> I'd recommend two overlooked albums of the 70's - Meddle and Animals.
I'd even throw Obscured by Clouds in there, which has some straight up rock jams as well as the more moody sound that became typical later.
I'd even throw Obscured by Clouds in there, which has some straight up rock jams as well as the more moody sound that became typical later.
In their own way as an art band that's not-yet-popular-and-nobody-knows-if-they-ever-will-be, they were still following in the footsteps of the Beatles anyway with this early movie soundtrack. Too bad they weren't the stars of the movie.
There was also a movie called Zabriskie Point where they did some work on the soundtrack of that.
Played it thousands of times, usually for myself to warm up.
Different every time, and still haven't sounded very much like Pink Floyd yet ;)
Still most people have never heard me do it ever.
There's not that many Floyd tunes that are so great without a band of some kind anyway. That's my story and I'm sticking to it ;)
I'm not an active musician or songwriter at all and when I do play for people intentionally it would usually be things that are more familiar.
But every now and then somebody will hand me a guitar or just say "play us something". They know it's going to be oldies :)
In the right situation as I accept I sometimes answer with the simple question; "Childhood's End?"
Without allowing enough time for a response then I just start banging. I already saw the look in their eye.
This is a tune that keeps giving and I'm trying to give them what it's giving you :)