atmosphere must have been exhilirating.