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No kidding. Yes, very strange. Fender even had a huge poll for their 60th anniversary and he was rated #1 all time.

Well there wasn't a pod board in the 60's and 70's, was there? Also, as for "in the studio only": That example showcases Gilmour's otherworldly string effect (from about 5:45 on) and his experimental use of effects on a live platform. Acoustic *should* sound elementary or you end up sounding like a douchebag head bopping picker who plays at the entrances of Dave Matthews concerts for tips. Less is more. I take it you have never heard "A Pillow of Winds" or "Fearless" from Meddle? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n33j2b3cLE0

Yeah absolutely crazy. Gilmour is known for quite a few distinct styles too. Limited depth? Gilmour is known for several major sounds, more so than most other guitarists. : 1. Obviously his amazing solo ability - the best ever in the business other than Hendrix, Garcia and Betts. 2. His incredible steel guitar playing - he crafted that device into a giant wall of sound. See "One of These Days" 3. An otherworldly string effect which he had passed to him by Syd Barrett and which was copied numerous times. 4. The staccato guitar sound which was later picked up by U2. See "Run Like Hell"

David Gilmour Jimi Hendrix Jimmy Page Syd Barrett Jeff Beck Jerry Garcia Keith Richards Bo Diddley Eddie Van Halen Angus Young Robert Johnson Chuck Berry Robert Fripp Dickey Betts Neil Young Joe Walsh

Scratch the city theme since most of the driving will be out of it. Recs: Blonde on Blonde - Dylan In the Court of the Crimson King - King Crimson Trace - Son Volt The Soft Bulletin - Flaming Lips Hollywood Town Hall - The Jayhawks Abbey Road - The Beatles Our Mother the Mountain - Townes Van Zandt Meddle - Pink Floyd I Feel Alright - Steve Earle The Dirty South - The Drive By Truckers Sea Change - Beck If You're Feeling Sinister - Belle and Sebastian Cosmo's Factory - CCR American Beauty - The Grateful Dead The Good, the Bad and the Ugly - Ennio Morricone Felice Brothers - The Felice

Yeah I still think Okemah is a touch better than this overall. But this might havea stronger set of around 3-4 songs. Bandages and Scars is IMHO classic Son Volt.

American Central Dust is pretty amazing, no question. The song about Keith Richards snorting his dad's ashes with cocaine is shockingly good.

You've contributed absolutely nothing at all to this conversation. Perhaps on this subject matter, you should type less and read more.

I completely agree. On the other hand, it's foolish for a few here who have never listened to psych records on psych "drugs"(I put that in quotes because mushrooms are now used to get people off of real drugs like cocaine and heroin) to say that it's "stupid". It's like someone who has never been to Madison Wisconsin telling you how to get to the capitol building, and then reviewing the experience. They should really read more and type less in this specific instance. Absolutely. A mediocre artist who takes drugs and goes into the studio will mostly likely make a mediocre album. Yo

Almost all of the great rock albums of the late 60's were influenced by LSD. http://home.att.net/~chuckayoub/the_beatles_biography.html In early 1965, Lennon and Harrison were dosed with LSD by their dentist. In the ensuing years, the Beatles met with psychedelic counterculture icon Timothy Leary, experimented extensively with LSD and released two heavily LSD-influenced albums, Revolver and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band. Jefferson Airplane, John Lennon, Country Joe, The Grateful Dead were among others who wrote songs while on LSD. That is just your hostile reaction

http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&a...10:kifwxqe5ldde Cream teamed up with producer Felix Pappalardi for their second album, Disraeli Gears, a move that helped push the power trio toward psychedelia and also helped give the album a thematic coherence missing from the debut. This, of course, means that Disraeli Gears gets further away from the pure blues improvisatory troupe they were intended to be, but it does get them to be who they truly are: a massive, innovative power trio. The blues still courses throughout Disraeli Gears

You perceive it as "silly" because that's your emotionally defensive reaction to not experiencing or properly understanding that particular topic.

While I agree that you shouldn't need drugs to enjoy music, my personal feelings have no relevance to the fact that psychedelic music was created while on LSD and for those using LSD. That's a fact that can't be disputed. And, based on my experience and many others, great psychedelic records are far, far superior to listen to while on mushrooms or LSD. What the truly great bands were able to do is make records that were both brilliant stone cold sober, and brilliant under the use of "enhancement"(and I'm not talking about pot. That makes any music sound better). The bottom line is that if you

Your terse, emotional attack response indicates you really haven't experienced this either. Psychedelic records were crafted by people who were tripping, *for* people who were tripping. Other music does not sound nearly as good under that influence. There are certain patterns, sounds, chord changes and effects that create a magical psychedelic experience that other records do not deliver. Had you experienced this,. you would understand that taking psychedelics to Piper at the Gates of Dawn and Stone Temple Pilots Greatest Hits are very far apart in terms of quality while under the influence

It sounds like "bullshit" to you because that's your quick emotional reaction to an aspect of that music you've never fully understood or experienced.

You are completely wrong.

Not really. Psychedelic music is most definitely a distinct and useful classification. When someone says, "hey, that album is a psychedleic classic", what they are saying is that the album sounds awesome both on psychedelic drugs and stone cold sober. The entire scene was based around hallucinogens, and there was a particular type of music made for that experience by many of the rock bands at that time (and many current ones to this day - see the Flaming Lips as a popular example). The Grateful Dead mixed their records while tripping for the optimum effect. Even the Beatles were working on t

The "White Album" is mindblowingly good.

I really hope you are pulling my leg. The Dead were a better psych band than anything on that page.

That's where you're kind of missing the boat. Pink floyd is highly regarded for both the lyrical work of Barrett and Waters. As for "angry young 6th grader notebook doodle", you want to look at the lyrics that Portishead put out(from their latest album, "third"): if only I could see You turn myself to me and recognise the poison in my heart there is no other place no one else I face remedy, we

Sounds like they are getting Pink Floyd confused with Portishead.

The Grateful Dead weren't a psychedelic band?

The two greatest psychedelic bands of all time, and also the two single greatest live acts in rock history(ok, throw the young WHO in there as well) both in terms of the show and the technology they pushed to change the live experience as we know it today. Sad that you are missing out on such talented acts. They made albums that worked great while on psychedelics and while sober. The only artists more influential were the Beatles and Dylan.

I think you are confused or something. Waters and Barrett are considered two of the finest in rock history, with Waters frequently mentioned along with Lennon, Hunter, Townsend and Dylan. The imagery in that lyrical snippet is outstanding. What bands are you listening to with better lyrics than those?

So, so you think you can tell Heaven from Hell, Blue skies from pain. Can you tell a green field From a cold steel rail? A smile from a veil? Do you think you can tell? -Pink Floyd, Wish You Were Here With your mercury mouth in the missionary times, And your eyes like smoke and your prayers like rhymes, And your silver cross, and your voice like chimes, Oh, who among them do they think could bury you? -Bob Dylan, Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands No one ever wrote better opening lines than those two.