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Animals and Saucerful of Secrets are my top two. Other albums aren't bad either, but it's what I grew up on. Nostalgia. I really don't care too much for The Wall unless I'm extremely high or on shrooms. It's good, but Animals I think is their best album IMHO. That's an album you can journey to if you like to imbibe in drugs that won't kill you.

Maybe there should be a 'Patnet Shroom Meter', say, one to ten shrooms for how many you have to take before the music sounds good. I like some Grateful Dead, but i think for the most part, they are a six plus shroom experience.

I knew an audiophile shrink who had 5000 vinyl records and racks full of Grateful Dead concert tapes ( he was a DeadHead following the concerts from way back). He also went to Mexico every year to go into huts and imbibe the Shaman drugs Ayahuasca. He invited me to go with him, but I told him it wasn't my thing. I didn't need to be any crazier.

I don't need any shrooms to continue to enjoy that old Pink Floyd stuff (or anything else for that matter), it really taps into something.

How many shrooms for a typical KISS thing? I still can't recall ever having heard any.

What's so great about Jeffrey Koons art?

Ceffer says

Syd Barrett was LSD soaked insane, but a great lyricist and managed to tap the pre-conscious in his contributions.

Syd Barrett sucked. I don't know why people associate him with Pink Floyd.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U9VBCMhcHcg

That's him. Pink Floyd did not became famous because of him. He was terrible. I'm glad he was pushed out of the band, because he was the worst part of it. He totally sucked. It's like early Beatles, nobody actually listens to them. They were a pop band, awful. When they got famous they experimented, the Beatles got WEIRD and stupid, and Pink Floyd got creative and interesting.

Number 9, Number 9? Man, the Beatles are fine as a child, but it's all meaningless pap and then it moved onto complete nonsense. We all live in a yellow submarine don't we? The stupidity of the Beatles is enormous, but they were creative about incorporating new instruments into modern music, but they are vastly over-rated. All their lyrics were stupid, and that reflects on the band itself, it's meaningless. Nobody in that group had a thought in their head.

Look at the Wings and Paul McCartney:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5P_VfLun96o

It's pleasant to listen to, but is there is anything behind it? Life is too short to study nothing. I like meaningful thoughtful things. Everybody does, but they don't realize it. You know what I think people might find 50 years from now as a thoughtful song:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bjSpO2B6G4s

That's the insanity of war, and we'll be in fucking war 50 years from now. Somebody will listen to that in 50 years, nobody is going to be listening to "Yellow Submarine" or "Band On the Run" at that time. You can see the gems being made in the heaping piles of manure. Nobody will know who Kiss was in 100 years. They will be "oh, the ancient bands that became famous because they wore gay makeup". Think "Lick It Up" is going to be played by anybody then? No offense to people that liked that band. I'm just pointing out that will be forgotten because they're not timeless, they are superificial.

You CAN see what will survive in 100 years, if you look. The rest, it's part of a dead culture or a culture that will be dead. Preserve what is worth preserving, and there's lots we've made to preserve, and awful lot that doesn't deserve it.

I don't think people understand where we are. We are in a culture that can preserve video and audio, indefinitely. You can't listen to a musician from 1850, but in 2200, people will be able to listen to a musician from 1980. This will fundamentally change our culture. We have a memory now, that spans generations. The world has been fundamentally changed, you just don't realize it. Somebody 2000 years from now will be able to see exactly what our lives were like, if we can preserve the information, and we can, it just takes a little effort - currently. Eliminate that to zero effort, and this civilization will really build.

People are just unaware of the era we are in. They just think "oh it's new technology", no - we have made a fundamental breakthrough. On an $11 SD Card, you can store more books than you can read in a lifetime, and that's just $11. Probably will be $6 in another couple years. Everything you can know, will fit on a $10 device. What is worth knowing, that's the new question.

Either humanity will flourish or fail. Everybody has infinite access to information now. What will they do with it?

I know we are just talking about music, but there's centuries of it. Look at what we've built and created. It's amazing. Are we going to build or destroy?



With all this power and information, what will we do? I hope it's the right thing. We now all have access to all the information we can ever absorb, so what will our art become? It's garbage now. I can say that.



Look at the pigs we have as celebrities. I have hope we'll turn around. We've always had pigs as celebrities. Is it any different?



Oh, how shocking. That's 40 years old, same bullshit.

I think our civilization is struggling for meaning, and I think we'll find it. But it's quite a struggle. There is so much interference. Who in popular media represents the best of us today? That's the interference. Who in popular media can we look up toward? It's messed up that you and I look down on all of them, isn't it? There's no real good role models today.

richwicks says

Syd Barrett sucked. I don't know why people associate him with Pink Floyd.

I know he drugged himself out of his mind, but Pink Floyd likely wouldn't exist in the first place is the only good thing I'll say about Syd. And Saucerful of Secrets ain't that bad. That's 5 a shroom album on Ceffer's scale. Or 50mg of edibles.

While it looks fun from the outside, you're basically family that you really didn't choose with a band. Our lead guitar and bassist were the only ones that consistently got along with me. The percussionist was a tag along and just wanted to be in a band. He's a great friend. Little talent.

There's also animosity when you don't have a crew. For me set and tear down I'm sweating my ass of as the bassist and guitarist close a pedal box, unplug and carry two cases off the stage and an amp. They then sit there and have a drink or smoke. Drumming live without a tech is a bitch. Especially when they didn't help me get my shit in the car. After all I did the hardest physical work during the show. Frustrating.

WookieMan says

richwicks says

Syd Barrett sucked. I don't know why people associate him with Pink Floyd.

I know he drugged himself out of his mind, but Pink Floyd likely wouldn't exist in the first place is the only good thing I'll say about Syd. And Saucerful of Secrets ain't that bad.

Here's something to think about, neither you nor I would exist, if it wasn't for WWII. All those men murdered and killed, created us.

You only care about the result, which is correct, and I don't think Barrett was any sort of talent, but that he was part of making a good band, fine whatever. His problems created a result. If he continued with the band, nobody would know who Pink Floyd is today, but he was part of making it.

It was Roger Water's death of his father that made the band memorable. That was the heart and soul of that band. Stupid fucking war. Water's father was a conscientious objector at the beginning, changed, and then when was killed. War is stupid. Water's father died in 1944. His father was just a child when he died in another senseless war.

This song obviously reflected his life:


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He's an old man now. His father's stupid death in a stupid war shaped him. I appreciate that Waters talked about his own life. War is an awful thing, but because the US has done this, we deserve it. We will experience it in time, because nobody stands up to stop it.

You better stand up.