OK so...I'm 66 years old now. Most of you won't be able to conceive of someone being that old - But I saw Pink Floyd play in the back of a pub in Windsor (that's a small town in the UK) with Sid back in 1966. Just a drum kit and a few amps and a light show made from oil being dropped on to a turntable and projected onto the wall behind them. They were good ... but no clue that they were going to be what they became. I've seen them live many times since - including the debut of Dark Side of the Moon - and many concerts since. They have enhanced my musical life.
I hated metal and only listened to Floyd since a friend introduced me to Dream Theatre. It took a while - Octavarium a very floydish track and after that Change of Seasons and well I'm a fan now and getting slowly into metal 😂
Zeppelin was talented, but I never really forgave them for ripping off the old black bluesmen that they claim inspired them. Talented as all hell for sure, but that was a sleazy move, and I never felt the same about them. Floyd and the Beatles had an interesting history. Sgt. Pepper was being recorded while Floyd worked at Abbey Road on another of their projects, they hung around quite a bit during that period. Not sure who benefited more the Beatles, or Floyd. Queen is the universal band. Appeals to so many, Freddie will always be one of the best Rock vocalists to grace the stage, Brian May a truly underrated guitarist, seems to be left out of those conversations of Gilmour vs Page or Clapton, Vaughan etc... He deserves to be in those conversations. When May, Gilmour, and a bunch of artists including Deep Purple all rerecorded smoke on the water in the eighties for some charitable event, you can see even Gilmour looks at Brian May like he's some kind of alien playing the solo sooooo GOOD.
This is a very very very brief history of one of the most interesting bands of all time. The Pink Floyd story is very complex and needs more attention.
Agreed. Honestly, Syd Barrett may very well be the saddest story in music history. He didn't die until 2006, but for more than 30 years, he was a prisoner of his own mind. It's truly a depressing tale, and the story of him visiting the band in 1974 during the recording of Wish You Were Here would bring any man to tears.
SuperSparrow45 Yea dude, that story about the Wish You Were Here recording sessions is pretty full on. It's hard not to feel affected by it. Great little doco. There is still much more to tell though, the documentary titled "What Ever Happened to Pink Floyd" is a great watch. It really details their post Dark Side success and ultimate break up. It really shows elements of Roger's psyche and the conflicts between the band mates dating back as far as the Wish You Were Here recording sessions.
NO he wasn't, he left before production finished and made a deal with Roger that he would get to play it live, so they hired him to tour as a musician not part of the band. Michael Kamen did the piano on the album. He made 11, 000 per week. Probably more than that tour brought in for anyone in the band due to it's high cost and low number of shows.
You look it up. The only songwriting credits on The Wall were Waters on all of them, Gilmour on three of them, and producer Bob Ezrin on one. Angel Gd is right. Waters fired Wright from the band during the making of The Wall, someone else did the studio recordings for keyboard on the album, and Wright remained as a salaried musician for the live shows. He was the only one to profit from The Wall at the time.
@@estebanvasquez6426 your not wrong, Rick didnt write any songs, but Rodger wrote all of them completely except Young Lust, Run Like Hell and Comfortably Numb which he wrote with Gilmour, but I just checked his discography and every album but The Final Cut is on there
High hopes to be the last track on the last album is so sad it fits so well. The solo is an amazing Outro. The lyrics talk about a brighter and nicer time. It's very underrated.
money isn't as good as the other songs because its kinda comercial but the song is suposted to be comercial because its about money so the idea is great
I grew up to my sister playing Pink Floyd all the time. As a adult I love them and appreciate their music more. Watching this touch a part of my heart.
I grew up listening to Pink Floyd's work after Sid Barrett even after Waters' departure. Words truly cannot describe the sheer passion and power that their music has to me. They will always be my favorite band.
My first 2 albums were Beatles. The first I ever bought with my own money was live at the Hollywood Bowl. Yet Pink Floyd is my favorite band of all time.
thank you mojo for making this video. i'm a bit late to the party, but i really enjoyed it. pink floyd is my all time favorite band and they were truly ahead of their time, with deep poetic lyrics and soul touching sounds they've really opened my eyes to the true potential of music.
tnsvictory Four of their albums made their all-time list. Sure individual albums may be underrated but every artist even the Beatles has their fair share of underrated albums.
Frijolero18 I mention that popularity was the majority of the reasoning behind that (the all time list). And yes, every artist has underrated material. For me, I feel some of Pink Floyd's best work is forgotten in the more commercial world they live in. Personal opinion of course lol.
TheGooseinator They are really underrated. Most are aware of the Pink Floyd name and Dark Side of the Moon, but not much else. They aren't familiar with the PF sound though, and honestly, probably couldn't tell you a single song by them.
Syd Barrett did appear on A Saucerful of Secrets, though. He wrote and performed Jugband Blues, played slide guitar on Remember A Day, and also played guitar on Set The Controls For The Heart Of The Sun.
@@gavinreid5387 well it's an album about the left over work from Richard Wright ND if you listen to it - there's a lot of keyboard in it. So I wouldn't say Gilmour solo.
I heard comfortably numb first then heard some others like welcome to the machine and hey you and was hooked immediately after I listened to the dark side of the moon 🌒 these guys are just so awesome man.
+Leajiaure I agree with you. 1x5(including syd) = 42 the answer to life,the universe and everything. As individuals it is very unlikely that they would have become famous.
Richard right vs Roger walters. The wall. Richerd uses doing nothing: it isnt very effective. Roger argues: He loses 30 HP Richard uses asking to be producer to the wall: Rogers defence falls down Roger uses being angry at wright: It is really effective. Richard tries to go on vacation: It isnt very effective. Roger refuses because the is the time of realese: It is super effective Richard wright is fired from pink floyd after the tour of the wall.
Like the video but there is one major mistake. Rick Wright did not leave after Animals. He was on The Wall and Waters fired him from the band after that album. However, Wright stayed on for the toured as a hired musician before then leaving the F Floyd until 1987.
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That was really good, but for The Wall. Another Brick In The Wall Part 2, was not only their greatest hit on that album. Comfortably Numb, Run Like Hell, Another Brick In The Wall Part 1, and Hey You.
I'm surprised that wasn't even mentioned considering Sid's mental deterioration was pretty influential to Dark Side of The Moon and was pretty much the basis for Wish You Were Here and The Wall.
Pink Floyd are actually the 7th best selling artists of all time! So, that makes them one of the best selling artists of all time. And Dark Side is one of the greatest albums of all time, not just one of the greatest rock albums of all time.
