There are famous bands that is inquestonable the influence in rock music, like Stones, Beatles, Cream, The faces, etc. Others are more recent giants like Queen or U2, but Pink Floyd is one of the groups, that personally, i don´t like and there's not one single album in my more than 500 originals. Music is to slow for me, the albums far to experimental and if the musicians are great, specially David and Roger, all the result is far away from my personal taste. But what the band have done for rock music is important, and that´s the reason of this lines.
Another "brick in the wall" is that i´m not a particular fan of "the Roger Waters"era (band lovers have a total diferent opinion...lol), what is funny because i prefer him in the intervews than the Gilmour comments, that seams from a "betrayed wife".
Live in Pompeei its a concert in a town destroyed by a vulcano. It´s interesting, of coure it is, but only by the concept. If my high school group play first were 75 000 Lisbon habitants lost their lifes in 1755 catastrophe, the concept will be exacly the same. Good for Pink Floyd that were the first ones to remember.
After Waters, the music was different, but was the end? Hell, i'm not a fan of "The Wall" so the band new orientation was normal for who like's music. Worst? Less interestin, i prefer. But when Roger live's i was 12 years old, and music was much diferent also in Rock, but especially in hard Rock and Heavy Metal. Probaly if i had a diferent age, the psicadelic era of Floyd were much more interesting than in the 80's staff.
But in this time, hard rock, metal and in first years of the 90's with grunge, my choise was not this band. Classic Rock there had again other options and is true that Floyd was in a very melodic rock with exelent albuns and live performances, but were to boring for a young adult. After that, the member of the band made is own carriers and the interest was less for everybody.
Today, and after one or another original, is a certain that David and Roger will not reunite, so Pink Floyd is "dead". What is a nightmare for the true fans for the two most reconize musicians of the band is another step in their solo carriers. Live in Pompei by Gylmore was full and Waters play for 300 000 in the american continent. So, change for what?
Even so, any concert with music from Floyd times it's a party. In Portugal (May 2018), mobilization is rising, and certain will be a full house. More ridiculous (at least for me), is that a simple tribute to Pink Floyd band it is a blast for one part of the fâns. One thing is the band or any of their members, other is musicians that do very well music from the other's.
In concluson, i never was a Pink Floyd fan (and probably i will not be in future), but i recognise the impact of the band in rock and others groups thar came by listening is music. Again, probably a reunion was better to all (band also, at least by the money..lol), but if the fans deam with that, Waters and Guilmore are decades away one from each other.
But is a very good band, in so many things, like music, production, inovations, etc. The height in rock, present and future, i belive is huge, but i think listening and like of a group is more personel than anything. Probably that is the mai reason i don't like Pink Floyd, wich is different from the respect that i have for this and other bands. Cheers
Major influence for generations, if i had born in this era, probably my influences were Beatles, Stones, Doors and Tull (then Zeplin and Black Sabath). Bands like Floyd, Genesis or Yes, are not of my kind.
Another "brick in the wall" is that i´m not a particular fan of "the Roger Waters"era (band lovers have a total diferent opinion...lol), what is funny because i prefer him in the intervews than the Gilmour comments, that seams from a "betrayed wife".
Live in Pompeei its a concert in a town destroyed by a vulcano. It´s interesting, of coure it is, but only by the concept. If my high school group play first were 75 000 Lisbon habitants lost their lifes in 1755 catastrophe, the concept will be exacly the same. Good for Pink Floyd that were the first ones to remember.
After Waters, the music was different, but was the end? Hell, i'm not a fan of "The Wall" so the band new orientation was normal for who like's music. Worst? Less interestin, i prefer. But when Roger live's i was 12 years old, and music was much diferent also in Rock, but especially in hard Rock and Heavy Metal. Probaly if i had a diferent age, the psicadelic era of Floyd were much more interesting than in the 80's staff.
But in this time, hard rock, metal and in first years of the 90's with grunge, my choise was not this band. Classic Rock there had again other options and is true that Floyd was in a very melodic rock with exelent albuns and live performances, but were to boring for a young adult. After that, the member of the band made is own carriers and the interest was less for everybody.
Today, and after one or another original, is a certain that David and Roger will not reunite, so Pink Floyd is "dead". What is a nightmare for the true fans for the two most reconize musicians of the band is another step in their solo carriers. Live in Pompei by Gylmore was full and Waters play for 300 000 in the american continent. So, change for what?
Even so, any concert with music from Floyd times it's a party. In Portugal (May 2018), mobilization is rising, and certain will be a full house. More ridiculous (at least for me), is that a simple tribute to Pink Floyd band it is a blast for one part of the fâns. One thing is the band or any of their members, other is musicians that do very well music from the other's.
In concluson, i never was a Pink Floyd fan (and probably i will not be in future), but i recognise the impact of the band in rock and others groups thar came by listening is music. Again, probably a reunion was better to all (band also, at least by the money..lol), but if the fans deam with that, Waters and Guilmore are decades away one from each other.
But is a very good band, in so many things, like music, production, inovations, etc. The height in rock, present and future, i belive is huge, but i think listening and like of a group is more personel than anything. Probably that is the mai reason i don't like Pink Floyd, wich is different from the respect that i have for this and other bands. Cheers
