Xref: utzoo alt.rock-n-roll:2764 rec.music.misc:38901 news.groups:16200 Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!shadooby!samsung!cs.utexas.edu!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!ucbvax!ucsfcgl!cca.ucsf.edu!hoptoad!tim From: tim@hoptoad.uucp (Tim Maroney) Newsgroups: alt.rock-n-roll,rec.music.misc,news.groups Subject: Re: CALL FOR DISCUSSION: rec.music.pfloyd Message-ID: <9529@hoptoad.uucp> Date: 7 Jan 90 10:58:55 GMT References: <9504@hoptoad.uucp> Reply-To: tim@hoptoad.UUCP (Tim Maroney) Organization: Eclectic Software, San Francisco Lines: 44 In article TAR@MAINE.BITNET (Thom Rounds) writes: > Okay, point taken. Now then, do you suggest we remove rec.music.gdead, and >rec.music.gaffa? They are the same kinds of newgroup that I've been campaigning >for. And if you read through them, there is plenty of criticism, constructive >and otherwise. Baloney. I also very much like Kate Bush's music. I eventually dropped out of rec.music.gaffa beacuse it was dominated by worshipful pinheads who took any criticism of any aspect of her performances as a personal affront deserving of multi-hundred-line personal flames. In the end, there was nothing of criticism in it at all, only reams of trivia and minutiae of interest only to the quasi-religious. >Why would rec.music.pfloyd be different? I very much doubt that it would be any different. It would be a fan club, and would be dominated by the same all-supportive social dynamic. >>I would, however, support the creation of a "rec.music.psychedelic". I >>imagine that Pink Floyd would be one of the most enduring subjects in >>such a group, but its charter would be appropriately broad-based. >> > I would say that Pink Floyd ended it's psychedelisism the minute Syd Barret >sent his brain off into the land of permanent acid trips. Floyd is no longer a >psychedelic band, and I'd say they stopped that beginning in Meddle, and to a >screeching halt in Dark Side of the Moon, so I think it's safe to say Pink >Floyd stopped being a band of psychedelics very early in their collective >carreers. No, they became *mature* psychedelics rather than the doodlers of occasional interest that they had been before Meddle. I certainly see a psychedelic aesthetic in works like DARK SIDE OF THE MOON, WISH YOU WERE HERE, and THE WALL. But for purposes of discusion of rec.music.pfloyd, that's really neither here nor there, so I won't develop the idea at length. And by the way, Barrett is generally believed to have fried his brain on mandies (Mandrax, a CNS depressant known in the USA as "quaaludes") rather than on LSD. -- Tim Maroney, Mac Software Consultant, sun!hoptoad!tim, tim@toad.com These are not my opinions, those of my ex-employers, my old schools, my relatives, my friends, or really any rational person whatsoever.