pink floyd Archive
04 Nov 2017
A Pink Floyd Anniversary
I first discovered the music of Pink Floyd in the mid 1970s. The Dark Side of the Moon had already been out a few years, and Wish You Were Here […]
26 Jan 2017
Album Mini-review: Pink Floyd — The Early Years, 1967-1972, Cre/ation
File next to: Genesis, Led Zeppelin, Yes Unless one is both the hardest of hardcore Pink Floyd fan and wealthy, The Early Years Box Set probably isn’t under consideration (it […]
07 Jan 2016
Album Review: Roger Waters – Amused to Death
In the years immediately following his estrangement from his Pink Floyd band mates, Roger Waters‘ musical career took a strange turn. While asserting (in a song lyric) “This is my […]
16 Oct 2015
Album Mini-review: David Gilmour — Rattle That Lock
File Next to: Pink Floyd, The Orb One of the knocks – fair or not – on Pink Floyd‘s pair of post-Roger Waters albums (1987’s A Momentary Lapse of Reason […]
19 Aug 2015
Preview: Led Zeppelin 2
I grew up in the suburbs of Atlanta, Georgia. My dad was transferred there in February 1972 when I was in grade school, and I lived in and around Atlanta […]
27 Nov 2014
A Thanksgiving Feast of Mini-reviews
Customarily, I take Thanksgiving Day off from posting to the blog (it’s one of very few days in which I do that). In fact I generally write the pieces days […]
06 Jan 2014
Concert Preview: Welcome (Back) to The Machine
New York-based Pink Floyd tribute band The Machine have long made Asheville NC’s Orange Peel the first or an early stop on their annual winter tour itinerary. The group routinely […]
18 Dec 2013
A Look Back at Pink Floyd’s “Point Me at the Sky”
Released 45 years ago yesterday (and recorded in a single day a mere six weeks earlier), Pink Floyd‘s “Point Me at the Sky” is characterized (by Wikipedia) as “the least […]
22 Nov 2013
DVD Review: Going Underground
Sir Paul McCartney had no role in the making of Going Underground: Paul McCartney, the Beatles and the UK Counter Culture. But to the extent he even knows about it, […]
19 Jun 2013
Album Review: Various Artists – The Dutch Woodstock (CD+DVD)
I’m a hardcore Pink Floyd fanatic. Yeah, one of those lot who insists that the stuff they did before The Dark Side of the Moon is filled with untold riches. […]