Count me in with the group that says music taste is subjective. You can't force people into changing their mind about a band by throwing sales figures and fan testimonials at them. All you're going to end up doing is making them dig their heels in further. Also, this thread was started already and deleted by one of the mods (I'm assuming), so why start it again?

I am shocked and appalled that we have had an Easter thread go this long without mention of the following: For shame. BTW, have you guys heard of the Easter Turducken? You take a Cadbury Creme Egg, stuff it inside of a Peep and stuff that inside of a hollow chocolate bunny. Heart attack on a plate!

Going shopping!!

Heart Full of Soul - The Yardbirds

White Summer/Black Mountain Side

Everlasting Love - Carl Carlton

PULSE is amazing. Obviously it's not a complete representation of the band because Roger Waters isn't there, but 75% is better than 0%. I happen to think Gilmour's solo in Comfortably Numb from PULSE is his absolute best. The solo in High Hopes is pretty damn good too.

I Can't Go For That - Hall & Oates

Please. Pink Floyd re-uniting? That was a fucking coup for Bob Geldof. Echoes, their greatest hits compilation package released in 2001, went up by over 1300% in sales after they appeared at Live8. Sure there were people there to see the other acts, but come off it. If Led Zeppelin had performed at that show, there would have been the same number of people, if not more. Live8 very quickly went from "great string of concerts for charity" to "Everyone let's see Pink Floyd!". Nothing wrong with that, a band of that size and influence can bring in large amounts of money and attention to your cause. Hell, David Gilmour has his accountant check his revenues each year to make sure that any money he makes on that Echoes compilation goes to charity because he didn't want to profit off it. Just another reason why I love that man.

No spats, you're basing your opinion on erroneous facts. You have no clue why people went to see them, what kind of energy they had or whether or not the audiences would be smaller if they didn't have the light show. You just don't know. You're claiming you do know and basing your opinion on that. You can't do that. You're arguing facts not in evidence. I have seen clips of Pink Floyd live waaaay back in the day and I happen to think they had a very magnetic stage presence. You were constantly looking at them, wondering what they were going to do next and simultaneously listening very closely to each note they played. Several people have already explained to you why they had the light show and why they had the stage show that they did, you've chosen to completely ignore it.

I saw David Gilmour live in Chicago during that same tour at the Rosemont Theatre. I have an interview with him where he said he specifically chose smaller venues specifically for acoustics AND because he wanted the audience to feel like they were part of the show, and in a 30,000 seat arena it's hard to do that. Seriously spats, do you ever know what you're spouting off about before you open your mouth?

I'll repeat myself; YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT YOU'RE TALKING ABOUT.

They didn't want to be the focus of the show. They wanted the music and the experience to be what you took away from it. So they hid behind the lasers the smoke and the whole nine yards, not because they had no stage presence, but because they didn't think they as people were important. It was the music.

You have no clue why Pink Floyd had the stage show that they did. None.

I like some of the stuff the Beatles did with their solo work. Paul: Maybe I'm Amazed, Band on the Run, Silly Love Songs Ringo: It Don't Come Easy John: Instant Karma, Imagine, Woman, Watching The Wheels George: My Sweet Lord, What Is Life However, I much prefer the work they did together as a band over what they did as solo artists, as much as I do like that work.

David Gilmour's first two solo albums on vinyl. All that's left now is getting On An Island on vinyl.

How are they overrated? What about their music do you think people exalt to lofty perches they don't deserve? I'm legitimately curious.

Good God, I haven't heard that song in years, if that. I think I'll throw that one on.

Pink Floyd.......overrated? What color is the sky in your world?

Another beautiful sunshiny day with the windows wide open. Won't last for long, though.....supposed to be in the 40s all weekend. Poo.

I've been wearing glasses since the 3rd grade. A few years ago, I tried contacts, and I could get them in......but not out. I was terrified of sticking my fingers on my eyeball. So I decided that glasses were just fine.

It's supposed to be 77 on Saturday here in the Triad. Far cry from Monday when we had 6 inches of snow on the ground!

Finding out my sister is spending a week in Valdosta during Spring Break. Yay for being out of my hair!

Pink Floyd - One Slip (Live at the Omni, Atlanta 1987) Part of the Calhoun Tapes, a bootleg of the shows they did there on the AMLOR tour. The footage was supposed to be used for a live release, but they didn't like it and instead used footage taped from their shows at the Nassau Coliseum in 1988. Really, REALLY 80s and if you can get over that, you might enjoy it.

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