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> Initially, I was shocked at how slowly everything moved! I was used to working really quickly when producing and engineering albums. Suddenly it was like the brakes were on and often it was difficult to get the momentum going. Eventually, I adapted to the Floyd pace. One of the great things about working with this band is that you are allowed time to be creative, to pursue an idea even if it takes some time. The Floyd had a production deal to make their records and the record label never heard anything until it was done. The record was made purely and only by the people in the studio.

The creative freedom without commercial intervention - this is very cool. I can almost hear it in The Wall - how grand and elongated the songs are.

What a great interview. Thank you for linking

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“The Floyd”?

Ironic that Have a Cigar was released four years before The Wall:

    The band is just fantastic, that is really what I think
    Oh, by the way, which one's Pink?

Sorry, I don't see the irony. Anyway, having ''The'' as an honourific for band names was commonplace in the UK prior to the '70s, even if the band's name had not been stylized with "The".

It takes exactly the same amount of time to say as “Pink”

“The Floyd” is the name a lot of people who worked with the band use, it shows up on many texts and other documentaries.

I'm going to listen to The Stones, then some Skynyrd, maybe put on some Zeppelin or the Dead.

But not The Zeppelin or The Skynyrd.

Same, except I do love "Sweet Home Alabama" so it will slip through.

I am currently burned out on Zep.

That is what I'm saying, now!

The Zeppelin.... I might say "The Zep"....

I never got into The Zep. I much prefer Beatles.

Who!

Who is your favorite? Mine too!

It’s a term of familiarity. I don’t think it’s about efficiency of speech. Nicknames aren’t always about shortening names.

It’s an interview. Pink Floyd, The Floyd. Why would you say The Floyd?

Again, for people of a certain age or generation it was commonplace to prepend it. I find it endearing in a nostalgic way. I can infer from that person's use of it that he is of that age or generation.

Ever see someone mention "The Donald"? It's the same thing.

It's when something or someone gets so recognizable that they can be referred to in a singular sense. There are lots of instances of this throughout pop culture.

In the context of the interview, it's someone who was part of the "Floyd-verse" (this word is a mashup of Floyd and Universe, another common affectation). Pink Floyd was a remarkably famous band, and they still are. Someone that was part of the "Floyd-verse" naturally would have felt the band as all encompassing. It wasn't just a band, it was tour after tour, hit song after hit song, millions and millions of fans - and getting caught up in that made "Pink Floyd" seem far bigger than the sum of its parts. Calling that phenomenon "The Floyd" is actually very succinct, and portrays how large a cultural phenomenon Pink Floyd was and still is, 60 years later.

I have to wonder why you can't/won't understand this.

The band originally was The Pink Floyd (after changing their name from The Tea Set)

But never The Floyd. Just as the band isn’t named after a man called Pink.

Curveball, the band is named after a man called Pink!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Anderson and https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Floyd_Council

It was named after a man called Pink. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pink_Anderson

Okay. Not named after a band member named Pink.

Unlike Pink, which is the stage name of the artist.

s/never/commonly\, in the parlance of the time\,/

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