Pink Floyd

[Jib in lad]

Steve Hillage ex Gong guitarist , amazing album.



Mahavishnu orchestra unreal had some incredible moments listening to these albums.

 

[Simon Buttle]

Tim Berne's Science Friction is also pretty good, more contemporary too.

Not heard that, i will have to check it out. There is a modern band called BadBadNotGood, i have seen them twice and they are seriously talented musicians, worth a listen if you have not heard them.

 

[Old Blue 2]

I tried the Rolling Stones a few years back. Couldn't really get into them. Jagger's very talented but he is the band IMHO. Musically they are competent but no more than that (again IMHO).

Listen to Mick Taylor's end solo from 2:38 onwards, and tell me they are just 'competent!


I could post more, but I'll leave it there for now...

Do you play guitar, by the way?

 

[Jib in lad]

Classic.

 

[PITA]

Listen to Mick Taylor's end solo from 2:38 onwards, and tell me they are just 'competent!


I could post more, but I'll leave it there for now...

Do you play guitar, by the way?

You might have noticed that I said 'IMHO'.

Not sure what your question has to do with the price of fish.

 

[Old Blue 2]

You might have noticed that I said 'IMHO'.

Not sure what your question has to do with the price of fish.

The price of fish doesn't come into it!

The point being, if you play, then you appreciate what he is playing more. How he constructs his solo (in this case) around a two-chord turnaround; how his playing flows effortlessy from one phrase to another, bending notes(strings) up, pulling down, hammer-ons, the whole thing is wonderfully constructed and executed. Already at such a young age (21) he was a master of rock and blues guitar when this was recorded in March 1970.

 

[longers]

Listen to Mick Taylor's end solo from 2:38 onwards, and tell me they are just 'competent!


I could post more, but I'll leave it there for now...

Do you play guitar, by the way?

They are competent, competent describes 99% of musicians, particularly rock musicians.... it's not a genre that excels on that front relative to the likes of Jazz etc.

That solo is nothing amazing at all from a technical perspective btw.

 

[Old Blue 2]

They are competent, competent describes 99% of musicians, particularly rock musicians.... it's not a genre that excels on that front relative to the likes of Jazz etc.

That solo is nothing amazing at all from a technical perspective btw.

I'll take your word for it...

 

[gianthogweed]

The version of Echoes on live at Pompeii is a epic masterpiece

 

[summerisle]

Forgot about this,

 

[dholliday]

Forgot about this,

That era was full of that kind of Floyd: much less noodling, standard song lengths, faintly normal verse/chorus/bridge structures:







my favourite:



meaty rock:



softly softly dark folk:







emo balladry:




https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SKUfuS24O-I



Obscures by Clouds is probably as standard folk-rock as Floyd ever got:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FPSb5QjgjAc

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rhge-ZOgfsw


the very final track finally recalled a little avant-garde:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kfYa1TcLYpU

 

[verreauxi]

Aye, the influence also went both ways: Miles enjoyed spacey proggy rock so incorporated some of that sound during his fusion-jazz phase of circa 69-74, especially with studio decisions he made like reverb on the trumpet and things like that.

Bitches Brew is a top 10 album for me, the perfect marriage of proggy rock/funk/jazz. Some people call the album difficult & inaccessible, but I was enthralled from the first notes I heard many moons ago, which were from the title track:

From his fussion era, my favorite Miles album is "Big Fun"

 

[dholliday]

From his fussion era, my favorite Miles album is "Big Fun"

oh nice tip, mate! didn't even know about that one.

 

[verreauxi]

oh nice tip, mate! didn't even know about that one.

I view it as a more user-friendly version of Bitches Brew. You'll dig it!

 

[Blues Harp]

Any "jazz" snobs on here? Haven't seen any yet, which is a great thing imo as they tend to dismiss rock musicians as below their consideration...some good comments and reccomendations here on a thread which although started as a Pink Floyd one has veered off discussing other bands and genres...love it !!