Writing about Roger Waters and Pink Floyd, to me, isn’t just writing about music. It’s writing political autobiography. Pink Floyd’s Animals was released in 1977. I was thirteen years old that year and had been introduced to Elton John, Aerosmith, Ted Nugent, Lynyrd Skynyrd, and The Who, but didn’t catch up to Pink Floyd forContinue reading “Roger Waters, Live at the Amway Center 8-25-22”
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Upcoming Pink Floyd Album
The good news is that Pink Floyd will be releasing its first studio album in twenty years. The bad news is that, for whatever reason, Roger Waters won’t be involved, so what we’re going to get is probably 60 minutes of elevator music. It will be very good elevator music. It will be Pink Floyd.Continue reading “Upcoming Pink Floyd Album”
Pink Floyd’s Household Objects Project
Back in the early 1970s, after the release of Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd experimented with making music using only household objects like rubber bands and wine glasses. They produced a few rudimentary tracks and then abandoned the project, but two of these tracks are available on YouTube, so I’m posting them here. “TheContinue reading “Pink Floyd’s Household Objects Project”
Song du jour: Pink Floyd, “Marooned”
Haunting, beautiful video celebrating the twentieth anniversary of Pink Floyd’s final studio album:
The Philosophy of Contemporary Song 