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Electrophile

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  1. I live in the Piedmont as well. Thank God we're from Chicago and know how to handle this, otherwise we'd be like all the other loons, shoveling with spades and speeding on the snowy pavement.
  2. How is When The Levee Breaks not winning this? Yeesh.
  3. Electrophile

    Grammys

    I haven't watched the Grammys in over 15 years.
  4. Right now, it's doing a combo of snowing and sleeting. I believe my ForecastFox is calling this "wintry precipitation". We got about 5-6 inches of snow overnight.
  5. High Hopes (live at the Carrier Dome, Syracuse; June 6th, 1994) - Pink Floyd You'd never know this was an audience recording. It's orgasmic.
  6. That is an awesome shirt and if I bought it, finally David would be where he belongs - stretched across my boobs.
  7. My Cynical Meter just flew into the red here. Great videos, but I don't think a 6 year old posted all that.
  8. Naturally, I have medium brown hair. In the fall/winter, I dye it a dark chocolate brown.
  9. I can answer Pink Floyd to a "Rush or Aerosmith?" question because it's better than saying "neither". At least I'm offering up an alternative.
  10. Levee. Period. End of sentence. Start new paragraph.
  11. No, but I wish I did. I was born in 1982, so I was 12 when they last went out on the road. I did however get to see David live back in 2006 when he played Rosemont Theater in my hometown of Chicago.
  12. While Roger deserves most of the blame for that, Rick wasn't making it that easy on himself either. He had a horrible cocaine problem that was making it impossible for him to work. Also, Roger threatened to pull the master tapes of what they had worked on if he didn't leave the group, and since they had been swindled a couple years prior out of a good chunk of money, they needed that album in order to recoup some of their losses. When it was put to Rick like that, he had no choice. I would call it blackmail, someone else would call it extortion....who knows. Either way it was a bleak, bleak time for them.
  13. I just looked it up to make sure that I had heard 1992 correctly, and as it turns out Rick was contractually a member of Pink Floyd again by the time of their tour for AMLOR and their 1988 live album, Delicate Sound of Thunder. So it was much earlier than when they set out to do The Division Bell.
  14. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IyzPpTl3Cws&feature=rec-rn-4r-6-HM Two words: Peep Floyd
  15. Pink Floyd always had supplemental musicians on stage with them back when Roger was still in the group. The Wish You Were Here tour, the In The Flesh tour and then The Wall shows in 1980 and 1981 all featured more than just the four of them on stage during performances. During The Wall shows, they had up to 8 people on stage with them. That doesn't mean however, that there were more members legally in the group. So let's see......for the tours supporting AMLOR and TDB, you had David, Rick and Nick playing guitar, keys/organs/synths and drums. Guy Pratt was their bassist for live performances. There's your core band. During the In The Flesh tour and The Wall shows, Snowy White played rhythm guitar and occasionally bass when Roger played guitar. On the latter two tours, it was Tim Renwick. On The Wall shows, they had two keyboard players, Rick and some dude whose name escapes me. For the latter two tours, it was Jon Carin. They always had backing vocalists from 1973 onward, even when Roger was in the group. On the AMLOR tour, they had Scott Page playing saxophone. On TDB tour, it was Dick Parry, who played the sax on all the original recordings that required one (except Terminal Frost on AMLOR). So exactly where are these 7-10 other musicians you're prattling on about? I counted......3. Tim Renwick, Jon Carin and the saxophonist, be it Scott Page or Dick Parry. Backing vocalists aren't musicians, so you can't count them. You can't do a lot of their songs without them anyway. So guess what? Sometimes Pink Floyd required the usage of other musicians to help create their live shows, even before Roger left the band. When their music got more complicated and complex, it required more than just the four of them on a bare-bones stage. Such is life.
  16. That's not true. Rick Wright legally re-joined the band in 1992. Also, Nick Mason made several appearances with David over the years, including 2 or 3 times during his solo tours in 1984 and 2006. One of the shows at Royal Albert Hall in 2006 had David, Rick and Nick all playing Comfortably Numb so technically that WAS Pink Floyd, but no one said anything about that.
  17. Probably because he had to go do the Haiti telethon. Conan's show tapes early in the day.
  18. He did Long May You Run, and made me cry in the process - that song does it every time. I think he topped Carson having Bette Midler sing on HIS last show.
  19. HAHAHA to the first bolded statement. Also, after Roger decided to be a twat and leave the band, they didn't replace him, they didn't add anyone else to the group. Pink Floyd then became David, Rick and Nick. Period. They didn't do what they did when Syd was too mentally incapacitated to perform anymore and add someone else legally to the group. The band went from a quartet to a trio. Guy Pratt became their bassist for live performances, but he didn't join the band. He is not a member of Pink Floyd. Neither is Jon Carin who played keys. They didn't replace Roger Waters in the band. They simply moved on without him. WTF do you know. Also, HAHAHAHA to the second bolded statement.
  20. My copy of Ummagumma got scratched up when we moved, so I replaced it. $18 including shipping for a VG++ copy (vinyl and jacket) that the person I bought it from purchased himself in 1969. Not bad!
  21. You're missing something. How many seasons of American Idol have their been? How many people have been on the show? Now how many of those people are actual bonafide successes? If the show is supposed to find the next big whatever......I'd say they have failed miserably at doing that, save four specific cases.
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