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Excellent Pink Floyd exhibition in Los Angeles until January 9th. Lots of really interesting insight:

https://www.vmmla.com/the-pink-floyd-exhibition/

WARNING: Music plays as soon as you enter this site.

We went a couple of weeks ago. You can probably be in and out of there in about an hour. It depends on just how much of it you want to read and watch (they have videos with interviews, etc.).

I love the band. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon and after), Mozart and sometimes Bach are my favorites to "get into flow and stay in flow".

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> I love the band. Pink Floyd (Dark Side of the Moon and after),

I gotta respectfully disagree . Meddle was peak Floyd for me. The whole album is a transporting experience, including IMO the best Gilmour guitar solo ever.

Thank you. Echos is like a book or a movie for me. I could get so lost, then ten minutes has gone by. And whatever was bad before - well its still bad but now I'm insulated.

I suppose this is old news for the Pink Floyd nerds around. But the sync of Echoes and 2001 is the BEST thing I have ever seen in my life : https://youtu.be/rn7MmS3vazU

My introduction to Pink Floyd started (late 70s) with Dark Side, and worked its way backwards.

"A Saucer Full of Secrets" and "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn" - collected together as "A Nice Pair" - was the peak for me.

I like "Animals" and "Welcome to the Machine". I respect "The Wall" as an artistic piece. But it's not an album I ever bought or had a strong desire to listen to.

I honestly can't stand any of it. I've often told friends that if I ever owned a radio station I would ban Pink Floyd.

Can't really explain why. Just don't like it.

Even Wish You Were Here? It's one of their more popular songs that doesn't sound very Pink Floyd-y.

Or anything after "Final Cut", really, which are more along the lines of Gilmour's solo albums than anything PF-y.

Any fans of Poor Man's Whiskey?

They've done a fantastic bluegrass revision album, "Dark Side of the Moonshine". Well worth a listen if you like PF.

first youtube hit:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v46u1ZwfohE

Easy Star All Star's "Dub Side of the Moon" is also done with a lot of respect for the source album (and not a hint of 4/4 transposition). [1]

Les Claypool's Flying Frog Brigade also covered the entirety of the Animals album as the second half of their live set which is also obscenely respectful to the original and actually benefits from Claypools heavy bass driving it. [2]

If you enjoy bluegrass covers, then Hayseed Dixie are worth a look at :) [3]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJEZWsnIECo

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kn66deEvUW8

[3] https://www.hayseed-dixie.com/discography/

Discovered "Still Wish you were here" some days ago. Guess what? It is pretty good.

Dangit, I'm in LA for Kubecon, and if I'd seen this yesterday would definitely have had time to go - Not so much today.

Thanks for posting that, definitely will get some tickets.

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