Essay
Pink Floyd
Intro: Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved success with their progressive and psychedelic music. Proven by their use of good lyrics, and elaborate live shows. They are one of the most commercially successful and musically influential groups in the history of pop music.
Who / What: The band was founded in 1965, the band originally consisted of students Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright. The group first gained popularity by performing in London's underground music scene during the late 1960s, and under Barrett's creative leadership they released two charting singles and a successful album. David Gilmour joined as a fifth member in December 1967, and Barrett left the band in April 1968 due to his deteriorating mental health. After Barrett's left, Waters became their primary / main songwriter and lyricist. With Waters, Mason, Wright and Gilmour, Pink Floyd achieved much success with smash hit albums The Dark Side of the Moon 1973, Wish you were Here 1975, Animals 1977, The Wall 1979 and The Final Cut 1983.
How / When: The early days of the band, Wright used brass before settling on the Farfisa organ as his main instrument onstage. For a brief period in 1969, Wright played vibraphone on several of the band's songs and in some live shows, and he even played trombone on "Biding My Time" (also dating from this experimental period). During the formative years of Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett, Wright relied heavily on his Farfisa organ, fed through a Binson Echorec platter echo, to achieve distinctive sounds that helped the band gain their "psychedelic rock" edge. He used a mellotron on Seesaw. Pink Floyd also used Farfisa Combo Compact-Duo Organ, Hammond M-102 'Spinet' Organ, Acoustic Piano
Mellotron M400 Mark II, Acoustic Grand Piano, EMS VCS3 Synthesizer, ARP Solina String Ensemble (model IV) Synthesizer, and much more.
By : Tevin and Geoff
Intro: Pink Floyd were an English rock band that achieved success with their progressive and psychedelic music. Proven by their use of good lyrics, and elaborate live shows. They are one of the most commercially successful and musically influential groups in the history of pop music.
Who / What: The band was founded in 1965, the band originally consisted of students Syd Barrett, Nick Mason, Roger Waters and Richard Wright. The group first gained popularity by performing in London's underground music scene during the late 1960s, and under Barrett's creative leadership they released two charting singles and a successful album. David Gilmour joined as a fifth member in December 1967, and Barrett left the band in April 1968 due to his deteriorating mental health. After Barrett's left, Waters became their primary / main songwriter and lyricist. With Waters, Mason, Wright and Gilmour, Pink Floyd achieved much success with smash hit albums The Dark Side of the Moon 1973, Wish you were Here 1975, Animals 1977, The Wall 1979 and The Final Cut 1983.
How / When: The early days of the band, Wright used brass before settling on the Farfisa organ as his main instrument onstage. For a brief period in 1969, Wright played vibraphone on several of the band's songs and in some live shows, and he even played trombone on "Biding My Time" (also dating from this experimental period). During the formative years of Pink Floyd with Syd Barrett, Wright relied heavily on his Farfisa organ, fed through a Binson Echorec platter echo, to achieve distinctive sounds that helped the band gain their "psychedelic rock" edge. He used a mellotron on Seesaw. Pink Floyd also used Farfisa Combo Compact-Duo Organ, Hammond M-102 'Spinet' Organ, Acoustic Piano
Mellotron M400 Mark II, Acoustic Grand Piano, EMS VCS3 Synthesizer, ARP Solina String Ensemble (model IV) Synthesizer, and much more.
By : Tevin and Geoff