Piper vs. ASoS

Yeah, well, if I start to listen to it, I can't get to listen to Grand Vizier. The Narrow Way is good but when Grand Vizier part 2 starts ...

Most of the time I can't get through "Grand Vizier". But the rest isn't all that bad. Some parts are even pretty good.

Grand Vizier's rules! I mean, it may sound tedious in parts, but... I dunno. Maybe I just like drum solos.

I find parts of Sysyphus to be boring (no insult, FWr). Expecially part three, I think, with all those random sounds going off. But, on the other hand, I like the second part, because it shows how good a pianist Rick is.

yeah i Rick is very good

Ummagumma, the studio album, is the only Pink Floyd album that I find nothing redeeming within.

is it really that bad? and what's so bad with it?

never heard it myself, obviously...but i gather the live portion is much better?

There are a few average songs on the studio album(Grantchester Meadows, Several Species, The Narrow Way 1-3), but nothing to write home about. It would take a lot of listening to actually like. The live album though is quite good, the only problem is that it only has 4 songs.

Ummagumma live is very good, but I admit that Ummagumma studio is at the bottom of my list of Floyd albums. Grantchester Meadows and The Narrow Way are rather good and Sysyphus is an interesting experimentation but Grand Vizier's and Several Species are really awful.

I can remember when one of my art teachers put Ummagumma on during class. During the live portion I had fun watching the reactions of my classmates as they heard Roger's screaming in "Careful With That Axe, Eugene". They were also confused by "A Saucerful Of Secrets".
When the CD was switched from the live to the studio, they were introduced to the wonder of Rick's "Sysyphus". I was surprised that no one turned the CD player off during that song. "Grantchester Meadows didn't get much of a reaction (of course) and the class ended just before Roger gave his little monologue on "Several Species". All in all, an entertaining hour and a half of watching my fellow classmates' reactions to one of PF's weirdest albums.

That's an awesome art teacher. I thought mine was cool because she put on Beethoven's 'Moonlight Sonata'.

I never had cool teachers, well once I had a music teacher that played the Humpty song.

My art teacher also played Dark Side, ITAOT? -Disc 2, PULSE -Disc 1, and something from Frank Zappa.


My choir teacher, on the other hand, let me play The Happiest Days Of Our Lives/Another Brick In The Wall Part 2. My intention (along with a few others) was to cause a riot, but it didn't materialize. Instead, the other kids were looking out the window and asking "Huh? Where's the helicopter? Oh, it's the stereo." Then during the guitar solo some girl decided to take the CD out and play "Living La Vida Loca" by Ricky Martin. Idiots.

When I played ABITW2 over the intercom system, well that's another story.
(j/k)

Oh I see you wanted to start a riot, cause all the kids would be like, "this music is horrible! how did the record companies ever let Roger release this pathetic crap?"

But it backfired cause that girl released that even the undertalented Ricky Martin can produce something better than ABITWpt2. Ah well Rog, not everything you do can be a masterpeice, or even enjoyable.

Exactly

when I was in high school my senior year, my guitar teacher made a point of playing the David Gilmour Live at the Hammersmith Odeon tape for the class. Unfortunately, I was out sick that day.

However, once he realized that the biggest (and let's face it, practically the ONLY) Gilmour fan in the class had missed it, he made them all watch it again. LOL!

To mollify them later (the few who complained, anyway), he played a Bob Marley concert video, an Eric Clapton concert of some sort (I can't for the life of me remember what one it was, but the class was in '88), a bootleg of a Metallica show, and some other band I don't recall.

I brought in my video of the Les Paul: He Changed the Music special that had aired on Cinemax (and featured David, of course), and he played that, too, with the exclamation "This is the inventor of the electric guitar, folks!"

Nevertheless (and quite naturally, I suppose) the class was unimpressed.

I'm so glad I'm not a teenager any more... there just wasn't any appreciation of true musical talent in that class.

Then again, we did have a Roger Waters lookalike (who was kinda cute, for all that...) in that class, who was a Floyd fan...

Cheers!

GeeDub#1