Why did pink floyd hate atom heart mother11/11/2023 ![]() ![]() The other two acts were Soft Machine (who were only slightly better than the Floyd can't recall much about either of their sets) and Ivor Cutler (who was great). Later on the bill of the first gig was the Edgar Broughton Band which culminated with Out, Demons, Out and the smashing of guitars fucking loved it! Both sets have been subsequently officially released and sound like there was decent recording equipment present (probably in preparation for the Floyd set), whereas the headlining Floyd set has never been similarly released in the same quality (there is a poor bootleg-sounding version out there), despite the presence of a choir and orchestra, and conductor Ron Geesin for their performance of Atom Heart Mother.Ģnd time was a benefit for Robert Wyatt after the accident that rendered him paraplegic. They did a great little set that featured a couple of old favourites from the the first Soft Machine album ( Why Are We Sleeping & We Did It Again). Quote from: Goldentony on June 19, 2023, 01:18:31 AMwho else was on for the first two gigs?įirst time it was Kevin Ayers and the Whole World, featuring Lol Coxhill on sax (he also did a solo set earlier on, using tape delay and an octdivider), a young (pre-Tubular Bells) Mike Oldfield on bass, Robert Wyatt (newly departed from Soft Machine) on drums, and composer/arranger David Bedford on keyboards. That's part of their brilliance, but everything ended there. It's almost voyeurism to linger there certainly sad. The Barrett albums are a whole different thing to Piper more like a document of a man's reluctant bones being picked clean by record company vultures it's directly there on the records. The reason I mentioned Robert Wyatt was that, in his case, the spirit really did carry on (and develop further) after being similarly alienated out of the band he had been a mainstay (whilst Soft Machine gradually spiralled downward to the point where not a single original member remained). There's only one Icecross album and only one (proper) album by The Unicorns but they stand up so much on their own merits I'm perfectly happy with that being all we got. QuoteBesides, Barrett's boundless lysergic playfulness meandered well enough into his solo material (and after Mastodon went crap Brann Dailor lent his astonishing heart attack jazz metal percussion to Today Is The Day for In The Eyes Of God) so it's not as though it was just a flash in the pan. You don't really need a point to think something's great or otherwise it just is. Instead of wasting time pondering what could have been you can treasure the fact that something so singularly wonderful got a chance to exist in the first place. Quote from: The Mollusk on June 18, 2023, 04:56:10 PMWhilst I acknowledge I've reacted the same way about music from my generation (the first Mastodon album being the only good one, bursting with vitality before they slipped quickly into bloated tedium, the worst aspects of prog) I do think it's pointless to be so precious about these things. ![]()
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