Anonymous wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 1:03 pm
Still love the first three albums, but I lost touch with him lyrically when he went a bit new age. He's a nice chap, though; donated quite a lot financially to stuff a friend is doing in Sheffield with deprived kids.
Yeah, he's always seemed like a very genuine, humble person, and that's a nice cause in Bluntsville.
I also like the early stuff, it's unique.
Last album I bought was Let It Happen, and I was a bit disappointed with it.
Kinda lost touch with Mike's stuff since then, but I have no doubt at all that he would still put on an awesome show.
Anonymous wrote: ↑Sat Aug 05, 2023 3:20 pm
I got sick of listening to rock music in the 90s. There wasn't much new that I liked, and I'd played all the old stuff to death.
A local bookshop sold 2nd hand classical CDs and the chap in there was quite knowledgable, so I started buying stuff he recommended based on other things I liked.
Listened to mainly classical music for nearly a decade. Still probably listen to classical about a third of the time.
I have it on in the car, helps me relax with all the knobheads on the road these days
" Man is not affected by events but by the view he takes of them "
A lot different from when I used to go, reportedly over 100,000 rock fans at the first one with Rainbow headlining, Cozy Powells last Rainbow gig as well.
" Man is not affected by events but by the view he takes of them "
The Subhuman wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 10:46 am
So is that listening to Pink Floyd CD's by candlelight or a tribute band? Either way sounds a great way to spend and evening
50 Years of Pink Floyd - Performed by Candlelight Strings
They won't be appearing either, like Vivaldi
" Man is not affected by events but by the view he takes of them "
Has anyone ever seen anything at the Royal Exchange Theatre in Manchester ? Seems to be mainly used for theatre but I seen The Slow Show there in 2018, prob the weirdest set up for a gig ever. Circular & only 2 rows deep and I think only 3 levels so you’re practically on top of the band. Brilliant place.
“ If you’re going to try, go all the way. Otherwise don’t even start “ Charles Bukowski.
Anonymous wrote: ↑Mon Aug 07, 2023 12:24 pm
I've probably seen five or six different Floyd tributes. Still think the Australians are the best, but even that doesn't compare to Nick Mason's Saucerful Of Secrets (whom I've seen three times).
I like the women who dress up in black leather mini skirts, Basques, stockings and high heels while covering Pink Floyd
Astronomy Dominatrix I think they're called
"A mind is like a parachute, it doesn't work if it's not open"
Saw Coldplay at Wembley, brilliant. However my favourite gigs were all in the mid to late sixties. I saw the Stones a few times, the free concert in Hyde Park was really good. I saw the Yardbirds, firstly with Clapton and then a couple of years later with Page. I much preferred Jimmy Page. The best gig I ever went to was in late 1964 at the Marquee Club. It was a band I'd not heard of until then. The Who. It was a few months before they released My Generation. That was the most exciting gig I've ever been to. The cost of replacing their instruments must have been far more than they were making. Their version of Smokestack Lightning remains the best version I've ever heard.
Anonymous wrote: ↑Wed Sep 06, 2023 9:32 amAndy Powell has the best live guitar tone I've ever heard, and I'm a lifelong nerd for these things. His current foil, Mark Abrahams, is also very good.
Here he is talking about his relationship with the Flying V:
saw them many times in their pomp, Wishbone are brilliant live!
