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**d6jg** · 2023-03-06, 11:16

Originally posted by Grumpy Bob

My favourite Pink Floyd LP is The Piper at the Gates of Dawn. I don't care for Pink Floyd post Wish You Were Here, but I think I rate DSOTM and WYWH pretty much equally. I have a soft spot for Obscured by Clouds!

Robert

Those four are pretty much what I would say. Obscured by Clouds might have been the first PF album I bought.

**Redrum** · 2023-03-06, 12:28

Originally posted by d6jg

Those four are pretty much what I would say. Obscured by Clouds might have been the first PF album I bought.

No Animals? Meddle?

DSOTM is my favorite LP in the "legacy" department (i.e. it has been my number one for years, but if I had to be honest now...), but I find I play others more. WYWH is also a favorite, but I think we spun it too much as teens when it first came out

I think I spin Animals the most, and like to pull out Meddle and the earlier disks (per GB).

I had never listened to the post Waters disks, but have been recently.

One last comment on DSOTM - the great gig is my favorite, but I think any color (colour) you like is widely overlooked, but excellent, especially with headphones or sitting quietly with the music turned up.

Jim

**d6jg** · 2023-03-06, 13:04

Originally posted by Redrum

No Animals? Meddle?

DSOTM is my favorite LP in the "legacy" department (i.e. it has been my number one for years, but if I had to be honest now...), but I find I play others more. WYWH is also a favorite, but I think we spun it too much as teens when it first came out

I think I spin Animals the most, and like to pull out Meddle and the earlier disks (per GB).

I had never listened to the post Waters disks, but have been recently.

One last comment on DSOTM - the great gig is my favorite, but I think any color (colour) you like is widely overlooked, but excellent, especially with headphones or sitting quietly with the music turned up.

Jim

I'm not that keen on Meddle due to the football chant in Fearless. One of These Days and Echoes yes .... I do like Animals and actually moreso since the 2018 Remix which sounds quite a bit different but it isn't quite up there for me.

**d6jg** · 2023-03-06, 22:12

Back in the day I was lucky enough to be around at just the right time for Punk & New Wave. I was 19 in 1977 and we saw some great acts.

In this period I saw Graham Parker & The Rumour quite a few times. The Rumour were superb musicians and fabulous live.

♪ Playing Back Door Love by Graham Parker & The Rumour from Heat Treatment (1976) (Local • 932kbps VBR 16bit 44.1kHz FLC)

**garym** · 2023-03-06, 22:17

Love Graham Parker. My first album was Heat Treatment. Never saw him back in the day, but did catch him in the last 10 years or so. Graham should have been as big as Bruce Springsteen!

**d6jg** · 2023-03-06, 22:25

Originally posted by garym

Love Graham Parker. My first album was Heat Treatment. Never saw him back in the day, but did catch him in the last 10 years or so. Graham should have been as big as Bruce Springsteen!

I always considered Southside Jonny & The Asbury Jukes to be the US equivalent to GP & The Rumour

**garym** · 2023-03-06, 22:26

makes sense. And Southside should have been bigger too!

**garym** · 2023-03-06, 22:28

When I saw Graham in a small club in NYC (City Winery) he had Brinsley Schwarz playing with him. So there was definitely that "Rumours" vibe to the show.

**kidstypike** · 2023-03-06, 22:32

Originally posted by garym

When I saw Graham in a small club in NYC (City Winery) he had Brinsley Schwarz playing with him. So there was definitely that "Rumours" vibe to the show.

Question - is there any artist you haven't seen?

**d6jg** · 2023-03-06, 22:37

The Rumour recorded a couple of albums without GP. (I think it was) the second was titled “Max” in a play on words with Fleetwood Mac. Nick Lowe did similar at about the same time releasing an EP titled “Bowi”

**slartibartfast** · 2023-03-06, 22:46

Originally posted by d6jg

The Rumour recorded a couple of albums without GP. (I think it was) the second was titled “Max” in a play on words with Fleetwood Mac. Nick Lowe did similar at about the same time releasing an EP titled “Bowi”

I don't know what you think of Rod Stewart but he has done a decent number of good cover versions. Graham Parker and Nick Lowe songs among them. This was just before he became embarrassing 😀

**d6jg** · 2023-03-06, 22:53

Originally posted by slartibartfast

I don't know what you think of Rod Stewart but he has done a decent number of good cover versions. Graham Parker and Nick Lowe songs among them. This was just before he became embarrassing 😀

I have everything he’s ever released I think. All the early stuff on vinyl and then everything post Blonde’s on CD

**garym** · 2023-03-06, 22:56

LOL. The best part of being old. ;-)

When people ask my wife what I spend my personal time doing, she always says, "organizing his music files and planning which concerts he can attend."

I was just lucky (and music and concerts were my main interest). I started going to actual rock concerts at age 13.5 or so in 1968. And I still try to see lots of concerts (but have shifted to smaller acts or formerly big acts in smaller places!) And I tried to go to every rock band that came to Dallas/Ft. Worth Texas, and I was pretty successful doing that between 1968 and about 1983. Of course back in 60s/70s you heard about a concert tour and you and your friends sent in a money order to the Dallas area ticket agency and said "We want 4 tickets to Led Zeppelin, The Who etc." without even knowing the exact date (or whether the concert would actually happen). And like magic months later you'd get a return envelope with your tickets. And tickets were $3.50 or $4.50 back then. So I was lucky to get to almost all those late 1960s/early 1970s rock classic bands, who always stopped in either Dallas or Ft.Worth. But also was around when "outlaw country" began in Texas in the mid 1970s, so saw all the Willie Nelson, Jerry Jeff Walker, Waylon Jennings, Guy Clark, Ray Wylie Hubbard, etc. music scene concerts.

Now I have to plan ahead and fly to big cities to catch the shows I want (or ALWAYS look for shows in a town that I'm visiting for work anyhow). I'm crazy, I'll fly to NYC, just to catch Phil Lesh & Friends at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, or Graham Parker or Los Lobos at City Winery. No kids and a wife that likes concerts too (or is happy for me to go alone) is a plus (or at least makes it easier....it may not be a plus when there is nobody to visit me in the Nursing Home).

**garym** · 2023-03-06, 23:03

Originally posted by d6jg

The Rumour recorded a couple of albums without GP. (I think it was) the second was titled “Max” in a play on words with Fleetwood Mac. Nick Lowe did similar at about the same time releasing an EP titled “Bowi”

I'm not familiar with either of those. I'll have to try to seek those out. Of course Nick Lowe had a very nice second act as a mellow old guy.

**d6jg** · 2023-03-06, 23:09

Originally posted by garym

I'm not familiar with either of those. I'll have to try to seek those out. Of course Nick Lowe had a very nice second act as a mellow old guy.

Both very British.
The Lowe EP Bowi featured “I Love the Sound of Breaking Glass” IIRC as a play on Low and Breaking Glass

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