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| jazmaan |
Posted - 16/06/2005 : 03:44:50
I guess hell must be freezing over on July 2, 2005 cause that's the day that Roger Waters, David Gilmour, Rick Wright and Nick Mason are appearing together on stage in London as PINK FLOYD again!
Anybody here going?
This has been a great year for reunions! First Cream, now Pink Floyd, who's next? |
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| oldfartatplay |
Posted - 24/06/2005 : 01:09:58
Sorry to say Stefann,but what happened in Belgium is posibly going to happen to the Glastonbury festival (already well under way to being a 'corporate' event)here in the UK,since the Mean Fiddler Organisation is probably going to be bought out by Clearchannel,which gives them a big stake in the festival.Apparently the current Glasto/Mean Fiddler deal is coming to an end this year,and since there will not be a Glasto Fest in 2006,the organisers will have some time to negotiate with a more 'ethically sound'partner than Clearchannel (links with Bush/Republican Party/Play-List Censorship.etc....allegedly!)Certainly a long way from those lazey hazey daze of '71,though of course there were always some 'Hippies' with dollar signs in their eyes way back then.(Just watch the opening sequences of 'Woodstock',and the IOW'70 organisers back-stage in the'Message to Love'film).In many ways,like many of Rock's behomeths,the Pink Floyd's story reflects the whole shift towards the corporate 'units/product'ethos,where music is now sold like baked-beans!A 'Saucerful of Secrets'please.....cue blank look from the check-out slave(Fade) |
| Allan |
Posted - 21/06/2005 : 15:08:54
I was fortunate to see a concert back in '67 in Philly. It was at an outdoor stadium and the admission was $2 to see 6 bands. Pink Floyd had top billing, and they performed 'A Saucerful of Secrets' in its entirity. So I guess I just missed Barrett...and caught Gilmore in his early days. Some of the othet groups were The Rascals, Mandala, The Soul Survivors, and another British group-The Who!!!  All for $2.
Allan |
| caryne |
Posted - 21/06/2005 : 08:48:45
quote:
Originally posted by stefaan
Hi MikeP,
Who do you have in mind when you mention "younger readers".
Is it someone like me, only 46 since last January?
This is what I love about this board, at 43 (nearly) I'm an 'oldie' at most gigs I attend, but here I'm a 'younger reader'  |
| jazmaan |
Posted - 21/06/2005 : 08:06:59
Those of us on the Stateside of the pond are obviously at a disadvantage when it oomes to memories of great Floyd shows. But even with that handicap I'm proud to say that I saw all these Pink Floyd tours when they reached California:
Atom Heart Mother (with live orchestra and chorus) - Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.
Meddle - Santa Monica Civic
Dark Side of the Moon - Hollywood Bowl
Wish You Were Here - L.A. Sports Arena
Animals - Oakland Coliseum
The Wall - L.A. Sports Arena
David Gilmour - Universal Amphitheatre
Pros & Cons of Hitchhiking - L.A. Forum
Radio Kaos - L.A. Forum
Momentary Lapse of Taste (Pink Fraud) - L.A. Sports Arena
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| stefaan |
Posted - 21/06/2005 : 07:56:49
Hi MikeP,
Who do you have in mind when you mention "younger readers".
Is it someone like me, only 46 since last January? |
| MikeP |
Posted - 21/06/2005 : 01:32:31
Missed Weeley, I'm afraid - I was just too young. There was a documentary about it on BBC4 about a year or so ago. One hell of a bill, and the biggest festival attendance on these shores, according to one of the interviewed organisers. Showed footage of the site today, now just a tranquil field.
One,two, three....."WALLY!!"
(Some younger readers may not understand....) |
| trevor |
Posted - 20/06/2005 : 22:58:08
Wow, isn't the Internet great! Having been at the first two Knebworths it was wonderful to find these links and relive those halycon days. Travelling to some godforsaken place called Stevenage, traipsing to Knebworth, abandoning our hired coach on the road (a motorway apparently :-)) and trusting we'd find it afterwards. Ah, the freedom of youth! Completely forgot I'd ever seen Tim Buckley, booging to the Allman Bros (forever and ever and ever) as the bonfires and woodsmoke turned the arena into some sort of bombsite, and inching forward at the behest of Peely. It all comes flooding back. I also seem to remember the first UK Frisbee Championships from the stage at some point. Anyone remember that?
So, the question is, were any of you at Weeley Festival as well - even found that on the internet. The first 24 hour festival, organised by Clacton Round Table. Hard to believe it ever happened. |
| stefaan |
Posted - 20/06/2005 : 08:49:14
Ineed, going to a festival in the 70s was a real experience, something to live up to. Here in Belgium, in those days, there was only one (1,indeed ) "big" festival: Jazz Bilzen.Anyway it started in the 60s as a jazz fest, but later became a rock festival. Nowdays almost every city, town or village has it's own Summer festival. The biggest, and best known ( it was chosen as the worlds best organised by musicians of all kind ) was, and still is Rock Werchter.( http://www.rockwerchter.be/rw2005/site_nl.htm) "Best Festival In The World, Let's Make It Ours" they must have tought at Clearchannel. So what was feared by a lot of people became reality: they bought the festival for big bucks. One positive note: the organiser (who is now in fact a Clearchannel employee) demanded to have his say regarding the program.
But it's sad, really sad to see how thing has changed for the worse since the 60s and 70s. Gone "the feeling" of those days, money took over  |
| Old_Man |
Posted - 20/06/2005 : 07:26:15
Oh right, the spifires! LOL I thought they were a band!! One i'd never heard of. The way you listed it, I thought you were saying "they" were on the bill. I'd forgotten all about the flyover. |
| LarryNYC |
Posted - 20/06/2005 : 03:30:10
I share your sentiments completely there Mike.I dont think its really down to us getting longer in the tooth either, though some of us fought long and hard but the all invasive $$(as in money) is at the top of the tree again. I guess its hard to feel ethically compromised over something you love. but thats what the coporate buggers are up to.
Of course the real adversity has always been the machine. |
| MikeP |
Posted - 20/06/2005 : 03:10:36
Thanks for the Knebworth 75 web link Stefaan, a really excellent site that brought it all back. The thirtieth anniversary is three days after Live8. I'm sitting here thinking " where did that go?" Hi Old Man, nice to know that there's another survivor of that day on the messageboard. I guess time plays tricks. Yup, no Creedence, just their very hirsute drummer Doug Clifford sitting in with Steve Miller. I was right about the Spitfire flypast though, it seems. Perhaps I was flat on my back looking skywards having consumed too much muesli or something. I found another website on Google, under the heading ' 1975 Knebworth Festival' which has a link to a site run by the daughter of the promoter, who is selling a complete pack of memorabilia- posters. photo album,etc , and also a 'free gift' of a 2CD set of the complete Floyd performance, inc. Water's last performance of Echoes. If only I had £75 spare!
A great day, and the highlight of my teenage festival-going, apart from perhaps Blackbushe. Right now the only thing that I can remember about Dylan's set is an impassioned, solo Masters of War - an unfortunately timeless song. If he turns up to the Philadelphia Live8 I wish he'd play that above anything else.
Festival and gig-going in the '70's was an adventure, almost a triumph against adversity. I wish that I felt the same way about it now. Back then it wasn't so corporate etc, It was FUN.
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| caryne |
Posted - 19/06/2005 : 14:55:53
I was only 13 in 1975 so, sadly, didn't make that gig!
However, I was a little surprised to read the Tim Buckley thing...still perhaps he was there in spirit? |
| Old_Man |
Posted - 18/06/2005 : 20:03:53
Slip of the finger old boy! Or I must have been thinking the year of the Floyd. Or maybe I'm living up to my name!! |
| stefaan |
Posted - 18/06/2005 : 14:21:59
Sorry Old Man, Tim Buckley died in June 1975. He was at Knebworth 74, in fact the whole line up you mention was the 74 one. http://tinpan.fortunecity.com/ebony/546/75-knebworth-posters.html
The link above will get you to the Kneb75 program. |
| Old_Man |
Posted - 18/06/2005 : 13:35:15
Creedence?, the Spitfire?........no, that haze must have been thick! You were right with the others, but you missed out Linda Lewis. I was there the previous year too,1975, the very first Knebworth festival. The line up then was, The Allman Brothers band, the Doobie Brothers, Van Morrison, The Mahavishnu Orchestra(John Maclaughlan), Alex Harvey Band. and Tim Buckley. Now that was some line up! |
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