The reason I dreamed of playing guitar 38 years ago...

Tokai-SA · 2013-04-20T11:45:19+00:00

I remember clearly, I was 15 at the time. I had two older brothers that were obviously more advanced than me in so far as the 'new music' of the time. I was lying in my room one day and I heard this music coming from my brothers room, it was almost alien, something I'd never heard before, and there was this melodic almost classical violin kind of sound, that can't be a guitar I thought? And the voice of the guy singing, what the hell, his voice matched his guitar tone. I walked into my brothers room and asked wtf he was playing, he said, "this is too advanced for you, you're still a kid (as he sucked on his joint)...this is a band Pink Floyd, now close the door when you leave". Kabooom!...I was addicted. Never mind Hendrix, Clapton, Beck, this is what defined a Stratocaster tone in my life. I'm loving this version of the song =

Hammeron

Joe Moore wrote My brother used to listen to Cat Stevens , Bob dylan , Crosby Stills Nash & Young . ☹

A friend lent him this LP (1973) and I was hooked on guitar :-[

Alan Ratcliffe wrote
Vic wrote ...less is always more ?
If that were truly the case 4:33 is the best music ever written. ?
Indeed , that iconic solo !.....played together with the 2nd guitar and Keyboards , makes it so ! 8)

Made in Japan, best live album ever made.

AlanRatcliffe

Joe Moore wrote
Alan Ratcliffe wrote
Vic wrote ...less is always more ?
If that were truly the case 4:33 is the best music ever written. ?
Indeed , that iconic solo !.....played together with the 2nd guitar and Keyboards , makes it so ! 8)

Whoosh! ?

Bob-Dubery

Alan Ratcliffe wrote
Joe Moore wrote
Alan Ratcliffe wrote
Vic wrote ...less is always more ?
If that were truly the case 4:33 is the best music ever written. ?
Indeed , that iconic solo !.....played together with the 2nd guitar and Keyboards , makes it so ! 8)
Whoosh! ?

I think that in this case the Whoosh! should be over your head. Also Tamla's.

AlanRatcliffe

That was the sound of my ego deflating... ?

Squonk

There is a lot more to Floyd's Catalog than Dark Side of the Moon.

I started with DSOTM and I didn't really grasp it like all my friends and fans around the world. It was relegated to the bottom of my record pile. My road to musical discovery led me on to other things but then I stumbled on some of the older stuff, UmmaGumma, Obscurred by Clouds, Atom Heart Mother and Meddle. I can still remember in Std 5 playing Echoes to my class and some of them were quite distressed. I used to scare the girls with "Careful with that Axe Eugene"

Wish You Were Here and Animals were two huge albums in my musical discovery road and I am sure my Mum and Dad knew every single note of every solo and song. ( Mostly against their will)

Strange enough though it wasn't Gilmour that got me hooked on guitar.

It was 'The Song Remains The Same' which was shown at the Colusseum in JHB and they had about a million speakers to simulate a live experience. The effect on me was hectic most probably because of the HUGE visual and audio onslaught. And it was the first 'Music' film I had ever seen. No television or videos in those days!

domhatch

Tokai SA wrote I'm loving this version of the song

as well you might. awesome.

Arno-West

Tokai SA wrote
Keira WitherKay wrote i must be honest and admit ...much to most peoples dismay ..... that i never "got" pink floyd or gilmour..... it sounded like film music to me ... ... back in the late 70's /80's (my teens) i had posters of hendrix up on the wall.... i loved zeppelin and jimmy page's tone ...thought zappa was a genius and loved the allman brothers(don't ask me where i got my love for country rock) but floyd or Gilmour for some reason just never struck a chord with me (pun intended) ....

now before i get lynched..... it's not a criticism of Floyd or Gilmour ... they are undisputed legends of rock but just proof that we are not all left in awe of the same artists ...and viva la difference ...and in fact i feel a bit "left out' that i don't like floyd .....like "what am i missing"
I think "film music" is one of the reasons I love it...I find the simplicity of it all very relaxing.
It takes 5 minutes of Foo Fighters music to totally exhaust me, but I can do 90 minutes of Floyd without a problem.
It requires time and patience, you can't be in a rush if you plan to become a Floyd fan.

And, perhaps you're missing the lyrics part of it, or perhaps these kind of lyrics don't appeal to you...do you take the time to get into the lyrics?

Some people prefer Bruce Willis movies to Woody Allen movies. ?

In my experience, most of the time, girls don't like Pink Floyd....or AC/DC. ?

AlanRatcliffe

Arno West wrote In my experience, most of the time, girls don't like Pink Floyd....or AC/DC. ?

Ha - you must be meeting the wrong girls! My other half blasts Highway to Hell and Dark Side at least once a week. In fact, I'm tired of hearing DSOTM (I'm more of a Wall/WYWH/Animals man myself). She's also taken to Joe Bonamassa lately. ?

Arno-West

Alan Ratcliffe wrote
Arno West wrote In my experience, most of the time, girls don't like Pink Floyd....or AC/DC. ?
Ha - you must be meeting the wrong girls! My other half blasts Highway to Hell and Dark Side at least once a week. In fact, I'm tired of hearing DSOTM (I'm more of a Wall/WYWH/Animals man myself). She's also taken to Joe Bonamassa lately. ?

Does she have a sister?

Tokai-SA

Arno West wrote
Alan Ratcliffe wrote
Arno West wrote In my experience, most of the time, girls don't like Pink Floyd....or AC/DC. ?
Ha - you must be meeting the wrong girls! My other half blasts Highway to Hell and Dark Side at least once a week. In fact, I'm tired of hearing DSOTM (I'm more of a Wall/WYWH/Animals man myself). She's also taken to Joe Bonamassa lately. ?
Does she have a sister?

Does she have two sisters? ?

AlanRatcliffe

Tokai SA wrote Does she have two sisters? ?

Don't be greedy! ?

kevjones

Hammeron wrote
Joe Moore wrote My brother used to listen to Cat Stevens , Bob dylan , Crosby Stills Nash & Young . ☹

A friend lent him this LP (1973) and I was hooked on guitar :-[

Alan Ratcliffe wrote
Vic wrote ...less is always more ?
If that were truly the case 4:33 is the best music ever written. ?
Indeed , that iconic solo !.....played together with the 2nd guitar and Keyboards , makes it so ! 8)
Made in Japan, best live album ever made.

It is def one of the best along with Alchemy,

davepweb

Yea, really good stuff! ?

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