Floyd 67-74 Japanese and bootleg collecting

[Abra Cadabra]

Carl & Jason... i too favor the very early Floyd and Syd was such a
creative genius and a true star in a sense --- from 68-69 onward to
DSOTM and 66-67 Syd era is really all i like the most, and even then,
yes its depressive "art ambience" as opposed to fairytale and
spacerock whimsy that started all HW and Gong for us to witness. But
you "learn" to like Guilmore & co beyond DSOTM which was my
introduction. It seems Floyd were "vampires" saing "shine on you crazy
Syd" and "The Luna Syd is on the Grass" etc ages after booting him
into mental patient obscurity. His 3 + Opel albums are all wonderful
and highly recommended to anyone, I used to hear "Octopus Ride" etc on
LSD trips and they blew my mind all over... "Birdy Hop" at 4AM around
the Lava Lamp in the dark would trigger nuclear holocaust it seems.

2015-02-01 13:54 GMT+01:00 Carl Edlund Anderson <cea at carlaz.com>:
> That's really always the problem I had with post-Barrett Floyd. There's some stuff that I recognize as great music, but they just came across as such _miserable_ sods.
>
> Cheers,
> Carl
>
>> On 31 Jan 2015, at 20:16 , Jason C. Hillenburg <j.hillenburg at COMCAST.NET> wrote:
>>
>> Floyd, for me, was a band for my teenage years. I wore the black print off my cassette copy of The Wall as a teen, but you can't get me to listen to it now. Too self-indulgent and marred with self-pity.
>
> --
> Carl Edlund Anderson
> http://www.carlaz.com/