Sorry but this thread is ONLY for Baby Boomers. The rest of you can

[Breeze54]

join in if you want to!! :P

:hi:

:rofl:

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Dave Gilmour...

'Shine On You Crazy Diamond'

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HwA0LoOfa3M

- Live 2007

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Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun.

Shine on you crazy diamond.
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
You were caught on the cross fire of childhood and stardom,
Blown on the steel breeze.
Come on you target for faraway laughter, come on you stranger,
You legend, you martyr, and shine!

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision,
Rode on the steel breeze.
Come on you raver, you seer of visions, come on you painter,
You piper, you prisoner, and shine!

Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
Pile on many more layers and i'll be joining you there.
Shine on you crazy diamond.
And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph,
And sail on the steel breeze.
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser,
Come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine!

I just had to post this... the guitar is just.... making me cry, it's sooo beautiful!

Enjoy, DU!! :loveya:

:hug:

[liberalmuse]

1. Thank you!

This tail end boomer LURVES Pink Floyd and and I even carry their name.

[Breeze54]

2. I see the pink! Is this guitar just to beautiful or what?!

I'm in awe....

[liberalmuse]

3. I've always loved Gilmour's guitar style...

It's actually the 'Floyd' part, but yes, I'm pink until H8 is history. I'm still watching the clip. David Crosby and Graham Nash! What a treat! I love CSN and sometimes Y.
:applause:

[lumberjack_jeff]

4. I think that David Gilmour is one of the best musicians of all time.

The melodies, the sustain and the pauses. So expert, so beautiful. I'd much rather listen to this than "guitar heroes" who measure skill by how fast they can play.

on edit:
That was Rick Wright on the sax, wasn't it?

[liberalmuse]

5. I hate that erratic stuff.

Of course when Eddie Van Halen does it, it's okay, but mostly it's cheesy.

[Breeze54]

8. I have to agree... Gilmour, Hendrix and Clapton.....

My favorites, I think but I just LOVE this guitar!! :D

:hi:

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

16. Dave could say more with six well chosen notes

than most guitarists could say in six entire solos. Jimmy Page is the same way. The technowankers like Steve Vai are like people who can speak ten languages and have nothing interesting to say in any of them.

Sax player was Dick Parry, IIRC. He was Floyd's regular sax sideman.

[ProfessorGAC]

41. Then You Don't Listen Carefully Enough

And i like all the people mentioned in this thread, but if you can't also appreciate the sophistication of Vai's playing, than that's just shameful.
The Professor

[OwnedByFerrets]

19. If you are a fan of guitar music.....

you must be a fan of Pat Metheny. He is not only the most prolific writer on the planet, but he can also play the guitar like nobodys business. He has some samples up at http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&friendID=20556040

[CatBO]

6. I'm no BB but...

My dad worked at Capitol records when Pink Floyd release DSotM. I am a huge Pink Floyd fan.

When my dad came to visit us in our new house I brought him up to the home theater where we listened to the new fancy-schmancy 5:1 DVD mix of DSotM while drinking wine, in the dark.

Father-daughter bonding over Pink Floyd. You cannot beat it.

[Breeze54]

11. How lucky you are to have been included! ~ I would have loved being there!!

Just to listen..... how awesome that would have been!! :D

[CatBO]

21. I truly am!

I have, in my office here, a plaque from when DSoTM sold 1MM copies. My dad used to have it and I found it in his garage in a heap. "You don't want it anymore?" His wife wouldn't let him hang it in her fancy house, so I took it. It's one of my most prized possessions.

Pink Floyd is amazing. Their songs speak to my soul in a way no other group ever has, but being born precisely 10 years after Barack Hussein Obama, on 8/4/71, I am not among the lucky folks who were the original audiences. :D

[NC_Nurse]

7. Thanks for that. Beautiful.

:hug:

[Breeze54]

12. Hi there, NC_Nurse !!

I hope your son is doing well these days, and you too!! :hi:

I'm glad you like the music! ;)

[CLANG]

9. I'm a baby boomer. I just wish the booming would stop!

[saged52]

10. this baby boomer

will be listening to that over and over all night long -
thank you

[colorado thinker]

13. Wow, thanks

That reminded me of evenings spent with a hookah on a coffee table and black light posters on the walls . . . :loveya:

[Tindalos]

14. I'm not a boomer either but

I love Pink Floyd.


Great stuff.

[codjh9]

15. Thanks - I haven't even watched it yet, but that is SUCH an incredible song, with SUCH incredible

guitar work! F-ing amazing! Thanks again... will now go watch. :^)

[Ikonoklast]

17. Written for Syd Barrett

Shine on You crazy Diamond.

A lament for a friend lost.

RIP Syd.

Keep shining on.

[Cetacea]

29. No Syd=no Pink Floyd. A very sad song.

He gave up his sanity trying to share his Vision. An artist of the Highest Order.
Fortunately for music fans the group carried out his vision. In spades.

RIP Syd and Rick

[Prophet 451]

36. But what a gift he left us n/t

[Whoa20]

18. baby boomers

are the reason Obama could run and win, because they fought for his freedom and defended his liberty. The WWII generation would still have Obama's parent's marriage be illegal.

[Fire1]

20. True dat!

[Blue_In_AK]

22. That is such a great song.

I've loved Pink Floyd from the very beginning.

[OnionPatch]

23. Wish You Were Here!

My all time favorite album! :loveya:

I haven't listened to it for a long time. I'm going to have to play it now.

[Mojorabbit]

24. Ah thanks

what memories this song brings to mind...

[Earth Bound Misfit]

25. THANK YOU for posting this...

I just LOVES me some Floyd! (hence the screen name):kick: :yourock: :headbang:

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

26. I've been a Floyd fan since I heard "Meddle" when I was 15 in 1972

I've been a Floyd fan so long, I remember waiting for DSoTM to be released back in 1973 and listening to it almost daily for about six months. Thirty-five years later and it's still as fresh and topical as the day it was released. Roger (a big Obama supporter!) has always had a remarkable insight into the human condition. Still does.

[FKA MNChimpH8R]

27. RW's "Each Small Candle"

I had to post this. It seems to be appropriate now that hope for decency has arisen in America once again.

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Not the torturer will scare me
Nor the body's final fall
Nor the barrels of death's rifles
Nor the shadows on the wall
Nor the night when to the ground
The last dim star of pain is hurled
But the blind indifference
Of a merciless, unfeeling world

Lying in the burnt out shell
Of some Albanian farm
An old babushka
Holds a crying baby in her arms
A soldier from the other side
A man of heart and pride
Breaks ranks, lays down his rifle
To kneel by her side

He gives her water
Binds her wounds
And calms the crying child
A touch gives absolution then
Across the great divide
He picks his way back through the broken
China of her life
And there at the curb
The samaritan Serb turns and waves ... goodbye

And each small candle
Lights a corner of the dark
Each small candle
Lights a corner of the dark
Each small candle lights a corner of the dark
When the wheel of pain stops turning
And the branding iron stops burning
When the children can be children
When the desperados weaken
When the tide rolls into greet them
And the natural law of science
Greets the humble and the mighty
And the billion candles burning
Lights the dark side of every human mind

Each small candle
Each small candle
Each small candles lights the dark side of every human mind

And each small candle
Lights a corner of the dark

[Cetacea]

30. Great Roger Waters song!

There is some footage floating around of Waters 70 foot inflatable flying around with "Impeach Bush" and "Obama" painted on it's underbelly.

[Cetacea]

31. dupe n/t

[Cetacea]

32. Again. I give up.

Too much acid.

[orleans]

28. david gilmour....sigh

:loveya:

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[DainBramaged]

34. Remember what is was like on window pane???????

I do, and I wish I could wind back to those days. :hi:

[ProfessorG]

35. Hilarious Music Video From FU-Im50.com!!

No need to tell you that there aren't too many music videos out there from the Boomer POV. Well I saw this one the other day on You Tube and it was pretty damn funny.
It was called 'OBAMA GIRL'S MAMA,' a spoof of Obama Girl and it's got some great silly bits about the campaign, but it also get its licks in about the
'Love Generation.' It says it's produced by a group or website calling itself FU-Im50.com. For me, that says it all! Here's the link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XA0TTfqFZg8

PS: Hendrix was the best, especially that cut 'Old Times, Good Times' on the first Stephen Stills album.

[Warren DeMontague]

37. Gen X Pink Floyd fan here.

If you look out there, there are a lot of 50 and 60something Celine Dion or Toby Keith fans, and a lot of 20, 30 and 40something Pink Floyd, Hendrix, Dead-listenin' Hippie types.

Just sayin', man.

[roguevalley]

38. Hendrix ... sigh. Everytime I hear Creedance, I remember Viet Nam.

[slay]

40. Same here

and loving it. :hippie:

[slay]

39. Great song from a great band and one of my favorite albums

And I'm not even a boomer! LOL. Was 16 when i went to my first Dead show back in 1990. Since that show I looked back to that time period and fell in love with The Dead, Pink Floyd, The Band, Jimi Hendrix, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, and Jethro Tull to name a few of the biggies. Man was I born in the wrong decade! Doh. Great version of SOYCD - thanks for posting this. :hippie: :smoke:

[tomp]

43. there may never be as consistently good an era for popular music as the 60's

...but pink floyd is not on my list of greats. can't hardly stand 'em.

[taterguy]

42. Which one's Pink?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RC0BLSgm9mE

[Shanti Mama]

44. Now you've got me going. I have to pull out

Low Spark of High Heeled Boys. The memories, lying on the floor in my college dorm room...

[KharmaTrain]

45. Remembering Syd Barrett

THE Crazy Diamond that song is singing about.

Ahhhh for those long gone days of throwing on a bunch of Floyd, Yes and Genesis albums, putting on the headphones and getting lost in the sound.

Thanks for posting...

:toast:

[Le Taz Hot]

46. Think Pink!

Been a fan forever though I've never seen them in concert -- just never been in the right place at the right time (with money). I do have to brag, however -- I have the ALBUM "Piper at the Gates of Dawn." I also have an EXTREMELY rare copy of "More." Found it in the 99 cent bin at Ralphs one day.