Comments on: A Supergroup of the Often Overlooked, Part I

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 13 Oct 2010 17:41:12 +0000

Fun fact: Roger played guitar on the album version of “Sheep”.

By: Kai

Kai — Wed, 04 Aug 2010 05:39:46 +0000

I know I am way late to the party, but I thought this deserved comment, if by chance you still dip around your old stuff.
Why have you chosen not to include the post-Waters Floyd? I’m a huge fan of the band, and while not tending to break it down so much myself, would easily agree that it’s Gilmour’s guitar that really does it. I thought the later albums were great proof of this. I know many people who consider the last two albums as not true Floyd, but it’s an attitude beyond me. Some of the lyrics are perhaps weak. I’ll agree with occasional directionlessness, but there are some incredible songs (see ‘On the Turning Away’), and some incredible guitar (the duet beginning ‘Lost for Words’ is pure beauty, and the entire song carries me off). Awesome stuff.

By: Anon Guy

Anon Guy — Thu, 24 Jun 2010 05:44:24 +0000

I guess this might be because I am younger and never listened to Floyd seriously before hanging out with guitarists in college, but I’ve always thought of Gilmour as the center of the act. I mean, listen to “Comfortably Numb” on Pulse, for example. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yAxByEpDveQ If any song should be pure Waters, this is one, but they don’t sound a man down at all. No way! I question whether you have a soul if you aren’t simply consumed by the solo, which should elicit some type of physiological response.

By: Neville Bartoss

Neville Bartoss — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 11:57:06 +0000

Fuck yes. Gilmour’s genius lies in his subtlety and restraint- which is why he isn’t as firmly seated in the guitarist pantheon as Page and Co. I think the ensemble nature of Pink Floyd also makes him less conspicuous than, say, Hendrix, who spent half of every show squeezing in shamelessly self-indulgent solos and tounge-fucking his stratocaster. I’ve loved Pink Floyd since I began listening to music, and no matter how many times I go to the well, there’s always more. I was just listening to the album Meddle, and even now, 40 years after it was recorded, it still sounds like the future.

By: stephen

stephen — Tue, 25 May 2010 23:00:46 +0000

the chili peppers will never duplicate blood sugar sex magic, much like pearl jam will never duplicate ten. It’s not because they can’t, it’s because they are in their mid 40′s and probably don’t feel like singing about pussy or, in Pearl Jam’s case, youthful angst.

Californication and Stadium Arcadium are great albums, much better than Blood Sugar Sex Magic.

By: stephen

stephen — Sat, 22 May 2010 19:28:54 +0000

Yes, Pearl Jam has always been dependable to make music. But from about 2000 to 06 they were in no man’s land musically. Too busy fighting ticketmaster and thinking they wouldn’t join a record label. It hurt the band in my opinion. Meanwhile the chili peppers, going 25 years focus more on the music, even if there have been some detours. Frusiciante is a great understated and underrated guitar player. It’s too bad he left the band again.

PL: Frusciante’s great, no doubt, but IMO, that band peaked with Blood Sugar Sex Magic and hasn’t recaptured that high point since.

By: DrinksOnTheHouse

DrinksOnTheHouse — Thu, 20 May 2010 23:34:47 +0000

Pearl Jam was never a huge band for me. I actually was just in NOLA for jazz fest and caught the first half hour of their act but had to leave to see Jeff Beck play which was infinitely more awesome. As “great” as Pearl Jam’s 2 note guitar solos were, seeing Jeff Beck live with his current backing band was amazing.

And to tie it back to your original post, I just found out that when Barrett was too far gone to play with PF anymore, they were going to ask Jeff Beck to join but didn’t have the balls to do so and got Waters instead. What a different band that would have been.

Saw Pink Floyd live in 94 and will try to see Waters playing his “limitless pubescent angst and endless, whining introspection” rock opera The Wall, which he is about to start a tour to do, at the end of this year.

By: Bitterest Lawyer of 2008

Bitterest Lawyer of 2008 — Thu, 20 May 2010 19:12:51 +0000

“A drummer. A brilliant one hiding in plain sight. ”

Charlie Watts.

By: iamjoecollector

iamjoecollector — Wed, 19 May 2010 02:20:54 +0000

I must just have different tastes, pesonally I can’t stand PF but Gilmour certainly has it.

Frankly I loves me some Angus Young, and I loves it loud. I even like CC and some of the other 8-’s hair banders. Technically sound like Gilmour? Certainly not, although I’m not sure if they have ever had a chance to play like Clapton, Gilmour, or Beck and the like.

Here’s my beef with your notes. Mayer is a douche for sure, but to say he sucks is a knee jerk reaction to his jackassery not his musical ability. Most people can’t critically listen to his stuff because of their feelings to his verbal, not diarrhea, but tragically hip anti social wanna be intellectual BS.

One thing you did say is that his music is aimed at 16 year old girls, which begs the question: When you say his music is shit do you really mean his lyrics?

By: kakutogi

kakutogi — Mon, 17 May 2010 20:06:19 +0000

Speaking of supergroups… My friend tuned me into Liquid Tension Experiment. You should check em out, though I’m not sure if it’s too new-school for you.