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Pink Floyd, Goodbye Blue Sky, Another Brick in the Wall
Money, fame, power, and prestige; Pink Floyd had it all, but by their bloated 1977 stadium romp known as the “Flesh Tour,” Roger Waters and company became disgusted with what they had become. Boorish fans in large intoxicated and stoned numbers were ruining the concerts, and Roger loathed them so much that he literally spit…
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Pink Floyd, Pigs on the Wing 1 and Dogs (Live)
Animals by Pink Floyd is my absolute favorite Floyd album and one of my favorite albums ever. For me, this is the highlight of Pink Floyd week as I get to share a live performance of “Pigs on a Wing 1” as an intro to “Dogs,” my favorite Pink Floyd song. Animals is Pink Floyd’s…
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Pink Floyd vs. The Beatles, Time
In yesterdays post I alluded to how Dark Side of the Moon reminded me strongly of Abbey Road. I must not be the only one, because the image above is all over the internet. This leads to an interesting debate amongst music fans, mostly ardent Pink Floyd people, that claim that Pink Floyd is the…
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Pink Floyd, Money, Live 8
As we have been progressing with chronological normality through Pink Floyd’s career during “Pink Floyd Week,” the video clips have matched the time in which the songs were produced. Now that we have reached the seminal Pink Floyd record, Dark Side of the Moon, an album about madness and time, I figured we’d jump ahead…
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Pink Floyd, Echoes, Live at Pompeii
Pink Floyd has some lengthy songs. I think most of the time, it sounds like they rode in on a long traveling cosmic wave from Neptune. They made sure to reflect the journey accurately with long gentle harmonized verses and guitar solos that surge and bend like celestial orbits. “Echoes,” from the 1970 album Meddle,…
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Pink Floyd, Cymbaline
So, despite their love for the man, Syd was barred from entering Abbey Road studios when Pink Floyd was recording. Syd went on to do a few slapped together solo records, with Roger and Dave actually helping with the production, and then Syd entered oblivion, thus propelling his cult like status to mythic proportions. In…
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Syd Barrett, Pink Floyd, Jugband Blues
Welcome to the unassuming beginning of Pink Floyd Week here at williesimpson.com. My good friend Andrew Lee turned me on to this fantastic early Pink Floyd video of Syd Barrett’s last major contribution to the bands creative identity, “Jugband Blues,” from 1968’s A Saucerful of Secrets. It makes sense that Barrett, now driving head first…
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The Flaming Lips, The Wizard of Oz and Pink Floyd
Here is my latest update, this time in the form of a convenient video blog! Just press play, and I’ll explain everything.