So I think my three-year-old has a crush on Qui-Gon-Jinn from Star Wars. She keeps asking me if he's "nice" all dreamy-eyed and wants to keep watching Episode I (by FAR the worst of the bunch). Ah well, could be worse. At least now (according to her teacher) she's going up to random kids and saying "Did you know Batman is better than Superman?" so at least I'm doing something right.
Pink Floyd is releasing their first studio album in over twenty years this fall called Endless River. The bad news? Still no Roger Waters. It's a tour that I want. Like, REAL bad. They are the show of shows.
So you want to see Gilmour and Mason perform together? Not really Pink Floyd. I saw Waters perform The Wall two years ago. Even with mostly others singing and playing it is the best show I've ever seen. Other bands should be embarrassed to bring their shitty shows on the road.
I know everyone loves Waters, but Pink Floyd live is Pink Floyd live. And Waters isn't a very good singer and Gilmore is. I don't care. I just want to do soft drugs, then see and hear amazing things. I can't think of a better opportunity (or excuse) to buy acid. Floyd and the Tragically Hip are the only two remaining bands on my bucket list to see in concert, I think I've seen every other band I wanted to at least once.I have no idea why I haven't seen The Hip yet. I should turn in my Canuck Card for that. If there's one band that needs to get back together and tour, it is Rage Against The Machine. On stage they are like the second coming of Christ.
If you discount who wrote and sang half of the songs I would agree. Waters made that band on my opinion. Listen to The Division Bell and try to tell me you liked it.
If Waters wrote and sang half of the songs, that would mean that Gilmore wrote and sang the other half of the songs. Looking at writing credits on "Dark Side of the Moon" a person would tend to think that the songs were a collaborative effort.
Syd Barrett played a pretty vital role in the early years, before going berserk. Some diehard fans still believe Gilmour is unworthy of replacing Barrett, despite it being four decades ago. Yeah, keep clinging to that raft. And Frebis, there is still lots I like about the band even sans Waters. I didn't mind Division Bell, and REALLY liked this album:
You picked the one good album that this is true on. Check out the writing credits on Wish You Were Here, Animals or The Wall, and what I am saying becomes a little more apparent. They are both amazing musicians. I just think Waters brings more to the table, but to each their own. I can see why you would be of that opinion.
Mmm hmm. Hauntingly beautiful stuff. There are few I can think of that make a guitar simply soar like that. It's truly what makes Comfortably Numb one of my top five favourite songs.
Ive never actually listened to any Pink Floyd album start to finish after The Wall. Ive heard catchy singles but nothing really close to their earlier stuff, I love 'Learning To Fly'. Pink Floyd was always a collaborative effort with Waters ideas taking center stage. Alone though Water's solo material sucked*, he didn't have the same talent of musicians to complement the songs or to reign in his ideas. I guess they could get by without Richard Wright but really it wouldn't be the same. I'd buy the CD and go to the Water-less concert all the same. I had a fucking blast at Water's The Wall tour a few years ago. Like Led Zeppelin they've left BILLIONS of dollars on the table by not touring for 35+ years. * Seriously Frebis you can't say any of Water's solo stuff was any good or even close to WaterlessFloyd stuff.
It's funny how with enough cash, you can get a huge band to play your kid's birthday party. However some bands you could throw enough money at them to fracture a small nation's economy and they'll STILL say no. Like ABBA: offered a billion dollars for a single reunion tour, and they were all like "Vhat? No VAY, man!" I cannot even imagine the pandemonium for tickets that would take place for a full-blown Zeppelin tour, not to mention the actual live atmosphere at those shows.
Currently there's an electrical storm going on, a significant one. You'd think most people would stay inside. No, some people are seriously in the hot tub right now...Can't fix or help stupid.
Well you got the good and the bad working for a Led Zepp reunion. Jimmy Page has aged into an Asian man who'll live until he's 135. Robert Plant on the other hand looks like he turned into the drunk-never was bar band singer that covers Zepplin songs with prodigious beer gut and ragged thinning hair.
They sure sounded good on the Celebration Day concert, though. Probably a lot better than most artists in their 60's these days. Bob Dylan fucking SUCKS live. Talk about somebody who doesn't give a shit about sounding good (or even intelligible) while giving the most boring and bland performance you can imagine. Thank god Foo Fighters opened for him with a terrific acoustic-only set.
Awright, awright, awright. Who wants to play a game? Who can pass a U.S. citzenship Test?? 30/50 gets to progress from mowing lawns. For the record, in complete honesty, I got 49/50. If anyone can do better a bald eagle will give them a blowjob. 'MURICA, FERK YEAH!