So is this the official end of Pink Floyd? :(

[QUOTE=BigTrav415]

But it was only a fantasy
The wall was too high, as you can see
No matter how he tried, he could not break free
And the worms ate into his brain
[/QUOTE]

Lol, when I read those lyrics it gave me goosebumps :thumb: ...

Also, my mate told me that the Pulse DVD has been put back for a few months (Sorry if it's alrady been posted) ...

NP: Fat Old Sun

Ok here's the deal with Echoes, I almost have all of it learned. I need to figure out the awesome part at 18:15, but I've even learned how to do that crazy slide stuff at the beginning of the Pompeii version.

[QUOTE=magicbus]Ok here's the deal with Echoes, I almost have all of it learned. I need to figure out the awesome part at 18:15, but I've even learned how to do that crazy slide stuff at the beginning of the Pompeii version.[/QUOTE]

I'm guessing (hoping) a recording will be posted soon? :)

From that quote, it sounds like Gilmour is pretty sick of and pissed off at the constant reunion rumors. It sounds like he's just trying to shoot down the rumors once and for all. I never really got my hopes up for a reunion, so I'm not all that disappointed, but it would incredible if they reunited.

[QUOTE=robo2448]From that quote, it sounds like Gilmour is pretty sick of and pissed off at the constant reunion rumors. It sounds like he's just trying to shoot down the rumors once and for all. I never really got my hopes up for a reunion, so I'm not all that disappointed, but it would incredible if they reunited.[/QUOTE]

I really think there is no way they well tour. After Live 8 they were offered a payment in the millions I think EACH, not counting concert sales. None of the members even had to think about it they just said no. Water's said that if there was another charity benifit concert like Live 8 he would love to get back together with the rest of the guys and play all of Dark Side of the Moon. I have my fingers crossed for that.

I guess since there were no objections I could do Comfertably Numb, I'll try to get it up latter tonight.

I'm thinking that on April 1st he'll be like "Haha, you got punk'd!" and they go on a free world tour lasting forever. :)

HeavyRiva, let it be known that you are the coolest mod ever.

Well, Dave was denying rumours of a reuinon just before Live8, so we'll see if maybe another big charity event (in Australia) gets them back together to play (in Australia)

[QUOTE=BigTrav415]I'm thinking that on April 1st he'll be like "Haha, you got punk'd!" and they go on a free world tour lasting forever. :)

HeavyRiva, let it be known that you are the coolest mod ever.[/QUOTE]

Hahaha, why?

In this song I belive has two people speaking at once. One of them is a docter called to help the main character Pink who "Isn't feeling well and hes back at the hotel" The other is more my interpitation and I see it as the drug Heroin talking. I see symbolism in the music as well as the song, but its more of a personal interpitation so here it is:

First guitar solo: This is the essense of peace. I always thought of this as the feeling of him shooting up, the feeling you get when when high on anything. This is musical symbolism of that peaceful feeling we all hope to acheive one way or another

Second guitar solo: Unlike the first one this is wild, furios, and almost cahotic. I think the two solo's are oppisets to show the two different sides of doing drugs, as well as just living through life. The good times, the bad, the laughs, the cries. This is that peace we all want to acheive, that peace shown so well in that first solo, gone to hell. This is our lives in complete dissaray and dissorder.

The lyrics:

Hello?
Is there anybody in there?
Just nod if you can hear me.
Is there anyone at home?

[I]Introduction to the song. This is the docter or the drug addressing Pink. These vocals seem to be more of a soft seductive nature reflecting that of the drug. This is also to show that Pink is out of it and has lost touch with the world. People wonder if he is even aware of those, or events, around him.[/I]

Come on, now,
I hear you're feeling down.
Well I can ease your pain
Get you on your feet again.

[I]This is the docter telling Pink that he can help him with his ailments. This is also the drug telling Pink that it is the escape to all that ails him. It will help him get through day and not make life so harsh.[/I]

Relax.
I'll need some information first.
Just the basic facts.
Can you show me where it hurts?

[I]This is classic steryotipical docter lines (now I know why all my life when I said I was sick my dad always responded with "can you show me where it hurts"). The docter is trying to find out what is wrong with Pink. This is also the drug acting almost as a friend you can go to for consolation. Someone who you can bring all your problems to and they will make them go away. [/I]

There is no pain you are receding

[I]This is Pink starting to talk to everyone listening to the song. This is more about the drugs then the docter. This shows the drug taking the pain away from Pink.[/I]

A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.

[I]This is a metaphore for something beautiful that we would all love to touch, but never will fully be able to grasp. It is the epitome of peace. It is a peace that we are all after and so many try to get through drugs.[/I]

You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.

[I]This conferms eariler lines that Pink has lost touch with all those around him. Weather he is doing this deliberatly because the world has become so hard he has shut it out, or over use of drugs has left him out of touch with reality (a Syd reference?). [/I]

When I was a child I had a fever
My hands felt just like two balloons.
Now I've got that feeling once again

[I]This again goes back to that peace we all try to achieve through different means person to person. The reference to being sick is the feeling of being "numb" that those with a high feaver sometimes feel. These lines are to show Pink finding "comferte" in this "numb" feeling.[/I]

I can't explain you would not understand
This is not how I am.

[I]This line seems to be to those who have never tried drugs. For any drug it truly is a sensation you could never explain to someone who has never tried it. Though those who don't do the drugs judge those who do with out understading. They judge someone who is under the influence of the drugs and it is not how they usually are. [/I]

I have become comfortably numb.

[I]This is the best simple phrase describing being on drugs. To become comfortably numb to the world, all your problems, all those around you who help build your own personal wall. This is our way of not taking down our wall, but just looking out the window of it and getting a simple glipse of an easier more free life.[/I]

O.K.
Just a little pinprick.
There'll be no more aaaaaaaaah!
But you may feel a little sick.

[I]This is where the docter comes back. He more or less dominates the next few lines. This is him injecting Pink with that drug. I always almost thought that these lines showed Pink was somewhat afraid of needles. [/I]

Can you stand up?
I do believe it's working, good.
That'll keep you going through the show
Come on it's time to go.

[I]Asking "can you stand up" is in reference to the begining when he says "get you on your feet again" at the begining. I think that the "that will keep you going through the show" line is symbolism for needing the drug to get through life, and to appeal to rockers who literally need drugs to get through a show. This is also in refernce to a show where Roger needed to be injected with something (he never specified what during the commentary on the Wall movie) The docter did very much what is described in this song and injected him when he was so out of it he didn't realize what was going on. He was injected and moved out to the show to complete it. These lines show drugs more negitive evil side rather than the peaceful side.[/I]

There is no pain you are receding
A distant ship, smoke on the horizon.
You are only coming through in waves.
Your lips move but I can't hear what you're saying.

[I]Chorus, see above.[/I]

When I was a child
I caught a fleeting glimpse
Out of the corner of my eye.

[I][I]Pink talking to us again. A time when we were all natuarlly comfertably numb is when we were children. We didn't realize the evils of the world and were oblivious to them. This is yet another feeling those on drugs are trying to recapture. [/I][/I]

I turned to look but it was gone
I cannot put my finger on it now
The child is grown,
The dream is gone.
I have become comfortably numb.

[I]These last few lines are in refernce to, again, us trying to acheive that peace we all want, but having it slip through our fingers. These lines seem to be saying we could get that peace when we were children but as we grow up, and our wall gets higher, we are unable to go back to it with out help. His dream of getting to that peace has vanished and now he spends his life trying to become comfertably numb.[/I]

There is Comfertably Numb. Enjoy!

Good thoughts. I always thought of it as Pink and the Doctor, with the Doctor talking to Pink's unconcious mind, and Pink's subconcious responding.

[QUOTE=HeavyRiva]Good thoughts. I always thought of it as Pink and the Doctor, with the Doctor talking to Pink's unconcious mind, and Pink's subconcious responding.[/QUOTE]

Yeah me too. I really like how Bigtrav and Pigs have looked past the basic analysis and have shared more unusual, deeper, and more interesting thoughts on the songs. Great job.

[QUOTE=robo2448]Yeah me too. I really like how Bigtrav and Pigs have looked past the basic analysis and have shared more unusual, deeper, and more interesting thoughts on the songs. Great job.[/QUOTE]

Thanks, yeah I tend to usually ignore the basic meaning to songs and try to develop more personal meanings to them. The whole concept of becoming comfertably numb and that peace Pink was trying to find that I talked about in my write up is somthing I am looking for as well. This has become my favortie Pink Floyd song because I identify with this meaning to the song so much. If it were the other one I would still love the song, but it wouldn't be my favorite.

Nice, pigonthewing.

[QUOTE=Robo]I never really got my hopes up for a reunion, so I'm not all that disappointed, but it would incredible if they reunited.[/QUOTE]

A reunion tour would be amazing, but at the same time, they've ended the Floyd years on a relatively positive note with the Live8 concert. I would rather have them be remembered for that than for having a huge fight on a reunion tour.

I'm glad this thread has some stuff with a point again :lol:

I've decided to do Echoes now. If someone else posts it first, go ahead I guess, but I've already got an idea of what I'm gonna do, so I'll post mine too.

I was listening to Embryo off the BBC Recording '70-'71, and Gilmours breaks out the inverted wah :eek: I want one so badly.

What would you say if I told you me and the kid down the hall figured out how to do the seagulls noise? ;)

[QUOTE=magicbus]What would you say if I told you me and the kid down the hall figured out how to do the seagulls noise? ;)[/QUOTE]

By capturing live seagulls?

EDIT: I can do Pow R Toc H's intro now. :D

Sea gulls are pretty big. And they're also quite nasty and brave. This one sea gull snatched a pasty outta one a of my friends hands. I wouldnt capture sea gulls without planning it out carefully and getting medical insurance first.

[quote=Riva]By capturing live seagulls?[/quote]
Sir Riva, you slay me.

Seriously though, I'm talking about the inverted wah that makes those whale/seagull/whatever screeching noises. You all know what I'm talking about.


[QUOTE=camelfarmer]Sea gulls are pretty big. And they're also quite nasty and brave. This one sea gull snatched a pasty outta one a of my friends hands. I wouldnt capture sea gulls without planning it out carefully and getting medical insurance first.[/QUOTE]
:lol:

carefull, seagulls can break a man's arm ya know.

Also, Sheep is a good song, I began learning the solo in it a'yestaday.

[QUOTE=Doctor Night]Also, Sheep is a good song[/QUOTE]

Yeah, it's my current favorite on Animals. I love the way it sort of kicks in with the vocals.

[I]Harmlessly passing your time in the grassland away...[/I]

[QUOTE]Sea gulls are pretty big. And they're also quite nasty and brave. This one sea gull snatched a pasty outta one a of my friends hands. I wouldnt capture sea gulls without planning it out carefully and getting medical insurance first.[/QUOTE]

Seagulls have invaded my school. Everyone doesn't throw away trash, so there's seagulls everywhere. My friend got pooped on by one once. :lol:

I'll do something off the wall.

Hey You, if it hasn't been called.

Edit: fu[size=2]ck[/size]. Nobody Home it is, then.

[QUOTE=Mister Blue Sky]Seagulls have invaded my school. Everyone doesn't throw away trash, so there's seagulls everywhere. My friend got pooped on by one once. :lol:

I'll do something off the wall.

Hey You, if it hasn't been called.

Edit: fu[size=2]ck[/size]. Nobody Home it is, then.[/QUOTE]

Dude I don't think you guys understand. I figure out how to do the seagulls without one of those inverted wahs that Gilmour and the guy from the Floyd tribute band have. It's so magic. And i know how to do it.

Alright. I don't want to be flogging a dead horse here (that has probably been flogged many a time in this forum before), but what's the deal with the whole [b]Publius Enigma[/b] thing? A workmate was all "it's this weird theory thing about TDB", and then he showed me this website (he's quite eccentric) and was getting all excited. He said that the band (well, I assume he meant David Gilmour) denied any crazy theory or hidden messages in the album. OK. What's the deal. Is it just an overblown PR stunt or what? :confused:

[SIZE="7"]Discuss.[/SIZE] (please)

[QUOTE=magicbus]Dude I don't think you guys understand. I figure out how to do the seagulls without one of those inverted wahs that Gilmour and the guy from the Floyd tribute band have. It's so magic. And i know how to do it.[/QUOTE]
Jesus Christ, spill the beans then you fu- I mean, friend :)

By the way, that hasn't been brought up before that I know of. I don't have The Division Bell, but I've heard about that, a lot of people think it was Nick Mason for one reason or another.

I've never heard anything about that. What sort of underlying message is supposedly there?

[QUOTE]Dude I don't think you guys understand. I figure out how to do the seagulls without one of those inverted wahs that Gilmour and the guy from the Floyd tribute band have. It's so magic. And i know how to do it.[/QUOTE]
I got a sound close to that when I accidently plugged my Crybaby in backwards.

You know, Amp input into my guitar, guitar input into my amp. ;)

[QUOTE=bahamut_ali]Alright. I don't want to be flogging a dead horse here (that has probably been flogged many a time in this forum before), but what's the deal with the whole [b]Publius Enigma[/b] thing? A workmate was all "it's this weird theory thing about TDB", and then he showed me this website (he's quite eccentric) and was getting all excited. He said that the band (well, I assume he meant David Gilmour) denied any crazy theory or hidden messages in the album. OK. What's the deal. Is it just an overblown PR stunt or what? :confused:

[SIZE="7"]Discuss.[/SIZE] (please)[/QUOTE]

[url]http://www.pinkfloyd-co.com/unt/unt_enigma/unt_enigma.html[/url]

Wow, that's pretty crazy.

I learned how to play the solo to The Thin Ice today, I love it.

I think it's just as well that Floyd never plays another show. They're still good, but we wouldn't want them turning into the Stones, now would we.

But I would pay any amount of money to see them reunite with both Gilmour and Barrett.

As great as Dark Side/The Wall/WYWH, etc. are, I really enjoy early Floyd the most. Piper, Ummagumma, Meddle, Atom Heart. Genius.

[QUOTE=Led-ZeppelinIV]I think it's just as well that Floyd never plays another show. They're still good, but we wouldn't want them turning into the Stones, now would we.

But I would pay any amount of money to see them reunite with both Gilmour and Barrett.[/QUOTE]

That would be insane...

Okay I'm gonna learn a PF song this week which one should I learn?