Highway Hypnosis sandwich /
to get to Fiddler's Green /
no one's favorite venue /
be of no mind when Billy in town /
entering the beyond with Floyd's Fearless / Willie's Whiskey River (albeit song credits Johnny Bush & Paul Stroud) / then Hartford makes us All Fall Down
#BillyStrings 🐐 Fiddler's Green / Greenwood Village, CO / Friday May 17 2024 / night 1
Spinning my second favorite #PinkFloyd album. It’s a modern pressing but it sounds amazing (on my system at least). It’s on my list of top three original pressings to chase down (all three of which are Floyd albums incidentally).
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Watch David Gilmour wring every ounce of emotion from the guitar solo on Prince's Purple Rain – with Tom Jones
Pink Floyd's David Gilmour gives a TV audience a solo of epic Floydian scale
On this day in 1980, the South African government banned Pink Floyd's single 'Another Brick In The Wall (Part 2)' after Black children adopted the song as their anthem in protest against inferior education.
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Pink Floyd Plays in Venice on a Massive Floating Stage in 1989; Forces the Mayor & City Council to Resign
Waters proclaimed, “a spent force.” After releasing solo projects in the next few years, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright soon discovered they would never achieve as individuals what they did as a band, both musically and commercially.
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Ian Anderson names the "big four" of progressive rock
Jethro Tull had a healthy respect for the sound of progressive rock, but Ian Anderson thought that these four groups epitomised the genre.
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The Queers release Pink Floyd cover
The Queers have released a cover of early Pink Floyd track "See Emily Play." It has not yet been announced if the digital single is part of a larger release. The band last released the all covers album Reverberation in 2021.
I have another one for #TuneTuesday and #SameTitleDifferentSong. This one often comes to mind for me, too. The third one is missing the 'ing' but I'm still counting it, especially since Dave played for Tom and they were friends. I love the SHIT outta all THREE of these songs.
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Jimmy Page named the only two music geniuses of the 1960s
Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page once picked out the two 1960s musicians he believed to be "spacewards thinking," artists who would change rock forever.