Roger Waters

Collo · Senior Member

Roger Waters

86GTS · Senior Member

I find listening to Pink Floyd a rather depressing experience.

Many of their songs have very negative connotations.

eg. ''All in all you're just another brick in the wall''

I think that if someone was experiencing depression, listening to their songs would push that person over the edge.

Kebbin · Guru

Stop playing them backwards you will have a different experience.

86GTS · Senior Member

Kebbin wrote:
Stop playing them backwards you will have a different experience.

I never bought any Pink Floyd albums to play, hearing them many times over at other peoples places was enough for me.

peter67 · Guru

Only one word to describe pink floyd music, awesome.

yobarr · Guru

peter67 wrote:
Only one word to describe pink floyd music, awesome.

Ain't that the truth. Real music. Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and the like that will last forever. Shortly about 50 of my friends from late 60s and early 70s are having a huge reunion, in the bush, with lots of beer and a huge number of songs from that era. Because of the isolation those songs will be played at the same high volume they were played waaaay back. Looking forward to that! Cheers

rgren2 · Guru

peter67 wrote:
Only one word to describe pink floyd music, awesome.

X a gazillion

Cuppa · Guru

Pink Floyd remain unique & incomparable. I like most of their music, but prefer the earlier stuff. Only saw them play once (At Knebworth Festival). Loved Syd - still play his solo stuff now then - wife hates it.

Who's Polly Sampson?

-- Edited by Cuppa on Sunday 12th of February 2023 11:56:41 AM

rgren2 · Guru

Samson

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Samson

Cuppa · Guru

rgren2 wrote:
Samson

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polly_Samson

Ta. I guess I'm somewhat out of touch. Will leave them to their ongoing spat & just enjoy the Floyd music I like. Hadn't even heard of Division Bell album! In fact I can't recall listening to any Floyd later than 'Wish You Were Here'.

Roy E · Senior Member

Shane,
I have to agree with you, Waters is a bighead. I love Pink Floyd Music and the other band members are good blokes but Waters is a bigheaded racist.
Cheers,
Roy.

86GTS · Senior Member

yobarr wrote:
peter67 wrote:
Only one word to describe pink floyd music, awesome.
Ain't that the truth. Real music. Black Sabbath, Uriah Heep, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd and the like that will last forever. Shortly about 50 of my friends from late 60s and early 70s are having a huge reunion, in the bush, with lots of beer and a huge number of songs from that era. Because of the isolation those songs will be played at the same high volume they were played waaaay back. Looking forward to that! Cheers

Agree that the other groups named were fantastic, they weren't depressing like Pink Floyd were.

Love the Birmingham bands like Black Sabbath & Judas Priest.

Duran Duran used to practice in my uncles garage before they became famous.

My cousins play guitar like myself, my son & my grandson.

I played Eric Clapton & Stevie Ray Vaughan's Fender Stratocaster guitars at the London Hard Rock Cafe.

I also have great photos of myself sitting on Jimi Hendrix's couch with one of his guitars

Your reunion sounds like fun, enjoy!

-- Edited by 86GTS on Sunday 12th of February 2023 07:52:03 PM

Magnarc · Guru

Queen for me. Is Roger in any way related to Muddy????

peter67 · Guru

download (1).jpg If he is it's a miracle, here's a pic of the ever classy Muddy.

86GTS · Senior Member

Magnarc wrote:
Queen for me. Is Roger in any way related to Muddy????

Muddy Waters real name is McKinley Morganfield.

dorian · Guru

86GTS wrote:
I find listening to Pink Floyd a rather depressing experience.

I think that if someone was experiencing depression, listening to their songs would push that person over the edge.

I wonder how many people were killed by Leonard Cohen.

yobarr · Guru

dorian wrote:
86GTS wrote:
I find listening to Pink Floyd a rather depressing experience.

I think that if someone was experiencing depression, listening to their songs would push that person over the edge.
I wonder how many people were killed by Leonard Cohen.

"Everybody knows. " Think about it. Cheers

Roy E · Senior Member

Yobarr,
That's how it goes.
Cheers,
Roy.

86GTS · Senior Member

dorian wrote:
86GTS wrote:
I find listening to Pink Floyd a rather depressing experience.

I think that if someone was experiencing depression, listening to their songs would push that person over the edge.
I wonder how many people were killed by Leonard Cohen.

I've never heard anything by him, he's not my style.

Plain Truth · Guru

86GTS wrote:
dorian wrote:
86GTS wrote:
I find listening to Pink Floyd a rather depressing experience.

I think that if someone was experiencing depression, listening to their songs would push that person over the edge.
I wonder how many people were killed by Leonard Cohen.
I've never heard anything by him, he's not my style.

86GTS,have you never seen the movie "Shrek" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1YuGmtgkAg

dorian · Guru

86GTS wrote:
dorian wrote:
86GTS wrote:
I find listening to Pink Floyd a rather depressing experience.

I think that if someone was experiencing depression, listening to their songs would push that person over the edge.
I wonder how many people were killed by Leonard Cohen.
I've never heard anything by him, he's not my style.

Ironically, the first time I encountered Leonard Cohen was in my early adulthood when I heard a parody by the Hebeegeebees ("Bird of Peace" medley on "439 Golden Greats").

BTW, I've always been a fan of Eric Clapton's music, but just yesterday I came across his vile racist spew in Wikipedia:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton#Racism_and_August_1976_drunken_rant

"Tears in Heaven" will never sound the same again, no matter how hard I try to separate the man from the music.

-- Edited by dorian on Monday 13th of February 2023 04:39:07 PM

yobarr · Guru

Roy E wrote:
Yobarr,
That's how it goes.
Cheers,
Roy.

Spot on Roy! Great song, as are Marianne, and Suzanne. Gotta really listen to the words to appreciate the songs' depth.

" So many men you had to see, without your clothes". Cheers

-- Edited by yobarr on Monday 13th of February 2023 05:45:01 PM

86GTS · Senior Member

dorian wrote:
86GTS wrote:
dorian wrote:
86GTS wrote:
I find listening to Pink Floyd a rather depressing experience.

I think that if someone was experiencing depression, listening to their songs would push that person over the edge.
I wonder how many people were killed by Leonard Cohen.
I've never heard anything by him, he's not my style.
Ironically, the first time I encountered Leonard Cohen was in my early adulthood when I heard a parody by the Hebeegeebees ("Bird of Peace" medley on "439 Golden Greats").
BTW, I've always been a fan of Eric Clapton's music, but just yesterday I came across his vile racist spew in Wikipedia:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eric_Clapton#Racism_and_August_1976_drunken_rant
"Tears in Heaven" will never sound the same again, no matter how hard I try to separate the man from the music.

-- Edited by dorian on Monday 13th of February 2023 04:39:07 PM

The racist attitude is out of character for Eric, he's spent his whole life worshipping traditional black American blues artists & trying to get them appreciated by the masses.

He's played with a lot of the surviving ones like BB King & Buddy Guy.

dorian · Guru

Someone once said to me that alcohol doesn't change your character, it just amplifies it. Perhaps he was comfortable with black people as long as they weren't living in his country.

86GTS · Senior Member

dorian wrote:
Someone once said to me that alcohol doesn't change your character, it just amplifies it. Perhaps he was comfortable with black people as long as they weren't living in his country.

He gave up alcohol 30 years ago. Getting back to Pink Floyd, one member of the band suffered with a mental illness I think?

dorian · Guru

86GTS wrote:
Getting back to Pink Floyd, one member of the band suffered with a mental illness I think?

From what I've been reading about Barrett, his mental problems may have been self inflicted. He had a long history of drug abuse.

Cuppa · Guru

dorian wrote:
86GTS wrote:
Getting back to Pink Floyd, one member of the band suffered with a mental illness I think?
From what I've been reading about Barrett, his mental problems may have been self inflicted. He had a long history of drug abuse.

He was considered to have schizophrenia, probably triggered by over indulgence of LSD. An old friend, long dead, also suffered with schizophrenia & got to know Syd at a Cambridge psychiatric institution.