pink floyd

Faithful reader Keith emailed me yesterday to throw a few plaudits the blog's way. A lover of Humble Pie and Frampton, I knew I could raise his antenna. He asked me if I was familiar with Pink Floyd. Well coming from the five finger can and patchouli generation, of course I had a bit of familiarity. Kind of lost touch with Dark Side of the Moon, they got seventies ponderous, sort of like yes. But I loved meddle and the early stuff, emily played, etc.. Standard bong fare. Like the trippy introductions on the Steve Miller albums.

Now that I play a wee bit of music meeself, the stuff sounds a bit overwrought and it's rare that I will slip on a Floyd disc. The Roger Water's Wall was one of the worst video's I have ever witnessed.

But this early video is cool - shades of Breton and the dadaists. Did you know that Andre Breton once caused a riot in Paris by creating a poem by pulling random words out of a hat? Kids having fun with a mannequin - what could be better? I thought that video was going to be such a rich medium but think the thing went off the track a long time ago and never recaptured the heyday of Peter Gabriel and Enya and XTC. MTV got so trite and monotonous - rarely does anything get close to approaching art these days. The early black and white stuff seems a lot cooler most of the time - shades of hard days night.

Anyhow Keith , this one's for you - not quite a fly buzzing around the table but hope it will do.