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With the quagmire and chaos of lawsuits, etc. following Rogers departure, I wonder if he receives royalties from Division Bell and A Momentary Lapse Of Reason?

I guess it would depend if he still co-owns the name. I'm pretty sure that I read on a Sabbath site that since Ozzy now co-owns the Black Sabbath name with Iommi he receives royalties from sales of the whole catalogue including the Dio era which of course he didn't appear on. I wonder if the same is true with Floyd?

Not sure what the details of the Floyd settlement were, but I think it's something along the lines of Roger gives up all rights to the name Pink Floyd in exchange for a piece of the action anytime the name Pink Floyd is used.

Could this be part of the unreleased "Big Spliff" and soon to be released "Endless River"? Some say this track predates the Division Bell sessions. It certainly is obscure, and very likely not many Pink Floyd fans have heard it, including myself before finding this clip.

The piece is called "Soundscape". Credited to Gilmour, Wright, and Mason, this ambient track was played as the opener to their 1994 concerts and only appeared on the cassette version of Pulse, at the end of side 2 as a secret track that begins 15 or 20 minutes after the end of the live recording.

Yeah, I remember that. My girlfriend had the cassette version. It was a double cassette and side four was blank ... except for these bird noises that Dave is apparently now going to re-release as the final Pink Floyd album.



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If they are going to release an album of ambient music, Gilmour can just keep it as far as I'm concerned. How godawful boring.

Pink Floyd's Facebook page confirmed that it is an album of "mainly ambient and instrumental music based on the 1993/4 Division Bell sessions". Blaaahhh....ambient instrumental music.

well said!

People complain even though they haven't heard a single note! This is hilarious! You must have very poor lives!

Hey Blueranger. You haven't heard ambient instrumental music? Very boring.

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Pink Floyd's Facebook page confirmed that it is an album of "mainly ambient and instrumental music based on the 1993/4 Division Bell sessions". Blaaahhh....ambient instrumental music.

Much of Shine On You Crazy Diamond would be considered "mainly ambient and instrumental" and that worked out just fine. I doubt Gilmour ditched the guitar for sequencers and synths. At least let's hope that's not the case! LOL

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If this is the stuff that wasn't good enough to make it onto The Division Bell, it must be pretty dire.

LOLsssssssssssssssssss

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Hey Blueranger. You haven't heard ambient instrumental music? Very boring.

Yes, I have heard plenty of ambient music. A good portion of Pink Floyd's music could be called 'ambient' and I have enjoyed that very much. I love soundscapes and the way it can create atmosphere and moods in me. It is not rock music, it is something else, which I fully accept it is. The fantastic thing about music is that it can make one reflect and ambient music can help to do that.

Maybe it will be great, maybe not. I refuse to judge how good or bad it is before I have heard the album at least three or four times.

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Maybe it will be great, maybe not. I refuse to judge how good or bad it is before I have heard the album at least three or four times.

Besides, I don't believe for a second that David will release rubbish under the PF moniker and willingly destroy the brand name.

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Besides, I don't believe for a second that David will release rubbish under the PF moniker and willingly destroy the brand name.

I agree with that.

My guess (it surely has been mentionned before) is that they opened the vault for the division bell reissue and they rediscover some parts and decided to rework on it. After 20 years, they got fresh ears on it

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Besides, I don't believe for a second that David will release rubbish under the PF moniker and willingly destroy the brand name.

Well, he did put out A Momentary Lapse of Reason and The Division Bell under the Pink Floyd moniker, and those didn't destroy the brand name. Pink Floyd will live on for decades based on their work through The Wall. None of the subsequent lesser albums can diminish the goodwill from that work.

I'm not worried about it being a more instrumental/ambient album. That means less of Gilmour's and Polly Samson's horrible lyrics. The instrumental on The Division Bell, Marooned, was one of the best things on that album. And many of the instrumentals in their back catalog are among their best songs (Great Gig, various parts of Shine On, One of These Days, Interstellar Overdrive, etc.).

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Because they are tracks done without any involvement with Roger Waters. They are from Division Bell... Hey I am not a total naysayer, but I did not think they should have continued as Floyd without Roger and I agreed that mostly the stuff done without him was pretty subpar.
On another note, David Gilmore's album On an Island is fantastic!

I'll take A Momentary Lapse of Reason over Radio Kaos ANY day.

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I believe the instrumental Marooned from Division Bell won a Grammy.

radio kaos rocks

HAHAHA!
New Pink Floyd Album!!! The title of this thread only, what humour. HAHAHAHA.
Pink Floyd as a band died when Syd Barett left.

The Division Bell was certainly no masterpiece, but I found it a lot more listenable than The Final Cut. I'll give this a good rotation, Gilmour is always an interesting musician.

Ross

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HAHAHA!
New Pink Floyd Album!!! The title of this thread only, what humour. HAHAHAHA.
Pink Floyd as a band died when Syd Barett left.

Either a babbling idiot, or obvious sarcasm to provoke a response.

Actually, I was going to mention a few days back, in response to those posters who feel that Pink Floyd died as a band when Roger Waters left, the segment of fans who think this way about post-Barrett Pink Floyd, because they do exist and you have to admit that Barrett era Floyd and the band that followed are really apples and oranges.

I love the Barret era...almost as much as the post-Barrett era in which I grew up with in the 70's.





With that said, I could never truly understand/appreciate the post-Waters era.
Without the great experimentation of Barrett, nor the the great songwriting of Waters, it sounded like an incomplete sham as it still does to this day.

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I love almost every Pink Floyd album until Wish You Were Here (with their first album being my number one above all).

Animals is absolutely brilliant.

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Animals is absolutely brilliant.

one of my all time favs !!!!!!!!!!

Didn't care for the two post-Waters LPs (though "One Slip" from MLOR is a great track) but the 1994 Pink Floyd show I saw at Yankee Stadium remains one of the two or three best (or at least most fun) concerts I've ever been to. With all the smoke and lasers you really couldn't even see who was onstage. It was all about the music and the lights. Dave's voice and guitar were there, and for me that was enough. Didn't miss Roger. For me, Dave's voice and guitar are the principal identifying features of the Pink Floyd sound, much more so than Roger's angst-laden hollering.

Their shows have always been about the music and lights, right from the very beginning when incorporating landlord Mike Leonard's Smelenex projections at their earliest shows. It's never been about four guys up on a stage--except, perhaps, at Live 8.

There's a great story from one of their biographies as related by Dave, I believe, of how after a big stadium show from their seventies heyday they actually left with the audience, just filing out and blending in with the crowd--and not a single audience member who had just paid to see the band perform recognized any one of the band members even when they were walking alongside them.

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Didn't care for the two post-Waters LPs (though "One Slip" from MLOR is a great track) but the 1994 Pink Floyd show I saw at Yankee Stadium remains one of the two or three best (or at least most fun) concerts I've ever been to. With all the smoke and lasers you really couldn't even see who was onstage. It was all about the music and the lights. Dave's voice and guitar were there, and for me that was enough. Didn't miss Roger. For me, Dave's voice and guitar are the principal identifying features of the Pink Floyd sound, much more so than Roger's angst-laden hollering.

i was at this concert at yankee stadium and this was a fun concert .great first base dugout seats on the friday before the baseball strike (that sunday ) .the yankees were in anaheim playing the halo's that weekend .

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Didn't care for the two post-Waters LPs (though "One Slip" from MLOR is a great track) but the 1994 Pink Floyd show I saw at Yankee Stadium remains one of the two or three best (or at least most fun) concerts I've ever been to. With all the smoke and lasers you really couldn't even see who was onstage. It was all about the music and the lights. Dave's voice and guitar were there, and for me that was enough. Didn't miss Roger. For me, Dave's voice and guitar are the principal identifying features of the Pink Floyd sound, much more so than Roger's angst-laden hollering.

i was at this concert at yankee stadium and this was a fun concert .great first base dugout seats on the friday before the baseball strike (that sunday ) .the yankees were in anaheim playing the halo's that weekend .

Concerts at Yankee Stadium were very rare in those days. I think Floyd was only the third band to ever play there, after Billy Joel and U2.