{"id":1880,"date":"2008-12-18T12:28:21","date_gmt":"2008-12-18T17:28:21","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2008-12-18T13:09:22","modified_gmt":"2008-12-18T13:09:22","slug":"what-is-the-musical-foundation-of-classi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-is-the-musical-foundation-of-classi\/","title":{"rendered":"What Is the Musical Foundation of Classic Pink Floyd?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/XYd6mCAcQw8?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhat is the musical foundation of Classic (ie, Roger Waters-led) <strong>Pink Floyd<\/strong>?<\/p>\n<p>Last week I heard &#8220;Run Like Hell&#8221; on the radio for the first time in years. I always liked that song a little bit, at least parts of it. At the same time, it&#8217;s always been one of many Pink Floyd songs that make me nauseous. I think the nausea I&#8217;ve experienced in songs like this one and &#8220;Have a Cigar&#8221; have something to do with the heavy use of delay and Waters&#8217; knack for coming up with the least-pleasant melodies in rock. But the nausea-inducing qualities of Pink Floyd were not at the front of my mind while this song played.<br \/>\n<!--more--><br \/><iframe class='youtube-player youtuber' type='text\/html' width='425' height='355' src='http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CUzrwzCleZ0?rel=0&amp;fs=1&amp;ap=%252526fmt%253D18' webkitAllowFullScreen mozallowfullscreen allowFullScreen frameborder='0'><\/iframe><br \/>\nWhat I couldn&#8217;t help but think about was how Pink Floyd arrived at that sound. I know they&#8217;re supposed to have been into <strong>Da Blooz<\/strong> as young men, naming their band after two bluesmen. That could be true but I don&#8217;t hear it in the root of most of their trademark songs from <em>Dark Side of the Moon<\/em> through the end of their Waters years.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Syd Barrett<\/strong>, the light shows, and all the people who&#8217;ve tripped at their shows would make them obvious candidates for coming out of <strong>psychedelia<\/strong>, but musically, I find their best-known &#8217;70s sound has little to do with the sound of &#8217;60s psychedelia, even the psychedelia that they helped create under Barrett&#8217;s direction.<\/p>\n<p>They get lumped in with <strong>prog rock<\/strong> because of the long songs, but beside David Gilmour&#8217;s heroic guitar solos, each of which follows pretty much the same path of blazing entry followed by tasteful melodicism, the other musicians of Pink Floyd are understated and possibly even rudimentary compared with the likes of <strong>Bill Bruford<\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/index.php\/2008\/08\/30\/daryl-hall-and-robert-fripp-sacred-songs\">Robert Fripp<\/a><\/strong>. <\/p>\n<p>The more I thought about &#8220;Run Like Hell&#8221; and all those long songs from albums like <em>Animals<\/em> that run together in my non-Floyd-loving mind, the more it occurred to me that these guys were pretty damn original, with greater implications for the future of rock, for better or for worse, than I&#8217;d ever given them credit. Longtime Floyd lovers, those of you who&#8217;ve drooled at the sight of the inflatable pig, may be thinking, <em>No shit, Sherlock!<\/em> Point taken, but I&#8217;m curious to hear what you think the musical foundation of Classic Pink Floyd really was. I have some thoughts on the matter, but maybe I&#8217;ve been obvious enough. Let me see what you think first.<\/p>\n<p><em>I look forward to your comments.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>What is the musical foundation of Classic (ie, Roger Waters-led) Pink Floyd? Last week I heard &#8220;Run Like Hell&#8221; on the radio for the first time in years. I always liked that song a little bit, at least parts of it. At the same time, it&#8217;s always been one of many Pink Floyd songs that <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-is-the-musical-foundation-of-classi\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[105,76,96,104],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}