Wish You Were Here

Significantly, the band also paid some serious attention to their stage presentation for the very first time that year. They may have still been performing Echoes and The Dark Side Of The Moon in their entirety, but now the show featured a foot circular screen that was used to project specially prepared films onto.

In one particularly memorable section, a sequence of flying animated clocks, created by Ian Emes, was used for the opening of Time. The screen also served as a backdrop at the close of Shine On , when a huge, rotating mirror-ball was raised in front of it and hit with a spotlight to produce blinding shards of white light, under cover of which the band exited the stage.

Fireworks and rockets also provided some spectacular visual effects. Waters had written it at home, and Gilmour added the chords at a later date. Whether social commentary was what people wanted to hear from Pink Floyd at that time is debatable, but it provoked the first time that a national music paper had taken the band to task.

Maybe Pink Floyd were becoming detached from the real world. They were certainly becoming increasingly detached from each other. Roger Waters has, on many occasions, stated that The Dark Side Of The Moon had more or less finished the group as a creative force, since with it they had fulfilled at a stroke the shared ambition of fame and fortune.

Because of their touring commitments, the sessions took place either side of and between two tours of North America.

As a result, the recording process became very protracted and fragmented, pushing the release back to September. Once again Pink Floyd were afforded the luxury of being able to refine those new songs on stage. The first of those tours was announced in March and, in a new departure, carried no national advertising. Instead, CBS Records, who had recently struck a deal with the band over their previous label Capitol Records, used FM radio to alert fans to a specially prepared Pink Floyd show which was simul-cast early that month to the seven major cities where the band were booked to play.

It bewildered many city newspapers that a band whom many had never even heard of could have such a huge following and do better business than the Rolling Stones, who were also on tour, yet comprise such anonymous personalities. Although the tour was an outstanding success, it was best remembered for the heavy-handed actions of the Los Angeles Police Department, which arrested over fans during the five-night run at the Sports Arena in late April. Officially only 75 officers were deployed at the shows on each of the five nights Pink Floyd played, but venue management estimated the figure to be nearer Of the arrests, the majority were for possession of marijuana.

The police justified their actions by claiming that there were a few more serious offences, including cocaine dealing and possession of a loaded gun. This fact made more headline news in the LA Times than the concerts themselves. The riotous scenes were later depicted in the opening sequence of the movie The Wall — the band did actually have to ram a police barrier to get into their own concert.

Back at Abbey Road in May, Waters was keen to carry on working, despite obvious tensions. Waters extended further still his ideas of general themes of absence and detachment by opting to write yet more new material. But Rick did and Nicky did, and he was outvoted so we went on. I wanted to make the next album more musical. Even by agreeing to disagree there was also a sense they were being held back by general lethargy, promoted by an alarming divorce rate within the band.

Although his own marriage had hit the skids very recently, Waters was able to divert his energies into songwriting. Having finally settled on what it was they were now going to record, they set about putting it all down on tape. Shine On was to be split into two halves: Parts and Part 5 eventually featured their tour saxophonist Dick Parry, who switches between baritone and tenor sax.

It was fantastically boring to record, cos I had to do it line by line, doing it over and over again just to get it sounding reasonable. Consequently further tensions surfaced as the boredom of the process took its toll and band members became increasingly disinterested in turning up for sessions at all. The following day the roles could easily be reversed. None of us was free from blame. This time though, their friend Roy Harper was drafted in to sing. It was an instantly regrettable decision, and although Waters reluctantly conceded a credit on the album, there was certainly no question of payment.

Tape engineer John Leckie recalled Waters saying to Harper that they must make sure he get paid for his efforts. And heard nothing at all. It was quite genuine. On the eve of their departure from England to begin their second tour of North America, Syd Barrett made his aforementioned appearance at Abbey Road.

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It was the last time the band ever saw him. For years, I suppose he was a threat because of all that bollocks written about him and us. Back in the States and back on the road, an ambitious attempt was made to boost the visual impact of the shows, which were now taking place in enormous outdoor stadiums. Floyd turned to Mark Fisher and Jonathan Park, two accomplished, London-based architectural designers with experience of advanced inflatable and pneumatic structures.

Their brief was to construct a huge pyramid that would sail above the stage and radiate light beams in a way that was reminiscent of the cover of The Dark Side Of The Moon. Assembled in record time, the structure made its maiden flight at the Atlanta Stadium on June 7. The huge pyramid, its base feet square, was held in place by guides as the top section separated at the climax of the show and rose above the stadium. As it separated, fans were heard to yell: Also not seen again was the top of the pyramid which, after rising out and over the stadium, crashed into a number of vehicles in the car park, and was shredded in minutes by souvenir-hungry fans.

The resultant explosion at the climax of the show blew it to pieces, the blast even shattering the windows of nearby buildings. On July 5, with the US tour just a few days behind them, Pink Floyd played a long-awaited homecoming open-air concert at Knebworth Park in rural Hertfordshire. The concert was dogged by problems from the start, among them a road crew still jet-lagged from the US tour they had only just got back from.

In the event, the fighters buzzed the audience at low level while the roadies were still frantically trying to prepare the stage.

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The band came on unprepared, and their set was tired, uninspired and marred throughout by technical breakdowns, mainly due to fluctuations in maintaining generator power. I really appreciate the originality and eccentricity of the building and forniture - it is a really successful mix of extravagance, industrial and street style. Amazing place for Backpackers and not only. The staff is super helpful. The hostel is between two main roads and rooms are quite noisy but, on the other hand, the staff provides earplugs: The Hostel is in the Woodstock district, quite far from city center.

So I'm glad payed private parking was available. Close to main attactions Nice staff! I wish my room had a t. I didn't like the noisy traffic outside, that made the first night really hard to sleep throughout the night, though I eventually fell asleep from fatigue. Also that the staff didn't know that putting the towel on the floor means that it is dirty and needs to be taken out and replaced. The bed was very comfortable and the pillows too.

Lovely spacious bed with good pillows. I liked the privacy of my own bathroom. And the fact that my room had a heater! The room was also quite spacious and comfortable. Bungalows are not comfortable It takes too much noise outside. Location and private car park. The room didn't have cupboard space to put our bags in didn't really like the rack ides and the didn't like the bins that were used as a bedside table a table would of been better.

It would be nice to get extra blankets as its winter the one night it was extremely cold. The staff were the best and they had room service. They went beyond ,the shared bathrooms were always clean. They even gave us ideas on places to visit. The self catering option is a plus also. Please enter a valid email address. An error has occurred. Your welcome email will arrive in your inbox soon. We have more than 70 million property reviews, and they're all from real, verified guests. The only way to leave a review is to first make a booking. That's how we know our reviews come from real guests who have stayed at the property.

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