Wednesday, July 6th

[kev]

Leftover grilled hamburger/tomato/pickles/mustard/ketchup with baked Cheetos and a Coke

oh, and rain from the tropical storm...


With Floyd's performance on Live 8 still pretty fresh on the radar screen, I was thinking back to the first time I heard them, and then the first time I really got to listen to them and call them my own. What's your story as it relates to the first time you heard Pink Floyd?

My introduction to them was the radio cut version of "Another Brick In The Wall(Part II)" back when it first hit the radio waves. I was nine, and I remember my next door neighbor, who was probably 13, soon had the single. It seemed like the entire neighborhood of us kids crammed into this guy's room to listen to it over and over and over. I didn't ask my parents if I could buy my own copy and I don't know why either since I was buying 45s then.

Years went by, and Pink Floyd somehow wound up on the black list of bands I and most all of my friends were not allowed to have in our collections. I remember in middle school seeing a copy of DSOTM in the hands of one of the cool kids and wishing I could hear it. It wasn't until I was 17 that I was re-introduced to Pink Floyd in their full glory. It was DSOTM, with headphones on and all of the lights turned out. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. The whole band is incredible, and yes, I believe without all of them present there is something not quite right. David Gilmour was/is all that and a bag of chips in my book. I quickly grabbed up WYWH and The Wall as my own path of Floyd discovery began.

That's my story. What's yours?


kev

[ImageKing]

Lunch was delayed from my normal noon slot until I heard the news that London had won the 2012 olympics then had a nice salad from the canteen
pasta with sausage, red cabbage with orange segments, waldorf, chick peas, olives etc

My first emersion into the floyd was also the wall album. I was 15 and a mate brought a copy of it into school on two C60's and we listen to it on his cassette recorder (I think it was a ferguson).
I bought it that weekend and never stopped listening, it was one of the very early album's rebought I bouight on CD.

[Garrett]

6" turkey on wheat from Subway.

I guess I first noticed Pink Floyd in the early-mid 90's. The classic rock station where I used to live plays Pink Floyd constantly. I swear they play a Floyd song every hour. Thus sparking the beginning of my intense dislike of the band...

[tone4days]

buffet from the chinese food place in my building - egroll, rice/lo mein, beef broccoli, fried fish, lemon chicken

first floyd for me was when i heard the song 'money' on the radio when i was about 10 ... thought the cash register sounds were funny ... and then he said a naughty word (do goody good bull$hit) which was just about as cool a thing as a 10 y.o. could hope for :D

yrs later, the guitar solo would be one i worked hard to learn

t4d

[jas]

Turkey and swiss on rye with mustard. Same as it ever was.

I can answer this! It was in the movie "Zabriskie Point"! I was a goofy teenager and thought it was a great movie (the drugs talking). I saw it several times - it had a Jerry Garcia guitar solo, he was just playing by himself - that kind of solo - that went on for about 10 minutes.

Pink Floyd apparently worked closely with Antonini, the director, to provide the soundtrack for the movie.

-John

[irwcustom]

chilli (beef) and rice

The first time was at my uncles old house and he kept saying 'how can ye have your puddin when ye have ney eaten yer meat?' This caused much confusion as I wasn't that old and I had eaten my dinner and was waiting for a desert. Then he put the album on ..still no Fr****n desert though!

[TRandy16]

The truth is always daunting....


The year was 1968...Listened to "A Saucerful of Secrets" while in an "altered state" ....thought it was "groovy"...."spacey"...."far out".

Whoa.....

[jas]

The truth is always daunting....


The year was 1968...Listened to "A Saucerful of Secrets" while in an "altered state" ....thought it was "groovy"...."spacey"...."far out".

Whoa.....
An altered state? Like Missouri?

-John

[Brewer]

Left over spaghetti.

First heard Dark Side Of The Moon in '71 or '72. Completely blew me away. I agree with the notion that there is magic in that original lineup.

I too wish they were here...

[cswolfe]

I had a half bottle of moutain dew code red diet soda. It sucked. I was playing and I was too lazy to get food. Grabbing a bottle was easy.

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Pink Floyd is my favorite band of all time, and the wall is my favorite album of all time, so I'll tell the story even though it's embarrassing as hell.

The Wall had come out, and we had ridden our bikes to the music store, the bassist and I. And I couldn't believe what I was seeing. The bassist just grabbed a copy of this double cassette(!!) that he had not even HEARD yet on the faith it would be really good.

I could not believe my eyes. Thirteen bucks, or whatever it was, was a LOT of money to us. And he was just *spending* it without even HEARING the album first to make sure it was good first?!

Man. I thought there was one absolute jackass in the room at the time, and it wasn't me.

Turns out I was half right.:rolleyes: I'll never forgive myself for being such a faithless idiot. Granted, our bassist generally had no taste ... but here it was the one time he was dead bang right and I had absolutely no confidence in him. I'll remember that day until I die, unfortunately.

[Axemeister]

It is still breakfast time out here. I just finished an organic fruit/bran muffin, and I am having my third cup of coffee

My first exposure to PF was in 1969, when I was a young teen. My uncle, who is in the media, gave me a stack of various albums he had been given for promotional reasons, including Pink Floyd's Umma Gumma. He used to give me all sorts of rock stuff, but this one was a bit off center and sort of weird to my young ears.

Umma Gumma is a very experimental and spacey album.....It was really sort of wild in it's day. I still have this vinyl album



http://www.tigersushi.com/site/content/disc/cover/1142_2.jpg Umma Gumma



Pink Floyd (http://www.tigersushi.com/site/Art.jsp?ArtId=2462)