Digital Hippies: June 27, 2008

Friday, June 27, 2008

Pink Floyd-Another Brick in The Wall

From The Wall Movie

Roger Waters&Eric Clapton

Playing folks together on Wish You Were Here

Pink Floyd

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Features From The Wall Movies

Performed by Bob Geldorf

Another Brick in The Wall
Empty Space
What Shall We Do Now
Young Lust
One of My Bad Days
Goodbye Blue Sky
Mother
Goodbye Cruel World
The Show Must Go On
Another Brick In The Wall Part 3
Hey You Nobody Home
Comfortably Numb

Other Interesting Pink Floyd Movies

Learning to Fly
Roger Waters&Eric Clapton playing folk together on "Wish You Were Here"
Shine on You Crazy Diamond

Pink Floyd - Shine on You Crazy Diamond Intro Solo

Syd Barrette Tribute

Shine on You Crazy Diamond Lyric

Remember when you were young, you shone like the sun
Shine on you crazy diamond
Now there's a look in your eyes, like black holes in the sky
Shine on you crazy diamond
You were caught in the cross fire of childhood and stardom
Blown on the steel breeze
Come on you target for faraway laughter
Come on you stranger, you legend, you martyr, and shine

You reached for the secret too soon, you cried for the moon
Shine on you crazy diamond
Threatened by shadows at night, and exposed in the light
Shine on you crazy diamond
Well you wore out your welcome with random precision
Rode on the steel breeze
Come on you raver, you seer of visions
Come on you painter, you piper, you prisoner, and shine

Nobody knows where you are, how near or how far.
Shine on you crazy diamond
Pile on many more layers and I'll be joining you there
Shine on you crazy diamond
And we'll bask in the shadow of yesterday's triumph,
and sail on the steel breeze
Come on you boy child, you winner and loser,
come on you miner for truth and delusion, and shine

Song Notes : "This is a tribute to Syd Barrett, an original member of Pink Floyd - notice the title, Shine On You Crazy Diamond. He was their lead guitarist and wrote most of their early hits, but he gradually went nuts and was kicked out of the band in 1968, 3 years after the group started. Drugs played a big role in his mental illness"

"During the final mixing sessions of this song in June of 1975, Barrett wandered into the studios, ready to help out. He was fat, bald, and as crazy as they remembered, but they let him stay for a while. Barrett wanted to rejoin the group, but they learned in 1967 and 1968 that having an insane member was not good for a band. Before he was kicked out, Barrett would get on stage and either refuse to play or play the same note over and over"

"Gilmour came up with 4 notes that became the basis for this. Roger Waters thought they conveyed emotions Barrett must have been feeling, and wrote lyrics about him"

"Pink Floyd started playing this live over a year before the album came out. The band thought they could improve on songs if they played them at concerts before recording them. At the time, it was known as 'Shine On'. "

"This was the last song Richard Wright got a writing credit for before Roger Waters kicked him out of the band during The Wall sessions 4 years later. A combination of Waters' increasing control over the group and Wright's mounting personal problems are what led to his departure. He would not rejoin the band until 1987, after Waters himself had left"