Floyd 67-74 Japanese and bootleg collecting

[Jason C. Hillenburg]

Syd's tortured post-Floyd outings are essential. Not comfortable, but essential. I think we all owe a hearty thank you to Gilmour, Wright, Peter Jenner, and Jerry Shirley for those recordings existing in any form. 

My problem with Waters era Floyd is his songwriting. He floundered mightily without in-house editors like Gilmour and Bob Ezrin. He specialized in a sort of low-brow, non-specific pandering to rage and alienation that sounded increasingly juvenile after turning twenty-five. I'm nearly 40 now. 

Gilmour is a mighty, mighty lead guitarist. I'd rank only a handful higher. 

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From: "Abra Cadabra" <anacondaconan at GMAIL.COM> 
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Sent: Sunday, February 1, 2015 10:49:23 AM 
Subject: Re: Floyd 67-74 Japanese and bootleg collecting 

Carl & Jason... i too favor the very early Floyd and Syd was such a 
creative genius and a true star in a sense --- from 68-69 onward to 
DSOTM and 66-67 Syd era is really all i like the most, and even then, 
yes its depressive "art ambience" as opposed to fairytale and 
spacerock whimsy that started all HW and Gong for us to witness. But 
you "learn" to like Guilmore & co beyond DSOTM which was my 
introduction. It seems Floyd were "vampires" saing "shine on you crazy 
Syd" and "The Luna Syd is on the Grass" etc ages after booting him 
into mental patient obscurity. His 3 + Opel albums are all wonderful 
and highly recommended to anyone, I used to hear "Octopus Ride" etc on 
LSD trips and they blew my mind all over... "Birdy Hop" at 4AM around 
the Lava Lamp in the dark would trigger nuclear holocaust it seems. 

2015-02-01 13:54 GMT+01:00 Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com>: 
> That's really always the problem I had with post-Barrett Floyd. There's some stuff that I recognize as great music, but they just came across as such _miserable_ sods. 
> 
> Cheers, 
> Carl 
> 
>> On 31 Jan 2015, at 20:16 , Jason C. Hillenburg <j.hillenburg at COMCAST.NET> wrote: 
>> 
>> Floyd, for me, was a band for my teenage years. I wore the black print off my cassette copy of The Wall as a teen, but you can't get me to listen to it now. Too self-indulgent and marred with self-pity. 
> 
> -- 
> Carl Edlund Anderson 
> http://www.carlaz.com/