JACkory
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Post by JACkory on Oct 13, 2005 23:49:41 GMT -5
I disagree with a good portion of what you've written about Waters-era Floyd, Rit, but I will attest that it's entertaining reading. You should check out Mark Prindle's record review site. He can be as vicous as you but it doesn't matter if he's trashing your favorite record, he's always a fun read. (Chuck Klosterman is like that, too). You are a tad too harsh, though, I think, on the post-Barrett Floyd, and you seem to be a bit TOO convinced of the righteousness of your opinions.  |
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Post by wayved on Oct 13, 2005 23:53:35 GMT -5
After all, just like most (but not all) bands, they had a taste of success and wound up hating each other "fuck Wright! Forget gilmour!" (Ive read the books as well) Its all about the money to the brand name Pink Floyd in the end. Publishing rights.
Will I be wallowing in desperation if I am not successful in a music career making songs no one but my closest friends will hear? Will I be hanging on someones star if I get a job and work to feed my family?
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Post by wayved on Oct 13, 2005 23:55:52 GMT -5
By the way--if all you you have not seen it--pick up Pink Floyd in Pompeii.
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JACkory
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Post by JACkory on Oct 14, 2005 0:24:54 GMT -5
Rit, you probably think Bill Wyman is the scum of the earth, eh? Maybe, old chap, maybe, but just listen to those funky bass lines in "Miss You". By the same token, some of the most inventive stuff on Dark Side of the Moon is Richard Wright's handiwork. Slag him all you want, he was an essential ingredient in an album that remained on the Billboard charts longer than any other...and I would underscore the word ESSENTIAL. Without his contribution to that album I daresay it would not have been the classic history has proven it to be. Plus, who can blame the guy for not hanging with Syd? I'm sure the added drama of dealing with Barrett's drug-induced psychosis would have proven to be of no benefit not only to Wright's musical ambitions but would also have been an unbearable & unnecessary burden on his personal life as well. Trust me...psychos are high-maintenance. You probably root for Pete Best and bemoan the decision to replace him with that Ringo feller, too, eh? Methinks you romanticize the fringes a bits.  |
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Post by Thorngrub on Oct 14, 2005 9:17:49 GMT -5
Hey Rit:
"la la la I can't hear you!"
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Post by Thorngrub on Oct 14, 2005 9:18:49 GMT -5
oh i'll be back *returns snivelling to my darkened cobwebby corner* *mind deviously planning its next rebuttal* |
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Post by luke on Oct 14, 2005 12:01:23 GMT -5
C'mon, thorny, I've been looking forward to your response. You can do better than that!
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Post by Thorngrub on Oct 14, 2005 14:54:49 GMT -5
C'mon, thorny, I've been looking forward to your response. You can do better than that! *adopts a certain cinematic voice* "Oh I will Master Luke, I wiiiiillllllll" hehehe... |
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Post by Rit on Oct 14, 2005 18:59:52 GMT -5
oh, for the love of candy apples  i keed, i keed... i can't wait to hear what Thorn comes up with. It will surely be such awesome defence as the likes of which the world has never seen. i love our little essay contests, Thorn.... part of my problem is just finding topics that will elicit them out of you  |
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Post by Rit on Oct 14, 2005 19:06:55 GMT -5
& JAC, i'm a severe judgementalist, like that old guy in that famous book... what was it again? oh yeah, the Old Testament ;D
just kidding around, no offence implied. i dunno, i can't stand mundane rock these days. I'm getting old, i suppose. 25 years old already. good God. seems like not so long ago i thought Jim Morrison was a'ight, and MacDonalds was food fit for a prince.
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JACkory
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Post by JACkory on Oct 14, 2005 19:34:46 GMT -5
Yer getting cynical. Turn back. Turn back. Take it from your elders. It's no good. It may even be the most realistic viewpoint, but it's no good. Better to hide in the pages of Terry Goodkind novels than to succumb to it. That Guy in the Old Testament can be as judgemental as He wants. It's His toybox, after all. |
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Post by Rit on Oct 14, 2005 19:41:29 GMT -5
i'm not cynical. at least, i'm not trying to be consciously so...
i prefer to think that i've finally achieved a highly mobile sense of equilibrium, constantly rolling on my toes, and i can see clearly into the hearts of things, and judge them for their inner worth. i'm not wise enough to judge on worth, moreso just nod and grin when i see humanity in the thing.
or maybe not yet. perhaps i never will..
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JACkory
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Post by JACkory on Oct 14, 2005 20:40:01 GMT -5
i'm not cynical. at least, i'm not trying to be consciously so... i prefer to think that i've finally achieved a highly mobile sense of equilibrium, constantly rolling on my toes, and i can see clearly into the hearts of things, and judge them for their inner worth. i'm not wise enough to judge on worth, moreso just nod and grin when i see humanity in the thing. or maybe not yet. perhaps i never will.. You're hallucinating. |
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Post by Rit on Oct 14, 2005 20:45:45 GMT -5
no i'm not, holmes.
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JACkory
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Post by JACkory on Oct 14, 2005 21:11:47 GMT -5
If you realized you were hallucinating it would kill the effect and you wouldn't really be hallucinating anymore, would you? I like it when you call me "holmes". |
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