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For me, the end came at Wish you were here. It didn't do it for me, and I haven't really gotten into anything after that. When I was at school and The Wall made a #1 single, I went off them.

Funny coincidence happened today. I have a mate who shared an office with me a while back, who is a drummer in a current band. He asked me today about early Floyd stuff and I introduced him to More, the soundtrack. He had sourced Saucerful & Piper, but had never heard of More. Turns out that early Floyd are currently seriously cool.
Well...ain't that a thing.

Well, The Final Cut is one of my Favourite Floyd albums, has great lyrics and great tunes (I totally Disagree with Nick Lees on this) It also sounds pretty good (on vinyl). The sound quality is one thing that putts me off Atom Heart Mother, though I do think its a great album and almost as good as Meddle.

Animals I've just never got on with, and Ummagumma is rubbish.

I quite like the Gilmore era which whilst not approaching the quality of the best of the 70's output is still better than much around.

Not sure really what to post here, except something general.. Being a Floyd fan myself, I do agree that MLOP /TFC were essentially more solo albums under the PF name..There were a couple of good instrumentals on MLOP ( terminal frost..opeing spacey track, which is great..)

Previous stuff was always a winner, Atom Heart and others..

Animals is great, the 'choppy' guitar..My fave must be Animals, WYWH.. rather than DSOTM

TDB, was pretty good too, still more of a Gilmore thing, but still some good ideas..

The only complaints I have is that when I saw them live, they always play the same bloody predictable songs/set list..It would be far more exciting to hear stuff that I wouldnt expect..

As for the line up, I acknowledge Waters' writing genius, but I far prefer Guy Pratt's live bass playing style..I would like to see a cut down, 4 piece Floyd even without Waters! oohh controversial!!! Sorry

Bloody hell we could all go on for hours!

Cheers
Goose

I quite like the Water's Live Flesh DVD, though obviously misses Gilmour on Guitar somewhat. Hence whenever Pulse does appear on DVD I'll be 1st in the queue.

Anyone who has the Water's Live Flesh DVD have you noticed the main Guitarist plays his guitar upside down, I mean really upside down, bass strings at the bottom etc. How the hell he manages that I don't know. He does a good job on some tracks but Gilmour is sorely missed on others.

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Originally posted by greeny:
Anyone who has the Water's Live Flesh DVD have you noticed the main Guitarist plays his guitar upside down, I mean really upside down, bass strings at the bottom etc.

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Hendrix did this. He was left handed, but played a RH strung guitar, simply by turning it upside down.

I can't see it would be intrinsically more difficult, given you're good enough to play a guitar in the first place (unlike me!).

Pete.

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Hendrix did this. He was left handed, but played a RH strung guitar, simply by turning it upside down.

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Are you sure this is true?. I thought Hendrix played an upside down guitar but restrung with the strings the right way round.

I guess it wouln't be intrinsically more difficult but would make it a nightmare to learn with all chord diagrams etc making no sense.

No - Hendrix had his strings swapped around, which gave him a unique sound to his strat, as the Fender headstock has a longer travel for the treble E normally. Having a short top E and a longer bottom E at the headstock gave a strange tone that no-one else could get, prompting the likes of Stevie Ray Vaughn to get a left handed Strat neck on his guitar, to replicate the Hendrix tone. This led to a special Strat Hendrix version, as well as the SRV issues.

Mark Knopfler is actually left handed, but plays a regular guitar the regular way. Couple of people do this.