Alan Parsons/Pink Floyd

Hello everyone. I am new to this forum and after reading quite a few I thought I would post this thread. Alan Parsons, early in his career, worked with the Floyd on the dsotm album. Has anyone noticed that on every album Parsons has done as the "Project" or the couple he did on his own, the guitar is always a "strat" and has that over the top sound like Gilmour's. There were several guitar players on the various albums, but they all had that "sound" . I always wondered if Alan Parsons just really liked Gilmour's guitar tone and tried to reproduce it on everything he did.

couldn't say...never listened to Alan Parsons.

OH! You should give Alan Parsons a listen...lots of good music...I think if you like Pink Floyd you would like Alan Parsons.

Well, I think it's a safe bet to say that Alan Parson's project would be a safe bet for a Floyd fan, or even Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention for that matter. Both of the bands are big influences on Pink Floyd's music.

i can't really agree that the alan parsons project was an influence on pink floyds music.

No, nor can I. Perhaps the opposite may be true, but APP is still worth a listen.

I learned about Pink Floyd's influences through interviews, magazines, and my Pink Floyd Encyclopedia.

Alan Parson also engineered the albums "Atom Heart Mother" and "Dark Side of the Moon".

yes which he did before he ever released an album. i would have to agree with BoaB in saying that maybe APP was influenced by PF.

Yeah, that is definately a possibility in deed. I wonder if Pink Floyd influenced Emerson, Lake, and Palmer...?

perhaps. though i would think that for emerson his big influences were from classical music. but i'm sure he had plenty of modern (at the time) influences.

I think you missed my point. What I was trying to convey was did AP try to copy Gilmours sound or in other words was he influenced by Pink Floyd, not the other way around

I'm sure the APP was influenced by Pink Floyd, AP having worked with them a couple of times (didn't he win an Emmy or something for his engineering on DSOTM?), not the other way.

Gilmour has been quite dismissive of Parsons in the past, saying DSOTM would have been just as good with any competent engineer, and also taking chagrin at Parson's "solo" career.

Last I heard, Parsons was general manager of the Abbey Road studios.

Cool! If true.

It's good to see AP is keeping with the industry; just hope he's encouraging young talent.

hi I'm new here too.

Alan Parsons was definitely influenced by Pink Floyd. I think they even tried to be a generic copy of Pink Floyd at some points. APP's song "Time" even resembles PF's "Time".

APP is cool though. I love their song "Old and Wise".